The Journey for Kids: Liberating your Child’s Shining Potential. Brandon Bays

       4 Working with Health Concerns

      The Journey is a deeply spiritual and liberating process that helps awaken us to our true potential. It allows our real selves, our own inner essence to shine, to be fully experienced, and it clears out emotional issues, negative beliefs, unhealthy vows, limitations of all kinds that have blocked or obscured that natural potential. It is a simple step-by-step process that enables us to clear out the hurt, lies and circumstances that have prevented us from allowing our shining potential to fully express itself.

      In a nutshell, The Journey is a tool for liberation, a process for awakening, work that guides you deep into your soul and clears out all the limiting patterns. It opens you into the infinite, the boundless presence of love that is your own shining potential.

      And the second aspect of The Journey, for which it is equally well known, possibly even better known, is as a tool for healing.

      One of the blessings of my own remarkable healing journey was that I uncovered a means to access repressed cell memories and clear them completely, so that the body and the being could go about the process of healing naturally. So The Journey is not just for emotional and spiritual liberation – one of the powerfully positive side-effects is that it can be physically healing as well.

      At that time much of the medical research on cellular healing was already available. Dr Deepak Chopra, a distinguished medical doctor and one of the leaders in the cellular healing field, had done a rare thing. He had decided that he wanted to discover what makes some people heal from serious illness against the odds, without drugs or surgery. He made a career study of the successful survivors of terminal disease to find out the process that made them heal.

      After amassing hundreds (eventually thousands) of case studies, he found that he could find only two qualities in common among the survivors: the first was that, through some act of Grace, some spontaneous event or some spiritual revelation, they all got access to the boundless potential inside. The second was that they all got spontaneous access to the cell memories stored in the part of the body where the disease was.

      What is known about the cells inside our body is that they replicate at varying speeds. Old cells die and new ones are born at different rates in different parts of the body. For instance, have you ever noticed that it takes about three weeks or so for your suntan to fade? That’s because it takes the skin cells roughly three weeks to regenerate. It takes our liver six weeks to renew itself and our stomach lining only about three or four days. The one that seems almost inconceivable is our eyes – we have all-new eyeballs every two days or less; that’s how long it takes for every cell in the eyes to replicate. This was so hard for my mind to conceive of until my mother went into hospital for eye surgery. They slit open her eye, inserted a lens and put the flap back. Only a day-and-a-half later they removed the protective eye patch and she could see clearly – that’s how quickly eye cells replicate. In fact, there is not a single molecule in your body today that was here a year ago – your body is literally all new. It is continuously renewing itself.

      Deepak, however, asked a question that no one else was asking at that time: ‘If it’s true that our cells are constantly renewing themselves, why is it that, for example, a liver that is riddled with cancer in January is still diseased in June? If the cells of the liver are completely new every six weeks, why isn’t the liver completely healed?’

      What he postulated at the time, and what has subsequently been verified by more current scientific research, is that stored inside the degenerative cells is suppressed cell memory – some unresolved emotional trauma or limiting pattern. Before the degenerative cells die, they pass on their programming, their consciousness, to the next cells being born. So the new cells are created as exact replicas of the old degenerative cells. The cell memory is passed on from one cell generation to the next.

      What Deepak discovered in the case of successful survivors of serious illness is that if they opened into the boundless potential, the infinite body wisdom, the awareness that is responsible for making your heart beat and your hair grow, and if they got access to the specific cell memory and cleared it out, the programming was interrupted and was not passed on to the next cell generation. Fresh, regenerative cells were born devoid of the previous programming, and cellular healing was the result.

      I had read all this research and knew absolutely that cellular healing was possible, but up to that point no one had given us a method! How do you get access to that infinite potential? And after you’ve done that, how do you access the right cell memory? You can learn all the science you want, you can listen to all the theories out there, but it’s one thing to know and understand a theory and it’s quite another to have a practical step-by-step method that works.

      I had made an agreement with my surgeon that if, in four weeks’ time, the tumour hadn’t significantly healed, then I would let her do what she felt was urgently needed – which was to surgically remove it. This, of course, went against everything I believed in and had learned from alternative medicine. I simply had to buy myself some time to see if I could heal naturally.

      Well, I was three weeks into my healing journey. Up to that point I’d done everything I knew to help my body heal: I’d taken herbs and homoeopathic remedies; I’d received colonic irrigation and massage every other day; I’d done emotional release work and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) work; I’d meditated; I’d refined my diet to the most cleansing food intake possible – 100 per cent fresh and raw organic fruit and vegetables with loads of freshly-squeezed juices; I’d taken enzymes and colloidal minerals – I’d done everything! I looked vibrantly healthy, but my tummy was still as hard as a rock, stretched as taut as a drum, and I still looked five months pregnant.

      I began to despair that I would never find a way to get access to the cell memory. I knew for certain that part of my healing would lay in uncovering that emotional block, yet no one had published a ‘how-to’ guide.

      I was lying on a massage table, still having seen no measurable result, and I felt like a complete failure. I didn’t know where to turn, or even what questions to ask anymore. I’d tried everything I knew in the natural health field and still had not succeeded. I felt deeply sorry for myself and was overcome with hopelessness. I had run out of options. I had no more answers, and something inside me just gave up. All striving finished, I just lay there in complete surrender, in total innocence.

      Unexpectedly, I began to feel the room fill with a palpable presence of peace. It was as if I was soaking in a bath of stillness. In that stillness I heard myself spontaneously pray, ‘Please, somehow, let me be guided to uncover that cell memory and complete with it. Please let me be guided to heal.’ Then, lying there, unmoving, in the pure innocence of not knowing what else to do, spontaneously I was guided directly into the tumour.

      What I uncovered was an old familiar memory of childhood violence. Immediately my thinking mind checked in and chastised me, saying, ‘It can’t be that memory! You know all about that one – you went through years of therapy clearing that old stuff.’ ‘Been there, done that, got the T-shirt!’ said my thinking