By Kevin McEvenue
September 28, 2020
The doors of perception, a direct experience of something that keeps knocking on my door for attention.
This is the beginning of a new series I am proposing, something that has become a daily practice in my life that perhaps might be useful in other people’s lives too?
In the spirit of Wholebody Focusing and Heartfelt connecting, I want to give voice to something as an experience of a mind-body expression as it pauses to give space for words and thoughts to come together to form what is happening inside me right now. It seemed to come from a different place of thinking; thinking directly from a felt sense of an experience, rather than thinking about an experience that engages into a thought about what, why or how, etc. It really is a very different activity and seems to come from a very different location in the body, and very difficult to describe in words. Do you appreciate that there can be a difference between the two?
These are themes that come in me from time to time that seem to want my attention. They just want to be noticed and for me to make space for them to do so. To being felt, giving it some breathing room for it to inform me in some new way for my own well-being.
Today’s theme is on the nature of perception and how it seems to be a first response, a reaction coming from outside my world. What happens in me when I sense that or look for that? What do I do?
Do I image it first? Do I sense it first? Do I look for a right action? Or do I just act because I must?
This is what I am exploring today as my natural process in coming to know something freshly. Maybe you would like to join me here, something happening there in you too? Perhaps just the sound of a voice that points to something familiar?
Intunement 1: Creative Experience in Felt Sensing
Photo Credit: Michael Lux – Naples 2012
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Is it possible for a felt sense to be there and us not notice??? and when we do notice does that felt sense change and do we too change as a result of that noticing? I wish there were more words for thinking. After all when we have a thought noticing a felt sense that is not the same thought was when we are working gout a problem.