Ongoing research since the 1960s robustly demonstrated that clients who get in touch in a Focusing way with their experiential process, are more successful in psychotherapy than those who do not know this act of embodied self-reflection.įocusing is often compared to Mindfulness, Zen and different kinds of meditations. The practice has been found to enhance well-being, meaning in life, and all kind of healing and creative processes. In the speed of your daily life, and in the overflow of information, Focusing is helpful to get a clearer sense for anything that matters to you among the complexities of life. The subtle movements experienced during a Focusing session have the potential to transforms the framework of thinking and stuck emotional patterns. Sometimes this leads to an amazing experience that the body is reliable in its living-forward tendency.įor some persons, Focusing is a very natural process, while others can do it only after some training. This fuzzy dimension of experience is called the “felt sense.” Focusing on the “felt sense” allows an in-depth clarification process to happen. It’s called Focusing because it requires a special kind of “focus” to notice what is not yet clear, fuzzy and vague, implicit in how you interact with your situations and environment. During Focusing, your attention will open up to multiple layers and aspects of living. You can't just use focussed and focused in the same document - you need to stick with one, or you'll look like you've gone insane with choice.(see a different overview of Focusing in Romanian)įocusing is an experiential, embodied and evidence-based practice of self-reflection.
The bottom line is that when you are in Australia, you have the option to use both spellings, as long as you are consistent. I know what you're thinking: You thinking 'what the fuck?! Why can't they just decide on one spelling!?' Well, you make a good point, but you're just a foot soldier on the grammar battlefield, and the question of focused and focussed is an interesting example of Australian spelling being an English ho, incorporating both UK and US spellings without so much as blushing. And you know when the Sydney Morning Herald is involved, shit is serious. But in the majority of publications, such as the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, the spelling focused is used instead.
But it's not really as straight-cut as that, because Australian English can't make it's mind up which one to use.Īccording to The Style Guide, which is the official guide to all the spellings in Australia, you should use focussed. In UK and Australian English, it's spelt focussed. In US spelling, this word is spelt focused. Some words have two different spellings in the same country, and can be used interchangeably. These can hurt your head.Ī prime offender of this is the word focussed. As you know, we have already battled with the rules of when to use different spellings for the same words, and it has been no small task.īut the thing you have to understand that you can never really win the battle with words – you can only hold them back for long enough to crouch down in your trench and write a letter to your loved ones, telling them how much you miss the farm, and that you don't know when you'll be home.
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