Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity by David I. Rome -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction Part One: Making Friends in Yourself

1. Steps toward Finding the Felt Sense

Exercise 1.1: GAP: Grounded Aware Presence Exercise 1.2: Friendly Attending Exercise 1.3: Noticing “Something”

2. Gateways into the Felt Sense

Exercise 2.1: From Physical Sensations to Felt Senses Exercise 2.2: Dropping the Story Line

3. The Feeling beneath the Feeling

Exercise 3.1: The Feeling beneath the Feeling

4. Cultivating Felt Senses

5. Working with Situations

Exercise 5.1: Starting with a Situation

6. Bringing the Felt Sense into Focus

Exercise 6.1: Describing the Felt Sense

7. Requesting Insight from the Felt Sense

Exercise 7.1: Empathic Inquiry

8. Small Steps, Felt Shifts, and Appreciating What Came

Mindful Focusing Protocol

9. Cultivating Self-Empathy and Defusing the Inner Critic

Exercise 9.1: Self-Empathy Exercise 9.2: Befriending the Inner Critic Exercise 9.3: Reexperiencing Painful Feelings

Interlude 10. Mindfulness, Awareness, and the Sovereign Self 11. The Deep Nature of Life Process

Part Two: Living Life Forward

12. From Insights to Action Steps

Exercise 12.1: Finding a Right Next Step

13. Deep Listening

Exercise 13.1: Just Listening Deep Listening Protocol

14. Conflict

Exercise 14.1: Vicarious Felt Sense Exercise 14.2: Taking Turns

15. Making Tough Decisions

Exercise 15.1: Deciding from the Felt Sense Felt-Sense Decision Protocol

16. Under-Standing

Exercise 16.1: Reading with the Felt Sense

17. “First Thought Best Thought”: The Felt Sense in Creative Process

Exercise 17.1: Composing a Haiku

18. Enlarging Space

Exercise 18.1: Enlarging Space Exercise 18.2: Wandering with Wonder

19. Contemplation: Sensing for the More

Exercise 19.1: Sensing for the More

Appendix: Mindful Focusing Protocol Notes Resources for Further Study and Practice Index E-mail Sign-Up