The Flow of Love & The Will of the Heart® -
Introduction to Core Evolution®

By Siegmar Gerken

Life exhibits pulsating existence. We manifest this pulsating existence as the Essence of our Being, our Core. In our work we see the Core as the center of the individuated universal life energy. It carries the intention to flow into life and realize itself like a spring in the mountain that emerges and flows.

The spring is not concerned whether there will be obstacles in its flow. It continues to give itself regardless of obstructions and pollutants it encounters, which may change the quality of its original nature. This is why we have to go back to the source, to reconnect with its purity and radiance.

You cannot just look at the flow in the now (present) without recognizing that the river comes from somewhere (the past) and flows to somewhere (the future). From this recognition in the now, we can open our past holding patterns and determine a more healthy and self-realizing flow into the future – the next moment of now.

Our personal journey leads invariably to these questions: How do I perceive my life? How do I realize myself?

To answer these questions we must explore the energetic life principles on all levels of our existence:

• The Body – in its form, expression and dynamic.
• Emotions & Feelings – how we process our inner and outer impulses in our constantly changing life situations.
• Mental/Intellectual Level – how we structure our thoughts and formulate ideas.
• The Will – the faculty that mobilizes the energetic impulse which gives direction to the life principle. When these natural impulses of realization get distorted, we compromise our inner perception. With that we become more insecure or dependent upon the reaction and support from outside, which can lead to dependency, the need for control and other ways of distorted behavior.
• Field of Consciousness/Spirited Level – allows us the perception of the totality of existence, which is perceived and expresses itself as the flow of love and conscious experience of our being on all these levels of existence mentioned above.

This love is the basis of our work. We strive to awaken this quality in each individual. Many religions, traditions and teachings have described these energies for thousands of years, but they often do not acknowledge the personal developmental process of the individual.

Our lives are influenced by our genetic code, parents, society, environment, etc., which affect our development. Nevertheless, it depends upon the capacity and decision of the individual, how we direct these energies and integrate our life experiences.

For instance, we may carry traumatic experiences from our time in utero, birth or from the first years of life. Hours in an incubator, angry or worried eyes in the early weeks or months can lead to a protective withdrawal of your own expression of reaching out. An overcritical father may motivate ambition in one of his daughters, whereas another daughter may react with frustration and hopelessness. A caring but dominant mother may activate in her son independence and successful activity, whereas another son in that situation may react with passive withdrawal and repressive submission.

As you can see, each life situation creates a frame, an energetic setting in which we develop and form according to our inner perceptions and attitudes, and outer physical conditions. At the same time we protect our Core, our vulnerable essence. This may become reflected in limiting our breathing (since we control our feelings with our breath), or the contraction of certain muscles, creating stress in deep tissue areas and specific organs.

We constantly live in a psychosomatic reaction with our system, which often distorts and limits the harmonious flow of energy. This shapes our character defenses, which find their correspondence on the described levels of our existence.

These protective attitudes may have been originally necessary to overcome difficult situations in our early development. But as a chronic condition, they will limit the expansion of life. We become especially aware of these reaction patterns in the exchange with our partner, authority figures, or with others who are of meaning to us. Often then, we shy away from the expression of our inner truth. With that, we also move further away from our natural capacity to stay open to give and receive love.

Our work is directed towards the recognition, experience and opening of these reaction patterns. For this we activate the body and invite a person into a safe expression of withheld feelings. We also integrate with organismic relaxation and conceptual understanding, so the person can learn and shift. The whole process becomes a centered experience of essence. With the reestablished inner trust and the awakened outer strength, power and dynamic, you follow the Will of Your Heart.