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I was doing some web work this weekend and noticed these two different pictures of myself and what I noticed kind of surprised me. So I thought I would share them with you to make a point about Core Health and the self development work that I have been focused on for 5 years.

Looking back, it’s interesting to note (July 2011) that when this picture was taken in Seattle in 2006, I have changed so much since that time.

You can see it in these pictures below.

Michael Barrett 2006

Take a look at this picture (on the right) with the green background. This was taken in February of 2006.

Michael Barrett 2009

In contrast, the second picture (on the left) was taken in Florida in 2009 right before completing the certification process as a Core Health Facilitator.

Look closely and see if you can see a visual difference in the eyes. Looking at the left eye in the 2006 picture, that is what we refer to in Core Health as a down flame.

The left eye in the picture from 2009 does not have a down flame. So it looks to me like the stuff I am teaching works, even for me.

In retrospect, not only is the visual difference striking, I can feel the energy difference between the 2006 Michael and the 2009 Michael.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.

Many people have not heard of Core Health yet, the 12 expansion level workshop created by Dr Ed Carlson.

When people think of ‘core health’, they often think about weight training in the core muscle groups because that is a common application of the term. The most dominant web presence is a long term trauma care program and insurance by that name.

The Core Health Workshop is relatively unknown because it is a “new” health expansion modality. Yet the reality is that it was thirty years in the making and Energy Essentials was actually formed about 7 years ago.

The impact that these workshops have on participants is remarkable from the facilitator’s perspective. While the Core Health processes are simple, they are stunningly effective. Talking about the workshops does not truly convey the experience accurately. It’s one of things where you “had to be there” and see for yourself.

Over the last two years we have been immersed in the Core Health process – actively:

1. As participants of every workshop and course Dr Ed had available, some multiple times
2. Then through the series of facilitator training and certification
3. And for a year and a half, as facilitators for multiple Heart Forgiveness, Core Health and Funny with Money Workshops.

In every group, people achieve breakthroughs emotionally, mentally and energetically. Seeing their eyes change from week to week, seeing a greater clarity and consciousness emerge is always a magical process. Over and over, people dissolve stress, release confusion and their true healthy selves – the natural part of who we are as humans – emerge.

Participants rewrite their stories by changing their energetic relationship to their past – the disturbing events, the emotional traumas, the pain and discomfort that we all experience over time. While the events themselves do not change, the personal, internal relationship to those events does. When the processes are completed, the memories are still there, but the energetic attachment to them is not.

Immense amounts of energy are released in the process and participants become their whole natural selves again – often for the first time since they were children.

Living the world through the eyes of a child again, the awe and wonder, the lack of resistance, yet with all the skills and knowledge and experience accumulated through life experience is a powerful combination.

Core Health get results every time.  See for yourself and verify for yourself that this is true. You can also see what others are saying about the workshops: Core Health Testimonials.

We do workshops locally. We travel to your town for groups or we work remotely on an individual basis.

I AM Michael Barrett and I Am a Certified Core Health Facilitator

Core Health is a unique and effective system that provides results for participants. In every ‘health modality’ – whether traditional or alternative – the basic question regarding health always begins with:

“The first thing we need to do is find out what’s wrong with you.”

This makes sense from a diagnostic sense in many respects, yet the question itself inherently triggers a negative internal response to focus on what’s wrong with me?

Core Health is distinctly different in this respect. The root philosophy of Core Health is based on a reverse approach to any blockage or malfunction in the human energy system by asking:

“What’s Right with Me?”

In Core Health, the primary assumption is that the natural default of the universe is both strength and health. When each of us starts out in life, before we accumulate emotional baggage, or experience trauma (emotionally, energetically or physically), we are healthy and open and strong energetically.

Our natural human default is strength and health.

Core Health looks at all the things that are right with a person first. The percentage of ‘rightness’ is always significantly higher than the percentage of ‘wrongness’ so it becomes a matter of focusing on expanding the percentage of rightness to 100%.

What a refreshing and in-powering approach, yes? It even feels better thinking about the difference doesn’t it?

Core Health systematically takes a participant through the process of quickly, easily and thoroughly removing clouds of confusion and dings in the energy system. It is a ‘search and repair program’ that restores the system to its natural default of health by expanding on what’s already right, like a defrag program on a windows computer. In contrast, with the traditional approach to a malfunction in the system which focuses on the problem.

Core Health is an inside-out approach, expanding the natural inner core of health. This complements all other modalities that take and outside-in approach. Both have important functions and each enhances the other.

What’s right with YOU? Most of you is. Correcting the glitches is not that big a job when you look at it that way.

Check out one of our live Core Health workshops for yourself and see what you think. We work with groups locally and are available to travel to your town. We also work with individual clients locally and remotely. See what others are saying: Core Health Testimonials.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Certified Core Health Facilitator.

Do you have a healthy relationship with money?

In our search to find the answers over the last 20 years – about how to be the very best people we can while striving for excellence – we have experienced some really amazing trainings, seminars, workshops and certifications along the way.

About 2 years ago, we learned about Are You Funny With Money, one of the dynamic interactive workshops created by Dr. Ed Carlson. Since that time, we were participants in all of Dr. Ed’s workshops -

• first as attendees, then again
• as participants in certification training and
• now as Certified Core Health Facilitators, we facilitate them ourselves

Most people go weak around money even when they have a lot of it – Boomers and GenXers alike.

Funny With Money gets rid of “money weakness” and frees us up to be healthy, whole around money the way we were born to be. Abundance is the natural default of the universe.

Yet we have been programmed differently for the most part.

Whether you just want to have a better relationship around money with your spouse, achieve a more stable relationship to money or become a Wealthy Boomer. Consider attending a live event yourself.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.

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Core Health Workshops

Core Health is a fun, exciting and interactive 12 session workshop (play-shop) where as a participant, you experience and learn to locate, identify and clear glitches in your energy field. It is fast, effective, proven and permanent.

The result is that you naturally expand access to your pure core of energy and achieve a new balanced state of alignment and health.

See what others are saying about the workshops: Core Health Testimonials

Heart Forgiveness

Heart Forgiveness Workshops

Heart Forgiveness is a powerful and elegant – yet uncomplicated – method of clearing both conscious and sub-conscious anger and anger related residue from past anger experiences.

Heart Forgiveness is a fun and interactive 4 session workshop (play-shop) that gets results. Learn and experience how to live without anger.

Heart Forgiveness Testimonials…

Funny With Money

Funny with Money Workshops

Almost everybody is Funny With Money because our identity is so closely aligned with money in today’s world.

This workshop is traditionally taught in 3 sessions, but we are re-structuring it into 4 sessions.

Through observation, we have learned that this workshop is most effective as a follow up to the Heart Forgiveness and Core Health workshop series.

Recommended sequence, although not mandatory,  for these workshops is the following:

1. Heart Forgiveness
2. Core Health
3. Are You Funny with Money

Core Health Facilitators:

Michael Barrett and Alexandra Barrett are Certified Core Health Facilitators.

A dynamic and authentic couple, both are Certified and were trained personally by Core Health founder, Dr. Ed Carlson and have been facilitating workshops, intensives and private sessions with clients in Sarasota since 2009.

We facilitate live Core Health Workshops for groups in Sarasota and we also travel to your location to facilitate weekend intensives.  Prices for distance workshops vary depending on venue and travel expenses, number of people and workshop topics.

Available to work with corporate clients, organizations and individuals – for private and group facilitation.

More about Michael Barrett and Alexandra Barrett here.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator and I Love Qigong.

The more we learn about human consciousness, the more intriguing it becomes. Like the 1999 movie The Matrix, what we see is often not what we get.

How does the mind play so many tricks on us?

Herein lies the rub:

WE THINK we know what we understand.

The challenge lies in the fact that most of our perception lies beneath the surface of our conscious mind where we actually do the thinking.

This type of understanding has often been described in different contexts that many are familiar with. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.

Google the question: what percentage of communication is non-verbal?

The following is a quote from one of the top ten search results:

Listen With Your Eyes: Tips for Understanding Nonverbal Communication

By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide

“One study at UCLA indicated that up to 93 percent of communication effectiveness is determined by nonverbal cues. Another study indicated that the impact of a performance was determined 7 percent by the words used, 38 percent by voice quality, and 55 percent by the nonverbal communication.”

This data prompts me to ask the following:

• So what constitutes the 55% of non-verbal communication?
• What does “non-verbal” refer to?
• And how does another person in a conversation receive and interpret the 55% of the communication that is non-verbal?
• How does this process actually work?

Have you ever thought of someone you have not seen in a while and then moments later the phone rings and it is them? Most everybody has had this experience. You might get a letter or email instead of a phone call, yet the principle is the same. Basically when this happens, you get information about an event before the event takes place.

Have you ever met someone for the first time and had a strong inner sense that something about this person repelled you or conversely that you were very attracted to them personally? How do we know this when we have no information about this person?

How do these types of things happen?

Dr David Hawkins May Have the Answer Why

In the book Power vs Force, Dr. Hawkins published a chart that he calls:

“The Map of Consciousness” which is a scale (if you are unfamiliar with it) that charts out human consciousness from 20-1000. His chart shows that reason begins at 400 on his scale and caps at 499.

From our work in Core Health we know that “when we are in our head” – being cerebral – we are operating below 499 and we can verify this using comprehensive kinesiology.

We also know that when we are operating at 500 (or higher) on Hawkins’ map of consciousness that we are in the realm of consciousness beyond reason (thinking) and above the operating range of the conscious mind.

We Have to Be Tuned into the Right Channel to Get the Information or Receive the Communication

In order to receive information – or any type of energy wave transmission – the receiver has to be turned on and tuned to the wavelength that matches the transmitter’s signals.

Like a radio tuned to a station at 499 AM, you can not listen to the show on 520 AM. The two shows are being transmitted on different wavelengths. You – as a listener – can only hear what’s on 520AM by tuning into that channel.

Communication processes that take place outside the realm of conscious thought are actually taking place within a different aspect of consciousness using energy patterns that are not identified by the conscious mind. We “know it”, yet not logically.

We see over and over in Core Health Workshops that participants learn and sense many things experientially - both without logical explanation and while the mind is not aware of either:

• that an underlying problem exists or
• understanding how the process used to correct that problem does what it does

Yet Core Health processes work anyway. It can be confusing at times to be able to see and measure results (as a participant) without seeing how it all works. We know from repeated observation that whether we can SEE and comprehend WHY - or not – the processes in Core Health still work.

A qigong master (who was also a very intelligent scientist) in Seattle told me in 1995 that life energy (chi or qi) is not energy alone. He told me that it is both energy and information. While I never questioned the master’s statement, I had to take in on faith that his interpretation was accurate. Only now, ~15 years later, do I see this statement validated time and again in Core Health and Heart Forgiveness Workshops.

The Conscious Mind Is Only a Small Part of the Whole Spectrum of Human Consciousness

Current science shows us many things about how consciousness actually affects, shapes and forms our environment in ways that are beyond conscious thought – and our perception of “how things are supposed to be”.

As we get further into the understanding of this perspective, we are leaning that it is energy that controls the whole system – both consciousness and the universe itself.  Biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton shows that energy controls the cells – not the DNA like we learned in college Biology.  Gregg Braden describes aspects of quantum physics in ways far outside the mainstream of old science.

Everything is energy – including consciousness – and this is no longer just a catchy sound bite to sound cool at seminars. It’s true. Multiple disciplines in current scientific research show us that emotions, the conscious and subconscious mind, the physical body and the field (our life energy) are integrated and highly interactive and may – in fact – be fully interactive with the universe itself.

Although much of this research is still in uncharted waters, we know that human consciousness involves much wider aspects of energy than thinking does.

So in non-verbal communication, there is an exchange of energy going on between people that takes place on energy levels beyond conscious communication.

Core Health is a system that uses comprehensive kinesiology to “energy measure” human consciousness above 500 on Hawkins’s scale. These energy measurements also systematically identify and clear distortions – that we accumulate in day to day life - in our personal interpretation of the energy field.

Core Health provides an energy education for participants and in-powers people to expand their energy, inborn health and consciousness to levels that are beyond conscious thought and understanding. These workshops are provocative, interesting, fun and effective.

Core Health is the energy tool of the 21st century.

This system really gets results. See for yourself and check out what former Core Health and Heart Forgiveness participants say about the workshops:

Core Health Testimonials and Heart Forgiveness Testimonials

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Certified Core Health Facilitator

Takes on a New Dimension.

A new series of courses and workshops launch at Rejuvenations, the Whole Body Energy Enhancement Center beginning this September. This series will be ongoing as Core Health officially becomes part of the Rejuvenations Natural Health Protocol.

Several months ago we started talking to the owners of Rejuvenations about what we do as Core Health Facilitators – creating new energy blueprints.

Driving by, we had seen the sign many times.  had even phoned one time to check on their business hours and go in there. and take advantage of their initial 2 hour free offer scalar energy room.

We Think Core Health Sarasota and Rejuvenations Is a Good Match

After lengthy discussions with Rejuvenations owners, we are convinced that combining forces and energies is a great match and creates a complement that synergistically enhances the Whole Body Energy Enhancement protocols and visa versa.

This is truly a unique combination and one worth investigating. We are excited.

We have just completed a Heart Forgiveness series at Rejuvenations and are now taking sign ups for new Heart Forgiveness Sessions and additional Core Health series.

Contact us at 941-227-5763 to find out the new class schedules or call

Rejuvenations and talk to Joe or Jim at (941)554-8657 and sign up.

We look forward to working with you and being part of your expansion and joy.

Michael Barrett and Alexandra Barrett Are Certified Core Health Facilitators and Heart Forgiveness Facilitators offering a series of live workshops on a ongoing basis.

It is such a pleasure to both observe and play a role in what happens in a Core Health play-shop. Play-shop is the term Dr. Ed Carlson – the founder – has coined for a Core Health Workshop because he wants it to be clear that this experience is fun and it is play – not work.

In the beginning, participants tend to be reserved and to hold back, not certain what is going to happen next.

Inevitably they loosen up and allow themselves to jump in and take part full on, drinking deeply from the well of Core Health experience and expansion. And typically the more they drink, the greater the desire to quench this new thirst – like a magic water that quenches the thirst of the soul.

It is a joy to see participants activate dormant systems and energies deep within. It is a pleasure to be a guide for joyful expansion and release – watching the faces of adults become as children again, the light in their eyes, the shimmering soul within and the happiness created by moving out of separation and back into wholeness.

This week another twelve week Core Health Training series comes to an end.

For twelve weeks, each of the participants has become part of a synergy – an entity that is greater than the sum of its parts. Each has grown, each has shifted and expanded. Each has honored us with their presence and their sincere participation.

The Core Health family continues to expand.

At the end of each series, we feel a sense of loss knowing that the participants – the players will not be returning next week. The level of connection and appreciation for the amazing individuals who have immersed themselves in improvement, release and breakthroughs is almost unspeakable.

There is a deep sense of compassion, awe  and  love for these magnificent beings who have done exceptional work – going deep and clearing the junk and debris accumulated over a lifetime.

I know – now – what it must feel like for a teacher to watch your favorite students leave after four years of study and interaction and what it feels like not to be needed anymore as a guide or a mentor.

On the one hand there is joy and a sincere sense of accomplishment having contributed to their development and growth.  On the other, there is a loneliness of sorts – and a loss, almost like the death of a loved one.

In my case, it took several days of private contemplation to fully let go and naturalize the full understanding of how one who loves and cares and teaches must detach oneself from two things in every case:

1. the outcome
2. what the students choose to do with the part of yourself you have given them

In the end, it is the magnificent system created by Dr. Ed Carlson – and a Higher Power – that manifests the results – not me. It is essential to know that my purpose is to support the launch, not be the navigator. There is an objectivity required so as not to loose yourself in the process as a facilitator.

It is good to know these things and to learn acceptance.

We are all fortunate to have such a powerful and effective system at our disposal and I continue to be in awe of the positive results, class after class.

To each and every one of you who has just completed Core Health, I’ll miss you all and thank you for doing such a magnificent job. You are amazing and you hold within you a piece of my heart.

Blessings and joy as you move ahead free and clear.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.

We will add links to the recent Core Health Testimonials from participants as soon as the videos are posted.

One of the most…

rewarding aspects of learning Core Health – for me – has been learning how to catch myself early, when I am out of alignment.

You know what I mean…

When the quiet inside feels a but ‘noisy’ and a sense of confusion sets in. Fact is, I’ve gotten used to inner quiet and balance. This is my newly found – and implemented – default. That’s what happens as the Core Health protocol cleans out the junk in energy body and the emotional body.

What makes this experience  most valuable to me is when something is out of alignment, it is easy to identify it, by contrast. In the past, there was often so much inner noise that a little more really didn’t make a difference.

Now it does…

It stands out and internally and my inner voice says to me,

“Something needs attention. Get to it.”

No rebuke, no criticism, just a message.

And this instruction does not come from a nagging voice in my head, it’s more of a gentle notation. The message bubbles up from an inner voice, lovingly and with compassion.

Just a gentle reminder to make an adjustment – a minor course correction – in the internal GPS system.

Once I consciously connect to this message, it continues to remind me until I make that adjustment – gently – like a non intrusive snooze alarm.

Anyway, I love this mechanism – this newly re-discovered internal guidance system.

It helps me stay on track and the more I use it, the better I get at it.

Aligning and synchronizing the inner and the outer is such a fulfilling way to do things and provides a much better use of energy than the former method of managing confusion and coping with chaos.

Have a fabulous day, I will. I know who I AM.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.