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…
Focusing Tip #605 – A part of me feels young, non-verbal, and very stuck
A Reader writes: I heard that in the Untangling™ process you have a part called the Small One. In my Focusing I…
Focusing Tip #604 – My body sometimes shakes
Jacek writes: I have a question related to trauma & Focusing. When I quiet down and let go, my body starts to move…
Focusing Tip #603 – Where does violence come from?
Dear Readers: Today I am filled with sadness as I think of the great American leader and peacemaker who was assassinated fifty…
Focusing Tip #602 – A part of me doesn’t want to do Focusing
“Now it’s a struggle between the parts that don’t want to do anything regularly and the parts that want to do Focusing…
