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Focusing Tip #614 - "Can Focusing bring actual changes in the external world, as opposed to just making me feel better about my life?"
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Focusing Tip #614 – “Can Focusing bring actual changes in the external world, as opposed to just making me feel better about my life?”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell June 20, 2018August 6, 2024

Of course you want to actually change your life! Read on… Alena writes: I’m new to Focusing (but I’ve read 3 of…

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How can you trust your inner feeling that something is right, even if it's not logical?
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Focusing Tip #613 – “If I keep thinking about negative outcomes and expectations, I feel bad in my body…”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell June 13, 2018August 27, 2024

How can you trust your inner feeling that something is right, even if it’s not logical? Read on… Bhavani writes: Can a…

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"I wish someone would take care of me… and instead I am supposed to take care of this inner part of me."
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Focusing Tip #612 – “I don’t feel big enough to take care of a child part of me”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell June 6, 2018August 1, 2024

What if you feel too small and inadequate to be a compassionate listener to yourself? Read on… A Reader writes: I get…

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What is the effect of childhood emotional wounds on your body?
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Focusing Tip #611 – What is the effect of childhood emotional wounds on your life today?

ByAnn Weiser Cornell May 30, 2018July 9, 2024

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?…

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Focusing Tip #610 – My anxiety won’t let me do Focusing
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Focusing Tip #610 – My anxiety won’t let me do Focusing

ByAnn Weiser Cornell May 24, 2018August 1, 2024

Jackie writes: I sometimes suffer with anxiety that just won’t let me go through the relaxation techniques (like Focusing) that are supposed…

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Focusing Tip #609 – What do I do first with my anxious feeling?
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Focusing Tip #609 – What do I do first with my anxious feeling?

ByAnn Weiser Cornell May 16, 2018July 9, 2024

Eric writes: I’m confused about something in Inner Relationship Focusing. It’s about what to do first. In my own Focusing, say when…

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Focusing Tip #608 – Focusing is too much inner attention
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Focusing Tip #608 – Focusing is too much inner attention

ByAnn Weiser Cornell May 9, 2018July 30, 2024

A Reader writes: When I try to do Focusing I feel a dark, painful area of my body, and I get a…

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Focusing Tip #607 – “Focusing is a way of being present to the life within us, and how that life wants to live….”
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Focusing Tip #607 – “Focusing is a way of being present to the life within us, and how that life wants to live….”

ByAnn Weiser Cornell May 2, 2018September 19, 2024

What is meant by the term ‘felt shift’ and why is that so special? Dear Readers: One year ago I was teaching…

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What is life forward energy and how can we cultivate it
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Focusing Tip #606 – Does life-forward energy come from my Self-in-Presence?

ByAnn Weiser Cornell April 26, 2018July 15, 2024

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…

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Focusing Tip #605 – A part of me feels young, non-verbal, and very stuck
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Focusing Tip #605 – A part of me feels young, non-verbal, and very stuck

ByAnn Weiser Cornell April 18, 2018July 24, 2024

A Reader writes: I heard that in the Untangling™ process you have a part called the Small One. In my Focusing I…

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      The Inner Relationship Focusing Training Program
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      Getting Free:
      A Year of Untangling
      • Live, Online Courses
      • On-Demand Courses
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