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The (Very) Basics

Focalizing, a process that naturally evolved out of Michael Picucci's experience, research and writings, is a dynamic synergistic approach. It 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.

The Focalizing process 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. Focalizing, like all experiential processes (even ones like riding a bike), 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. People come to Focalizing with very different challenges. Some of these include:

• Feeling tortured by recent or ancient traumatic event(s)—from automobile accidents to sexual assaults and early life abuses or deprivations that stunt present aliveness—or any present-day overwhelming event that deadens the life force;
• Desiring the dissolution of internal energetic barriers (blocks) to enable connecting with what they most want or most want to be able to speak;
• Wanting to dissolve internal walls that prohibit sexual fulfillment or loving connection;
• Coming to terms with the sudden loss of a loved one that has left them adrift and confused;
• Facing a life-threatening illness or death; or
• Just feeling stuck, in whatever situation, with no way out.

In Focalizing, the boundaries between past, present and future dissolve, and it leaves behind linear time. This delivers us to an experience of timelessness. Because it is so organic, this shift to timelessness 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 imagery within the timeless field or actual space (as opposed to linear time) make healing, illumination and transformation possible. Focalizing moves us toward reaching a place where we experience resilience, strength, and balance. Through a careful manipulation of energetic techniques, Focalizing facilitates a healing process and journey.

Couples, Groups, & Organizations
By extension, couples and organizations bring complex challenges to the table. While we address those challenges with the same nine points of regulation, Focalizing for couples and organizations often requires opening a larger space with additional understandings, and intentions that are individual as well as a common one for all involved. These concepts are all covered in the monograph.