"We are living from and speaking from the self, person, body, or actor, all of which I refer to as the (...)." p. 81

"Speaking from your (...) carries it forward and opens and develops it further." p. 82

Eugene Gendlin, "Implicit Entry and Focusing," The Humanistic Psychologist, Spring, 1999, XXVII, No. 1, Special issue on understanding existence.

TO ARTICULATE, CREATE, THINK, AND WRITE: -- WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Since we have to use the language, it can seem that thinking and writing can only repeat the old notions. But you already know that this isn’t so because in focusing and listening you are familiar with the startling intricacy that arises. A whole series of distinctions come, which have never been heard before "This, which I said, I don’t mean it this way, rather that way, and that - hm -- isn’t this but rather that, now that gives me space (before I was crowded and oppressed) but hm, I can’t really have that because I’m like this......"

There is now a way to write something which develops new uses of words by WRITING-FROM THE GREATER INTRICACY of your experiencing.... I have called this way "Theory Construction." Now we call it "TAE" or "thinking at the edge."

Gendlin, A philosophical car for focusers, 1999

http://www.focusing.org/Car1999.html

tom bell