Re:lose your mind and come to your senses

Aside from any "official" elaborations on this cute quote by Fritz, one can take it to mean what it says! When you are in a communication setting with someone pay attention to your "senses", to the internal sensations in your guts and other places inside your body; pay attention to the surface sensations on your skin all over your body; pay attention to the "external" senses of vision/sight, sounds/hearing, odor/smell, flavors in your mouth/taste; do this while ignoring the "mental" (usually this means the verbal intellectualizations) which you think describes the person and the problems you are confronting during this time together. Let a pattern (gestalt) of all the senses together form for you.
Later you will want to put forth a verbal description of the emotions you have experienced sensually, but sometimes you will be amazed at what comes up when you focus on feelings and "senses" which result in your emotions, and when you give up using words to relate your experience.

Following the lead of your non-verbal sensations can give important clues to what to do and say next in a communication, or therapy, context.

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