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…
Focusing Tip #601 – I find it frightening to try to sense the dissociating part in my body.
A Reader writes: I just realized that I dissociate. I can’t control it when it happens. It, whatever in me takes over…
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Focusing Tip #598 – If you have a negative core belief about yourself, how can you change it?
Jim writes: Can (and how can) focusing be used to change core beliefs? Do I turn to the belief and say (for…
Focusing Tip #597 – How do you move from gentle empathic listening to energized action?
“The problem is, when I stop Focusing and go on doing my daily activities, I am still partially in that quiet state,…
Focusing Tip #595 – “Avoiding conflict is a core aspect of who I am…”
Are you so strongly identified with something that you’d be lying to say it’s just part of you? Bruce writes: This morning…
Focusing Tip #594 – “What good are my parts? They make my life miserable.”
Focusing involves spending time with different parts of you. But do those parts have value? Bhavani writes: After a year of experience…
Focusing Tip #590 – “My parts don’t tell me anything new.”
“A lot of the time in Focusing with a part I don’t hear anything new…” Charles writes: A lot of the time…
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Focusing Tip #589 – I feel my parts have ruined my life
Are you angry at the parts of you that have held you back from living your potential? Jim writes: Ann, when you…
