{"id":761,"date":"2009-05-25T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=761"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:30:38","slug":"mindbody-healing-focusing-oriented-body-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/mindbody-healing-focusing-oriented-body-work\/","title":{"rendered":"MIND\/BODY HEALING: FOCUSING-ORIENTED BODY WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gendlin’s Focusing (Bantam, 1981, 2007; www.focusing.org<\/a> ), and McGuire’s Intuitive Focusing<\/a>, are premiere techniques for mind\/body healing. Focusing happens exactly at the edge between conscious and unconscious, the “preconscious” that is immediately available as a “bodily felt sense.” McGuire’s calls it \u00a0“intuitive feel,” the “something-more-than-words,”\u00a0 The Creative Edge<\/a>, the source of creativity, innovation, and problem solving.<\/p>\n

Michael Mayer has years of experience working at the interface between mind and body, and between conscious\/unconscious\/preconscious. He has worked extensively\u00a0combining body-centered practices like Tai Chi and Qigong with Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. Below he reviews his past work and announces his new book, Energy Psychology: Self Healing methods For Bodymind Health, <\/em>which integrates energy therapies, meridian tapping methods like Emotional Freedom Techniques (www.emofree.com<\/a>) \u00a0as well as Qigong and many others, with Focusing for mind\/body self-healing. Quoted from\u00a0Dr. Mayer on The Focusing Discussion e-list at www.focusing.org<\/a> (subscribe in Category “Felt Community”, then e-lists):\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was the Focusing training coordinator for the San Francisco East Bay area from around 1978 to 1988, and Focusing has been close to my heart and an important part of my professional\u00a0 life for many years.<\/p>\n

Over the years I have integrated Focusing with many other traditions: In the 1980’s I\u00a0 combined Focusing with psychomythology with my “Mythic Journey Process” (Mayer, Focusing Folio<\/em> 1982);\u00a0 in the 1990’s I integrated Focusing with\u00a0 Qigong and Chronic Pain (Mayer, “Qigong and Behavioral Medicine, An Integrated approach to Chronic Pain,” Qi Journal<\/em>, 1986). Then I brought Focusing together with many facets of Qigong and other traditions of postural initiation (Mayer, Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy<\/em>, 2007). Now with my latest book I’m hoping to show the importance of Focusing to bring out the inner energetic dimensions of Energy Psychology.
\nI wanted to let the Focusing community know that I have a new book , Energy Psychology: Self Healing Methods for Bodymind Health<\/em> (North Atlantic\/Random House, 2009) that will be released tomorrow April 28th. Here’s an excerpt:
\n“In order to bring the healing abilities of a comprehensive energy psychology to the public, I believe that in addition to the well-known energy psychology methods such as EFT, the field of energy psychology (EP) would be well served by expanding its terrain to include Qigong and methods of energy cultivation from other traditions of meditation and postural initiation (Goodman, 1990), depth psychology, Gendlin’s Focusing, symbolic process traditions, Kabalistic methods, etc…<\/p>\n

…The internal process of psychological change, as Gendlin (1978) rightly pointed out, has energy activation\u00a0 (Qigong) as an inextricable part of it, as a patient’s energetic “felt shift” emerges along with a patient’s discovering new meaning.<\/strong> \/\/bolding by Dr. McGuire\/\/<\/p>\n

Also symbolic process methods, such as my Mythic Journey Process (Mayer, 1994) and River of Life Process (Mayer 2007, 2009), create an internal energy (Jung, Vol. VIII) that helps a person find a meaningful life path, and helps patients to find a new life stance (Goodman, 1990, Mayer, 2004). As related to EP, this expands the field to include both internal and external methods of energetic change. ..My newest book, Energy Psychology: Self-Healing Practices for Bodymind Health is written to help accomplish these aims (Mayer, 2009)….”<\/p>\n

If you are interested in getting a copy of Energy Psychology, on April 28th,\u00a0 tomorrow, the book will be\u00a0 available on Amazon.com<\/a>(direct link to Mayer’s book), and all major books stores, or you can order Energy Psychology or any of my other books from my website www.bodymindhealing.com<\/a>.
\nI’ll look forward to hearing more about what other Focusers are up to nowadays from this list, and feel free to email me drmichael@bodymindhealing.com<\/a>.
\nWarm regards,
\nMichael Mayer<\/p>\n

Claudia Conza also announces the Second International “Focusing in the body-oriented professions” residential workshop, Sept. 22-26, 2009, Maennedorf, Switzerland (also from the Focusing Discussion e-list):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear all, Guten Tag
\n\u00a0
\nFinally I am happy to announce our 2. International residential workshop \u201cMeeting at the Edge\u201d2009 in Switzerland
\nAfter the big success in Ischia, Italy in 2007 we are ready to introduce the next location for:
\n\u00a0
\n\u201cMEETING AT THE EDGE\u201d
\nFocusing in the body-oriented professions
\nA 4 day residential workshop
\nSeptember 22 \u2013 26, 2009
\nBoldern, conference center, Maennedorf, (Zurich) Switzerland.
\n\u00a0
\nThe event will be in English with translation in to German and Italian. Please check our webpage: www.mae2009.org<\/a> where with time we will ad more and more information, photos and answers to the FAQ.
\nAttached to print I am sending our flyer in pdf format to print our flyer.
\n\u00a0
\nI am looking forward to meeting you in September 2009 here in Switzerland to share and explore on our topic and to show you the lovely site with the view down to the lake of Zurich and our mountains.
\n\u00a0
\nClaudia
\nIn the name of the organising board, Francesca, Nicoletta, Mathias, Larry, Steve, Jack<\/p>\n

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