2009 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 49-58
According to Gendlin's theory, “experiencing” which is not yet verbal but bodily sensed occurs whenever psychotherapeutic change happens in any psychotherapy technique. However, how psychotherapy develops “experiencing” differs among psychotherapy techniques. The purpose of this paper is to discover theoretically how Naikan Therapy develops “experiencing.” The practice of Naikan Focusing is an integrative method of Focusing and Naikan Therapy that generalizes the focusing manner of experiencing in daily life. First, it is suggested that the recollection of the three themes in Naikan greatly vitalizes experiencing. Second, a case of Naikan Focusing showed that the “felt sense”（how “experiencing” was felt）Increased the feeling of heaviness toward the trouble caused others and elicited a need to confront the feeling. Finally, Intensive Naikan greatly increased the therapeutic tendency to keep an appropriate distance from problems enabling clients to satisfactorily confront whatever troubles they had caused.
