Focusing and the effects of stress on the body

What can Focusing do?

  • Reduce the effects of stress on the body and in your work and personal life
  • Improve communication, self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Help you make good decisions and strengthen your creative work
  • Support healing and self-development, and your ability to care for yourself
  • Unleash your creativity
  • And more…

Who is Focusing for and what does it offer?

  • People who are committed to their own personal development and growth and who want to make the most of their lives.
  • People who know they have creative potential but can’t get their project off the ground find new ways forward, gracefully releasing old blocks in surprising and life-enhancing ways.
  • People experiencing personal difficulties find those obstacles dissolve and their problems become manageable, bringing increasing ease, joy and flow in their lives.
  • People experiencing the effects of stress on the body and at work, discover resources within themselves that enable them to cope, becoming more self-reliant and self-confident.
  • Those who don’t find it easy to get in touch with their emotions, or who easily get overwhelmed by their emotions find a safe way to relate to their feelings, which then become guides to a deeper truth, leading them to feel more alive, energised and creative.
  • People who experience difficulty communicating with others develop more confidence and self-esteem, enabling them to be open to others from a place of safety and trust, enhancing the quality of all their relationships.

What else does Focusing do?

  • Focusing helps you to know what you really feel and what you really want, by allowing you to be in touch with your inner knowing about what is right for you.
  • Focusing has powerful tools for releasing you from self-criticism and other forms of inner sabotage. It naturally increases your love and acceptance for all parts of yourself.
  • Focusing helps you find and develop your creative and positive qualities.
  • Focusing is a great support for people who are healing from physical illness, living with chronic physical conditions or feeling the effects of stress on the body, because you come into closer touch with what your body is saying to you, and you have a way of being friendly with the emotional stresses that come with illness.
  • Focusing works with counselling, therapy, and other forms of support and personal development approaches, making them more effective, or it helps you to help yourself without therapy. You can use Focusing with all the same issues you might work on in therapy, including healing from past pain and understanding puzzling reactions to people and events.
  • Focusing is a great tool in decision-making because it helps you sense the rightness of the choice you are making, at a level that includes, and also is beyond, logical analysis.

In short, Focusing can help in any area of life where there is difficulty.

When you practise Focusing, you can:

  • Reduce the effects of stress on the body and in your work and personal life
  • Improve communication, self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Make good decisions and strengthen your creative work
  • Support your healing and self-development, and your ability to care for yourself

‘Focusing helps you to move forward with your life with the wisdom of your whole self, not just your logical mind. It is a way to guide your life from the inside, to know what is right for you without always looking to outer authority, or other people’s opinions.’ Bebe Simon.