Throughout our lives, we (will) all experience hardships and situations where we feel overwhelmed, trapped or stuck in and with pain, either of physical injury or pain, or of life experiences that are overwhelming and scary. Yes, of course, everyone does… When we do get stuck or trapped, it is often because our thinking about…
Category: Focusing in everyday life
The power of slowness, pausing and “resonating”
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…
Why I came up with the course “Being a person with another person”.
There are at least two reasons I came up with the course, Being a person with another person, one of which is that I always wondered what to do next, after having become proficient at Focusing. There didn’t seem to be that much on offer if you wanted to continue exploring but didn’t want to…
Advanced listening course – Being a person with another person
Finished your levels, the Focusing and listening skills, and wondering what to do next? Try “Being a person with another person” and explore and deepen your listening to yourself and others: A 7-week advanced Zoom course about the relational sides to Felt Sensing: in regular Focusing partnerships, in helping professions and in everyday life. The…
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…