Gestalt Therapy - A podcast about living here and now

Episode 8 - What's all the fuss about the Now?

A lot of people are not living in the now, at least not all of the time. Why this matters is what I’ll be talking about in this episode.

The now is the only place you can actually act on things, influence anything or change anything. Something that is impossible to do in the past or the future. 

Often we are all preoccupied with what happened for example a week ago, or what is going to happen in the next few months. This brings a lot of stress and worry and in some cases anxiety. 

I will give you some ideas on how to practise being more in the present, more in the now. 

And I will explain how Gestalt Therapy can guide you through this process by explaining the 3 awareness zones. Middle zone, which deals with thoughts, fantasies, analysis, associations. Inner and outer zones which respectively deal with  sensations in the body and using your senses like smelling, teasting, hearing, seeing. If you are like many of my clients in the praxis you will probably spend a lot of time using your head, operating a lot in the middle zone and less in the inner and outer zone. 

During this episode I will explain how a flow between all 3 zones are important and what the inner and outer zones do and how you can utilize these zones to be able to live more in the now.

References:

Dubliners, James Joyce,  Prestwick House, Inc,  2006 (first published June 1914), Dublin, Irland,  

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, 1999 California, USA

The Mindful Way through Depression – Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness, M. Williams, J. Teasdale, Z. Segal and J. Kabat- Zinn. The Guilford Press, 2007 New York, USA

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