Source: Connirae Andreas

Live from a new center that comes from a practical yet spiritual or expanded experience of life. By discovering the core state at the center of each part, we overcome serious limitations. This pattern is more fully addressed in the book Core Transformation by Connirae Andreas.

The “core state” gives you a valuable compass that helps you know whether you are on your path and whether you are coming from a spiritual or expanded place.

When you are dealing with a conflict, it is much easier to envision a positive outcome and approach when you connect with your core state.

It can be as simple as checking in and seeing whether your strategy for handling the conflict resonates well with your core, or if it feels more like a distraction from your path, that is, like drama or unnecessary harm. This is just one example of an understanding that can create a very meaningful foundation for your life and contribute greatly to your personal philosophy.

Note: This pattern has many steps and involves some fairly abstract or advanced ideas. It’s a good idea to read it through and make sure that you grasp it before actually trying it out. However, you don’t need to understand what the core state experience is up front. That is something that is best understood through experience.

Step 1: Determine what part you will be working with. #

a. Select an issue that you can experience as a part of yourself, with specific motives that drive behavior that is limited in some way, behavior that is not doing enough to get you through the issue. You can start simply with a behavior, feeling, or response if you wish. For the purpose of this exercise, give this behavior, feeling, or response pattern a name. Jot down this name. We’ll refer to it here as “your part.” b. Get to know the part as a collection of behaviors, emotions, or reactions. Think about what tends to trigger this pattern. Ask yourself what places, times, and people tend to help trigger this pattern. Make some basic notes about this. c. Experience the pattern in terms of how you are triggered to react. Select a specific point in time when this pattern took place. Mentally step into this scene and re-experience it. Pay careful attention to what sub-modalities comprise the mindset that drives your reaction to the situation. d. Access this part. Remember that the behavior, feelings, and responses that come from you in connection with the issue or issues in question are old patterns that you did not consciously orchestrate or develop. Instead, experience them as coming from your part and having a collective life as this part. Discover how this part “lives” inside of you as a body experience. Where in your body do you mostly feel it? Describe those feelings. What inner voice expresses it? Express or come up with the words that express their message, fears, or motivations. What mental images are part of this? They may be symbols or scenes that are fearful or motivating. Carry this out with an inviting state of mind, and invite this part to emerge into your awareness more completely. e. Thank the part. Thank this part for coming into awareness and being part of your path. Tell it that you are looking forward to understanding its purposes and having it as part of the more aligned and fulfilling existence that you and it will create.

Step 2: Begin the Outcome Deepening pattern by determining your part’s desires and thanking it. #

a. Inquire about your part’s desires in relation to this issue. Be gently direct and open, asking, “What do you want? What is the highest purpose of having this issue? How does it serve you and me?” Note the answer as an intended outcome. b. Thank the part. Express Thanks for providing this answer. If you like the outcome stated or implied by the answer, say so. If not, then express your appreciation for joining on a path of discovery for greater fulfillment and alignment. You can say this because you are committed to this kind of outcome and because you have vast, untapped resources to realize such an outcome. You can have the kind of certainty that comes from commitment. This is not the certainty of a guarantee that comes from the outside; it is an inner certainty that you cultivate in order to be more resourceful, creative, motivated, and vibrantly happy. Note: The term “outcome deepening pattern” was created for this book. Andreas refers to this phase (steps two through four) with a separate name for each step.

Step 3: Continue the ‘Outcome Deepening’ pattern by deriving deeper outcomes until you experience your core state. #

a. Ask your part for a deeper outcome. Ask the part, “When you fully experience and have this outcome, what, beyond that, becomes important to have?” Make note of the answer and thank the part as you did before. b. Continue to repeat step (a), deriving deeper results, until you reach your core state. Name it based on the deep outcome that produced it. We will refer to this outcome-state combination as your “core state outcome.” (Although Andreas refers to it as your core state, we use the term “core state outcome” to disambiguate the core state from the outcome, since this pattern can involve more than one outcome that triggers the core state.) Keep repeating step three, getting a new outcome each time. It may not be obvious at first, but each new outcome brings you closer to your core state. You could say that you are moving through to deeper outcomes. c. Write down each answer in order. When you reach your core state, you will experience a centered yet expanded sense of peace. You might describe it as coming home to yourself.  When people get there, they tend to be very sure that they know they are there, even though it is hard to describe with words.

Step 4: Finish the Deepening the Outcome pattern:Enjoy and meditate upon your core state. #

Name your core state outcome. Once you experience the core state, take some time to enjoy it. It is a healing experience in itself. Notice that your core state came when your most recent outcome came up. From this point, we will be using a combination of your core state and this outcome. We will refer to it as your core state outcome. Give it a brief name based on the outcome that you noted. Whenever the text says “core state outcome,” use the brief name or phrase for your outcome in its place.

Step 5: Initiate the Core Emergence pattern. #

Understand the core state as a source rather than a result. Transform each of the outcomes in reverse order in connection with your core state outcome. a. Establish your core emergent pattern by viewing your core state as a beginning or source rather than an end result of striving. Your parts may think you have to jump through a lot of hoops before you can get to your core state. Imagine that this is backwards. Imagine turning it so that your core state is your beginning, the wellspring of your actions. b. Begin the core evolution pattern by noticing how your core state outcome expands your experience. From this point, where you see the core state outcome, remember to say the name or phrase for the outcome that connected you to your core state this time around. Ask your part, “As you experience your (core state outcome) and know it as a way of being, knowing that (core state outcome) is a beginning, how can having (core state outcome) expand your experience right now?” Just notice. c. Have the core state outcome transform each of the outcomes that you noted, one at a time, from the most recent backwards. Ask your part, “Can you notice how your experience of (core state outcome) as a way of being expands (outcome)?” Outcome refers to the most recent outcome from (3a). Do this step for each outcome backwards until you complete it for the first of the outcomes. d. Expand your experience of the original context to include your core state outcome. Now that you have gone through each outcome, ask the part, “How can having (core state outcome) as a habit of being expand your experience of (briefly state the situation you selected in step one)?” Note: Core Emergence is a term that originated for this reference. Andreas actually calls this “reversing the outcome chain,” but this conflicts with the metaphor of “core,” since getting to a core means deepening. Also, this work involves several levels of consciousness, which implies gaining depth.

Step 6: Maintain the Core Emergence Pattern: Increase your role to your current age. #

a. Get your part’s age. Ask your part, “How old are you?” Note the age. Since it was formed some time ago, it should be younger than you. Usually, it is an age from childhood. b. Obtain consent from your part to advance to your current age. Ask your part, “Would you like to experience the wonderful things that come from moving forward to (your current age) as you experience (core state outcome)?” If the answer is no, work with the state to resolve any issues. There may be an ecological problem to handle. c. Increase your role to your current age while fully accessing the core state outcome. Maintaining your connection with your core state outcome, imagine your part moving forward in time, infused with the core state outcome experience, until it reaches the present.

Step 7: Finish the Core Emergence Pattern by bringing your part inside your body if it is outside of it. #

a. With your part in the present, observe how you represent it. Now that your part is in the present, infused with your core state outcome, notice how you are experiencing your part. Where is it located, in or outside of your body (perhaps in your visual field or primarily as a kinesthetic experience)? b. If the part is outside of your body, bring it inside. If your part is outside of your body, invite it to move into the area of your body in which it feels most at home. Welcome it and notice how this allows you to experience your core state outcome more fully. c. Extend the sensation that results. Invite the part and this sensation to expand throughout your body, so that every cell resonates with this quality of energy. Does the original area in your body feel this sensation in a way that is richer? As you experience this expansion, know that you are making this an experience that you can access and one that will serve as an emotional compass to which you can refer in choosing new directions.

Step 8: Core Emergence Pattern II: Repeat step five, but this time play your part as an adult. #

You can do it briefly this time around. a. Set up your core evolution pattern by thinking of your core state as not an end result of striving, but rather, as a beginning or source. Ask your part, “As you experience your (core state) and know (core state) as a way of being, knowing that (core state) is a beginning, how does already having (core state) expand your experience right now?” Just notice. b. Have the core state transform each of the outcomes that you noted, one at a time, from the most recent backwards. Ask your part, “Notice how your experience of (core state) as a way of being expands (outcome).” “Outcome refers to the most recent outcome from 3a. Do this step for each outcome backwards until you complete this step all the way to the first of your outcomes. c. Use your core state to broaden your experience of the original context. Now that you have gone through each outcome, ask the part, “How does already having (core state) as a way of being expand your experience of (briefly state the situation you selected in step one)?”

Step 9: Additional Core Deepening and Emergence Patterns: Elicit any parts of yourself that are opposed to your core state as a way of being. #

Take them through the core patterns. a. Go through the core patterns with an objecting part, steps two through seven. Ask yourself if there is any part of you that objects to your core state as a way of being now. If you get a “no” answer, then experience the part that is saying, “no,” and remember that it is a valuable part of you. Take that part through the core patterns as you did in steps two through seven. b. Repeat (?) for any remaining parts. Do this for any additional parts involved in the issue. If any of these parts leads to a different core state outcome, write it down. Do this step if you have the time to expand this exercise. Think of any additional parts that are involved in this issue. Take each of them through step five, the core emerging part of the pattern, as you did with the main part. Note: Since the Core Transformation pattern may be time-consuming the first time through, you may wish to leave out step nine until you are efficient with this pattern.

Step 10: Optional progress—in order to achieve additional core state outcomes. #

Note: Do this step if you have gotten additional core state outcomes (that is, outcomes that connect you with your core state) from step nine. This can happen when you identify additional parts and take them through the Core Deepening pattern, as you did for the first part in Step Two. a. Experience your timeline. Access your awareness of your timeline. Experience how it is a flow of all of your experiences leading up to the person you are now. b. Carry your core state outcomes with you as you float back to the moment before conception. Look at your notes, and bring into your awareness the additional core state outcomes that you got from step nine. Take each of them with you as you float back to the moment before you were conceived. c. Flow your core state outcomes into this point in time. Attract your core state outcomes to this point in time, as though its limitless energy flows into this time and builds, being swept into the momentum of time, beginning to move forward with time. Your core state transcends all outcomes. It doesn’t depend on them. It is a wellspring of insight, harmonious action, and creativity. Notice how your core state is a universal experience flowing into your timeline. d. Proceed with your core state outcomes in your timeline. Descend into that moment, catching the wave of your core state, riding it forward, and continuing to take your core state outcomes with you in your awareness. Have these core state outcomes flow through your life experiences. e. Experience the benefit to your timeline. As you move forward through time, notice how your core state outcomes enrich your life. f. Experience the benefit to your future. Have this wave of core state energy move through your present and into the future. Notice how this energizes and enriches your future. g. Repeat several times, increasing the speed each time. Repeat this timeline flow from (b) through (e) several times, allowing it to go faster each time. Each time you finish, become associated with the present before proceeding with another round. This pattern of repeated and accelerated timeline travel builds the durability and accessibility of the core state, brings your positive life memories into the foreground to enhance your self-esteem and resourcefulness, and improves your motivation and mood for facing the future. Needless to say, the results will be seen as you experience the growth that comes from using such a set of actions in your philosophy and life strategies. It is a combination of aspects of the Swish pattern, the anchoring pattern, and the timeline pattern. There are many other processes involved, but it is not for us here to deal with theories. We will leave the academic discussion to someone else or to another book.

Step 11: Savor your core state, think about the value you have created, and take a break. #

You have created access to your core state. This is of profound value. Take some time to meditate upon your core state. We recommend that you take a break and contemplate this process and its outcome by taking a walk or enjoying some other physical activity.