Asking yourself these five questions can help you come into this moment:
What am I doing? (what is observable)
What am I experiencing? (thoughts, feelings, sensations)
What do I want? (need or desire)
What do I expect? (futurizing)
What am I avoiding? (can often be “what is”)
Keep a practice journal and begin to note the patterns you live by. Gestalt Therapy is interested in two questions: “Now” and “How”? The assumption is that structure and function influence each other. In our work together we will rely heavily on these questions as they give us a sense of the actuality of your life: the structure of your moments (your living) and its function. From there you will be able to begin to integrate what is missing and live more wholly.
These five simple questions were stressed by my teacher, Jim Doak, in 2009. I now share them with you as direction finders in your work.
Copyright 2018 – by Claudia Dommaschk MFT – All Rights Reserved.
