What is The Open Focus Technique?
In this video I learn about Open Focus training from Susan Shor Fehmi, a practising psychotherapist and director of the Princeton Biofeedback Centre.
The technique was scientifically developed with the aid of specially designed EEG machines by her husband, the scientist and biofeedback pioneer, Dr Les Fehmi (now retired). Susan and her husband have been training people to use the Open Focus technique to alleviate stress, dissolve pain and achieve peak performance for over twenty years. Dr Fehmi was even recruited to train American football team the Dallas Cowboys in the technique because their coach had recognised its potential to be even more effective than massage in muscle recovery by effecting change at the nervous system level, not to mention how a greater control of attentional bias can lead to better sports performance.
The technique works by diffusing your attention, widening your focus, making you conscious of space (“objectless aawareness”), and immersing you with the objects of your awareness. The result goes far beyond relaxation, it teaches you the genuine skill of greater attentional flexibility.
If you’d like to try it for yourself, follow along as Susan guides me in a practice, click here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4lAqVx_vQ
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Discover more information on the technique and the science behind it in Dr Les Fehmi’s excellent 2008 book “The Open Focus Brain”, which is now more relevant than ever due to our ever-deeper reliance on technologies that demand narrow focus. https://tinyurl.com/fsabutx4
Susan has co-written her new book “The Open Focus Life” with her husband Dr Les Fehmi, and Mark Beauregard. The book is available to pre-order here… https://tinyurl.com/jf6r8msh
Check out the official Open Focus website here https://openfocus.com
You can also check out Open Focus trainer Dr Tomasz Kopek’s excellent free resources here (the guy I mentioned in the video) https://www.openfocusattentiontrainin...
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And while you’re here, check out the reviews for my latest book “Draw Breath; The Art of Breathing”! The fun and simple way to learn to meditate! https://tinyurl.com/neh45se3