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

In that moment a loner was born.

      So often we wonder what makes one child so outgoing and another so tentative and retiring. Often mothers and fathers will say innocently, ‘Well, she’s been like that since she was a toddler – it’s just her personality.’ Yet that crystallizing ‘shut-down’ can have such a profound effect that often as adults we enter into intimate relationships and wonder why we just can’t feel the connection or the closeness. Somehow we can feel love in our own hearts for the other person, but their love doesn’t seem to penetrate into the deepest part of us. Often, we’ll go to parties and wonder, ‘Why is it that in the midst of this crowd, I feel alone? I know everyone, we all get on, everyone is friendly and caring, and yet I feel like an outsider.’ Well, that pattern may have started with an early childhood shut-down just like Gerald’s.

      Perhaps you are already aware of the extraordinary research that has recently been published in the field of cellular biology. Dr Candace Pert, author of the bestselling book Molecules of Emotion, is a well-known cellular biologist who works in Washington, DC. On a number of occasions she has spoken to the US Congress about her amazing findings on the effect that repressed emotions have on our cells. What she has unequivocally discovered is that whenever we have an intense, powerful emotion that we repress or shut down, specific chemical changes take place in our bodies. These can affect certain cell receptors, blocking those cells from communicating with the other cells in our bodies. If these affected cells remain blocked over a long period of time then there is an increased likelihood that if disease occurs, it will occur in the part of the body where the cell receptors are blocked.

      Perhaps this may help explain why it is that one seemingly harmless event like Gerald being shushed at the firework display had such a potent and long-term effect: the cell memory and its programming got passed on from one cell generation to the next. The actual memory occurred at only three-and-a-half years of age, yet the pattern and the decision made from that memory were still running on automatic pilot at eight years of age.

      The internalization ‘Being around others might make me feel intense and scary emotions and as I’m not allowed to feel or express those, I’d rather be alone’, that entire consciousness, that programming, got passed from cell generation to cell generation.

      In order to negatively programme our cells, we have to be in a peak emotional state and we have to repress that emotion at the time. This repressive action is what releases the chemistry that can begin the programming or blocking process. Gerald had experienced both sides of the equation – he had been in a peak emotional state and had repressed his feelings.

      What Candace Pert also observed is that when we feel and express our emotions healthily, fully and wholesomely, our cell receptors remain open.

      What The Journey process does is to guide you in a safe, gentle and wholesome way to specific cell memories, so that you can finally feel and release the stored pain, let go of the story and memory and forgive the people involved. Then you are given healthy, empowering internal emotional resources so that you can wholesomely and freely respond to life in the future.

      When Gerald finished his process, not only had he finally faced and released all the intense emotion from that memory but he had wholeheartedly forgiven his parents. He also received a whole set of resource balloons which helped give his body and being positive and healthy reprogramming. He was given a balloon that allowed him to feel safe, even when there is loud noise and excitement around him, and another balloon that let him feel safe in a crowd. He received balloons of courage, self-confidence, the ability to play with others, light-heartedness, joy and the ability to feel his emotions, to express himself clearly and to share his feelings at the right time with his parents and peers.

      After his process, Gaby noticed that at first Gerald remained on the outskirts of what was happening with the other kids. But slowly and tentatively he began to join in, and by the end of the day he was playing as rambunctiously and noisily as all the other kids. When they all did the ‘Monkey Rap’ song, where they all mirror each other in monkey gestures to loud and joyous music, Gerald couldn’t stop laughing as he pretended to be a mischievous monkey mimicking the movements of an eight-year-old girl.

      Previously, Gerald was destined to be a loner. Who knows? Maybe now he will end up being the life and soul of the party, a shining star in his world.

      Dear Brandon

      My name is Lindsay Wilson. I am turning 13 this year. I am a boy who did the Children’s Journey workshop in 2002. I really enjoyed it because, while I was there I got to meet new people; adults and children – people I wouldn’t normally meet. All day long we got to play and have fun and games and we got to know everyone and how everyone felt.

      I got to do this special Journey, just for me. It was really good, because I got to express a lot of my feelings and work out a lot of my problems with my Dad. Now that I’m working things out with my Dad, we’re getting along a lot better.

      After the Journey, I felt a lot better and a big weight was taken off my chest and felt free to get on with the rest of my life. HOORAY!

      I get on easily with my family and friends now and I’m not so angry anymore. Before, people couldn’t touch me or bump into me without me getting angry and hitting them – even if they said they were sorry.

      Now, I can stay calm and I am able to walk away from a fight.

      Thank you for creating the Journey so other people like me can feel better, relaxed and enjoy life.

      I AM SO HAPPY!!!

       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