Focusing Tip #541 – Wondering how to work toward your goals without becoming your own tyrant?
“You should exercise more… and if you don’t, you’re a lazy slob.” How tyrants create rebels… At the start of a new…
Focusing Tip #540 – Does it ever feel like being with your family is being trapped in a web of unspoken messages?
“This year, because I had learned Focusing, it was worse…” Holiday tangles… Today I am remembering the very first Christmas after I…
Focusing Tip #539 – Are you in a struggle with feelings like anxiety or resistance but you don’t even notice that it’s happening?
“I have a very hard time getting identified with anxiety and resistance but don’t notice until after several days of struggling…” Michelle…
Focusing Tip #538 – Do you get into a dead end with trying to bring change in old repetitive traumas?
“Around that original trauma there seems to have developed a kaleidoscope of reactive feelings…” A few months ago Leslie wrote: I seem…
Focusing Tip #537 – When you set a goal and it hasn’t happened yet, how do you keep positive?
“How do I not get discouraged by the time it’s taking, things not happening, etc…” Bhavani writes: Thank you for your response…
Focusing Tip #536 – How can you use your felt sense to come up with goals that are congruent with yourself?
“I’d like to know more about how to use Focusing on goal setting and achieving…” Bhavani writes: I’d like to know more…
Focusing Tip #535 – “Often I get days where I feel sad, even overwhelmed, accompanied by a lot of tears.”
What can you do if you feel overwhelmingly sad and you don’t want to feel that way? Ann Marie writes: Often I…
Focusing Tip #534 – Finding potential and possibility in times of despair.
Facing the dark to act with strength and clarity. Dear Focusing Friends, I awoke this morning to a different world than I…
Focusing Tip #533 – “Is it possible to start to feel forbidden anger?”
What can you do when you’re struggling with “forbidden” feelings? Maria writes: I am in a difficult time in my life. It…
Focusing Tip #532 – When old memories trigger difficult feelings…
When difficult feelings are triggered bringing up old memories, what do you do with the part of you that doesn’t want to…
