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Focalizing: The (Very) Basics
This synergistic approach can benefit anyone who is in a crisis of consciousness, in a state of feeling stuck, or who feels trapped by the circumstances that life presents. Consciousness is a fundamental quality of nature, and Focalizing is a unique way to tap into its innate capacities. It does so by reconnecting us with a natural resource that conveys new perspectives and often illuminates previously unseen possibilities for moving forward with grace. Focalizing is a dynamic and effective process that allows us to respectfully set aside familiar thoughts and feelings to access our innate intelligence. In learning how to transform overwhelming life situations we learn how to suspend our everyday thinking mind and enter into the timeless source of change. Focalizing allows us to form and develop a newly enlightened intelligence that becomes integrated in the very fabric of our being.

In Focalizing, the boundaries between past, present and future dissolve, leaving behind linear time. This delivers us to an experience of timelessness. Because it is so organic, this shift to a more timeless field happens so gradually that it is hardly noticed at first. From this natural state, shifts and movements in the body’s felt senses, coupled with the possible imagery that may arise, make healing, illumination and transformation possible. That transformation is often experienced as a sense of resilience, strength, and balance.

Through a careful manipulation of energetic techniques, Focalizing facilitates a healing process and journey. And, like all experiential processes (even ones like riding a bike), Focalizing presents challenges when we use language to try to explain it. This booklet intends to give the reader a sense of what the Focalizing experience might be like for them or someone they care about.

Focalizing’s Nine-Point Regulating Star Image
Since Focalizing with an individual is the easiest to explain, I’ll begin the process in the context of an individual’s journey. I will later use this narrative as a foundation for explaining the Focalizing process with couples, groups, and organizations.

As you read through the description that follows, you may want to refer back to this diagram for a visual representation of the discussion.

Beginning with Intention
While an intention initiates and grounds every Focalizing session, as seen at the bottom of the star image, I first want to share the introduction to the session. I always invite first-timers to ask all the questions they want at any time and inform them that this is helpful. I tell them that as focalizer, it is my role to always empower, respect and honor each person’s presence. With their permission and agreement, I direct a process of co-creation with them. I will never harm them or ask them to do anything that feels wrong to them.

This primary assurance is critical to the process during the introduction phase: I assure first-time participants that they will always have empowered choice and will not experience anything very uncomfortable. This process is not about pain, or who or what caused it. It is about helping the central nervous and energetic systems re-regulate themselves in creating a more natural and peaceful flow of our life force.

Once we establish a rapport from the orientation, I remind them that every Focalizing session begins with an intention. Intention is the force we use to direct energy toward a desired result. It is an internal, alive, energetic forward moving force. Sometimes clients come to a session with a well formed intention. For those who may be unclear about their intention for the session, I coach them in creating a well formed intention that is at the center of their restricted life force in this moment-in-time. For a Focalizing session, the intention mysteriously guides the process and outcome. I coach people to make their intentions clear, short, and forward moving.

For example, a client I’ll call Sam came into a Focalizing session once with the intention to “come out of overwhelm.” (It’s important to note that no two Focalizing sessions are alike: each event is thoroughly unique.)

Sam was the founder of an organization and had come to realize that the day-to-day demands of the enterprise and all the people involved had grown beyond his capacity. His feelings of defeat and of being pulled in many directions had intensified over time. He continually felt crushed; a sense of everyday dread had a deadening effect on every area of his life. All his thoughtful efforts to resolve the situation failed, only adding to his frustration and sense of feeling trapped by his own creation.

Focalizing and the Information Age
I get very excited about the possibilities that processes like Focalizing can demonstrate for us in our present time. Many refer to the time we are living in as the Information Age; to me, this means that information becomes another dominant currency that regulates our ways of being.

With Focalizing and other energy and somatic psychologies, we can tap into a wider bandwidth of energy and information (like dial-up to broadband) without a computer. We find these things in our own bodies and in the nature from which we emerge, very much like the information that surfaced when I was on the massage table in 1987. We no longer fully accept as reality the particular rational and intellectual ways that our human minds see and interpret the physical world. We gain this wider, multidimensional scope of reality as we feel it inside us.

Our conditioned thinking does not normally allow us to tune into the voice of nature. To reach this wider bandwidth of information, we must find ways and places to suspend (at least temporarily) our everyday ways of seeing and judging our lives and our world. We learn to trust the life force within us as it connects us to our source, the earth, and by respecting our place in the evolutionary process we let that connection inform us in addressing the matters at hand.

I have experimented in this writing with having my written words (and some that I respectfully borrow) create an energy vibration that illuminates our invisible dimensions of the times we are living in. To do so, I have targeted my words to the most instinctual part of our human brain (the “Old Brain”). This awakens the autonomic nervous system which, when “tuned into,” brings us to the nature of our being. This “nature” is the fertile underground from which all real innovation materializes.

Focalizing and its nine-point regulating star image exist to access this fertile landscape, or energetic field, that manifests healing and innovation—like ripples in a stream, shifting consciousness
holistically manifesting in physical reality.