So I'm just going to read something by Eugene Gendling,
He was the creator of something called Focusing,
And one of the reasons we,
Well he explains precisely why we feel the body basically,
Or we feel what's here in the body.
So I'll just read it and then I'll say a few words and then we'll actually do some.
What is split off,
Not felt,
Remains the same.
When it is felt,
It changes.
Most people don't know this.
They think that by not permitting the feeling of their negative ways,
They make themselves good.
On the contrary,
That keeps these negatives static,
The same from year to year,
Decade after decade.
Just a few moments of feeling it in your body allows it to change.
So if there is in you something bad,
Sick or unsound,
Let it inwardly be felt and to breathe.
That's the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs to.
A little different passage.
A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one.
I say physical,
A bodily awareness of a situation or a person or event,
An internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about a given subject at a given time,
Encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail.
So what I was saying,
I actually trained in focusing many,
Many years ago.
And whatever's there,
We just feel it.
You don't need to know what it's about.
It might become more apparent,
It might not.
We just keep feeling it.
And even behind that most obvious of sensations,
There might be something behind it that's just sitting there waiting to be acknowledged.
And what begins to happen is that you realize that your body is communicating.
It might be a situation in your life that you're finding difficult.
And if you can tune into the body about it,
It can inform you about it.
But not in,
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da,
It's just a felt sense about it,
Ah.
Anyway,
But it's mainly the first one I was more interested in,
For our,
You know,
Just to feel it just for a moment.
And that's why on Wednesdays,
I've got my days a bit mixed up this week.
Too much white wine on Sunday,
I think.
And but we'll do a little of this now,
Just feeling what's here,
Listening,
Acknowledging.
So,
If you sit quietly,
And just take a deep breath,
To what wants your attention right now.
And just see what's in there that wants your attention,
You want to attend to.
Might just be a vague something that you often overlook.
So,
Begin to be a little curious.
So,
What does it feel like?
If there are lots of surrounding sounds,
The environment going on,
Just let them be.
All part of the tapestry of the moment.
Did it feel heavy?
Dark?
Just get a sense of what it feels like.
Maybe an image comes to mind.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
You may ask it a question if you wish.
You don't need to.
But you can.
Something like,
So what gets you feeling like this?
So,
You're asking this part of yourself.
Asking the feeling itself.
Perhaps you can sense if there's an emotion locked inside,
How it feels emotionally.
Let it reveal itself.
But don't look for results or resolutions.
Just a bit of kindly attentiveness.
Kindly curiosity.
And maybe finally asking something like,
So what do you need from me?
And then if you wish,
You can just relax this practice.
And just sit with the sense of the body as a whole and the senses.
Maybe the breath.
So,
Just relax the attention.
Less specific.
Where are you right now?
Just sit with an openness.
An attitude of openness.
Okay.
A little wiggle or a little stretch.
Thank you guys.
Thank you guys.
