HEAL YOUR FEELINGS
If you've ever been bullied, mugged, hijacked or experienced even the threat of
violence,then you know the meaning of being "scared stiff."
In my own experience, even being witness to others around you being violated by
harsh treatment - say your siblings or fellow pupils at school - can have a devasting
affect on the nervous system.
TRAUMA OF 9/11
Take the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, September 11. All of us,around the
world, remember the shock and inner turmoil we felt witnessing on television and
in the media the devastation of the Twin Tower attack.
At the time I was in the UK, working for mind-body-spirit healer Brandon Bays,
pioneer of The Journey healing technique which I apply in my healing practice.
A New Yorker by birth, Brandon was poised to launch her book The Journey, already
a best-seller in the UK, South Africa and Australia...into the USA.... that very
month.
Instead,all publicity plans cancelled, she organised to run a free-of-charge Healing
Day for the people of New York - which we held at the Lighthouse in central NY in
October, a month after the disaster.
I flew from the UK to be with Brandon and her team to assist at that event.
The acrid smell of the disaster, still rife in the area; the heart-wrenching
Wall of Remembrance set up near where the clean-up crews were still working
was something I will remember for the rest of my life.
SEXUAL ABUSE
During the Healing Day Workshop we applied the unique inner-directed process
called The Journey to access and release past trauma, buried in the body's cellular
memory.The painful theme which had been unearthed by the terrorist attack was...
sexual abuse.
For many people there, the shock of 911 had activated long-buried, never spoken about,
violence against their persons during childhood.
When you are in danger the "fight-flight" response takes over in the body to
help you survive. Breathing, alertness,blood pressure, heart rate, go up.
Digestive, productive and immune systems decrease in activity.
BRANDON BAYS
Brandon Bays herself came from a childhood of violence - physical, emotional
and sexual.
In her book THE JOURNEY : A Road Map To The Soul, Brandon describes
how in 1992 she was diagnosed with a football-size uterine tumor, despite leading an
exemplary healthy lifestyle. She was devastated and prayed to be shown a way to
heal it without resorting to drugs or surgery. She believes The Journey came from
that prayer, showing her a way to release the triggering traumas of old emotional
pain from the body cells.She called this unique inner-directed process
THE JOURNEY.
It helps people to experience profound emotional and physical healing at the deepest
level. The soul already knows what needs to be "dealt with, forgiven and let go."
The Journey facilitates a safe place to access and release the Younger You with
buried feelings during a "flight-flight" intense or traumatic time in the past.
Using this same method, thousands of people all over the world have healed many
physical and emotional problems - including anger, grief, depression, chronic illness,
tumours, arthritis, addictions and low self-esteem.
THE BOOK
You might want to read the book yourself - but in the meanwhile, I will
sum up the principles - which I myself have used to completely transform my own
health and wellbeing. Not to mention the lives and happiness of hundreds of others
in workshops and one-to-one sessions.
APPLY THE JOURNEY PRINCIPLES TO HEAL YOUR FEELINGS
The 6 main steps that I take a client through to "clear out" and heal feelings
are as follows, making sure you have a safe, quiet place to process. All feelings
are welcome...sad, mad, glad - and tears signify great releasing!
#1 Choose a Present Day Issue which hooks or upsets you and Pray or Intend
that you are going within on a Journey into your deepest self to access the
root cause - what set you up in your earlier experiences to be running this
present-day disempowering programme?
Think of it as a computer virus that you want to find and delete from your
thinking-feeling programming!
#2 Call in a Mentor or Guide to be at your side throughout the experience.
Close your eyes and feel your feelings - where in the body is each feeling stored?
*Feel each feeling fully - then drop through it to another level beneath or at
the core of it.
*Note where you get the strongest feeling. What painful memory or person is
linked to the feeling?
#3 THE CAMPFIRE. The Mentor sets up a campfire with the Present Day You and the Younger You who was hurting. The scene of the memory or person (above) is played
out on a video screen and then the Other Person/People involved are
invited down to join the group at the Campfire.
#4 DIALOGUE
*Encourage a dialogue between the Younger You and the Hurtful Other in which You
as the Child "empty out" and get to say all the things and express the feelings
which went unsaid at the time.
*The Hurtful Other gets to respond in a back-and-forth dialogue, helping the Child
understand their behaviour was borne of their own pain and THE CHILD IS NOT TO BLAME.
#5 NEW RESOURCES/SCRIPT/MEMORY
The Mentor then gives the Child Inner Resources (in balloon form)
that he/she didn't have at the time. Courage, Wisdom, Strength, Self-Worth,
Self-Protection, the Ability to Speak up and Seek Help; Joy and Play etc.And putting
the old scene up on a video screen,encourages the Child to REPLAY THE SCENE as it might have happened with these empowering resources.
This re-scripting is known in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) as a "memory-change" and ultimately frees the Child Within to collapse the negative charge or intensity
of the past giving YOU CHOICE in YOUR responses in the present.
#6 FORGIVENESS/LETTING GO
As Scott Peck has said, beware of "cheap forgiveness" - it is only after all of the
above, plus some thorough extra techniques that I use (cutting the ties that bind etc) that both Your Child and Present Day self can review the pain of the past and "forgive" and let go.
Brandon Bays says herself that FORGIVENESS was the key that unlocked the final
healing of her football-size tumour, allowing her body to heal it six-and-a-half weeks. That was 10 years ago!
Read about Brandon Bays and her remarkable story in The Journey and The Journey for Kids or visit her website at www.thejourney.com and consider how inspired YOU COULD BE if you released an old wound or programme from YOUR past which is causing you physical or emotional pain or shut-down.
Until then - remember... your feelings are the GATEWAY TO YOUR SOUL!
Joost Maijvis
