ABSTRACT
Sensations are the raw data from which awareness emerges. To allow awareness to emerge we need to allow space for the full figure of the sensation to form. In a fast paced world in which virtual reality can be a substitute for feeling the wind against our faces, there are considerable forces in our fields to deny us such space. Technical advances can desensitize us from human contact with others and ourselves. In gestalt we fly in the face of much of our cultural way of being by inviting clients to stay with sensations and feelings. Sense experience is our communication with the world. A sensation or feeling does not exist in isolation but within a field of relations including other sensations and feelings. The relevance of the sensation or feeling for the individual experiencing it will depend upon where it surfaces in relation to the their situation.
