Dr. McMahon begins this series with practical suggestions about how to develop the habit of felt-sensing. People need to feel safe and respected before they will risk sharing a vague and as yet inarticulate felt-sense. The driving need to have everything clear, articulate and defined, in Dr. McMahon's view, constitutes a major spiritual problem in our time. He invites us to view the process of Focusing from within its own intrinsic spirituality--a spirituality that balances headbrain and bodybrain. This helps to reveal surprising new direction when inherited spiritual paradigms no longer work for us.

In our time, we experience a dying of the paradigm of spirituality that most of us have inherited. Dr. Campbell uses simple illustrations to show what a paradigm is and how it functions. He looks at creative people who are the paradigm shifters in any society. Examining the process of their creativity he shows how new directions emerge for the future of spirituality. This segment closes with a reflection on bodybrain sharing in small groups.

Citing the work of Thomas Kuhn and Eugene Gendlin, Dr. Campbell asks whether their research identifies some human resource that can help us move forward into a new spiritual paradigm. He finds an answer within the committment of each person to develop the habit of "felt sensing."

In Parts 4 & 5 Dr. Campbell explores eleven statements from Eugene Gendlin about our body and our felt sense. Finding clues and telltale signs of a new paradigm for spirituality within the body's knowing, he reflects on the direction in which this new valuing process seems to be taking us. There is fresh potential for the future right within our felt-senses. Some structure and function beyond anything learned from the past unfolds our story, our future, our spirit, our life.

Dr. Mc Mahon explores a new, promising and hope-filled
doorway which he calls "the habit of felt-sensing." It is here that we enter the rich world of connective consciousness. Within this inner climate of regularly companioning our felt senses we create an open, safe, and nurturing environment inside ourselves.

There, he found that old "habit-protected places" can risk beginning to disclose themselves within such a trustworthy and dependable atmosphere. Healing seems to leak through from this ever-present, reliable world. It can begin softening the well protected fortifications of our stuck places where Focusing is seldom allowed. This broader "habit of felt sensing," rather than our regular times for Focusing, feels more like plowed soil. Always open and ready at any time to take in sunlight, seeds, water, and nutrients as it shelters whatever needs to grow inside ourselves.