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…
Focusing Tip #531 – “Is Focusing something that only a few people can do?”
“What if you try to learn a powerful inner process from a book, and you don’t get results?“ A Reader writes: “I’ve…
Focusing Tip #530 – “What ways could Focusing be a vehicle for conflict resolution?”
“When you and the other person are both triggered in a conflictual discussion, what can you do to connect and move through…
Focusing Tip #529 – “Even when I have time to do something healthy for me, like exercise or meditate, I become an immovable blob in front of TV.”
“Does it feel like you are too overloaded and stressed to do the good things that would help you not be so…
