Focussing

[dunglen]

has anyone any experience of focussing?

i have just been to see my counsellor and she suggested doing this instead of talking.

quite a weird experience - not sure what i was supposed to do but by the end of the session felt something (energy) had shifted.

she spoke all the time in a very quiet voice - quite difficult to hear her at times because of the background noise in the GP surgery.

she has suggested taking things easy tonight perhaps have a bath or such like.

 

[Dollit]

Never heard of this - what is it and how does it work?

 

[dunglen]

http://www.focusing.org.uk/foxcroft_whatis.html

this web link takes you to a web site explaining what focussing is.

i found it to be a very gentle form of something like healing but where your mind looks at your body rather than a healer.

 

[yakuza]

"Focusing is a way of bringing compassionate attention to something in your life that needs it -- allowing you to untangle issues over which you feel blocked or confused. It provides a way to be with feelings which well up, without either being driven by them or pushing them away. The essence of the technique is to bring our awareness to bodily-felt responses such as ‘butterflies' or 'a lump in the throat'. It is possible to tune in to such sensations - and many other similar and more subtle ones - and to learn a great deal from them about how we react to what is going on in our lives.

Kay Hoffmann



I think this quote taken from the link dunglen kindly provided sums up how 'focussing' can help anyone

 

[Dollit]

I had a look at this site and to me it looked like it had culled bits of mindfulness and other stuff and merged them together. It seemed to hint a lot of what it was but not how it was done - personally I'd need to know more before I shelled out for this (or any other therapy).

 

[Aahbut]

That description on the site was vaguer than my CBT description. I expect each session costs more for that very reason. Did someone say cynic?

 

[yakuza]

That description on the site was vaguer than my CBT description. I expect each session costs more for that very reason. Did someone say cynic?

It is not 'cynical' to try and 'appreciate' others ideas,it IS 'cynical' to be 'ignorant' of others ideas !