Meditations
Video 3 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
June 19, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Focusing is a life-giving spiritual meditation that honors the wisdom that lies within us. We've discussed the method and demonstrated it. Today, I'll walk you through a guided meditation using focusing.
Video 2 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
June 10, 2020
By Kathy Keary
If you experience stresses in your life or are weighed down by emotional baggage, you may find the focusing method to be freeing. In this video, we demonstrate how to do focusing.
Focusing: Reverencing the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 3
June 8, 2020
By Kathy Keary
We've looked at the background and mechanics of Focusing. Now, I will discuss the topic on a more personal level covering a few points about my own experience of focusing in hopes that it will encourage you to give this life-giving practice a try.
New Video Series — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
June 2, 2020
By Kathy Keary
The focusing method honors the wisdom that lies within us and speaks to us in a way that can be felt in our bodies. This is known as a felt sense. This felt sense alerts us to what needs our attention. By reverently caring for this bodily reaction, a natural life-enhancing process is nurtured.
Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 2
June 1, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Part 2 of 3 Parts. The first article in this series introduced you to “focusing,” a tool spiritual directors use to help directees identify and care for emotions by paying attention to one’s body. This week we take a more detailed look at the specific steps involved in focusing.
Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 1
May 27, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Society teaches us to suppress our feelings and to distract ourselves from our emotions rather than to care for them. If you found a way to listen to the wisdom of your emotions as revealed in your body and care for them in a life-giving way, would you try it?