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CORE TRANSFORMATION Reaching the Wellspring Within Connirae Andreas with Tamara Andreas To our parents, Lois Jean and William Andreas CORE TRANSFORMATION: REACHING THE WELLSPRING WITHIN. Copyright (c) 1994 by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address: Real People Press, 1221 Lefthand Canyon Dr., Boulder, CO 80302. Website: http://www.realpeoplepress.com The Core Transformation Process was developed in 1989 by Connirae Andreas, with the first large training in March, 1990 (with complete handouts copyright 1990). This book is based on Connirae and Tamara Andreas’ CT work with clients and seminar participants from 1989 through 1993. If you are interested in offering trainings on this material, see the “Core Transformation Trainer Materials Packet,” at http://www.realpeoplepress.com/trainer-materials-packet- core-transformation-p-55.html for information on how to do this. A complete Core Transformation workshop taught by Tamara Andreas is available on DVD, at realpeoplepress.com http://www.realpeoplepress.com/core-transformationthe-full-3day-workshop-p- 37.html Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within is also available in print book format. (ISBN 978-0-911226-32-4) Order Online or from your local bookstore: http://www.amazon.com/Core-Transformation-Reaching-Wellspring- Within/dp/0911226338/ Acknowledgements I would like to thank the many people who have assisted us in bringing this book into being. My sister and co-author Tamara Andreas first proposed writing this book several years before publication. Her talent, inspiration and dedication to producing the book made it possible. Tamara wrote the first draft during a time when I was already overly busy and had given up the idea. I am thankful to have had her personal sensitivity, her conceptual understanding of the Core Transformation Process, and the depth of her experience with client work and teaching the process. Next thanks goes to Virginia Hopkins who played a major role in everything from editing to publishing. Tamara and I were grateful to work with someone so capable who immediately understood the heart and soul of the book. We thank Dan Ragland for his exquisite cover design, and Nicholas DeSciose for the cover photograph. A big thanks to my husband, Steve Andreas, whose editing skills and ideas about organization and sequence significantly enhanced the finished product. Thanks to the many readers who gave us detailed input, and to the office staff at NLP Comprehensive in Boulder, Colorado for many kinds of organizational support. Thanks to the many clients and seminar participants; particularly those who offered to share their experiences in this book. We realize how much these experiences enrich the book. Special thanks to those who have been using this process with their clients: John Parmater, Colleen McGovern, Gerry Schmidt, Mark Hochwender, Christina Boyd, Jan Prince, Jessie Milan, and Larry Iverson each contributed experiences with their clients to the personal reports we share in this book. I thank also my many teachers over the years, including Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Leslie Lebeau, Robert Dilts, David Gordon and Judith Delozier. Their work in developing the field of NLP was the foundation upon which I developed the Core Transformation Process. I would like to especially acknowledge Leslie Lebeau, whose work has in some ways paralleled my own. I thank my friends and colleagues Mark Hochwender, Laing Reynolds, and Richard Schaub for helping me deepen my understanding of the spiritual, as I found myself in what was for me uncharted territory. Thanks to you the reader, for making this book worth writing. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Finding the Way to the Wellspring Within SECTION I MAPPING OUT THE TERRITORY Keys to Core Transformation 1. THE JOURNEY BEGINS How Do We Get There from Here? 2. BEFRIENDING THE UNCONSCIOUS Why Understanding Rarely Leads to Change 3. FINDING POSITIVE PURPOSES Learning to Communicate with Our Inner Allies 4. THE FIVE CORE STATES The Nature of the Wellspring Within SECTION II THE CORE STATE EXERCISE The Heart of the Core Transformation Process 5. A DEMONSTRATION WITH CATHY Having It Your Way 6. THE CORE STATE EXERCISE Understanding the Structure 7. A QUESTIONNAIRE Finding an Unwanted Behavior, Feeling or Response 8. DOING IT! THE CORE STATE EXERCISE Reaching the Wellspring Within 9. GOING SOLO Doing the Core State Exercise with Yourself 10. PUTTING CORE TRANSFORMATION INTO PRACTICE How the Core States Can Change Unwanted Behavior, Feelings, and Responses SECTION III GROWING UP A PART & BRINGING IT FULLY INTO YOUR BODY Making Core States More Accessible 11. INTRODUCTION: GROWING UP A PART Gaining Resources and Wisdom 12. A DEMONSTRATION WITH LISA The Value of Growing Up Parts 13. GROWING UP A PART Understanding the Structure 14. DOING IT! THE GROWING UP A PART EXERCISE Allowing Inner Children Who Were Left Behind to Become Adults SECTION IV COMPLETING THE PROCESS WITH ALL PARTS Working With Every Aspect of an Issue 15. INTRODUCTION: COMPLETING THE PROCESS WITH ALL PARTS Integrating Core States More Deeply 16. A DEMONSTRATION WITH GREG Inner Peace as a Way of Being 17. COMPLETING THE PROCESS WITH ALL PARTS Understanding the Structure 18. HOW TO RECOGNIZE PARTS THAT NEED TO BE INCLUDED Guidelines and Examples SECTION V THE COMPLETE CORE TRANSFORMATION EXERCISE Doing It from A to Z 19. DOING IT! THE COMPLETE CORE TRANSFORMATION EXERCISE Putting All the Steps Together SECTION VI PARENTAL TIME LINE REIMPRINTING Bringing Core States to Your Past, Present and Future 20. INTRODUCTION: PARENTAL TIMELINE REIMPRINTING Bringing the Core States to Your Past, Present and Future 21. A DEMONSTRATION WITH DAVE Giving Ourselves a Happy Childhood 22. PARENTAL TIMELINE REIMPRINTING Understanding the Structure 23. DOING IT! THE PARENTAL TIMELINE REIMPRINTING EXERCISE Giving the Gift of Core States to Yourself and Your Inner Family 24. VICTORIA'S STORY The Gifts of Taking the Core States Through Time SECTION VII ENHANCING YOUR RESULTS Making a Good Thing Even Better 25. INTRODUCTION: ENHANCING YOUR RESULTS Making a Good Thing Even Better 26. FINDING MORE PARTS TO TRANSFORM Tapping Into Greater Inner Blessings 27. HOW PARTS ARE FORMED Splitting Off and Separating Aspects of Ourselves 28. WHO IS IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT? Transforming Basic Personality Patterns That Don't Serve Us 29. TRANSFORMING ILLNESS Taking Advantage of Challenges 30. GENERALIZING THE CORE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts 31. HOW PEOPLE HAVE USED CORE TRANSFORMATION Learning from the Experience of Others 32. CORE TRANSFORMATION AND SPIRITUALITY Finding the God Within 33. INTEGRATING CORE TRANSFORMATION INTO OUR LIVES Core States Can Go Everywhere With Us INTRODUCTION Finding the Way to the Wellspring Within The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. The visible effects of the invisible manifest themselves. -Inner Truth, The I Ching In this book you will be invited to identify the behaviors, feelings and responses you like least in yourself, and use them to take yourself on a remarkably healing and uplifting personal journey within, to the depths of your beingness. This journey is called the Core Transformation Process. Developing the Core Transformation Process came about naturally, as I was doing what I love to do best, which is exploring how people experience the world, right down to their words, gestures and facial expressions. Over the 20 years that I have been working and learning in the area of personal growth and change, I have used and developed many techniques and exercises that effectively assist people in changing unwanted behaviors, healing emotions and reaching goals. I've shared these techniques in a series of books, some co- authored or edited with my husband, Steve Andreas. The audience for these books was primarily professional-therapists, counselors, educators, and others in helping professions. This book is different. It is accessible to anyone who wants core transformation in their life. The material presented in this book is a breakthrough for me both personally and professionally, and I believe it is a breakthrough in the field of personal growth, therapy, and psychology. As I explored and developed the Core Transformation Process with clients and with myself, I began to have a sense of awe and reverence for what I witnessed. Powerfully transforming states of consciousness, which I call Core States, were naturally emerging. These states seemed to be identical to the states of consciousness many people strive for in spiritual traditions, described as transcendent or spiritual experiences. Through doing the Core Transformation Process these states became more than a temporary high-they became the basis for living from a new “center.”
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