Focusing is an approach developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin for attending to a bodily felt sense and allowing meaning to become more specific.
It isn’t concentration in the ordinary sense of forcing yourself to stay on task. It is a way of listening to something you can sense but can’t yet fully say.
Is that the word, or merely the available word?
You call a conversation stressful. You pause. Stressful doesn’t quite reach it.
Perhaps what comes next is, "I felt responsible for making their disappointment disappear."
The words now meet something more particular. You may notice a change in how the situation feels as well as how you describe it.
The I AWAKE books also make room for bodily experience alongside writing and explanation. Their guided practices remain their own authored experiences. Naming Focusing as a neighbouring approach helps you understand the background without pretending every body-based reflection is Gendlin’s method.
Felt sense explains his central term. Body awareness covers the broader practice of noticing sensations, including sensations with no immediate explanation.
To meet Focusing in Gendlin’s own account, read Introduction to Focusing through the International Focusing Institute. It gives more detail than the abbreviated instruction to "listen to your body."