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Focusing – For ME

In late spring, 2012, at the conclusion of the International Focusing Conference in Argentina, I was invited to share what Focusing means to me. Here’s the brief [1.46 min] video we recorded (I’ve also included a transcript, below).

Transcript:
“Ok, Focusing – for ME….is a way for me to be with who I am in a fresh way with what’s wanting to come from inside.
That doesn’t have words or notes or music, yet.
I know it in my body. I know something, in my body. But I don’t yet know what I know.
I can’t…I’m not yet able to sing the song that’s waiting to form….for me to sing it.
And, Focusing is a way to let me bring all that forth.
And that’s Focusing – for ME.”

If you have a sense that there’s something inside of you that’s waiting to form and be known, I’d love to help you bring it forth. Sometimes, all that’s needed is a skillful listener.

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Every Long Journey…One Step at a Time

Screenshot - FitBit Badge I don’t know about you, but I don’t seem to have the kind of body that does well with prolonged exercise. At least not during the past 30+ years.

Don’t worry, I’ll spare you the boring details. They’re not the important part of this story.

Rather, I wanted to share how wonderful it felt to unexpectedly receive the “Great Wall badge” from fitbit in my email.

Wow! 5500 miles I’ve walked since I started tracking my steps. I don’t know how long it’s taken me, but that doesn’t matter, somehow. Blue and I don’t always get to the targeted 10,000 steps per day. However, we DO walk every day.

We’re not competing with anyone. I had recently discovered I feel really uncomfortable awakening a dormant competitive spirit inside of me after a friend invited me to join her in a weeklong fitbit “distance” competition. On the other hand, I DID enjoy sharing a designated scenic “hike” with her. Simply enjoying the scenery without any need to come in first.

One step in front of the other. One moment at a time. One day at a time. Sometimes a bit slower than others – there might be vistas to savor or roses to smell.

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What if….?

What if…????????

The gummies you gave your kids/grandkids would help them create better eating habits…to actually crave healthier foods?

What if…?

It were the most researched nutritional product in the world?

What if…?

It were scientifically proven to balance and strengthen the immune system leading to less sick days, less doctor visits, and less medication?

What if…☤

It were supported by medical professionals around the world, including pediatricians and top nutritionists, dieticians and more?

What if…?

College kids experiencing late nights, added stress, and poor diets could eat 30 raw fruits, veggies and berries every day?

Best health hack around!

Interested to learn more?

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Listen to Your Body, Your Life Can Change!

Aaffien de Vries was one of the 20+ presenters at the 28th International Focusing Conference 2019 in Merida, Mexico. Shortly after attending her wonderful session entitled: Becoming your true self in daily life and work, I noticed she had placed informational postcards on the “sharing table”.

I was intrigued with the drawings and invited Google to provide me with a sense of the accompanying texts.

Is there something?

Yes, sigh, kweenie ….

It feels … uh … heavy …. like … uh … a dark cloud around my head.

Can you say hello to it?

Yes, I feel it here now … oh, it’s scared and vulnerable ….

Hey, it’s happy with my attention.

I feel a lot better now, thank you for listening.

Listen to your body, your life can change!

If you’ve got something like a heavy dark cloud hovering around you, perhaps you’d like someone to help you listen in a life-changing way. A great way to get started would be to attend an upcoming Virtual Changes Gatherings and/or schedule a Private Listening Session.

Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness. [Eugene Gendlin]

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Unstructured Serendipity

When do you go back home? What are your plans after the conference?

At the time I write this, I’ve been in Mexico for a little over a week. For a 4 1/2 day conference. With a couple of extra days on either end of long air-travel days.

Throughout this entire time away, it’s seemed as though every conversation has included some variant of the above two questions. The first was easy to answer: “Wednesday”. The second, required some evolutionary finessing to feel more comfortable inside of me.

At first, my initial response consisted of a rather waffly “Don’t know. Haven’t decided yet.” counterpoint to others’ clear itinerary of daily plans. Eventually, after a few days, I found a definitive (for them) and deliciously satisfying (for me) response: “Unstructured Serendipity”.

These past two days have been wondrously delightful. Low-key and unplanned until individual opportunities arrived. Yes, some opportunities were missed (yet, I harbor no regrets). And, I’ll head back home tomorrow with no lingering need to “let my soul catch up with my body”.

That phrase is the punchline of a story Terry Hershey tells at the beginning of the video [2.08 min] below, entitled Sitting Still.

DO sit still long enough to hear his suggestion during the last 30 seconds. It’s priceless – and pairs perfectly with the idea of unstructured serendipity, I think.

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Health Professionals Roundtable – Part 4

Vitamins and Whole Food

Welcome to the 4th episode [2.50 min] of this Health Professionals Roundtable and learn from the panelist how and why eating more fruits and vegetables is the most affordable health care plan in which you can invest.

Note: If you missed Parts 1-3, you can access them here:

Part 1 – The Power of Food
Part 2 – Educating Patients
Part 3 – Recommended Servings

If you have been searching for answers for better health, may I invite you to consider the following question:

How would you feel if you actually ate as well as you know you should?

For example, as you scan each of the photos below, pause for a moment to consider how you might feel if you were somehow able to include all (or even most) of these in your diet, EVERY day….