If you take a moment now, you can notice how you experience ‘limitation’ in your life.

How often do you experience life as difficult? Sometimes it feels like we are beset by limitations, struggling against adversity and limitation. Or do you feel like your life is filled with a sense of possibility? And is a sense of limitation ever a blessing?

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Can Focusing can help with problems sleeping?

I say it can, alongside other ways of tackling this sometimes pernicious and debilitating condition.

We believe Focusing may be helpful on two fronts. For some it may be that paying attention to your felt sense of what it is that might be causing you dis-ease and sleeplessness might reveal what is at the crux of the matter.

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‘I am under a lot of stress’

D says I am feeling a lot of stress. Can Focusing help? My wife is making a lot of demands on me, at a time when I am under a lot of stress because I run my own business, and I need to work a lot to pay the mortgage and the bills. I need to earn enough to keep the whole family of 3 growing teenagers and my wife…

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Question: How do I use Focusing with a difficult situation in my life?

Answer: When you are Focusing, you are sensing something in your body, which contains meaning, and is related to something in your life. For instance, say you have had a difficult conversation with someone, perhaps a friend, a family member or a work colleague, that leaves you feeling uncomfortable, unfinished somehow. There’s more that you wanted to say, but couldn’t find the right words in that moment.

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