Toddler's feelings are transparent. As we age and learn to symbolize through language, we can also "lose touch" with ourselves and become unable to express ourselves. Intuitive Focusing and Active, Empathic Listening can help children "stay in touch" and express themselves as they grow. Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening can also help adults to "refind" and express themselves authentically.
Intuitive Focusing, based on Gendlin's Focusing, is a six-step self-help process for going deeper into vague, bodily-felt discomforts, intuitions, gut instincts legitimated by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. When just-right words and images are found for the "bodily-felt sense" of issues and ideas, "Ahah!" experiences, transformation, paradigm shifts follow. George Soros uses something like Intuitive Focusing in deciding when to rearrange his portfolio. Focusing can be used for problem solving at home and at work. A child's first exploration of a Christmas present makes a good visual image of this "going deeper" into the "implicit" information held in the "bodily-felt sense.
Photos of Yellowstone mists, mud pots, steaming cauldrons, geisers are used to illustrate the ever-changing nature of the psyche and the Intuitive Focusing process, a simple self-help skill for "sitting with" this teeming creativity and finding words and images which allow a techtonic shift, an Instant "Ahah!" of insight and creative problem solving. The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid allows the use of Intuitive Focusing at home and at work, alone, in conflict, for group problem solving.
Times of emotional depression, economic recession, turbulent social change can also be times for "fishing in the storm." Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening provide simple self-help tools and empathic support for going deeply inside and "fishing up" new ideas and energies. Examples are given from the lives of those like Gandhi, King, and Mandela, and the creativity of their times in prison
Physical symptoms, like a migraine headache, can be the body/mind's way of sending a message. Intuitive Focusing, accompanied by Focused Listening, can enable a "shift" to understanding and pain relief through empathy and self-empathy.
Intuitive Focusing can help us go from numbness, overwhelm, confusion to an understanding of the "pile-ups" of negative situations and "spirals" of negative thinking causing these emotional states. Intuitive Focusing allows release from stress and clear paths to action.
Creative Edge Focusing teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening which can be applied at home and at work to increase creativity, decrease stress, resolve conflict, and facilitate innovative problem solving. Here we learn a specific exercise for reducing the stress left from interpersonal situations called "Getting A Felt Sense," accessing right-brain, intuitive knowledge.
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