Wholebody Focusing - Glenn Fleisch, Ph.D., MFT

The Wholebody Focusing Story

Every story has a beginning. This is ours…

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.
–Thomas Merton

What is WholeBody Focusing?

Within the living body lies the deepest source of spirit and intelligence, the vitality of the body’s life-force that animates all living beings. It is a radiant core of aliveness connecting us with the larger Intelligence of Nature. When we stay closely connected to this body, we discover that everything we experience in our body—whether we call it sensations or feelings or symptoms—calls us back to ourselves. It’s as if embedded in every symptom, problem, pattern—even in our physical maladies—lies an energy that’s crying out to return to our wholeness.

Through the process of Wholebody Focusing (WBF), we begin to sense, acknowledge and welcome that energy in a way that liberates it to come more fully alive in us. And the more it comes alive, the more we tend to experience a sense of our body as a vehicle that expresses, or embodies, the wholeness, freedom, aliveness that we had as small children. We find ourselves regaining the joy, the energy and the instinctual wisdom we were born with- by letting our body guide us back to itself- to enter into its depths, to retrieve our life-energy and return with an inspirited body of openness and courage.

Focusing-oriented therapy: a Wholebody approach

The knowledge needed for healing and growth are already present within you. However, as a result of traumas and conditioning, we have lost connection with the body’s inner wisdom, its natural spirit. Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT) is a whole body process of learning to reconnect with our body, letting what is within come alive- and activate the healing life-force. When our consciousness contacts those places inside us that are stressed, traumatized and still outside of our conscious awareness, they come back to life, awakening to their own healing. These wounded parts already contain the energy and information needed to transform themselves- and have only been awaiting a safe space and attuned, resonant contact.

In Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT), as a wholebody process, I will help, guide and support you to gain access to your body’s inner knowing, its vital energy, and feelings. Together, we will learn from the body what is needed for healing, and how to more fully embody repetitive patterns and inner places. It is through embodying our feelings, and patterns that we can retrieve the energy, life-force and spirit that has been trapped or has been weakened. When traumatized and wounded places sense our caring-feeling Presence and solid-supportive containment, they feel safe to emerge from exile and show themselves. The body leads us toward those places where it was wounded, showing us what happened and what is needed to repair the wound and recover its spirit.

We need to conceive of the living body in a new way, so as to be able to understand how it can contain (or be) information, and also be the implying of the next bit of living. It is not the usual use of the word “body.” (E. Gendlin, 2003)

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