RealityPivots

My partner in sheds and garden is off house sitting but she sent me an email with these quotes:

Gendlin quote:

“We think we make ourselves good by not allowing the feeling of our negative ways. But that just keeps them static, the same from year to year. What is not felt, remains the same. When it is felt [from Presence], it changes….”

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation

36
If you want to shrink something,
you must first allow it to expand.
If you want to get rid of something,
you must first allow it to flourish.
If you want to take something,
you must first allow it to be given.
This is called the subtle perception
of the way things are.

The soft overcomes the hard.
The slow overcomes the fast.
Let your workings remain a mystery.
Just show people the results.

I am humming in happy resonance.
I wasn’t familiar with Gendlin so I read the Wikipedia entry which starts:

Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher and psychotherapist who has developed ways of thinking about and working with the implicit.
…
Gendlin’s philosophy has led to the development of two practical procedures which can be used by people who know nothing about philosophy.

His Focusing procedure is “a way of teaching people to refer to their felt sense”.

Resonance:
2 a: the intensification and enriching of a musical tone by supplementary vibration;
7: a synchronous gravitational relationship of two celestial bodies (as moons) that orbit a third (as a planet) which can be expressed as a simple ratio of their orbital periods.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary