You might think, ‘Sure,
that’s nothing I haven’t heard before,’ eh? Pretty New Agey.
Well, these practicing therapists
run clients through the actual process of taking any presenting surface problem
back to that person’s unconscious basic need for one of those 5 core states. They
use a hypnotic sensory-questioning technique to peel the onion back layer by
layer to find the root of the problem that has been manifesting as an initial presenting
problem, believing that the presenting
problem was simply a more visible call for help to reach the necessary unmet
core state.
An example might be someone having
constant conflict with a spouse or a child, and when traced back far enough
(through feeling lack of respect, control issues, self-doubt, feeling fearfully
unsettled within) to that person’s underlying basic need not being met behind
the presenting problem, it may come down
to that person needing to feel a deep sense of Inner Peace or Unconditional Love.
Once the core state need is uncovered,
the therapist (hypnotically) helps the client to acknowledge and embody that
core state (like Inner Peace) at the unconscious level, and then to simply relax
into that state (Inner Peace) as the therapist
walks the client back up through each of the tangent problem areas (the onions’
peeled-off layers) previously expressed to reach that core need.
In effect, the client is then
lead back up through each presenting problem layer using the same triggering situations
that might have earlier driven him into a rage. But now feeling a deep sense of
Inner Peace as his Core Essence, the person shrugs the previously enraging situation
off as insignificant, because he already
HAS Inner Peace, so the initial presenting problems now seem more
insignificant and have little effect on him.
His spouse’s or his child’s
behavior may not have changed at all, but
the client now reacts differently because
he views the situation differently, and is now able to put the interactions
into a broader context.
By
NOT REACTING as
he usually would to the spouse or child’s behavior, he has reset the entire situation
and allowed them to NOT REACT to his previous
overt reaction. By not reacting, everyone automatically shifted
perspective, and a clean slate allowed for rebuilding the relationships on
different values and expectations.
While these techniques would
definitely be interesting to hypnotherapists and to therapists in general, what
amazed me most was that they seem pretty shamanic-based, because
the authors recognize that those core states not being realized are a part of
another larger problem, and that problem
involves having parts of our being split off from us and feeling separate from
us.
From a shamanic perspective,
the therapists were identifying split off soul-parts at various ages of life,
and welcoming them back by providing them the core essence that they felt
lacking—if those parts of us felt threatened or unwanted, they split off and
left home, leaving us feeling like we are missing some part of ourselves—and justifiably
so—because we are. It is a common problem.
And from a shamanic
perspective, this book’s greatest Core Transformation techniques utilized are
those that successfully reintegrate those recognized and retrieved soul-parts
back into that client almost immediately.
As a trained shamanic practitioner as well as a trained hypnotherapist, I
find that the Andreas’ techniques are excellent for quickly reintegrating
soul-parts (particularly split-off child
soul-parts in adults), which can otherwise take days, weeks, or months, if
not years of work for the client to successfully reintegrate a child soul-part
that left because of some childhood trauma.
Folks walk away from the
sessions more whole and solid, with greater awareness of their core problems, the
problems’ quick resolution, and a completely different perspective on their
life.
So if you are into a good
read about how to help yourself and others reset your lives by discovering and
embodying those 5 basic core states: Just Beingness, Unconditional Love, Inner
Peace, Oneness, and OKness, then this book is for you.
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