There is something within us that transcends the words we speak, the thoughts we think, and the narrative we create about our lives. There is always something that moves, transforms, and always reflects the truth. That thing that is constantly withing us is the ability to feel.

The body stores all of our life events and holds a profound wisdom. Through sensations and processes that occur spontaneously and naturally, the body stores responses about how we truly experience life. Thus, each of us is endowed with a natural and inherent ability to find clarity and navigate the difficulties of daily life.

Through the Focusing method, Eugene Gendlin highlights the existence of a "felt sense" that awakens within each of us often through vague and unclear sensations. These sensations, which arise spontaneously, invite us to listen. We could say that we are programmed to rely on our ability to be self-aware. Focusing facilitates this connection with your internal experience and invites you to explore it without judgment, without the pressure of a result, but simply with the intention to observe.

Focusing invites you to re-experience what it means to be. To be in your wholeness, in the complexity of your experiences. Over time, we have disconnected from this ability to look inward and allow ourselves to simply experience. Through Focusing, we return to our nature, allowing the internal world to unfold and transform. This is where healing happens.

What Happens in a Focusing Session?

In a Focusing session, the therapist's role is to create a space that allows you to witness your own internal experience. The process involves a series of steps where you are guided to connect with your bodily sensations in order to explore their meaning without haste or pressure for a specific outcome.

The first step involves relaxation and creating a safe space that allows you to connect with your body. Gradually, the therapist guides you towards accessing a "felt sense"—a vague or subtle sensation related to a specific issue or question.

This "felt sense" is not a clear emotion or a well-defined thought but rather a bodily sensation that contains meaning, even though it may initially be difficult to describe.

The next step involves establishing a connection with the felt sense. You will be encouraged to stay with this felt sense, explore it, and describe it in words. This step involves sitting with the felt sense and allowing it to unfold without rejecting or analyzing it.

Later, the therapist may ask exploratory questions to clarify the message that the felt sense is conveying about the issue at hand. By the end of the Focusing process, it is important that each response or insight is received with acceptance and curiosity. You can always return to explore what has been revealed to you in previous sessions.

Therefore, Focusing is a practice that returns you to what you already possess. It is a way to connect with the natural wisdom with which you are endowed.