You can sense your breathing movement inside of your body but it’s not a felt sense. With training, you can feel your heartbeat but it’s also not a felt sense. You can also sense temperature in your body.
Gendlin used a new term to distinguish a certain class of feelings and it’s useful to have a combination of two words, to refer to it, that is not used in other contexts.
If you would speak to yoga people who are good at categorization, they would likely speak about a sense of something on a different Kosha (/sheath) than the one where you feel the breathing movement. Saying “felt sense” is a simple way to go one step in the direction of making a new distinction without importing a system with a bunch of strange history like the Yoga one.
“felt” also has the nice property of it describing the relationship of how the person relates to the sense and that relationship matters for the process to work.
There are different things you can sense.
You can sense your breathing movement inside of your body but it’s not a felt sense. With training, you can feel your heartbeat but it’s also not a felt sense. You can also sense temperature in your body.
Gendlin used a new term to distinguish a certain class of feelings and it’s useful to have a combination of two words, to refer to it, that is not used in other contexts.
If you would speak to yoga people who are good at categorization, they would likely speak about a sense of something on a different Kosha (/sheath) than the one where you feel the breathing movement. Saying “felt sense” is a simple way to go one step in the direction of making a new distinction without importing a system with a bunch of strange history like the Yoga one.
“felt” also has the nice property of it describing the relationship of how the person relates to the sense and that relationship matters for the process to work.