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Author: Ann Weiser Cornell

"Does this "resistance to Focusing" dissolve with time?"
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Focusing Tip #624 – “Can you ‘overtrain’ Focusing? Do too much?”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell September 12, 2018September 19, 2024

When you don’t feel like doing Focusing, is that a ‘resistance’ to be worked with? Read on… Miro writes: Can you “overtrain”…

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Procrastination and negative beliefs
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Focusing Tip #623 – Procrastination and negative beliefs

ByAnn Weiser Cornell September 5, 2018August 6, 2024

Are you procrastinating because a part of you believes your work is not good enough? Read on… Jim writes: I procrastinated for…

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What's alive in depression?
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Focusing Tip #622: What’s alive in depression

ByAnn Weiser Cornell August 29, 2018July 16, 2024

“Depression” can feel like we’re up against something that seems impossible… but is it really? Read on… Michelle writes: I’m curious what…

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Focusing Tip #621: What IS Self-in-Presence, anyway?
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Focusing Tip #621: What IS Self-in-Presence, anyway?

ByAnn Weiser Cornell August 22, 2018July 9, 2024

What would become possible if you could live your life open, calm, and curious? Read on… Susan writes: Last week you wrote in…

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"I try to find a part that is calm and like Presence, and I can’t. I’m all agitated or depressed, all of me, all over."
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Focusing Tip #620 – How to cultivate Self-in-Presence when you don’t feel like it

ByAnn Weiser Cornell August 15, 2018July 15, 2024

What if you feel agitated or depressed and that is all you feel? Read on… A Reader writes: You have talked about how…

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"It simply does not want to be here, or it believes it should not be here..."
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Focusing Tip #619 – When you feel so ashamed you just want to disappear

ByAnn Weiser Cornell August 8, 2018July 9, 2024

A Reader writes: In my Focusing I sensed a part of me which feels so ashamed, that it has the strong wish…

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Focusing with a very intense feeling of suffocation and anger
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Focusing Tip #618 – Focusing with a very intense feeling of suffocation and anger

ByAnn Weiser Cornell August 1, 2018July 9, 2024

Iris writes: I just did a Focusing session by myself which was disturbing. First there was an all-pervasive rock inside me, in…

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"In a state of shock, it can be difficult to access our resources, to think and to feel."
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Focusing Tip #617 – “Can I do Focusing while I’m in shock?”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell July 18, 2018July 31, 2024

What’s the one thing to do when a traumatic event occurs, to make it less traumatic? Read on… A Reader writes: When…

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I'm wondering if I have a block that I can't detect
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Focusing Tip #616 – “I’m wondering if I have a block that I can’t detect”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell July 11, 2018July 9, 2024

Wondering how to invite the missing part that’s the real key to changing your life? Read on… Jim writes: I’m wondering if…

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Childhood trauma
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Focusing Tip #615 – “I feel difficult emotions, but not a felt sense…”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell June 27, 2018July 9, 2024

What can you do when an old childhood-trauma-based issue has been triggered? Read on… Paul writes: Focusing is challenging for me. It…

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      • On-Demand Courses
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