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Focusing:
A Mind/Body Method for Diminishing Pain and
Suffering
Joan Klagsbrun, PhD
When we are in pain, our
natural inclination is to reduce the pain by distancing
ourselves from it. Focusing, a gentle and profound method of
listening deeply to oneself, brings your attention to the
pain, and engages us in a process of communicating with it,
rather than trying to ignore or suppress it. This approach
often enables us to make sense of what the body is
communicating to us, and we can take steps for healing
emotional distress and suffering, even in the midst of pain.
This workshop will teach participants the Focusing process
as it is used in working with pain and illness and will
present patient cases with different kinds of physical pain
(neck, back, and migraine). |
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