I finally was in a Connirae Andreas workshop! She’s a renowned therapist and NLP trainer and innovator I’ve long admired. I’ve read her work for many years. Hew newest methodology is called “Coming to Wholeness” or “The Wholeness Process“ She brought her seminar to NYC Sept 2014. She was so warm and a wonderful teacher, a pleasure to meet her at last. Simply put; the work is about finding the different ‘I’s we have and integrating them. There were remarkable demonstrations (including on me!) of this very gentle process. We students of course all practiced on each other for days and had fantastic shifts and experiences. I was very excited to implement it professionally. And the first time I used this method with a client - it was so wonderful. Her issue completely disappeared as a problem. I love doing this kind of work!
One version of it can be used as a meditation especially useful for people who are not good at meditation. Another version is called ‘Reclaim the Inner Authority’ which is used for shame, embarrassment, guilt, the need to defend or prove something, feeling weak in your position or another experience involving authority.
Just what are all the benefits? (The following is directly from the 2 main websites)
One version of it can be used as a meditation especially useful for people who are not good at meditation. Another version is called ‘Reclaim the Inner Authority’ which is used for shame, embarrassment, guilt, the need to defend or prove something, feeling weak in your position or another experience involving authority.
Just what are all the benefits? (The following is directly from the 2 main websites)
- Naturally melt away many emotional issues.
- Have greater compassion, humor, and wisdom with issues that remain.
- Fundamentally "reset" your relationship with yourself, your life, & the world.
- Dissolve stress with no forcing or will-power.
- Resolve issues with authority or neediness.
- Sleep deeper and more easily (very effective for this!).
- Once you get good at it, use it "in real time" with life's challenges.
"The Wholeness Process created a huge breakthrough in my life. A breakthrough beyond my wildest expectations. I could not believe that it’s possible to have such a big change with a process that is so simple and easy, and yet so extremely profound. Connirae is a true master when it comes to change. She combines her unbelievable skilled NLP Mastery with an understanding beyond words about the deepest realms of your soul." - Martin Weiss, Coach, Germany
“This simple process definitely works for me. While I’m doing it, no spiritual fireworks, « just » a deep, healing peace. Over time, for now: not an « egolessness », but a very gradual loss of attachment to « ego ». And that’s much more than I had hoped for when starting this program…. With…deep gratitude.” -Maarten Aalberse, Clinical Psychologist, France
"Last week I was on my way to a dinner party. I have never been comfortable with dinner parties, and was already a nervous wreck. I did the Wholeness Process and got completely relaxed. That’s never happened before — I actually enjoyed the evening. I also used the process for allergies. I did it when I started getting the symptoms, and my itchy eyes and stuffy nose cleared up right away." Sally M., Phoenix, AZ
“The Wholeness Process is an effective, simple, and direct method for spiritual awakening, as well as for your own personal development or therapy. From my personal experience, I am delighted to recommend this program. If I can follow it and get a lot from it, then I suspect you will too.” -Shelle Rose Charvet, NLP Trainer, author of ‘Words That Change Minds’, Canada
The Wholeness Process is a new "path to awakening" and way of resolving life problems. This new process has helped people with insomnia, relationship issues, pre-migraine auras, difficult emotions, and much more. People report “it’s easy, and feels gentle and kind.”
Most people experience...
- A deep relaxation and resetting of the nervous system
- A natural melting away of many issues that previously seemed like intractable problems
- Increased sense of well-being
- Greater access to a natural wisdom, compassion, humor, and creativity
- And more...
Interested in Spirituality?
If you’ve explored Eastern spirituality, you’ve probably heard phrases like “The small self is an illusion. Realize that you are a vast Self,” and “Enlightenment comes through loss of the ego.”But what do such statements actually mean? Through the Wholeness Process, you’ll learn an alternative to meditation that offers a step-by-step process of dissolving the everyday sense of the ego. And the good news is that doing this results in a very deep resolution of many life issues...
Interested in Personal Growth or Therapy?
The Wholeness Process gives us a surprisingly direct and effective way to transform our life issues. You'll see how it offers relief from stress, helps with sleep, it helps with those sticky emotional issues, and so much more. Some people are even reporting positive changes in their physical health. The reason it does all this is because this method works at a more fundamental level of experience than we knew how to reach before.
A letter from Connirae Andreas:
“The Wholeness Process is intimately connected with my personal life journey. When people talked of spiritual experiences and ideas, it didn’t seem like something I could experience for myself. All that changed when I discovered and developed the Core Transformation method, a profoundly effective method for personal change through accessing what some people experience as a “spiritual” core. Now over 80,000 people have been exposed to this method, and there are 111 official Core Transformation trainers around the world, from every continent except Antarctica.
The Core Transformation method emerged when I decided to work only with people who were seeking a way to deal with their life’s biggest issue, and who had already tried everything else and failed. In attempting to do this, the Core Transformation method came out, naturally. It surprised me, because I noticed that in front of me people were easily discovering a sense of being within that they were describing as love, peace, or oneness. They would call me up afterwards and say, as if telling a deep secret, “Are you aware that this is a spiritual process?” This set me on a path of investigation. Earlier in my life I had set aside spiritual questions and spiritual seeking as something that “just wasn’t possible for me to know.” So why waste my time. Now I had an experience of something that seemed to be the same as what spiritual teachers and teachings were talking about. What did they know about it?
I wanted to find out. I began to read spiritual texts from gurus of many traditions, and to sit with spiritual teachers. This seeking became intensified when I went through a time of major personal challenge. Fairly early in this process, I encountered a key spiritual teaching that seemed to be what awakening was all about. People were told that it was an “advanced” teaching — almost nobody “got it.” You had to be ready, and apparently almost nobody was. But what if it were possible to understand this teaching — not just mentally, but in experience? What if it could be described in a way that anyone/everyone could have access? Can Enlightenment be taught?
If you don’t already know, my background is in developing and teaching effective methods for personal change in a little field called NLP, which stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. The basis of NLP is what we call “modeling.”In a nutshell, modeling is when we find someone who can do something excellently and then figure out the exact structure of what they are doing in a precise and specific way, so we can teach it to others. The idea is that everything is learnable, including what appears to be “innate genius.”
NLP began when people modeled some great therapists of the time like Milton Erickson (a pioneer in modern hypnotherapy), Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt therapy), and Virginia Satir (founder of Family therapy). By modeling these great masters, the founders of NLP were able to teach others to facilitate therapy sessions that were equally amazing. This kind of modeling was my background — it had been my life’s work. But could it be applied to Enlightenment?
When I encountered the “key teaching” mentioned above, almost instantly a method came to me. It was a simple and precise, step-by-step way of doing what the spiritual teaching seemed to be pointing to. This is the method you’ll be learning in this program, that is now helping many people resolve their life issues and also experience a gradual transformation of their way of being in the world. This was quite a few years ago, and a lot of exploring, testing, and refining has gone into it since then, so that I can offer it to you in this form that is easy-to-use, effective, and close to universal in application.
A new method.
When I first thought of the new method, I immediately tried it out myself. I wondered, “Would I experience something like the great masters wrote about?”I did experience an immediate shift. However at that time I concluded this “wasn’t it.” and continued searching for “the real way to awakening.”Why didn’t I think this was the real deal? Firstly, what I experienced just wasn’t what I thought enlightenment would be. I had thought that if this were the “real deal,” I’d be having an instant dramatic awakening, and the life challenges I was facing would all be gone — if not right away, then surely within a week or two. In contrast, the shift I experienced was subtle, and to be honest I wasn’t able to realize its implications at the time.
The second reason is that spiritual teachers I respect were saying “it’s definitely not possible to put Awakening into steps.” We have to give up our desire to do that. They even said, “If it’s in steps, it’s not the real thing.” Often Awakening was described as something that happens through “grace.” And grace was a mysterious thing that we can’t understand. If we try to understand it we just hold ourselves back.
So I continued my search for “the real deal,” sitting with teachers, reading, and more. In this
time I had many diverse experiences and was exposed to quite a few “ways”. If giving up steps is what it took to awaken, I was definitely willing to do that. So I let go of all that, and just opened myself to learning and experiencing. I am thankful for my experience during this time, and will always be grateful for the loving presence of the teachers who have been part of my life, and also fellow seekers. It was valuable to me personally, and threads from some of this searching are in the process you will gain access to here.
However, as time went on, it became clear to me that neither me, nor the others in the spiritualgroups and retreats, were getting the “instant enlightenment” I’d hoped for. I periodically returned to exploring using the new method that had come to me, and increasingly came to trust that something fundamentally useful was happening there. Gradually I came to see this method as “the real deal” that the spiritual teachers were talking about. Not just a dumbed down version. However, usually spiritual teachers spoke about it in vague terms — terms most people couldn’t easily understand. Often they didn’t have a method, and if they did it wasn’t as precise or it left steps out. Steps I knew were important to getting complete results.
I started noticing that occasionally people in satsangs had questions I knew the new method could answer more easily and directly. And some who talked about experiencing wonderful spiritual states of bliss didn’t seem to experience much transformation of their life issues. I guessed that for some, if not many, the new method would allow that to happen more easily and quickly. Increasingly I sensed this method had something to offer. Perhaps a lot to offer. What if these spiritual masters just didn't know how they did it, just as many excellent teachers, artists, and musicians don't have explicit conscious knowledge of what they are doing. What if “grace” is just a word we use to describe something wonderful that we don’t understand? How many more people could benefit if spiritual transformation was easily learnable instead of shrouded in mystery?
So I began working more intensively with the new process that had come to me. Over a period of years, I first used it extensively myself, and then I tested these models and techniques with many others: initially just with friends, and then with clients, and more recently in live trainings. The results were that people were getting it, especially if they continued to practice the methods I had taught them. They weren’t just learning spiritual ideas or concepts, they were getting the nonconceptual spiritual changes that the great masters of old and the living teachers I had studied with were talking about.
Often these changes were subtle and gradual, as I experienced. Other times dramatic. But they were always positive, and very fundamental to how we experience the world. And they were dependable--if someone used the Wholeness principles as intended, and used it as a simple practice over time, they would reliably experience these shifts.
A new model, a new process, a new way of working.
This new model and set of methods for spiritual development I’m calling The Wholeness Process. It’s the most effective, simple, and direct method for what I think the spiritual masters are pointing at when they talk about Enlightenment or Awakening. And because it’s just the how-to, it’s free from guru-worship, dogma, or weird beliefs.
And it’s also not separate from personal development or therapy. You can use this method to work on your “issues” too, no matter what the issue is. It’s been effective for people with chronic sleep issues, with sticky relationship problems, and troublesome emotional triggers, as well as deep stuff that no other method helped with. It even stopped my husband’s pre-migraine aura, much to his surprise! (He’s not really into this spirituality stuff either.)
The Wholeness Process is also great as a daily meditation, not just as “problem-solving.” In fact, the way this method works isn’t really about fixing things — it’s more about experiencing things as they actually are. And that turns out to be both wonderful and ordinary at the same time. Using this method over time can fundamentally change your relationship to the world — it has for me, and I share more about that in the online training.
Now it’s important to note that if you learn and practice this method, you won’t become a perfect being who has special powers and is happy all the time. It hasn’t happened that way for me. You will find however that many of your problems dissolve or fade away as you practice over time…but life still contains challenges — it’s just that they become easier to deal with. This isn’t a magic pill, it’s a practice. I’ve been practicing for many years now, and I experience both a dependable continuing deepening, and that there is more to do. I noticed that when I taught this method to others, they were deceived by its simplicity. They didn’t really get the full benefits unless they really learned and practiced all the ways you could work with it. I could teach you the essence of this method in under an hour, but to really get how you can awaken to the fullness that is possible for you, its important to discover and practice all the subtleties.
Thank you for reading.
~Connirae Andreas
p.s. It is my hope that this material supports many more people in discovering the deep happiness, joy and wellbeing already within. And that you can be one of them.
I know that when each of us goes through the kind of transformation this method invites, not only are we more happy and fulfilled, but we naturally become a contribution in the world."
What kind of benefits come from The Wholeness Process?
A surprisingly wide-range...
The Wholeness Process is helping people in more areas than we ever thought it would. It does this by accessing a more fundamental aspect of our psychic structure than we could previously reach. It’s simple, gentle, and opens the doorway to a more joyful, loving, creative, and fulfilling life.
Here are a few areas where it’s helped…
Emotional reactivity
“I haven’t been losing my temper.”
“The jealousy I felt isn’t there.”
“Before I was so easily hurt, and now I can usually deal with other people’s rough edges from a more
loving place. This becomes stronger as I use this method more. It feels like something got healed.”
Anxiety
“I was relieved to have something that finally made a difference.”
Unwanted ha bi ts
“It shifted the compulsive eating I was doing.”
Depression
“It’s been a very gradual change, but something good is happening.”
And even health issues...
“The chronic fatigue mostly cleared up…”
“Pre-migraine aura was instantly gone.”
“…used it for my allergies and it worked.”
“I have more energy.”
“I can sleep more soundly, more solidly. Before I would often wake up and things would be on my mind, bothering me. If I do this process I am peaceful before going to sleep, and then I sleep a lot better.”
Please note that some of the above changes were from a one-time use of the process. However things like chronic health issues or depression usually get the best results when using this process over time. Often people do experience quite soon that something is finally beginning to work for them. However the full results usually come through learning to use the process as a simple and kind life practice. After learning the process, this can be done in a short amount of time, or even while we are going about our usual activities.
What people are saying about The Wholeness Process:
"I was facing a high-stress situation that affected my ability to think clearly, engage with people, sleep… The process helped me gain a perspective that both opened my heart and allowed me to feel more peaceful, even neutral. I went from feeling jittery to feeling level, and was then able to be a better resource to myself and to others in that same situation."—Nonprofit Executive Director, NLP Master Practitioner
“[After doing the Wholeness Process with this issue] I wasn’t looking for the acceptance and recognition from others in the office, as I did before. And yesterday my girlfriend started arguing with me, and I noticed I didn’t feel attacked. It was nice because before I felt her arguing was like an attack to me, like disapproval from her of me. Now it’s totally different. I was calm, and I didn’t react. I didn’t have the need to defend myself.”—Engineer
“I’ve felt a really big difference. I can deal with conflict better, and I feel creative about how I deal with things. I can sleep more soundly, more solidly. Before I would often wake up and things would be on my mind, bothering me. If I do this process I am peaceful before going to sleep, and then I sleep a lot better.”—Senior in college dealing with grad school applications & interviews
“It’s made a difference at home and at work. I’m just not being dragged into dramas as easily. I have the feeling ‘It will work out fine.' Things don’t pop up as much. And when they do it’s easier to deal with. It’s easier to relax.”—Single mother of two children
"The well-being that comes through this process isn't dependent upon success, or having the right relationship, etc. And yet when we are living from this kind of authentic wellbeing, life does tend to go better. We can more naturally make a valued contribution in the world, and we more easily attract people we want to be around, (and enjoy those we might not have enjoyed previously)."—Connirae Andreas on The Wholeness Process