When a very strong emotion (be it negative or positive) shows up in our lives our natural tendency is to reject it. We decide ‘I don’t want to feel sad, depressed, angry’ so we do all manner of things to literally push it away, to stuff it back down. We pick up the phone, we have a bath, we turn on the tellie, we eat it away, we smoke it away, we drink it away. We’ll do ANYTHING, just as long as we don’t actually have to feel it.

No one has ever taught us how to deal with the really overwhelming emotions so out of fear we just blatantly reject them.

But what if we choose not to react in this way? What if in the face of a really strong emotion, we just sat still and ALLOWED the emotion to move through us? What if we allowed the emotion the place to just be fully felt.

Brandon Bays, founder of The Journey, took this idea one step further and discovered in both herself and others that once a strong emotion has worked its way through the body it is as if we are able to fall into an even deeper, stronger emotion. For example, once anger has been fully expressed, you may drop into rage, from there you may drop into sadness and then abandonment and finally into complete hopelessness. At this point it is as if there is nothing left to feel. It is like you have come to the bottom of all the raw emotion and ‘nothing’ is left. But we all have the ability to take it one step further. Once we go beyond this we are all able to open into a place of incredible peace and freedom. Athletes often describe this as ‘The Zone’, scientists refer to it as ‘Quantum Soup’ or a ‘place of no mind’ and some refer to it as ‘The Infinite Intelligence’ or an experience of ‘God’.

Whatever name we give it, it is still the same place, the place where the body is able to tap into it’s own infinite healing power.

The other main concept of The Journey, is that the cells in the body regenerate constantly. Eye cells regenerate every two days, liver cells every 6 weeks. But why if someone has liver cancer today, do they still have it 6 months down the line when in fact the organ is brand new a few times over? Deepak Chopra, a world-leader in mind/body medicine, believes that what in fact is happening is that the ‘cell memory’ is being carried into each new generation of cells. It is as if the new cells are being born out of the memory of the previous cell generation.

With this in mind, Brandon asked the question, ‘What if it is possible to access the memories stored in cells and completely clear them out? Would this not open up the possibility of healing the body on a cellular level?’. Brandon states in her book, ‘I had the belief, after years of work in the mind-body healing field, that everything happens for a reason and a purpose. Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and you finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels – emotional, spiritual and physical. Only then does the body go about the process of healing itself naturally.’

She discovered that once a person opens up to really allowing themselves to feel a ‘raw’ emotion the unconscious mind is able to uncover specific memories linked with that emotion. Then using specific techniques described in the book she was able to facilitate the complete release of the emotions by dealing with the memories that caused the body to store them in the first place.

The results were phenomenal!

Today anyone can see an Accredited Therapist for Journey sessions. They are able to drop through their own emotional layers in order to uncover what their bodies and cells have been storing and completely resolve and release it. Through The Journey everyone is able to become an active participant in their own healing process.