Focusing
Focusing
Therapeutic Benefits:
- Healing Trauma
- Relief from unwanted symptoms of Depression & Anxiety
- Understanding your Emotions and deciphering Feelings
- Unlock hidden Memories
- Experience the Transcendent
What to Expect:
- Have a guided meditative journey
- Safely open your perception to your inner world
- Discover your conscious experience of a Felt Sense of Being
- Tap into greater Creativity
- Discover your Truth and Purpose
Focusing is a somatic experience where you disengage your thinking self and perceive through feeling. Through the research of Eugene Gendlin, Focusing was born and inspired many movements and practices in psychology and therapy such as Somatic Experiencing, Body Psychotherapy, EMDR, Family Systems, and Hakomi. Many of these theories and practices have provided pathways to therapeutic breakthroughs assisting in healing trauma.
Gendlin’s self-help book, Focusing, published in 1978, came from the conjoint research with Dr. Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago. Their researched examined what makes therapy work discovering that therapeutic value transcended the methodology of the individual therapist and rested on something many clients were already doing within themselves. What clients were already doing came from what Gendlin described as a “Felt Sense” of something in the body that linked to a greater awareness of the individuals experience beyond mere conscious thought.
Focusing expands your consciousness to a greater awareness of the whole self to include body and mind. Focusing directs people to feel into the body to perceive a reality beyond mere thought. The process guides people to this intuitive body-feel, the “felt sense.” This connects the individual to clarity and a knowing a wider expanse of their Truth.
In my own practice of body and mind health, I regularly meet with a partner to do Focusing sessions. I have come to know a greater sense of my whole Self through tapping into unconscious parts where I find healing and greater consciousness. Primary issues from a lifetime of generalized anxiety have subsided. I now live with a greater sense of strength, security and well-being.
I became aware of Focusing while listening to a lecture with Dr. John Gottman. He recommended Dr. Eugene Gendlin’s book Focusing to assist couples in understanding and connecting to feelings in order to communicate better. The highest level of communication happens with people when they are able to connect and explore their feelings. This is done more affectively when you discover your own Felt Sense to discover the truth in your feelings.
Gendlin wrote his self-help book as a way for individuals to find healing without extensive therapy. Anyone can learn how to do Focusing, become a Trainer or provide Focusing sessions like me. I am glad to provide Focusing sessions on its own, separate from therapy. Focusing sessions can be shorter and less expensive than entering therapy. A 30-minute Focusing session can be scheduled, as opposed to a traditional 55-minute therapy session. If you are interested in becoming trained as a Focuser and provide these sessions to others, I highly recommend that you seek out my mentor, Jeffrey Morrison (www.seattlefocusing.org) He is a highly respected leader and trainer in our local Focusing community and the International Focusing community.
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Feel free to call me and discuss what a Focusing session might look like for you. 206-714-0610.