"Focusing will enable you to find and change where your life is stuck, cramped, hemmed in, slowed down. And it will enable you to change - to live from a deeper place than just your thoughts and feelings.

Eugene Gendlin

"Focusing is a way of bringing compassionate attention to something in your life that needs it -- allowing you to untangle issues over which you feel blocked or confused. It provides a way to be with feelings which well up, without either being driven by them or pushing them away. The essence of the technique is to bring our awareness to bodily-felt responses such as ‘butterflies' or 'a lump in the throat'. It is possible to tune in to such sensations - and many other similar and more subtle ones - and to learn a great deal from them about how we react to what is going on in our lives.

Kay Hoffmann

"Focusing is a mode of inward bodily attention that most people don’t know about yet. It is more than being in touch with your feelings, greater than just thinking about a problem, and different from body sensations. Focusing occurs exactly at the interface of body-mind. It consists of specific steps for getting a body sense of how you are in a particular life situation. The body sense is unclear and vague at first, but if you pay attention it will open up into words or images and you experience a felt shift in your body. In the process of Focusing, one experiences a physical change in the way that the issue is being lived in the body.... The whole issue looks different and new solutions arise."

Eugene Gendlin

"Focusing is a natural way of sensing what is happening in our bodily-felt experience so that we get beyond our usual thoughts and feelings to the underlying 'felt sense' of a situation. What is sensed at first unclearly comes into 'focus' if we listen within rather than tell ourselves what we are experiencing. Doing so opens up our intuition and creativity, and enables us to think with our hearts and recognise our real feelings."

Peter Afford