With Vera R. Fryd Lyngmo at Grounded Space Focusing Learn to listen to yourself and others compassionately and in ways that move you forward – read more about the full course content on this link All courses happen on Wednesdays at 18.30-21.00 CEST (convert to your time zone) Module: The Basics of Felt Sensing 1….
Tag: Self-compassion
Holding (seeming) opposites
The other day I had (another, I might say) experience of the magic of being the one that holds (seeming) opposites, which is a feature of Focusing that I truly treasure. I think that one of the corners that (many of us) Westerners have painted ourselves into is the notion of “either-or”, “black-or-white”, “good-or-bad”, “shit-or-great”….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Grounded Space Focusing 