#30: Gendlin's Focusing with Sandy Jahmi Burg -- How to Slow Down & Listen to Your Body

Sandy Jahmi Burg is a facilitator of Gendlin's Focusing -- the most powerful method of tapping into body intelligence that I've encountered. In this interview, we define it, demo it, and debrief. Enjoy.

Sandy's Website
https://learnfocusing.org/

The Enneagram School
https://www.theenneagramschool.com/

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:46 What is Focusing?

6:30 The "felt-sense" implies "life-forward" movement

10:02 The importance of being "in relationship" with the felt sense

12:13 Making an invitation as you enter a Focusing session

13:35 Demo - Lead in & invitation, creating conditions for a felt sense to arrive

18:33 Demo - The first felt sense, "taking our understanding back" to our bodies

20:08 Demo - Making contact & letting it know you hear it, "Getting into relationship"

24:06 Demo - Acknowledging & getting "bigger than"

25:37 Demo - Responding to how it sees you

28:19 Demo - It's "message" for me

32:11 Wordless metabolizing; sitting in the "solution" state, not the problem

35:00 Setting an intention vs inhabiting a way of being

38:26 What the hell just happened? - The "steps" in a Focusing Journey

39:24 The grocery store analogy; Discovering, making contact, coming into relationship, experiencing shift

49:12 The leap of faith -- acknowledging what arises as sentient entities

51:00 Parts Work & the "Self" (capital S); on being merged with a part & getting "bigger than" it

54:58 The "result" of a focusing session: before, merged; after, in relationship

59:50 The facilitator's POV: tracking, giving prompts, helping Focuser get into relationship

1:08:29 On "checking back" with the body; when something feels understood and accepted for how it is now, that's what releases it to shift

1:11:56 when something feels understood and accepted for how it is now, that's what releases it to shift

1:20:15 How to work with Sandy

1:21:59 Plugs