Focusing

Focusing is a subtle, transformative practice of inner awareness developed by Eugene Gendlin, PhD. at the University of Chicago. Focusing enables us to direct our attention to precisely what needs our awareness in our lives. Through this special process, natural steps of change arise spontaneously, marked by physical relief and profound release of tension. Focusing can help you

• learn how to sense what makes you come alive and live more fully from there
• accept and love yourself as you are
• transform enemies like self-criticism and confusion into powerful allies
• make decisions with confidence
• do inner work without traditional therapy
• get your therapy moving again, or just go deeper
• live more fully embodied, gently grounded in your physical being
• express yourself with more clarity, power, depth and authenticity
• access and support the positive and creative life energy within you
• feel more and more like yourself
• experience increasing ease, power, and joy in life.

The beauty of Focusing is that there are no shoulds, musts, or dogma of any kind. Focusing is gentle and always respectful of where you are right now it moves at your natural pace of change. It helps you listen to your most subtle feelings allowing the wisdom and truth within them to unfold and illuminate your life.

If you are a counsellor, therapist or work in the helping professions Focusing can help you professionally

• to enhance your listening skills
• to deepen your capacity for contact and empathy
• to support others to tolerate and understand their difficult feelings and to befriend themselves Just as importantly, Focusing helps you personally
• to stay aware of your own experiencing and needs
• to develop or improve your capacity for self care
• to help you in coping with conflict, change, overload and other sources of stress

What Next?

Use the links below to search for Focusing practitioners.

List of Focusing Salons and Therapists.

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