Tag: focusing meditation
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Focusing Exercise This Morning
2/5/2023 Focusing this morning after feeling scattered and without clear direction. How am I feeling? I’m feeling judgmental about myself because I’m not doing something grand. Aside from that, How am I feeling? I’m feeling frustrated because I don’t have time to do every little thing that entices me. Aside from that, How am I…
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The Sacred Questions and Self Awareness
There was a time in my life when things were just so bad! In my mind I felt hopeless. I could not see a way out. I was stuck. I had been taught all my life, however, that we are special and that we humans are meant to overcome our difficulties in life; to learn…
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Focusing For Happiness and Weight Loss
The other day when I was focusing away my depression (click here for previous post) I hit upon an idea which I started immediately using. I spent moments throughout the day centering my attention inward, as is done in focusing to discover emotional layers, but instead of asking how I am feeling, I quiet myself…
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Focusing Away Depression
I awoke today frustrated about how I was feeling. For the past few days I have been feeling depressed and overwhelmed. I wanted to call my daughters and whine about it, but I couldn’t find my phone. I thought about going to see my therapist but remembered I have all the tools I need, I…
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Dealing with Depression
I recently made a comment in another persons website about one of the ways I deal with depression so I thought I would share it here. I have an approach called Focusing which I learned from my teacher Tom Brown Jr. (which approach I received by going out and going to Wilderness Survival classes at…
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Peeling Back The Negatives, Finding our True Childlike Joy
I have used the tool of focusing that I explained in my blog called “Do ya ever just not wanna get outta bed? “Focusing” will tell you why.” many times since learning the meditation in Trackerschool almost 10 years ago. The meditation is getting easier for me and I am more quickly able to pinpoint…
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Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? “Focusing” Will Tell You Why.
That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day. There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…
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Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? "Focusing" Will Tell You Why.
That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day. There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…
Michele Ballantyne 