{"product_id":"your-body-knows-the-answer-isbn-9781611800906","title":"Your Body Knows the Answer","description":"\u003cb\u003eA manual for Mindful Focusing—a new integration of Western psychology and Buddhist mindfulness techniques for accessing your inherent wisdom and solving life\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es problems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver come up against one of those moments when life requires a response—and you feel clueless? We all have. But there’s good news: you have all the wisdom you need to respond to any situation, even the “impossible” ones. It’s a matter of tuning in to your felt sense: that subtle physical sensation that lives somewhere between your conscious and subconscious mind and that can be accessed through Focusing—the well-known method developed by the psychologist Eugene Gendlin. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e David Rome’s technique of Mindful Focusing unites Gendlin’s method with Buddhist mindfulness practices to provide a wonderfully effective method for accessing your felt sense—so you can problem solve, deal with challenges, and respond honestly and creatively to the world around you.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: MAKING FRIENDS IN YOURSELF\u003cbr\u003e1. Steps toward Finding the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003eExercise 1.1: Creating a GAP (Grounded Aware Presence)\u003cbr\u003eExercise 1.2: Friendly Attending\u003cbr\u003eExercise 1.3: Noticing \"something\"\u003cbr\u003e2. Three Gates to the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003eExercise 2.1: From Physical Sensations to Felt Senses\u003cbr\u003eExercise 2.2: Dropping the Storyline\u003cbr\u003e3. The Feeling beneath the Feeling\u003cbr\u003eExercise 3.1: The Feeling beneath the Feeling\u003cbr\u003e4. Cultivating Felt Senses\u003cbr\u003eExercise 4.1: \"How's It Going?\"\u003cbr\u003eExercise 4.2: Noticing What Your Body Is Already Holding\u003cbr\u003eExercise 4.3: \"What Wants My Attention Just Now?\"\u003cbr\u003e5. Working with \"Situations\"\u003cbr\u003eExercise 5.1: Starting with a Situation\u003cbr\u003e6. Focusing the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003eExercise 6.1: Focusing the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003e7. Requesting Insight from the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003eExercise 7.1: Empathic Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e8. Small Steps, Felt Shifts, and Receiving What Comes\u003cbr\u003eExercise 8.1: Small Steps, Felt Shifts, and Receiving What Comes\u003cbr\u003eMindful-Focusing Protocol\u003cbr\u003e9. Cultivating Self-Empathy and Defusing the Inner Critic\u003cbr\u003eExercise 9.1: Befriending the Inner Critic\u003cbr\u003eInterlude\u003cbr\u003e10. Mindfulness, Awareness, and the Sovereign Self\u003cbr\u003e11. The Deep Nature of Life Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: LIVING LIFE FORWARD\u003cbr\u003e12. From Insights to Action Steps\u003cbr\u003eExercise 12.1: Finding a Right Next Step\u003cbr\u003e13. Deep Listening\u003cbr\u003eExercise 13.1: Deep Listening\u003cbr\u003e14. Conflict\u003cbr\u003eExercise 14.1: Vicarious Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003eExercise 14.2: Taking Turns\u003cbr\u003e15. Making Tough Decisions\u003cbr\u003eExercise 15.1: Deciding from the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003e16. Under-Standing\u003cbr\u003eExercise 16.1: Reading with the Felt Sense\u003cbr\u003e17. \"First Thought Best Thought\"--Felt Sense in Creative Process\u003cbr\u003eExercise 17.1: Composing a Haiku\u003cbr\u003e18. Enlarging Space\u003cbr\u003eExercise 18.1: Enlarging Space\u003cbr\u003eExercise 18.2: Wandering with Wonder\u003cbr\u003e19. Contemplation: Sensing for the More\u003cbr\u003eExercise 19.1: Sensing for the More“Eminently readable,  engaging and wise, this book is hugely welcome. Those new to Focusing  and the felt sense will be expertly guided; those already familiar with  the process will find fresh treasure on every page. Compassionate, warm,  and generous in sharing his own journey, Rome is just the person you  would want as a companion to opening up your inner world. I know I will  be re-reading this book for years and recommending it to all my students  and friends.”—Ann Weiser Cornell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Focusing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFocusing in Clinical Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“David Rome has mastered Focusing, a method for using the body’s wisdom to navigate life’s major decisions. \u003ci\u003eYour Body Knows the Answer \u003c\/i\u003emakes this invaluable tool available to us all.”—Daniel Goleman, author of \u003ci\u003eEmotional Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading  David Rome’s book opened a forgotten but familiar doorway in my heart  that sang, ‘yes!’ He returns us to our bodies, showing us how to access  the Felt Sense, the nonconceptual experience of embodied knowing we have  been yearning for. He skillfully guides us to wholeness, introducing  accessible exercises that form a toolkit for life. Mindful Focusing  comes at a perfect time, resting at the nexus of mindfulness,  neuroscience, and social-emotional learning, showing the way for us to  bridge meditation and daily life, the brain and the heart, Western  philosophy and Eastern wisdom. This book is a treasure to savor—and  use—again and again.”—Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, Distinguished  Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies, Naropa University, and  author of \u003ci\u003eDakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism \u003c\/i\u003eDAVID I. ROME is a certified Focusing Trainer who has brought Focusing  together with Buddhist mindfulness-awareness practices in workshops in  the United States, Canada, and Europe. He began practicing Buddhism in  1971 and served for nine years as private secretary to the Tibetan  teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. David played a leadership role in the  early development of Shambhala International and Naropa University and  was one of the first teachers in the Shambhala Training program. He has  served as President of Schocken Books and Senior VP for Planning of the  Greyston Foundation and is a senior fellow with the Garrison Institute, a  Hudson Valley research and retreat center applying contemplative  methods to solve social and environmental challenges. \u003ci\u003eYour Body Knows the Answer\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.A manual for Mindful Focusing, a new integration of Eastern and Western techniques for accessing your inherent wisdom","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303266963685,"sku":"NP9781611800906","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781611800906.jpg?v=1767744792","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/your-body-knows-the-answer-isbn-9781611800906","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}