Focusing was discovered by Eugene Gendlin, a philosopher and psychotherapist, during his research with Carl Rogers into what made healing effective.

Focusing is gentle and profound. It is a natural way of paying attention to oneself and others that is based on concrete inner experience. By focusing inwardly and listening to your body, you can understand how you truly feel about your circumstances, a specific situation, or a relationship. Embracing the flow of feelings in a non-judgmental way offers a fresh and new transformational process.

And that results in a forward movement of well-being, balance and self-awareness.

Focusing allows access to deeper levels of awareness, wisdom, and self-guidance that reside inside each of us. Through an easily learned, step-by step process, Focusing teaches us how to turn our attention inside our bodies where we carry all our personal experiences, memories, sensations, emotions and feelings, even parts that we never thought were there.

It is a moment-by-moment way of coming home to yourself. It is an exquisitely sensitive way of listening to or sensing what our inner world is telling us, often in the form of subtle feelings/sensations, in a way that is safe and gentle. It offers a creative and quietly profound way of being with even what we find most challenging. In focusing, we are often pleasantly surprised by fresh or new spaces emerging, even from ‘impossibly stuck’ places. It is in my experience a deeply satisfying process, allowing my heart and soul space to breathe and be themselves, to find their  sense of rightness.