{"id":609,"date":"2009-03-13T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-03-13T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:01:40","slug":"intuitive-focusinggift-in-emotional-depression-economic-recession-and-other-times-of-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/intuitive-focusinggift-in-emotional-depression-economic-recession-and-other-times-of-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"INTUITIVE FOCUSING: THE GIFT IN EMOTIONAL DEPRESSION, ECONOMIC RECESSION, AND OTHER TIMES OF &#8220;IMPRISONMENT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-609 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/intuitive-focusinggift-in-emotional-depression-economic-recession-and-other-times-of-imprisonment\/p1010004_resize-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1010004_resize-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-616\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-616'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom The Bog Comes The Lotus\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/intuitive-focusinggift-in-emotional-depression-economic-recession-and-other-times-of-imprisonment\/p1010005_resize-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1010005_resize-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-617\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-617'>\n\t\t\t\tA Profusion of Growing Mandala\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Times of grief, depression, economic recession, imprisonment, in the external world or internally self-imposed, can give the time needed to go deeply, &#8220;fish up&#8221; new energies and creativities from the bottom feeders, and come out renewed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Intuitive Focusing Instructions at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a1.php\">Intuitive Focusing<\/a>, especially in the company of <a title=\"Focused Listening instructions at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a2.php\">Focused Listening<\/a> from an empathic friend or support group, is a simple self-help tool for doing this fishing, providing predictable steps for &#8220;Ahah!&#8221; experiences, at home, work, and in the community, while avoiding getting drowned in the process!<\/p>\n<p>A friend posted this on the Focusing Discussion e-list (subscribe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusing.org\">www.focusing.org<\/a> under &#8220;Felt Community&#8221;) and, with his permission, I share it with you:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(A blog about innovation prompts the following thoughts, which takes form together with what comes for me)<\/p>\n<p>On reflecting on these dark and unprecedented times, amidst gathering clouds and raging storms\u2026 it occurs that our predicament is not without parallel (I do not mean 1929), and that it is only that we have not just yet recognised the edges of our cell. By way of locating ourselves, a we-ing of us in this, an Eskimo proverb says that in the storm is the time to fish\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019d like to tell you a story\u2026 but first, what are the similarities in the lives of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela? Each made a personal and social contribution to equality that was far-reaching, upset a status quo, and has sustained beyond their lives. Each recognised the energy of truth and non-violence. And each spent a lot of time in jail, and each found it to be productive time for reflecting and writing, re-editing and re-imagining the world as-it-was-known.<\/p>\n<p>Ibn Al-Haitham is less known but no different. Ab? Al? al-Hasan ibn ibn al-Haytham (also known as Al hazen) is considered as the first \u2018scientist\u2019, a pioneer of the scientific method and a \u2018father\u2019 of optics. He headed a project to regulate the flow of the Nile in Egypt. Once he decided it was impossible, he escaped severe punishment from the Fatimid caliph in Cairo only by pretending to be mad. So instead of a death sentence, he was kept under house arrest until Hakim\u2019s death in 1021.<\/p>\n<p>There, in-house (as more than a few of us are about to be), he spent his time experimenting with light and physics, and made the discovery of light travelling in a straight line (instead of light beaming out of eyes as it was known) by making holes in the prison\u2019s wall and seeing how buildings outside were depicted upside down on the other wall. Ibn al-Haitham gave the first clear description, illustration, and correct analysis of the camera obscura. The word \u2018camera\u2019 comes from the Arabic (qamara), which means dark or private room.<\/p>\n<p>During this time in prison, he wrote the influential Book of Optics and scores of other important treatises on physics, medicine, science and mathematics problems (among which he explored the squaring of the circle). More than 200 works he wrote on all these topics, and in particular published a seven-volume treatise on optics which had great celebrity and influenced western thought, notably that of Bacon and Kepler. His time in prison gave him time to open himself to new theories, and elaborate the gift of a deeper science of optics some 6 centuries before Isaac Newton\u2019s studies.<\/p>\n<p>So in thinking about\u00a0 \u2018our time in prison\u2019, and considering the evolving impacts that the decline-of-empire inevitably bring, this might also just be our opportunity to explore new ways of being-before-doing in a global self-righting-and-redistribution. Seeking new ways to see and know, even when the images are unfamiliar, upsidedown, senseless, or without a pattern that can be quickly picked.<\/p>\n<p>Not a story directly related to Focusing, but when I hear \u2018try Focusing with anything\u2019, I want also to try it with contemporary apprehension, with uncertainty and suburban dread, with this wintering and these icy currents, with what works at all anywhere in this we-ing across the world, in our qamaras and private connections, in my living, seeking wild hybridisations and simpler, quieter approaches \u2013 much like in remembering how to fish\u2026 in a storm.<br \/>\nMmm \u2026 what might that feel like\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My friend includes a link to a beautiful short video, <a title=\"Short Tools and Tears video\" href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/personamedia\/iMovieTheater14.html\">A Father&#8217;s Tools and The Tears of Things<\/a>, by Tim Wilson, who includes many more &#8220;deep fishing&#8221; videos\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personamedia.com\">www.personamedia.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>You can learn all about Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening with the many resources listed below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING(tm): \u00a0SELF-HELP SKILLS FOR HOME AND WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Downloads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-153\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=153\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/complete-focusing-instructions-manual.doc\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mini_manual_-_finished_6-7-07-for-pdf.doc\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>\u201cAjas\u201d Instantaneos Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative Edge Focusing (<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>www.cefocusing.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> )<\/strong> teaches two basic self-help skills, <a title=\"Intuitive Focusing Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a1.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Intuitive Focusing<\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"Focused Listening instructions at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a2.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Focused Listening<\/span><\/a>, which can be applied at home and at work through <a title=\"Creative Edge Pyramid described at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a4.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Based upon Gendlin\u2019s Experiential Focusing (<\/strong><a onclick=\"urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.focusing.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.focusing.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>www.focusing.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> )\u00a0and Rogers\u2019 Empathic Listening,<\/strong> our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn\u00a0how to build S<a title=\"Building Supportive Community at CEF Website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1b.php\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">upport Groups<\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"Conscious Relationships at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1e.php\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Conscious Relationships<\/span><\/a>, and <a title=\"Creative Edge Organizations at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1a.php\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Creative Edge Organizations <\/span><\/a>based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can try out\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Focusing exercise at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/freeresources\/2a1a.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\"><strong>\u201cFocusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Subscribe e-newsletter and e-course\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/subscribe.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Click here to subscribe to\u00a0Creative Edge Focusing(TM)\u2019s \u00a0Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Free Intuitive Focusing e-Mini-Course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=138\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Focused Listening Mini-Course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=141\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Click here for a free Focused Listening Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>See \u00a0<a title=\"Conflict Resolution Mini-Course on website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a9.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Core Concept: Conflict Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg\u2019s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard\u2019s \u201cOne Minute Apology,\u201d Patricia Evan\u2019s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon\u2019s <em>Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, <\/em>and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See\u00a0 <a title=\"Intimate Relationship Mini-Course at CEF website\" href=\"http:\/\/cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a10.php\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Core Concept: Intimate Relationship<\/span><\/a> to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the \u201cSharing Your Day\u201d exercise, Listening\/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>Download complete Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual, in <\/strong><a title=\"Instant Ahah! 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