by Julia Manglano, D.U.E, Registered nurse at Accident and Emergency Department, Hospital de La Plana, Castellón, Spain
In the following lines I will discuss why the esoteric and particularly esoteric medicine is so useful and complementary to western medicine especially at this point in time.
We can all agree that conventional medicine has developed greatly in many fields including surgery, pharmacology, diagnostic techniques, transplants, etc. At the same time and in that process it has forgotten its origins; Hypocrates and the Fathers of medicine viewed the human being as a whole, and not just as separate parts you can cure without taking into consideration the rest of the body and the rest of the bodies (mental, emotional, spiritual, social). So medicine nowadays is very accurate in diagnosing, very efficient in eliminating symptoms and excellent in providing surgical techniques and solutions for many of the ills of people. Then, one could ask: why is it that cancer, diabetes, mental disorders and chronic diseases of all types have risen to higher than ever figures? Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle?
One of the possible causes of the rise in disease in our society nowadays could be that we are not taking responsibility for our own life and choices, we still carry very strongly a belief in our bodies that illness and disease is just bad luck, it’s the genes, it’s the environment, its my mother’s fault, or it’s the system. We blame everybody and everything (including the health professionals) instead of admitting we do have responsibility and the way we live could possibly have a part in it.
I work as a nurse in a hospital. I have also owned a health food shop and been involved in new age therapies all my life. What is clear to me is that both the conventional medicine users and the alternative medicine users want quick fixes, the perfect pill, the miracle supplement, the best surgeon, the best chiropractor that will take my pain away so that I don’t have to look at the way I live, the way I eat, walk, talk, think, sleep, etc.
Without going too far in history, without going to the Greeks or the Persians, we can find scientific studies that support the esoteric and energetic causes of diseases, but for a reason, humanity in general and medicine in particular have chosen to ignore them. Three examples:
1. The World Health Organisation in 1974 published a report (Lalonde) in which they state that the factors determining health, illness and death were distributed not as the generally accepted view, but as follows:
Human biology, including genetic make-up: 23%
Environment, all matters related to health external to the human body, over which the individual has little or no control: 17 %.
Health care organisations, public health services, hospitals, etc: 9% .
And the astonishing factor: more than 50% was attributed to lifestyle, the aggregation of decisions over which the individual has control (including diet, toxic habits, exercise, ways of relating, etc)
The report is considered to have led to the development of health promotion, recognising the need for people to take more responsibility in changing their behaviours to improve their own health.
Even after this study that shows that the most prevalent factor in the manifestation of illness and disease is the way we live (just like the esoteric), we still insist on blaming the genes, bad luck, the environment or the system as the primary cause of disease.
2. There has been psychosomatic medicine for decades. Thirty years ago we used to study the different types of patients, according to their emotional behaviour and mental patterns. They observed that patients with the same illness shared similar emotional traits, like for instance: the asthmatic patient, having low self- esteem and being fearful and very dependent; the cardiac patient, being very demanding on themselves, overenthusiastic and stressed and responsible workers; the rheumatoid patient as having aggressive behaviour with anger outbursts that are repressed with age and lead to resignation. And it all made sense and gave us a view of how a certain emotional configuration, if not created, was always associated with a certain illness or disease.
3. Then there is the development of psychoneuroimmunology. Scientists doing great research on how the way we think and our emotions affect the biochemistry of our bodies.
With these very valuable scientific works, medicine ought to be paying close attention to the emotional and mental realities, to the energy people live in and to the lifestyle as a determinant of health or illness in the body, but it has gone the opposite way, it has got so focused on the biochemical forgetting about the energetic. For that reason it is in great need of the esoteric, because in conjunction esoteric medicine and conventional medicine can bring about true and consistent healing for humankind.
When you work in the medical field you realise that doctors/nurses in general are not trained to look at the energy people live in and where anything suggests we have a responsibility in the creation of the illness, it is rejected (except in the adherence to the medical treatment they prescribe). The belief that illness ‘happens to me’ is very ingrained, and the focus is very much on the performance and the function of the physical body to the exclusion of all else, such that there can be no true harmony. So even most of the people who listen to the recommendations and exercise and eat “properly” or according to the last dietary trend, do so as an obligation or discipline, not as a free choice or a self-loving act.
Changing habits is something people avoid or even fear unless one has a terminal illness, then it is justified. So, just give me ‘something’ so that I can live in the same way, the same disregard and not even have to look at what I’m choosing. In the alternative field it is the same with a different flavour: I eat organic but smoke marijuana, I do yoga every day but love my wine and my coffee, I only take natural medicine but dump all my anger on my husband, and my kids have to suffer the lack of love…
I have never seen anywhere else in any medicine, the integrity and responsibility that come with living esoterically. For example, first is what you eat, then how you eat, then why you eat and what are you feeling when you eat … there is always a refining in the commitment to yourself and your body, not only seeing the action (the movement) but the energy and quality of that action or movement – is it gentle, is it loving, for me and others?
That is why the esoteric and esoteric medicine is the missing link
1. First because it is based on energy before matter, that there is an energy before we think, before we feel, and long before there is an organic imbalance. Once there is an illness there have probably been years of an energy that was not in harmony with the body. So unless we change that energy, medicine and all its advancements will fail. We all know that cancer can come back, because the cells are created and destroyed every day and under what energy are they being created today? That is the question.
Medicine can give us time but we need to make the changes if we want true consistent healing.
2. Medicine in its current form does not change the way we live, whereas esoteric medicine is all about choosing to change the way we live according to what is harmonious for the body. Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us. Thus it is truly empowering, we can change things for as long as we choose to, for as long as we choose to live in gentleness and harmony within and without.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon
We have a responsibility as health professionals to re-introduce the esoteric philosophy, psychology and medicine to our field of work, so that everybody can benefit from its invaluable contribution. Looking after ourselves in full if we want to truly look after others. I have been working first on the quality I bring to my interactions, the gentleness and truth I can provide, still working on observing and not absorbing and LETTING PEOPLE BE. And also, I have been amazed at how most people (patients) can see a new way of considering their problem just by asking simple questions: maybe you are too tired? maybe you have been looking after everybody except yourself? maybe you’re working too hard?
We can also support our colleagues, not only with the hands-on healing that they love and need so much, but also when for instance, they have a headache and instead of immediately getting ibuprofen, we can ask them: are you trying to do everything on your own and stressing yourself? Are you trying to be the best nurse?
When we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
What a fascinating article to read, I personally have never read any of the research mentioned but it makes sense that we are affected by the emotions we take on.
Julia, there is much to ponder on with what has been presented here.
I have been a health care professional for over two decades and observed the change in the type of patients coming through – multi-symptomatic requiring more than one specialists, complications, long stay, infections etc. I seldom observed this in my former years as a nurse.
Medicine has evolved but we are not any healthier. Technology hasn’t replaced wellbeing, if anything, it has prevented people from taking responsibility for their own health.
Surely scientists must question, there must be something missing or are they too busy finding a cure, to only find another disease popping up somewhere else?
There is more to our lives than just living? Could there be a possibility that humanity do not want to take responsibility for their own health and rather hand it over to someone else?
Much to ponder on.
Definitely Julia, the esoteric and esoteric medicine is the missing link for our health and well-being. We so need to take responsibility of ourselves and understand how illness and disease is a correction from how we have been living. It makes such sense. If we go out in the cold and get wet feet and shivery, we will catch a cold. The next time it’s cold, we remember to put boots, a scarf and a warm coat on, it is as simple as that. It is all a learning for us.
““The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon” We all know that this is the truth and therefore we have a responsibility for our every choice.
Time will tell that Esoteric Medicine is the way forward if we truly want to heal.
The missing link is that which we all know well and truly in our inner hearts. The answers which pass through our minds and we know they are the truth but dismiss them because it does not fit the picture or goal we would like to achieve.
Esoteric medicine undoes this mindset of being a victim of life, which is actually the consequences of the choices we have been making, and re-places responsibility and power in the way we look at life – and that is very much needed when going through an illness and disease in order to make the best of what conventional medicine offers.
I like this philosophical approach you propose here Julia to health – that rather than judging or criticising or only sympathising with each other, we can ask each other open questions that support us to go deeper in terms of our part we play in our health and wellbeing.
It’s funny even though some people might consider alternative medicine better, people approach it in the same way as conventional medicine, they want something to fix them so they can continue going on the way they do, not changing their lifestyle or habits. The esoteric comes along and asks us how we live and to deeply embrace and understand that how we live impacts our health and we and we alone have choice here – used in conjunction with conventional medicine it supports us to see how we can live in a more supportive way and how in doing so we bring our part to our collaboration with our medical staff.
I agree Monica, people approach alternative medicine thinking it will fix them quicker. Whilst, which ever forms of medicine used for health and wellbeing, requires a key ingredient, responsibility. Responsibility in what you do and be, it is that simple… Then true healing can occur.
When we take the attitude that illness is bad luck, or down to our genes we are missing out on the most amazing opportunity to grow. Some of the biggest changes and biggest development periods in my life have come from incredibly challenging times with my health or in life in general.
I agree that through illness we get the opportunity to reconsider our ways of living and to heal at a deeper level. That is if we don’t see illness as a punishment or bad luck but as a chance to correct things.
Yes exactly – rather than seeing it as moving backwards, its an opportunity to move forwards in a whole new way.
How simple can we make Medicine, when we add the Esoteric, then with so many living examples from within the Esoteric community that a study could be undertaken that could go to all medical journals so we all get the benefits and understanding of the True Esoteric Modalities!
Julia, I have really enjoyed coming back to this blog again. You present a very clear and logical case for what we are missing in modern day medicine. As you have quoted “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. In my own experience the more I have let go of hurts and have taken the time to connect to my body and listen to it, the more supple and vital my body has become. But since the whole is taken into account I have also become much more committed to life finding within true purpose and expression.
“I eat organic but smoke marijuana, I do yoga every day but love my wine and my coffee, I only take natural medicine but dump all my anger on my husband, and my kids have to suffer the lack of love…”
No coincidence that I should read this blog today when I walked past a shop yesterday that was a Natural Health Clinic offering various ‘Healing Therapies’ and literally in the next room was a Coffee and Wine Bar. Very interesting how we can be so hood winked into thinking that if we one thing that is ‘good for us’ then that will make us feel better, but not see the bigger picture of how everything we do in life affects every aspect of how we are.
Esoteric Medicine and the Esoteric Way of life are very empowering, they support us to see the impact we have and can have on our own lives, and then how our choices then impact on others.
We have settled for less by using the lowest form of intelligence to govern our lives, whereas in truth we have access to a universal intelligence which is limitless. To limit ourselves in this way imprisons us and stops us from experiencing this vast intelligence open to all of us equally.
‘when for instance, they have a headache and instead of immediately getting ibuprofen, we can ask them: are you trying to do everything on your own and stressing yourself? Are you trying to be the best nurse?’ Such simple questions that immediately ask us to look more closely at the way we are living and give us an opportunity to change and love and care for ourselves more.
Our doctor can talk to us about our health, they can tell us what to do, but without being with us and physically forcing us to do it, we ultimately have the choice of whether to follow the recommendation or not. Therefore I question how much control a doctor has at all! It must be quite demoralising to know that all your study and hard work is still at the mercy of your patients decision to listen to you or not. Therefore, it seems to me, a partnership is the best relationship to foster if we want to see more positive health outcomes for both the doctor and the patient!
If there is a way to live, a way to move in life that supports awareness, then we must perhaps ask why, when all of this is available to us, do we continue to choose otherwise?
I love and appreciate how empowering an Esoteric approach to life is. Illness comes from me not just to me and how I live is part and parcel of that conversation. I also see that illness is not a punishment but a conversation and a healing in itself.
There is so much in this blog I want to read it again and again. I am struck by the logic of that “Hypocrates and the Fathers of medicine viewed the human being as a whole”, that seems entirely logical and straightforward. The whole means physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and this is how we address public health promotion because working in one area without consideration for the whole has proven to be ineffective, yet we reduce it in medicine which seems illogical.
Love this Julia, we can’t ignore or pretend that our lifestyle choices don’t have an impact on our health and wellbeing. To make loving choices that are going to support us to be all that we are as we are so much more powerful than we think we are.
Yes, you bring the attention to a much wider sphere of responsibility, not just of our physical health but of our evolution into our purpose here.
It is shocking that it has been recognised for decades that lifestyle choices have a massive impact on our health and well being and yet still most persist in ignoring this fact. I love how you present that the esoteric is the missing link that offers re-connection and the opportunity to take responsibility for the choices we make on a daily basis.
Julia, there is so much shared here, and what comes through is no matter how many sources, be they the WHO or Esoteric Medicine, we continue in our quest to ‘fix’ our health without addressing the underlying causes; and no matter how amazing our Medicine is and becomes if we do not address the energy, we’re ignoring the root and that never works in the garden or in life.
There are no quick fixes when it comes to our health and wellbeing and the esoteric supports us to remove the scales from our eyes and truly see and feel what is happening.
Indeed, it is the greatest realisation that we actually still avoid. For millions of people responsibility about our health to the smallest
detail brings up guilt (conveniently), so in the end it is easier to be irresponsible and perpetuate the game of self disregard and indulgence.
WOW -we have known since 1974 the effects of lifestyle on illness and disease – and still, to this day we ignore it. I was at a talk recently where genes came up as means of people getting sick – presented by top academics in their field – people who also want to believe that it is about medicines and taking the pain away and fixing rather than taking responsibility for how we are.
Yes, 1974 we were told the way we live has an effect on our health outcomes, but we have known that for years just chosen not to pay attention to it because we are so used to waiting for someone else to tell us how to get better or what is going to fix us.
I agree illness and disease come from us and does not happen to us, if we were all to have a greater understanding of this, then many more people would start to take responsibility for their choices, and make more loving changes to their lives.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. This statement alone if fully understood would give us the answers as to why we get sick and would totally change the way medicine approaches what being healthy means…..absence of sickness does not mean we are well.
I totally agree – no matter how they themselves may beg to differ, there’s no difference between how some of us stick to the conventional medicine while dismissing anything alternative, while others choose the alternative medicine while dismissing the conventional medicine. Both are looking for a solution from outside to fix a problem. Looking at the way we live our every day is the big white elephant in the room that we, even the so-called ‘holistic’ therapy advocates, conveniently become blind to.
There has been a recent expose demonstrating that if big pharma were to succeed in curing people of certain diseases, their profits would go down. Thus keeping people ill is in their financial interest. Goldman Sachs report:”Is curing patients a sustainable business model.” Shocking to read.
““The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. So true. I was at a meal recently when a few overweight people were talking about their favourite food and alcohol. As one was leaving he commented how well I looked and then laughingly said it was because I lived a healthy lifestyle. People do know but don’t want to make changes to their own comfortable lifestyle – until it catches up with them and then sometimes it is too late to effect a real change – if they have a serious illness.
So many people including myself have been wondering why why why does all this illness and disease occur. Science has not been clear in why, and to most of us seems baffled at the true cause and reason for our ever rising illness and disease rates. I wonder if this is a simple case of being blinded by trying to pander to the needs or demands of society. Most do not want to change they way they live and take responsibility for their lives and state of well being. This is an unfortunate fact in todays society. If science is needing money, then the only way to make money is to give the answers people seek and not challenge with the truth. Science after all would not be popular to the many if it were telling the whole unadulterated truth of what is really going on.
Yes we have got better at managing conditions and alleviating symptoms but have we really advanced in prevention of illness and disease or reducing the overall rates of illness in our populations?
For true healing to occur it is paramount we listen to that which we feel is true and not from what we are told. The media can make claims or state as fact, our doctors can suggest and offer or even those who we regard as knowing can say what they think but do they truly know what is best for us. At the end of the day it is only us that knows what is true for us.
” So even most of the people who listen to the recommendations and exercise and eat “properly” or according to the last dietary trend, do so as an obligation or discipline, not as a free choice or a self-loving act. ”
This is very true, its like explaining to a child to clean their teeth , when its something they have to do, to please their parents then the quality of teeth cleaning is very low.
Given all the brilliance of the current healthcare system its not keeping up with the demands we place on it. Western Medicine not only needs all the help it can get, but equally it needs to be looking in different places if it is going to evolve to meet the growing crisis.
I agree in the sense that Medicine has to accept it doesn’t have all the answers and would benefit enormously from collaboration with complementary knowledge, wisdom and experience.
50% is related to lifestyle… a sobering statistic for anyone and all of us. Why then all the focus on the NHS or blaming our genetics? Could it be that we don’t want to realise how responsible we are for our current state?
And that was a study in 1974. Now it is 70% lifestyle…
The messsge I get in reading this article is that we all can have a deep lesson in care and loving communication. The two together bring about healing of huge proportions, for open loving communication allows for honesty to be shared, without shame or judgement. Then acceptance is felt and with ease a letting go of the hurt. Giving space to our body to be filled with the true essence of ourself.
I think many people would agree that lifestyle plays a large part in our health, yet at the same time we don’t want to take responsibility for that fact that we choose what we do, and our lifestyle choices become either harming or healing, how often do we truly consider what we do, and if it truly supports us or not.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. So true, having experienced some health conditions myself, I know all too well how the way we live and move can impact on our health and well-being. It was only when I began to live more responsibly did I begin to see the harm of my everyday choices.
This is a timely reminder about True responsibility as is presented by the Esoteric teachings and the practical way we can all combine two therapies so we can all benefit, so this is greatly appreciated Julia.
There’s nothing airy fairy about Esoteric Medicine. It is very real and practical, the perfect partner for conventional medicine.
” When we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing. ” It’s so beautiful to hear this from a person who works as a nurse, thank you Julia.
If our lifestyle choices are responsible for about 50% of our illness and disorders what intelligence our we operating on that allows us to make ourselves ill?
What I love about Universal Medicine approach to illness and disease, is it takes in every aspect of why the illness is presenting. It always encourages clients to seek all medical treatments that their doctor recommends but also asks the client to consider what the body may be trying to communicate. Reflection and deep self-care is encouraged, which enables the nurse or doctor to do their job with a much higher rate of productivity.
When we honestly recognise that illness comes from us and not happen to us, the walk on the way of healing starts
“What is clear to me is that both the conventional medicine users and the alternative medicine users want quick fixes, the perfect pill, the miracle supplement, the best surgeon, the best chiropractor that will take my pain away so that I don’t have to look at the way I live, the way I eat, walk, talk, think, sleep, etc.” This is revealing. I know l’ve wanted a quick fix also, however l didn’t realise why until this blog clarified it for me.
‘most people (patients) can see a new way of considering their problem just by asking simple questions: maybe you are too tired? maybe you have been looking after everybody except yourself? maybe you’re working too hard?’ I love this Julia. An intuitive practitioner works in a way that invites the patient, with gentle , purposeful questions, to deepen their understanding of their condition and possible causes.
‘I have been working first on the quality I bring to my interactions, the gentleness and truth I can provide’ The missing link Julia is also ourselves. When we fail to factor in ourselves as beholders of our own true health and wellbeing, in that moment we are lost and cannot heal ourselves.
A thought provoking and excellent sharing Julia. There will be many who read your words and feel the truth you offer.
I’m always struck by the very deliberate use of the word complementary, ie to assist in the gargantuan task that the NHS has to tackle… this is opposed to the use of the word alternative that implies that perhaps the NHS is wrong. Far from it… we need as many people on these issues as we can get.
I think a lot of times people can recognise that they have behaviours that are harming them, things they are choosing to do that they know damages their health but they don’t think they could manage life without them, and this is where the esoteric really helps us to get underneath and behind what is impulsing us to behave in certain ways and assists with truly healing the root behind the harming action.
I know people who refuse to go to conventional or complementary medicine including the esoteric for fear of what they might be told. They know they are behaving in a way that is not supportive of the body, they know they don’t feel great but as long as the body is functioning they think they can get away with it. That is until something breaks down and then they find that they not only have one condition but another and another and that when they have to take medicine (or choose to die) they often have to take other medicine to counteract the side effects of the other. I am not sure why I am saying they because this is all of us to a certain degree. It is not until we begin to take energetic responsibility for ourselves that we can change our diminishing health and begin to live full and vital lives and bring back the joy that we lost some time ago.
‘Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle?’ Yes, absolutely Julia! Conventional medicine is incredible with what it can achieve, but true it has forgotten to treat the whole person. Looking at our choices, how this impacts the body and how we create our own disease is fundamental at getting to the root of our problems.
‘Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle?’ for many years I felt that we were missing a fundamental truth which underpinned everything we questioned and therefore were making conclusions without understanding what we were evaluating. It seems even when the missing pieces are presented to us, sometimes people still want to look in a different direction.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. This is a brilliant quote and so very true. Every move we make, every word we speak, every action we take affects our health and wellbeing. The more we come to realise this the less need there will be to blame others for our ill health.
This enquiry leads again to the vast and very pertinent question of what exactly is intelligence, when the most brilliant of our collective minds who are leading the way in medicine are not being supported to see the whole in their diagnosis and are therefore working with systems that will essentially only allow them to work within very limited parameters.
We have all contributed to a type of intelligence that is brilliant at specialising and looking deeply into the details of the physical but deliberately forgets the vastness of life in all its spheres.
Our living ways directly affect our health, and by that understanding we can be a powerful influence in our own health.
Heather this is the missing link. Few people add up the dots and relate what happens in their bodies their ‘living way” or to daily lifestyle choices. And until we get this, remain trapped on the wheel of ill-health.
It is clear in light of the statistics that say otherwise, we choose the rhetoric that suits us. Few want to take responsibility for their lifestyles choices as they are happy with their comfort and belief that medicine will fix them should things go wrong…. an attitude that is bankrupting the system with the uncontrollable and ever increasing statistics of illness and disease… if we want this to change we need to look first to ourselves.
Universal Medicine has been instrumental in changing my lifestyle I am now far more connected to my body, allowing my body to tell me what supports it and what doesn’t, and through these changes I have become more responsible for my health and well being.
If the NHS and modern medicine is struggling so much, why does it let its pride get in the way of seeking support? The Esoteric is a complementary system that encourages the patient to bring themselves more to the table, to take more of their own responsibility, to heal what they can heal, and then let western medicine support where it’s needed.
Healing ‘the whole’… All you’ve stated here makes so much sense Julia, and thank-you for putting it so plainly. To embrace the energy at play behind any condition in the body, is what enables ‘the whole’ to potentially be addressed. We are not random units somehow ‘smitten by God’ when something goes on for us in terms of illness and disease, we are responsible players in the equation.
It is immensely freeing and empowering to embrace this truth, rather than be left in a ‘fire and damnation’ style of existence that would have us all as victims, with no opportunity for self-empowerment, and true healing, whatsoever.
Absolutely Victoria – there is a vast difference to experience between feeling like a victim of life (and hanging on to it) and the empowerment you can experience when you simply nominate what is going on for you, the choices that led there and a willingness to learn from them. In all that accepted imperfection there is an inner strength that begins to burgeon as that emerging freedom leaves more and more room for us to express the whole that we naturally are.
When we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing. So true Julia, and by the way, an awesome read. Your research does beg the question, why are we ignoring the big chunk of 50% lifestyle contribution on the graph? Are we not ready for more love and truth, only more unnecessary suffering?
Life is medicine, this is the Esoteric way. A way that is available for everyone as the Esoteric is naturally within, there to be lived and discovered as not only normal but the doorway to something far greater and more stupendous than this life : the love that you actually are.
I had not thought of it as a belief before but what else can it be when we defy that it is our own making that created the illness and disease in the first place and it is our responsibility to heal whether that is a cold, flu or something more major like cancer.
There are so many great points in this excellent blog about medicine today. It is very interesting that modern medicine has moved completely in the opposite direction to even its own holistic origins. In some ways we have become so good at mending the body on a bio-physical level that we have become a bit arrogant about it and our health and we seem to keep going with this belief that we can fix and solve any dysfunction in the body, even in spite of the alarming illness and disease rates which are telling us that this way of administering medicine is not enough and is flawed.
Thank you Julia…. There is obviously a vast piece of the puzzle missing …. The missing link as you say, and it is wonderful to read about the piece of the puzzle that offers the connection with one of the most important facets of life and society, responsibility
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. Such a simple statement of fact with a mighty powerful and wise message.
Thank you Julia for shining a light on Esoteric Medicine being the missing link.
The science of energy before matter is the key ingredient to the levels of healing that can be offered to us all at a root level. There is no doubt that Western Medicine offers us all so much in treating the illness or disease yet we are far from wanting to stop and consider that the rates of illness and disease are continuing to escalate at alarming rates that may be signaling a deeper problem that we are not willing to uncover. Are we seeking a convenient truth over the real truth in order to not stop and see how far we have been living far from our true vitality?
“Medicine in its current form does not change the way we live, whereas esoteric medicine is all about choosing to change the way we live according to what is harmonious for the body.” When conventional medicine and esoteric medicine work together there is a deeper and renewed understanding of the true meaning of health.
Ways of relating …. ‘And the astonishing factor: more than 50% was attributed to lifestyle, the aggregation of decisions over which the individual has control (including diet, toxic habits, exercise, ways of relating, etc).’ How amazing is it that this has been published in a journal that 50% of all illness and dis-ease is due and down to lifestyle. The choices we make, what we eat and ways of relating to others. I have just done a workshop with young people on healthy and unhealthy relationships and this backs up how we are with both ourselves and others affects our health and well-being. Also what you share here is something I can remember Serge Benhayon saying many years ago that with the advances in medicine and technology we actually have an increase in illness and dis-ease instead of a decrease. What I marvelled about this was how I never heard anyone question this before Serge. Yet it is a very practical and fair question to ask looking at the far bigger picture not one small part of it with blinkers on. When we get ourselves out of the way step back and choose to see everything, the truth is shown to us. So could it be that illness and dis-ease has increased because our way of being, living (including loving) has decreased? ‘So medicine nowadays is very accurate in diagnosing, very efficient in eliminating symptoms and excellent in providing surgical techniques and solutions for many of the ills of people. Then, one could ask: why is it that cancer, diabetes, mental disorders and chronic diseases of all types have risen to higher than ever figures? Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle’
I had never really thought about alternative medicine providing the same quick fix as conventional medicine but of course it does as it doesn’t address the root cause. We tell ourselves we are supporting the body to repair itself whilst finding an excuse to be honest about why we have the ailment or illness in the first place.
We do know that our health is impacted by the choices we make, we know the harm of smoking and drinking alcohol, we can feel it in our bodies and see it in people’s faces, so why then do we not accept that all our choices impact our health and well being? If we accept it and get honest we would have to accept that we are where we are as a direct result of all our choices.
Any aspect of life is enriched when we bring in the esoteric. Only when we reintroduce the esoteric to health and well-being, does it become fully whole again.
There is much to love about this jam-packed-with-wisdom article. Here are two excerpts I particularly liked and feel sum up the truth of the matter when it comes to our health:
‘…there is an energy before we think, before we feel, and long before there is an organic imbalance.’
‘We all know that cancer can come back, because the cells are created and destroyed every day and under what energy are they being created today? That is the question.’
How we live matters and there is much more to consider and re-connect to in medicine and this is what ‘Universal Medicine’ offers us – when combined with conventional medicine, full spectrum healing and understanding. What a God send.
A fascinating article, thank you Julia. I was particularly interested in the description of psychosomatic medicine and recognised some characteristics of my own amongst the examples given. What a helpful way to understand and potentially prevent illnesses arising, simply by choosing to look at the traits we have that cause a lack of ease – dis-ease – in the body.
I have studied a variety of complementary modalities as well as nursing. I always had a sense that there was room for both and both very much had a place, and yet they never quite fit together. When I first began to listen to Serge Benhayon present on Esoteric Medicine it did feel different, because what he was presenting on was self-responsiblity through self-care and then self-love. In all honesty how are we to inspire the many people in our care if we don’t actually take true care of ourselves. It all starts with ourselves.
This is so true Julia… ” both the conventional medicine users and the alternative medicine users want quick fixes, the perfect pill, the miracle supplement, the best surgeon, the best chiropractor that will take my pain away so that I don’t have to look at the way I live, the way I eat, walk, talk, think, sleep, etc.” Having a background also in complementary medicine I was indoctrinated (yes that’s the right word) into what I essentially see as the same paradigm that medicine is under, whereby the responsibility for how we live in every moment and in every way, is contributing to any ill-condition or state we find ourselves in, does not get a look-in. The only difference between what I learnt as a Naturopath and the way I see the medical system approaching patients, is that Naturopathy prides itself on being ‘safe’. If no true healing has taken place, then neither ‘system’ is working. That is the difference I see between these common approaches and what I have now grown to understand and apply with Esoteric Healing. It understands the whole picture and can draw equally from both the complementary and medical systems, but bound by neither in terms of a limiting view.
Yes absolutely Doug, not only does that head-in-the-sand ‘I am not responsible for this condition I suffer’ not open us up to any true healing, but the current systems we have in place – both medical and ‘alternative’ have a false base too. We cannot just take the parts of those systems and put them together, we have to dismantle the whole lot and re-assess what healing is and from that base, find the parts that can work within that understanding, and that which cannot. I imagine this will take some time to come about on a community-scale, but there are many clinics and clinicians developing around the world who are already working this way very successfully… so it has begun.
Yes so it seems… and I can relate, we are not used to initiating our own healing without the prompt of the body breaking down or some crisis occurring. We don’t have our benchmark as true vitality and harmony in life, so anything less is flagged and dealt with. If we did, it would be very different.
Yes exactly… it’s a common phrase I hear now when someone has a cancer diagnosis, ‘but l’m really healthy otherwise’, as though the body can be compartmentalised. We have even lost our sense that the body works as one, and not in parts. Medicine has a lot to answer for in that respect, great as it is at diagnosing the parts, as a whole the paradigm it works from does not acknowledge the interconnectedness of every part as one energetic being. In that sense we cannot separate anything of how we feel, behave, move, even think from the way our bodies are. That is a whole new education of our healthcare systems…
Yes I think we are a long way off the system being overhauled in a way that starts from the foundation up, which is the only way it will really work to support true change.
The pie chart you presented Julia is ” worth ten thousand words”. It has me consider why we spend most of our resources and are dependant in the smallest wedge 10% Health System, when 50% is Lifestyle and 20% is Biological, 20% Environmental leaves. Until we turn the responsibility back into the 50% Lifestyle we will continue to rely on a system that is not able to provide answers to the the underlying root cause of illness and disease…. That being the choices and energy we live in every moment.
How we live, our lifestyle and choices directly affects our health, this is finally being accepted more and more. With this understanding we have a responsibility for how we live, the quality of our life, the foods we eat, what we drink, are we stressed etcetera, knowing there is a knock on effect of every choice we make.
Awesome Julia .. thank you for the reminder, those simple questions said with love and in the knowing they need support will provide a loving space. It’s important not to react and try and fix their ill-momentum, as the question can be imposing and not with understanding. “When we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing.” It is very important to connect to people and feel where they are at.
‘Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle?’ Absolutely I agree but not only this but would ask the question could it be that we are missing a part of every puzzle or that if in truth it is all one puzzle are we missing the truth on which the understanding of it should all be based.
It is perhaps time that the medical world looks a little further afield than what they are currently looking at. With all the illness and disease that is proliferating across the globe, we need to look at the fact that what is currently being done, isn’t working. There marriage of esoteric medicine with conventional medicine is what will assist in turning around what is currently a losing battle.
This is such a fundamental concept that if integrated would support the system hugely, it would introduce people to self responsibility and an awareness as to their choices, and the good old consequences in honestly looking at the way we live.
“Could it be that we are missing a piece in the healing-health puzzle?” This is a great article Julia in showing that we do know that the way we choose to live, lifestyle, is the underlying cause of many health issues and that conventional and esoteric medicine working together is the best medicine.
It is interesting how we started to understand how much the way we think affects what we do and then reduced it to be about being fixed. Psychoneuroimmunology is a great start and even if we don’t understand what it is about we can know that how we do what we do has an affect on our physical and mental health and that we have the potential to change the trajectory for our health outcomes.
“So even most of the people who listen to the recommendations and exercise and eat “properly” or according to the last dietary trend, do so as an obligation or discipline, not as a free choice or a self-loving act.” How true, and then the choice is made with a feeling of loss, of missing out, and this can often then be accompanied by resentment towards the choice we have to make, and therefore, towards our bodies. So in choosing to follow ‘doctor’s orders’ we end up dumping more emotions into our already unwell body, resulting in more illness and disease. Realising the choice to change lifestyle, diet etc. is one of the most loving things we can do for ourselves, that then makes it a choice for vitality, for life and not one of deprivation.
It is now closer to 80% of our chronic illness and disease that’s considered lifestyle related… and you have nailed it here Julia as merely addressing diet and exercise is simply not enough. Without the deeper energetic understanding of every choice, movement and behaviour on the body, offered through Esoteric Medicine, we will still hardly make a dent in the current trend of endemic ill health.
I wonder why we make caring for ourselves such a struggle when it could be so simple.
I love this quote of Serge Benhayon’s “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”. How true is this line, before I met Serge Benhayon I was living in a pretty toxic and poisonous way where I had developed an illness years prior because I couldn’t deal with the stresses in my life. I am forever grateful for Serge Benhayon and his support and care in allowing my body to truly heal and restore a natural energy and vitality that I had lost for many years.
The fact is that how we live has a major effect on the body, in particular the effect our emotions have on our health and wellbeing. This highlights the importance of the responsibility of our choices for our emotional wellbeing and the impact it has on the human body. For me this is key, as I know I can not address day to day physical ailments without addressing the root cause, the energy of the emotion in my body.
One of the root conditions we need to heal is the recklessness, ignorance and arrogance in which the spirit treats the body, exposing that it is the spirit that needs healing in the first place as the body only cops the consequences. healing the spirit is the domain of esoteric medicine.
On a practical or temporal level Esoteric and Universal Medicine are complementary to conventional medicine. In truth Esoteric Medicine is encompassing of conventional medicine as it is in its origin the source for every medicine thereafter, ie. the externalisation of the esoteric.
Realizing and acknowledging certain emotional traits being related to certain physical ailments is a start to getting a sense, a directly felt perception of the energy working behind the scenes of every illness and disease, in other words coming back to feeling energy and its quality. This is part of esoteric medicine and also known by some doctors a very natural ability that is of invaluable service to the patient. We naturally do feel energy no matter what we call it, a feeling, as sense, intuition, an inkling – we all do and most professionals working with patients develop an awareness of this considering it as experience or having an eye for it. We need to trust that knowing and make it part of the consultation.
Holding on to the belief that illness and disease are mainly caused by outer factors is indeed a very comfortable way to avoid responsibility. The way beliefs work is that they only allow you to see what you want to see and even when you are somehow open to see beyond that they still hold you tight so that you don´t make the changes ‘yet’ you actually know are necessary and overdue.
I totally concur with what has been written in this article, at the end of the day we are the by-product of our lifestyle choices
It is interesting what you have shared re the cardiac, rheumatoid and asthmatic patients and the emotional behaviours and traits they had, although this is a known it does not seem to currently be a common knowledge .. or if it is we are doing a great job of ignoring it! What you share here is very thorough and I also feel this is a very valid point ‘We blame everybody and everything (including the health professionals) instead of admitting we do have responsibility and the way we live could possibly have a part in it.’ We definitely need to understand and look at the energy of everything before the matter/physical. Thank you for sharing this very wise and true quote from Serge Benhayon “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”. Medicine is great but it is time to play our part and take responsibility in the way we live.
It is interesting what you have shared re the cardiac, rheumatoid and asthmatic patients and the emotional behaviours and traits they had, although this is a known it does not seem to currently be a common knowledge .. or if it is we are doing a great job of ignoring it! What you share here is very thorough and I also feel this is a very valid point ‘We blame everybody and everything (including the health professionals) instead of admitting we do have responsibility and the way we live could possibly have a part in it.’ We definietly need to understand and look at the energy of everything before the matter/physical. Thank you for sharing this very wise and true quote from Serge Benhayon “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”. Medicine is great but it is time to play our part and take responsibility in the way we live.
Julie,
An amazing article, the practical real truth that how we live affects our bodies cannot be ignored once this article has been read.
Thank you.
I love using both Esoteric Medicine and conventional medicine together. One without the other would not result in where I am today, living so responsibly for my health and feeling so alive and vital.
I had a doctor who advised me to return to how I was living before the health condition, but there was no way I was going to do that. To me, the health condition was a blessing, a big stop to bring me more awareness to how I was living and it was with the support of Esoteric medicine that I could then implement the changes needed once the conventional medicine had done their part.
Esoteric medicine joins the dots and completes the circle in understanding why illness and disease continues to increase despite the wonderful work and support of conventional medicine. We all know what is ‘good’ for us and what is not and it is our responsibility to play our part in caring for ourselves.
Just the study of psychoneuroimmunology alone is enough to demonstrate that an integration of Universal Medicine and Western Medicine is essential for the well-being of humanity
Clearly the whole concept of health varies greatly depending on how much a person or system really wants to know and take responsibility for. We have gotten a long way off track and it’s time for us all to bring ourselves back to the basics. For me this means re-learning that how I live is a key instrument in determining my health outcomes.
It is so easy to chase the next quick fix – we are spoon fed plenty of options – all of them bypass the small details and encourage us to ignore the fact that we need to take responsibility for ALL of our choices.
Thank you Julia for a great blog, with sharing your insights, it is amazing that we go through life not realising that we have a choice in everything we do. The fact that we think illness is something that is happening to us, and not at all considering that we have caused our illness by the way we have been choosing to live, and as you say only when we are faced with a life threatening disease do we consider change.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon. What a simple and profound truth.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”. Thank you Serge Benhayon and also to you Julia for the article
Universal Medicine provides a platform through which medicine, philosophy, science, religion, all can return to the foundation upon which they are all meant to be coming from, and that is in service to humanity, because this is the essence of what this extraordinary organisation is about.
Thank you Julia, this well researched and written blog has revealed such an important relationship in life, the relationship between our choices and our health and wellbeing.
As I get to know the patients where I work, this relationship doesn’t seem to be honoured or understood by many, and certainly the first place to start is always with oneself. I’ve noticed over the years as my choices have become more self loving, the healthy, glowing reflection that I provide to patients and colleages is in itself enough to start the conversations that begin the process of self reflection, and often leads to a changed habit or another way of looking at life, with more care and love.
Imagine if all of our choices were made from and with LOVE. WOW, what a Health service that will be.
‘Changing habits is something people avoid or even fear unless one has a terminal illness, then it is justified’ This is just one of many astute observations made in this blog. How often do we feel we need to justify our healthier choices, as if it is only okay to say we don’t drink if we are a recovering alcoholic or follow a gluten free diet if a coeliac or need to be dieting to refuse a piece cake?
‘So even most of the people who listen to the recommendations and exercise and eat “properly” or according to the last dietary trend, do so as an obligation or discipline, not as a free choice or a self-loving act.’ Yes Julia I have noticed this in many areas of our lives. We choose to do the ‘proper’ things from an energy of improvement rather than true care. But imagine if our choices were from love? How different would we live throughout the day? No discipline just a willingness to connect to the miracles that we are. 🙂
‘Changing habits is something people avoid or even fear unless one has a terminal illness, then it is justified.’ How true. We would avoid changing to avoid being responsible for our bodies and therefore refuse the absolute joy of living a life of responsibility.
I found this article very interesting as although I have become more and more aware of the impact of lifestyle and behaviours on health and well-being, I have not paid so much specific attention to the fact that certain behaviours have been (or are now being) scientifically linked to specific diseases. However when we have a view of medicine that encompasses and starts with the body, it makes absolute sense (!), and in this sense, I am realising that what science is only now beginning to show – has in fact been evident for eons – and that what is now required in society is a re-turn to a way of living that we already innately know, not going forward into something we don’t…
hi Julia, thank you very much for such a well written and researched article. The whole world should read especially since we now have people who are calling this understanding part of their livingness – meaning they do live THIS in their day to day and can report how true and valid this is and how it finally can bring true joy back into your life consistently.
Yes Karin this is a great point. We now have people living a life where they choose to be responsible for their own wellbeing. True miracles.
Thank you Julia for such wisdom. I have come back to this blog and feel it is a great reminder to be more responsible for the way I eat and live my life in general. I can always be more committed than I have been and not slacken off. The Esoteric is very important in connecting with the patient and their personal responsibility is vital.
What an informative wise blog Julia, I really enjoyed learning from what you presented. Patients are indeed fortunate to be nursed by you, encouraging and inspiring love and healing.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon
The choice is always ours as to how we live, what a responsibility!
Thank you for articulating so clearly what esoteric medicine is all about. Discovering esoteric medicine was the first time the practitioner didn’t go for treating my symptoms, they treated me as a person first instead of offering me a cure. Esoteric medicine exposes how you have been living up until that point and where the disregard really has been playing out in your life, which from my experience has been well worth discovering.
What you have shared here, Julia is gold and needs to be in the nursing and medical text books. We are always looking for the quick fixes in health and of course there is always a health professional who will provide this. We take responsibility for so many areas in our lives but we often choose to let someone else make choices about our health. All the illnesses and diseases that we have now are telling us that something is wrong and some of us are listening. Thank you Serge Benhayon for presenting the truth about our current health system and how we can live in a different way.
Thanks Julia for such a valuable blog. It makes me wonder why on earth we have let ourselves get to this extreme state of disconnection individually and as a whole. For all the money spent on training medical professionals, researching and inventing new drugs and technologies, building hospital etc, there is virtually no one stopping and asking if it is all headed in the right direction or if globally something is being missed/overlooked in the area of health. Your blog inspires me to make an even deeper commitment to consistency in how I am living for both my own sake and for the sake of humanity as my choices are reflected out around me.
Thank you Julia for this great informative article. It wasn’t until I started attending presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I was alerted to the fact that how I live on a daily basis impacts my health and wellbeing in such a huge way. It’s been so awesome seeing the changes in myself and in many others when we begin to make self-loving and self-nurturing choices for ourselves, until this time I didn’t understand why I kept getting the same ailments over and over again no matter what medicine I took – “because in conjunction esoteric medicine and conventional medicine can bring about true and consistent healing for humankind.” Yes to that!
Although this knowledge has been there for a long time, for some reason we take it seriously when we see someone like Serge Benhayon living that way and so many people benefitting so much. We somewhat magically start to make the changes to the way we live. And it works!
Loved reading your article Julie, we can certainly share our experiences with how our lives have changed by bringing in the simple choice to be self loving and self care. There is a wholeness to what you present. So beautiful, thank you.
Julia what you shared is of great wisdom, Esoteric Medicine is the missing link to health and wellbeing. The way we live will determine whether it is a healthy living or a poisonous living. Choices we make daily will determine this. The more we understand that everything is energy and what we choose to eat, how we talk, walk all determines our health in every moment.
If we adults accepted our responsibility in our own health and the health of others, and were not still reacting or ignoring the fact, self care would be in our schools big time. Not just as programs to clean your teeth or avoid unwanted pregnancies, programs that are useful but only scratch the surface, but with deeper levels of honouring and self loving.
I find it a challenging to work in a health system that is more and more pushing people quickly through its doors in order to meet growing demands and relying on selective research for answers, but never taking the time to stop and ask what is truly going on. There has been research around for years that show that lifestyle factors are immensely important on health outcomes yet this research appears to be pushed aside in favour of the current path. It will crash if we stay on this course but I find it sad that all the warning signs and broader understandings that could prevent such a situation, are being ignored.
I agree gilesch, present day modern medicine is being inundated and overwhelmed with the end result of peoples lifestyle choices. When will we all as a society realise we are responsible for our own health, not our doctors nor the health care system itself?
Thank you for a fascinating article Julia – it makes me wonder why the WHO study in 1974 that stated that lifestyle attributes 51% to determining our health, illness and death was not widely accepted. It is only recently that I have read about similar studies coming out – is there now a greater openness to people accepting that their lifestyle – how they live and the choices they make each day – does have a massive impact on their health and well-being? Or is it that we are finally coming to see that despite all the medical advances over the last 40 years, levels of illness and disease are only increasing, not decreasing? I wonder why the world was not ready to embrace those findings 40 years ago? Did we first have to investigate every possible option for a “quick fix” before finally returning to the indisputable fact that we are each responsible for our health and well-being?
I guess all of this knowing has been around at different times in history, but how much does each of us, as a microcosm choose to ignore the signals our body tells us and for how long? If irresponsibility happens globally, macrocosmically, we need to consider how many times each of us, me in this case, have I ignored the suggestions, whispers, or even shouts of my own body. Jus as an example, how many years doing something that harms my body, like eating too much, do I need to finally change that behaviour? for instance, how many times do I need to feel my body stuffed and the discomfort it brings, to definitely stop overeating?
Perfect example Julia, I can definitely relate to having ignored the gentle prompts from my body, at times waiting until it yells or screams before I stopped to listen and make a change.
And this is how I feel we can help change the state of health and illness in the world, by deepening our own personal responsibility each of us. Stop blaming and throwing the ball to anything and everything, but firmly and consistently accepting our part in all we do, and in all that happens to us.
It’s amazing how we’re supposedly advancing as a society but yet illness and disease are rising at an alarming rate. Thank you for sharing this Julia – there is a great deal of wisdom in what you’ve written.
It is so simple and practical how Universal Medicine presents a holistic approach to health care, integrating conventional medicine with self responsibility, powerful and practical healing modalities with a much deeper understanding of the energetic interplay and effect of everything we do… An essential understanding of humanity to evolve.
I love the feeling in your comment that we can change, that it is possible, we don´t need to find excuses like this is genetic or I can´t do anything about it. Even in long term chronic incurable diseases, we can have a better experience when we connect to our essence and realize we are not the pain and suffering, there is much more to us, that there is something untouched by the disease, and that changes our experience to one of joy and beauty even within the disease of the body.
Beautiful Julia- perhaps how Esoteric Medicine helps to manage incurable diseases be the topic for another blog……..
Great article, thank you Julia. I love the quote you offer us here for I find it to be so true. “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon” The way we live changes everything. It is not often easy to change patterns of a lifetime, or more, but it is possible – and it doesn’t matter where we start as long as we do – and as long as we continue – if we want to see true health and love restored and not find ourselves in the route of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and/or dementia.
There is great responsibility required to live by truth. As a patient and as a nurse. This has been great sharing and the best way to move forward in health and vitality.
It is very convenient for us to believe that cancer, for example, is purely a function of genetics and external influences such as chemicals in the water. Whilst I am sure both play their part, it is also extremely irresponsible and disempowering to hold such a fixed viewpoint when it comes to illness and disease, for such an approach prevents us from reflecting on how we contribute to our own state of health by the way we live, which, as the above studies suggest, plays a far greater role than the exoteric factors we like to blame for our predicament.
And that is the biggest lie that medicine faces nowadays, that there is only the physical, or that the physical is the most prevalent reality. By reducing everything to the physical, the biology, and getting extremely good at it, we have the perfect excuse to not look at other dimensions, and then those dimensions are forgotten or not taken seriously by most people who consider themselves to be “scientific” and “evidence-based”. Everybody seems to accept that the cause of cancer is in the physical, it is the first thing most people assume and comment on: it is the sun, it is the fizzy drinks, it is the processed foods, pollution, etc…Easy answer, there is no need to look deeper.
I am learning that I am responsible for my health, the choices I make in my life , the foods I eat and any addictions such as sugar etc.
It makes sense to me that to combine both sides of Medicine, it has to be a combined effort between the Medical Practitioner and the Patient and Esoteric Practitioners.
“Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us.” So true Julia, this is a responsibility we eventually have to accept and put into practice… rather sooner than later I shall say, as our health care systems are already collapsing. It is about time to take our health care into our own hands – each and everyone of us individually needs to, as best as we can, support the health care systems with our own wise and self loving choices that support our bodies and bring us back to health. We cannot leave that in the hands of a few people (doctors, nurses, etc.), we are all responsible to take part in that.
And the medical practitioners know that too and welcome it so much. I recently did an interview for a primary care health centre and I was saying exactly what you say Judith, that we have to start self caring so we don´t put all the burden into doctors and nurses, into the health system, but do our part, and when we need medical assistance, everything goes more smoothly and easily and quicker because of the choices we are already making to look after ourselves. One of the doctors of the panel said “you got the essence of primary care” and I got the job. Because there is so much need of that, and even more in chronic conditions.
Judith, you’re so right, it’s about time we take health care into our own hands and make loving choices that support our bodies and bring us back to health. The health care system is so stretched and struggling to support the demand. If we start to make more loving choices to support our own health, we can take the pressure off the health care system and they can support the most needy health conditions.
Beautiful Julia, what you share about esoteric medicine is so true. If according to the WHO pie chart over 50% of our determinants of health is attributable to lifestyle choices then how can we ignore how we have lived our lives – the quality of our lifestyle choices, ‘the aggregation of decisions over which the individual has control (including diet, toxic habits, exercise, ways of relating, etc)’ as not being foundational to the manifestation of the rates of disease and illness being observed in our bodies today?
I love this Blog Julia, as it so simply makes the multitude of issues and complexity of our world’s current state of health make so much sense. The research that is supporting this blog is more relevant than ever, yet it made me go wow, and question: Why are we ignoring what history has been pointing out for a very long time? We so often see articles that are always bringing to our attention new things science has found that may be the cause of illness, yet as you have so clearly stated, our lifestyle has a very big part to play. That is indeed a big piece of the pie worth taking responsibility for.
This is indeed a great article backed up by research I had not read about before. Clearly responsibility for how we live and our lifestyle creates our health. Interesting that it is not only the everyday man/woman who is not responding to this research but also those in the medical field who would be privy to this information. Thank you Julia.
A great researched blog. Lifestyle has been largely ignored by many and an accepted ‘below par’ of existence predetermines that human beings will continue to become diseased unless lifestyle is addressed.
Matthew its really interesting how more and more research is showing the fact that Lifestyle is responsible for nearly every medical and health issue. Yet within that we as a species are so reluctant to change. It makes you wonder why are we so reluctant to change and take a loving responsibility for our health?
I love charts as they support me to see things more clearly and this pie chart is certainly no different. What really surprises me is that 50% makes up lifestyle yet I rarely hear people mention that it is how they have lived that has contributed to their illness. It goes to show that when we are presented with facts we do not want to see truth.
And although lifestyle is only a part (a big part) of the puzzle, many people react to the fact, especially and ironically health professionals, doctors and nurses are many times blinded to the fact of the effect of lifestyle. I have had many react and even say to me: “You cannot say that”. We sometimes get so entrenched into the biology and the mechanics of the body that we forget the other dimensions, or is it a more orchestrated and directed movement to stop people from taking responsibility?
Diseases come “from us not to us”. It was very confronting at first to be faced with this reality yet since Esoteric Medicine came into my life I have accepted and understood my responsibility in any ailments I may have. Energy is indeed the missing link. Great blog Julia.
Although having experienced recently a difficult and painful obvious dis-ease (kidney stone), I have to add that “illness comes from us and not to us”, but from us when we are not in our essence, when we are either rejecting it, resisting it, avoiding it…or have done it in the past, in this life or in many others.
What an intelligent and clear understanding you share about health and illness. Thank you
It is fair to say that conventional medicine does a great job regarding health related problems. Yet, it brings a specific style to it. Medicine is like the study of American Politics, great detailed knowledge on a very small section of problems. Big, important questions are not part of the field. And, yet, they are crucial often times to really understand what is going on health wise. This is what the esoteric brings to the table to share.
I just want to say how much I have enjoyed reading your blog, and your comments in response Julia. I found your expression informative while elucidating the simplicity of ‘living well’ and I agree, from the view of a student of The Way of the Livingness that it is for us all here at this time to feel the responsibility that we have for understanding our own bodies so we can thereby present to the Medical fraternity a deeper awareness and understanding of why certain things are there in our body from an energetic point of view, and thus being able to assist the doctors, surgeons, nurses etc. with a more true picture of the treatment that is required for a complete healing – with a marriage of traditional medicine complemented by universal medicine.
As you write Julia, without going as far back as the Greeks or Persians, there have been parts of esoteric medicine that have been noted throughout the years, however just not given the attention it deserves. I was surprised to read that even in 1974 (and most likely even further back) it was known that our choices determine our health, which means our lifestyles affect our health. As I grew up there was never any mention of lifestyle and health being related, other than in the very obvious ways – smoking, drinking, excessive eating and little exercise lead to ill health.
But what Esoteric Medicine brings into the equation is that our lifestyle choices go much deeper and affect far more than we have been aware of to date. For example I was not aware until a couple of weeks ago how walking in a certain way can affect my thoughts and movements, which then build up to affect my overall health through these many stacked up smaller ill motions.
I had to laugh at myself as I used to be one of those who would go into the health food shop and on the counter would be the latest magical cure for all kinds of things – eyes, memory, digestion, fitness, etc. – which I would buy, take for a while before moving onto the next miraculous cure. The missing link in all this was me not being willing to look at how I sabotaged myself on a daily basis. “Esoteric medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us”. The union of esoteric medicine and conventional medicine is a must for a true healing to occur and a key factor includes being honest and taking responsibility for our choices and the way we are living.
This was brilliant Julia. What you write about is a timeless, ageless truth of the relationship between medicine and people and how we actually choose the majority of the illnesses we contract, based on the way we live and things we do or don’t express.
Yes Dean, I agree 100%. I also loved Julia’s final line ‘When we connect and not judge (people) open up, then there is love and healing.’ – this approach can be taken to any situation, not just a medical setting but to family, to the office, to the supermarket.
Julia, what you have written is so true and a very obviously needed way of being in our society, but people struggle with letting go of their comforts and harming ways of being due to the lack of love they have for themselves and the lack of true support in this world, therefore there is a huge resistance to this level of responsibility. The bottom line is, is that love heals and there is no other way.
I agree with you Kate, when I put myself in the shoes of so many people who are desperately needing a change in their life, and also see myself and my own choices, I don´t know what I would have done without Universal Medicine teachings and healing modalities and practitioners…so the fact that people don´t let go of their harming ways is not only due to them being irresponsible, also there is lack of true support, as you say. There is a lot of “help” available, but the kind of support you get from Universal Medicine is unique in the world, the one that goes to the root cause of all illness and disease and gives you the tools and true help to gradually let go of your harming ways, more and more each day supporting you to connect to your own love and your essence.
I absolutely agree Julia, Universal Medicine is an absolute Godsend to everyone that comes into contact with them. It is through them that I have begun to truly heal.
Julia Manbos- your blog is superb thank you and I also don’t know how I would be coping with life today if it were not for Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the teachings on Esoteric Medicine. There is also an opportunity here to really ponder the extent to which we have set up life to be un-supportive for our health. After all, it is people that have set up all of the systems we live under, the schools we learn at and workplaces we go to etc. We have set up the world to be so un-supportive and such a far cry from love that many feel they are at the mercy of a vicious cycle called life. I was also so convinced that this is the way of the world and who was I to change it, that it has taken Universal Medicine significant effort to show me that through self-responsibility we need not be a victim to this. In fact, when this is understood, there is also a responsibility to reflect this is possible to other people too.
Kate Chorley you nail the underlying issue here. Ask any person how they could better support their own health and they will almost always be able to tell you something – it might be “work less”, “change my diet”, “exercise”, “get out of my toxic workplace or relationship”, “sort out my money problems” etc. The responses are not just diet and exercise, many people know that other aspects of life can impact their health. So rather than only asking what we should do to improve our health outcomes shouldn’t as a society we be asking why is adhering to a healthier lifestyle so difficult?
Julia, thank you so much for an excellent blog clearly defining true health and wellbeing. I work in the health field and I find that the more there are financial constraints on the health system, the more the medical field is moving towards a biological view of treating health. To me this is very short sighted and just encourages people to be even less responsible for themselves and even more dependent on the health system. As you say, the work of health professionals who understand the marriage of Western and complementary medicine is invaluable.
There is great wisdom in your words Julia, as the WAY we choose to live does indeed have a HUGE impact on our health and well being.
As your quote by Serge Benhayon references: “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”.
Yes Dean and when we live a real life we get real medicine with our vitality and well being that is often not the norm in today’s world.
Yes and so much so that a vital life, one that includes no caffeine, little or no sugar, early to bed early to rise and so on, is considered very unusual for some so far has the ‘norm’ drifted away from true well being.
I can honestly say that before Esoteric Medicine was presented to me by Serge Benhayon I was going around in circles without truly healing or understanding that how I live in every moment is what truly determines my health.
Absolutely Vicky, it was so for me too, endlessly searching for the truth and healing without understanding that I was creating the impact on my own body with my choices and quality that I lived in.
So true Vicky and Jenny, I was endlessly searching for remedies for minor discomforts like skin impurities and digestive problems, etc. I was even willing to change my diet to a certain degree, but only when I started to apply Esoteric Medicine and went on some of the programs did I really turn the tides on my health, my well-being and my vitality.
Me too Vicky! In fact I was in the ‘alternative’ category as Julia described in the article – I was into various spiritual and personal development but loved (in fact, relied on) my coffee and drank to relieve the tension and provide relief from my life; I was adamant about natural medicine (to the extent of resisting and at times rejecting western medicine unless I was desperate and forced to), but had a very tumultuous and relationship with my husband that was dominated by anger, frustration, resentment and blame; I home-schooled because I had no belief in the education system and thought I was making a responsible choice, but was not willing to take responsibility for my own choices and had little care for myself.
Esoteric Medicine was/is the only thing that made sense of my state of health and well-being and was/is a totally common sense approach. It brought responsibility back into the equation, and has allowed me to experience a total turn-around in my approach to health and well-being. I now have a foundation for this which is self-care and the quality in which I live, and now accept and embrace western medicine for the partnership it provides with Esoteric Medicine in true healing and true health and well-being.
I can absolutely relate to what you have shared Angela. The turn around you have described is huge. When Serge started presenting Esoteric Medicine I just couldn’t wait to hear more. Those Friday night presentations were the highlight of my week.
A great article, Julia. Thank you for presenting such a comprehensive article. ‘Medicine’ can be anything that brings a change for a better physical/mental/emotional status of being, and they can come as a capsule, or a shot, or a change in the way we live.
Thanks for writing this beautiful and wise article which lays out the way medicine needs to be looked at as the conventional way struggles to find the answers to the ever increasing amount of illness and disease in our world these days.
Thank you for your contribution Julia, it seems Medical systems across the world are all facing escalations in ill health and you are right, Esoteric Medicine is needed now more than ever to assist and work with conventional Medicine.
I agree with the quote from Serge Benhayon “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”.
There is a great amount of wisdom that you have shared there Julia. Totally making it clear about how it is our responsibility in the choices that we make that can bring about healing to ourselves and others.
What a great read Julia. I loved every word you wrote, it just makes sense and I can relate to what you are sharing. For instance: “What is clear to me is that both the conventional medicine users and the alternative medicine users want quick fixes, the perfect pill, the miracle supplement, the best surgeon, the best chiropractor that will take my pain away so that I don’t have to look at the way I live, the way I eat, walk, talk, think, sleep, etc.” I work in a health food store at the moment and am amazed how much money people are prepared to pay for all kind of supplements. I do not know how they are living though but it is often the case that our way of thinking goes no further than ‘I want this pain, illness or discomfort to go away and do not want to change my way of living’. For me it has been like that too. I can see now that illness, diseases and pains are actually an invitation to live more lovingly with yourself and that changing my way of living is the greatest thing I can do.
Thank you Rachel, you made me reflect on the fact that we need TO BUILD a culture of responsibility and care. It is so true, we are so far away at the moment from responsibility, the giving your power away to circumstance, inheritance, the environment, the health system, is so prevailing, that there is sustained effort required. Programs, courses, workshops. If more people understood that what we do and think and speak and eat has a direct effect on the body and our health, it would change many of the statistics of chronic diseases in the world. We are not destined to be ill, we have accepted less than what we can be by our own choices. And that has become the normal, but we can change it, we can heal ourselves and live a fulfilling life.
Wonderful article Julia, I love what you say here-
‘Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us.’
‘The way we live can be the best medicine or the worst poison’ Serge Benhayon.
This brings it back to our responsibility and our choices in life. Thank you.
There is so much love and healing in your words here Julie. This is an amazing article, very balanced and simple, and cannot be argued with. A great article for first year nurses and doctors; and a great article for parents to read to their young kids, so that they grow up knowing they are not sitting ducks at all, waiting to be ‘given’ a disease; but rather are very empowered to choose behaviours that are actively self loving, because it simply makes sense to live that way.
I love what you have shared Suzanne. Indeed an amazing article that offers much by way of wisdom and understanding to change the tide on our current alarming illness and disease rates.
Well said Suzanne. I absolutely agree.
How did it ever come to be that getting sick was something ‘done to us’? It’s so beautiful to realise the gift our bodies show us in offering the opportunity to truly heal. The Esoteric has for me been the one to illuminate the fact – the choice is ours to make.
A great and much needed conversation. I agree with it all.
This is a fabulous blog discussing the importance of “lifestyle factors”. Esoteric Medicine understands this in depth rather than settling for the solution based approach we currently have. The statistics are now revealing many illnesses and diseases are preventable with lifestyle choices and in reality is probably even higher than the figures suggest.
The medical system has moved away from its esoteric roots and energetic understanding, to become function based because that is what we (the public) are asking for. We know something is missing in life and use our lifestyle choices to make that emptiness feel bearable. We will only start to ask for greater depth from medicine and take greater responsibility as we start to reconnect and know there is another way.
Beautifully expressed Julia and Fiona, thank you both for your insight.
The knowledge that the energy we live in influences our health, that we are responsible for most of the ills that affect us is invaluable. The Health system has a duty of care to spread the word widely to reverse the statistics. I have accepted that my health is the direct result of my choices and I am learning to be gentle and caring towards myself.
‘Changing habits is something people avoid or even fear unless one has a terminal illness, then it is justified.’ It is amazing that even though it has been known for over 40 years how much impact lifestyle factors have on our wellbeing that people still avoid change unless they are dying.
Surely changing the quality of our lives is worth doing before we are forced to? Thank you Julia for raising this super important topic in such a relatable way. Health professionals have an opportunity to share how they may have changed their lives for the better during the course of their work but we all have opportunities to talk to people we meet in everyday life if the subject is raised. We don’t need to say very much just sow the seed.
It’s interesting looking at the pie chart and specifically the 50% that doesn’t related to lifestyle choices (environment, biology, health system). In my nursing work, I hear these blamed more often for the cause of disease that I ever do with the lifestyle choices made and yet it’s the choices that we make through life that result in a lot of our chronic illnesses and diseases. Choosing responsibility towards our health can be challenging, as we do have to look at the reasons underneath why we are making our choices. However, when we do this for ourselves in a way that is deeply caring, tender and loving it is so worth it.
‘still working on observing and not absorbing and LETTING PEOPLE BE.’
Me too, and when I get it right it is so truly healing.
The Esoteric certainly is the missing link, thanks for sharing this article, I found it interesting that medicine has long been aware of the similar emotional patterns/ways of being go hand-in-hand with different types of diseases.
There is so much in this article Julia. Definitely worth reading many times. I love the non imposing but thought provoking questions that can open up some true conversation.
Awesome blog Julia thank you for sharing the facts of where we are at and our path forward. The marriage of western medicine and esoteric medicine is our commitment to our future wellbeing.
Thank you Julia for your very well researched blog! Once again it all comes back to us being self responsible and looking at what we have or have not been doing to self nurture and the need for other health professionals to present to us the facts as you have shown on the Pie graph, that we cannot blame others. We just need to love ourselves first then all will fall into place around this.
Julia this blog is so comprehensive … I’m left with the feeling that we have all the knowledge to change the state of our health but as a world community our willingness to adjust systems and our personal lifestyle choices are not supporting what is known.
I realize in my daily life how much I choose to not feel and how much I simply ignore…and the same for humanity. Truth has always been there, but how much we embrace it and live by it determines our experience. The changes are very slow in this matter, and yes, prevention has gained a stronger place in medicine since all this research was done, and health systems have placed more importance into prevention in all its phases, but it is only scratching the surface still, cause until we all understand responsibility in energy, there is a long way to go and to work.
What a sensational blog stating the facts about responsibility of how we live is what results in our health – there’s no stones left unturned here, no where to hide in our little bubbles of ‘it’s just bad luck, or it’s because it’s in my family’.
I love this blog, especially the last part about letting people be, and asking simple questions that encourage them to look at what’s going on from a different angle. I also feel that it is so important to educate people again that there is a whole big picture to the healing process and the reasons we have disease and disharmony in our bodies. Thankyou for this informative article.
What an AWESOME article. Truly I could read it again and again.
Woah – Number 2. It’s crazy, but awesome that they observed similar emotional traits! It really makes sense in what Universal Medicine, presents on the Energetic side of these illnesses, and how it relates to the body. This article needs to be sent to the Health Authorities and be a front page story. I love the simple (and relatable) questions you ask your patients – to offer another way of looking at their illness, that they could support themselves more.
It is great to read that discussing the energy behind health and illness, when embraced, actually ones down to very simple, practical choices in daily life. This is where Universal Medicine is unique – huge topics which we all deep down are connected to but very simple ways to explore them and bring them into our lives. Unfortunately other spiritual practices I tried did not make this connection and remained as lofty ideas, where many remained perplexed and feeling unsure and disempowered. From lived experience, I can state clearly and assuredly that this is not the case with Universal Medicine.
Changing habits can be quite challenging but it’s so good to do this when something we do no longer feels right. This message: “The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison”, from Serge Benhayon feels so true with the esoteric as the missing link, it’s up to us all to choose to change those old habits.
Dear Julia, your blog was great to read, the way you present the simple facts is wonderful. The sentence I like the very most in your writing is “Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us, not to us.” This simple truth is what we all need to bring not only into our own lives, but to the lives of everyone that we interact with. It is not something that has to be remembered and rotely spoken, rather something that we deeply connect to for ourselves. Then through this connection and the deeper understanding that this brings, we then have different words to speak, depending who we are with and where they personally are in their lives. Yet with this connection we bring to them this very simple profound truth, presenting it for them to consider for them selves. Presenting true choice, something that is so very needed today.
The esoteric way of seeing illness and disease should be very empowering as it removes the notion that things are happening to us. However we then have to accept that we have a responsibility to make loving choices for our body. With the food industry dumping copious amounts of sugar in so many foods it can be hard at first to know what foods are in fact truly healthy. It is a journey worth looking into as there is nothing better than a healthy body and mind.
Julia this is an amazing blog, I want to share this with everyone – your explanation/definition of esoteric medicine was deeply felt in me. Is it so simply put that no understanding or prior knowledge of esoteric medicine is needed to feel that this is the way forward. Thank you for this.
Agreed Christine. It is very common to think that illness and disease just happens without any realization that our choices and way of living are directly affecting our health. This article is a great first step in introducing a whole new awareness to those who have not ever thought like this before.
Thank you Julia, inspiring article that could be read to all medical students before the Hippocratic oath.
Thank you Roberta, working with people is always an ongoing learning, about ourselves, our choices, and the reflections we get from them and they get from us. It is good to remember that they get much more than just the antibiotic, the plaster, the remedy.
There is an old saying ‘Change the World by Changing yourself first’. There is a clear message in your blog Julia, and that is by taking responsibility for ourselves first – the way we live, think, move, eat etc., will not only have a direct impact on our own level of health, but when we bring all of that livingness to our interactions, especially if we work in the health field – immediately there is an impact. The outcome of who we are is nothing to do with chance and everything to do with the choices we make.
Well said!
I agree with Kate, this article is GOLD Julia. With the enormous burden currently on the health care system and health care workers as a consequence of rising rates of illness and disease and more and more complicated cases, there will no where else to go but to the esoteric…which has always been there, offering real medicine. It just makes so much sense…
Thank you Julia for your great article. I felt the deep connection you have with yourself while expressing this connection in relation to medicine, nursing and self nurturing.
How awesome it is for ones in your care to have all of you present physically and energetically – what a beautiful reflection for the patients and all who come into contact with you while providing the fullness of ‘good medicine’.
This is GOLD Julia. Absolutely, esoteric (inner most) philosophy is the missing link in our health care system. I believe self responsibility will, at some point, just have to be taken into consideration as a major factor in halting the declining health statistics we are seeing world wide.
I agree that the blog is bringing up that self responsibility is missing and that is actually the way forward, there is a lot to do in that respect, first always refining it for ourselves and then for others.
I find it super interesting that we can observe patients with the same illness share similar emotional traits, and that certain traits are strongly associated with certain illnesses and diseases. It’s also fascinating that research is showing that the way we think and our emotions affect the biochemistry of our bodies. We also know from day to day personal experiences that the choices we make can make us feel differently and think differently – Just remember the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us after we’ve eaten a clean nourishing meal and when we’ve eaten a tub of ice-cream, packet if crisps and a can of coke; I know I’d be thinking different thoughts! It stands to reason that there is a close relationship between our choices, our thoughts, our emotions and our health.
Perhaps the missing link has not been missing at all – we have just chosen to ignore it for so long we thought it was missing!! I totally agree with what you say in your blog – the state of our health – in fact the state of our world is up to us and how we live. This has been an energetically beautiful blog to read so that means you must be living with great integrity Julia! thankyou
Beautiful Julia. It is so true that true and full responsibility is not something that is widely embraced – and understandably so. As soon as it is recognised we have chosen our health to be certain way in part by the way we have walked, eaten and related to others then it can be quite overwhelming, as those choices may have been subconscious or not at the forefront of our awareness at that time. This is where the true beauty comes in – I have learned that instead of blaming, judging or being hard on myself for choices I may have made I can instead choose to be ultra loving with myself and make my next move or choice super-ultra-loving and supportive for me. Each next choice then has the opportunity to be more loving with myself and I love that I am aware of this.
“This is where the true beauty comes in – I have learned that instead of blaming, judging or being hard on myself for choices I may have made I can instead choose to be ultra loving with myself and make my next move or choice super-ultra-loving and supportive for me. Each next choice then has the opportunity to be more loving with myself and I love that I am aware of this.”… Amelia thank you, now I am aware and can feel this I will be deepening my level of appreciation for each self loving choice. Divine.
I can feel the love in your comment Amelia and it also gives me the willingness to do the same with myself when I realise I have chosen something harming, say, in my relationships, I can be “super-ultra-loving” with myself and make the next choice one that is extra supportive, extra tender…You introduce the philosophy of the fresh start which lifts a heavy weight from my shoulders, the weight of the blaming and judging, then becomes lighter and lighter cause I can choose now something loving and healing for me. And that is exactly what patients need, to consider their choices responsibly, but not blame themselves, just choose different.
Thank you Julia, for your clearly presented and highly informative blog. I had no idea that 50% of the determinants of our health quality was down to our life choices.
That really spells out how much the esoteric is needed!
Such a beautiful blog to read about bringing the esoteric back into medicine. We are missing so much without considering energy and the way we are choosing to live, when we look for healing of an illness or disease.
Thank you Julia, your blog here is easy to understand and makes a lot of sense.
Self-responsibility and understanding how our emotions affect us is what is needed. This quote captures the essence of your comprehensive blog. “Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us. Thus it is truly empowering, we can change things for as long as we choose to, for as long as we choose to live in gentleness and harmony within and without.”
The very best clinical medicine is not keeping up with the worldwide increase of illness. Esoteric Medicine is the vital missing link, without which the decline in overall health will continue.
Thank you Julia, having worked in a hospital for a number of years, I can so well relate to what you describe. Conventional medicine is amazing and can take away nearly all the symptoms imaginable, but the esoteric is what digs for the root that causes the symptoms to find true healing. If the two of them would team up in every field, the result would bring incredible changes to the world.
That sounds like common sense Michael.
Finding the missing link of the esoteric in my life has allowed me to feel more vital than I have felt in the past when I felt a victim of illness and disease. I too did the alternative choices for years and became very arrogant about mainstream medicine. Now I combine the esoteric way of living and visit my doctor when necessary and have found caring support from her. Usually when I have symptoms it is just my body clearing old patterns as the medical tests always come back negative. By understanding this I am not a victim anymore but can support my body to feel clearer. I am learning more and more that when I support my body with loving choices it gives back so much in vitality.
Such is the resistance to being responsible for our own predicaments that even when the World Health Organisation attributes the cause of illness and death to being 50% due to our lifestyle choices, 40 years later we are still running with the ‘someone else fix me’ mentality.
What a great article Julia, laying it out clearly that we do in fact have a choice and when we choose to live esoterically we are empowered to bring about great change. Not because we have to, but because we lovingly choose to.
‘under what energy are they being created today? That is the question.’ This is such a powerful question that brings the causes of illness and disease right into the present and to the individual. You are so right in your explanation of why the esoteric is the missing link in health, it makes so much sense, thank you Julia.
The cells in our body are created every day and destroyed every day, so there is a constant flow, the physical reflecting the energetic, as the energy we choose comes in and out the body, so do the cells, we never have the same body, it is not static. So we do have a choice of what we hold in every moment. Every second can be a fresh start, and what we choose matters. When I read that cancer cells (atypical) are created and destroyed every day, it all made sense.
Thank you Julia, a very important topic to be raised. Many health professionals are exhausted and burnt out themselves, one has to ask what is going to be the quality of care they provide to their patients? Responsibility starts with oneself and then we can share that level of care with others.
Thank you Julia for writing a beautiful, clear and honest article. It is so true that if we want true healing we have to learn to be honest and take responsibility for the choices we make in our lives instead of blaming everything and everyone. We have a tendency to blame those close to us but what I am learning as I become more responsible is not only does the blaming become less in my life but I can observe more how I am feeling in the situation where I choose blame.
Thank you Julia for your very informative blog. I am not a health practitioner but have had quite a lot to do with health Professionals due to some ill health in the past few years and I was not really too surprised by your Pie Graph and just how much we are personally responsible for our own illnesses. Esoteric medicine certainly is so very important in the way we view the healing of our bodies. This is something I have been learning over the past few years with the help of Universal Medicine and the wonderful Practitioners and Serge Benhayons teaching of the Ancient Wisdom.
What a powerful and thoroughly comprehensive article Julia. This is a must read for all health professionals, in fact for every human being. As you so eloquently wrote disease comes from us, not to us and when this truth does become accepted — for as you say it has already been known for a long time — this will prompt a huge shift in our attitudes towards disease and what truly causes it.
I agree Katerina- Julia’s article is gold – something for all humanity – especially health practitioners to read and absorb. When we really accept that the way we live is our good medicine or bad medicine then the biggest help practitioners can be to their clients is from the living example of their bodies from the way they live. I have worked in physiotherapy for many years and in the last 10 years I have lived a more self caring and self loving way and my body has transformed. I have dropped excess weight and old tension patterns, I don’t have a chronic pelvic , back problem anymore and I have way more vitality and joy at 50 than when I was 30. So when I suggest the way a client could care for themselves and their body – because its obvious I do – it carries weight – they are inspired to give it a go for themselves.
I agree Katerina, and the commitment Julia has made to express her understanding of health and ill health is a gift to humanity. ‘…disease comes from us, not to us’. These words will stay with me and they relate to disease of all types, not just our physical health.
Well said Bernadette & Katerina… Julia’s words ‘disease comes from us, not to us’ … is worth pondering deeply.
Great Bernadette, this concept of ‘disease coming from us’ is hugely self-empowering (rather than as some see it – as a blame thing) offering everyone the chance to take stock and observe their choices and the potential consequences they may have on their body.
So clearly presented Julia. Also so clear that each of us, like you is the change. One by one we bring in the esoteric way of living into our own lives and then there is a gentle spreading. I noticed that you said in capitals ‘letting others be’ I think that that is one of our hardest hurdles when we first find the esoteric as we want to share it, especially with those in our immediate circle. I am only just beginning to not impose the esoteric on my family because I am seeing so clearly that there is no grace in imposition. It’s taken such a long time for me to let go of trying to change others and I am not quite there yet but I understand from my body that it does not work, it only causes a hardening in others.
I totally agree with your point Alexis. I too, have tried not to impose, and if I slip and talk about it, rather than just be it, I can feel the shutters come down as people resist.
Yes, definitely there is a learning in talking about it from knowledge and then feeling the shutters go down as you say, or being present and listening to them and then speaking from another place, a deeper knowing and living, then we can be of service, and one can feel they don’t shut down to it. Work in progress, but I no longer want to shut up.
Yes, what I have observed within myself and others is that no-one can tell you to change and if they do quite likely you will want to do the opposite…but simply being inspired by another is the most powerful way that true change unfolds. So we just need to be ourselves and live the most loving life we can knowing that we are inspiring someone out there and someone is inspiring us.
I have felt that the esoteric is most certainly the missing link and it has been super lovely to have this confirmed by such an amazing article….We are the sum total of many choices, either made with awareness or not….for in any situation, there’s always a moment and it’s in listening to these moments, that I have felt the energy behind my choices. So increasingly I’m realising that in every way I am affecting my health and wellbeing.
I am shocked that 30 + years after the research and studies you write about we are seemingly further away from the truth than we were then …. is this representative of the depths to which our irresponsibility has sunk? And how much longer will the medical systems hold the energetic truth at bay?
Great article, Julia. Everything you write about make sense. We all experience that quick fix doesn’t work and still people are looking for it, they don’t want to do anything, they don’t want changes. It is crucial for everyone, especially for health practitioners as they have more authority, to rise the awareness of our choices and energetic truth.
Sometimes I find it difficult to “let people be” so as not to impose on them to change their lifestyle, but hey we are all learning and it is a fascinating and unfolding process.
Julia, there is such wisdom and gentleness in the questions you suggested – very grounding and inspiring.
It is astounding as you say Julia, that if the WHO is stating that 50% of the determinants for health is down to lifestyle, why is there very little training in either conventional medicine or complementary medicine to train health care professionals to support patients in addressing lifestyle?
Perhaps its partly because addressing lifestyle factors and thus choices is so confronting?
I agree Andrew, it is stated by WHO and medicine also know that lifestyle plays a huge part. Unfortunately, if it is not evidence based, it’s not accepted. The question is how can this be so overlooked.
Good question Andrew. Perhaps before health care professionals can support patients in addressing lifestyle they have to confront this in themselves?
I think we all know this, but going there, looking at what we do that is not so true, is a bit scary.
This was a long, but good reading Julia. What I found really interesting was the study you mentioned where they saw connections between peoples physical conditions and the way they were in life, as in the people with rheumatoid conditions that had a lot of aggressive outbursts. Perhaps this is something they should investigate further?
I so enjoyed reading this…Esoteric being the missing link ..taking responsibility for our own life and our daily choices. This makes so much sense. Instead of just carrying a belief in our bodies that illness and disease are just something that happens to us.
Thank you Julia, for a great article that should be headline news. Our choices are what lead us to the state of being that either harms or heals our selves or each other. We need something that brings about a self correction and that is the Esoteric. It is articles like this one that open up the possibility of another way, rather than remaining in the old stubbornness of something or someone will fix me.
It was great to see the graph of the determinates of health. People have taken some responsibility in that they exercise and eat healthier but there is so much more to living that affects our health. Is it possible that these are the only things advertised for improving health? I feel we need advertising about all aspects of healthy living to prevent disease/illness.
No matter in which camp we look, as long as we seek a fix rather than take the responsibility for the fact that our choices have something to do with our ill health conditions, no true healing is possible.
Well said Marcia…This article should be shared with many people.
Julia what you write here is powerful and needs to really be out there and shared with a much broader and wider audience. This is intrinsic to us as human beings. What you share makes complete sense and is absolutely profound. It certainly is the missing link. It makes me question why this is not spoken about let alone taught in our education system? Come on humanity – are we sleeping under a rock or what?
Very interesting point you raise Julia: our lifestyle is an important factor of why we get illnesses or have a healthy and joyful life. This is very little addressed. Most of medicine is still focused on the symptoms and a specific narrowed down area of the body. This blog provides an opportunity to ask the broader personal question: how have you been living? What have your choices been up until now? It gives us the option to choose for a different path, change our patterns and with that our lives.
The way we live Lee is definitely our best medicine. Wouldn’t it also be great, if the western medicine and esoteric medicine worked together, supporting people to empower their own lives?
The esoteric philosophy and approach to health is truly empowering. It allows a person to look at what they have done to contribute to their ill health and what they can do to contribute to their healing. The way we live is most certainly our best medicine.
Julia this is a sensational article. I really appreciate you articulating the marriage between your nursing practise wisdom and the teachings of Universal Medicine. I feel I will be re-reading for myself and sharing this article with many others.
This is revelation: “Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us.” It true how we, as a society have come to see ourselves as victims of illness, rather than the perpetrators – a convenient way to dodge responsibility perhaps? Which is crazy because if we are able to make healthy choices as an act of love and not obligation, we are ‘given’ that magic elixir we all so desperately search for! I loved this article Julia. It makes complete sense.
I couldn’t agree more Liane – responsibility is freedom!
Julia this is a great article which truly exposes what is happening in the field of medicine today. We are a quick fix society and nothing is our fault. As health professionals we need to stand back sometimes and allow people to feel their own irresponsibility. Often in nursing and medicine we ourselves want to fix everything and we have to ask ourselves why we need to do this. Does it make us feel good to be able to “fix” people or always have the answer, find the solution? I am learning to not feel this responsibility, to come with all the answers but to support my clients to feel what is happening for themselves, to walk alongside them for a short time, offer realistic treatments that they choose, and to leave them feeling like they have been truly met but not necessarily “fixed”.
It is great that you bring up this point for everyone who is in a helping profession to “not feel the responsibility of fixing people”. And I must say I have such an automatic response to do that, because that is what I do in my job, in emergency medicine you feel like a fixer, anything that is presented is treated with an immediate response of a fix…I love the space I feel in your words when you say that you are learning to support your clients to feel what is happening for themselves. My challenge at the moment is, when the situation allows, to help them see what they could do for themselves, instead of coming to A&E, or even it they choose to come. It is like giving them the ball back, they want me or us to have the ball. Well, if it is possible, it is always more evolving that they have the ball and can choose what to do with it.
I was working in a polyclinic in Norway a few years back and there wasn’t much I could do on a medical level but I felt that all the love and care I felt for the patients as I served them their meals was just as healing for them as the chemotherapy treatment they received.
‘When we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing.’ This is also my experience Julia, an amazing and beautiful one that could be utilized much more in medicine and life in general.
Hi Julia,
loved reading your article, gives me more of an insight and understanding how we can speak about this subject. I am not a nurse, but I come across many people who have health issues and don’t take responsibility, rather just continue their habits.
Thank you Julia, for writing such a clear, concise article. You capture the reality of how it truly is in the medical world. That is, where we (humanity) actually are at, in our state of health. Not just in our local community where we live, but globally. The first step is literally right under our nose. That is, the way we live. As revealed in your article, lifestyle factors and choices are attributed to 50% of all illnesses, disease. Esoteric living, certainly is true medicine, which has the potential to improve the state of health in our communities. Thank you for describing the term psychosomatic medicine and psychoneuroimmunology. I too, work as a registered nurse in recovery (PACU), and one thing I have often noticed, is the similarity of personality or behavior traits associated with particular diseases listed in past medical history assessments. This has always intrigued me, so now I know there is an actual science that describes this.
I loved reading your article Julia, it so informative and a call for us all to take greater responsibility for our lifestyle choices and health.
The WHO graph clearly confirms that 50% of illness and diseases is attributed to lifestyle factors. How dire does it have to get before we are willing to take more care?
Esoteric Medicine does offer this missing link and along with western medicine provides a wholistic approach, where we can also address any disharmonious behaviour and underlying issues adding to dis- ease.
Lovely to read your blog again – it all makes such sense. As you say ‘esoteric medicine is all about choosing to change the way we live according to what is harmonious for the body’, and once we begin to put the body first and let go of the diversions of the mind we can assist the healing that is offered by conventional medicine. With all the amazing advances that have taken place in medicine we no longer have an excuse for our high level of illness and disease and yet it still goes on increasing. It feels as though this will not change until we begin to support our own health by giving precedence to the inside of our body and how it works. We spend an inordinate amount of time and money on the outside of our body and how it looks, and it is now time to give the same attention to the inside. In honouring our body we also change the outside to bloom and blossom from the contentment within.
Great reflection Sue, and very pertinent for our society nowadays, to be able to shift the focus to the inside and not so much effort on the outside of our bodies will change much. The quality we feel in the inside of our bodies, and dealing with the uneasiness or discomfort that one may feel at times, will improve our well-being enormously. And as you say, it will certainly be reflected on the outside too!.
“…does a huge crisis have to happen before they find space to look around and feel what is needed?” It seems a crisis is here already in the UK, yet Western medicine gets more entrenched in looking for ‘cures’ rather than the big picture and the why we are getting so sick as a nation, and world. A great article Julia.
A truly eye-opening article Julia, bravo. As a student of the esoteric myself I wholeheartedly agree with what you say, conventional medicine and esoteric medicine can truly work together. I also agree with Joan’s comment above, that this article should be shared with as many people as possible.
It appears that humanity has not yet embraced the evidence that ALL lifestyle choices affect our state of being/health. It may be that they’re not ready to take responsibility for themselves, preferring instead to blame, meantime the health and wellbeing of the world is at rock bottom and it can only get worse if things don’t change. I believe that “charity begins at home” and if we continue to live the esoteric (to the best of our ability) ourselves, we can then show the world that it doesn’t need to be this way.
Coming back to your article again, Julia, I am aware that you have covered everything that needs to be addressed very simply, but with very clear evidence of where conventional medicine and alternative medicine are failing to understand what is really going on, and what needs to change. It seems so difficult for us, let alone institutions, to accept that it is that 50%, the choices of life style, that is the significant factor in health. That 50% is still mainly ignored reveals how reluctant we are to take responsibility for our choices. This article needs to be shared with as many people as possible.
Thank you Julia, for such a beautifully clear picture of how Conventional Medicine and Esoteric Medicine can work together in providing true harmony and health to all people.
Such a beauty-full description of how conventional & esoteric medicine are complementary. From what you have shared, the one can’t truly work without the other. It is a pity that medical students (& the rest of humanity) are missing out on this vital piece of the puzzle.
I agree with you Carmin – a beautiful blog and educationally fulfilling presented by Julia nearly 3 years ago, but is so relevant today. I especially noted the graph wheel on Health Factor Determinants and see that even then there was a real understanding that lifestyle choices have an effect on our health at all levels – and wonder have we as a society really taken on board the possibility of the element of truth within this World Health Organization research result? I have found a deeper and clearer understanding of what my own lifestyle choices have had on my body by attending the Universal Medicine presentations with Serge Benhayon – beyond enlightening indeed.
This is one of the clearest and straight forward health care perspectives I’ve read in a while. I absolutely appreciate the visual representation of the pie chart, for this spells-out to the reader – that we’ve recognised already, many years ago the importance of lifestyle choices, yet we’ve not progressed down that pathway (and how could we not, if indeed 50% of illness and disease can be attributed directly due to these choices).
I love a health care professionals perspective. It really brings the message home the way we as a society are choosing to live, in complete ignorance of the only thing we will ever truly own, our body. The answer to absolutely everything is right inside us. Look no further. The more we can really connect to this and share it, the easier it will become for all of us. It is hard to do initially, especially when we have chosen a different path for soooo long…but the more we make it a loving choice the quicker we will return to our natural rhythms.
We put far to much emphasis on western medicine to have the answers and to fix us but when we start to look at the bigger picture we can see how much more there is to medicine and how we play such a large part in our well being or lack of. Your statistics say it all!
That is a triple miracle Ulrike: one, that you recovered from ovarian cancer, two that you knew that if you continued living the same way you were not really healing the underlying causes, so you would most probably get sick again, and three that thanks to finding esoteric medicine and committing to living a different way you were able to heal yourself at the deepest level. I totally relate to that in my life.
So true Julia, the esoteric is the missing link. Although I recovered from ovarian cancer many years ago, I didn’t start to heal the underlying causes, until I came across esoteric medicine. For this I am truly grateful.
Esoteric Medicine IS the missing link but it requires a lot of self-responsibilty to come to that acceptance. All the more reason to admire the authors and commenters of this blog who are not only brave enough to roll up their sleeves and admit that life is not working in its present form but also take a closer look at why and how we might truly evolve out of it.
The first step is definitely admitting that life is not working in its present form, and it is probably the most difficult to take, because most of us have a need to defend our way of life, and so are not seeing the harm we are actually allowing on ourselves and others.
So true… Dean.
Well said Dean, ‘self responsibility’, these are words I balked at for most of my life but now fully embrace. It is the only way forward. Like you I have nothing but admiration and respect for those who initiated and continue to write for this blog site. Not only are they exposing what isn’t working, they don’t leave us adrift as they, from their own experiences, are giving us an opportunity to see there might just be another way.
Beautifully elucidated Jeanette. I feel that many of us have had experiences in life that if we shared, like the writers of this blog, we would be such a great support to other people who have not yet understood it or could use a deeper perspective. We do tend to hold a lot of our own wisdom in.
So beautifully expressed Julia – You really have brought it all together. I love how you have given statistics and shown how for many years now it has been clear that the lifestyle choices we make will have an impact on our health and wellbeing. And the missing link in it all – that which lies within all of us and that which we cannot continue to ignore any more: the esoteric (common sense love, really, from within). A very self empowering piece of writing! Thank you.
Great reading for patients, healthcare workers and the public more widely. Your article is groundbreaking, dispelling the illusion we’ve conveniently adopted, that illness and disease happen to us, the innocent bystanders or victims of fate. Your blog suggests that there is another way, one that comes merely from making self-loving daily choices in true respect of the body we walk around in; choices which can not only impact our risk of medical conditions further down the line but that bring harmony to our lives more generally too.
It is certainly true that western medicine, in its current form, cannot keep up with the increasing levels of illness and disease, and that people must start to take responsibility for their everyday choices, which affect their health.
Yes, maybe it has to get really much worse with the overloading of the medical and health systems not being able to cope with the increasing avalanche of illness and disease, for everyone to realize that we have to do our part, to be aware of the influence we do have in our health and the consequences of the way we live not only affect us but everyone else.
Julia what a great article reminding us that medicine is more than a “pill box remedy” or a “quick fix pill”.
That’s right, it is the long loving journey of a life well lived.
What a beautiful and true comment Lisa. It made me stop and feel my own life.
What a wonderful article, and the pie chart very surprising (but not really), I am finding more and more that we do know this. I have found this to be true for myself and many more are discovering the same thing. That the way we live and the choices we make do have a consequence down the track, that we can take responsibility for ourselves back and support ourselves hugely with practical and loving changes in how we live, in combination with the appropriate medical and esoteric treatments and procedures. The beauty of esoteric medicine combined with conventional medicine, a marriage made in heaven.
Jeanette it does raise some really interesting questions like if we’ve known this for many many years why have things not changed? That’s where as you say esoteric medicine combined with conventional medicine is now showing what the answers actually are.
Yes Jeanette, and as hard as it has been to take that responsibility for both the consequences and that we are the source of them, it is wonderfully freeing.
Great article. As a teen I suffered from chronic pain (headaches & migraines). I ended up as an outpatient at a pain management clinic. It was not until I was there sitting in the waiting room under the huge sign that said “Pain Management Clinic” that I thought: “Hang on a second, I’m not here to learn how to “manage” this pain”, and so began my journey of understanding, healing and no more chronic pain. The key for me was that first I took responsibility, then I recognised both the value and limitations of Western Medicine and went to Esoteric Medicine for the elements of my healing that is outside of the scope of Western Medicine – I took a holistic view of myself and my approach.
Modern medicine and the esoteric are a perfect match.
And their pairing would benefit so many people.
Thankyou Julia, your words are full of wisdom and truth. I totally agree, Esoteric medicine truly complements Conventional Medicine and is the missing link in the foundations of true health and well being for all. How we live is definitely medicine.
Hear hear, I am so grateful to have the energetic awareness and understanding of esoteric medicine along with the functional support of mainstream medicine. It has changed the way I live and view my life.
Agree Helen, it adds that missing link to a functional, supportive and loving health system that everyone is screaming for.
Inspiring blog Julia. “The belief that illness ‘happens to me’ is very ingrained, and the focus is very much on the performance and the function of the physical body to the exclusion of all else, such that there can be no true harmony.” This is a very powerful point. For without considering the quality of energy that a person is living in, that drives their daily repeated actions, how can you truly understand the cause of dis-ease? How then are you able to bring true healing to one’s life and not just fix a part of one’s body, for now…? We need to be willing to consider and open up to the possibility that there is more, that we are more than just skin and bone. Esoteric healing provides the support, love and care for true well-being to be experienced and sustained.
I agree with you Carola, we need to be willing to consider and open up to the possibility that there is more, that we are more than just skin and bone. Although the medical system, and the pressure it is under, is going in another direction, and it only barely has the resources to put out fires, to treat in most cases just the physical and at best improve function, we are not going to give up, because we know there is another way. There is true healing and harmony and love, and it has a lot to do with the energy we live in every day.
The conjunction of esoteric medicine with western medicine is not to say that doctors should judge their patients nor force down their throats that ‘you have this illness because of the way you are living’, and you should therefore ‘sort yourself out’; but rather, the knowledge that the esoteric wisdom brings, and the shared experience of people dealing with their emotional issues which then have had a major impact on their health, can allow doctors to share more with their patients of why it is that they are getting ill, and what they can do to deal with their issues, heal their illness, and then live in a way that guarantees it never to come back again. In this sense, esoteric medicine can empower people. This energetic understanding of illness and disease has aided me hugely in my life, in helping me to heal my medical illness; the world needs to know about the tremendous benefits and support that esoteric medicine can bring. As you say, Julia: esoteric medicine is the missing key to solving all of the world’s medical issues.
I appreciate you showing that there are indeed scientific studies that show that there is more to illness and health than the biochemical view, and manipulating the function of the organs. Humanity can only benefit from our greater awareness and addressing every aspect of our life that affects our health. Well worth being open and looking into this further as your articles suggests.
If over 50% of illness and disease is attributable to lifestyle choices we really should stop and say, right, enough of allowing the things we know don’t support us being well. I love how you present the importance of the energy involved in what we do, if we have an “imbalance” that makes us sick then we need to make a self correction to how we live, that makes a lot of sense to me. I marvel at how the esoteric medicine gets to the root of the reasons for the self abuse, that to me is the revelatory part and why it is so complementary to western medicine.
The pie-chart spells it out loud and clear Julia: It shows by a huge percentage that the most prevalent factor in the manifestation of illness and disease is the way we live and yet we still automatically want to blame our genes, bad luck, the environment as the primary cause of disease. If this 50% factor is the determinent on health that our lifestyle has, then the esoteric principles, which are all about our choices in life and how they impact on our body, would, if they become part of the way we live have an equally huge positive sway on the health/illness statistics.
And that is actually the bastardization of true medicine. The way it is going nowadays. For instance, and I know first hand, thousands of people taking anti-diabetic tablets, that do not know that they have type II diabetes, or they do not care, they eat whatever they like, have no information about the way they can improve their health (and maybe they are not interested). Responsibility shared with the medical profession. It is obvious that if you have a diet very low in sugar and carbohydrates you can avoid or reduce to the minimum the drugs and the development of the illness, it is the first step and sometimes the only step needed, diet and exercise. Medicine should be a way to heal ourselves, to support our own development and not to give us what we need to be as unaware as possible, as careless as possible, numbing ourselves to the consequences of our actions. True medicine that heals forever is so needed in our world.
Julia, what an awesome blog you have written and very powerful. What esoteric medicine offers us in the way of understanding the root cause of our ills is a true gift if we are as you say ready to look at and take responsibility for the way we live and our choices. I look forward to science discovering more of this truth and bringing it out for all to see, and I look forward to the day when the majority know and understand this and thus truly begin to live it.
Julia, beautifully expressed article, and I loved that last line ‘when we connect and not judge they open up, then there is love and healing’. It applies to every interaction we have.
Yes, to not judge is the key – to just connect and present from love – wherever we are or whatever we do. Thank you Julia and Catherine – wonderful blog, thank you.
I love this article, so beautifully expressed, very clear, and makes a lot of sense about the way most of our society approach their health and how that attitude is causing the increasing number of complex illnesses and becoming unmanageable for the medical profession. They need the support and truth of Esoteric Medicine as they are becoming so overwhelmed the whole system is in danger of cracking up, but they still attempt to put it right by the same old means that have never worked. Will they wake up to what is offered in time, or does a huge crisis have to happen before they find space to look around and feel what is needed? Many individuals within the service know it, but enabling the authorities above them, government, medical associations and administration to feel deeper into what the things they pay lip service to (eg. “well-being”), takes so much longer and may be too late. Also the press love a crisis to sensationalise and muddy the waters.
You ask “Will they wake up to what is offered in time, or does a huge crisis have to happen before they find space to look around and feel what is needed?” The thing is that we have plenty of evidence that we are already in a crisis! from the statistics on illness and disease, from the shortage in facilities even in the more well-off countries, from the fact that NHS doctors in the UK are now allowed only 10 minutes per patient so they can have a chance of dealing with the demand, from the number of people who are going from one specialist to another in the hope of discovering just what the problem is, and the list can go on. We just keep turning a blind eye and try to cope.
The evidence provided by so many who have turned their health and their lives round shows that Universal Medicine provides great wisdom and understanding that can broaden our view and our approach to health. It would be irresponsible to keep a blinkered view when all is so clearly not working.
yes Golnaz, and so it is up to us to go out there and show and share that there is another way, but to also ask first, “Why is the old way not working?”
So many truths in this blog and so comprehensive concerning why the Esoteric complementary health practices have a place along side conventional medicine. As you say it is so true that often “both the conventional medicine users and the alternative medicine users want quick fixes.” ‘Quick fixes’ are just that and unless we look at the quality and intention that we live with, we do not get to the root of what is occurring.
So true Julia we need to take the responsibility of our own lifestyle choices and wake up to the fact there is no magic pill now or will never be unless the magic pill is our decision to take complete responsibility in all our choices.
The missing link is a great way to look at it. It is as if we take our car to the garage because something is wrong with it and the mechanic only looks at the workings of the car without asking how we are driving the car.
What a beautiful post Julia, blended with personal experience, observations and facts. Your words hold a lot of wisdom and understanding of humanity.
What you have written is very powerful. It brings focus to the way we have lived and how we are living and asks the question how could we have forgotten what was so fundamentally important to us and what we knew to be true, that with regards to the body and health the whole must be accounted for. We know this from history yet as you so rightly say now the majority of us “still carry very strongly a belief in our bodies that illness and disease is just bad luck, it’s the genes, it’s the environment, its my mother’s fault, or it’s the system. We blame everybody and everything (including the health professionals) instead of admitting we do have responsibility and the way we live could possibly have a part in it”. It is time we claimed back what we know to be true and take responsibility for ourselves and our lives, we have a lot to learn and remember.
Julia every time I read this I want to see it on the front pages of newspapers. It is an excellent article. The phenomenon that is I want to continue doing what I have always done ” take my pain away so that I don’t have to look at the way I live, the way I eat, walk, talk, think, sleep, etc.’ is fascinating and in itself proof that there is much more going on than the eye can see. Energy is there before thought. What is running us that allows these thoughts to ignore, bury, resist etc. To avoid responsibility. Much to ponder thank you.
I agree Vanessa. This is a powerfully written article that needs to be read by many people. We need to get back to the basics and consider the whole picture not just the biochemical model. If we are going to get out of this health care mess we need to start encouraging more people to take more responsibility for their own health. Even the NHS is saying this now!
We also need to be willing as health care professionals to say the truth of what is happening. Working in A&E I see everyday people who come and overload the system because they are not taking care of themselves, they have totally given up on looking after themselves and have given their power away to the medical profession to a point where they seem hopeless and ignorant, when actually, they are just not using their own resources to take steps and do their part. The problem is that there is a consciousness that tells nurses and doctors to go with it, and not expose it, cause you could be sued, or reported or get complaints from the patients if you say: why did you not clean the wound before coming to A&E? why did you not help your daughter giving her a pain killer or did not check her temperature? Why are you giving him crisps and chocolate for lunch when he has a tummy ache and has been vomiting? Health education becomes an issue when people are not willing to take responsibility.
Brilliant Julia – “in conjunction esoteric medicine and conventional medicine can bring about true and consistent healing for humankind”, so true
Great article Julia, medicine is everything we do from what we eat to how we sleep or the pharmaceuticals we may need. It just amazes me how we cannot face the fact that how we live and treat ourselves is the number 1 cause of all illness and disease. 50% seems too low of a percentage maybe more like 90?
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon
So simple, as always, yet so often, as you have stated, disregarded. People often do not want to look at the way they live, most, including myself for a long time, do not even truly question that this can impact so hugely on our lives. By simply becoming more aware of the choices we make and the outcomes of these choices we are able to learn to look after ourselves more. Conventional medicine is great, but it would be far greater if we took the time to become more responsible for ourselves so that we did not have to rely upon it as we do today.
“The way you live can be the best medicine or the worst poison” – Serge Benhayon
There is no escaping the simple truth of this statement. Conventional medicine is an essential part of the whole but the choices we each make in the way we live are an equal part of our overall health well-being. Since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon and being more aware of the choices I make in the way I care for myself, my health and vitality have improved enormously.
Thank you for this well researched article Julia. I wonder why we have ignored this overwhelming statistic that 50% of health issues are about lifestyle? Could it be we don’t want to give up our comforts until they are life threatening? I love where you say ‘Medicine in its current form does not change the way we live, whereas esoteric medicine is all about choosing to change the way we live according to what is harmonious for the body.’ I have found through making changes to my lifestyle like giving up smoking, drinking and sugar I am more healthy than I have ever been. Its so interesting to read about how there are emotional types that are more likely to have particularly diseases. Fascinating and definitely worth considering.
Julia great article I love the simplicity of what you have shared. But also how your research shows that it is proven that there is more to illness and disease than it just being bad luck and unfortunate. That how we really live, the choices we make and the emotions have a major influence in the way our bodies respond. Thanks for an insightful sharing.
I love how you have shared so clearly and simply about medicine and health is our responsibility and esoteric healing as fundamental to us all.
How we live is our responsibility and is our own medicine and is either good or bad for us and our bodies, I agree and there are so many today as living proof of this.
Thank you for this important article for us all.
Julio, this is a fantastic article. I love the way that you have made it all so simple and understandable for everyone to grasp. Esoteric Medicine is the missing link beyond any shadow of a doubt, I have proven this to myself in numerous ways. It’s tenet that “everything is medicine” will change the way we live once we understand it. Everything is either good medicine or bad medicine. A relationship is either good medicine or bad medicine. Something I eat is either good medicine or bad medicine for my body. Every single thing for me is now medicine.
I love the simplicity with which you have shared – medicine is not about choosing between conventional or complementary, but a beautiful marriage of the two for all of humanity. Conventional medicine could support us so much more if we visited a doctor with a body that we had fed and nurtured with love.
Fantastic and much needed article Julia. Some great points and it brings it back to ourselves and our responsibility for our choices, our lifestyle..for everything. Could it be that we create our reality by how we live?
Awesome article – simply stating the obvious facts that Epigenetic = our lifestyle has to be considered when looking at Health.
Julia, this is a powerful article. It provides all the missing links needed in medicine today, and provides a platform for the future merging of the esoteric approach and conventional medicine. I always felt that we were not just ‘victims’ of a certain illness or disease. That belief just feels so dis-empowering, and how amazing is it that we could catch the energetic momentum that causes a particular disease by the way we are living years in advance of it actually physically manifesting in our bodies. Now THAT’S
empowering and a true way forward with responsibility for our actions and lives.
Brilliant article Julia, thank you. It highlighted for me how stubborn we can be in not wanting to accept the part we have to play in creating our own illnesses.
This impact that the way we live our lives is what science today is showing with Epigenetic’s and that Genetic’s isn’t the real cause of most illness and disease. That the way we live and all our behaviours and patterns that we hold onto for dear life are having and creating what it is that is killing us. When I realised this was exactly what was going on I thought ‘Ok so if my choices are a direct reflection of how my body is then I am going to look after it to the best of my ability’. After letting go of all that I knew not to be good for i.e. Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs etc but then the support of Universal Medicine I came to an understanding that my emotional way of being has an enormous effect on the body as well. That is the next layer that I am working on.
Wow Julia, you really spelled it here; that the info. (the main origin of our woes) has been right in our hands and we have just been choosing to ignore it.
I can see how we do need things to get very bad before we let go of the old ways/things we hold onto for “comfort” and learn to live in a different way.
This is a fantastic article Julia. You have clearly presented the responsibility we have to take into consideration our life style choices and the effect these have on our well being. With the combination of medicine and looking at ourselves and how we live in a realistic way, we are able to empower and support ourselves greatly.
As you say Beverley it is so empowering once we take responsibility for our own lives and realise that our body is informing us all the time in every moment of the day as to what we need to do to support it and our health. It is wonderful feeling knowing that we are able to support ourselves in this way.
Yes indeed Beverley. It is very empowering to take responsibility for how we are living and brings about much healing combined with medical support. To know I could be part of my healing was
an incredible feeling.
Even that is a loving choice, Ruth. To feel incredibly empowered by the realization that you can be part of your healing. I have had the experience of people completely refusing to accept or even consider the fact that we have a part in creating our illnesses, the reaction can be enormous, cause you can also chose to feel guilty and pressured and not do anything about it. So great for you.
What’s amazing is through learning the way of the livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon the pieces of the puzzle can fit together again. Being constantly reminded that it is absolutely this combination that makes up the whole supports you in taking full responsibility for all areas of your life, be it the food you choose to eat, the doctor you go to see about that lump or the feeling you just can’t ignore it’s about bringing all these elements together to live in “full”. It’s simple when you remember you own it all and a lot more fun than trying to find someone else to blame.
This is so true, Julia, that the medical profession are not trained at all to look at the energy that the patient is living in. Or also, more importantly, the energy that nurse or doctors are all choosing, which will affect everyone in every day. The research developments, double blind trials etc, have led to people believing that they need evidenced based treatments, and this is also financially self generating, needing more research etc.
You’re absolutely right that we need to learn to change our habits more easily, and look at the esoteric and conventional way of medicine together.
Thank you Julia. You have written such a wise and comprehensive article on illness, disease and general ill health which explains so simply about our own responsibility towards ourselves. Thank you to Serge Benhayon for bringing us back to the awareness of the Esoteric and the medicine we can live everyday.
Thank you Julia for sharing your wisdom and love. Your understanding of how Esoteric Medicine is the ‘missing link’ that is missing from Western Medicine which is supported by the evidence that you have so ably presented. I love things that are simple and makes sense – and all that you have written is certainly that. In particular the following:
‘Medicine in its current form does not change the way we live, whereas esoteric medicine is all about choosing to change the way we live according to what is harmonious for the body. Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us. Thus it is truly empowering, we can change things for as long as we choose to, for as long as we choose to live in gentleness and harmony within and without.’
This is an amazing article Julia, thank you. It is so clear from your writing that there is evidence that lifestyle is the main factor when it comes to illness. It is sad that this evidence is being largely ignored in a world where most people are ill! Is it possible that the professionals are largely ignoring these facts simply because it exposes them in their own life-style choices?
Your comment feels true for me Rebecca, I did not want to see anything that made me feel uncomfortable. Now that I am more open to seeing things in other people and I feel an association, it is probably time for me to look within!
Yes Rebecca, it is very possible that health professionals ignore these facts cause they expose their own choices, and rock the boat for a need to change not only for ourselves but also for our patients, that might very well be why prevention has been kept for years as part of the job but not for ourselves. I was in a course on health education by a very renowned teacher on the subject that was obese, when I questioned her about the fact that we can be examples and inspirations to our patients, she totally refused my suggestion, and told me that the program works and it does not matter what the professional does or what kind of life she lives. Too much exposure!!
Thank you Julia, you have here started the ball rolling by stating how powerful it is to re-introduce the esoteric philosophy, psychology and medicine to your field of work and heath care in general. Everybody could benefit from its invaluable contribution towards understanding illness and disease and offering us all the realisation that in fact, our health is our own responsibility.
Great article Julia. It really shows how the Esoteric that has been dismissed for so long could so easily take it’s rightful place alongside conventional medicine and how much better we would all be if this were so. The attitude towards taking responsibility for ourselves and our health is something that seems to have declined a lot in my lifetime. People not only blame others for their situation but also want to be re-imbursed financially for it. On a personal level my idea of self-responsibilty may not have changed much but the way I live has. I started making permanent life-style changes more than 20 years ago when I stopped smoking. Since 2005 I have been inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to try other things like going to bed early and getting up early which I have found very supportive to my health and well being. I no longer burden my body with alcohol nor eat foods that have an extreme effect on my body like coffee and sugar and this is because the way I live gives me enough energy without resorting to these “helpers” This has happened slowly though and I am continually making changes depending on what my body needs at the time. We can do so much to help ourselves and the already over-burdened National Health System. I feel the esoteric holds the key here to showing us the way.
Such a great Article Julia. thank you. The contribution that Esoteric Philosophy can make to the Healthcare system is huge. It should be taught on all medical training courses and every home. When we take true responsibility for the choices we make our lives are transformed.
Since learning the importance of looking after my body and well-being, I have looked back at the choices that I made in the past. I can say that I put my body through a lot of physical and physiological trauma and all along I was choosing to be ignorant of the affects of my choices. The fact that 50% of illnesses occur due to lifestyle choices is a very important statistic to highlight as it puts the responsibility squarely on our shoulders. It is not a burden to bear, but a power we have to make choices that don’t burden our health care system, our families/friends and our selves.
Thank you Julia I too love your article and the importance of the esoteric in medicine and our health.
My father was a doctor and I grew up around medicine and our home being part of the surgery when I was young and saw how everyone was looking for a quick fix to get better and for someone/ thing else to put them right.
He would have a bottle of pink pills which were just sugar and often gave them to people and suggest they take more care of themselves, also to rest at the same time, and who would simply feel better as they were taking something. Interesting really.
We can all self care for ourselves in learning to heal our bodies from within with responsibility and loving choices.
Brilliant article Julia, thank you. It lays out so well how the way we live impacts our health and our responsibility with this. Esoteric medicine was the link for me with this and I have vastly improved my health and life since taking responsibility for and changing the way I was living. I love how you write about supporting colleagues too.
“Esoteric Medicine is based on the fact that illness happens from us and not to us. Thus it is truly empowering, we can change things for as long as we choose to.”
Great article Julia you have hit the nail on the head here with many of your comments.
Having worked in the healthcare sector for many years it is painfully obvious to me how a lack of responsibility for ones own health is rife in our society.
fantastic article Julia thank you! We do not like our habits to be challenged, they soothe us! Unfortunately they also kill us. Taking up healthy habits has been so wonderful and enhanced my quality of life. And saved me a fortune on alcohol and cigarettes!
I love this article Julia! I love how you have pointed out the studies that have already shown the relationship between our choices (lifestyle) and health. This leads me to question why over the last 40 years or so their findings have not been integrated more fully into the medical field. Is it possible that the 50% statistic is too confronting and that as a society we would rather bury our proverbial heads in the sand rather than take individual responsibility for our choices?
I feel that you have made a true statement there, Michelle, as I know that even now I struggle to take full responsibility for my own health, and find myself seeking something to cure the symptoms so I can feel “better”. This seems to be the predominant attitude, and I can see how hard it is for the proven findings that our choices of life-style make a huge difference to the our well-being,, to be taken on board and implemented. All the more reason for greater exposure of this and raise more awareness..
I agree Alison, until we are ready to want to look at our ills most will be content on blaming others and even when, as you say, we are presented with all the facts some are still reluctant to take responsibility.
Thank you Julia, for a simple and clearly written article, it seems to me that we put a lot of pressure on the medical profession to come up with the answers and I definitely agree that introducing Esoteric Medicine into hospitals would be the healing way forward for us all.
A very well researched, clearly written and much needed article Julia thank you. I love how you included a PI Chart, which gives us a visual representation of the determinants of health and which clearly shows that our lifestyle is the most important factor in determing the health of the body….I totally agree when you say that we have a responsibility ,as health professionals, to re-introduce Esoteric Medicine with in Hospitals and I would also add, within our communities. As students of Esoteric Medicine, we know there is a bigger picture to Illness and disease and if we choose to not share this knowing,we are doing a great disservice to all.
Yes Elizabeth,I agree, it is time for the Esoteric to be brought back into mainstream medicine.
Such a well researched and empowering article Julia and yes Carmel, Self-Care should be made a compulsory subject for all medical students. It might put a bit of a damper on the profits at the bar as they become more aware of the effects of alcohol and stop championing the hangover and the need for coffee to recover from it!
I find it so sad that so many people receiving serious diagnoses are convinced it is from their genes and nothing to do with their lifestyle. Perhaps Self-Care should be made a compulsory subject for all medical students, so they can realise its importance and share their experiences with their future patients.
Julia, such a profound blog. I love how you break down medicine and it’s approaches, and what you say that illness comes from us and not how we often view it as something happening to us. And of course with that there’s a great empowerment as we can choose to change the energy. What a responsibility and a gift. We’re not done by, we can choose and with Esoteric Medicine we have the tools to work with Conventional Medicine to truly heal. Life indeed is medicine and thanks to Universal Medicine we’re now aware of this once more.
This really is an outstanding article and so well written Julia – I love it and plan to print and email to all I know who would be very inspired by what you are saying here.
The bit that is really highligted to me is the fact that the World Health Organisation had said 40 years ago that over 50% is attributed to lifestyle.
All I know is illness and disease are escalating and we have done nothing to change and look at this important factor called Lifestyle.
For me the Esoteric was the missing link. I had a tumour and nearly died in 2008. Even after surgery my goal was to get back and live the old lifestyle. It was not until I was introduced to the principles and teachings of the esoteric that things started to change and today how I live is the best medicine as you quote from Serge Benhayon.
Well written and well researched. Excellent article Julia. Its disturbing to see that the medical profession is aware of these figures but still do nothing or very little to bring them into general awareness.
Very well said Tim – it’s staggering that many of the basic facts are not clearly and consistently presented into the “general awareness”.
It seems to me that the medical system, as we all have configured it, has its professionals too busy dealing with symptoms to campaign for more accountability in peoples lives even when they know this is the largest factor between health & disease…
They are being squeezed by many forces:
1. the people (us) demanded it to bring us relief from our mounting woes.
2. a worldwide mindset of seeking outside ourselves for relief & answers.
3. a research system propelled (funded) by what we all WANT to hear;
for example: that alcohol, chocolate and dairy are good for you with no open mention of the known ill effects sugar has on the body…
4. a deep seated fear in humanity of looking our true responsibilities in the eye…and the plethora of distracting pseudo ‘truths’ that feed our minds to rationalize one scape-goat after another, running from what we already feel/know inside… The truth via the Esoteric.
Have we no time OR is it, no willingness to act on what we know?
How long do we want to run, trying to make do, existing farther and farther beneath our true intended, vital & Loving way of Living?
Yes Tim, we have a collapsing NHS, so people being responsible for their lifestyle would be a first step in addressing their health…so what is it going to take for medical profession to start presenting the truth?
The thing here is personal responsibility, something human beings want to avoid at all costs. The medical profession does know, and since this study there was the development of primary care in the world with prevention as one of the foundational goals, but of course we need:
1. to be as health professionals individually committed with our own health and accept the exemplifying effect we have and
2. the refining of prevention, from big measures that keep cancer and illnesses at bay to the day to day every moment care for one´s well being and vitality.
I completely agree with what you say regarding personal responsibility it seems this is something we do not want to take. What underlies the reason for this?
From my experience starting to take responsibility for myself, my health, my choices is by far the best and most empowering thing I have done. There is still a long way to go with this, what I am discovering is responsibility for ourselves never stops but forever deepens, there is a joy in taking responsibility for our health and our choices. To me responsibility and feeling come hand in hand. A lot of us don’t want to feel our choices we have made, or feel what is happening around us in the world so check out with TV, alcohol, drugs, anything to numb ourselves, we have been and are looking and using things to stop us from feeling what is really going on.
The one person that actually brought this whole topic to light for me is Serge Benhayon. Serge asks simple questions we should all be asking ourselves, but he does not only ask the question he lives in a way that is harmonious, feeling what needs to be felt with observation and taking responsibilty for his actions, choices and health. From the 8 years I have known Serge he has shown me there is another way to live, this comes at a much needed time as we seem to be in more illness and dis-ease than ever, including bankruptcy of our health care system.
This is such an important article, Julia with many interesting facts and figures that cannot be ignored. If 50% of the state of our health can be directly attributed to lifestyle choices, then why isn’t it given more importance? GPs do ask general questions like “Do you smoke?” and “How many units of alcohol do you drink per week?” and perhaps they can add “How much coffee do you drink each day?” or “How are you at work?” or “How do you feel when you wake up each morning?” or “What time do you go to bed?” or “How are you nurturing yourself?” and encourage self-care as part of the medical prescription.
I totally agree Carmel and it is a great idea to take into consideration: new, more refined questionnaires to assess health and well being, but in order for that to happen, the researchers and the medical profession in general needs to evolve, so that we all pay closer attention to how certain foods make us feel, how certain sleep patterns affect us, how the way we get dressed or walk, or speak change our experience of ourselves and our vitality. We need to start asking the questions first to ourselves and then to the patients: what makes you feel full of life?, how can you conduct yourself so that you don´t feel drained at the end of the day or even half way through? Is the way you eat nurturing for the body? If we all asks those questions, we will start to raise the standards of what healthy is.
Great questions, Julia – much more life-changing than the questions on any school or university examination paper!
Great and comprehensive piece Julia.
This article: http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/21/is-your-doctor-burned-out-nearly-half-of-u-s-physicians-say-theyre-exhausted/ only came out couple of days ago and it was shared by another esoteric student and a consultant surgeon (http://www.thesoulfuldoctor.co.uk)
Although it is about doctors in America and how burnt out they are it can easily transcend to other countries around the world. Same/similar topics have been taking more prominent spaces in UK’s press too. So if doctors and nurses are generally so exhausted – more than the general working population – as this article states, where does this leave the patients? It is deeply disturbing for us as a society, to have medical care personnel suffering job related fatigue, turning to alcohol, even drugs and copious amounts of coffee. A wake up call is well overdue!
Last week I had tea with a young 4th year medical student. He is evidently very academic, (already working on his doctorate!) and has a genuine love for people which can be felt not just heard. Whilst he was talking how demanding the study is and how many hours he has to study and work at various clinics at some point he was describing how between his student colleagues they compare who has had more coffees by certain time in the day; so somebody would say: oh, I am on my 12th…These are 20+ year olds who are meant to be full of energy and not needing any stimulants to keep them awake and working. How calm can any one of us be after 1 coffee let alone 2,5,8….It did not used to be like this and it does not have to be like this. Your heartfelt appeal is excellent, particularly as it comes from the very place that already offers medical healing and now hand in hand with esoteric. Thank you Julia.
Bravo Julia!. Claro y rotundo. Cuando las cosas se explican desde la experiencia tienen el valor de la verdad. Muy bien transmitido y un gran trabajo. ¿Para cuando empezar a hacer algo en España?. La medicina y la sanación esoterica es algo en lo que ya creemos muchos profesionales de la salud, sólo falta que gente como tú empiece a poner en marcha el proyecto. Si me dejas , yo te acompaño.
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Bravo, Julia. Clear and steadfast. When things are explained from experience they have the value of truth. Very well conveyed and a great work. When are you going to start something in Spain? Esoteric medicine and esoteric healing is something that lots of us, health professionals already believe in. We just need someone like you to set the project in motion. If you let me, I’ll come with you.
We have become so good at managing disease, that we have begun to mistake it as a indicator of health. ie: More people are getting cancer but because we can treat it, we say we are making progress.
This doesn’t make sense and you have helped me understand the missing piece of the puzzle. Thanks Julia for your contribution.
That is very true, Joel. There is an attitude that is very prevalent these days which says “it’s ok, I can treat myself poorly, because when I get in trouble the doctors will fix it.” The irony is that so many get upset with doctors for not being able to fix them!
I agree Naren, there is a ‘daddy doctor fix me’ mentality that denies responsibility for the need to change lifestyle. And without that change, each fix gets more difficult, because the foundations for true health aren’t there.
What I have noticed is that often there is not even a real desire to manage the condition! Simply giving it a name is enough to satisfy a lot of people. The tune is similar too: I know what it is called, therefore I know what it is, and it is not cancer, so all is good – until there is pain or lack of function.
It just makes sense and everyone knows instantly that it is true.
True intelligence at work! Thank you.
Fantastic article Julia! Great research!
And I have to say I am shocked.
We knew all along that we are responsible for our own health for at least 50% if not 80% and what have we done with that knowledge?
It makes you wonder – are we truly interested in our own health and well being or are we just comfortable where we are at and feel content with complaining about what we cannot have?
How many Serge Benhayons and Albert Einsteins do we need? And we know they were there at all times in history, trying to be heard, teaching us the same things over and over.
Why are we not listening?
Yes Judith indeed how may Serge Benhayons and Albert Einsteins do we need to start to listen. I for one am willing to listen now! Amazing blog Julia.
So very true Judith, many messengers have come and gone, all presenting the same truths that we know but have just forgotten. This time I feel we are listening and the fact that there are students of Universal Medicine in many countries now is testament to this.
Yes Susan and Ariana – I feel that we are so good at fooling ourselves into thinking that we are honest and responsible when it is clear that we are not or else the world would not be in this mess that has become ‘life’ in the 21st century. With humility, we would have been more willing to listen in the past. It feels as though we are only willing to be intelligent and attentive to what is being presented when what we are hearing suits our arrogance and pride and keeps us in the comfort of the past and stuck. This stubborn way of existence and living a life that suits our personal needs is holding us back from being at one with humanity.
That is a great question Judith. Why do we not listen to our bodies / ourselves through the ages?
Yes, We do seem to be very selective as to which truths we will see.
I used to enjoy thinking my eyes were so open…but now I’m seeing so many things I was previously unwilling to look at; things which questioned the convenient ‘truths’ I had invested in or truths which would free me to be ruthlessly honest and more fully myself which might make others uncomfortable!
We choose niceness over honesty, self-repression over integrity, sickness over truth?? What a crazy norm!
Medicine always wants to fix things and provide soultions and that is how we are trained and how we practice. We as practitioners and patients think that when the symptoms go away that this is a positive result and most denfinitely it is. However if the symptoms are relieved we then seldomly go on to question but why did that condition happen in the first place. Sure we can look at our diet and lifestyle factors like smoking, alcohol and levels of exercise, we can blame the environment around us, the microwave, toxins, chemicals and pollution and yes these things do play a part. But as your post states is there a missing link is there another reason as to why conditions present? Does anyone take the time to ask how we have been living, whether we are gentle and caring with ourselves, how we are emotionally or is that too much of a responsibility to have to consider that may be the way we are with ourself could lead to our maladies? This would also implicate us as practitioners and doctors, nurses etc to have to look at how we are and how we live and accept that we are perhaps not the best role models and reflections of health and vitality.
What is being presented is that we do indeed influcence the make up of our body and that if we stopped to consider that for one moment would we make a choice to be different in the way that we live.
Indeed Rachel so true the way we are with ourselves does indeed bring about our maladies.
Exactly Rachel, some great questions for reflection and yes, ‘we do indeed influcence the make up of our body and that if we stopped to consider that for one moment would we make a choice to be different in the way that we live’?
Very powerfully and clearly stated Rachel and actually leaves me asking: “Wow … how deep am I prepared to go to see how far away I am from taking 100% responsibility for how I live.” I can often see or view that I am doing well and compared to 6 years ago much has changed and healed in the way that I LIVE BUT your comment is reminding me not to get complacent and to be open to seeing more. It would be easy now to put the lid on and say ‘That’s enough’ but I can feel that there is still much more to life.