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So -- you know that Doug was a student of Gendlin's and that Gendlin was all about focusing.
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Gendlin in 1 tweet: The received language is made from the concepts which those that came before you needed to make sense of their experiencing. Your experiencing will, necessarily because it takes theirs as given, go beyond theirs. Thus you need new concepts and a new languaging
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part of it is the precision of what is even meant by "emotion." bio-emotive talks about roughly 4 categories: "emotions" are just happy / sad / angry / afraid, "interpersonal feelings" are "i feel betrayed / abandoned / abused / disrespected / let down / ignored / etc.",
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"core feelings" are "i feel like a bad person / alone / worthless / insignificant / inadequate / lost / loss / helpless / hopeless", there are exactly 9 of these and bio-emotive claims these are the feelings that have people sobbing, that are at the "core" of their pain
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