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Using our Positive Memories as a Superpower: Boosting Memory Reconsolidation with Focusing
Focusing on positive memories provided a boost to our practice—both in creating the conditions for Focusing to happen, and as a way to enhance the experience by crossing two felt senses. This blog shares those insights in more detail, and a new one: that this work is a form of memory reconsolidation. That it explains why Focusing work is so transformative!
What are you unknowingly doing to get love?
I’ve known for a while that when I was little, one of the reason’s I had such a drive to excel academically was to get love and attention. What I didn’t realize was that this belief—learning being a critical way to get love—was still running the show!
Felt sense body cards
In this blog, I cover the parts and qualities of our selves we can map with the felt sense body cards. I’ve found this work to be the best use of the cards. However, they are also quite useful for recording what comes in any Focusing session.
Meditation versus Focusing: How Gendlin’s practice differs
Focusing and meditation are two different practices that complement each other. While they have many similarities, they have a different effect on the body and the mind. For example, in Focusing one experiences a felt shift.
The PUPA process: Focusing metamorphosis from ‘caterpillar’ to ‘butterfly’
This is the story of how the PUPA process came to be. A pupa is the stage in insects, between the larva and adult. In butterflies, this is the chrysalis. The PUPA process creates a safe space for transformation, by combining Focusing, Theory U and the 8Cs of Self-Leadership.
- Action
- Calm
- Clarity
- Climate change
- Climate crisis
- Compassion
- Confidence
- Connection
- Courage
- Creativity
- Crossing
- Curiosity
- Difference
- Felt sense body card
- Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
- Focusing & Listening Skills
- Focusing Attitude
- Grounding
- Habits
- Hurt child
- Listening
- Meditation
- Memory reconsolidation
- Nature
- Parts
- Positive memories
- Procrastination
- PUPA process
- Research
- Similarities