Can persons without Focusing experience or body awareness still lead themselves into process?
The response to this question may vary from person to person. It would seem important for the practitioner–Guide to teach the client the elements of Focusing before expecting the client–Focuser to benefit from the Focusing process. To proceed without giving the client–Focuser the elements of the process may also be an ethical issue. Once again the success of the process would seem to depend upon the growth of somatic awareness on the part of the receiver–Focuser. Less focusing experience makes it more difficult to work: All agreed that the more experience the client–Focuser has the more he/she could benefit from the combination of bodywork and Focusing. The question is what are the real benefits of that combination? All can agree that touch can help the client–Focuser be more self–aware, but we have still to learn the additional benefits that can accrue. Agenda of client: when client tells you what to do, it can create difficulties: Sometimes we want to Focus upon a certain issue; this
