Core Transformation

Based on the book “Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within” by Connirae and Tamara Andreas.

The Core Transformation process is about identifying behaviors, feelings, and reactions that you don’t like about yourself and using them as a gateway for a deep and uplifting inner journey into the core of your being.

This process can be used to transform self-destructive behaviors, emotions, or reactions that cause serious life challenges.

Once you’ve practiced the process several times, you’ll develop trust that by going to your innermost center, you can discover a nature that transcends anything we usually consider positive.

What Is the Core Self?

I live from my Core Self when:

• I experience wholeness, inner peace, well-being, love, and aliveness;
• I am fully grounded and centered in my body;
• I am fully aware of my body and emotions;
• I perceive the world clearly;
• I know what I want;
• I act according to my values;
• I act effortlessly for my own good while respecting others and their interests;
• I have a positive sense of self;
• I am aware of who I am — not just what I do, feel, or have;
• I am conscious of my resources and feel capable of choosing how I feel and act.

The Five Core States

When Can Core Transformation Be Used?

Emotional Areas

• Do you easily get caught up in unpleasant feelings like sadness, anger, jealousy, fear, or loneliness?
• Do you have difficulty feeling or expressing emotions?

Addictions / Habits

• Do you struggle with eating habits or eating disorders such as overeating, bulimia, or anorexia?
• Do you feel overly dependent on smoking, alcohol, sex, relationships, money, or material things?
• Do you have nervous habits such as nail biting, tapping, or nervous laughter?

Relationships

• Do you feel bad when someone performs better than you?
• Do you find it difficult to ask for what you need?
• Do you often do things for others at your own expense to gain love or approval?
• Do you fear being abandoned?
• Do you find it hard to trust others?
• Is it very important to you that others think positively of you?
• Do you sometimes twist the truth to maintain a good image?

Self-Image

• Do you find it hard to accept yourself unless you are “perfect”?
• Are you overly critical of yourself when you make mistakes?
• Do you feel superior to others, or do you feel inferior?
• Do you feel ashamed of yourself or your behavior?
• Would you like to strengthen your self-esteem?
• Do you feel like you don’t know who you really are?

Other Areas

• Do you suffer from a physical illness that may be linked to unexpressed emotions or stress?
• Have you experienced physical, emotional, or mental abuse in the past or present?
• Do you often experience inner conflicts?
• Do you struggle with obsessive thoughts?

Overview: Ten Steps to Core Transformation

Step 1

Select a part to work with: Acknowledge it as part of you and welcome it.

Step 2

Discover the intention or first desired outcome: Ask the part, “What do you want?”

Step 3

Discover the outcome chain: “When you have fully achieved [previous outcome], what do you want through that that’s even more important?” (Repeat as needed.)

Step 4

The Core State: Reach the inner source and take a moment to experience it fully.

Step 5

Revisit the outcome chain through the Core State.

• General: “If you begin with [Core State] as a way of being, how does this change things?”
• Specific: “How does the [Core State] transform or enrich the [desired outcome]?”
• Contextual: “How does the [Core State] change your experience of [specific context]?”

Step 6

Allow the part to mature and grow up through time with the Core State present in every moment.

Step 7

Integrate the part into your body — let it flow through you so that the Core State fills every cell.

Step 8

Review the outcome chain again through the integrated part.

Step 9

Check for opposing parts: “Is there any part of me that objects to having [Core State] as a way of being?”

Step 10

Generalize through the timeline.

• Visualize moving through your past while radiating the Core State through every experience.
• Then move forward into the future with that same Core State present.
• Repeat several times, each time faster.

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