Up: [[Gendlin Focusing]] Course: Focusing with Leslie Ellis on Jung Platform Created: 2024-01-12 Updated: 2026-01-24 ### The Exercise Picture someone or something that you deeply love. Take a minute to evoke that beloved thing. Let it infuse you, really opening your senses to it. Where does this love live in your body? Where is it most strongly felt? Then imagine into something that is just a tiny bit problematic, a small niggling concern. It could be a person or anything. Keep it at a distance that feels mildly uncomfortable but not too bad. Just enough so that you can sense it. Where in your body is it? Notice the location and quality of it. Then take it and in your imagination move it about half a mile away from you or shrink it down. For example, a problematic person could be made an inch tall. Or tie it up and throw it in the ocean. Or put it in a box. There are all kinds of things you can do. See how moving it away impacts the felt sense. If the felt sense isn’t impacted, doesn’t want to be set aside, it’s probably something that needs attention and it will shift with that attention. You can do focusing work with a particular issue or you can just ask your body, “What needs my attention right now?” ### The Meaning Each person, memory and experience has a unique take in our body. As we spend time with a felt sense it opens more and more, just like a dream image. A felt sense is where you experience the wisdom of the body. And it’s how you know the difference between a felt sense and a physical symptom like a stomach ache. With a felt sense when you describe it, it opens to more and more and more. ### Reassurance There is no possible way to do this wrong.