Our interactions are not divorced from how we came to them. The situations or interactions are not mere facts. The mood of our interactions holds in it, the reality of how we came to that interaction. Heidegger refers to this as “our Being-attuned”.

Gendlin (1979) writes that "we don't come into situations as if they were mere facts, independent of us. We have had some part in getting ourselves into these situations ... and the mood has the implicit 'understanding' of all that" (p. 45). This is the mood Heidegger (1962) refers to as "our Being-attuned" (p. 172).(View Highlight)