This post is about the importance of “resonance” when we listen to ourselves and others as an important thing not to forget. I am writing about it because I need the reminder myself in Focusing sessions, but I also think the Listner/With-Senser can benefit from their own resonating, and I suggest how we might use it in listening in everyday life too…
Category: Experiences with Felt Sensing
A memory isn’t just a thought image, but a unique, bodily-felt-experience
(Norsk versjon finner du ved å klikke på lenka) The other day I saw one of the many videos on Facebook with nature experiences that people share. It was a video of some Mobula Rays swimming in synchronicity with a wave washing onto a sunny shore. In an instance it was as if I was…
Having it there – a way of being there for ourselves
(This text was originally written as a handout for participants on my Felt Sensing and With-Sensing (Focusing and Listening) Training. Introduction In this text I am using the word Felt Sensing instead of the usual “Focusing”. This is signify that this is not about becoming more focused, and that it’s rather about getting in touch…
Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing) starts March 23.
Focusing is based on the research into what leads to change
Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing) starts March 23.
Want to get to know your own, inner experiences better? So you can shift and move situations that seem stuck? And deeply enjoy good feelings when they are there because you know how to be with those that feel less good, when they come? Try the Introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing):The course runs over 4…
Why Focusing is not ‘the same as’ Mindfulness
(For norsk versjon, klikk her) When I describe to others who are unfamiliar with Focusing, what it is, I often get the comment or question if Focusing isn’t just the same as Mindfulness. In this little piece I would like to try to outline some of the differences and similarities between Focusing and Mindfulness. To…
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.
Grounded Space Focusing 