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A Profound Method to Work with Dreams
In research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Gendlin found that certain specific bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of a new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream.
Theories about dreams differ and give contradictory interpretations. Dr. Gendlin derives 16 questions from the ...more
In research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Gendlin found that certain specific bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of a new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream.
Theories about dreams differ and give contradictory interpretations. Dr. Gendlin derives 16 questions from the ...more
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Paperback, 200 pages
Published
April 1st 2004
by Chiron Publications
(first published June 1985)
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I could tell this book was going to change my life. Gendlin doesn't hide behind language or concepts to try to mystify and complicate something that happens everyday. Not that working with dreams is not complex and does not require great attention and openness. But this book is to point out that if all you really need is attention and openness--well, ANY of us can begin to understand and change our lives through thinking about our dreams. I can't recommend this book enough.
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A very practical guide. I do think you need to read and understand the focussing concept for it to work. I would have liked more theoretical and philosophical underpinnings but as a practical guide and a good illustration to use focussing techniques it does very well at working for practitioners and lay people concurrently
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Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher and psychotherapist who developed ways of thinking about and working with living process, the bodily felt sense and the 'philosophy of the implicit'. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago where he also taught for many years. He is best known for Focusing and for Thinking at the Edge, two procedures for thinking with mor
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“Adopt a “split-level” approach to all instructions: On the one hand follow the instructions exactly, so that you can discover the experiences to which they point. On the other hand be sensitive to yourself and your own body. Assume that only sound expansive experiences are worth having. The moment doing it feels wrong in your body, stop following the instruction, and back up slightly. Stay there with your attention until you can sense exactly what is going wrong.
These are very exact instructions for how not to follow instructions!
And, of course, they apply to themselves, as well.
In this way you will find your own body’s steps, either through the instructions, or through what is wrong with them.”
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These are very exact instructions for how not to follow instructions!
And, of course, they apply to themselves, as well.
In this way you will find your own body’s steps, either through the instructions, or through what is wrong with them.”