In 1992 Brandon Bays had what she called "a huge wake up call".

At the time she was fulfilled in her marriage and motherhood and enjoying a prosperous and rewarding career. She thought of this time as "the peak of my health and wellbeing."

Despite her healthy lifestyle, spiritual practise and background in alternative medicine, she was stopped in her tracks by the diagnosis of a tumour in her uterus the size of a basketball.

What she thought was an early menstrual onset was actually internal bleeding caused by the tumour pressing on vital organs in her body.

Undeterred by the dire warnings of her doctor that immediate surgery was her only option, Brandon felt a responsibility to honour her body and her belief in it’s infinite ability to heal itself.

Following the initial shock, she was overwhelmed by a calm reassurance. Brandon realised, "It wasn’t a question of if I would heal, but how."

Just over 6 weeks later, after exhaustive tests at Cedars Sinai hospital in California, she was pronounced perfectly clear.

The process of her extraordinary recovery is documented in her book, The Journey –An Extraordinary Guide for Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free.

Brandon confesses that, on noticing the first signs of the tumour, she went into denial. She admits to being humbled by the experience, saying, "An arrogance had given birth inside me that somehow, if I did everything right, nothing could happen to me. I just didn’t want to believe that after everything I’d learned… it was happening to me."

A massage therapist suggested that Brandon may have "some old stuff" she needed to get rid of and encouraged her to get inside the tumour to see what was there. A childhood memory emerged that, at face value, seemed of little importance, but proved to be a profoundly emotional experience. Brandon was able to resolve that issue with understanding and forgiveness. "It seemed as if I had literally put the painful memory into a package and put a lid on it."

She now realised that she had to go past her ‘thinking mind’ and trust in the ‘inner wisdom’ of her body.

From that moment she began to heal.

The concept of mind-body healing is not new. In 400BC Plato wrote, "All disease in the body proceeds from the mind or the soul."

Science has established that cells inside the body regenerate at different rates – the liver cells are replaced every 4 weeks, skin cells three weeks, stomach lining three days and eye cells every 48 hours. Each cell passes its memory to its replacement.

Brandon was well aware of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s work on cellular memory. He asks the question, "If a liver is riddled with cancer in January, why would it still be riddled with cancer in June?" After all, the cells would have been renewed several times in that period. Dr. Chopra believes that "our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our minds."

Dr. Candace Pert has established that repressed emotion releases a chemical into the blood stream that enters certain cell receptors and renders them incapable of communication. This blockage, over a long period, can lead to a disease in that area.

With her newly acquired first-hand experience, Brandon began to wonder how she could assist others to explore their own healing power, realising that each person’s experiences are unique.

Her first revelation came while taking a course with a spiritual teacher. A student asked how one could find peace in an intense emotion. The answer, "Just don’t move. Let yourself be completely present to the emotion. Welcome it… In the very core of the emotion you will find peace."

This has become the basis of Brandon Bays’ guide to self-healing. Put simply, it involves peeling back the layers of emotions until you reach the inner peace buried within each of us.

Brandon has perfected a repeatable process to uncover old traumatic memories at a cellular level that not only helps physical healing but also psychological and emotional issues. A step-by-step guide to the Journey process is included in her book.

Brandon also teaches and performs Journey workshops and seminars world wide that attract people from all walks of life. The Journey’s mission is to put people in touch with the best part of themselves. A workshop participant described Brandon as "funny, intelligent and completely authentic. There is no new age nonsense with Bays."

Brandon says, "What has moved me deeply is that (The Journey) is now being used in cancer centres, hospitals and addict groups, in prisons, schools and by medical doctors, alternative health care practitioners, priests, ministers and people from all walks of life. They are gracefully incorporating the Journey work into their own practices and personal lives."

A sceptical Suzy Greaves of The Sunday Times, London, emerged from a Journey workshop feeling "curiously light, a little bit shiny and finally free."

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