Why practice
Inner-Relationship Focusing?
It can bring movement where there is “stuck-ness.”
It can help you use the inner difficulties to shed light on the outer difficulties.
It is a way to grow in authenticity and self-compassion (which inevitably leads to compassion for others).
It helps you digest and move through big emotions. It gives you a way to experience, be with, but not be overwhelmed by big feelings.
It brings you into a more intimate relationship with your body’s experiencing. The body’s ways of knowing are very different from the mind’s ways of accumulating knowledge, conceptualizing, categorizing, analyzing, etc… All ways of knowing are useful, and Focusing gives you the opportunity to understand and experience more.
It heals attachment and bonding issues, and strengthens our capacity for developing healthy relationships.
It leads to the acceptance of what is here in your whole being’s experience, so nothing in your inner world has to be suppressed, repressed, managed, or manipulated. (Note: Acceptance does not mean “approved of,” or “agreed with.” Acceptance simply means “not rejected.”)
It can bring a sense of possibility, a “living-forward” energy (even when your outer circumstances have not changed.) External change often does emerge alongside inner shifts.
Focusing is a somatic, emergent practice that helps you rest in awareness of the current moment…..and that very awareness IS a catalyst for change.
Attention is a form of Love.
