Focus: How Your Energy Can Change The World
by Nancy Burson

"A simple recipe to change the world, totally and quickly. A must-read for all those interested in a peaceful planet." -- Yoko Ono Lennon

A newly revised edition by Nancy Burson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

New York, NY (February 2008)

Nancy Burson has delighted museum-goers on both sides of the Atlantic with her innovative Human Race Machine, which enables people to envision themselves as a different race. She has captured the attention of Manhattanites with her enigmatic and unforgettable Focus on Peace posters, launched at the first anniversary of 9/11. She has enabled law enforcement officials around the world to locate missing children and adults with her pioneering photographic morphing technique.

Fascinated with the idea of composite images, with healing, and with the physical manifestations of spiritual energy, Nancy Burson has devoted her life and career to positive change. Now, all of Burson's passionate interests come together in a single, slim volume -- a riveting and important book entitled Focus: How Your Energy Can Change the World, to be released late 2008 by ThankYouVeryMuch Publishing.

Inspired by the 40 to 50 million people involved in the worldwide Spiritual Awakening Movement, the target audience of Focus is the collective, global consciousness.

Focus functions as a balm against panic in today's complex world. Rather than buying into the predictions of gloom and doom for the future, Burson exhorts her readers to focus on marshalling their energy to produce light to combat darkness. Burson reminds us that we are far from powerless, and that the antidote to the critical state of global affairs is the possibility for peace that lies within each of us. However, before we can affect global change, we must first work on our inner selves, turning back the tide of our negative thoughts and energy, discovering how to tap into that which is nurturing, life-giving and eternal. In other words, we must learn to focus.

Pointing out that humans think an average of 65,000 thoughts a day, Burson relates how destructive and self-defeating patterns of recreated images from childhood can weaken us, while positive images can nurture and heal us. She discusses the power of language, suggesting words that empower their users. She delivers lessons from masters in the healing community, such as Derek O'Neill, Starr Fuentes, Gary Douglas, and Jodi Serota. She provides simple instruction to novices wishing to see auras. She lists helpful websites and reading lists to those who are interested in taking their focus work farther.

And for those who need physical proof of her thesis, Burson is able to demonstrate that different emotions have a physical effect on the body, by presenting images taken with a Gas Discharge Visualization camera. Still skeptical? Burson show us how we too can capture the orbs, a form of conscious energy here to familiarize us with the power of intention.

"I read Focus in one sitting. It's just great. Nancy Burson has journeyed into the very heart of self-healing and resolved to lead the rest of us there."

Lynne McTaggart, author of
"The Field: Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe"

The author of four previous books, Burson is a skillful writer, weaving in personal anecdotes alongside guidance and instruction. She writes of her life and her work seamlessly.

"We are one nationality called humanity. Through our hearts, we can become one collective heart," says Burson. Focus is a soothing, sensible, spiritually nourishing work for those who want to shift the reality of mankind's threatened existence with positivity.

Nancy Burson's work has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including major exhibitions and installations at The International Center of Photography and the New Museum in New York City, The Venice Biennale, The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and The Museum of Contemporary Arts in Chicago. Best known for her photographic morphing work, and for her Human Race Machine, which has toured both nationally and internationally, Burson has lectured and taught worldwide. In the past few years she has collaborated with Creative Time and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on several important public art projects, including the billboard, "There's No Gene for Race," and the poster/postcard project, "Focus on Peace."

Publication of the newly revised edition of Focus, published by ThankYouVeryMuch Publishing, is to be announced. For more information, please visit nancyburson.com.