“Skills for Physical and Mental Mastery” 1 – Introduction to Open Focus and Introduction to Open Focus Practice 2 – Head & Hands 3 – Long Form 4 – Short Form 5 – General Practice 6 – Dissolving Physical/Emotional Pain
Dissolving Physical and Emotional Pain
“Dissolving Physical & Emotional Pain” (22:26 minutes) – (Also see Program #7) Program #6 differs from Program #7 in its approach to the dissolution of pain. Whereas tape # 6 encourages the attender to narrow his or her focus and dive into the pain and then open and bring pain into a more diffuse awareness and OPEN FOCUS after centering oneself in the heart of the pain. Tape #7 encourages a full OPEN FOCUS experience before one moves into and merges with the pain. This approach allows the pain to diffuse into surrounding awareness while the entering process is occurring. This has the advantage of decreasing the power of the pain to affect the perceiver since the pain remains embedded in the totality of awareness and remains a small percentage of that totality. This approach to dissolving pain requires less courage than the dissolving pain process of Tape #6.
General Practice
“General Practice” (28:08 minutes) – This program and subsequent programs are designed for the more advanced student who is guided into OPEN FOCUS using imagery derived from atomic theory and observation. The practitioner is encouraged to appreciate that all atoms and matter are mostly space and that even sensory experience is in fact permeated by space. Thus, one is invited to experience the presence of objects and sensations permeated by space. One comes to the experience that there is a unifying medium through which all matter and energy are connected, namely space. This exercise and two others are most frequently described as “favorites” or “most effective” for our clients. This may be because these exercises make more references to space than the others.
Short Form
“Short Form” (24:15 minutes) – This program is approximately two-thirds
the duration of the LONG FORM program (#3) and guides the trainee more quickly into OPEN FOCUS. It is to be used after the trainee is familiar with the experience of the OPEN FOCUS and is able to enter OPEN FOCUS easily or can be used when available time for practice is limited.
Long Form
“Long Form” (36 minutes) – This exercise leads the trainee for the first time into the imagery and experience of a full OPEN FOCUS of all available experience. This exercise may be used as desired to deepen the experience of the OPEN FOCUS and/or NO-TIME experience (see below). Optimum use of programs #4 and #5 depends upon mastery of the attentional process encouraged by practice using this program and program #2.
Head and Hands
“Head and Hands” (34:36 minutes) – This is the basic introductory program of the OPEN FOCUS exercises. It is oriented toward the head, neck, shoulders, arms, and hands.
It may be used in practice until you are familiar with the training process and until the initial effects of integration and relaxation are experienced. (See “Pacing of Practice” for further information about how to use this and subsequent programs).
(The Two-Cassette Program includes programs #2 on the first side of tapes one and program #3 on side two. Programs #4 and #7 are presented on sides three and four respectively on tape two.)
Introduction to Open Focus – Dr. Fehmi’s Introduction
This program describes the circumstances out of which the originator of the OPEN FOCUS attention training process experienced his kidney stone pain and witnessed the importance of how he paid attention to it. The various types of attention are accessible by persons who practice the programs of attention training which are presented on the following tapes and CD’s. The most impactful of these circumstances is associated with a dramatic, instantaneous dissolution, complete elimination of pain, for example, kidney stone pain.
Compulsive Eating and Open Focus
An End to Binge Eating. Includes – Disc 1: Diary of A Binge Eater; Disc 2: Balancing the Nervous System and Disc 3: Dissolving Compulsions.
Preparing for Homework with Open Focus
Open Focus Individual Program
Please select one of program 1-18