by Eunice Minford MA FRCS Ed. Consultant Surgeon
The following letter was published by the SunHerald in Australia on 5th August 2012, as “Medical Leader.”
The unedited, original version is below and note the sentence regarding personal responsibility for health has been removed, even though this was submitted in bold as shown to highlight its importance.
Dear Editor,
Recent articles in your paper made damning allegations about Serge Benhayon and his business. However, the overwhelming evidence of many professional, intelligent, highly qualified people is in favour of Benhayon and his work through Universal Medicine. It is astounding and insulting to us, our professions and our qualifications that our views may now be dismissed as the irrelevant ramblings of ‘brainwashed devotees’ based on nothing more than the hearsay of the anonymous few with an axe to grind.
As a Surgeon, I am aware that many doctors would at first glance dismiss Benhayon and his understandings. There is more to us than meets the eye and more to illness, disease and healing than we know. Modern medicine is not winning and as medical professionals we should have the humility to be open to new paradigms of understanding. Benhayon’s presentations make sense, are complementary to modern medicine and if applied lead to improved wellbeing. This man has an understanding of the human body and the human condition and his work should at least be listened to by anyone who is truly interested in healing.
Dear Editor,
Recent articles in your paper made damning allegations about Serge Benhayon and his business. However, the overwhelming evidence of many professional, intelligent, highly qualified people is in favour of Serge Benhayon and his work through Universal Medicine. It is astounding and insulting to us, our professions and our qualifications that our views may now be dismissed as the irrelevant ramblings of ‘brainwashed’ ‘devotees’ based on nothing more than the hearsay of the anonymous few with an axe to grind.
As a Surgeon, I am aware that many doctors would at first glance dismiss Serge Benhayon and his understandings. This is a grave mistake. There is more to us than meets the eye and more to illness, disease and healing than we currently know. Modern medicine is not winning and as medical professionals we should have the humility to be open to new paradigms of understanding. Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health. His presentations make sense, are complementary to modern medicine and if applied lead to improved wellbeing. This man has an understanding of the human body and the human condition and his work should at least be listened to, if not embraced by, anyone who is truly interested in healing.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
They changed quite a bit there including the removing ‘and this engenders personal responsibility for health’. Thank you for the transparency in showing how the media and journalists are far from transparent.
It is very arrogant of us to think we know everything.
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Our health, especially our eating habits, are a responsibility that can either heal or harm us, and as you have shared Eunice, Serge Benhayon is at the coalface in the area of responsible living!
Serge Benhayon’s presentations do make a lot of sense and there is now enough evidence to show that when the principles he presents are actually lived or practiced then well-being does in fact improve. I am one of those case studies.
Why remove the key line about the responsibility we have to our health – it just makes no sense when all the national health services are crumbling under the weight of people who are seriously ill. What if we could live in a different, responsible way that could stop this – is it not worth investigating?
Such an act by the editor to edit a member of the public’s letter seems corrupt, where is the free voice of society if letters to the media are changed before publication?
How easy it is to spread lies about people and then dismiss those in question. What Serge Benhayon has to say is simple, common sense, and there are many people like myself who are applying the principles of self care he offers with outstanding results. It’s very irresponsible of the media to not correctly report the facts, as it may deter decent people from accessing the many benefits I and others have received from the work of Serge and Universal Medicine.
‘There is more to us than meets the eye and more to illness, disease and healing than we currently know.’ Serge Benhayon opens the door to a greater understanding of how our daily living choices affect our lives, our health and much more, he has already explained a great deal to those who are open enough to hear what is being shared, it is a shame that some are not yet ready to hear the truth.
The problem is that we continually balk at the responsibility that we all hold of our health and well-being, that which is always there and can never really avoid. Just take one honest look at how our health is faring as a society. It is our resistance to the value and empowerment of self-responsibility on every level, including those with the opportunity to share on media platforms, that is precisely why we see our health and well-being as a whole is worsening. Segre Benhayon offers a way that this responsibility can be lived, and now many students of The Way Of The Livingness, of which I am one, also reflect the tangibility and realness of how this is possible with sustained living evidence of the benefits.
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health. His presentations make sense, are complementary to modern medicine and if applied lead to improved wellbeing.” I so agree and can personally attest to the fact that as I have taken more care of my own health and made lifestyle changes that my own health has improved, even as I age.
Yes, we cannot let humanity know that they hold the key to health, wellbeing and a loving life with something so simple as the way we live our lives! It makes absolute sense that this line was left out for it says it all, short and simple and this is not on popular demand at this point in time.
Why are some of the media scared of printing the truth? It seems when truth is held back the lies are allowed to run rampant, thank you Eunice for setting the record straight and exposing this tactic used by the newspaper.
Interesting how a journalist feels that he has the right to remove a sentence that ask people to be responsible for themselves, the journalist in question had an opportunity to help humanity, but instead chose to take a different course of action, which left humanity lesser.
Interesting that the newspaper has edited this article so as to take away the most powerful and salient points. After all this is your letter and expresses your opinion. To chop it about as they have done to suit themselves is grossly disrespectful not only of yourself but to all their readers. They are withholding information that could benefit so many. It is only when we begin to take responsibility for our health that we truly heal and if more doctors were to look at what Serge Benhayon is presenting they might be pleasantly surprised at the depth of wisdom and common sense that he brings..
Oh, wow. This is so interesting. Thank you, Eunice, for posting these two versions of your letter. They knew exactly the juiciest point that had the potential to stop someone to go ‘Hang on’. So, it is official that the media would do anything to keep us away from reclaiming our true power.
What a beautiful example – the journalist may have done the public’s bidding by removing that sentence. Being responsible is probably the part that is most missing in health care.
Very little has changed from 2012 when this writing was first published to now in August 2017, with the attitude of the press and cyber bullies who continue to hound, attack and attempt to undermine the truth that Serge Benhayon presents to serve humanity evolving back to the truth of who we all are.
How very exposing of the level of manipulation the press are prepared to go to, in order to slant an article away from the truth that it brings. Truth that can support humanity to make different choices, changes and take more personal responsibility for their own health and well-being in their lives.
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health”.
How extraordinary that a major newspaper would choose to print the letter but leave only one sentence out…. Maybe taking personal responsibility is a message they do not personally support and as such choose to deny their readers the opportunity to ponder over something that they have a right to consider even if it may challenge them… but if that is true, surely that’s a shameful example of getting your hand caught in the bias jar and a far cry from any journalistic ethics that would strongly oppose such an action.
Seriously ‘cherry picked’ or would they use the word, ‘edited’. It may sound a bit strong but it’s almost like do that should be considered some type of crime or similar. I mean someone sends in an article and by all means don’t publish things that are disrespectful etc or don’t publish it at all and write back to the person as a point of contact to let them know. But to publish something under their name without the complete written article is highly highly disrespectful. Yes they have a right because they own the media outlet to publish what they see fit but they are representing the community and putting themselves up as reporters, journalists etc and I don’t see anyone has a right to play with peoples words and print whatever they like, it seems pretty arrogant to me and should make us all think about anything that is written in these forms of media, what aren’t they letting us see and read? and why?
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.”
This line that was deleted is the core of what Serge Benhayon presents. It is absolute truth and also very simple and very accessible for us to put into practice. Quite simply, if we each heeded these words and started to look at life and the way we live it as a form of medicine, we would not have such alarming rates of illness and disease amongst us as the majority of these would be preventable.
Thus we need to ask ourselves exactly what is at play by the removal of these words? What force is it that we condone by allowing it that seeks to keep us blind to the truth of what is really going on? Could it be that although we anguish over our illnesses, we are so totally identified by them in the sense that we have created them and thus ‘own’ them, that we cannot bear to have this taken away and made personally accountable for the mess we stand in?
We are curious creatures us humans – we live recklessly, yes even those of us that live a ‘good’ life in seeming comfort and goodwill, and then when our body (the marker of all truth) starts to discard the impost of our ill ways of living (not living true to the love that we are) we cry foul play, it’s not fair and want someone else to fix us. After all, it’s not our fault…or so we like to think.
History has a habit of editing out the truth and the media is a big part of this. But the media is simply a machine that is fed by supply and demand. What we demand, they supply – if we do not like what we are being fed then we need to look very astutely as to what we are hungering for here.
“and this engenders personal responsibility for health.” Deliberately deleting this statement from a letter printed in a newspaper clearly exposes the editor’s lack of responsibility to honesty and truth.
Even letters to the editor are corrupt. Are there no media platforms left at all in which to voice truth and reason? It’s sad , because it’s literally delaying the inevitable, and causing so much grief in the meantime.
The merry go round of ignoring what is truly playing out for humanity is once again showing us that we can choose to get off or on but either way the ride is constantly available to us all.
Yes and it doesnt allow us to truly come to a point of collective honesty, which would in fact be our best return to the truth of our health and our responsibility for it.
They removed of course the sentence about own responsibility as this is the fact we all react to the most. It is the key why media and some people make so much fuss about the teachings of Serge Benhayon. Trying to deny and avoid a bit longer….
As a humanity we are getting sicker and sicker and also how we come to treat each other as people is not travelling well either. We only need to see what is happening in the world for that. Illness and disease is increasing even though we now have more health professionals than ever. Are we making a real difference or are we just simply contributing to the same thing? We do know that there is more to our health than the absence of disease and this sense of unwellness, disquiet, unease, unhappiness even contributes directly to our illness and diseases. I see this everyday in my nursing work and we are not dealing with this. This is what we need to look at.
What Serge Benhayon presents makes complete sense, it is like we know what he presents already at some deep level. With the poor state of health currently we need some answers to the way forward.
Responsibility is a choice, it is part of accepting that the way we have been living collectively is not truly working. The media is one-sided and biased; it works for itself. It’s about time the media presented the facts and worked for humanity.
If it is non common sense that our way of living is medicine and that it affects our well-being, then as a species we have gone very wrong. Let alone when we attack others who present this or find a way to diminish them.
Yes, the obvious can be very far from the consensus and this is one of those cases.
“and this engenders personal responsibility for health” – conveniently and irresponsibly left out, further aiding and abetting the irresponsibility of humanity, for if we were to acknowledge that our health and wellbeing ultimately is up to us as individuals in the way we care for and treat ourselves, the rates of illness and disease that are presently escalating exponentially would instead begin to decline rapidly.
“There is more to us than meets the eye and more to illness, disease and healing than we currently know.” There sure is Eunice and even with all our medical advancements we still seem to be getting it so very wrong. What Serge Benhayon presents is practical, down to earth and absolutely spot on in every way. If we really want a healthy more vital society, then we need to embrace all that is being offered by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I always find it fascinating to see the workings behind the media. I really appreciate being able to read what was presented and what was published. And here we are again thinking what is published must be true … Reminds me of the Bible … Was what has been published a true representation of what was presented by those soulful servants on earth in the past? There is a real art in being able to write and edit in a way that represents the energetic truth and this I have only been able to find when I read any of the “Purple Books” … Every word is delivered with deliberate consideration of the all that is and as a writer these books are a true source of inspiration.
I agree Suzanne, it makes sense how we end up with something that has been bastardised to suit someone agenda’s. It is such a gift and healing to have access to the purple books as every word holds such wisdom and power in it.
It is very interesting how the media chose to leave out the sentence on responsibility. Definitely no coincidence there! Taking responsibility for our choices is one of the best things that we can do for our health and the work of Serge Benhayon is leading the way in this.
Thank you Elizabeth, I absolutely agree. “Taking responsibility for our choices is one of the best things that we can do for our health and the work of Serge Benhayon is leading the way in this.” https://medicineandsergebenhayon.com/2012/08/05/letter-published-in-sunherald-5th-august/#more-267
The medical system does not cope with a wide range of people still needing help. It is important for people to take care of their own health first, then with use of complementary modalities along with conventional medicine, with how we live and what we eat as part of an overall program. This should not be a band-aid approach but a system where self-responsibility for our own health and well-being is at the forefront of any system. Then there would be less need for governments to provide funding to support a system that is failing. I am using a model like this, with little to no pressure on a failing medical model. Illness and disease rates are rising worldwide. FACT. Find out more about how to live a healthier life style when you visit this site
http://www.unimedliving.com
Self-care and self-responsibilty and being aware of one’s lifestyle choices in relation to illness and disease is not a new subject, in fact I have seen endless posters and adverts from the health services about these subjects. So then why take that part out of a newspaper? What’s the difference between the doctors saying we need to be responsible for our health and Serge Benhayon, someone who is responsible to the end of the universe, saying the same thing?
That this letter has been published is awesome Eunice and that they have left out such a crucial part where the truth of our health is given in a nutshell, is typical for the behaviour of humanity in general. It seams that people do not want to be called for their responsibility they have with respect to their own health as it looks like it is more convenient to stay unaware and in the comfort of self chosen misery in any way shape or form as the way to go in life.
SMH obviously has an agenda, as it is not just a coincidence that three vital pieces were left out, it feels like they have a vested interest to keep the truth out, although the story that could be told would be a front page news worth publishing.
I find it interesting that there are three sections cut out. 1) the link to a website which can let the reader find out more about what the comment is referring to if they choose and 2) the sentences that actually states that Serge Benhayon has “in detail” provided the importance of our daily living and 3) a ‘bolded’ section about responsibility which is obviously a significant part of the comment. All three sections remove the possibility for the reader to find out the significance of what the comment is actually saying. I find SMH’s choice of action dishonouring to Dr Eunice Minford who has written the comment, as well as to the SMH readers.
This an amazing letter, I am actually surprised it ended up in the paper at all… but the line that got cut out is super interesting – God forbid people are given the opportunity to consider personal responsibility for their health through looking at the way they are living. Clearly the SMH don’t want to upset their readers… or are concerned that if included, people may actually contemplate whether reading the SMH is bad medicine?
That is so true Eunice, Modern medicine is not winning, there is so much more to us that meets the eye and what Serge Benhayon presents is the more that the eyes don’t see.
I’ve come across this post again, and I’m still just as shocked as the first time I read it. What happened to journalism for it to now be a practice of ficitional story telling?
I love your honesty Eunice… “Modern medicine is not winning and as medical professionals we should have the humility to be open to new paradigms of understanding.”. There is so much modern medicine has to offer and it could be supported so much more if it considered some of the simple paradigms offered by Universal Medicine.
So interesting to see that exactly that line about taking responsibility for our own health is taken out. Is this not a very important point? Doctors and other health professionals cannot put up with healing everyone, illness and disease are getting more and more, so looking at self-responsibility for the way we all live would be very welcome, as it would prevent many illnesses and diseases.
I’m forever blown away by the lack of responsibility the media exercises daily. As much as I should be used to it, I can’t seem to accept it.
Very interesting Eunice, it seems that taking responsibility for one’s health and actions is not something that this newspaper finds worth printing – perhaps it is getting a bit too close to the truth for them?!
Your position as a surgeon Eunice, makes you are no more or less equal to anyone else, however your authority on ‘things medical’ places you in a position to differentiate between physical healing in the body and true healing within the ‘being’. I appreciate and applaud your willingness to do so and to support the work of Serge Benhayon, who lives and shares true medicine daily by his understanding that our bodies are but one aspect of our health and well being. When we all take responsibility for examining how our lifestyles, beliefs, ideals and emotions may impact on our health, Serge Benhayon won’t attract the unwarranted and scurrilous Media criticism and lies you have exposed here. Thank you Eunice.
Thank you Eunice for sharing your experience of the Media in connection to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I have learnt so much from Serge about my body and how to care for myself in general and the ripple effect that is the result of this. To think that we have Newspapers and Media in general ( such as the Sun Herald)who omit important information says they have their own agenda and are not impartial at all.
By omitting the words “and this engenders personal responsibility for health” the Sun Herald is itself not reporting responsibly, which appears to be the case with most journalist in these times.
That the Sun Herald chose to omit this key sentence which would have otherwise offered so much truth and awareness to its readers — that ‘our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health’ — is very telling. It exhibits that true education and information is not on the Sun Herald’s mandate. It is not about truly informing their readers in order to support a better quality of life for all. Rather, it is about spinning stories that will engender sales and profits. This is where we have come to in the world of journalism and it’s a tragedy for us all.
Is it possible that if more people did learn to take responsibility for their lives the newspapers livelihood would be threatened? If everyone started to live more in harmony with themselves and others where’s the fuel to write stories about sensation, gossip, drama and woe? And if people lived with greater care why would they be interested in such?
Media appears to desire to maintain the chaos and disheartened state of most modern populaces – so they then can remain in ‘charge’ to offer solutions to that same populace who are at a loss. So when common sense and an opportunity arises for that same populace to understand they can fix their woes by themselves (self-responsibility), the media will react and squash such presentations as it threatens their loss of ‘power’ and ‘control’. It is no coincidence it was this sentence which was removed.
A key sentence to have left out! Taking responsibility for our own health through our personal daily choices is something many people are not really willing to look at, but how much longer can we afford to ignore the fact that we create our own illness and disease? I love Samantha’s comment – taking responsibility for your health “doesn’t need to be a drag”. I too have experienced many realisations about my choices through simply feeling my body and what it is telling me without judgement. This deepens my relationship with myself and I feel much more self appreciation and worth – the impact on how I feel about myself and life has been huge!
A great description of what Universal Medicine presents “Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.” It is interesting to consider what is so shocking about this suggestion, is it merely the fact that people are uncomfortable about considering taking responsibility for their own health. It can be a true joy, no need for it to be a drag…I have experienced it and it feels amazing! And the support this model could have on the health service in the UK as well as worldwide is HUGE.
It is a sad state of affairs but aren’t we all complicit? How often do we let little untruths slip by? Thank you Eunice for your dedication to the truth.
I didn’t realise just how far the media distorted and/or omitted truths. Great to have this exposed though. True service, Eunice.
Excellent that this letter was published Eunice, even though they edited out a very important sentence that highlights that the way we are living is causing our illness and disease. It is amazing that this immutable fact is the one they were unable to commit to print.
This was a while ago and I know the discussion of why someone without a degree isn’t taken seriously (or rubbished), especially in the medical fraternity, but, (whilst it’s NOT all well and good for newspapers or individuals to slam Serge Benhayon), has anyone considered the fact he’s been teaching people, including doctors and specialists now for over 10 years to better their understanding of the one thing they of all people are supposed to know better about – the body?
When, eventually, the media start to appreciate the amount of depth, clarity, pin-point accuracy and consistency with which Serge Benhayon is able to operate with and slowly over time as science continues to prove more and more of what he has delivered, then, may there not only be wide appreciation of this service to humanity, but may the medical institutions of the world be humble enough to open their structures, to allow for this greater medicinal understanding of ourselves in conjunction with what has been laboriously proven already.
I love what you have written here Eunice; Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’. Given that most illness and disease is lifestyle related, it is only a matter of time before conventional medicine adopts this holistic approach. In the meantime there are those who would deny the importance of personal responsibility. It will soon be obvious to all who is taking the best medicine, and who is taking the worst poison.
I Love this article.
Dr. Malatt actually really offers us something much more here than meets the eye. The reality is that every situation we “find” ourselves in (which is actually where we have put ourselves) is a simple choice in how we perceive it. If we take the time to enjoy, nurture and care for ourselves in everything that we do then there is no need for frustration, anxiety, tension or struggle.
As Siddhartha Gautama discovered – suffering really is nothing but our own creation.
Well said Simon. Taking that time is about saying yes to that personal responsibility that then has a positive impact on our entire well-being.
In taking responsibility for our own health and well being we are not only supporting the over subscribed conventional Health Service but empowering ourselves to live lives that are more all encompassing. I for one at the age of seventy have never felt healthier and feel greatly supported by the work of Serge Benhayon in finding a way to live life that looks after my body.
We certainly don’t have all the answers as to the dysfunction we are seeing in our health and in society at large. It would be common sense to explore further the rich philosophy of Serge Benhayon, as you say Eunice, the tenets of this are most complementary to our current medical system and we really have nothing to lose in being open to such new possibilities.
Interesting how ‘personal responsibility for health’ is a sentence that some cannot take on board…It is true that it holds a big responsibility, but one that we are well worth taking into consideration and upholding.
Well said Eunice.
Serge Benhayon simply makes perfect sense to me. How can the medical and food industry feel like they have all the answers, when clearly the state of our global health is in tatters?
A very interesting choice of words to be omitted here – it doesn’t seem to make much sense as it really doesn’t reduce the size of the article by very much (in case that’s what they were going for). Anyway, awesomely said Eunice! I love the way you tell it like it is with no holding back. Thank you.
Thanks Eunice for sharing these letters , it is all so easy to turn on something new and confronting as Serge Benhayon has presented with mistrust and slander but it is this very thing we should be looking at to understand our human condition in a world that is not coping with this very condition as is evident by disease, poverty , war, malnutrition , divorce , suicide and so on and on.
I also see that when conventional medicine is included with the esoteric approach as taught by Serge Benhayon through Universal Medicine, the world will greatly benefit. Indeed we are responsible for our health. I feel this will be included in a new model that medicine will be built on in the future.
What Serge Benhayon presents is actually simple common sense. How often have we written off that cold or flu as just being a ‘bug that goes around’ and not seen it for what it may be showing us about our living choices? While the responsibility in this is confronting for most, it is deeply empowering and very healing when sickness is viewed in this light.
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.” I am someone who didn’t want to take responsibility for myself for quite some time and the revelation for me was that when I did start to do so, although some times challenging, ultimately it is actually very enjoyable and empowering…this is the trick we all play on ourselves concerning our health. Let’s celebrate ‘responsibility’ – it is a key that opens up new experiences and the ability to live a more full life. Great that it was published (even with the editing). Thank you.
It is great that the Sun Herald published your letter Eunice even if it was watered down. I feel more people are starting to realize that what you say is true “Modern medicine is not winning and as medical professionals we should have the humility to be open to new paradigms of understanding.” Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have a lot to offer in this regard. Leaving no stone unturned and definitely including personal responsibility for health as a big part of holistic Medicine.
Thank you Eunice, I feel an important principle that is missed, by the ‘paint you all with the same brush’ type journalism, is “that the health and wellbeing of doctors impacts patient outcome”. Or as Plato said, physician heal your self first or, as Serge Benhayon often portrays, we all need to take responsibility for our own health.
What could be easier than for a journalist to deliver such an ancient truth rather than a concocted sensationalised story to maybe grab a moment of fame or front page notoriety? Have we as a society asked and received and thus accepted this level of reporting in the past?
I feel I did, until Universal Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon and now I no longer allow this lack of journalistic integrity with provocative style and head line grabbing tactics to persist, so I am now standing up for truth.
Thank you Eunice for this great letter to the media. I find it astounding that a ‘letter’ has been edited…after all it is a ‘letter’ and should therefore be read in full to allow the reader the full intent and understanding of what the composer of the information is trying to convey. Changing it shows a great lack of respect for the author and how the media appear to feel that they have the ‘right to the last word’ on what people should hear or believe. This is abuse. To change, alter, reinterpret or reduce a letter which is a direct message to all people by a few who have taken that ‘power’ unto themselves is not acceptable.
Yes, and they took out the link to http://www.wordsonsergebenhayon.com which is where people could view the body of evidence in favour of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. This all smacks of bias to me.
Wow just outrageous how the SunHerald ‘edited’ your Letter to the Editor- even to the fact of having the authority to cancel out the most important sentence in the whole piece, as well as “a grave mistake” and at the end “if not embraced” as very important parts.
This clearly shows that they (the writers of the Sun Herald newspaper) are genuinely interested in good health and appear to have a fear of people taking self responsibility for their own health and well being, as if suggesting this would undermine their expertise and the health systems that clearly need all the help they can get in the current situation. Thank you Eunice for sharing this, and a thank you to Serge and Universal Medicine for the true healing and self-responsibility that you bring to peoples lives.
It is amazing how Serge can present about modern medicine with such simplicity and truth with many health professionals totally feeling and endorsing what he is saying while the media in their arrogance totally ignore and discount what is being said. What an example of a total lack of personal responsibility on their part.
Thanks for standing up and speaking the truth Eunice. This leads the way and allows others like myself to do the same. It was great that that the Sun Herald published your response but they pretty much castrated it by editing out the most important point of personal responsibility for our health. I guess they found the idea of responsibility, quaint and irrelevant…
I’m constantly amazed by the true workings or should I say manipulations of the media. It’s so very sad.
Yes Elodie, it is sad and disheartening that we can’t trust media. We forever miss out on the complete truth, as it is twisted and modified to feed our comfort.
Thank you Eunice for expressing the truth about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
very matter of fact. great!
This letter, its contents of truth and then how it was modified for general publication seems indicative of what goes on in the media. How endemic is censorship to the truth through media? And why? Why isn’t the possibility of a new paradigm of truth at least welcome for discussion in general? Why would people who have committed to caring for people delay any possibility of a truth that can actually help?
Yes a great point Sandra, why indeed? It is common knowledge that there are a number of vested interests in the current healthcare system, preventing what might otherwise result in a more honest appraisal and openness to what is involved in addressing the current approach. Until that is exposed, and the shackles removed, a new paradigm is unlikely to be on the discussion table. Eventually it will be forced however, as the system cannot sustain the current way.
The fact that this one key phrase “…and this engenders personal responsibility for health” was omitted from your letter is evidence in black and white that main stream news media is deeply lacking in reason, common sense and the essential understanding that its one and only job was only ever to report the truth. To this end it seems to fail miserably on a daily basis.
Powerfully put Dean and so true. It is really shocking that such a key sentence that is the core of what Serge Benhayon presents – strongly presented by Eunice in her authority as a highly skilled and experienced medical profession is left out. What calculating and damaging manipulation of the truth to suit an agenda that the editor and paper are hooked into. Is it any wonder that the general public mistrusts journalists and what they read in papers – which is a really sad state of affairs – especially when journalists could be supporting and inspiring people with the truth .
In everyday journalism, from the printed newspaper to the online news feed it’s very interesting to see how normal and acceptable embellished truth is, against how odd, contentious and unacceptable the real truth can be.
For example, politicians can lie through their teeth every single day – it’s obvious they do, we know it, yet we consider it normal in the sense that we are happy enough to accept it by not doing anything about it (except vent to each other).
Yet when someone blows the whistle on a misdeed, a corrupt act, a laundering of money, a breaking of a law do we contend it? Yes! Absolutely! Fiercely! How dare someone speak about what’s really going!
What does this say about us Kate? Why do we guard our convenient truths so deeply and attack the ones that are completely genuine? Do we even recognise the difference or are we so used to it all that we have given up on the idea?
I totally agree with what you have written kate273 and these words in particular jumped out: “manipulation of the truth to suit an agenda”. You can certainly see from the key words that were deliberately left out of Eunice’s letter that this was a blatant attempt to manipulate what the publishers wanted their readers to read. So society once again gets to be played by the media to suit whatever agenda that drives them. Maybe when they begin to realise that many in society are now beginning to dis-trust what is published, these media organisations may have to come out from behind their calculating agendas and begin to publish the truth instead. Then life changing letters like Eunice’s will be on the front page!
You are right Dean, it’s not complicated – the media only have one job, to report the truth. As you say they fail miserably.
In a sense we have also failed them by not speaking up and leaving truth to reporters and journalists rather than seeing it is every single persons responsibility and birthright.
I totally agree Dean, Journalists such as this certainly have failed miserably and brought about such wider-reaching dis-service to the community at large. What could have been of huge benefit to many has been swept aside in favour of diminishing what was offered – what a disgrace.
Eunice, you have succinctly presented why Serge Benhayon offers so much for us all in his presentations and through his work with Universal Medicine. Your words around ‘responsibility’ are powerful and clearly hit a nerve causing the sentence to be edited out. I am grateful that there are members of the medical profession like yourself Eunice, who are open to what Serge is offering them and are applying their new understandings holistically into their personal and professional lives.
The benefits of taking responsibility for our own well being are not only that we feel so much better, they are also economic. If something does not change the demands on national income of the health care system will eventually bankrupt our economies.
As economics seems to dominate modern politics perhaps it is this awareness that will eventually lead to a governmental promotion of the comprehensive approach to self care that Universal Medicine presents.
Thank you Eunice and Tim, an amazing truth, which underline where humanity is putting its attention. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine delivers or returns us to a responsibility and integrity that we all acquire, by us making free choices to being honest and self-caring.
Yes in fact it is now written into the health directives in government policy across Australia that addressing lifestyle factors has become crucial to turning around the otherwise inevitability of bankruptcy within the health care system. What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offers is an approach that actually turns this trend around, bringing great awareness to these factors, and the means and ability to make the necessary changes, at an individual level. This must be addressed at a very personal level, which translates to mean that every person must eventually take responsibility for choices made and thus for their health and wellbeing.
Eunice, you rock the show, you are so powerful and beautiful. Breathing next to you is like taking good medicine. What you offered the world in this letter is Universal Medicine!
Beautiful Eunice. Serge Benhayon has presented the only truly complementary modalities to modern medicine. It is interesting to note that the line that asks us all to take responsibility for our own health has been removed. Responsibility may be too big a step for the media.
The fact that lifestyle disease is the greatest killer in our modern day world, would lend support to the fact that “our daily living is our best medicine”. This is such a simple truth to add to our overall health care strategy, which can also acknowledge the basic support western medicine offers. However, mustn’t we also admit that when we use western medicine as symptomatic relief as a way of coping with poor lifestyle choices, then something is missing from the picture? Serge Benhayon is simply offering what that missing piece is, in the most simple practical and achievable terms.
It is insightful to see the changes between what is published and what was originally written … The media is indeed a mysterious beast.
It seems foolish to turn down things we don’t understand and not explore avenues and suggestions that may provide extended support to fellow human beings.
Wow, a truly power-full letter.Why are editors given such broad rights? Why are they able to tone down and manipulate someones words, supposedly making them more palatable in relation to their own views and what they deem the papers reading public should, or should not know? Regardless of this assault on the letter, Eunice, it remains an testimony of truth.
What an awesome letter. You can see that they have taken out the really pertinent points as a way of not giving the freedom of choice back to the people.
I should have guessed that such letters of course are edited, but I never would have thought that essential parts are simply omitted. It is critical to what extent the media can and do manipulate information and by that a large group of people.
It is time to expose that they are only presenting a limited level of truth and often there is agendas behind what is published and what is not.
There is freedom of the press and yet the press itself uses this freedom to limit, regulate and scheme instead of publishing truth. How bizarre is that?
I appreciate your ability as a medical doctor to note for the public record that there may be another way of understanding the human body that contributes to sustained wellbeing and happiness.
Thank you Eunice for expressing truth to the media
Wow – to edit and change what has been said in an article is heresy! Especially leaving out key the key parts. Once again – shocking to realise what journalists do and also what our society will accept as a level of behaviour!
Yes, well said, Ryoko. Leaving out personal responsibility is done on purpose to keep humanity ignorant. Eunice’s article is superb but they couldn’t handle it. It was too much for them, too exposing. And, they were offensive towards the person, a surgeon, who wrote it.
Is it possible that removing the personal responsibility for health part was carried out to keep the humanity in the dark?
Yes, as you state Alison, it is quite incredible, they have given the impression of allowing Dr Minford the right to reply, but omitted the crucial line “Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.” The Sun Herald deliberately chooses to omit this revealing sentence causing one to ask: why, and is this honest journalism??
Interesting omission of the editor…”Serge (Benhayon) presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health”. Very telling indeed. By removing this sentence the editor has successfully manipulated the words of a respected surgeon and changed the whole context of the article…. which was clearly the aim. Could it be possible that Dr Eunice Minford’s words hit home with the editor and maybe exposed his own lifestyle choices and fact that he is not responsible for how he lives and his own health and well being???
I’d say the power in which the article is written in breaks through even the hands of the editor.
This is a great expose Eunice of how we operate as people. We select the parts we would like to be true and forget certain bits as if it they never existed. This way of being really is delusional because the truth never changes. The very fact that the editors chose to remove that particular paragraph is so telling and indicative of the greatest disease we are all suffering from – irresponsibility. I am grateful to the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, as they have supported me to be honest with myself and others and to begin to live in a different way.
Classic case of how leaving out a few words can so dramatically change an article. The whole point of Universal Medicine is that we need to take personal responsibility for our health. To leave this line out is almost criminal in its callousness, and shows a real lack of willingness on behalf of the media, in this case, to truly understand the message being conveyed to the world by Serge Benhayon.
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.”
This is incredible. The newspaper have seemingly obliged and given Dr Minford the opportunity to reply, however they have deleted the very line that holds the essence and very reason for the medical profession to sit up and pay attention to the works of a man that could really complement their work, hand in hand.
Great call Eunice, medicine needs to open up to understanding the body as a whole and then medicine would be used to support and maintain wellbeing and not to make money out of illness and dysfunctional bodies. It is very much needed to talk about the truth of medicine and how our daily living is our medicine and that it is everybody’s responsibility to maintain our wellbeing.
So true Eunice. Thank you for writing this letter. The way that Serge Benhayon talks about medicine being our way of living is common sense. He has a deep understanding of the human body, not just from an energetic perspective, but in human physiology and how it relates to everyday living. His understanding of the human body and well-being is greater than mine despite having studied for several years in health. And its because of his genuine love and care for humanity and the way he actually lives medicine every day. Serge doesn’t keep this understanding to himself but shares this with people equally.
We have a situation that cannot be disputed that “lifestyle diseases” (Non-communicable diseases) the leading cause of death in the world (according to WHO). To me this would mean that the way we are choosing to live is killing us, and if it’s not fatal then there is also a whole bunch of misery being lived, no pill will ever heal or cure this. The answer is in the way we live, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents based on HOW WE LIVE – the choices we make. Serge does not teach rules to be followed in order to get a result, he talks about coming to a greater understanding of oneself by choosing to connect with our inner-heart and making choices from that place, that then becomes a living way – a lifestyle that is in harmony. Each person doing it for themselves, taking responsibility, being accountable, living in a true (truly natural) way.
To quote you Eunice ‘Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health.’ This omitted sentence is not even controversial in the sense that there are many medical practitioners suggesting their patients take responsibility for their health by making different choices and freely call the diseases we are most afflicted by in developed countries ‘lifestyle diseases’. So if a man, that is Serge Benhayon, comes forwards to present in detail how our daily living makes a difference, and several hundred people can attest to it working for them too, while rates of cancer, diabetes and obesity are sky rocketing for many others, then why oh why would The Sun Herald omit such a simple sentence? What forces are really at play here?
thank you for setting it straight Eunice.
It is great to see that Medical professionals like yourself who have seen first hand the Effectiveness and limitations of the current approach, are open to “new paradigms of understanding.” You are best qualified to do so, and have Diligently investigated and scrutinised the Universal Medicine approach and found it to be very effective.
The medical system as it is cannot support the increase of ill health and disease that is sweeping the world. This is a fact, and when there is a fact such as this that has become so blatantly obvious it is natural to follow with the question why?
Is the medical system working as it is, could it be supported, refreshed, evolved? Serge Benhayon offers common sense “His presentations make sense, are complementary to modern medicine and if applied lead to improved wellbeing.” Complementary, not to replace but to complement, to look at how life choices and life styles dictate what follows concerning our health. Great to read both letters alongside each other.
I agree that from my observations in the medical field, our current medical system is not working and it speaks volumes about the arrogance of the medical profession that they are just carrying on with their heads in the sand pretending that it is all ok and what’s worse they are deaf to any other possibilities or ideas that come from outside its own narrow world.
How can medicine move forward without looking to things that are actually working. I just can’t see the sense in leaving out the sentence regarding personal responsibility for health as this is the issue here. Why can’t people see that it is up to us to take responsibility and not rely on the health system to try and fix us after the damage has already been done.
yes, Kevin, and even the UK government are now starting to consider to bring about legislation to help people recognise how their life styles are affecting their health, and take responsibility for their part in both the illness and the healing, and it has been an accepted fact by many in all healing professions for a long time. That the the editor deletes the significant sentence is an attempt to discredit, and from prejudice and ignorance in himself, and this is not honest journalism.
Thank you Doctor Eunice Minford , it is so great to see that you, by having this letter published shows the power of your voice as against the force of ingorance that the journalist of our time wants to keep the people under, thank you
Thanks Eunice great letter, was there any reason given for omitting the part about taking responsibility or was it just too true for most?
It is interesting how the edited version published does not ruffle feathers but comes across as an ‘opinion’. The real truth that Dr Minford relates is there to be seen and felt in her full letter.
So where is the editor’s vested interest when they cannot even publish the work of a respected surgeon? Might they lose their stranglehold on the populace? Again, where is the journalistic integrity?
Imagine if we all took responsibility for our own health, and we went to the doctors and to the hospital as a support, rather going with the expectation that they will fix us up, quickly and efficiently, and then blame the health service when it doesn’t work out perfectly for us. Taking responsibility for our own health and lifestyle choices is one of the things Serge Benhayon presents, and that modern medicine is an amazing and well needed support for us. It is simple and makes sense.
Thank you Eunice for expressing so clearly the relevance for prevention and self-care and self-responsibility in health. The teachings of Universal Medicine if incorporated into the medical system would give true meaning to the term Health Care. The current system as you say is definitely not winning which indicates a new more holistic approach is very much needed.
Thank you Eunice for for this concise letter of truth. The subtle manipulation by the newspapers by omission of one sentence shows how easily something can be given a different perspective to the reader – “note the sentence regarding personal responsibility for health has been removed, even though this was submitted in bold as shown to highlight its importance”.
Thank you Eunice and this is the Truth, in that: one can only be open to hearing and exploring what Serge Benhayon presents when we are truly interested in healing.
The World Health Organisation lists modifiable behaviours, such as smoking tobacco, consuming alcohol and lack of physical activity, as the main risk factors in non-communicable diseases (heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes). How can it then be so far fetched to say that the way we live our life day-to-day can be our best medicine or worst poison? Thanks Eunice for a great letter.
The part they missed out is the part that is missing in society – the way we view our health. Responsibility is key to improving our health, but unfortunately not many are ready and willing to accept this!
“This man has an understanding of the human body and the human condition and his work should at least be listened to, if not embraced by, anyone who is truly interested in healing.” Absolutely Eunice, a fantastic article giving voice to the many many professional people in all fields of medicine who have been deeply inspired by the works of this man.
Great letter Eunice , thank you. When I came to Universal Medicine I had multiple health problems. From these presentations taking responsibility for myself , the way I live day to day life and the self care I now have my health has turned around and I have a vitality I have not had before. To make such allegations against Serge Benhayon when I and many many others have had the same outcomes from his presentations just doesn’t make sense.
Thank you for sharing Eunice!
My own health has vastly improved since I started taking responsibility for it. Whilst I never had debilitating illnesses I used to get very tight, sore shoulders and a number of colds a year. The tightness in my body has gone and I can’t remember the last time I had a cold.. I also feel a lot more vital and positive and am much more even tempered and less prone to go into reaction to things.
I have also experienced this Michelle, and along the way I have noticed how much deeper I can go with taking care of my body and my health.
I agree Michelle and Amina, I had the same healing experience like you had with taking my responsibility. Even if I am now a living role model for that, not all people around me choose to be responsible for themselves as well. I have to learn to accept their choices.
Great letter Eunice! Perhaps they omitted the line about taking personal responsibility for our health because they felt it undermined the ‘authority’
of the ‘medical establishment’! If this is the case, then they are missing a great
opportunity to relieve the pressure on a hugely overworked service.
Great to see a medic pushing the boundaries of their profession’s level of inquiry in support of being willing to explore new possibilities in healing. Responsibility for our daily choices is key to disease prevention and self-care so it makes absolute sense to consider without prejudice any source that can bring a wider understanding of the human body and the human condition.
Thank you Eunice Minford for speaking the Truth and not holding back. There are very few in your profession that would stand up and say it as it is.
Benhayon does present an understanding of the human body and the human condition in a very simple way with detail that makes sense.
As you say “modern medicine is not winning” and this man has the missing link but it does mean taking Responsibility for our daily choices as this is our best medicine or our worst poison.
Thank God there are people like you Eunice in the medical world who do not waiver from what you know is Truth. You are deeply inspiring.
Interesting that they removed the line about responsibility in health. Something we as a society aren’t quite ready for yet. But with the huge burden on our current health care or should that be sick care system, it’s high time we woke up to it. Thank you Eunice.
Yes I agree, Stephen. Perhaps removing the line about being responsible for our health is something that in society be aren’t quite ready for yet? It is a huge part of our lives that we don’t want to feel? To accept that illness isn’t random and doesn’t fall out of the sky, but manifests itself through our bodies from our daily choices is a big whammy do deal with.
The omission in the letter is indeed a great reflection of what is resisted the most: being aware that our daily living impacts our health and knowing that we could be living far more responsibly.
Yes, I agree. At this moment in time, it is far too much for the majority to comprehend yet when we begin to take responsibility for our wellbeing our lives change.
As Stephen says, it is very interesting that the editors removed the (2) sentence(s) about our personal role and responsibility in our health. Is it possible that this is SO common sense and something we all know on a deep level that it would make them look foolish for smearing his name when this is the main thing he presents? OR is it the big road block we all keep coming up against of not wanting to go there…for fear that ‘we are the ones we’ve been waiting for’…that ‘we are going to have to change’ how we do things before we get any true change or relief from our woes?
“Serge presents in detail how our ways of daily living can be ‘our best medicine or our worst poison’ and this engenders personal responsibility for health. His presentations make sense, are complementary to modern medicine and if applied lead to improved wellbeing. ” -Eunice Minford
You would think that given the strain under which the current health system operates they would welcome other ideas that ask people to be more responsible. It would also be a refreshing change to see the press report things in full, rather than editing the parts they don’t like!
Indeed Simon!
Great letter Eunice. Its not surprising they omitted the highlighted part as it is asking for the dreaded ‘R’ word-Responsibility.
So true Tim if they were able to accept the ‘R’ word we might actually get the whole truth published.
Thank you Eunice, for putting this so clearly. I don’t want a doctor to ‘fix’ me. I want a doctor who explains exactly what is happening in my body, and allows me the responsibility of working equally with them to promote true health.
Thank you Eunice, as always your words make so much sense and its great the way you are truly bridging.
Never underestimate the power of a few (truthful) words. When I called my mother last night I had decided to talk about the terrible press UniMed had been getting and not wait for the fallout. Her response was that she agreed with the letter from the doctor in the paper that said medicine didn’t have the whole picture (astounding!!), so thank you Eunice for speaking the truth.
Well said Eunice, we as individuals need to be empowered to be responsible for our own health and not solely rely on the health services to pick up the pieces when it all falls apart. The role of health care should focus on prevention, self responsibility and empowering the patient to be their own healer.
Hear hear!
Yes, hear! hear!
I agree Rachel and it feels better as patient if I do take my responsibility because with that I am empower myself more and feel not so much at the mercy of a doctor.