Following is a list of statements and questions which have been used to
describe the experience of Focusing. Please read each item and decide whether or
not it describes your Focusing experience. Please make your decision on
the basis of your experience, NOT what you think it should have been.
Since each person's experience is somewhat different, there are no
"right" or "wrong" answers.
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YES |
NO |
| 1. |
The feeling was very concrete but hard to put into words. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 2. |
Did you struggle and not find an object for your feelings? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 3. |
Everything is exactly as it was before. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 4. |
It was not one whole feeling, but little ones scattered all
around the problem. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 5. |
I found better words for what I was feeling than I had
before. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 6. |
Did you find out what was behind the feeling? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 7. |
I know I was missing the main point but tried to keep up
with what I was supposed to be doing. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 8. |
Was there a sense of having worked something through? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 9. |
I tried to concentrate and keep an idea focused. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 10. |
Words or pictures seemed to come from the feeling. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 11. |
The feelings began to make sense and fit in with other
things. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 12. |
The words or pictures had old or familiar elements put
together in a new way. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 13. |
Things definitely changed, but not in words
or pictures. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 14. |
Focusing put things into a new perspective. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 15. |
I got to a place where my problems didn't
touch me. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 16. |
Did the things you thought of seem trivial
or inconsequential? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 17. |
Had you seen these words or pictures in the
same light before? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 18. |
The process seemed to get deeper and more
engaging. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 19. |
Did you have a sense of "I've thought
all this before and it's stale"? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 20. |
The words I use to describe the feeling are
the same but mean something different now |
_____ |
_____ |
| 21. |
I began to see how I could make things
different. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 22. |
Not much was happening but I did find
something to think about. |
_____ |
_____ |
| 23. |
Did you see now something you hadn't thought
of before? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 24. |
Were you eventually able to sense clearly
the main feeling? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 25. |
Was there a sense of wholeness to what you
thought about? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 26. |
Did your feelings seem to take on new
applications or consequences as you explored them? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 27. |
Was it rather like daydreaming about what
had happened or could happen? |
_____ |
_____ |
| 28. |
Were you eventually able to see more clearly
the interrelation of the things making up the feeling you had? |
_____ |
_____ |
