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 #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 #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…
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…
