The Radical Acceptance of Everything:
Living A Focusing Life
by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
and featuring
Barbara McGavin
(Calluna Press;
2005)
How can we bring peace to the inner wars that are in the way of having the life we want?
For more than 30 years, Ann Weiser Cornell has been exploring, teaching, and writing about the mysteries of emotional process, including the paradox of how we become more whole by acknowledging our parts, how the most despised places in us contain our greatest treasure, and how the body’s felt sense, held in a compassionate state of Presence, is the key to change.
Now her key writings have been brought together in one place, freshly edited for this volume, with four new articles offering Ann’s latest leading edge work. All are accessible to both the seeker of personal change and the professional who wants to be more effective working with others.
"This book, The Radical Acceptance of Everything, has done more for me than I can put into words. I knew nothing about Focusing and it still was a life-changing experience just reading it. It was the emotional mental shift in perspective I needed."
— Joshua Fairfield, energy healer, Las Vegas NV
Praise For This Book:
“Ann
Weiser Cornell has been teaching for many years in many
countries and is well known worldwide. In her previous book
and her manuals she has created new specific and accessible
instructions for Focusing as well as for the teachers of
Focusing. In person and through her students and writings
she has given Focusing to far more people than any other
single individual. She is a powerful force in making the
world better. She has gone on to create different new processes
in new dimensions, which are included in this book.”
— Eugene Gendlin, author
of Focusing
“I
have always had a lot of respect for Focusing but saw a
gap between it and Internal Family Systems in terms of appreciation
of the multiplicity of the mind and qualities of Self. In
this intriguing collection of articles, Ann Weiser Cornell
describes in a very personal and readable way her groundbreaking
journey with her colleague Barbara McGavin that narrows
the gap. I endorse their resulting approach heartily and
embrace them as kindred spirits on this road toward the
radical acceptance of everything.”
— Richard Schwartz, author
of Internal Family Systems Therapy
“No
one teaches or explains Focusing with more beauty, grace
or clarity than Ann Weiser Cornell. The Radical Acceptance
of Everything does more than explain profound concepts
simply and beautifully: from the very first page, it invokes
the very state of Presence that it describes. Whether you
are a beginning Focuser or have been Focusing for years,
The Radical Acceptance of Everything is sure to
deepen and enrich your Focusing experience.”
— Helene G. Brenner, author
of I Know I'm in There Somewhere
List of chapters
Some chapters are available online, in English and in translation in other languages.
•
What is Focusing? |
English
| |
•
How I Met Focusing |
•
I Am in Pain... |
•
Facilitating Presence |
•
The Treasure Maps Story So Far
|
•
Standing It
|
•
The Dog Story
|
| • Radical Gentleness: The Inner Critic Transforms | English | |
| • Safe Focusing with (Almost) Any Partner | English | German | French | |
| • The Perils of Focusing Partnership |
| • The Power of Listening | English | Spanish | Italian | |
| • Focusing with a Family Member with Lung Cancer |
| • Questioning Questions | English | Spanish | Dutch | |
| • The Difference Between Focusing and Therapy | English | Italian | |
| • The Origins and Development of Inner Relationship Focusing |
| • Relationship = Distance + Connection | English | Spanish | Dutch | |
| • Body? What Body? |
| • The Full Felt Sense |
| • Focusing on Childhood |
| • Five Reasons Why Focusing is Not Better Known (Yet) | English | |
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