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.

  There is not much written about the order of remembering themes in Intensive Naikan, so we decided to study them. It Is an important matter, but on investigation these themes in Naikan were performed in various ways over time to move Naikan smoothly. Therefore. I examined the order of the theme "the expense of bringing up children" with the theme of "Naikan on Mother" and "lies and stealing", both regarded by Yoshimoto as important. I took up these themes considering their basis and importance.

  Established by Ishin Yoshimoto in 1953, Naikan therapy is a psychotherapy rooted in Oriental culture. During April 3-11, the author underwent a Naikan therapy retreat for 80 hours in total at the Osaka Naikan Institute under the direction of Mieko Hariki. Through Naikan therapy, the author developed a positive attitude towards work, family and interpersonal relationships and experienced a spiritual refreshment and optimistic mood. The psychological mechanism involved is to direct clients to introspect their life about what they have received from others, thus stimulating them to reconstruct their view of life and better understand their past. Naikan therapy is helpful for clients to develop the sense of shame for their wrongdoing, regain social involvement and trust in other people and the world, reshape their self-image and the image of others in their mind, and enhance self-control. Naikan therapy is expected to be promising in preventing mental disorders and promoting mental health for people with a background of Oriental culture.

  Naikan involves reflecting on 1. what you have received from others, 2. what you have given to others, and 3. the troubles you have caused others from the past until the present. Naikan can be performed at home, at school, or at a correctional facility through “Intensive Naikan” over a one-week stay, or through“ Naikan recording” which involves keeping a record of Naikan experiences. In the case that we will report here, we issued the themes of “reflecting on good experiences” and “Naikan recording” during Naikan-oriented counseling which takes into account the Naikan thinking pattern in client-centered counseling before Intensive Naikan. We had the client get used to the Naikan thinking pattern, and increased the client's willingness to perform Intensive Naikan. Naikan-oriented counseling was performed after Intensive Naikan as aftercare. As a result of this therapy regimen, the client was liberated from her five years of physical pain, and her marital relationship improved. We will report here on the synergistic effect of Naikan-oriented counseling and Intensive Naikan.

  We report on a depressive patient who returned to his working place after Naikan Therapy with the cooperation of the Naikan Institute. The case is a 30-year-old man with a history of bronchial asthma. His parents separated when he was in high school. After graduating from postgraduate school he worked in a company. He was troubled by a sleeping disturbance, loss of concentration, and depressed state after an office mistake. After clinical therapy in our hospital he underwent Naikan Therapy and improved his desire for working. To prevent the recurrence of depression, he took another course of Naikan at the Naikan Institute near his workplace. As a result he was completely able to return to work.

  The success of this case is due to the motivation induced by Naikan Therapy and the subsequent consultation reducing his resistance to going back to work.

  I report on my experience as a Naikan therapist trainee at the Yamato Naikan Institute.