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"In phenomenological-hermeneutic terms, this may be referred to as the "existential reality".  Psychoanalyst Daniel Stern (2000) called the background feelings associated with how a person relates to his existential reality "vitality affects".  More generally, one may call it "felt sense", as the term indicates exactly what is meant; sensing something we feel in our guts as it were and precedes the cognitive reflection.  The felt sense, therefore, need not be something that one is rationally aware of."  - Sitvasi, J. (2021). The Felt Sense and how it can therapeutically be meditated in photographs.  Is the world - Inviting, Vibrant and Warm?  Through photography, music therapy, poetry-writing - to infuse the "felt sense" with new sensations in which in their turn can be reflected on and which can lead to more openness in an otherwise "framed" mind.  Does photography - an image or images - have the ability to impact and change