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“WHY CRY?” PART 5: BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON TEARS, CRYING, BEING TOUCHED AND BEING MOVED, INNER CHILD HEALING, ACTIVE GRIEVING, TRANSFORMATION

Many books and articles lead to acceptance of tears as transformative and spiritually meaningful, including Frey, Crying, Gaylin, Feelings: Our Vital Signs, Ross, The Fountain and The Furnace, and Chodrin's The Way of Compassion. Dr. McGuire also lists her own many articles on tears, inner child healing, afect in Experiential Focusing Therapy, "being touched and being moved," and Active Grieving.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: CAT DOING FOCUSING = “SITTING WITH” THE “INTUITIVE FEEL”

Intuitive Focusing involves noticing that there is "something more than words" inside and making the decision to stop, pause, and spend some time "sitting with" this "intuitive feel" until it is allowed to open and "carry forward" into new actions steps, solutions and ideas. Here, a cat models this "sitting with."

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FOCUSING AND BUSINESS: BUILDING COMMUNITY AT WORK

Creative Edge Organizations encourage creative, innovative problem solving from each individual's fresh, intuitive, right-brain thinking by teaching Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening as basic skills of "emotional and social intelligence." The exchange of Focusing/Listening turns builds feelings of "buy in" and "community" while encouraging innovation, creativity, and diversity.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: “FELT SENSE’ OF A SITUATION DISCLOSES LIFE MEANING AND DIRECTION

Using Intuitive Focusing to pay attention to a strong positive emotional experience of "being touched" in a situation can lead to finding words and images for core spiritual and life-directing meanings, leading to a clear action path ahead.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: OVERCOMING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, OVERWHELM, AND NUMBNESS CAUSED BY AN OVERLOAD OF NEGATIVE SITUATIONS

Intuitive Focusing can help us go from numbness, overwhelm, confusion to an understanding of the "pile-ups" of negative situations and "spirals" of negative thinking causing these emotional states. Intuitive Focusing allows release from stress and clear paths to action.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: RELIEVING STRESS OF INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS

Creative Edge Focusing teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening which can be applied at home and at work to increase creativity, decrease stress, resolve conflict, and facilitate innovative problem solving. Here we learn a specific exercise for reducing the stress left from interpersonal situations called "Getting A Felt Sense," accessing right-brain, intuitive knowledge.

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HOLIDAY FUN AND STRESS RELIEF: FREE PERSONALITY TESTS, 12-STEP HELP WITH ADDICTIONS AND CODEPENDENCY, GRIEF WORK

Instant "Ahah!" Mini-Manual Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages) "Ajas" Instantaneos Mini-Manual CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING(tm) SELF-HELP SKILLS FOR HOME AND WORK Creative Edge Focusing (www.cefocusing.com ) teaches two basic self-help…

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