Get Clear and Move Forward
with Focusing

From Confusion to Clarity...
      From Being Blocked to Moving Forward...

• Are you feeling blocked in your life direction?
• Do you find yourself overwhelmed by stressful emotions or too many decisions?
• Do you feel stuck in a rut, wondering “What is it going to take to get me out of this?”

You know your life could be more fulfilling. There’s a longing in your heart to make a real difference in the world and it’s getting harder and harder to ignore. And yet much as you want to, you’re not taking action. You wonder, “What’s stopping me?”

I know how painful it can be to feel there’s a gap between what you can see yourself accomplishing and what your life actually looks like, right now.

You’d like to be able to blame other people or situations or life in general but you have to admit – a good part of what’s blocking you is YOU.

So now what?

You’ve already tried therapy, maybe for a lot of years. You’ve tried reading self-help books, or buying them and then not reading them. (Oh, the stacks of books beside your bed!) You’ve tried positive thinking, you’ve tried visualizing the future, you’ve tried meditating. You’re tried making plans and resolutions and lists, and maybe you’ve tried all of the above more than once.

And you still feel stuck.

Those things could be helpful – but if they haven’t been helpful for you, you’re probably feeling pretty discouraged and wondering if anything can help at all.

The trouble with talk therapy and positive thinking is that they leave your body out of the picture. If you try to talk or think your way out of problems, but leave your body behind, you’re leaving out 90% of your will and wisdom.

The trouble with positive visualization is that it bypasses something important: your current reality, the truth of how you actually feel. In your heart and gut you know there is something missing from those shiny futures, and that creates a disconnect that short-circuits real change.

If the conventional methods don’t work, what DOES work?

From hard-earned experience, I’ve learned that an effective way of getting through the blocks and emotional overwhelm has to include the following three ingredients:

One. It has to be based in what’s real, true, grounded, here and now. There’s no time change can happen but the present.

Two. It has to include your whole self, body, mind, and all. And that includes access to parts of you that talking and analyzing can’t reach.

Three. It has to be radically accepting of every part of you, so that your essential self feels stronger and calmer, and your (shall we say) less helpful parts don’t have to act out so much – and no longer need to get in your way.

Hi, I’m Ann Weiser Cornell. I know what it’s like to feel desperately stuck and try everything to try to change. I must have bought every self-help book and tried every new age technique that I heard about from a friend or on TV. Most of them just made me more discouraged and critical of myself when I was left as stuck as before.

But one thing really helped, and I mean it really helped. I went from painful writer’s block and procrastination to being able to write easily. Now I have two books, three manuals, countless articles, and I write an e-newsletter every week. What helped me was my own (with a colleague) adaptation of a method called Focusing. I call the result Inner Relationship Focusing.

In the years since my own life changed I’ve worked with hundreds of people… and seen them get the same kind of results that I got. I’ve developed classes that people can take on the phone, and methods for you to do the work on your own, or with friends and colleagues, so you don’t have to keep paying someone else. (Only then does it really belong to you!)

I’m the most well-known Focusing teacher in the world, having taught in 18 different countries over 25 years – and all because I’m completely dedicated to making sure that as many people as possible have ways to learn and use this empowering skill – so we have a world that works.

If you would learn more about Inner Relationship Focusing and how it can help you to get clear and move forward with your life, I can offer you a few ways to do that.

One would be to read the first chapter of my book The Power of Focusing. If you like it, and want to read more, I’ve got the book available in my online store.

Another way is to listen to this 45 minute free phone seminar that I recorded on January 12. It includes an Inner Relationship Focusing exercise that you can try yourself. (download mp3)

If you’re not sure that you’re the kind of person that Inner Relationship Focusing can help, I invite you to read Is This You?