--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are all different forms of experiential or > > cathartic work. They are effective if the > attention is > > primarily on the bodily experience and not in the > > mind. The mind tends to obsess and replay an event > > over and over and it never comes to a resolution > > because it is seeking a cognitive resolution and > there > > is none. The resolution is just letting the > experience > > occur in the body and relaxing into it. > > I can see that. That's very much in line with > the Zen approach to emotions. Be neither attracted > or repulsed, just be with whatever is happening. > On a physical level, that is. "Feel the body." > > Unc But on the other hand, you can't dismiss the role of cognition either. There is a balance and a movement back and forth between the already-formed, culturally-bound explicit (words, symbols, movement, etc.) and the lived, preverbal, implicit (the body). Each carries forward the other to "completion". Eugene Gendlin is a philosophical genius and clinical master in explaining and working with people this way. See: www.focusing.org > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
