An introduction to Focusing: a Quaker way? - preview
Terry O’Loughlin has practised Focusing for several years and has recently been applying it in Meeting for Worship. She explains the concept
‘Focusing arises from within a deep tradition that Quakers preserve for the world’ Thus said Eugene Gendlin, a professor of philosophy and a psychologist from Chicago university
He himself attended Quaker Meeting for Worship at Pendle Hill as a young man and his experiences there played a part in his development of this process called Focusing
Focusing is a practice that takes many of the elements of Quaker worship and applies them to our inner world When we Focus we let go of all thoughts and preoccupations and let our awareness sink down into a deeper place inside We create an inward space in which the truth of our situation can reveal itself to us We wait and allow what wants to come and be known, to arise spontaneously We attend or listen to what comes with an attitude of compassion and interest This allows what is there to open up and reveal its truth to us Out of this process comes a deeper appreciation of our situation and a better understanding of a way forward Focusing is usually practised in pairs with one person being a companion, supporting us by reflecting back our process in our own words without advice, interruption or interpretation
Terry O’Loughlin
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