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Practitioner Details ::Dr Mark Naim In any healing consultation – there are a multitude of factors that have to be taken into consideration when looking for the cause of, and treating, any health issue. Asking the question: “what is the relationship between this person and their illness?” seems to be the key, and then bringing this awareness into the open for each person.
Many people have written on the subject of underlying issues that can present as illness. Although they have all written from differing perspectives – probably there is truth in all of it – the concept that things other-than-physical can affect our health is generally accepted.
I believe that we each have our own journey, with its unique challenges and individual gifts that we have to bring into the world. I believe that when we aren’t able to face these challenges in a healthy way, things go wrong – physically, emotionally, or mentally. This can happen through a number of ways: shut-downs as children, promises we make to ourselves, beliefs that we form, expectations that we carry – all of which run contrary to our nature. Hurts that we have buried for various reasons.
People are commonly not ready to explore these deeper places as described. Our minds usually want to stop us from experiencing pain or hurt, and all kinds of avoidance strategies arise. There may be experiences that we consider “best forgotten”. However, it is this buried “negative” energy that is the underlying “driver” of so many problems.
There are occasions where allopathic medicine offers support but not necessarily anything more, whereas Journey work has this potential. Using it in conjunction with traditional techniques is effective, in either longer sessions, or as short interventions. Its potential for use in everyday practice is enormous.
The system uses essentially two processes:
Guided Imagery
Using guided imagery, a person is led into an altered state of awareness that helps focus attention and increase concentration. This enables access to “body wisdom” – our subconscious, including cellular memory. This is what Eckhart Tolle in his book “A New Earth” calls “consciousness itself”. Using this technique, it is possible to uncover old hurts, beliefs, promises or vows made to ourselves, which have persisted into later life, which are unhealthy and don’t serve us. They are well known – “I’m not good enough”, “I’m not loveable”, “I can’t trust anyone”, “I’m not allowed (to express) my feelings” – the list goes on, and the list of physical problems associated with this is long. The technique is also able to uncover the event that gave rise to these beliefs, and to resolve and release that. Forgiveness is involved. New healthy beliefs can be formulated and accepted, and can be an essential part in the general recovery from illness.
Emotional Intelligence
It allows the individual to experience their strongest feelings, in a safe environment, so that they learn that no matter how strong these feelings are, no matter how fearful or inconvenient, they can survive them. More than that, by allowing all these feelings to the surface, the path is then clear to drop into a place where they can discover the deepest essence of themselves. This can show up as anything from peace, calm, stillness, courage, strength, to love, joy, a sense of self, oneness and beyond.
Accessing this place produces several benefits – it teaches the individual to deal with negative feelings in a healthy way; it costs less energy to deal with them in this way, than to bury or ignore them, and they discover that untouchable part of themselves which is very reassuring and supportive. You also learn that personal freedom is attained by welcoming and moving through these feelings, and out the other side, not by avoidance or running away.
It is very grounding to know this essential part of yourself – the part that can’t be hurt, broken, diseased or taken away. This can then be part of your everyday existence, and used to put any experience into its true and healthy perspective in your life.
What Journeywork is useful for:
Health issues, including transplant phenomena
Intimacy, relationship & fertility issues
Abuse, divorce, death issues, survivor guilt
Mental health disorders - anger, anxiety, depression,post-traumatic stress
Eating disorders, addictions, allergies, Bullying, growth & development issues. Dealing with expectations - through teens especially.
The list goes on – really anything can benefit.
Asking the real questions - What beliefs do you have around this? Do you believe that it will bring something into your life that you didn’t have before? What fantasies or expectations exist around this? Are you desperate to have or fix this? Do you have any needs around this? Is there any sense of “having done something wrong”? Do you feel you have no rights around this issue? That you don’t deserve? If you couldn’t avoid this issue, what would you have to feel? What are you prepared to risk to be free of this?
Building a healthy life - How to vision quest, how to build your life based on who you are, not who you believe you ought to be. Learn your Life’s purpose, what your truth really is, changing vows, beliefs that don’t serve you any longer, learn how to get real – with yourself, with Life, with others, learn how not to play games or wear masks, and to recognise this in others. Learn to let go, and enjoy life as it really is, in the present. Learn the ability to ask appropriate questions, learn the ability to understand the healing nature of emotions – learning emotional intelligence. The ability to learn healthy boundaries, the ability to recognise and speak the real simple truth, learning to be free to live your life as you truly are, to have a healthy relationship with yourself, learning to “get it wrong”, that you don’t have to “get it right”, to learn to BE, and not to HAVE.
On a personal note, by going through my own processes, I have freed myself from core beliefs and old hurts that have caused a deal of difficulty over the years, things that ran counter to my own well-being. This has been the enormous gift that Brandon, and her Journey work, has brought into the world, and into my life, for which I will always be grateful.
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