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I want to talk
about why focusing Works in so many
different places
because it's very hard to advertise
focusing that way it's like it it works
for everything so nobody will believe
that it works for anything you know I I
joke around it say it's like trying to
sell people a brown liquid in a bottle
that's going to cure everything would
you buy
it you wouldn't buy it
[Laughter]
and then I want to talk about no less I
want to talk about the world so that's
my four
topics
okay uh the body science focusing in the
world all right so about the body I want
to say
that the concept about the body that we
were taught is a
machine it's a structure in space in
front of us
and sure the body is like that but the
body is not only like that we also live
in it right so there's also the same
body that's a structure in space I call
it interaction
first by which I want to mean it is the
body and the environment together before
you have a separate
body and and environment meaning
roundness before you have a separate
body and a separate roundness you have
an interaction that's called
living and this process is earlier than
the
structure the process makes the
structure which is obvious we know that
there's a process and then there's
something in the womb and then that
grows in the womb and the process makes
a structure then it comes out and we
call it the body okay fine but it's the
living activity that makes the body
structure right and everybody knows that
if you think about it that
way okay but the point that I want to
make is that because the body is in
interaction
already is part environment part world
already that's why focusing works that's
why focusing is even
possible so let me start with that
question and say how in the world does
it come about that the body knows so
much and knows so much more than I
know knows my business much better than
I know isn't that what we find whenever
we focus we find that oh look at that
all
this that's been going on and I have
known about it that's why earlier I said
the the body is doing a million things
in the world in the environment in the
family in the
relationship in the
situation the body and the situation are
one system to begin
with and out of all those million things
it's doing I know five or 12 or
something like
that so I'm pushing a concept of the
body as an interaction in the universe
in the world in the
environment and maybe I could stop there
for a minute and somebody
could I don't know ask me a question say
something back to me uh give me a sense
of what you think I
said what do you think I said
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yes there are several very interesting
points that gin makes in this
piece he's he talks about that it's a
general perception that we are educated
in that way that the body is a separate
entity a separate structure and then he
says that's true we are that like
machine but we are not only
that then he brings his understanding
of what he
means by body when he uses word body and
he says body and environment in which
body lives operates is one
event the living
process makes the structure so the
living is prior to the existence of
structure and we uh are taught actually
the opposite
the body and the situation are one
system that's important this is uh basis
of his philosophy of implicit entry let
me show you some examples of this this
is a short illustration of how I
understand it uh this little clip is
from our
holidays uh where we took a lot of
pictures and I have also a video
clip in in the video clip you can maybe
get the taste of what this means the
environment and body are one
event these young bodies are swiming and
going to a cave under underneath the
water and uh that whole thing is one
event that is water
there is wind there is smell of the
water there is swimming and
videotaping all of that is the body and
environment in
correction and that's prior to the
pictures that were taken and you can see
now in an event like this the body
remembers so many details
that become the body
knowing and then Jean says how come my
body knows so many things that I don't
know
yet and if we
take just one event of this kind it's
just part of the living uh
experience and everybody or every person
is in many other situations as Jean says
there are relationships there is work
circumstances there is uh Sports there
is uh all kinds of events that uh one
person participates in and each one of
them has this interaction with the the
whole uh environment or situation in
which the body is involved and this is
where we go when we focus into felt
sense of the
body that's why focusing
Works any words that we use have some
trouble with a new way of understanding
so when I say interaction first already
I'm in trouble because Inter means two
things and then they get together and I
don't mean that I'm in interaction
before there are two things but how do I
say that there are no words that you see
what I mean well the same thing happens
all the time but actually I'm trying to
say you don't have a body that is a
living body that isn't already inhaling
and exhaling and and and eating and
interacting and being nursed and and and
the whole system is inherently already
interaction do you follow
me
okay now the point that I wanted to make
with that is that it is therefore not so
surprising if we focus and find out a
great deal that we have already been
living that we have already been
doing only as he put it was not so
obvious in fact it wasn't obvious at
all and every human being it turns out
is doing all kinds of things that they
don't know they're
doing yes and you know that from
focusing because now you know
so before you didn't
know and that includes things that we do
to other
people not only in our own life to
ourselves but as we do it to ourselves
we do it to other people why because
we're living in situations together the
body is an interactional system there
aren't any human bodies without other
people they don't grow up unless they're
with other people and then they become a
Hermit maybe in the mountains but then
they're away from people which it still
has to do with people and people come
and leave food for them so they can
manage without
people yeah so so uh what I'm driving at
is it's not all that
mysterious why focusing reveals all this
information that we're what we're
already
doing more mysterious maybe is why it
then leads further why it gets to
something new why it gets to to a
healing uh we'll talk about that but
right now what I'm interested in is how
none of us know what we're doing without
focusing and it's so
obvious so what I lead that back to is
what the body is if you can think of the
body that way
as
already in the situation already in the
relationship with others whether you
like it or not
already
living an interactional
process already in nature inhaling the
air and walking on the ground and
already in the universe whatever that
whole thing is
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