Thinking about an experience and sensing it aren’t the same. An Odoki Method practitioner needs to give particular attention to keeping a client in direct experience.
A simple exercise to demonstrate this. Open one hand, flat. Press onto the palm with the thumb from the other hand. What do you notice?
Do you think about it? “I’m pressing my hand” or do you simply experience something? Perhaps even something stupidly simple but really hard to put words to?
This is direct experience. The human brain classifies experiences and presents these classifications as thought. Thoughts about something are not direct experiences of it. In fact, they prevent us from actually experiencing it.
The practitioner must watch out for the way the client speaks. Particularly, if they say things like, “I think …”, we reply with, “Thank you, I’m more interested in what you notice happening…”