by Dr Anne Malatt MBBS, MS, FRANZCO, FRACS
Modern medicine is amazing. What we are able to do to support the human being in existence is incredible. The recent advances in technology, surgery and pharmacology that we work with today and the research that will bring us new advances in the near future are nothing short of miraculous. Doctors and allied health professionals are dedicated and hardworking individuals who practise their professions with the greatest integrity they can.
So, why are the rates of illness and disease rising?
Why are people getting sicker quicker, and younger?
Why are we getting multiple symptoms and more complex illnesses that are becoming harder to diagnose and treat?
Why are we, as individuals, as health practitioners and as a society, becoming more exhausted, even given up?
These and other questions led me to search outside my traditional training for answers. This search eventually led me back to my roots.
The roots of modern medicine are ancient. They are grounded in the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Pythagoras proposed that there was a way of life, which if lived on a daily basis, would not only largely prevent us being sick, but would lead us to true health.
What is true health?
Most of us consider health to be the absence of serious illness and disease.
We say we are healthy, or well, but do not consider how we would feel without that coffee to jump-start us in the morning, the pain killers to dull the niggling aches in our bones and joints, the other tablets we take to manage our chronic conditions, the sugar and caffeine we ingest to fuel us through the day, and the alcohol we use to pick us up after a hard day and to take the edge off the pain we are feeling. We also do not consider how we would feel if we could not have the “treats” we use to reward and distract ourselves- cake, movies, sports, holidays, etc.
True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day.
Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are.
What if there was a way of life that could lead us back to true health?
The ancient Greeks proposed that there was, that there was a way of being that could lead us back to our true selves. This was not a set of rules, but a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth and that if we listened to it, we would learn how to live.
This way of living leads to a simplicity of being. It may not look so exciting from the outside to begin with, and some of the things your body tells you may be hard to hear, but if practised with dedication and love, it leads to a feeling of joy you would not have dreamed to be possible. From the outside, your life may look much the same, but living from the innermost out, changes everything.
Medical and scientific research is starting to support this. Much of this research (psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics) has been around for decades, but it has not been embraced by the mainstream, because it tells us that the way we live matters, that what we think, say and do affects ourselves and everyone else, and this is a level of responsibility that most of us are not yet ready for.
Medicine is slowly coming to the understanding that the way we live makes a difference. Research is finally focusing on “lifestyle” factors and their contribution to illness and disease.
But why wait for research to prove what, in truth, we already know?
We all know what heals us and what harms us. We have just chosen to ignore the truth of what our body knows and feels. We all know that alcohol is a massive sugar hit and it numbs us and takes the edge off our pain. We all know that coffee picks us up, but we feel even worse (and hungry) half an hour later. We know that gluten makes us feel tired and heavy, often bloated, and can upset our digestion. We know that dairy increases mucus secretion and can block our sinuses, ears and lungs. We know that sugar makes us racy, running our body faster than its natural rhythm, and in a way that leaves us feeling exhausted, so we crave more. We know that we start to feel tired around 8-9pm, and that we need to eat, drink, watch TV or do something stimulating to keep us up past this hour.
If we know all this, why don’t we live this simplicity?
We also know that if we take away all the stimulants, the distractions, and the things that numb us, we will have to feel the pain we are truly in. Most of us don’t want to feel that. Most of us don’t even realise we are in pain, because the way we live numbs and distracts us from this fact. The pain is deep and old and buried under layers of coping mechanisms, and we have been living this way for so long that we think it is normal.
If we were to truly feel and focus on the pain, it would be overwhelming, so we do everything we can to avoid it.
But what if the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are?
Where we get stuck is thinking the pain is everything, but this is the grand illusion.
We are amazing. Beyond our understanding. All we need to do is take the time to stop, be still, and feel who we truly are. It just takes a few moments each morning, before we get caught up in the day, to stop, be with ourselves and breathe gently, so that we are breathing our own breath. This will allow us to feel who we truly are, and if we live from this knowing, we will make true choices in our daily lives, that will bring us back to true health. It is just a choice, to live from within.
My life and work have been inspired and informed by the life and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. May you be inspired, too.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
Doug, I read recently that is was an American billionaire who made his money from oil, that changed the face of medicine in as much as he was able to legislate that all medicines were to be made from chemicals and not the herbal kind that everyone has relied upon for centuries. This gave the pharmaceutical companies a monopoly which they still enjoy today.
Anne I totally agree with you when you say that
“Modern medicine is amazing. What we are able to do to support the human being in existence is incredible. The recent advances in technology, surgery and pharmacology that we work with today and the research that will bring us new advances in the near future are nothing short of miraculous. Doctors and allied health professionals are dedicated and hardworking individuals who practise their professions with the greatest integrity they can.
So, why are the rates of illness and disease rising?
Why are people getting sicker quicker, and younger?
Why are we getting multiple symptoms and more complex illnesses that are becoming harder to diagnose and treat?
Why are we, as individuals, as health practitioners and as a society, becoming more exhausted, even given up?”
You asked these questions nearly ten years ago on the surface we as a society are not ready to hear the answers to your questions. However there is now a large community of people around the world that are living in a way that is bucking the trend of illness and disease. But is it possible that as yet not everyone wants to know this science because it is asking us to be responsible. It is so much easier to ask the doctors and specialists to fix us rather than we live in a way that is far more harmonious for our bodies. Is it possible that the health services around the world need to be bankrupted under the pressure of demand before we will as a society take responsibility for our own health and that of others?
It sounds crazy that the ill lifestyle choices, that come with their own pains is preferable to the spirit that avoids the true energetic pain. But when you work on your hurts and heal it’s not that crazy after all. Ill lifestyle choices start to make more sense.
With roots of medicine going way back, were there stimulants to keep us functioning back then? Or did we eat simple foods, untarnished by additives, sugar etc? What ever mother earth provided us, we consumed and back then, no doubt they weren’t fortunate enough to have the modern medicine that we are fortunate to have now.
Why not combine the two together?
Anne the questions you have posed to us are very much worth pondering about, these are serious events occurring for many people around the world.
I observe this more and more as a health professional too, and I have never observed this in my former years as a profession. The impact it’s having on the health care system is high, sometimes it kind of feels like a conveyor belt, get them in and get them out.
I agree with your statement that true health is, ‘joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day’. Now what would the world look like if we were living from this point onwards?
“True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day. Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are.” The presentations by Serge Benhayon on making self-loving choices that support our overall health and well-being just make sense.
“We are amazing. Beyond our understanding.” Love this in the simplicity of these words and your blog Anne lies the reason as to why we don’t fully appreciate who we are and what we can bring and instead choose to get attached to physical things such as pain to distract ourselves from accepting how amazing we are and how simple life can be.”True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day. Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are.”
So true – we know so much, yet we choose the retardedness, deliberately so, and act lost and powerless, and we even forget that we were just play-acting. This way of holding back eats us up from inside, and our body eventually shows that ill-ness ourwardly. We are so much much more than we give ourselves a credit for.
Our definition of health has dramatically slipped, we consider ourselves healthy when we still have a bad back or get headaches or any number of ongoing illnesses – or – if we are absent of any major problems but discount that health is actually a vitality and having a bounce in our step and having a nourished and fresh body that wakes up not tired but ready to embrace the day.
True health is now a modern marvel of the Ageless Wisdom thanks to the modernisation of these works by Serge Benhayon. Now we have many Living examples that have turned their health and vibrancy around by a simple life style changes that is being respect-full of our bodies and what we are doing to them on a daily basis.
gregbarnes888, I was at a celebration party of three people who held a joint celebration of their 70th Birthdays. We were invited to watch a film of their lives from early years to the current day. What was interesting to observe is that at 70 they all have much more vibrancy and sass than in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. We were all watching a real life before and after Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom. The changes we for all to see and these people are a living testament to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and that we can change the way we live at any time in our lives, and just because we are getting older doesn’t mean we are getting decrepid and useless. Their vitality was amazing to see and their joy of life was infectious.
One of the things I’ve learned from the work of Serge Benhayon is that we are human beings – we have a body and a being and each plays their part in our health and well-being. Knowing who I am and living the true essence of my being is already a step into preventative medicine because I’m more able to make loving and nurturing choices that support my body and take care of me (the being).
Pythagoras proposed that there was a way of life, which if lived on a daily basis, would not only largely prevent us being sick, but would lead us to true health.’ Pythagoras was correct, we all have a responsibility to live a life that lovingly supports ourselves and making changes to our life maybe difficult at times but the outcome outweighs everything else.
I love your comment Sally – Pythagoras’ approach to life has a lot to teach us today still, what if there is a way to live that enables us to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life and not be weighed down by everything that goes on around us in the world.
Yes we have chosen to forget/ignore so much wisdom from the past because it calls on us to take responsibility for the way we are living and this is challenging but the joy and simplicity in living from our bodies is gold when we are willing to go there.
Every single one of us has this huge resource of our own body just waiting to be tapped into. The more I have deepened my relationship with my body the more the outside distractions have fallen away and I have felt the different areas where I have imposed on my body and have needed the support of conventional medicine to heal. For me the learning has been to embrace what I am being shown and adjust the way I live accordingly so that my body does not need to get sick to heal.
“The pain is deep and old and buried under layers of coping mechanisms, and we have been living this way for so long that we think it is normal”– I agree, and anything that would put us in touch with the reality of tension we are actually living in gets labeled as ‘negative’.
“But why wait for research to prove what, in truth, we already know?” Too true, to which I’d add that that currently the state of evidence based medicine isn’t all its cracked up to be, as fraud and corruption are now being shown to be the case is some research trials. Yet empirical evidence, based on real people living extraordinary yet ordinary lives are not deemed to be worthy of consideration.
That the pain is not it, that we are so much grander than it all, what a great prompt for us to consider how we are, what we avoid and to understand that avoiding that pain takes us away from the grandness of who we are.
Our lifestyle has a massive influence on our body, the more we live in tune with how our body feels, the more we tend to change the way we live, from my own experience my lifestyle has changed enormously from what it was and I feel amazing for having made those changes.
Yes Bryony, just taking one step at a time with a commitment to stay with it and sure enough things begin to change. I experienced this, going from multiple health problems and withdrawing from life and the world one step at a time I turned my health and life around. Breathing my own breath from the Gentle Breath Meditation supported me hugely with this.
I appreciate that Serge Benhayon has always respected and been pro-medicine. Having turned my back on the medical system many years prior I was inspired by Serge’s presentations to develop a relationship with some incredible medical practitioners. I now am experiencing greater health and well-being with the support of both western medicine and Universal Medicine, as it is a perfect combination that can allow for a true healing for the body.
‘It is just a choice, to live from within.’ And as a choice that it is, our health it’s at our hands
“We all know what heals us and what harms us.” We can argue and deny we don’t, but we do, we just don’t want to change our life style to accommodate what we know to be true. Working in a super market I am beginning to see this change, people are trying alternatives to milk, they don’t know what it is, but they feel that milk is affecting them in some way. They are doing it for themselves and not because the doctor told them to.
Yes we all know about all the harmful things we do but how many really look at why? No, no instead we look everywhere for answers except where they obviously are.
Nicola I can attest to what you have written, for 50 years of my life I blamed everyone and everything for the miserable life I was living. It was never my fault but life was against me. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I looked at the answers to my miserable life which were inside me. I held all the answers, I was making my life a misery on purpose so that I did not have to take responsibility for all the ill choices I had made and I made some corkers! My self learning is that life does not have to be a miserable struggle, actually it’s the total opposite life is a joy to live. This I have discovered from the outpouring of love that is Serge Benhayon and the entire Benhayon family.
I was approached by a couple of men yesterday that saw and expressed pain as a ‘bad’ thing. In my response I said that pain was a message from God to help us because we had chosen to separate from God. It is interesting what we choose to bury ourselves in to not only avoid the pain but also see it as something that has been put on us. We cannot blame or escape pain. It is there and will always be there within unless we choose to feel and deal with it.
I used to write off conventional medicine completely, and I am actually beginning to wonder if it was more to do with my personal experience of doctors and the system, rather than the medicine itself. I knew where the lack was, it was so easy to find fault with what was available and I was also unwilling to take my part of responsibility. It would be wonderful if all the doctors had the level of awareness as you have, Anne, but from this end, we as general public also have to be willing to be honest and actively participatory in our own healing to see where the root cause might lie.
True health is not the lack of illness, it is a vitality that can be felt in every cell and a gentle strength that effortlessly supports all others that you interact with.
Absolutely Sarah Karam – and by appreciating this and the support that we have to live this way we allow ourselves more space and let things unfold so we can contribute in full rather than being concerned about how we do things and by trying kill the access to what we know is true.
Anne your sentence here sums it up for me ‘Medicine is slowly coming to the understanding that the way we live makes a difference. Research is finally focusing on “lifestyle” factors and their contribution to illness and disease.’ It is definitely time we started to take responsibility for the choices we make and the effect that has on our body.
I love that you have exposed the pain and hurts that for many lie under layers of coping mechanisms…for this is often so normal that there is little awareness of it and therefore little pull to do anything about it. With out having the veil removed we will continue to walk in the ignorance of being well when we are only in the illusion of that, propped up by our many vices that stop us from seeing the truth of our ill health.
Technology and Medicine can only take us so far. The rest is up to us to choose a living way that does not repeat the circumstances. Otherwise we end up as we are now, multiple diseases with multiple symptoms that can only be temporarily halted.
Deeply amazing Anne Malatt, thank-you. The thing that strikes me is the simplicity offered here in regards to what a true relationship with our body can offer us: “if we listened to it, we would learn how to live.”
I am struck by the fact – something I’ve felt since quite young – that most do not appear to be ‘truly living’. There is not a vibrancy, a joy and an inherent connectedness to the divine, and to a purposeful sense in life that runs in our veins as a whole – and yet, this is very, very possible… if we but listen…
Such a clear and concise account of what true medicine is and what it originally set out to do – true medicine is universal medicine and Universal Medicine delivers it and shows the way.
“We are amazing. Beyond our understanding.” A bold statement one may think, when we look at today’s society and all the horrors that take place. But so very true and we all know and glimpse some moments of it. There is so much beauty in each of us but we do not let it out and shine brightly in every moment; instead we get sucked into the daily treadmill of getting things done and over with. There is so much to appreciate in one another and we deserve to be adored and cherished, always.
I am totally inspired by this blog Anne, and equally-so, the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
“My life and work have been inspired and informed by the life and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. May you be inspired, too”.
Thank you Anne, and the responsibility that resonates within the ancient ways is certainly what is needed now, where the buck always seems to stop with someone else, never with the result of our own choices
Serge Benhayon presents the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and is an inspiration to us all that true health and vitality are restored by the choices we make in the way we live as in The Way of The Livingness.
The pace of life is generally pretty hectic and there is a lot in the day that can disturb us, so having these times during the day when we regroup with ourselves and just allow ourselves to breathe gently and connect to ourselves on a deeper level are invaluable.
It seems that those of us who swim in the main stream of life are not so willing to have pointed out that the way we live is not conducive to our true health and vitality because we are not yet willing to take responsibility for the wayward way that we are choosing to live. All this because we have made living from the head at the expense of the body our alarming ‘normal,’ in complete denial of the truth that we are held in a universal rhythm that pulses from within and is reflected all around us in all that man has not created. With our current rates of illness and disease, the choice to ‘live from within’ is a choice that we cannot afford to live without. You have presented this wisdom exquisitely Anne, so simple and so true, thankyou.
“True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day.” When we choose to live in harmony with the rhythm of our body we can feel a return to a true way of living.
“What we are able to do to support the human being in existence is incredible.” And therein lies part of the problem – we accept merely existing and function as a normal way of living believing that the pain of dealing with our hurts would be too much but in reality isn’t at all.
Universal Medicine presentations have supported and inspired me to live a life of love, joy, have deeper connections with others, and have more vitality and energy than I ever thought was possible – allowing my body to truly heal.
With all of the advances we have in medicine and technology we still have rising health issues as so many of us move further away from the Wisdom for the Ageless Wisdom. Finally through Serge Benhayon’s and Universal Medicine’s presentations we are inspired to return to the deeply loving quality of livingness we all once lived.
Anne, what you share here is huge … ‘Where we get stuck is thinking the pain is everything, but this is the grand illusion.’ and because we live in a way to avoid our pain we do not allow ourselves to fully tap into our greatness. Our pain is actually showing us where we live away from our greatness, so rather than ignoring what if we embraced it for what it’s showing us, (taking the needed care with medicine as required), and allowing ourselves to understand and see that there is so much more and we are so much more; would we not welcome pain as a mark to say to us there is more depth here of us to express, it might absolutely revolutionize how we approach illness and disease and lead us back to true medicine, how we live.
The challenge is sometimes moving through the pain and the hurt and not being swamped or indulging in it and then seeing what is beyond that – who is beyond that.
“Most of us don’t even realise we are in pain, because the way we live numbs and distracts us from this fact.” This is such a telling statement, one that exposes the way of living (or is that simply existing?) that so many of us choose. But to begin to honestly acknowledge the pain we are trying to numb and to choose to make a start to understand and to heal it, has the potential to be life changing in many surprising and wonderful ways.
Dear Anne,
“It is just a choice to live from within”. One I am beginning to discover that I for go if I make myself to be less than another, for then I find that I am choosing to follow another’s rhythm, because they are better than me, rather than honouring that we all have our own very unique rhythm and living ways that in truth support our body. Honouring my body and its needs, as it is beginning to speak very loudly, is now to the point that I can no longer run my life in another’s rhythm, but that my body needs for me to stop, listen and run it from its own divine rhythm. Thank you for sharing what you have here, as it has given me the opportunity to connect with this knowing a little deeper and to feel the deeper purpose of looking after my body as it needs to be cared for.
it is the redefining of what true health actually means that will, if explored to the depth that is possible now with the integration of ancient wisdom and modern-day medicine, be a pivotal point of evolution for humanity.
What if in our medical waiting rooms, on billboards, at train stations, on the train etc. were public health annoucements that encouraged us to reflect and draw on the wisdom we already have in our body about what truly loving change we already know we need to make? To quote you Anne Malatt ‘We all know what heals us and what harms us.’ So what if people were supported to nominate what medicine was needed in their life? We do know; we know what foods are not right for us and what stressful situations are draining us, or if a marriage or workplace is unhealthy that it affects our health. It is about knowing what is bringing us down and how we contribute to situations to make them harder to handle than they need to be.
The fact that epigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology have not been embraced is very telling. Yes, we shirk responsibility – so having to wait now for the research to prove what we already know is actually another form of irresponsibility, operating under the guise of ‘science’ and ‘good medicine’.
This is the kind of wisdom the world needs to hear Anne Malatt. For too long we have over invested in intelligence that is divorced from the body and as you say take away our distractions, stimulations and over the counter pain killers and then ask everyone how they are going……. I especially like this – ‘This was not a set of rules, but a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth and that if we listened to it, we would learn how to live.’
This is a priceless question to ask when we consider how much health care is costing our governments globally and the forecasted costs of health care – ‘Research is finally focusing on “lifestyle” factors and their contribution to illness and disease. But why wait for research to prove what, in truth, we already know?’
Could it be that what has happened in the world, the global disconnection and pandemics of anxiety stress and numbness, is so vast that no health system based on anything but a true connection with the heart can possibly sustain itself, and this is what is slowly being revealed now for all to see.
A beautiful, simple sharing Anne. We do need to be truly honest with ourselves and admit that we know the truth of how our bodies react to certain foods and drink and not pretend otherwise! Our health is in our hands!
Anne I love the simplicity of what you present. My health has changed 100% for the better since I simplified my way of living. My health reflects the daily choices I make, and I now no longer see the odd cold sore or ache or minor accident as normal and unavoidable.
‘Pythagoras proposed that there was a way of life, which if lived on a daily basis, would not only largely prevent us being sick, but would lead us to true health.’ What amazes me is that this was known and common practice way back then, and here we are still asking the question “why is this epidemic of non-communicable disease happening? and, what can we do about it?” and the constant cry that we need more funding for medical research. What if we go back to the roots of medicine and update & apply it to our modern context, would that not form a great foundation on which to build health? Fortunately Universal Medicine is doing this already.
How much wisdom has humanity lived in the past that is not lived today? If we understood this, we would understand a lot about what drives us and why we are so tenacious.
The questions you posed Anne and the answers you presented come from a knowledge and wisdom that I palpably feel. Indeed conventional medicine is amazing; however even more amazing, beyond my comprehension really, when imbued with the ancient wisdom through treating professionals.
Really loved reading this blog Anne, you raise so many points. Breathing our own breath is one that I can attest to – since bringing the Gentle Breath Meditation into my daily rhythm I have found a connection to myself that is a constant source of love and joy, when I connect to this I know I’m home. It is amazing that the ancients knew the majesty of the body and lived from it, I am inspired by that.
This line caught me out thinking the same thing, just nodding and agreeing that
“Most of us consider health to be the absence of serious illness and disease”
those few words tell us so much more then we are willing to look at or are?
A very beautiful article to read Anne, I agree with Anne McRitchie, that your blog should be a daily prescription to read as a reminder to come back to who we truly are and feel by doing the simple gentle breath. The Ancient truth of connecting with the body, feeling what it has to say, and understanding it’s wisdom, is simple common sense and it is our healing.
Anne, there is such power in what you write, but also a simplicity that lays the responsibility for how we all live in our own hands. The choice is ours whether to be inspired or to shut our ears and eyes to what is so clearly being expressed in every moment by our body, that it is we who lay the foundation for true health. It is up to each of us to decide how we choose to live from this day onward. I am deeply inspired by the truth of what you share.
Anne, thank you for this blog, it is gold and especially so coming from a well-respected medical practitioner and at a time when the true meaning of wellness is being corrupted and minor illness are accepted as the norm. As you say, “the roots of modern medicine are ancient” – that we have strayed far from their teachings is a tragedy. The greater tragedy is that despite there being medical and scientific research to support this, “it has not been embraced by the mainstream” as to live it requires “a level of responsibility that most of us are not yet ready for”. Your blog should be prescribed reading for every child and every adult on a daily basis as a reminder that “it just takes a few moments each morning. . . to stop, be with ourselves and breathe gently, so that we are breathing our own breath. This will allow us to feel who we truly are, and if we live from this knowing, we will make true choices in our daily lives, that will bring us back to true health”. How simple it that!
The best part is that we do know what heals and what harms us and that we are our own scientific proof. We only need to look at our own body and life to be able to tell what works and what does not. And it is nothing new, it has been lived before on this planet.
In my view Dr Malatt is right. Modern medicine is amazing, and yet ‘who’ is modern medicine? It’s the people, it’s the doctors and it is indicative to feel what is happening to our young medical fraternity. I presented at a conference for young registrars recently, and it is possible to feel the results of years and years of study without the concomitant nurturing of the body and soul. It is absolutely necessary now to understand, as it has been in the past , a whole approach to the body and awareness of the client and the practitioner that is essential now.
Listening to the body is the first step, feeling that the body can be the recipient of such glory from within is amazing and to me that connection asks of me to listen to the body more. The more I choose to listen, the more my body opens up to what is within, the grander and deeper my life becomes. My body is marker of my health and my choices are the master of my body. The more I claim this fact as the truth it is and take responsibility to listen to my body this I have found to be the key to improving my health and well-being.
True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day. Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are. I wonder what % of the worlds population can say that they are living like this. This blog says it all Anne, making so much sense of what needs to happen. If medicine had evolved the way the Greeks and Ancients had meant it to evolve, I think we would all be living in the state mentioned above, instead of the band aid approach we have come to accept.
“True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day.
Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are.”
Why do we accept less? We seem to be becoming immune to noticing the drops in health worldwide, allowing each step away from true vitality to become the new normal. Any step away from a healthy body and mind is not normal.
The simplicity of this blog is very powerful, we do already know.
All it takes is the willingness to stop and have a responsible look at how much we are contributing to the steps away. We always have a choice. Step away or step back?
There is much wisdom that lies in the past, and living in a way connected to our bodies where we are guided by the truth they provide, makes complete sense. This then allows our health to be not at the mercy of life and genetics, but a responsibility that we all possess through the choices we make. I find this to be a deeply empowering way to live.
It’s funny isn’t it, how we wait around for technology and advances in medicine to find a cure for all our hideous and at times life threatening illnesses, when all along the simple answer is found in our ancient past – the root of all illness is the absence of love. Therefore love is the greatest medicine and is not something that needs to be discovered at all, but re-discovered deep within and lived from the inside out. That certainly is no rocket science but if adopted, is truly life changing. The question is not ‘why can’t we find a cure for our illnesses?’ The question is ‘why do we consistently override the cure we each have access to?’ A clue here might be in how we have allowed our perception of what love is to become so corrupted that we forever search outside ourselves in desperate need of an answer that lies within.
Liane Mandalis, this deserves to stand out ‘…- the root of all illness is the absence of love.’
I loved your blog Anne, it shows how far we have removed ourselves from true healing, because we don’t want to see that the way we are living is harming us. “True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day.” If we lived by this statement we would see a huge change in our health and wellbeing.
I am very inspired – thank you Anne. Living healthy and joyful is a very simple thing to accomplish if we only accept that we are responsible for our own choices, which lead to outcomes, that we then need to face and can of course change if we don’t like them simply by making different choices.
“What if there was a way of life that could lead us back to true health? . . . The ancient Greeks proposed that there was. . . a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth”. This is something we are all aware of through reading history, yet if this is so the question is ‘Why did humanity move so far away from something that it a known truth?’ Anne, it is enlightening to ready in your blog that “medical and scientific research is starting to support this. . . Medicine is slowly coming to the understanding that the way we live makes a difference”. Meanwhile, the students of the Livingness now have several years of living this way – they are walking case studies and in some cases ‘walking miracles’ confirming that the ancient Greeks knew what they were talking about!
“Where we get stuck is thinking the pain is everything, but this is the grand illusion.” This sentence is pure gold Anne, and many of us have been stuck for years, incorrectly believing the pain is too big to face and identifying with it as who we are. Rather than seeing the pain is just on the surface and we are stupendous, joyful beings inside.
This isn’t a picture of make believe health, but something I know for myself, that has bought me back from the grip of desperation to living a life I love. I am continually inspired by what I have witnessed and experienced over the years of attending Universal Medicine.
Anne, I do love how you say that we all know how things, foods, drinks etc affect us. Yet we continue to disregard what we feel and override and push on. Yet through making choices to connect with my body and begin to respond to what I feel has been and continues to be the healthiest choice I have ever made.
“What if the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are”? “where we get stuck is thinking the pain is everything, but this is the grand illusion”. What if we took responsibility for our own health which means letting go of the many ways we distract and numb ourselves to not feel or deal with what we have created for ourselves? If we were willing to choose to do this is it possible that it could lead us to a less complicated and even perhaps a simple and more joyful way of living. Absolutely.
In all the overwhelm life and society presents us with, it can seem too ridiculously simple, that breathing our own breath can actually be an enormous part of our own good health. But it’s actually the truth. Connecting to our bodies is the missing link we just don’t get taught to do. It’s so profound, yet so basic, that it can be easily overridden with complexity and drama.
This is a blog that allows the reader to expand. In that expansion, conventional medicine feels small (this does not deny the amazing things it does). And, it is not because it does not have all the answers (which it does not). It is more that it does not dare to ask the big questions.
Thank you Anne. I thought the pain was everything until I found Universal Medicine now I know I am so much more, my health problems resolved, much more energy and enjoying life. With small changes to the way I was living as you have described made this possible.
So much truth in this blog Anne, thank you. It is an eye-opener like nothing else to see that as a humanity we live in a way that is all about coping, managing and getting relief from an otherwise existence that is enveloped in a suffering we dare not be honest about. And yet, this suffering and misery is so far away from what is natural to us. As you say, there is so much beauty within and so much beauty that we can live in and from, when we let ourselves actually stop and bring real honesty back to how we are living.
I love reading about the past history and influences in medicine. I can feel what a noble profession it is, bringing the wisdom of the body to assist those who need to heal. I can feel medicine once had a more holistic approach and I suspect this is what many in the healing professions feel and yearn to return to. How empowering would it be for us all to once again know that the best medicine is the way we live?
This is beautiful Fiona. Going back to the truth about medicine, the truth about care and the truth about how we are meant to live. We all know this truth, it never leaves us even though we have chosen to live in such a way that so many of us have forgotten the glory of old.
“Where we get stuck is thinking the pain is everything, but this is the grand illusion. We are amazing. Beyond our understanding” – this is an amazing offering. Listening to our body and attend to its needs is the great first step, but knowing who we truly are I feel really is the piece that supports us to understand the illness and disease well beyond the symptoms, and heal in truth.
Isn’t it amazing to consider that all this was known and lived thousands of years ago?
It makes me wonder how we can think we are advancing or improving, when our bodies are telling us the opposite.
What a fantastic point Fiona. Considering this was known and lived in ancient times, is it not possible to consider that with some of the so called ‘advances’ in our society, that we have not in fact been advancing health, but moving further away from that which is true and ‘does’ work… and in this, should we not consider that the answer lies in re-turning to the quality of livingness that was lived thousands of years ago…?
Yes Angela – there is so much happening around us that indicates as a species we are unhealthy and miserable that we don’t admit to, especially when just a few rational questions can expose the lie about how we are living. Questions similar to those Serge Benhayon started to pose over 15 years ago.
It seems to be a simple choice” to live from within” but how come we make It so hard? I read these wonderful blogs and comments and think ,ah I’ve got it at last, but I realise that it is coming from my mind and not body and heart! So thank you Anne for reminding me what I do to derail myself so back on track again.
Thanks Anne for emphasising the point of really listening to our bodies and letting our bodies be the marker of truth, because other alternatives don’t seem to be working as illness and disease seem to be at very high and ever increasing levels
“But what if the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are?”
This is the question isn’t it? For me a great hurdle has been to accept the glory that I truly am, for I have dulled my light and played small for as long as I can remember so as to fit in and not make others feel uncomfortable. But what you say is true Anne, I am finally allowing myself to feel my glory when I am quietly with myself in the early morning, I know this is who I truly am and simply need to stay with my body during my day and allow it to teach me how to live my glory out in the world.
This reminds about how simple life can be if we choose to make it that way.
Thank you Anne. This is a very practical yet loving outline of how we can support ourselves through the way we live, and that we are not trying something new, this way of living has been around for aeons. The fact that this wisdom gets lost or snuffed out is reflected in how we are living today, as you said with illness and disease rising, seemingly with no end in sight. The way forth is clear, and medicine will finally have a chance to work alongside people who are prepared to take responsibility for their wellbeing while being supported by the science available through their practitioner.
Anne what you have written describes the process of life and illness and disease so clearly and yet when I was numbing myself with sport, drugs, coffee and numerous other things I don’t think I would have been able to really get it. It feels true to me that the timing was a crucial element to me starting to really look at my patterns of behaviour. I know deep down that each and every person will, in their own time, come to the same embodied understanding.
Anne, what you have written here needs to be in mainstream media, and all the medical and nursing journals- so simple but so profound.
Anne, what you share here is life changing, yet oh so practical. To listen to our body, to first of all connect to ourselves and feel the love and stillness inside and know deeply this is who we truly are. Then if we find in our way of living that we don’t continue to feel the stillness, than we are in disharmony with our true self. This then allows us to look at how we are living and to make the changes necessary to live from the stillness we feel inside.
This is written so clearly for us all to see. It leaves no room for us to bury our heads anymore! I love it!
So beautifully and clearly expressed Anne. We innately know what sugar, caffeine, alcohol and staying up late does to our bodies so why do we still choose them? The true answer is in a moment of gentle stillness where we breathe our own breath and feel what our body has to say. Pure simplicity.
Great article Anne. It’s interesting to consider that 80% of all diseases are now related to our lifestyle choices – this is a huge statistic and if it was a business it would have gone bankrupt years ago. I was particularly drawn to… “True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day”. Imagine if that was our ‘norm’.
Thank you Anne and Jennifer. Imagine how many health care professionals would be out of work if illness was cut back to 20% of what we have today.
A most inspirational blog Anne; one that has offered me so much to ponder on. I have learned over the last few years the importance of listening to my body, taking responsibility for its care and not expecting someone else to fix it for me, and the resulting changes in my life have amazed me. As you say so wisely: “ This was not a set of rules, but a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth and that if we listened to it, we would learn how to live.” This is the way I now choose to live my life.
“But why wait for research to prove what, in truth, we already know?” Such a great question Anne. I also searched outside traditional Western medicine when, as a nurse, I saw people returning time and again for treatment of symptoms. There had to be something missing. I trawled through various spiritual modalities, only to see the promoters of these therapies sometimes looking as ill as their patients!
When I found the esoteric I knew I had found what I had been looking for – treating the cause, not the symptoms. The practitioners walk their talk and look and feel amazing, as do so many of the student body of Universal Medicine. This surely is the way – a combination of the best of both worlds.
Thank you Anne for sharing your blog, yes we do know the way we live affects our health , then why don’t we use the choices we make to live as our medicine instead of waiting for the symptoms of illness then seeking medicine ,we are our own medicine.
Thank you Anne, the truth that we heal ourselves is felt by all of us when we get to that place of inner wisdom. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for sharing how western medicine and Universal Medicine can complement each other to help us all heal from our issues.
Anne, this rocks. And Serge Benhayon has inspired me just as such. What you offer Humanity in these lines and through your way of being in Life, is the top of the tops. Thanks.
This is a lovely and honest blog thank you Anne. It feels like a burden off the shoulders to just stop the distractions, stop still and admit that there is a deep deep pain from living in a way that is not true to our most natural way of living, or true to who we truly are. The best part of this blog is the last part though, where you have shared that we don’t need to stay in the pain, and in fact it is only a very small layer or even a tiny crust that outlines this enormous love and beauty of who we truly are and all that we are connected to. Both avoiding the pain, or staying with the pain are ways that we get tricked to not go into the glory that we already are and always have been!
I love that you point out that modern day conventional medicine has roots in what we now consider complementary medicine = how we choose to live. Living with responsibility has changed my life, my health and how I feel about myself and others – this is great medicine, even before I get sick, I am addressing the things that affect me, be that how I move, what I eat, or my interactions with people.
I really enjoy this article Anne. A sentence that stood out for me was “This was not a set of rules, but a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth and that if we listened to it, we would learn how to live.”
This shows so clearly that we have always known the truth of how we live affects our health and well being, but have chosen to ignore and over-ride what our body is telling us, so it has to shout louder and louder until we have to stop and listen.
Thank you Mary and Anne, I agree our body constantly communicates and we have to be aware enough to listen. Then it is up to each person when listening to their body to make the divinely loving choice that feels true to them.
Yes Anne I am completely inspired, and by your post too. What you say about listening to the body and that……”This way of living leads to a simplicity of being”, is indeed a true way to live, and in this such abundance and vitality. Why would we want to live anything less?? unless of course we are protecting something that we don’t want to feel – that we are (willingly and knowingly perhaps) living a life that is less than the magnificence of where we’re from; that this is what we miss and as a result substitute the missing/grief via damaging the very vehicle i.e. body, that can bring us back home. Look after and respect the body; live simply. Simple.
Wow Anne your expression is exquisite and I am so very inspired by all you say. Your patients are blessed to have you and your understanding of what true healing is. The quality of connection that you live in your life and the level of self care you choose would be felt deeply by all your patients… how awesome it would be to have you as a doctor 🙂
I loved reading this blog Anne – I love things that make sense of life and take me back to the simplicity of how life can be when I get my head out of the way.
Anne this is inspiring, as is the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I love the simplicity of the truth that you share. It does not have to be complicated – listen to your body, take responsibility for what you put into your body & how you care for it, see your Doctor if you require further help. Too easy, thank you Anne.
Thank you for your revealing blog so inspirational and a very clear perspective on health and healing. I especially like your words to live a healthy life “All we need to do is take the time to stop be still, and feel who we truly are”.
Thanks Anne – I love the part where you say that there is a type of medicine that “tells us that the way we live matters, that what we think, say and do affects ourselves and everyone else, and this is a level of responsibility that most of us are not yet ready for.” – as with many things, we can learn to take these deeper levels of responsibility gradually, increment by increment. It is the dedication to what we know to be true and working on it bit by bit that is the most important – in this way we are less likely to give up because of what appears to be the enormity of the task. And this task also only appears enormous when we see ourselves as so small and insignificant, but when we allow ourselves to feel all of who we are, then they pale into the small and easy and natural responsible things to do.
An awesome blog with such profundity in its simplicity, showing that the way we live our lives, consistently, matters greatly to our health and wellbeing; that we don’t need research to provide the evidence for what we can already know and feel from our bodies – if we choose to listen – before we decide to act responsibly. ‘It is just a choice, to live from within’.
Thank you Anne. As I was reading you words I could feel the deep gorgeousness of you, me and all people. And yes i agree there is so much more there is of us to truly live and that well-being is not just the absence of being unwell.This is such a powerful question – ‘But what if the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are?’ as to feel the truth in this we can begin to deconstruct the ‘grand illusion’ that we have around this pain.
“Medicine is slowly coming to the understanding that the way we live makes a difference. Research is finally focusing on “lifestyle” factors and their contribution to illness and disease.” I know from personal experience that you cannot just get fixed if something goes wrong health wise. If we make a choice over burden our bodies with stress, random sleeping patterns, food that dos not support it, as some point it will start to show signs of wear and tear. this occurred with me to some degree, but concerning what true health was and how I am responsible for how I feel and how I live woke me up and I know feel more ‘alive’ at 40 than I did in my 20’s. True Fact. I understand that the NHS for example, is beginning to focus on “life style” factors being a major cause of ill health, and this is fantastic…this is a great direction to be heading. This is not about being a “nanny state’ and telling people what to do with their own bodies it is about saying “hey, we all have a responsibility here”…the very opposite and the truth.
What is true health? I love this question Anne and feel it is one everyone should ask. For most, living pain free would be their goal or something they are happy with if already there. Yet as you shared true health is living each day in joy with vitality and a sense of space within our bodies and freedom in our movements. What a great question to ask to initiate change within.
Thank you Anne for this highly informative and very inspiring article which I have just come across and will be re-visiting to ponder deeply upon. I love the questions you have posed and the references to the Ancient Greek Philosophers who “proposed that there was a way of being that could lead us back to our true selves. This was not a set of rules, but a way of living connected to the body, listening to the body, understanding that the body was a marker of truth and that if we listened to it, we would learn how to live”.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presentations have certainly shown me that this is possible.
Thank you an for such a briliant article saying everything so simply that is so important to realise.What you say is so true and brought to us by Serge Benhayon to reflect on “True health is a state in which we feel joy-full, loving and harmonious, every single day.
Anything less than this, is living less than who we truly are”
And it is Universal Medicine that shows us the route back to ourselves naturally.
Thank you Serge Benhayon.
You have really made living a healthy life so simple Anne. There is no big secret, difficult routine or expensive potion to sort us out. It’s within every single one of us and just needs a willingness to listen to our body. It’s like the saying goes, ‘sometimes we can’t see the wood for the trees…’ We’re so caught up in the difficulties of life we don’t realise the answer is right there on the end of our nose! Simply breath our own breath.
Awesome article Anne – there are so many things that I could pick out, loads of gems, but what struck me the most was about how you were describing if we took away all the coffee, pain killers, sugar and caffeine, alcohol and “treats” such as cake, movies, sports, and holidays – what would that picture look like? What would we do with ourselves? I am certain many people would feel totally lost without all of these things in their lives, it is awesome to hear how there actually is another way of living as presented by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, and this way leaves you feeling full at the end of the day even without all the list of distractions to take away from the superficial pain
I love this article Anne, it is so true all that you share, we
‘ know that if we take away all the stimulants, the distractions, and the things that numb us, we will have to feel the pain we are truly in. Most of us don’t want to feel that. Most of us don’t even realise we are in pain, because the way we live numbs and distracts us from this fact. The pain is deep and old and buried under layers of coping mechanisms, and we have been living this way for so long that we think it is normal.
If we were to truly feel and focus on the pain, it would be overwhelming, so we do everything we can to avoid it.’
This is so sad, because what if,
‘the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are?’
And that is what I am finding, by listening and honouring my body, by choosing to make my life more simple I find my life to be more joyful, harmonious and loving in an ongoing way.
Thank you Anne for the clarity with which you demonstrate that Universal Medicine is supporting conventional medicine to return to its healing roots and that we can all choose to make more self-loving decisions that support a truly healthy way of living where dis-ease does not have to be the norm.
Anne, what a great piece. I especially love what you say about pain that we will do our absolute utmost to avoid it and that really it’s not us there’s so much more. This is such an amazing understanding, that all we need to do is .. ‘stop, be still and feel who we truly are’. And medicine is amazing but we expect it to cure how we live and we don’t want to address the living part, when that’s the key – responsibility but in everything, each and every choice, that stopped me – how empowering is that that I can choose and I can affect how I feel with that. Fantastic. Universal Medicine is awesome, thank you for showing that it’s simple daily moment by moment choices.
Anne you give us such insight here into the world of medicine and how simple loving choices help us in our own healing. If we do truly take time and listen to our bodies we do know. We are are amazing and intricate and the wisdom carried in each and everyone of us is huge. Thank you Anne your ending line paragraph sums it up beautifully “it is just a choice, to live from within.”
A very timely read for myself, thank you for the reminder that the aches and pains are not me, they are just on the surface of who I truly am. At times when I feel tired or emotional I stop to feel my feet, as a result I feel more awake and less emotional, this has shown me that those emotions are not me and by feeling something real I can change how I feel about and in life.
I love that Leigh, stopping to feel your feet and it all changes, it’s true and so simple.
How was it over the decades life became so full of numbing techniques, distractions any way possible to not feel the pain rather than simplifying life and continuing to feel? I know sugar has been one I have used to not feel my body and the stillness which is there is so much greater. If I take the time to connect to that it allows me to make a choice and the gentle breath meditation supports me making that re-connection.
Yes, it was sugar in its various forms that I found was taking me out of stillness. After a while I figured out that stillness feels better than the buzz I got from sugar and that not only did I value it, my life went to pieces when out of stillness. So it has not been discipline that stopped me from eating sugar, rather it has been because I do not like the consequences of eating it.
I remember considering once, this same question; how the world would look if we took away the coffee, the pain killers, the tablets, the sugar and caffeine, and the “treats” and distractions. That’s a pretty powerful image and one which certainly confirms for me the importance of bringing the fullness of medicine back to its roots.
When I started to take away a few of my props I know I got cranky! Then I really became aware of how much I was using sweet foods and ‘treats’ to take the edge off life, this was also reflected by how strongly I craved those foods.
Deanne, yes ‘take the edge off life’, it’s a fascinating thing to start to look at what we choose to do this with. We’ve all got our different ways, but what is wonderful is that the more I catch them and change that behaviour, the more of myself I feel. It is a choice to feel that – above the desire to numb out what i don’t want to feel. An ever-refining work in progress shall we say.
Dear Anne, I completely agree. If we were to look at back at the Greeks, and in particular the Pythagoreans, we would connect to a way of life that was simple, honouring of the body and self, and equally of all other beings and the whole. We are a far cry from that today, but it is still a choice that is available to us.
I agree Anne and Janet, let’s bring it back to a way of life that is
‘simple, honouring of the body and self, and equally of all other beings and the whole’. That feels divine, and a much more beautiful and joyful way to live our lives.
Thanks Anne. I was reading the article… very much enjoying the journey, but was really stopped when I read “If we were to truly feel and focus on the pain, it would be overwhelming, so we do everything we can to avoid it. But what if the pain was on the surface and nothing compared to the greatness of who we truly are?” That was HUGE for me… so often I feel that pain and shy away from dealing with it because it seems too much. But the simplicity of your call and response, that deep down that pain is nothing compared to the love that is the real me that is, and always has been at the centre of who I truly am. Reconnecting to that truth has been an awesome gift.
Just re-reading this and I was struck by another comment you make about the ancient Greeks proposing that there was a way to live which would radically improve our health and wellbeing – that self responsibility is the key… It’s incredible how little responsibility we take in the modern age, with the increasing use of stimulants and depressants to disconnect us from what is actually going on – and then throw the burden at Doctors and Hospitals. No wonder illness and disease are on the rise.
self responsibility is one of those words that conveniently gets squashed into a meaning that doesn’t actually let us feel the fullness of what it is when we apply it to our entire life. I spent many a year believing I was responsible, and I was, by general consensus on the day to day way that I conducted myself at work etc. But what I had not understood and am still fleshing out is that responsibility is in every single choice I make and whether that will support me or not. Making responsible choices seems to me to be the way back to true health.
Simon I can relate to this – for much of my life I have sought to numb and dull pain, especially emotions like sadness – I would do just about anything, including many self destructive and sabotaging behaviours, in order to avoid feeling pain. This added to the pain greatly, you could call it ironic but I prefer to say it is a backwards way to live. I can still spend days avoiding feeling something and if I do happen to drop more into my body and feel what I am avoiding I am in disbelief at how short lived the ‘pain’ is. I do not get swamped by the pain I was avoiding and it can feel beautiful to be honest as it takes a lot of energy to avoid feeling something. Gradually I am learning to discern when I am avoiding feeling something, I might choose foods that don’t suit me, talk less, get distracted easily, be messy and disorganised, my voice changes and my guard goes up around people and I care less about others…to name a few clues.
Thank you for your wise words Anne, bringing us back to our roots..
Dear Anne Malatt
This article really does say it ALL for me and I will for sure be sharing it with many that I know would love to read this.
You are making so much sense and the bit about what Pythagoras said back in ancient times makes sense today as Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are saying the same thing — “there is a way of life, if lived on a daily basis, would not only largely prevent us being sick, but would lead us to true health”.
Well thank God I came across mr Serge Benhayon because I now know what it is to have True Health.
Your words have deeply touched me Anne and inspired me beyond words..
So beautiful, thank you Anne and thank you Serge 🙂
I love what you have writen Anne, thank you and thanks Serge 🙂
Hello Anne, awesome comment, thank you for sharing. I too went down the medical route for an illness that i ended up being told i just had to adjust my lifestyle & learn to live with it. I can tell you i did not have much of an existence, until i came across Universal Medicine & Serge. Never did Serge make any claims as to be able to cure me, he only ever support me which allowed me to feel & to take responsibility for the choices that i had made throughout my life which had lead me to discover how & why i ended up with not only cervical cancer, which i had many operations on to the point that i was told i would never have children & needed a hystoryctomy but that i also had extreme case of Fibromyalgia causing me a great deal of pain on a daily basis. I had to sell my business, rent my property out & move back in with my mum, just to be able to survive.To me this was not living & i certainly at the age of 28 did not want to be moving back home after being self sufficient since the age of 17. Meeting Serge was the best thing that ever happened to me, thru my healing with the support of Serge, the courses, retreats & the practitioners support & the changes that i made in my life i went on to be cancer free, fybramyalgia free & not only that but to have an amazing life with a wonderfull husband, 4 year old daughter with another baby on the way. My life is now a life that is of the livingness in every way that it can be, & for that i have Serge, Universal Medicine & its practitioners to thanks.
My life is now a life that i live with me in the love that i am, a life that i am constantly building on to hold that love for all humanity.
Thank you Serge, you are an amazing source of love & inspiration for us all & i thank you for being you
With Love & gratitude, Nicole
Thank you Nicole, your story is incredible but you did not visit Lourdes or pray for your miracle ……..you took responsibility for your choices. Accepting my choices have been my choices is not always something I have wanted to understand and rather I have looked for something to blame. I am starting to get the sense though that how my life turns out is all about my day to day choices and these may just be a one way ticket to freedom.
Thank you Anne, so lovingly said & I completely agree.
Anne, who practises the medical specialty of Opthalmology in the local area with her extensive background experience in the care of diseases of the eyes, brings joy and love to her work that in turn inspires love in others, as seen in one of our patients who drives all the way from Brisbane to see her. What she has so eloquently shared is relevant to all of our training and practising health professionals, from the most junior of medical students to the highest level of academic professors, that the very foundation of healing in Medicine is incomplete without the livingness of love that Serge and Universal Medicine consistently have communicated to the public with integrity. What she has also shared is that it is also very simple when we let ourselves to make that choice…..choice to align to and to claim love.
Sam Kim
‘If we listen to the body we can learn how to live’ has such beauty full simplicity in it. But as you say, when would we ever normally give ourselves time without distraction, stimulation or numbing of some kind? However, initiated by the gentle breath I have rediscovered my body and now, most definitely, know this statement to be true. So thank you Anne for expressing it so clearly and thanks and appreciation to Serge and Universal Medicine for offering the gentle breath as an in-way to connect & listen and understand our body and what it can show us about how to live.
As a young woman I went down the medical route. Two years into it and few of our close family friends who happened to be doctors over period of time died prematurely (in their forties & fifties). I stopped and questioned the entire medical science as well as the vocation in life I had embarked upon. My main question was: If they (doctors) could not help themselves, how could they possibly help me to maintain my health, or in the case of our friends doctors, even more extreme – how can they help me to stay alive? It was more than this that prompted me leave medicine. I had these very questions that you so carefully and beautifully laid down Anne, but not one body – medical or otherwise, offered any answers. My head tutor was livid since I was a ‘top student’, nevertheless, I left. Over the years I was often tempted to go back only so that I could make a difference – but I still had no clue how, and those same questions remained unanswered, so I did not! Until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine when the answers poured in gently and steadily. And here comes the best part: they were/are MY answers! I spent more than half of my life looking for a person/persons to deliver the answers, yet all along they were within me and my body – ludicrous! Serge Benhayon and Unimed just provided a grand reflection – like a gazillion dollars mirror :). It is perhaps a tad too late to go back to school now (I am nearing 49) as tempted as I might sometime be, primarily for the same original reason – to offer my help to humanity in that way, (and I think I would have made a great Dr ;)). It is at times like these, when people question Serge Benhayon’s work through sheer ignorance and arrogance, that I feel if only I had completed, regrets almost…People tend to pay attention to those who wear stethoscopes around their necks… Reading your post I felt; well if a person in a white coat was required and that is what the doctor prescribed 🙂 – here she is!
Thank you Anne for all the great work that you do and all the love you bring to your patience and your profession. The white on you must radiate afar 🙂
with love
Dragana
It’s very true Dragana what you say in that people listen if you’ve got a white coat on and a title in front of your name, whereas for example there is Serge Benhayon, who is not and has never claimed to be a medical professional but still offers amazing advice on health and being well – which complements conventional medicine beautifully. The stories on this website are a testament to that.
I understand your question that put you off medicine Dragana, as it is often something I have contemplated – why do the majority of doctors look so unhealthy? Compounding the fact that they may not always walk their talk is also the fact that the system in place does little to support them. And so we are left with the rather alarming situation of a whole heap of decent people with huge hearts and a genuine willingness to help others becoming stressed, overworked and reliant on stimulants such as caffeine and sugar to get them by and substances such as alcohol to unwind so that they can keep up with the demand to treat others who are not treating themselves with any sense of regard. The big picture here is that genuine love and care has long left this equation and so the small and very simple picture is that love is all that is needed to help bring it back. If we care for ourselves first and in turn know that we are cared for by others and the system through which we serve, we can bring our all to care for those that need it most.
Thank you so much Anne for expressing so beautifully, lovingly and succinctly why it is that some of us choose to follow the path you have described.
I couldn’t agree more!