Thinking with the implicit definition
Thinking with the implicit is a means of producing a felt sense or somatic articulation of something that possesses a semantics but which may not yet have words. “As it forms, the ”feel” understands itself, so to speak.”12 [Gendlin 1997, p.216] The practice of focusing is characterised by enquiry and action, but not necessarily dynamic physical action in the form of movement of the body or limbs; rather it is an attempt to render articulable that which is felt, possibly only inchoately. Focusing is an act of values-realising in seeking though not striving, waiting without the intrusion of impatience or irritation, and an openness to letting a feeling come, and brought with it is a bodily sense of the fit or value of the feeling; in this way, in the community and reciprocity of the enquiry and anticipation, the inchoate begins to take shape. Gendlin says it has a feeling of “rightness or wrongness” [ibid. p.219], but in using any of these terms, ‘fit’, ‘value’, “rightness or wrongness” it must also be remembered that their aptness is not at the level of cognitive judgement, but at the level of how they sit within the body. We might think of finding the fit as akin, in some way, to the “a ha” moment that comes when we think “Now I understand.”, “Now I know how to go on.” [Wittgenstein 1958, 323], except that the accompaniment to the implicit fit is not a proposition but a prenoetic feeling or body-environment grasp. “A Felt Sense is a distinctly felt object which may now form and come as a bodily-felt “this””