Hi! I am Vera Rolfine Fryd Lyngmo, and I would love to show you the world of Focusing and Felt Sensing. For example as a way to come closer to yourself (and others) and what is right for you! Ways to do this is that you can come to an individual session with me and…
Staying with the sense of the complexity of a problem may ease it more than breaking it down into pieces
Layer upon layer of complexity- that’s what our troubles often are. And then we like to break them into pieces to simplify and make them clear, but that’s mainly because we don’t yet know how to “have” complexity without getting overwhelmed.
The Guest House
This poem “The guest house” by Rumi, says much about what Felt Sensing is about – welcoming and getting to know each guest that arrives inside. With curiosity, openness and compassion.
Why call Focusing “Felt Sensing”?
I, Vera R. Fryd Lyngmo, am officially (by The International Focusing Institute) a Focusing Teacher/Trainer, and I am teaching (my own version of) Gendlin’s Focusing, that he discovered in his research into what leads to change (in a therapeutic setting) in the 1950’s. Attempts at explaining Focusing to people Over the years, while mentioning and trying…
Weary of being told “just think positive!”?
Norsk versjon av innlegget 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…
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…
Felt Sensing makes it easier to trust what comes from within…
…, even what seems “angry at me” or “negative”, because Felt Sensing 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…
Why learn and use Focusing (Felt Sensing)?
(Norsk versjon av dette innlegget) Do you feel like there’s something missing in your seemingly “perfect” life? Felt Sensing let’s you come deeper inside of yourself and what really matters to you. Do you have feelings of emptiness, or longing for meaning? Felt Sensing doesn’t provide you with any particular meaning, but helps you find what is…
What would you like to do or learn more about, after the Introductory series to Felt Sensing and With-Sensing (Focusing)?
You might have taken the five part Introdoctory series to Focusing (or four levels Inner Relationship) with me or another Focusing teacher, and I am curious about what you feel you would want to learn or do next?
