October 3rd to November 7th I will be offering an advanced course that will deepen your listening in a Focusing partnership as well as to yourself and in your life! The main goal of this course is to become more confident that what is really needed in listening to another is that you are there…
Weary of being told “just think positive!”?
There seems to be this “epidemic” going round in later years: self-help guides and coaches, best friends and colleagues have learned, and are trying to teach us, that all we have to do is “think positive”, when something in life is hard. Not that positive thinking in itself is a bad thing of course, it…
Having it together with – an example to illustrate the importance of togetherness between human beings
One thing that I am learning from Focusing, is this thing that I have started to call “having it together with”. In some counselling and psychology traditions, as well as in educational contexts, one talks about empathy, putting yourself in the other person’s shoes, and “seeing” the other person. To me “having together with”, is…
Focusing is…
I asked some of my Focusing friends and partners to say what Focusing is, in one sentence. This is what they said: “Through Focusing I can feel that I really, deeply like myself” (S.) “Focusing is a way of finding peace and coming into connection with parts of me that feel uncomfortable/difficult/stuck, as well as…
Focusing makes it easier to trust what comes from within…
…, even what seems “angry at me” or “negative”, because Focusing becomes a tool to get a relationship with it, to hear better what’s actually underneath. And what’s actually underneath is, always, without exeption, that it’s trying to “save you” from a situation (or several situations simultaneously) that are experienced as unbearable and even life…
Why learn and use Focusing?
Do you feel like there’s something missing in your seemingly “perfect” life? Focusing let’s you come deeper inside of yourself and what really matters to you. Do you have feelings of emptiness, or longing for meaning? Focusing doesn’t provide you with any particular meaning, but helps you find what is meaningful to YOU. Can you sense that…
Welcome to Grounded Space Focusing
Hi! I am Vera Rolfine Fryd Lyngmo (former Rabben Teigen), and I would love to show you the world of Focusing and Felt Sensing. Read more about Focusing and Eugene Gendlin – who discovered it – on the page about Focusing. Read more about Grounded Space Focusing and about me on the about pages. Find…
