Focusing opens up a vibrantly rich dimension of possibility, beyond either/or, beyond stuck, moving into a world of creative originality that is our birthright.
Creative Originality
Every moment of your life, it is possible to know and cherish your absolute uniqueness. Or it is possible to be in a rut, a cog in a machine, an interchangeable part.
We are not machines! Yet the “linear model” encoded in our language and worldview tempts us to see ourselves that way. We have the emotions that “anyone” would have (“Of course I was angry! Wouldn’t you be?”) and we feel ourselves in predictable paths (“I had to… it made me…”)
But Focusing shows us that every moment we are vibrant with originality, absolutely unique, unpredictable yet on track, and deeply ourselves.
In the Fuzziness
Where is your originality? How do you find this creativity? Focusing offers this surprising answer: Your creative originality is in the fuzziness! Gendlin once said to me: “You know your own original ideas, because they are fuzzy.” What he meant was, that I needed to find the places in me that are NOT clear, and those would be the birthplace of my own ideas.
As we sit with what is unclear in us, it becomes clear. As we sit with the fuzzy places with respect and interested curiosity, they form into something uniquely our own.
That is Focusing.
