Focusing by Eugene Gendlin and The Power of Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell

Focusing is like the relaxation response where you relax and avoid thoughts for say 20 minutes. The new part in focusing is to contact the feeling, to get the felt sense of what's there in your body--not to jump into it, but to identify it, name it and let it develop. Gendlin gives an example to understand the felt sense. Suppose you've forgotten something and try to remember what it was. Some ideas pop into your head but you know they're wrong. When the right one pops up you feel it's correctness. Those successful in therapy are tentative, letting their bodies get the fell of the problem instead of remaining on a verbal level, talking without taking time to get the felt sense. Both books describe the steps of focusing well.