WISDOM is to live a life in truth, coherent with who you are. Wisdom is to listen within, take care of your needs and live your dreams. Wisdom is to meet life as it is.

As human beings, we have access to both thought power and heart power. Thought power is connected to our automatic thoughts. Heart power is connected to our inner wisdom and our inner voice, the part of us that knows truth. All humans have both thought power and heart power. Yet depending on the degree to which these powers have been integrated, we function differently.

HEART POWER is the power that creates wholeness, alchemy and magic. Einstein said, ‘A problem can never be solved with the same mind that created it.’ In other words, problems created by thought power can only be solved by heart power. Heartmath Institute in the USA has measured the ratio between heart power and thought power, using EKG (heart) and EEG (brain/mind) and found that the power of the heart is 60 times stronger than the power of the mind. They also measured the electromagnetic frequencies that radiate from the heart and the brain and found that heart power is 5000 times stronger than the power of the brain; thought power.

ALCHEMY is a physical process, a chemical change in the body. Metaphorically, we say that alchemy can transform lead into gold. In our lives, alchemy happens when we transform long-term troubles into health and a good life. This process gives us a lasting understanding about ourselves and provides deep insight, a wisdom we cannot unlearn. When you know, you cannot pretend that you don’t know.

Examples of alchemy can be:

• Transforming panic and anxiety into inner peace
• Transforming total exhaustion into happiness and energy
• Transforming stress into harmony and freedom
• Transforming emotions from a painful childhood into resources that can be used
• Transforming a lack of self-esteem into vigorous inner power
• Transforming chronic illness into a life in balance

MAGIC cannot be planned – it just happens. Magic is a reward for hard inner work and emerges when you process and release painful emotions. The most common cause of health troubles (including physical ones) is emotional overwhelm, which automatically makes the body suppress emotions. However, suppressed emotions don’t just disappear – they must be transformed. When you release deep emotions and notice that health issues go away, it seems like magic. Yet you create this kind of magic by meeting yourself honestly.

THE SAFE CORE MODEL describes the steps you go through when building a safe core in yourself. We need a safe core to live our own lives. Without it, we feel insecure and hesitant, and we often let others make choices for us. We build a safe core by integrating experiences from our lives.

Here, we define what is out of balance, that which you want to change in yourself. We don’t consider diagnoses, although symptoms can be worked with. Other things you might want to change are relationship problems, patterns, sabotage thoughts or emotions you cannot ‘get rid of’.

We need someone to explore with. Issues that we can solve alone are not true challenges. For change to happen, we must feel safe. Only when we are safe, are we open for our ‘Sophia’ (wisdom) to come through, so that we become open to meet ourselves.

The role of the helper here is to create a space in which the other feels free to be who they are. Any kind of evaluation or guidance will close the very access that we are trying to open to, through which we can meet our emotions, thought patterns and problems as they are. Only when we see what is, can we change it.

Our body responds to truth. When we see and understand something as it is, a change happens.
Something is resolved, chemical change happens in the body, an alchemy.
A blockage is resolved, a split-off part finds its way back to wholeness.
A suppressed emotion can be acknowledged and integrated.

A thought pattern that weakens us is replaced with thoughts that strengthen us. This is alchemy. Alchemy makes us freer and more whole, and it confirms bodily truth for us; our truth about ourselves.

For change to happen, we must practise our new knowledge. The understanding and insight we get through alchemy must be practised. We must replace old patterns with new ones, otherwise we are back to our old ways. Nobody else can do it for us. We must live the insight we get through alchemy.
We must live that which is OUR truth for it to manifest in our lives.

Our safe core consists of the wisdom that has become a part of us by living our truth. Our safe core is about ourselves, our own experiences and our own lives.