The Journey in Detail

What is “The Journey”?

“The Journey” is a healing modality that was created by Brandon Bays in the early 90s. She discovered this process in search of a method for healing a basketball-size tumor in her uterus. After only 6 and a half weeks the tumor had completely disappeared without the use of any traditional medical assistance.

Since her miraculous recovery, Brandon has dedicated her life to teaching and training people all over the world on how to use the two Journey processes she developed from her personal healing experience.

We all have cellular memories stored in specifically related areas of our bodies, which continue to affect our health and well-being throughout our entire lives. Brandon discovered that they can not only be directly accessed, but also completely released. The key to the release and to the activation of the healing process is forgiveness. Journeywork has helped people from all walks of life and all ages not only to let go of anger, fear, depression, grief, hurt, or anxiety, but also heal debilitating addictions and serious illnesses.

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How does cellular healing work?

“Brandon Bays acknowledges the work of Dr. Deepak Chopra who made a life study of successful survivors of illness. He found they had two things in common:
1. They were able to access some state of awareness beyond the mind to stimulate healing.
2. They were able to release and process memories stored at a cellular level. Cells in the body regenerate at different speeds. Eye cells take only 48 hours, whereas cells in the liver take 6 weeks to regenerate. The question is what stops these cells from renewing in a healthy way? Dr. Chopra believes that negative memories are stored in those cells where they cause degenerative disease patterns to be passed on, preventing the replication of healthy new cells.

Dr. Candace Pert went further in her book 'Molecules of Emotion', which describes her Nobel Prize-nominated research on how emotions affect our bodies at the cellular level. If trauma and negative emotions are not resolved, they physically embed as a cellular memory, preventing those cells from playing their part in the constant biochemical communication taking place within the body. These memories not only 'switch off' these cells, but lead to emotional and physical disease years after the events originally occurred. Journey processes can enable one to let go of these memories, 'switching your cells back on’, and freeing them to again regenerate perfectly.

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What is a journey process?

A Journey process is a guided introspection designed to address your specific issues, uncover the root cause of your physical condition or your emotional issue, and help you to a complete resolution. There are two different basic types of Journeys. Both will take you deep within, to a place guided by your own inner wisdom. When you have recovered the memory that is the key to your issue, you are then able to empty out all the associated emotion contained within it and open into a deep forgiveness. Once completely free from the impact of this memory, healing at a cellular level can naturally begin.

The “Emotional Journey”

The Emotional Journey uncovers the underlying layers of an emotion to find the emotional root experience of your current issue, and also to give you access to and an experience of “source”, that place deep within us that has also been called unity consciousness, or your true nature, or your divine being. For many people this journey inevitably takes them through their worst fear, the place where they have always turned around and gone back to accepting a limiting core belief about themselves. The breakthrough they experience, when they discover that source itself lays right beneath this fear, or block, the experience of knowing yourself as eternal, or unlimited, or unconditional love, or light is often tremendous. This process might well be described as a form of ‘emotional archeology’.

The “Physical Journey”

The Physical Journey is an experience similar to a guided meditation or a hypnotic journey. It uses your inner body wisdom as a vehicle to take you to the part of your body where a specific cellular memory holds the root experience still affecting you now. This is not always the same part of the body where you are challenged with discomfort of illness. Sometimes this part of the body will be described very anatomically accurate, sometimes it shows up in a metaphor, which can often take the shape of a cave. Your “Mentor”, a wise and divine being, accompanies you on this entire journey. Both Journey types can be facilitated separately or in a combination.

The “Campfire Process”

The centerpiece in either journey is the “Campfire Process”. Whatever memory you uncover, whether of a specific event, a series of events, or the emotional environment of the past, the campfire is where the younger you is invited to speak your truth to the people who have caused you pain, to really feel and to empty out all the feelings that had been held unexpressed, and sometimes even unknown inside. A guided dialogue unfolds. The mentor assists in this process by allowing you to see and understand your experience through deeper levels of wisdom. It is this new revitalizing experience of at last making yourself fully heard, seen and understood, that then allows forgiveness to flow.

Inviting true Forgiveness

Forgiveness has long been known as the supreme path to healing, the means to connecting with the transformational power of whatever name you give it: source, God, spirit, Allah, or the universe. Most people discover during the journey that forgiveness happens naturally, often quite easily, after completely emptying out at the campfire. This then is the last goal of the Journey: to experience a true and wholehearted forgiveness, the one kind that can bring forth complete healing.

Completing The Journey

Once forgiveness has been given completely and wholeheartedly (and sometimes also received), everyone leaves the campfire. In the physical journey you then have the opportunity to see how the place in your body is responding and in what way it is already looking different and starting to heal. In the emotional journey you are being led into a detailed ‘future integration’, a state in which, by being connected to your inner being, you can sense how long it will take for your emotional behavior and experience to change.

Session Length

Journeys come in a great variety of length, and are entirely unpredictable. First time emotional journeys tend to be longer and last between 2 to 4 hours. Physical journeys are usually shorter, one and a half to three hours. Once you have been through a few journey experiences, a physical journey can be as quick as a one hour deal, without loosing any of it’s potency. On the contrary, the more often you use them, even as the journeys become shorter in length, they become more profound and transformative.

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The Journey for Kids

The Journey has also been very successfully used for Kids all over the world by teachers, doctors and journey therapists. Children use an age-adjusted version of the physical journey that takes them into a fairy tale or a personal adventure story. They tend to go through the steps much faster and often come to forgiveness much easier than adults do. The journey not only heals whatever pain they have suffered, but also reconnects them to their sense of worthiness and inner truth. They find their natural boundaries, learn how to protect them and awaken healthy inner resources that will serve them for the rest of their lives. To be learning these empowering tools at an emotionally still very receptive age, is especially valuable. Even children who have not responded to traditional therapy have made remarkable turnarounds with the journey.

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The Abundance Journey

The “Abundance Journey” is really much more than simply a journey. It is a program that contains all of Brandon Bays’ tremendous knowledge and experience to deeply transform your state of abundance through a combination of powerful processes at its very root.

In the introductory evening we offer the thorough experiential process that enables you to map out nature of your inner limitations to abundance. The remaining program takes you through the Abundance Journey, a specially expanded emotional journey to the cellular memory that imprinted this limitation into your being, and releases this pattern. In addition we also scan for other memories that have shut down your natural attraction of abundance in the past and at last we let your abundance mentor respond to any other limiting beliefs that were passed on to you. In the final practical segment you are introduced to a sequence of simple and highly efficient tools to manifest the type of abundance that expresses your highest purpose in life.

Sabine is an artist living in the Hudson Valley, she came to my very first introductory evening. A week after her session she wrote to me, describing the transformation she was going through. You can read her testimonial on the testimonials page under 11/28/05. Her results are a great example of all that can happen after taking just one single, powerful Abundance Journey.

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The Life Purpose Journey

This Journey addresses questions like: “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose in this life?” “Who am I” “What is the reason for my life's experiences?”
The Journey first allows us to find out in which way you are not yet living your life’s purpose. It then takes us back in time through other experiences of that same limitation, takes us beyond birth into the experience in the womb and then beyond that into nonphysical, and brings to us the emotional memory of our true essence, a state of source in which our purpose for coming into this life reemerges with great clarity. Carrying that purpose forward with us into our former life experiences, we can now revisit those memories with the knowledge of who we really are and instantly feel the deep transformation that comes with standing anchored in our purpose. As the negative aspects of our past are released out of our nervous system, we can now let the truth of our essence, our ‘new’, remembered awareness shine into the future, showing us the true potential of our life’s path from now on.

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The No Ego Journey

The No Ego work was a true revelation to me. It allows us to release the grip of the ego at a profoundly deep level, liberating us to live life as an expression of our truth, our essence.
The preparation for the No Ego Journey is based on the ancient teachings of the enneagram, a description of nine basic human ego and personality types. We first discover your main personality type, or ‘core fixation’, finding out in which way your ego has created an armor against pain, fear or loss, and in which ways you have played out these armored behavior patterns in you life. Once we have uncovered your core ego fixation and found which specific emotion fuels your inner drive and which one you need to avoid at all cost, we are ready to dive into the journey process to find the memory of the root experience that crystallized this pattern in your life. As in all Journeys, the release of this pattern happens at the cellular level, connected to source. As in all Journeys, this release is facilitated by allowing the younger you to express and speak the truth that had not been spoken at the time. As in all Journeys, we bring this expression of your truth and the unfolding dialogue to a place of wholehearted forgiveness.
It is unique to the No Ego Journey that we expand this release to other scenes of the same limiting ego pattern playing itself out, so that we can reprogram and transform those memories as well. In the end you are able to look into the future form a new place of wholeness, truth, love and inner well-being, seeing yourself beginning to live your life in this new freedom.

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The "Vow Process"

A Vow Process is a short Journey Process that takes you back in time to a place where a vow was made that has now become unhealthy or unwholesome to who you are today. It addresses those areas in our lives that don’t change easily, that stay the same no matter how much we understand about it, how much conscious awareness we have brought to the situation, how much therapy we do on it, how many times we have spoken our new intention... Somehow we have found ourselves facing the same challenge soon again. Most of us are not even aware how many vows we have internally spoken in our life, and how relentlessly those inner vows are keeping us in the grip of the same experience over and over again.

An old unhealthy vow can be the cause of any recurring experience we can never quite shake off, such as:

not being able to get out of financial tightness,
not being able to move forward in life after a divorce or a separation,
not being able to leave a painful past truly behind,
never becoming as successful as you think you could be,
having a hard time just simply being who you are,
not being able to feel or express real anger or real passion...

A Vow Process is a tremendously powerful tool, and a very efficient one too, since it doesn't take more than one hour. A Vow Process is a more quietly transformational experience and not as intensely emotional as a regular Journey Process can be.

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