by Dawna Shuman

	Brandon Bays

I was intrigued, captivated by an email inviting me to a book signing in Los Angeles to hear Brandon Bays, international best-selling author of The Journey – a Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free.

There was something unique about this, that couldn’t be defined…that leapt through the electronic boundaries and called my name. I sat back and watched a radiant Brandon Bays share her personal story of triumphing over adversity in her life. I heard Brandon talk about healing her tumour, her husband leaving, her home burning to the ground in the Malibu fires…and on and on. And here she was exhibiting a vibrancy and positive life-force that illuminated the room with her "being of lightness." I wanted more.

So I attended The Journey Intensive Weekend to learn a step-by-step means to get access to the soul and unlock the root of long-standing blocks. I left the first day feeling a sense of lightness. Returning the next day, I became conscious of an old and familiar issue. I felt cluttered inside; a sense of darkness that I knew all too well. It was all too easy for me to mask this feeling. And I wanted to delve into this, more than ever. Even though I felt safe with my partner, I could not get to that place that I needed to be. I felt empty. I sat in my chair and I knew….I knew…that I wasn’t finished. I couldn’t shake the feeling. This time, I couldn’t pretend nor could I walk away. After several uneasy minutes, I knew that I would be cheating myself if I left feeling incomplete; so I re-committed to completing the process again.

Again, I felt stuck mid-way and couldn’t break through…but I was determined that I wasn’t going to get up from my chair, until I had. With the gentle assistance of a trainer, I soon felt myself enter an unknown, never-before explored place deep inside. I felt struck by an intense vibration deep in my stomach and found myself meeting intense feelings of anger and rage bottled up for so many years. After processing this, I was soon filled with a sense of peace as it engulfed me. I felt so pure and filled with light. It was because of this benevolent feeling of grace, that I was overwhelmed with a sense of loving-ness and forgiveness - on a universal level. Suddenly, as if from an unseen force, my shoulders caved in and my body racked forward as huge sobs released from deep inside. I was filled with waves of tears for what seemed like eternity until they subsided. Filled with the expansiveness of this grace, I was able to finally forgive everyone in my life that I have held resentments toward and declared it so. I sat up and opened my eyes to behold my loyal partner and compassionate trainer. Feeling cleansed, my eyes burned brightly, shining with the love that I felt for everyone; and most importantly, for myself. I felt complete. I had found peace within. I had come home to myself, experiencing the joy and lightness of it all!

"Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and love within," Brandon Bays says. "This presence is calling you home right now, longing to set you free. Yet all of us have issues we have felt trapped or limited by. We hear the whispering of our own soul calling to us, but feel unable to access that greatness. Instead, we feel blocked in some way, limited by our issues – anger, fear, depression, grief, hurt, anxiety. It may be feeling there must be something more to life or feeling like a complete failure. It may be as debilitating as an addiction or as life threatening as a serious illness. Yet, no matter how deep your issue is, no matter how much you have struggled with it, the possibility exists for you to become absolutely free, whole and healed. Everyone would agree we all sense that there is greatness inside, yet something prevents us from accessing it and experiencing it daily."

For Brandon, it took a tumour the size of a basketball to catapult her to a remarkable, soul-searching and ultimately freeing healing journey in which she uncovered a means to get direct access to the soul, the boundless healing potential inside all of us. Only 6 ½ weeks later she was pronounced tumour free, no drugs – no surgery! The extraordinary gift of Brandon’s own healing journey was to pioneer a road-map: a simple, yet powerful step-by-step means to tap into the body’s infinite wisdom, joy and potential, elicit its unlimited healing power, uncovering specific cell memories, resolving them completely and clearing out any emotional, spiritual or physical block stored on a cellular level.

Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Candace Pert has established that when we have repressed emotions or issues, a chemistry is released into the blood stream that will block certain cell receptors in the body. If those cells remain blocked, the propensity exists for disease to be created in that area. "The key is to uncover this repressed trauma, or the unaddressed cell memory, resolve it and clear it completely," says Brandon, "then your body goes about the process of healing quite naturally on its own and you are left soaring in a boundless joy, peace and wholeness that is your own essence."

Across the globe, thousands of people use Journey work to discover real freedom in their lives. They are uncovering their deepest truth, experiencing profound emotional and physical healing at a cellular level. People who have experienced The Journey have found that chronic pain vanishes; anxiety, depression and sexual blocks disappear; self-esteem, grief, and anger issues dissolve; addictions fall away and illnesses can be resolved and heal. Everyone longs to live their life as an expression of this huge potential, experiencing the boundless joy and love within. But it is not enough to know about it, you need to directly experience it to facilitate true healing on all levels.

Brandon tours worldwide with The Journey Intensive workshops. She has chosen Vancouver to hold her first Canadian Journey Intensive Weekend on October 5 & 6 and the city has welcomed her with open arms. Brandon will appear on several radio and television shows and will be lecturing at the Downtown Public Library Sept. 21 at 7:30pm, and Chapters Book Store on Robson Street Oct. 2 at 7:30pm. The Journey will prove to be a powerful and transformative weekend for those who chose to experience it.

As I write this article, I’m sitting in my apartment in Van Nuys, California and I can hear the cacophony of Canadian Geese flying overhead on their early migration to South America, with a pit stop at the Wild Life Reserve, a short distance away. My Canadian heart beats proudly with the realization that as the Geese fly South, so will The Journey fly North inviting all open hearts to discover their own personal Journey.

Dawna Shuman is a Maple Leaf expatriate living in Los Angeles. Email: angelport@aol.com. For more information on the Vancouver Journey Intensive Seminar visit www.thejourney.com or call 310-573-9100.

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