What is Focusing? “Focusing” -- as developed by Eugene Gendlin
-- is a way of deeply listening to yourself, to your own inner
knowing held in the wisdom of your body. As a result, you feel
calmer, smarter, clearer, free of old emotional patterns, and
your life moves forward in just the ways that it needs to. - You
can learn Focusing for yourself - You can do Focusing with
friends and family members - You can bring Focusing into therapy
sessions (as a therapist or as a client) - You can have Focusing
with you through all the ups and downs of life Focusing is
simple: It’s just bringing non-judging awareness to a special
kind of body sense called a “felt sense,” and then staying with
it. But Focusing can take a while to learn because it is truly
revolutionary -- it turns our usual cultural assumptions on
their heads. - We think we have to fix ourselves or get someone
to fix us -- but actually, positive change is inherent in us if
we learn how to give ourselves a certain kind of attention and
get out of our own w