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Consciousness & EmotionVol. 1:2 (2000) ► pp.227–243
Background-mood in emotional creativity
A microanalysis
Background mood differs from focal emotions in that it is an inchoate “bodily felt sense” rather than full fledged emotional syndromes such as anger, sadness, etc. Microanalysis of a Focusing therapy session is made to illustrate how the cultivation and maintenance of background mood with its characteristic double vision is essential to emotional creativity.
Keywords: background mood, endocept, percept-genesis, bodily felt sense, focusing
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