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RE: A Guide To Focusing: Psychotherapy For Everyday Use
This seems to be similar to mindfulness meditation, if one removes terminology differences, is it not?
This seems to be similar to mindfulness meditation, if one removes terminology differences, is it not?
Although the way some people experience those two things might be very similar, the terms are not interchangeable.
Mindfulness meditation is a very vague term. You can be mindful of anything, really, and you should not have any goal. On the other hand, Focusing is a very specific tool used for a very specific purpose: listening to your own feelings that need attention. It might sound like a contradiction, but I would say that Focusing is more active.
The terminology is one of the things that also make Focusing different. Most of the meditation techniques I heard/read about already expect you to have a certain level of experience, otherwise you can't easily get past the "be aware of your breathing" stage. But Focusing is aiming to help especially those people with really little experience to help them make sense of what is even happening.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I missed the active part in Focusing, pursuing the goal. Although the meditation pundits would argue that one can achieve this goal, wellbeing and clarity, just by meditating.
I like that it can be tried by inexperienced person, looks like there some YouTube videos to get one started :)