Rugby analogy for explaining Focusing practice

My doctoral advisor, Prof. Akira Ikemi, introduced my rugby analogy for explaining Focusing practice in his lecture video.

He introduced the analogy in the following context:

... when a person newly understands experiencing, the new aspects are retroactively applied to the past, such that a different past emerges.

For example, if a client has a felt shift and says, “Now I know I was lonely all the time.” But ten minutes ago, he was not lonely. But now that he got a shift. He looks back at his past and reformulates his past.

So, one of my students said that it’s like playing rugby. You’re moving ahead, but you have to pass the ball backwards. ... And that’s how our experience seems to work.

His lecture video is as follows:

[The Leuven Lecture] Akira Ikemi: "3 Topics that Fascinate me about Focusing, recently".

This rugby movement is illustrated in my short YouTube video as follows: