The Concept Of Focusing: How To Use Self-Awareness To Your Advantage
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt stuck in your life? If so, you're not alone. While a frustrating place to find yourself in, it doesn't have to be permanent. So, how can we use focus to our advantage and develop the self-awareness we're capable of possessing? Ann Weiser Cornell, an author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, sits down to explain.
Ann has been teaching around the world since 1980. During this time, she developed a system and technique called Inner Relationship Focusing. She is also a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, she has written several definitive books on this powerful subject, including The Power Of Focusing: Finding Your Inner Voice, Untangling: How You Can Transform What's Impossibly Stuck, and more…
In this episode, we discuss:
- The difference between clients who are successful in therapy and those who aren't.
- What Focusing actually means.
- The importance of creating a relationship with what you're feeling.
- How to develop self-awareness.
How can we use radical acceptance and allowance of our personalities to return to a place of wholeness? In what ways can Focus facilitate personal growth and inner healing? Click play to find out for yourself!
You can learn more about Ann and her important work here.
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9
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| 0:31.2 | Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest that he is Anne Weiser Cornell. She is an author. The book is called The Power of Focusing |
| 0:46.8 | and also Untangling how you can transform what's impossibly stuck. So, you know, Anne's got a lifelong fascination, as she says in her |
| 0:54.0 | bio, of why people get stuck. And I'm actually pretty fascinated with that too. |
| 0:57.3 | It's very frustrating when, you know, personally, I know people that have such great |
| 1:02.2 | potential and they just can't seem to get unstuck. |
| 1:06.2 | I guess it's a good way to put it. |
| 1:07.5 | So I would love to hear and I'm sure we're going to hear about techniques for people to help themselves get unstuck. |
| 1:13.0 | So welcome in, thanks for coming. |
| 1:15.0 | A pleasure to be here, Richard. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, well, you know, just so the audience knows, Anne was really gracious. |
| 1:20.0 | She sent me a copy of her book focusing and even before we started interacting like now |
| 1:24.9 | she's just been great so I just want to publicly thank you for that ad so |
| 1:29.0 | thanks for coming tell me a bit about your background you know how did you get to |
| 1:32.4 | figure out the concept of |
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