Engaging

Once we have learned to welcome whatever is present in our experience, we can start to engage with that experience - learn to listen fully to what is there.

Recap

Last week we covered Welcoming:

• Allowing experiences we don’t like to be there
• The observer
• Unpleasant events diary

Exercise: Engaging

• Separating
• Greeting
• Asking
• Offering
• Conversing

Engaging: the felt sense

Eugene Gendlin defined “Felt Sense” as:

A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one. Physical. A bodily awareness of a situation or person or event. An internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about the given subject at a given time, encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail.

On Unmet Needs

• Needs Inventory

Exercise: Engaging

Homework

• 5-10 minutes of practice each day.
• Keep a pleasant event diary
• Explore “communicating” with experience. What can you learn from it?

Questions?