Up: [[Gendlin Focusing]] Course: The Body in Individuation with Kathleen Wiley for Washington State Jung Created: 2024-11-03 Updated: 2026-01-25 Jungian analyst Kathleen Wiley follows the same basic steps as focusing therapist Leslie Ellis in [[Five Steps of Focusing]], but there are enough differences that it’s worth trying both approaches to see which one resonates. ### 1. Clear a Space Stand. Feel your feet, be aware of standing in the ground of your being. Once you have awareness of your feet, bring your attention to your breath, following it as it goes into your body, spreads throughout, and leaves. Every time you exhale, think of breathing out that which is not you. Starting at your feet, work to the top of your head, doing a quick [[Body Scan - Jon Kabat-Zinn]], noticing physical sensations in your body. ### 2. Find a Felt Sense Let your breath and attention settle on the strongest sensation in your body. Breathe into that area. ### 3. Handle/Resonate As you breathe in, invite forward whatever word or phrase best describes the whole of the sensation. Let yourself resonate with that word or phrase, meaning really let it vibrate in your being. Does it feel right? If the sensation has shifted to another part of your body, follow it and do the same process again — name it, resonate with it. ### 4. Asking In Even if the felt sense is emptiness, or if you haven’t got the word (handle) that give you an aha, a felt-shift, there’s a quality of experience happening in your body. Felt sense is a great way to work if you don’t have any idea of what’s happening in your body. Give it time, it will develop. ### 5. Receiving This step is for taking in and acknowledging what came from the previous step. Offer gratitude for what body-mind has offered, and take a couple of minutes to make notes about what you experienced.