It's been said you can't get wet from the word "water" or fill hunger by reading a cookbook. A description of a Core Energetics session can at best give some indication of the process; in reality, the experiences are brisk, spontaneous, alive, which words can never fully capture.
However, Core Energetics clients can expect to experience certain elements in a session. Core Energetics Practitioners fundamentally create a safe, nurturing, and open environment in which the client feels increasingly free to release into expression of his or her true energy states. The Practitioner will "read" the client's body and countenance, often while listening to the client talk about significant issues and life events.
The Practitioner may then encourage the client to express energy through some action, vocalization, body positioning, or breathing, to connect with the body. Actions can include specifically designed exercises like punching, kicking, or yelling.
These expressions are specifically selected and encouraged by the Practitioner to serve as "charges" to trigger the release of energy — crying, laughter, muscle tremoring, and other spontaneous responses are common.
Over time, this release of energy permits the individual to reemerge into a fuller sense of self. Energy blocks that once manifested as less appropriate emotional and behavioral responses fade away as the client grows into a powerful strength and joy in experiencing oneself and living one's own life as it is.
How does Core Energetics evolve one's energy? How does it heal?
Ultimately, Core Energetics is a process that equips clients to live more consciously and pleasurably, with a free-flowing spontaneous energy.
Eastern traditions like Zen Buddhism and martial arts cultivate a power that allows the perfect response to any given moment to arise spontaneously, stemming from a mind, spirit, and body that have been unified in a pure energy state. The "compassion" Zen schools describe this purely creative state as one of great love and connectedness.
Core Energetics posits that this alive, loving, spontaneous energy state is our birthright and that we can live in this state on a daily basis, interacting with all the elements of our lives with the same joyful strength. Freed from emotional reactions that no longer serve us, we can respond instead in full feeling and relationship to the present moment and all the persons and things that moment contains.
Individuals who have "completed" Core Energetics processes in relation to specific challenge areas of their lives report having healed through these issues in a lasting way. True transformational change has occurred, and they are now living at heightened levels of consciousness and connectedness with themselves, with others, and with their own lives.
