Focusing Tip #615 – “I feel difficult emotions, but not a felt sense…”
What can you do when an old childhood-trauma-based issue has been triggered? Read on… Paul writes: Focusing is challenging for me. It…
Focusing Tip #614 – “Can Focusing bring actual changes in the external world, as opposed to just making me feel better about my life?”
Of course you want to actually change your life! Read on… Alena writes: I’m new to Focusing (but I’ve read 3 of…
Focusing Tip #613 – “If I keep thinking about negative outcomes and expectations, I feel bad in my body…”
How can you trust your inner feeling that something is right, even if it’s not logical? Read on… Bhavani writes: Can a…
Focusing Tip #612 – “I don’t feel big enough to take care of a child part of me”
What if you feel too small and inadequate to be a compassionate listener to yourself? Read on… A Reader writes: I get…
Focusing Tip #611 – What is the effect of childhood emotional wounds on your life today?
Janet writes: Can our Self-in-Presence be wounded? Is that why we have developed parts that feel they need to protect/defend/hide from us?…
Focusing Tip #610 – My anxiety won’t let me do Focusing
Jackie writes: I sometimes suffer with anxiety that just won’t let me go through the relaxation techniques (like Focusing) that are supposed…
Focusing Tip #609 – What do I do first with my anxious feeling?
Eric writes: I’m confused about something in Inner Relationship Focusing. It’s about what to do first. In my own Focusing, say when…
Focusing Tip #608 – Focusing is too much inner attention
A Reader writes: When I try to do Focusing I feel a dark, painful area of my body, and I get a…
Focusing Tip #607 – “Focusing is a way of being present to the life within us, and how that life wants to live….”
What is meant by the term ‘felt shift’ and why is that so special? Dear Readers: One year ago I was teaching…
Focusing Tip #606 – Does life-forward energy come from my Self-in-Presence?
Annie writes: Does Self-in-Presence have/contain life forward energy? If not, where does life forward energy come from… parts? Dear Annie: Life-forward energy…
