Sublime

I bounced from one ‘expert’ to the next, putting all my faith in everyone else’s expertise. I never stopped to listen to my own instincts, because I didn’t think I had any.

Marion Woodman,

Once a distinction is made between “I” or “self” and “this” or “it,” this opens the way to the possibility of an inner relational dialogue in which the “I” listens to what the “it” is revealing. But in Focusing, the “it” is not considered an entity. It is an emergent process and may change to the point of dissolution without fighting for “its” iden

Turning towards gratitude:

You’ll note that I say “out,” as opposed to “outward,” because that is how I want you to think of it. Your attention goes out, onto, and into someone else’s body. In this case, “out” is not a direction or a suggestion, but a location.

Once we have begun to see a pattern in our experience, then we can begin to look more deeply into ourselves for the origin of this pattern. We ask ourselves, “Who is the person within me who reacts in this way?” And then we can work with the different selves that emerge, initiating a dialogue between the part of ourselves in need of healing and the

Beck found he could teach people to pay attention and hear them. And then he discovered he could teach them how to work with and change these beliefs. This is how cognitive therapy was born, one of the most effective therapies ever developed.