Gendlin seems to think that anything not in the conscious mind is somehow stored/processed out there in the muscles and bones.
There a subjective experience that suggests that feelings are located inside the body. Even when the information is actually stored in the motor cortex it’s practically useful for certain interventions to use a mental model that locates the feelings inside the body.
A month ago I had a tense neck. Even when the neck relaxed a bit, after a night of sleep it was again completely tense. After the problem went on for a week I used Gendlin’s Focusing on the tense neck. I found a feeling of confusion that was associated with the tense neck. I processed the feeling. I felt the shift. My neck got more relaxed and it didn’t get tense again.
It’s reasonable to say that the feeling of confusion wasn’t located in my neck but somewhere in my brain and neural pattern in my brain resulted in my brain sending signals to my neck to tense up. At the same time the mental model of Focusing that includes to connecting to the feeling in the neck helped me to resolve my problem.
There a subjective experience that suggests that feelings are located inside the body. Even when the information is actually stored in the motor cortex it’s practically useful for certain interventions to use a mental model that locates the feelings inside the body.
A month ago I had a tense neck. Even when the neck relaxed a bit, after a night of sleep it was again completely tense. After the problem went on for a week I used Gendlin’s Focusing on the tense neck. I found a feeling of confusion that was associated with the tense neck. I processed the feeling. I felt the shift. My neck got more relaxed and it didn’t get tense again.
It’s reasonable to say that the feeling of confusion wasn’t located in my neck but somewhere in my brain and neural pattern in my brain resulted in my brain sending signals to my neck to tense up. At the same time the mental model of Focusing that includes to connecting to the feeling in the neck helped me to resolve my problem.