What Do You Mean "Core Issues"?

After working with energy, learning about the different chakras, and using clearing techniques for myself and others, I was moved on to core issues. At first, I didn't really understand why we needed to shift to this level of understanding. It was similar to the feeling that I had when I was first introduced to "healing". What did I need to heal? What do you mean, I have core issues?

I had attended classes and sat through the same discussions and teachings as the rest of my class, or so I thought. Then, the point was brought up, do each of you think that you are hearing the same teachings? That got my attention. Were we? As it turns out, each of us has our own unique set of filters that we wear from our life's experiences that automatically shift our perception of reality and how we interact with it.

These filters are built out of lifetimes of beliefs. Yes, I said lifetimes. As it turns out, we carry these beliefs with us each time we incarnate hoping to resolve them where they were created, in the body. As with energies that we are working to heal or clear, the beliefs have to come up and be present for us to change what we believe about ourselves. We have to experience the erroneous or "miss" belief to "repattern" it. We have to be in the presence of the emotion, a very uncomfortable place, and that is the difficult part. You must be in the presence of it to make a different choice. That means you have to feel the feelings and reach deep within yourself to draw out the opposite, or the truth of who you really are to repattern it.

These beliefs, which are compounded with each lifetime if we do not work through them to get to the truth, go all the way back to the lifetime in which they were created. This is called the core, or the core issues. For some of us, they were created a very long time ago. What are they? I believe you are familiar with these topics, each of us has at least three and as many as six - not good enough, unworthy, victim consciousness (poor me), powerlessness, abandonment and betrayal, and poverty consciousness. One of them is your core and plays the predominant theme throughout your life.

For purposes of illustration, I will use a current hit movie to explore the theme "not good enough". The main character in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", Jay Baruchel, plays a young man who had a magical, unexplainable encounter as a young boy. This encounter was tied to a first love and mapped the next ten formative years of his life in regard to romance or being able to approach potential interests. He was a brilliant student in physics, but when it came to love or interests in girls, he was operating from an embarassing moment that kept replaying in his head from a decade ago rendering him helpless to pursue his dream girl. The young sorcerer could eventually throw plasma balls and bolts of lightening (which brought up all his not good enough issues through the learning process) but was still working through his issues of not being good enough in order to win the girl of his dreams!

Eventually, David our young sorcerer, gains confidence by being pushed through experiences, much like we are pushed to face our experiences, and is afforded the opportunity to choose differently more so then ever before! Dramatically so, he retrains his brain and his body to the molecular level, repatterning himself into a great sorcerer and a confident young man. He wins the girl too! Although this is a hollywood example and we will not be throwing plasma balls (yet), this is very close to the truth of how the process of healing core issues is won.

What are your core issues? What theme keeps playing in your reality? What events bring up the fear in the pit of your stomach? How will you choose differently?