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"Heal your body with your mind and heal your mind with your body."

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Listening to the Wisdom of the Body

Inner Relationship Focusing

Focusing is a natural body-centered process of bringing awareness to the place inside you that senses how you relate to a situation or problem in your life. How we feel about someone or some experience may be subtle and vague, or like a knot in your stomach or throat that tells you something is not right. This inner sensing and interacting with our bodily felt sense is what Focusing is about.

Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) was developed by Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin primarily out of their own practice, and based on the Focusing work of psychologist and researcher Eugene Gendlin. This approach of reflection and inner listening lets the client be in control of their own experience and teaches one how to develop this lifelong skill for use anytime.

At our core is an inner sense of rightness which if listened to can open up and guide us toward healing. Using a Focusing-oriented process can help you to develop a trusting relationship with yourself so that you can experience success in areas of your life that may have felt stuck, hopeless, or unachievable. In addition to its application to difficult life issues such as depressed and anxious states, action blocks, and low self worth, IRF is adaptable to any issue that a client has, including relationship issues and even the suffering caused by pain and physical symptoms.

Rubenfeld Synergy Method

The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® (RSM) is another body-based modality that can help people with a variety of emotional, mental, and physical concerns. RSM uniquely employs both touch and talk therapy. Developed over 30 years ago by Ilana Rubenfeld, this method is a powerful holistic system of therapy that facilitates awareness and addresses the memories and emotions stored in the body. This synergistic approach, founded on the belief that for every emotion there is a physical response, is a synthesis of Gestalt talk therapy, the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais® Method, and Ericksonian hypnotherapy.

The use of gentle touch leads to a heightened state of awareness and clients can more easily access deep feelings and insight. Sessions also help to provide relief from physical tension and stress and many clients note increased ease of movement and body/mind awareness. Adding dialogue to touch allows clients the opportunity to talk about their experience and to formulate change consciously ... integrating body, mind, emotions and spirit. The science that supports the effectiveness of this method has been written about by such experts as Candace Pert, neuroscientist and professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington.

"All of our organs and tissues are storage places for emotional memory. Using both touch and talk therapy, the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® empowers us to experience our feelings and the connection between our minds and bodies in extremely useful ways."

Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., neuroscientist, research professor and author of Molecules of Emotion

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