In Eugene Gendlin’s writing, he points to how we can live differently when we live in a way informed by our felt sense. This blog uses both his practice of Focusing and his second practice, Thinking at the Edge or TAE, to share ways we can discover via our felt sense, the ways we want live or create.

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!

Climate change progress continues to be too slow. Many scientists say it’s inevitable that we’ll overshoot the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius. What can we do? In this blog I share some of my process in being with eco-anxiety, and new research that suggests the answer may be to welcome catastrophic thinking. To feel, think and act within the realities of the climate crisis. Luckily, Focusing can help with that.

Focusing can give us the energy to take action steps. We can also ask the body for an action step. For example: “What action would I take if my body were like that?” But then we have to take the action steps for true change to occur.