In the article, “Understanding Composing” by Sandra Perl, I felt mostly inspired by how she speaks of “felt sense”. I love the idea of listening to something that is embedded into your deeper consciousness. I feel using felt sense is a great way of extracting original thoughts, descriptions and ideas. Original because they come from an original place, unlike anything in the external world. Becoming in touch with one’s felt sense is also a great way to let us tell ourselves how we truly feel about something. We let down the guard that filters cognitive thought and are therefore able to get our writing to come from a sincere place.

I think that felt sense is not only useful in writing, but other areas of one’s life as well,  I especially in speech. If one feels as though they unable to verbally communicate something to someone in the way that they would like to, by tuning into their felt sense, they have the potential to break down the barriers that are obstructing their means of communicating how they really feel. 

Not only can felt sense be used as a means of communicating with others, but it can be used as a means of communicating with oneself as well. By applying felt sense into your internal thoughts, you could possibly discover your truer feelings about something and gain a new perspective. 

I have found that becoming in touch with one’s felt sense is not an easy task, but gets easier with time. For some it may come natural and for others it may be more difficult, but I agree with Perl in that we all possess a felt sense.