It’s yet another cliché that …

It’s yet another cliché that is a cliché because it’s so true, and that’s that very few of us really know ourselves. But literally rather than metaphorically. It seems sad in this corporeal existence where people desperately maintain this living wish for a life partner, when inside each of us is the only companion we can ever really know. Ourselves. People will tell you about their relationship with Jesus or any number of other batshit crazy things and yet the idea of actually being friendly with yourself and attuned to the fullness of your Being seems a bit preposterous. Gendlin’s great book Focusing taps this concept of truly “getting in touch with ourselves” by developing the ability to hone in on our “felt sense” of rightness or wrongness in the body – the rest of what we often fail to think of as ourselves. This intuitive body-sense is a doorway to the unconscious mind and a mainline to the body’s wisdom – something people are often crapping on about, but rarely able to deliver. Further to Gendlin’s ideas about a body-sense, it’s possible different people might have developed different or even better resourced or “richer” modes of expression for this internal (kinesthetic) voice. The “rest of you,” which is also your unconscious body-residing mind, is available for conversation provided you’re not afraid to have voices inside your head and you’ve got the skill-set to distinguish a sane internal voice from anything else you’re hallucinating.

Know thyself.

Gendlin gives the toolbox for starting to fulfill that maxim.

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