To the tune of “The Hokey Pokey”
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Well, you can sense inside
You can also sense out.
You can let your sensing travel
As it wanders all about
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
The theme of the Conference was The Future of Focusing. As the future is also implicit in the present, many offerings pointed to new dimensions of sensing into — personally, and in groups…
We can sense into
What’s most precious in our hearts
Allow it deepen
Through expressive arts
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Laury Rappaport gave a presentation on this, and has written books on Focusing and mindfulness and Focusing in art therapy.
You can deepen and expand
Your sense of poetry
Or experience the life force
Through the practice of Tai Chi
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Julian Miller offered Focusing and Tai Chi, Focusing and Poetry.
You can hold two felt senses
Without either of them bossing.
Sit with them.
Experience… the magic of crossing
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Beatrice Blake offered a workshop “The magic of crossing.”
If you’re feeling stuck,
And different parts begin to wrangle
Come and visit Ann and Barbara
And learn how to un-Tangle
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin’s Treasure Maps to the Soul work, and their workshop on Untangling.
You can reflect what someone says
Or, what you think they mean
Or the qualities of fields that are present in between
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Various offerings in the Shared Field track.
You can get a sense of “we”
And be careful not to merge
Learn to negotiate your boundaries
With Roberto, Karen, and Serge
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Workshops on relational mindfulness (Serge Prengel), and exploring relationship dynamics (Roberto Larios, Karen Whalen).
If you want to deepen more
And to expand your yields
You can have a whole group sensing
Into vast transpersonal fields
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
You can get a felt sense
Of the “spirit of the Earth”
Or connect with ancient energies
That were here before your birth
CHORUS
It isn’t hocus pocus
It’s another way to Focus
That’s what it’s all about
Resonant Sensing for Peace process, our workshop on group felt sensing into transpersonal dimensions…
Here are several other verses, which I did not record. Feel free to make up your own!
If you’re feeling stuck in something
You can dis-identify
Say “something in me is feeling”
And bring more spaciousness to “I”