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    1. The Nightjar‏ @LapsusLima 30 Dec 2019
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      The Nightjar Retweeted Kevin Simler

      Synchronicity, @faustrollhttps://twitter.com/KevinSimler/status/1211825132009689089 …

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      Kevin Simler @KevinSimler
      Who all is into Gendlin focusing?! Pls identify yourselves and/or recommend something to read 🙏
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    2. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      @KevinSimler Yes. Focusing is interesting. It's not like @vgr said, an old idea rediscovered. Though, it may be that at one level. In itself, it is something that some people already do. And it's not old hat if I pay attention to precisely what it is. I can explain a little.

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    3. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      I have recently revisited it, and I am finding it helpful to revisit. I think I was already "doing it" before I explicitly worked with it. In fact, Gendlin, by study, discovered it as something some people already do. His contribution was in making it explicit.

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    4. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      The most interesting books on it for me on a revisit, are "Focusing-oriented psychotherapy: a manual of the experiential method", and A Process Model. The first is a rich run through of the method, the second a theoretical work that expands on Gendlin's thinking.

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    5. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      Replying to @faustroll @LapsusLima and

      And what Gendlin makes explicit in "the method" simply the productive use of an implicit bodily felt sense. And focusing he says, is merely "spending time with something bodily sensed but unclear until [it shifts or] comes 'into focus'." I can explain a little further.

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    6. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      What I am interested in on a revisit is what I wrote as "the use of a direct bodily felt sense of an unclear edge to a feeling, emotion, or experience." That living frontier interests me. And it also interests me that some people, for different reasons don't have access to that.

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    7. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      Gendlin emphasizes what he calls the murky edge of a felt sense. The murkiness is important because many people are not really checking in on their feeling. Some people think they know what they are feeling when they are not yet paying attention to the intricacy of feeling.

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    8. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      Bodily felt sense is itself a rich frontier. It is not an idea only, but a reality to be explored. And as Gendlin mentions, it exist at the edge of the preconcious, at the tip of the tongue. It is precise in one sense, as a felt sense, and rich in potential verbal reference.

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    9. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      In the foreword to Process Model, they mention William James for insight into bodily sense and Merleau-Ponty for his notion of “the knowing body” (le corps connaissant).

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    10. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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      "What James showed in 1890 is the still largely unknown fact that we can feel something with our bodies that is very precise even though it doesn’t have a single pattern." Ibid, xiii

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Dec 2019
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      My point was that *Gendlin* is old at this point, not that his work is derivative (though that may be). The Focusing book is from 1978 and I read it in the 90s. There seems to be no recent (as in 2018-) developments to explain sudden new interest unless I missed something.

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        2. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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          Aha. Yes. An interesting and very precise point. That reality of no new developments (if true) may be an artifact of the implicit nature of "le corps connaissant". It is part of an implicit reality for those who make use of it, and it is unavailabe to those who cannot or do not.

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        3. Ed Phillips‏ @faustroll 31 Dec 2019
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          The derivative nature of it is a good thing as Gendlin himself points out. It would be off if it were original. The making explicit of something implicit is where it gets interesting. In fact, the toggling of the conscious and the preconscious, the implicit and explicit is key.

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