136 thoughts on “What does it mean to be a ‘holistic dentist’?”

1. Understanding that we are energy first and human second changes how we are with everything.

2. Even if we may not specifically use the word ‘holistic’ to describe what we do, but in everything we do, even if we may like to think it is only the veneer surface or the part that we prepared and are presenting to fit what we think others would accept that would matter, everything we live gets communicated and affects everything and everyone around us. Nothing escapes in the world of energy.

3. Visiting a dentist has always been a rudimentary experience for me – quick in, being prodded with a metal stick and out. It’s amazing that you are presenting that in your practice you don’t just get a dentist, but someone who really cares for you, is incredibly gentle with you and understands there’s more to your teeth and your body than just it’s physicality – sounds to me like an amazing dentistry experience.

4. The mechanics of how you do your job may not have changed but the quality in which you deliver your services and yourself has obviously changed immensely and the ripple effect of this on everyone you meet is immeasurable and reflects the amazing impact we can have if we choose to re-connect to our true selves and live the whole of our lives guided by our inner heart.

5. It is just utterly beautiful and inspiring to feel your total dedication to this way of living, and how the word ‘holistic’ is so applicable to the way you are.

6. “If everything is energy, then the energy that is in me is in everything that I do and say, and in every needle I give, in every filling I place, in every gesture I make, in every interaction that I have and so on.” So everything we think say and do matters and has an effect on every thing. It’s how we live at home, not just when out in our public lives that matters. Quite a responsibility – which is why these teachings aren’t popular.

   1. Yes we are called to be accountable for everything and although our spirit rails against this, when we choose to embrace the knowing that everything is energy then we have to accept the responsibility that that brings with it.

7. What a blessing Rachel, for your clients to be inspired by a practitioner who actually walks their talk.

8. The moment we speak, or touch another we impose our energy onto another, either harming or healing, the deeper our quality of love the more loving our quality is and the more healing our touch or spoken word can be.

9. Yes, a holistic practitioner is anyone, practising anything in life, who commits to taking responsibility for their quality and way of being everywhere and all of the time, knowing that every movement we make has a ripple effect on the rest of the world.

10. I found myself drawn to this blog again today. It is very inspiring and uplifting. Thank you Rachel.

11. “Surely if we don’t “practise what we preach”, then all the information we pass on or share with our clients is hollow and lacks any basis or foundation and is in fact little more than empty words backed up by the fact that you have a qualification or title when it should be backed up by the quality of how you live and all that you are.”
    I absolutely agree Rachel. Some years ago when I was a practicing Homeopath, someone asked me about how I lived, and suggested I must have a really healthy diet and do lots of exercise etc. At the time I was a bit surprised and admitted that I didn’t really do anything different just because of being a practitioner. But I know understand the responsiblity I have to ‘practise what I preach’ thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and do live in a way that enbales me to take great and true care of myelf so that I am able to support everyone I come into conatct with to be who they are, and I don’t reserve this just for my clients.

    1. This is super important – if we don’t walk our talk then our words are empty and people can feel that, for example, no one is going to listen to a overweight doctor who talks about healthy eating because true change always comes from inspiration.

12. Only when practitioners live their talk, they can offer the opportunity of true and lasting healing to their patients

13. We need more dentists and doctors like this. People who really care and who care enough about themselves first that they honour their own bodies and give them true nourishment and nurturing – true role models for their patients.

14. You have really brought new meaning to holistic, because how can it be holistic treatment for the patient if something is left out of the whole – in this case the practitioner and the energy behind why and how we do things. It makes sense that true healing is brought to the client when it has first been brought to the practitioner. The quality of energy with which all is then done for the client is also a huge part of the care and treatment process.

15. You make a great sense of life being one big sphere and it is not possible to compartmentalize our life and think how we are in one part is not affecting the rest. And we are never not a practitioner of some kind, and what we align to, we express.

16. I have been a client of some “holistic” dentists that I will not name but were only ticking certain boxes in order to boast an image of “holistic”. Sure they used un-harmful non toxic products but I would then see them out and about on the party scene ingesting other not so legal products that were definitely toxic. Not to mention I would then serve these Dentists in the cafes I worked at and they would eat a high sugar diet. To me, being truly holistic means offering a whole approach to health of your teeth and body, not isolating one part that you give advice on but you in fact do not follow that advice yourself.

17. There is nothing worse than a professional of some kind telling you what you need to be doing in the hypocrisy of not living their advice themselves… yet it is deeply inspiring to be advised from a body that is living the benefits of such a choice and spoken from a foundation of lived experience that can be trusted. Empty words are just that, but lived truth can be deeply felt.

18. A beautiful blog to read Rachel – to know teeth are being so well looked after from a deeper level with the way you live every day. This can be applied to every type of work we do.
    “Through a loving dedication to self and an unwavering commitment to be a student of me I feel I have found a way of livingness that supports me to be who I truly am”.

19. True Holistic care appreciates and considers every single detail of a person and leaves nothing out or nothing behind – it is a beautiful way to care for both ourselves and others if practiced and lived in the fullness of its potential.

20. Living holistically is a way of life we can all embrace, no matter our profession. If we simply made the choice to bring no harm to another, our whole way of living would have to be examined. It is so very telling of the choices we make that the way many live is to keep self protected, to the degree we will dob in another, or put another down to keep us feeling ‘safe’. This is not living by the tenet of ‘doing no harm’. If this is truly observed, much in our living way is under the microscope.

21. ‘The first step in re-connecting to self is the gentle breath meditation (as taught by Serge Benhayon), which allows you to feel where you are at, and have a marker that you can live from and feel when you are no longer being gentle.’ I too started off with the gentle breath meditation and it was the first reawakening of the connection I could feel with my body, it has always been a meditation I turn to whenever I need to reconnect back to myself.

22. Every time I feel the connection to myself and to God I have a marker in my body where I can if I choose deepen and develop. The markers support me to get to know myself, who I truly am and expose that which I am not.

23. I experienced this too – at the first presentation I attended with Serge Benhayon, everything that was delivered, made sense of life.
    “What Serge presented made so much sense; more sense than anything I had ever learnt or heard from other practitioners, science or medicine”.

24. ‘ have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way.’ I am learning this too. So often life shows me that what I have not sorted in one area of my life spills over into another and when I am not really caring for myself deeply I lose care in my decision making process too.

25. “I met Serge Benhayon and was introduced to the teachings of Universal Medicine. What Serge presented made so much sense;” Hear, hear. We can sense when something makes sense and then we have a choice to introduce that way of living into our own daily life. The teachings about energy and everything being of and from energy introduced me to an understanding of so many whys? and hows?

26. I loved reading this blog, as there is no difference in the various jobs we all have when we are sharing our changes due to the support of Serge Benhayon and the teachings of Esoteric Medicine. There is no doubt that true livingness is the marker of The Way of The Livingness. The quality, vitality, purpose, dedication and willingness to get on with living in life is the true medicine that is being shared in this blog. We all have so much to offer another when we make our lives about self-care, an openness to learn and bucket loads of understanding not perfection!

27. I am already love, I am already enough, I am the Son of God…taking all of this into my every day, knowing that my value does not come from what I can do or have done, but that it is with love that I do everything.

28. “I no longer need coffee and sugar to get through my day or alcohol and certain foods to numb myself or take the edge off life.” Drinking coffee is so normal and so is eating sugar and drinking alcohol that we maybe can not even imagine how to live without it and how to have truly vital practitioners looking after us which is something that is truly delicious to receive. So thank you for making these choices and sharing it with us.

29. “Through a loving dedication to self and an unwavering commitment to be a student of me I feel I have found a way of livingness that supports me to be who I truly am.” Which is what we all are ultimately longing for. It’s amazing when you realise it’s actually so simple, which was reflected to me by Serge Benhayon and which I and many many others now reflect out to all we meet – it’s a beautiful science.

30. You have provided an easy to understand and relatable way of understanding how we can be more of who we are. Which are all quite simple, but we do make things very complicated.

31. I like this “..it is about the ability to acknowledge when I am with me and when I have lost myself ..”

32. I am with you too Rachel that I did not once doubt the truth Serge Benhayon was presenting. It was it. If anything I was jealous that a man in front of me was living what I already knew. It is responsibility I was avoiding to express the truth I feel and, not holding back has supported my evolution back to me.

33. Yes Rachel the way we live every day affects the patients. I can feel if my dentist is superficially nice, but has underlying anger or frustration, it does not feel good! ‘What if the way we are living and the way that we are could be as, if not more, harming to our patients as the materials and chemicals we avoid using?’ The way we live does have the potential to harm others.

34. ‘ What if the way we are living and the way that we are could be as, if not more, harming to our patients as the materials and chemicals we avoid using?’ Great point Rachel. And this also applies to all of us and everything we do.

35. “Through the esoteric teachings I now have a new appreciation for what it truly means to be a holistic dentist. I now realise it’s not about the bag of tricks or ‘alternative’ healing modalities I have acquired, it’s not about regurgitated information and knowledge that I’ve stored in my mind but instead I have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way.” – A wholistic approach has to be so much more than just ticking the box of all the natural and alternative ways, it has everything to do with what you bring as a person from the way that you live your life and the harmony (or not) that is in your relationships all around you. This wholism is deeply entwined with your approach to life and how you are in every day and every moment. Thank you Rachel for this gorgeous reminder!

36. “I have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way.” It is a beautiful realisation that it is the way we choose to live that changes how we are in everything and anything we do.

37. “Presence allows me to be connected with myself and stops me becoming drained by living two or more situations at the same time, one in my body (the now) and one in my mind (the past or the future).” I agree Rachel. Through experience I know that to be living or thinking about anything other than what I’m doing at the time is exhausting.

38. A beautiful transformation Rachel, one which is possible for all of us and in any profession should we choose it.

39. Any profession that you are working in, it is great to take a step back and connect to what it is that is needed in the industry and what you have to offer the industry as an individual. The care that you live your life in is reflected in your work and it is a dedication to life that can people can feel that makes a true difference. If that is the foundation, then all other choices come from this space. So lovely to read Rachel.

40. Over the years I have seen and heard the word Holistic and never really respected it, I noticed that if I said it to others they would be impressed but my feeling was it was a hollow word with little substance. Sure it sounded good but what did it really mean? I love that this article asks that exact question and cover everything in its exploration of this question.

    I remember seeing a holistic dentist as a teenager, I loved going to see him, he was cool, he was gentle but he offered me no true healing, because he was still caught in trying to be young when he was not young and therefore offered me no real role model at a time I desperately needed one. Practitioners have a great chance and opportunity to change people’s prospective on life, not by telling them anything but by living in a way that reminds them they are amazing too. I was lost as a teenager but every time I walked into that dentist I was vulnerable and ready to look deeper at why my teeth were rotting out of my head but there was no-one to take me there.

41. Rachel, you make it abundantly clear that being a holistic dentist is a 24/7 commitment – it is not something that you switch off because how you are in each moment of the day impacts each other moment. Your dedication and integrity is super inspiring!

42. Rachel, what you have presented is a comprehensive demonstration of how we can live anywhere in the world, regardless of our work roles or personal lives. I had gotten to the stage in my work life where I felt that I had to keep increasing my academic knowledge to prove that I was a good practitioner, yet I have come to realise that this is the illusion so many in the world have fallen for. Our skills and training are important but are just one aspect of living and practicing our ‘trades’. Without a holistic way of living we are only providing a selected, narrow approach when we all have so much more to offer.

43. You have shown how outrageous it is that we accept anything less than ‘holistic’ in any profession for everyone is affected by every choice we make (and we have a world that is proving it). Your integrity is incredibly inspiring Rachel.

44. So often do we think of stress as coming from outside of us, to the point that we think we are powerless to do anything about it and the consequences it comes with are therefore out of our control as the phrase goes .. “That’s Life.” You show here Rachel a clear possibility and in fact a very very clear reality that we do in fact have a choice whether we go into stress or not based simply on the way we choose to live, be it in connection to our bodies or not, the resulting quality determines how we are when these moments get placed before us

45. I love how you present the fact that being a holistic dentist is not just about using materials that are not harming the body. That it is about away of living that is experienced by everyone you treat, and as well outside the dental practice. I can see how we as human beings have settled and accepted so much less than we are and thus deserve. We deserve deep love, care and harmlessness on every level. This includes not being emotional with other people as this is just as harming as using a toxic product in dentistry. Maybe even more because it is so accepted in our society that people are frustrated, unloving or angry with each other yet it is not pointed out as being harming to others. The hidden harms are so much more harming than the obvious ones.

46. “Yes, for the better. I have the person back that I knew I was when I was a child.” I can so relate to this line Rachel. This is how I feel with the esoteric teachings, I am coming back to how I felt as a child truly joyful, vital and open to people.

47. Great point about how draining it is to have the mind and body operating separately – the body in the now and the mind in the past or future disconnected from the body.

48. “I now realise it’s not about the bag of tricks or ‘alternative’ healing modalities I have acquired, it’s not about regurgitated information and knowledge that I’ve stored in my mind but instead I have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way.”
    It took me such a long time to let go of ideals and beliefs myself, what you have shared here is amazing and it sums it all, holistic is about how we live every day in every way. Thank you Rachel. 🌺

49. A very thorough examination of the word ‘holistic’ and the depth you have taken your responsibility. What a blessing to your clients and ‘holistically’ everyone you meet!

50. I love that you have asked whether the way we live could be more harmful or toxic than the materials and chemicals that practitioners avoid using. This really brings self-responsibility to the fore and a consideration that the true quality of a person’s living is a vital ingredient in any practice or even interaction… for it holds the potential to either harm or heal. Without a doubt I would prefer and it makes sense to see someone who chooses to live a self-loving and caring life over one who doesn’t. It is a great inspiration to the dentistry profession and to others that you choose to live and practise in this way.

51. Thank you Rachel. What you have written is so extensive and really great to read. I didn’t realise that dentists could be holistic, but it makes sense when you wrote whole-istic. Incorporating everything and treating it as a whole – fantastic.

52. This article was lovely to read Rachel, your loving dedication to self and all others equally so is inspiring. “Through a loving dedication to self and an unwavering commitment to be a student of me I feel I have found a way of livingness that supports me to be who I truly am.” Your integrity and commitment is inspiring for we can all make loving choices.

53. Rachel in your writing you share so much about how you have evolved as an holistic dentist, what struck me about it was that it was you returning to you and living you that has made the greatest impact. I can feel it is so true that “walking our talk” being and living the real us enables us to live with more joy and vitality and to truly be an inspiration to those around us. Thank you for sharing your return to you, it is deeply inspiring.

54. Thank you for sharing Rachel that holistic dentistry is not only what you do, but a way of life once you found the “missing a piece in the puzzle”.

55. Wow Rachel you have shared so much in this post which clearly shows the amazing impact of what you now live on everyone you treat!

56. Hi Rachel, I love your blog, there is a commonality to it which I’m sure many studying the esoteric way of life can relate to. I can very much relate to the new way of living of having both mind and body attending to the same thing at once. Through the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program for Women I’ve recently been very aware of the harmful quality of the energy that affects my body when my mind is elsewhere to my physical activity. When I am really connected to myself I feel so lovely.

57. A wonderful insight into how you practice, and this approach can be used in all areas of our life. Thanks Rachel

58. If you had asked me a few years ago, what was my approach to political science, I would have said that I was one who looked at the forest and the trees. So, I would have qualified myself as holistic. A broad view taking all of the elements into consideration. But, did I really take all the key factors into account? No. Like you, the Esoteric made clear to me that what I used to consider the grand picture, in truth was not.

59. I loved reading this Rachel, bringing all aspects of your life and work together to be lived with love and integrity as you so evidently are doing. It would be gorgeous to be able to have my teeth looked at by you.

60. Holistic practice is such a buzz word these days and often used to promote a health care practice as having something additional or superior to conventional medical practices. But this blog by Rachel Hall really explains the real meaning of holistic and shows that it is not just a label but a way of life.

61. Thank you Rachel for sharing what it means to be an Holistic Dentist. What you share makes perfect sense, that first It starts with being aware of the need to self nurture ,and Love the person you are before you can work and call yourself a Holistic Dentist or whatever the position we hold in the moment. You are an amazing example Rachel!

62. Rachel I used to consider the word holistic to mean alternative and slightly edgy in that perhaps a holistic dentist may use less modern equipment and wear strange clothes. What you’ve presented and my current understanding of holistic is that it encompassing everything – that is medical training, the latest gizmos and tools along with the fact that the care, approach of the dentist, their staff, the office is of key importance. As I’ve also come to understand that everything is energy and therefore if holistic is to cover the whole it therefore must also explore and cover the energetic aspects. What you’ve shared then is a truly holistic dentist is in how they live and in that the dentist practice also takes on a holistic livingness. This gives a whole deeper meaning to me about the word holistic and also how it may be easy for people to say they are holistic but its first from the way they live life that is either holistic or not.

    1. Yes David the word ‘holistic’ has indeed been hijacked and as you say been associated with alternative and a bit edgy… I feel Rachel has given us back its true meaning!

63. The level of self-care, devotion to your self, should be part of the training that all health care practitioners undertake. For their own sake and the patients, thank you Rachel for sharing your amazing transformations, and the blessing that we all receive from these.

64. “Through the esoteric teachings I now have a new appreciation for what it truly means to be a holistic dentist. I now realise it’s not about the bag of tricks or ‘alternative’ healing modalities I have acquired, it’s not about regurgitated information and knowledge that I’ve stored in my mind but instead I have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way.”
    What you also show us in your delivery Rachel is through the esoteric teachings there is no room for arrogance in being holisitic in one’s practice; humility is key.

65. Thanks Rachel for a huge blog covering so much, I particularly like this quoted below:
    “But we live in a world that does not want or ask us to be who we are. Instead our world bombards us with ideals, beliefs and education that tell us that we are what we do and the roles that we play. It tells us and teaches us who to be rather than letting us know who we are from what is naturally there to impulse us forth. We then live life from the outside in rather than from the inside out, so that we then act in a way that allows us to take in what suits us to best give us the recognition, acceptance and identification that we then believe to be love which isn’t love at all but us pandering to and pleasing others by behaving in way that gets us the attention we so desperately seek to make up for losing our true connection to self.”

66. Rachel, I especially like your practical examples which supports you through the day. Anyone who reads them will realise that they can be applied to everything they do.

67. Yes, Yes and Yes to all you present here, Rachel. Thank you. What you so beautifully share here is so inspiring. There are many self-appointed ‘holistic’ practitioners of various kinds, and I used to be one of them. I was aware of the hypocrisy lived by many of them including myself, but had no idea as to what a true ‘holistic’ practitioner would look like and the depth of integrity required to offer true healing until I encountered Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.

    1. Very true Fumiyo. There are many people who call themselves holistic practitioners, but I have met very few in whom I can feel an aliveness that tells me that they are truly living a whole-istic life. A life where care, truth and love is the compass for their whole life and not just a monday to friday nine to five scenario. If we live a truly holistic way, we could have any job and be holistic. Holistic doctor, holistic cleaner, holistic tyre changer, holistic accountant, holistic musician, holistic politician etc.

68. What a wonderful service that you provide to your patients by choosing to practice what you preach, “backed by the quality of how you live and all that you are”. A holistic dentist – great role model for all to be inspired by.

69. Really good description of what it really means to be holistic, thanks Rachel.

70. A great insight on the word Holistic Rachel, in that it takes into account all aspects of the practitioners life, and this is just one inspirational aspect of what Universal Medicine presents, that everything counts.

    1. Yes cjames2012 to be a truly holistic practitioner means to be a practitioner of life – applying and living the same quality, responsibility and integrity in all areas of life equally.

71. Thank you Rachel. I have been pondering recently on the word holistic myself and had been asking myself very similar questions. I have nursed as well as practiced complementary therapies over the last 20 years. What I found interesting was that I deemed the complementary modalities to be more holistic because I was apparently treating the person and not the disease. This may have been true to a point, but left out a very important component and that was me and what I brought to the person in my care. I did consider that I looked after myself, but the truth was that I was living in a way that was totally disregarding of me and completely unaware of the fact that this does affect not only the care, but patients/clients themselves. So I drank, ate what I liked, I didn’t exercise, I had late nights regularly, I ignored when I felt tired, pushed my body to work very hard – the list goes on. What are we really able to present to our patients when our own living way is the opposite to what they themselves are looking for??

72. Rachel you have redefined the word holistic or should I say brought it back to it’s true meaning. Great article that is relevant not only to dentistry but all of life.

    1. I agree Penny. To bring this level of quality and care to yourself would naturally filter into your work. Very inspiring!

73. Rachel you have captured the essence of every profession. It is never about our qualifications, job title, roles or things we do. It is about how we live and therefore the quality we bring to everything we are doing. I would have loved to hear this at school. But of course it would have had to come from someone living in this way for me to be able to hear the truth of this.

    1. Vicky, very well expressed. What Rachel shares is transferable to any job we do. And this is then really holistic.

    2. I agree Vicky Geary. So often in professions it is the ones who have studied the most or amassed the most knowledge or qualifications that are deemed the best. Of course knowledge is important in many professions, but if it is used on its own without any true connection or care, then for me it feels empty and cold and lacking true wisdom which comes from the inner heart. We have so much untapped wisdom in our hearts, just waiting to be brought to all professions and anyone can access this no matter what their qualification or intellect.

    3. Not only has the potential for every profession been captured here, but the potential for every single one of us – regardless of who we are, where we live or what we do – to live in a quality that is truly whole-istic (aka living all of who we are from the inside), and not just holistic (aka focussing on the outside). What an awesome full whole way to live whole-istically!

74. Rachel, you have taken holistic dentistry to a whole other level. The qualities of gentleness caring and wisdom that you live with are both outstanding and un-ignorably evident in your work. Also the love in your family shows in the love of your team and your clients. You are a true inspiration and role model for us all.

75. Thank you, Rachel. This article reminds me of how upside down we have got things – that we endeavour to teach the younger generations how, what and who they should be rather than nurture the essence of who they are and allow that to flourish and be expressed in full. I love how you have presented another way which feels simple, clear and possible for all.

76. A great sharing on the importance, to choose wisely our energetic quality…. in whatever role we play in the world.

77. This article should be the basis for every medical health training, and clearly spells out how to live with absolute energetic responsibility (as presented by Universal Medicine). Where else do you see such a high standard of practise and personal/professional code of conduct?

78. From Hole-istic to Whole-istic. One has a void and the other, as so beautifully explained by Rachel, is complete. This is a must read for all and I look forward to one day soon attending Rachel’s practice for my own dental needs.

79. Great post Rachel and your words so relatable here that is the game-changer ” ….and I got to feel who I am again and live from what my body feels and not that which my mind has been fed”. Once we connect back to the body, we realise not only its great intelligence but also where we have compromised it through the way we live as evidenced by our aches, pains, illness and disease. Body-connection is everything as is the energy with which we align ourselves to in this connection – is that energy of booked/academic ‘holistic’ intelligence or a wisdom lived each and every single day 24/7?

80. Wow, Thank you Rachel. Truly inspiring and powerful blog.

81. Awesome Rachel, the holistic approach to all branches of medicine includes us the practitioner. I am inspired.

82. Beautiful summary of a life being lived with love and care, for yourself and everyone else. I have been one of those drinking Naturopaths, arrogant to the hilt about health while my own was failing dismally. Universal Medicine presentations helped me to see that this was just a lie, and it was. True health care starts with our own health which we can then pass on as a lived experience.. not just words from a book.

83. This is precisely what it means to be an “esoteric student”. Very plain and simple.

84. I particularly related to what you said about whether your work had changed, and you said “not really”, but that you had changed. I can say the same fro my work as a psychologist. In many ways my work is exactly the same, but because I am so different, the quality of how I work is also different – improved 100 fold. Thankyou Rachel – great blog.

85. Thank you Rachel for sharing your wholistic article, and the same goes with whatever we do.

86. You have made so many great points – truly a ‘whole-istic’ article.

87. What a clear and comprehensive article that clearly brings a new dimension of meaning to the word holistic! Thank you Rachel.

88. Rachel it’s so true … the missing link to holistic healthcare is the quality of energy and lifestyle choices of the practitioner. That is exactly what was missing in all the different alternative therapists I’ve visited over the years. Bingo Serge Behayon and Universal Medicine.

89. Thank you Rachel such a beautiful and full sharing of what you bring to your work as a holistic esoteric dentist.

90. Rachel I found your article so informative and it made Dentistry a very different experience to the one I have known. I am sure if we all had a choice that the holistic Dentist is the one we would all choose,. I know I would.

91. Come to Melbourne Rachel! I’m avoiding going to the dentist…but you are making it sound like fun! Thanks for another killer article!

92. The responsibility and integrity you offer your clients through the energetic and physical quality in which you live and practice is amazing. To be a patient of yours is to have limited input of energetic or physical toxins from you and your work, and to be attended to with the love and care you have built in your body. You offer it all, a truly whole-istic dental practice.

93. A wonderful summary of what it means to be a holistic practitioner. If health practitioners have not been living what they share I have felt there feels to be a ‘hollowness’ as you describe in their work. When you have a session with an Esoteric Practitioner there is an integrity that gives the sessions so much power and depth, this comes from this integrity being lived. “If we give consideration to energy then a true holistic practitioner would choose to live in an energetically responsible way to ensure first and foremost that the quality of the energy they are is totally clear, harmless and non-imposing so as not to affect or alter the energy of another so that the way they are comes with energetic integrity.”

94. Dear Rachel,
    I loved reading this, the simpleness and practicality of your writing was beautiful and oh so inspiring. Thank you

95. There is so much to reflect on in what you have written Rachael. You definitely provide many wonderful examples to others of what holistic means, whether one is working directly with clients/patients or not. Thank you!

96. Wholistic Dentistry

    Hi Rachel,

    Awesome article, thank you.

    As a dentist I always wondered what holistic dentistry was about.

    It seemed many people who called themselves wholistic were really just adding a few more dimensions to the way they practiced, often looking a little deeper past the often self serving and at times corruption in dental marketing. I was one of these.

    Then there were the group that added the “new agey” stuff to their way of practice, with good intention but often producing the results but with no true understanding of how they were doing it, other than the conviction that the clients symptoms were often relieved. A bit risky possibly.I could have easily been one of these.

    It was Universal Medicine that showed me what true wholistic dentistry was or could be.

    Simply a way of practicing dentistry and living life that catered for the whole of me, the whole of the client and for the all, equally and loving so.

    Living the consciousness of the Soul.

    1. Hi Kevin, what you have written here, feels amazing. Thank you.

97. I love your simplicity in sharing in this blog – you have shared the basics of so much including self care, gentle breath, not pushing, eating to support the body in addition to the holistic approach to dentistry etc. Much of these basics gets talked about in society and we all ‘know’ that these changes can be done such as refining our diets etc, yet so few of us act on it or actually keep up the changes. It is lovely to feel the dedication and a commitment to yourself and your clients in your blog especially in the changes that you have made in your life – you stand there as living proof that it can be done and that it is a gradual process that we are all fully capable of too. Very simple and simply inspiring

98. Thank you Rachel for sharing your unfoldment so honestly. It’s a beautiful article.

99. Great article Rachel. I love how you show that it is not what we do or what we know but how we live, taking gentle loving care of ourselves, is what we take to work, life and others. Thank you.

100. Having travelled constantly for 8 years at one stage, it seemed that I saw a new dentist almost every time I required a check-up or work done. After experiencing an appointment with another dentist recently, who similarly was rich in their vitality and livingness, gently and lovingly manoeuvring with their equipment in my mouth, I can say from experience Rachel’s blog is right on the money. The teachings of Serge Benhayon flow from practitioner to client without boundaries and it’s beautiful to be either person in this equation.

101. Great article Rachel your commitment to life and your work is easily felt in your words and I am always deeply inspired by what you write, you are the real deal.

102. Rachel I can really appreciate your integrity. Having had quite a bit of dentistry work one of the most important aspects to who I choose was whether I felt I could trust the dentist. To visit a dentist who is as tender and truthful as you feels such a blessing for the client – I feel your presence allows the client to be more open about their responsibility in their dental care and the factors that may have contributed to any dental issues.

103. ‘I also choose to be present in all that I do which means that my mind is with me in what my body is doing; my mind is concentrating on the task at hand paying attention to even the smallest detail. Presence allows me to be connected with myself and stops me becoming drained by living two or more situations at the same time, one in my body (the now) and one in my mind (the past or the future).’
     I love this sentence about presence, it is so clear and really helps me to see why I can feel so tired when I spend all day sitting at my desk.
     I can feel the anxiousness and tension in my body if I am not focussing on one thing.

104. Rachel, the dedication, care and integrity you bring to dentistry is inspiring. We need more dentists and health practitioners with this truly holistic understanding of living and working. It would certainly change the face of healthcare and the way we as patients take care of our own health too.

105. Thank you, Rachel. You express with the absolute integrity that one would hope every health practitioner we visit would have, but sadly does not – “If the way we live has the potential to harm another then it makes sense to me that to be truly holistic would mean choosing to live in a way that supports the practitioner to be clear both physically and energetically so as not to harm or be toxic to our clients. But what would this way of living be, what would it look like and what would it require?” These are important questions to ask, and it is so inspiring that you have embraced this level of dedication in your work, in your relationship with self and others.

106. This is certainly what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present – that we are either healing or harming in the way that we are and live. I love your blogs Rachel. They share a deep understanding of the energy and wisdom of life married with the simple practicalities of how we can live this in daily life. You bring everything together, but most of all we get to feel the steps you have taken. You share what you have lived and what you have done to change so that it is no longer just knowledge but YOUR living way. This is what Universal Medicine IS about. Thank you Rachel.

107. It is awesome to read how an individual has truly embodied what they have felt and applied it to their job and work. It is inspiring. It also shows the level within which that “job” and that “work” can support what is presented by Serge as it is lived, and how Western and Universal Medicine are so well harmonised again when truly lived.

108. I can whole heartedly agree with what you have said here “What Serge presented made so much sense; more sense than anything I had ever learnt or heard from other practitioners, science or medicine. As such, not once did I doubt what was being presented by Serge and Universal Medicine and I could feel how amazing the esoteric healing modalities were in my body”. Also like you I have changed for the better since my first esoteric presentation and can truly claim that I am now who I knew myself to be growing up but got distracted with searching for everything outside of myself.

109. Thank you Rachel, I love the fact that nothing in the mechanics to treatments you offer have changed, yet your entire approach and the quality of your work has absolutely changed, and all because you made the choice to do so. This is very inspiring.

110. hi Rachel, I like the way you have described the clear steps you have taken to make true changes in your life, rather than, as you so accurately described, ‘behaving in way that gets us the attention we so desperately seek to make up for losing our true connection to self.’ Thank you for sharing a more simple and loving way to live.

111. Thank you Rachel. Your article shows so clearly that what we are all seeking to understand is the energy we live with and how this affects us and everyone and everything around us. Your sentence “I have discovered that it is about how I live every day, in every way” is the whole story.

     1. Perfect Mary, simple.

112. A truly “whole-isitic” blog.” It felt complete. To deliver dentistry and the way you live to support yourself and others in “Our natural essence would express love, joy and harmony and never impose upon or harm another as it knows and sees all as equal to itself.” Is the way to go. I have received dental treatment from someone as you described has chosen to be committed to working on their stuff and so walking their walk and living their talk and it was utterly different from any experience I ever had previously. There was very little anxiety, pain and stress as a patient and I felt completely supported throughout the experience. This works…thank you for sharing.

113. Rachel , you have so clearly stated that to be holistic is as much about the practicioner as the practice. I agree with Rachel, the quality you bring to your work is gorgeous.

114. You have explained clearly what, “being holistic is truly about” and what a support you must offer to all your patients by the quality that you bring.

115. Thank you Rachel for sharing how you live and how you apply that way to your job. Taking responsibility for how you are and knowing that this affects everyone around you, being gentle and truly caring for your patients and your work colleagues, is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

116. It’s inspiring to hear how you have chosen to live and the awareness you bring to your work about energy and the effect it has on your patients. A wonderful example of someone who walks her talk.

117. Thank you for sharing Rachel – I love how you have taken dentistry and your work soo much deeper than just saying its your job. The love and care you hold your patients in is awesome, a true inspiration for all in whatever field we choose to work in as after-all we are always interacting with other people. I am looking forward to there being more dentists like you as a 20+ hour plane ride is a little long for me for a check up!!!

118. I have a really good (private) dentist in London who I have been with for 17-18 years (he has never attended Universal Medicine workshops). He is kind, considerate, knowledgable, only offers advice which is in the best interest of my dental health as well as my financial health…
     However, I cannot help but feel that sometimes he is a bit more stressed out.
     Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he was able to connect to what you have Rachel and in doing so he would be of a much greater service to himself and through that to his patients too.

119. A great example of a Health Professional who could have easily coasted away in a well respected job and enjoyed the comforts without questioning. Instead, Rachel was prepared to do the work, delve deeper and ultimately take responsibility for the impact that her state of being, not just her physical presence has on client. She illustrates how complementary to Conventional medicine and health care, Universal Medicine actually is. Thank you Rachel, inspiring stuff.

     1. Very true Sara. It takes strength, commitment and a deep love of people to step out of the comfort zone work can offer and begin to take the steps towards being responsible for our state of being and all that this affects.

120. Really simply laid out Rachel and no more need be said except that living the esoteric life really is the way to be and who could say otherwise having read your words of total common sense. Thank you.

     1. Exactly, Zofia. As Rachel says, “we live in a world that does not want or ask us to be who we are”, and Universal Medicine is turning the tide by bringing life back to being about truth and love. The esoteric life is our natural way.

121. Thank-you Rachel. You have so beautifully shared with us what true holism can be. Your words deepen my understanding of how this is, truly, ‘spherical’, as in all-encompassing, and also of my responsibility for my choices in energy, in every moment. ‘Tis a joy to know such a practitioner, and beautiful woman and human being, is here – and offering her services with such deep love for humanity.

122. I live 3000 miles away from Evolve Dental, Rachel’s clinic but choose when I can to see Rachel for my dentist appointments as I travel to Brisbane about once a year. I choose this because of her tenderness, love, care, connectedness and playfulness. I can be myself in the dentist chair, as Rachel is not imposing or harming in any way. The healing occurs in my whole body, not just in relation to my teeth. Thank you Rachel for ‘walking your walk and living your talk’.

123. Rachel, that is beautiful, very simple and truly touching.

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