Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.