Asking: The Fifth Step of Focusing
Once we have a clear sense of a whole problem there inside our bodies, the time comes to ask it: alright, I hear you, now what is it that you really have to tell me? Where do we go from here?
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in 2010.
Once we have a clear sense of a whole problem there inside our bodies, the time comes to ask it: alright, I hear you, now what is it that you really have to tell me? Where do we go from here?
Although we have five senses with which to explore and experience the world, we can be so overloaded by the flood of visual information coming through our eyes, that we don’t appreciate the audio backdrop of sounds and noises that is ever-present. By tuning in to this other source of information about the world, we can enrich our experience of it.
On behalf of all of us at CounsellingResource.com, I’d like to extend the warmest welcome to our two newest members of the team: Ask the Psychologist contributors Dr Susan Berel and Dr Jim Bierman.
It should trouble us all when anyone regards any of our most important philosophical, religious, or even scientific questions as “settled.”
Are emotions like a cold? Can you be caught by others’ emotions? I think so. Just like we have some immunity to colds, and we won’t get one every time we are exposed, we can develop some immunity to others’ emotions.
It’s been known for centuries that animals have an important part to play in promoting feelings of wellbeing amongst people with emotional problems or physical ill-health. And it doesn’t have to be in a formal setting either; making positive contact with other people, and the good feelings this can foster, can sometimes be an awful lot easier if you have a four-legged friend alongside you.
Finding ‘the right word’ — knowing what it is in the body — makes the difference between the kind of experience we just have to submit to and the kind of experience we can be creative with.
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