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Comment author: Vaniver 12 June 2012 04:50:52PM 2 points [-]

boy is that the wrong name for the process

Definitely- I would have gone for something like "listening" or "discovering." (I think when I explain it to people, I'll start off with the rider-elephant model of the conscious-unconscious brain, and then call it listening to your elephant.)

Comment author: pjeby 12 June 2012 05:01:34PM 2 points [-]

Definitely- I would have gone for something like "listening" or "discovering." (I think when I explain it to people, I'll start off with the rider-elephant model of the conscious-unconscious brain, and then call it listening to your elephant.)

Yep. He might've had an even bigger bestseller with a name like "Listening To Your Inner Self" or "The Wisdom Within" or some such.

Going somewhat back to the topic at hand, one of the best things about LW over the years has been finding out about stuff like this, prospect theory, and a whole bunch of other topics in research that I otherwise wouldn't have heard of and incorporated into my work. I'd still be spending a lot of time trying to come up with exercises to teach what Gendlin already has in his book, for example.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 September 2013 11:43:37AM 0 points [-]

Listening seems to be a bad word when you want someone to focus on something kinesthetic.

Comment author: Nisan 23 September 2013 07:30:54PM 0 points [-]

"Gendling".

Comment author: Vaniver 23 September 2013 05:18:33PM 0 points [-]

Is there a word you like better than "listening" and "focusing"? Maybe "attuning"?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 September 2013 06:29:33PM 1 point [-]

I'm fond of "attending".

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 September 2013 05:28:24PM 0 points [-]

I'm haven't read Gendlin but got my interaction with emotions from other sources.

When trying to explain it to someone I think it can be useful to teach by example. "Where in your body do you feel the emotion? Put your hand on that spot."

The hand is a good feedback to know that the person understood what you want from them. It also helps them to be more aware of the emotion.

From there it depends on what I want to do. If the goal is simply about knowledge it can be useful to let the person describe what they are feeling.

I don't know whether having a word to describe the process helps for implementation in a way where it becomes your default way of dealing with emotions.

Comment author: Document 23 September 2013 07:31:47PM 0 points [-]

"Monitoring"? (I'm not actually familiar with the subject.)