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Instant "Ahah!"s #4: Five-Minute Grieving
Grieving = Alchemy
Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director Week Two |
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| Creative Edge Focusing E-Newsletter Weekly Support: Week Two
For four weeks, we practice one Instant "Ahah!,", one Relaxation Exercise, and one Getting A Felt Sense Exercise, with e-reminders and tips each week. Our purpose:Helping you incorporate Listening and Focusing into your everyday life.
This month: From Instant "Ahah!" Mini-Manual, p. 13, #4.Five Minute Grieving: What To Do If A Patient, Friend, or Co-worker Starts Crying.
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Grieving = Alchemy
Alchemy is about transforming something gross and terrible into gold, the most precious metal.Alchemy needs going through a fire of transformation within a protective container.
Grieving is alchemical. If you can welcome it and stick with it and see it through, you will come out the other end having created something new and valuable.
In grieving properly, we are welcoming and honoring the memories and meanings of our loss. We are viewing our grieving Self with compassion. We create love and self-love.
C.S. Lewis wrote one of the best, short books about grieving, A Grief Observed (this is a link to Amazon listing). He describes, upon the death of his wife, going down into despair, then, one day, coming out the end of the tunnel, being able to really hear, really experience the birds singing again.
Please see my articles Active Grieving Part one and Active Grieving Part Two for a philosophy about welcoming grieving and actual techniques for using Focusing to enhance the journey through grief. While I used childbearing losses as the example, the philosophy and procedures apply to Actively Grieving any loss --- facilitating transformation. |
"Relaxation" and "Getting A Felt Sense" Exercises for the Month
Later in the week, you will receive two other e-reminders, one for Relaxation Exercise #4. Counting Meditation (p. 6 in Complete Focusing Instructions) and Getting A Felt Sense #4: The "Felt Sense," The "Intuitive Feel" of A Situation (p.12), the download free at the
Now Two E-Groups, Creative Edge Practice and Creative Edge Collaboration
In order to increase safety, and hopefully participation, there are now two separate Yahoo e-groups.
Creative Edge Practice is a closed group, where people can feel safe for the vulnerability of sharing Focusing experiences and responding to others with Focused Listening responses. The only requirement: a willingness to introduce yourself upon entry into the group, so everyone knows who is in the group. Further active participation is welcomed but not required.
Creative Edge Collaboration is an open group for discussion and networking around projects related to the spread of listening/focusing to various audiences and throughout the world.
You can visit the homepage of each by clicking on the link and join from there as well. Yahoo accounts are free.
If you order the Self-Help Package, you can use the Intuitive Focusing CD to follow Dr. McGuire as she speaks these exercises.
Click here to access Dr. McGuire's blog, Ultimate Self_Help, or find it in the right upper corner at Creative Edge Focusing . You can look for all blogs in a Category such as Food, Conflict Resolution, Relationships. Many of the blogs are reprints of these e-newsletters, so you can refer friends and colleagues there for a taste of this e-course. | |
| About Creative Edge Focusing (TM)
Mission: bring Core Skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, and The Creative Edge Pyramid of applications from individual to interpersonal to organizational, to all audiences throughout the world.
Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director
Location: Beaver Lake in Rogers, AR
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These materials are offered purely as self-help skills. In providing them, Dr. McGuire is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought. | |
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