> **🌱 Planted:** Mon 9 December 2024 --- Since [[Language can never capture the richness that takes place in our interiority|language is one of the most effective and commonly used symbolic means of communication]], something special takes place when we can find the right words (that make sense to us) that accurately name our experience. When go into the felt sense in the body, we start to bring up little bits of inner wisdom and knowledge to the level of conscious awareness. This can only be done when we are not making judgement and assumptions with the intellect, which is often quick to jump in and speak. Instead, we must stay with the unclearness and murkiness of the felt sense and it allow it to unfold. When we do this, we start to find the right words that accurately name the truth of our experience. When you're called by a name that isn't yours, it doesn't feel right. But when you're called by your name, it feels good, it feels familiar, and it feels true. Matching the right words and assigning the correct meaning to what we as organisms are feeling and sensing inside the body brings about a shift in our experience. It is here that we find solutions to longstanding problems. We feel understood, and we feel a sense of relaxation, loosening and freedom—all because we've received information from a place of deep inner wisdom. [[Eugene Gendlin]] calls this transformational change a "Felt Shift". --- **➡️ Next:** [[]] **⬅️ Back:** [[The Felt Sense is always more than words can say]]