Body ~ Spirit ~ Mind __________________ Dr. Amelia Hardwick ____ Holistic & Integrative Psychology ____ "Healing to live from wholeness in your life and relationships" ~ "Revealing your true essence" |
DISCOVER THE JOURNEY~ Following The Inner Path
able to uncover the root cause of any long-standing health, emotional or behavioral issue and at long last completely free yourself from its grasp. Journey Work is an incredibly powerful, yet simple and easy process similar to a guided visualization that can do just that. "A process that facilitates cellular healing, getting at the root cause of what is driving the depression, the anxiety, the illness, the worthlessness, the eating disorder....the block to abundance....." It taps into the body’s infinite intelligence. The natural wisdom that makes our heart beat and our hair grow without us even having to think about it. The process harnesses the body’s unlimited healing potential to guide the client directly to stored memories which can be associated with many long-standing health, emotional or behavioral issues. Once these memories have been uncovered they can be completely resolved and released allowing the body to start healing naturally at a cellular level. The results are profound and lasting. Undergoing the journey process many have freed themselves of the trauma of abuse, rape, grief, rage, fear, guilt, addictions, depression, eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, anxiety & panic attacks, self-sabotaging behaviors, sexual dysfunction, chronic pain, stress, and physical illness. ego......your true nature, your Christ conscious, the beauty that you truly and haven't been connected to since you were a small child."
layers of emotions until you open into a profound place of love, stillness, joy, and well being, exposing you to who you really are underneath the ego/personality. Recognizing,, revealing your true essence and living from that place, allows you to begin living more authentically, from wholeness in your life and relationships. This technique, pioneered by Brandon Bays and outlined in her bestseller The Journey, now internationally recognized as one of the most powerful and transformative healing tools available today. Diagnosed with a tumor the size of a basketball, Brandon Bays was catapulted on a remarkable, soul-searching and ultimately freeing healing journey during which she uncovered a means to get direct access to the soul, to the boundless healing potential inside all of us. Only six-and- one-half weeks later she was pronounced tumor free, text-book perfect, no drugs and no surgery. Dr. Amelia has been an accredited journey practioner for over five years and has added many things to the process, like energy work and releasement, as well as the work of Peter Levine, somatic experiencing. She calls The Journey, following the Inner Path, and finds there is no healing modality as effective, not EFT, EMDR or other guided processes. This is by far the best healing work available today. How does it work? The Journey is based on two main theories to create deep transforming healing that works for children and adults alike. Cellular Memory Release ~The Journey is based on the fact that the cells in the body regenerate constantly. Eye cells regenerate every two days, liver cells every 6- 7 weeks. But why if someone has liver cancer today, do they still have it 6 months down the line when in fact the organ is brand new a few times over? Deepak Chopra M.D., author of Quantum Healing, believes that what in fact is happening is that the ‘cell memory’ is being carried into each new generation of cells. It is as if the new cells are being born out of the memory of the previous cell generation. Dr. Candace Pert, author of the best selling book ‘Molecules of Emotion’ is a well- known cellular biologist who works in Washington DC., She also discovered the opiate receptor in the brain. On a number of occasions she has spoken to the US Congress about her 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 shuts 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. When we feel and express our emotions healthily, fully and wholesomely, our cell receptors remain open. Dr. Pert is interviewed on this subject throughout the movie “What the @#$% Do WE Know Anyway” that is sweeping the nation. Emotions are the Gateway ~ Generally when a very strong emotion shows up in our lives, our natural tendency is to reject it, deny it or just the opposite. We can identify ourselves through our emotions, cling on, get stuck in it, attach ourselves to it and wallow in it. If we decide ‘I don’t want to feel sad, depressed, angry’ so we do all sorts of things to literally push it away, to stuff it back down - we pick up the phone, turn on the TV, exercise, eat it away, smoke it away, drink it away. We will do ANYTHING just as long as we do not actually have to feel. Then there are those of us who get stuck and find ourselves drowning in our emotions unable to find the shore. So…we will find ourselves doing many of the same distracting and destructive behaviors to help move us out of it by expelling it outward. Some can become so overwhelmed by recurring emotions they are unable to function. No one ever taught us how to deal with strong emotions so we just blatantly reject them or are held hostage by them. Many of us were taught that it was wrong to feel our emotions. Some may have been raised where strong emotions were thrown around al the time in destructive ways. But what if we could react differently? What if in the face of a really strong emotion we just ALLOWED the emotion to move through us? Have you ever watched a child get upset? Children feel their anger, for example, then they might cry a few tears, and typically within a few short minutes, they find themselves back in the bliss of being a child. Dr. Amelia was taught, just as Brandon was by spiritual teachers, that if you just allow your emotion to come up and feel it fully, not attaching to it, just allow it to wash through, just like your thoughts during meditation, your emotion will come and go naturally. Can you think of a time when you allowed yourself to really feel a painful emotion? Now, remember the relief and freedom you felt afterwards, the lightness, as if a huge weight had been lifted from your body. Brandon Bays took this idea one step further and discovered, in both herself and others, that as a strong emotion is acknowledged and truly felt, it can open us into our deepest truest self. The Emotional Journey guides you gracefully through to that exact experience, the experience of who you truly are at your core. This space of freedom - of peace, of lightness, of infinite love and compassion, of joy - has many names around the world. In the Journey, we refer to it as Source; athletes and adrenaline junkies often call it 'The Zone’; scientists refer to it as ‘Quantum Soup’ or a ‘place of no mind’. Others call it the true self, the higher self, your true nature, your soul, or Truth. Still others refer to it as ‘The Infinite Intelligence’ or an experience of ‘God’, your Godlike self. We have forgotten who we truly are and identify with our egos, our personalities. Thankfully we are not our egos, we are source. Source cannot be stained, it does not change and it does not leave us. Your true nature or source is the ultimate self-object of limitless, unconditional love, wisdom, and compassion. Whatever name you give it, it is the same place, the place where the body is able to tap into its own infinite healing power and knowledge. JOURNEY PROCESSES OFFERED FOR YOUR DISCOVERY AND HEALING The Physical Journey ~ A guided visualization process that uncovers cellular memories stored in your body and brings them up to be cleared. Generally used for an already identified physical issue. (1-2 hours) The Emotional Journey ~ This process takes you through emotional layers, revealing the memories driving them so they may be cleared and then drops you through to your source, who you truly are beyond these troubling emotions. (1-2 hours) Unique Journey Processes The following unique processes dive far deeper than the basic physical and emotional journey. They focus on more specific areas of your life you wish to work on and heal. The processes take a longer time because of preparation and the actual journey processes are usually much longer. The changes that occur from these processes are powerful and life transforming. A unique journey process occurs in a time frame that would normally take months or years in traditional therapies, thus making them a more time and cost effective approach to healing. Dr. Amelia uses Journey Work and traditional psychotherapy, together and separately. She finds that the combination of the two most successful. She has seen her patients resolve long-standing, entrenched issues in a much shorter time than with traditional psychotherapy alone. The process is effective for adults, adolescents and children. The adult journey processes are generally used with adolescents. The Designer Journey ~ This is the process that Dr. Amelia generally does with all clients the first time. This journey process combines the physical and emotional journey to create a custom process that uniquely fits the needs of the individual. This is the process that Dr. Amelia recommends and uses with almost all her clients. The designer journey will take between 2 1/2-3 hours. Dr. Amelia helps the client to discover the core feeling behind the issue or physical problem, guide them through their profound process of self healing and discuss ways to implement the changes that will now be happening for the client following the process, further deepening the client’s return to wholeness, living the life of joy and freedom they are meant to live. The Charge for this first session is $350, as of 6/2/08. One 3 hour session can be like 6 months of therapy, if not more. The Children’s Journey ~ Deep inside all of us is a boundless joy, an infinite love, a wellspring of creativity and true genius, a vast potential waiting to be discovered. Every child is born as this boundless potential. Unfortunately through life’s trials and tribulations we start to cover our true selves with layers of emotional shutdown, unresolved pain and sadness. It is as if the shining potential that we start out as, gets more and more obscured as we grow older. The gift of the Journey for Kids is that they receive a tool which enables them to easily and completely deal with emotional issues. They learn it at a time when they are most receptive to absorbing new concepts and are then able to carry it with them for the rest of their lives. Currently the Kids’ Journey is being used successfully all over the world by school teachers, doctors and Accredited Journey Therapists. The children’s journey is similar to the physical journey for adults and is like a guided adventure for them. They zoom through the process much quicker than the big people. Children usually do not go beyond the 3 hours. Most of that time is spent gathering information from parents and the child. Dr. Hardwick helps them to use what they discovered in their everyday lives, making better choices with their emotions and behavior. Children and Adolescents who have not responded to traditional therapy have made remarkable turnarounds. Adolescents will sometimes require more time than children and process similar to Adults. The No Ego Journey ~ The most amazing thing about the journey process is that it reveals to us who we really are at our core, our source, our Essence of God, our true nature. Unfortunately this beautiful flower/diamond at our core gets covered up by a lifetime of habitual, conditioned ways of being as a result of painful experiences encountered starting at a very young age through our interactions with others. Our personality or ego traits developed in order to protect us from having to experience these emotionally painful encounters in the future. Sadly over time though these patterns and ego fixations are what cause us harm and those whom we care about most, keeping us from the life and relationships we most desire. It is only for that which we strive for and defend against from our ego that keeps us from grace and from God. Where did ego come from? When and how did it manifest? How can I see my ego more clearly so I may learn to STOP its destructive and painful patterns from compulsively playing out in my life and relationships and learn to live from my true essence, not my ego? Using the Enneagram, an ancient Sufi teaching, which shows the nine manifestations that the ego fixates on, we can see our personality patterns that have developed that draw us away from who we really are at our deepest core, our source. The Enneagram is the most powerful, clear, and accurate tool Dr. Amelia feels she has ever come across as a clinical psychologist to clearly show us who we think we are, but are not. We are not our egos, we are source. Source cannot be stained, it does not change and it does not leave us. Your true nature or source is the ultimate self-object of limitless, unconditional love, wisdom, and compassion. Yet we fail to recognize our true essence because of our ego fixations. Everyone can identify with each of the nine ego types or fixations, but there is one type that is our core fixation. No ego fixation type is better or worse than another, they are all bad news because they keep us from who we really are. In discovering our fixation type we can uncover our core pain that keeps us from feeling whole and connected. Some examples of negative ego traits are acting out the victim or martyr, needing to be perfect, portraying and image in order to get love or respect, withdrawing from intimacy, being suspicious, fearful, self-doubting, constantly angry or explosive, or jealous, avoiding conflict, people pleasing, hiding in our minds or knowledge, filling life with endless activity, denying our own needs while compulsively fulfilling the needs of others, or needing to be in constant control. These are just a few, but there are many and they make life difficult not only for ourselves, but for those we care about. The paradox of the ego fixation is that it deludes us into believing it is helping us to get our needs met, when the reality is that it only takes us farther away from peace, love, joy, and wholeness. Ego leads us deeper into our suffering, our true essence; source leads us away from suffering. After uncovering a person’s core ego fixation, the core pain that drives the ego through 1:1 dialogue with Dr. Amelia and the use of the Enneagram personality inventory, it can be plugged into The No Ego Journey to uncover the memory or memories in which our core pain or ego fixation became crystallized. An example would be of a deep, ingrained belief that we are worthless or unlovable. Tapping into this memory, healing it completely you can become freed from it at a cellular level and be washed clean of its hold on you that controls and drives you. This is a powerful process that begins allowing you to live a life from a place of wholeness, love, freedom and joy, more amazing and fulfilling than ever thought possible. The process of elicitation and completion of the personality inventory (to be completed prior to your process appointment), The No Ego Journey Process, and a follow up behavioral plan can take between 4 to 6 hours. The cost is $750, time and money well spent, as traditional therapy could take years to reveal what this powerful, illuminating process reveals to us in such a short time. Dr. Amelia will recommend further reading and study of the Enneagram. These books may be found on the web sites recommended reading section. **Please note when you do ongoing work with Dr. Amelia, she will be doing no ego work with in the Designer process The Abundance Journey and Manifesting Process ~ This process allows the client to uncover the limiting, often unconscious faulty beliefs that keep them from living an abundant life in finances, relationships, health, career, or materially. We all deserve abundance and it is available to all us. Amy will help you to uncover your blocks in many areas of your life which are keeping you from living an abundant life. After uncovering these limiting beliefs and blocks the abundance journey is done. You will uncover and resolve the underlying issues that put these faulty beliefs in place so that they finally are let go of. Your Abundance Journey is undertaken at the level of your soul/source ~ therefore; positive, self-empowering beliefs automatically come into being as the negative ones are cleared once and for all. You will discover at the end of your journey how amazingly your former limiting beliefs have expanded in all areas of your life and free you at last to attract the abundance you have always desired. Amy will then go over a powerful manifesting technique to get specific about what exactly you want to attract and how to manifest it. After undergoing The Abundance Journey you will peacefully then leave it up to Grace, as you sit back and watch the magic of this process reveal itself to you in your life. The results of abundance therapy can be very powerful, so be careful what you ask for!!! The process takes 8-10 hours and costs $1111. The Life’s Purpose Process ~ Have you ever asked deep questions like “Who am I really? Why was I brought into this life? How am I to serve? What is the purpose of my life in relations to others?” Many of us have asked ourselves these questions. Many of us have spent our lifetime in search of the answers to these penetrating questions through therapy, religion, workshops, and reading countless books in our search for the truth of who we really are and why are we here, but find ourselves still at a loss or questioning. In your Life Purpose Journey you discover the nature of your life’s purpose and the wonderful qualities you have to bring to those around you. You will get in touch with the deepest part of yourself, the part that will never be touched by life’s challenges, where your greatest wisdom lies. Through this process Dr. Amelia will lead you to uncover your life’s purpose. Why you have come into this life, what you are here to share with the world and what you are here to accomplish. You will also discover the lessons you have come here to learn. You will uncover and resolve in your journey process resistance’s that have been preventing you from living life as an expression of your life’s purpose up until now. In the light of the profound truths you uncover in your Life’s Purpose Journey you will be better able to weather the challenges you encounter from day to day and live your life as an expression of your greatest potential. This journey can take between 2 ½ to 3 hours. Rates for Journey work are $175 per hour for two hour session, the same as her psychotherapy rates. Sessions though often go longer than 2 hours. Time beyond the 2 hours will be charged $100 per hour. Sliding scale for clients demonstrating a need will be offered. ****DISCLAIMER NOTICE***** Please note Dr. Amelia Hardwick is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of |