240 thoughts on “Illness and Disease are Healing”

1. Understanding the underlying energy of a condition has helped me have a much more loving and less blaming relationship with illness and disease and with myself.

2. Eunice I had this notion that illness was something ‘bad’ or there was something ‘wrong’ with me, and admittedly from time to time, I can easily fall into that trap, if I entertain it.

   I’ve began to understand more and more how the esoteric works within my own body. At times it can be uncomfortable when my body is clearing and this is where true nurturing comes in. I take what support I need with medication, or see a doctor, but I often ponder on the actual clearing and I have a different perspective than once upon a time, long, long time ago.

   There is much to consider, medicine is not the only healer, and yet many centuries ago, healing came from nature, the stars, the body. There is nothing wrong in putting the two together.

3. Understanding the underlying cause and effect of illness and disease can be a powerful part of the healing process.

4. I recently had the experience of being very ill for 24 hours and even though it was definitely an unpleasant and uncomfortable experience, when it was over the feeling of lightness and ease in my body was very obvious – I felt better than I have done for a long time! So something else was going on here beyond the physical symptoms or playing out of the illness.

5. In our fight and battle against whatever we are experiencing, we turn what could be the biggest blessing and healing into a struggle. We may come out as a victor at the end of a battle, but we are still standing in the same battle field, the enemy remaining as the enemy.

6. Is clear and distinct to look back from that place of love to what is not and ‘knock out’ any disharmony that inflames the body. What helped me in that has been the esoteric modalities. After completing my first Sacred Esoteric Healing course I was able to give up alcohol and cigarettes for good. I have never gone back or struggled with these addictions again.

7. If we consider illness as a sign of health, odd I know, but as if offered here, we get to see and understand that our bodies will ultimately reject anything that’s come into it, based on our choices which may not have supported us, and hence we get ill – this is the sign of a healthy organism. Where we get a little lost is the fact we don’t want to accept the impact of our choices, hence why we want to battle our illnesses, rather than getting the needed medical support AND looking at how we’re living – viewing illness in this way allows us to embrace the medicine to address it and our own responsibility in how we live, and the later can be our greatest medicine.

8. I agree that illness and disease are very often regarded as impediments that are given, rather than states of being that have been developed. And while this may not sit so well with some who may read this, in my experience, to regard illness and disease as that which has been developed by my own choices and actions through life, is an empowering perspective because my choices and actions are what I can change.

   1. Shami, the majority of people would not like to hear or read, that illness and disease are man made. The reaction, having to admit that we are the causes of this, and not wanting to take the responsibility. And once upon a time I hated admitting to this, and now well, without perfection, it is a different understanding.

      And the key message from your comment, ‘I can change’, and I will add, anytime, any place, anywhere.

9. Unless we come to an understanding of what illness and disease actually is and what it is revealing for us to learn from, then we have missed and embraced a golden opportunity to truly heal that which our body so lovingly has given to us, the result from our unloving ways. I am learning to accept because I know it is true that illness and disease is not just to be fixed but it is an offering to let go and change my ways so that I bring a greater love to all.

10. Such a fantastic and confirming read. Great to feel that Western medicine is opening up to holistic medicine perspectives….it’s only a matter of time before a true marriage between it and Esoteric Medicine comes through. Plato was on the money!

11. When I connect to my Soul and feel into the energy of conditions or behaviours I get a huge dose of understanding not only the root of the condition but also the aspect of my Soul that was/is being avoided and thus in that disconnection the ill gets in. With so much understanding there’s no need to fight the condition.

12. Triple wow! What an amazing article, thank you Eunice, so beautifully expressed. This is something I will read many times, it’s very foundational to life and offers much understanding of oneself and the choices we make, but it holds the reader in absolute love with no judgement whatsoever, as a result it’s really easy to apply what you have shared to my own life.

13. “It is the separation from soul, from our true nature, that is our deepest ache, our deepest dis-ease. Equally, it is being re-connected with our soul, with the love that we are, which heals.” To find this deeper connection brings settlement to the body, heals and supports us to be in life but not buffeted by it.

14. Illness and disease can only be considered as a potential ‘medicine’ if we learn the lesson it offers us. If we only treat a physical condition without seeking to find the deeper root cause of the illness, we return back to the ill-energy that created the condition in the first place and find ourselves in the same cycle we were on before the illness. With understanding and supported by medical and complementary health practitioners we can break age-old patterns and enter a new cycle of lovingly caring for ourselves.

15. The way I approach illness has changed enormously since I heard it was an opportunity to clear and heal things. What I’ve discovered is that illness is not actually a bad thing or a random thing but a golden opportunity to reset your body so you can start afresh with life.

16. It is becoming more recognised that our lifestyle choices have a huge impact on our health and wellbeing and that by making different choices we can turn around many conditions especially in the early stages e.g. being pre-diabetic which is sorely needed now with our health care systems struggling under the burden of ever increasing illness and disease. Unless we start to take more responsibility for our lifestyle choices we are well on the way to bankrupting the very systems that are there to support us on our healing journey.

17. This quote says it all ‘Physician heal thyself.’ We are all physicians with potential to use life choices as medicine. Even in the simplest of ways for example, the food we eat, quality of our sleep, how we walk, bend, pick up an item off the floor, each offers a choice to support or harm the body.

    1. And this is empowering to embrace rather than expecting a doctor to sort us out without taking any responsibility for the situation we find ourselves in.

       1. Yes Helen, empowering to embrace taking full responsibility for our own health and frees us from dependency and blame.

18. Without illness and disease we have no stop points to truly reflect on how we’re living. They are our bodies messengers, speaking to us, urging us to stop our ill-ways of living and begin to deeply love ourselves.

19. What may be self-loving for me, may be self-abusive to you. We cannot have rules or guidance for how to live our lives for the heart is the true teacher and our body the only marker who can guide our development with self-love and self-care.

20. Perhaps it has been aeons. Perhaps there is living today a global body of people who, over many many centuries has developed ways of being that are not conducive to the innate love that we all know to be true. And perhaps the return journey will be very challenging because of all the investment in this epic journey, but also perhaps it is inevitable because the truth of love continues to persist deep in our hearts, calling us back home.

21. If we are open to changing our perception, it is possible that our healing journey will change as well.

22. What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body? Great question Eunice, which brings in more responsibility for us to make loving choices on a regular basis to support ourselves as we honour how our body feels and make choices from that feeling.

23. Thank you, Eunice. I can feel how there is love as a basis in a truly holistic approach to anything in life, including illnesses and diseases and whatever we may perceive as our misfortune.

24. “….. if we are self-loving, nurturing and caring in a deep way on a daily basis, address all our past hurts and wounds along with all the ideals and mis-beliefs we carry about ourselves and life, the more we will be able to develop a truly harmonious body.” Taking responsibility for our own health is something everyone can do, and in the face of serious illness it is empowering, rather than feeling a victim of one’s fate and then just giving up and giving ones power away.

25. I’ve had a condition for the last four years and there have been so many stop moments and reflecting on how I live, with the understanding that the body is giving constant feedback as to how I am living. I couldn’t keep going the way I was and this condition has helped me see that.

26. ‘Understanding how our life story, our biography, with all its ups and downs has impacted our biology can be truly transformative and healing.’ Once we can understand how each part of our body is affected by our lifestyle or our emotions, it is possible to track back and see what choices directly or indirectly affect our health.

27. I agree with broadening our paradigm or understanding of health and the body to be much more than simply physical functioning organisms, but to consider other energetic aspects, that we are also energetic beings that are inhabiting the body and that the body is a vehicle for expressing this energy and therefore will reflect back to us the quality of energy we are expressing.

28. I would agree Eunice that my body is a marker of truth and whenever I have gotten ill or something has gone wrong with my body, if I have been open to it, I have always learned something about my life that has led me to live in a more loving and harmonious way.

29. It is so refreshing to see illness and disease as an opportunity – whether its a common cold giving us an opportunity to slow down and clear a load of stuff out, or something more serious which brings us and the way we have been living to a complete stop and a chance to choose differently. either way it should be embraced and learnt from, not buried and avoided.

30. ‘Illness and disease are healing as they can bring us to a stop, to re-evaluate our lives and choices and to be empowered to live according to our true nature (love) instead of contra to it as we so often do’. A powerful statement Eunice about illness and disease, this stop is a great opportunity for us to bring a true healing to the body and to reconnect back to the love we have separated from.

31. Our attitudes to illness and disease are very often to get rid of it, manage symptoms, cure it etc and looking it that way without ALSO considering the energetic aspect and what our bodies are communicating to us is in itself an illness and disease.

32. This blog is a treasure that brings light where medicine most needs it. It completes what is missed, overlooked or denied, whilst it enriches our ability to deeply understand illness and disease. Thank you Eunice for the clarity that your experience and expression offer to this field.

33. We learn that the body rejects anything foreign to it, and thus it makes sense that the body will try and clear / reject whatever is not true for it. We underestimate the intelligence of our incredible vehicle and give all our power to brain/mind which is a gross undervaluing of what we’ve been offered. Like a flu or a piercing, the body will either want to clear the illness out via infection or will push an eyebrow ring out literally by closing the hole that was pierced forcing the metal object out of the way. It’s incredible when we allow ourselves to feel it.

34. It is when through our own ignorance we have an expectation that our body is able to cope with all our unloving choices that we don’t join the dots together, when we do, we realise that our choices impact our health, and illness and disease is the body’s way of bringing us to a stop, giving us time to reflect on our choices and implement change.

35. Taking responsibility for our health and understanding how our choices play out in our body is a great start to taking more self loving choices and realising that the more loving we are to ourselves and others, our body is more easily able to deal with illness and disease.

    1. And the faster/greater the body recovers when it does become ill.

36. After reading your awesome blog Eunice, we all get to understand there can be a different and much truer way to approach our bodies and dis-ease and furthermore, start to take more responsibility for the choices we make that then impact on our bodies.

37. In any aspect, true assessment of a situation can only be made in the light of the highest and the truest way that aspect could be presenting. We can look at resolving the most surface and obvious symptoms, in illness, in relationships or an other area of life. Yet sooner or later we will have to look at the bigger picture and the divine expression that is our true essence, deepen our understanding and resolve the situation at that level.

    Conventional Medicine is great at doing the former, Holistic Medicine embarks on looking deeper on the issue and Esoteric Medicine throws the door wide to assess and consider the bigger picture and order we are a part of.

38. ‘Imagine if we saw illness and disease as part of having a healthy body, instead of a broken body?’ – A cracker Eunice – and certainly turns around this doom and gloom we associate with illness and disease. There is always a learning when things come up and show themselves, and how clearing and healing it can be for the body.

39. This makes me really appreciate how our body is continuously working to revert itself back to harmony. In arrogance, we experience illness and disease as inconvenience, a punishment even, but in humbleness we get to feel its blessing and learn to make different choices.

40. Thank you Eunice for your clarity of expression . We all need to be reminded that we need to take responsibility for everything in our lives including our health.

41. I really appreciate the honesty that this article offers. We all, ultimately hold the power, wisdom and understanding within to know, in truth the energy behind any ailment in our bodies. As we know, hence we are responsible for adhering to what we feel.

42. An inspirational sharing Eunice . I particularly love your words “Equally it is being re-connected with our Soul, with the love that we are, which heals

43. This article is pure gold, one to be shared with others. I’ve observed people struggle and confounded when illness descends or recurs. Conventional medicine has few answers for the person who has no understanding of what the illness means for them, why and what it offers. This article offers another perspective. It says we are responsible for the health and condition of our bodies. that with love, true care and nurturing we can re-build a supportive relationship with ourselves, rather than accept one that is harmful. In other words we all have the capacity to redeem ourselves. True healing puts us at the centre, we are its architects, not potions and medicines nor is it the sole responsibility of doctors and health care practitioners to fix us. It is about how we live.

44. It flips illness on its head to consider that it is the first step to healing.. it encourages us to look at the illness and what it is telling us about the way we are living, and if we follow through then we make changes to the root cause.

45. Absolutely Eunice, illness and disease are pathways to healing. An opportunity to stop, connect back to soul and reflect on how we’ve been living. Really a blessing in disguise to be embraced not fought against.

46. I would love to see this blog as a book. The real illness we are suffering is our separation from soul, and approaching it from this holistic understanding changes how we approach and live with illness and disease. I totally agree Eunice, “When you know who you are, you know you are more than a body, more than any physical affliction and thus illness and disease are also seen and understood differently.” Illness from this perspective is healing no doubt, and life even with disease can be lived with joy, up until one’s last breath.

    1. “life even with disease can be lived with joy, up until one’s last breath” this is true Victoria. Important to not consider illness as something to get rid of as quickly as possible (sometimes we can’t) but to accept, understand, and learn from it.. Surrendering is is not the same as giving up, but allows the body to feel deeply what is really going on and with this comes appreciation.

       1. Very true ‘surrendering is not the same as giving up’. Rather than ‘battling’ our diseases which you often hear voiced, with surrender there is an acceptance and appreciation of the body’s intelligence as well as the cycles of life. Living in connection with our body and being allows for true healing no matter what the outcome is.

    2. ‘The real illness we are suffering is our separation from soul,’ Simply and powerfully expressed Victoria.

    3. Yes, Victoria – joy is our nature and can be our choice whatever our circumstances.

47. The notion that illness and disease is random or bad luck doesn’t make sense to me in gloriously harmonious universe. What Eunice has shared here rings true. I find this especially so when I add the factor of reincarnation into the mix, meaning that a terminal illness is not so terminal as we believe it to be. I actually feel a sense of joy in what is expressed in this blog – and I now know this to be a marker of truth. Thank you Eunice, a brilliant piece of writing.

    1. ‘Terminal illness is not so terminal as we believe it to be’, agree Richard, it is more of a pit stop, a pause to regather, heal and re-enter the cycle of life.

48. Thank you Eunice for the clarity with which you write, it has transformed my life to come to the understanding that ‘illness and disease are healing’. I used to feel a failure if I got sick in any way and before I started attending Universal Medicine presentations this was happening on a more and more regular basis. Over the last few years I have gradually introduced various loving and self-caring ways to treat myself and my body and can feel how harmony is being restored. This has meant that there has been other stuff that has come up to heal and clear so it is an ongoing process which I am becoming more open to and do not see myself as having failed when I am faced with the next issue to deal with but treat it as an opportunity to allow more love into my life.

49. This is a fundamental understanding when it comes to dis-ease and illness: that our bodies live… “…all our experiences and all our choices impact it, whether we consciously recognise this or not.” Until we accept this fact and take responsibility for our choices, there can be no true and lasting healing.

50. We have all heard the expression, “He died from a broken heart” and I have always taken this to mean that our physical health has many aspects. There is the of course the physical aspect that needs medical treatment and then the emotional wellbeing and of course the amount of love in our lives plays a huge part in all of this. I was always taught that love was something out there, that you need to create or harness into your life, what esoteric medicine offers is that we are in fact made of love and there for all we need to do is clear the way from all the things we put in our body that are not equal to the love we are already.

51. To know that our body is already sick when it is dis-harmonious and we are out of sync, is far from where we have allowed ourselves to be regarding illness and disease. Why is it we only accept that we are ill and we need to do something about it when we have chronic symptoms that we can no longer ignore?

52. Our human bodies share with us an infinite amount of details and wisdom about ourselves, others and the world around us. And when we tune into our bodies with both total honesty and humbleness, we realise we still have much to learn and appreciate in regard to its energetic dynamics and grace.

53. It is a profound step forward in general health and well being worldwide when people are no longer rendered a victim of genetics or circumstance but rather are encouraged to take responsibility for the part they can play in their own health through listening to and honouring their own body rather than disregarding it and expecting others to fix the repercussions of their poor choices.

54. When we have an illness or disease we often see it as something being wrong with us that we need to get fixed, however is it more an opportunity for us to actually seek a deeper understanding, and look into our own responsibility as to why we have that illness or disease and the changes we can implement ourselves to take greater care and responsibility for ourselves, and actually accept and love ourselves too.

55. It requires a deep level of honesty to admit the way in which we have been living has affected and is affecting our health. It is unless we make the connection between our livingness and our health then we will be forever at the mercy of illness and disease.

56. “To reduce all the illnesses and diseases and suffering of any kind to the separation from love, from our true nature might sound simplistic – but what if it is true?” If we consider the level of arrogance and superiority exhibited by many doctors and other conventionally trained medical professionals (and I say this without judgement – it is just a simple fact), it’s not hard to understand why so many of them find it hard to accept the simple truth of the fundamental underlying cause of all illness and disease bar none. The irony though is that this does not undermine or disrespect their skill and expertise in medicine at all. We still need what they know, it’s just that with the ‘missing piece’ ie. Universal Medicine, as patients we can then take responsibility for our health and understand that to truly heal we need to dedicate ourselves to learning how to and living nurturing, caring and self-loving lives.

57. “illness and disease arise as a result of us living and making choices in separation to our true nature of love” when we truly understand and accept this fact we are able to take responsibility for the way we are living.

58. I almost flicked to another page when I saw the word count for this blog and I am so glad I didn’t (despite the fact I have been nursing an awful headache for 3 days now). “Imagine if we saw illness and disease as part of having a healthy body, instead of a broken body?” Wow – this changes everything. You make it clear that disease is not an opponent or a punishment. Disease supports us in grace and truth to come back to our naturally harmonious way.

    1. Yes I love this too Leonne. Our bodies love us absolutely unconditionally.

59. ‘What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body?’ I love what you have shared here Eunice as by understanding disease and illness in this way it brings a responsibility to how we live. And when we accept that every choice we make in all that we do accumulates then we accept the enormity of our responsibility to not only ourselves but equally to the health care system that takes care of us.

60. Jobst et al convey in the paper you refer to, how illness and disease can be understood to be “a process of transformation, deeply embedded with meaning for the individual concerned”. I know from experience that I can appreciate my illness or injury as part of my body’s healing process, and also that it has a story to reveal which is indeed very specific to an old pattern or way of living that has, over time, taken me away from the harmony that is my body’s true state. The illness is simply an opportunity to feel my way back towards this harmonious state of being.

61. Understanding and appreciating the messages from our body is a wise thing to do. Every occurrence of illness and disease is the body’s re-correction and re-balancing to come closer back to our true nature, that which is love. Seen in the truth of this, it is impossible to blame or fight illness and diseases, we may tantrum a while for not wanting to accept the truth of irresponsibility and unawareness, and that we have a right to.

62. I work with people and their families with significant illness and disease everyday. What is the common view is that illness and disease or the results of illness and disease is cruel and healing does not come into it. When we think this it’s no wonder that there is great fear and trepidation around illness and it’s consequences. Not just for the person who is unwell but also those with caring responsibilities.

63. Another great blog Eunice, that makes so much sense, it is time for us to have more understanding, ‘When you know who you are, you know you are more than a body, more than any physical affliction and thus illness and disease are also seen and understood differently.’ Absolutely.

64. Getting stuck in blame clouds our eyes and prevents us from seeing the true cause of the ailments in our bodies and the issues in our lives.

65. “how we perceive illness and disease can make a profound difference to how we see and understand it and how we understand healing” Understanding that illness and disease is the body’s natural response to clearing itself of all that we impose on ourselves brings the responsibility back to each and every one of us in the way we choose to live.

66. It feels like the time is right with the rampant increase in ill health and disease that we question more strongly our own role in the wellness we create. Western medicine has made so many advances and is a great intervention in many cases but it hasn’t stopped us from being left confused about many diseases and it would be a humbleness well worth stepping into to consider the merits of esoteric medicine and its ability to fill the gap we have left in our self care, and explanation of what causes us so much suffering. Its role in allowing us to see the root cause of ill health and our responsibility in shaping what level of health we live our lives in is surely one of these “nothing to lose, everything to gain” situations, which can arise if we remove any arrogance or need to be right and open up to the possibility of what Eunice has so comprehensively presented.

67. My feeling is that humanity will not wake up to again feel the truth of Plato’s words until the calamity deepens… And that deepening is all around us. But somehow it does not seem to make headline news… It is buried in the health sections in the news feeds, whereas it should be on the front line on the front page saying… Wake up all is not well.

68. When you consider that Plato said “the part can never be well unless the whole is well” hundreds of years ago, it shows how long the medical system has been focused on moving further and further away from heeding his words. So much is now geared towards looking for biological reasons for illness and disease in isolation of the whole and it has become accepted as THE way to approach health care. Little wonder that researchers are not able to find ‘the answers’. It is being shown over and over again in both small and significant ways that health outcomes are vastly improved when combined with complementary medicine. Thankfully, change slowly seems to be filtering through to the medical area. The more doctors are willing to combine esoteric wisdom with all that Western medicine offers, just as you are doing Eunice, the greater the benefit for individuals and mankind.

69. …”begin to incorporate the understandings of love”…this is absolutely huge Eunice. Without love as a basis for everything we are left with nothing. When we understand love and the universal energetic laws, life begins to change, dramatically.

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71. Dear Eunice,
    Thank you for your article. It holds much within its lines and I will return and re read it, as I can feel each time this is read, the level of responsibility I have for myself will deepen. In your words there is such a deep understanding of the human body, and the connection to our soul. And much is revealed in how totally dismissive of the love of our soul we have lived, and the potential we all have if we again choose to make our body and soul as one. There is also a deeper respect and understanding for our human body, as forever there is given to us all everything we need to stop and consider our choices.

72. One of the interesting aspects of ‘skepticism’ as practised by the media and skeptics is that they have two different standards of proof: If they label somebody as not being scientific, they will accept any evidence supporting this statement regardless of its provenance and will discount any statement, also regardless of its provenance. This is not very skeptical.

73. “What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body? What if they are in fact part of a healthy response by the body to that which we have done to the body through our choices albeit in ignorance of the true harm we were causing to ourselves?” A very pertinent question Eunice. recently the Academy of Medicine is now promulgating the possibility of having pills for prevention. Yet, as so many Universal Medicine students are showing – making simple life-style changes effects miraculous alterations in health, stamina and vibrancy. By listening to our bodies we can make significant changes to illnesses.

74. This is a very beautiful elaboration Eunice on a simple truth. Our bodies are innately designed to maintain homeostasis and will do what they need to to bring us back to harmony, including an illness here or there, or to address a greater imbalance, perhaps something more life threatening.

    As a registered nurse for many years, most people I encounter who have such an illness go through a whole process of re-evaluating their lives and stating what they would do differently. Whether they heal and carry out such change is never guaranteed, but indeed this process of awareness and expression is always deeply healing for their spirit and the person as a whole.

75. The paradigm of illness and disease being ‘bad’ or a sign of our bodies having ‘broken down’ is a HUGE one, of which I have still been under but broken a layer off today through reading this blog and asking how my body feels in regards to my health. Our bodies are not broken, they are not the enemy and nor is illness and disease a case of ‘bad luck’ or ‘random’ or something to be eliminated as soon as possible or a reason for us to pick up our choices in order to do the bare minimum to get by. Our bodies teach us so much when we choose to listen and these choices to listen are worth gold. Thank you Eunice.

76. What you write here makes sense, and it is easier to understand why the rates of illness and disease are rising, as it is not common practice to even consider we could be the maker of the ill condition, let alone admit it, look at it and then take responsibility and make the necessary changes. Thank you Eunice and being a practitioner of conventional medicine this is super inspiring.

77. It took me a little while to appreciate that I am responsible for the illnesses in my life ! It didn’t take long for me to ponder on the fact and see how this really made so much sense, after all it is me that chooses to self nurture or not, chose the food I put into my body and the pressure I put on myself in so many ways everyday! To know it is my choice, is empowering, knowing I can and have let go of many harmful ways of living with a few more to go. Thank you Eunice for such an informative blog.

78. Esoteric healing is the key element missing from medicine today. It is the means by which we can reconnect to our soul and look outwardly from this place within the inner heart and see the mess we create when we walk away from love and expressing who we truly are. I am a living testament to this fact. It is through Universal Medicine we can bring the soul into play to assist our current forms of medicine to deliver what Plato knew was true all along.

79. ‘Esoterically and energetically the fundamental truth is that it is living in separation to our true nature or essence of love that results in illness and disease and indeed suffering of any kind’ – I avoided this truth most of my life and allowed the fact that I have been in ‘good’ health be a statement that proved that who I am and the way I have lived means that I am ‘a good person’ and that I have ‘got it right’. This has been my own way of seeking recognition and acknowledgement, and placing myself in the position of ‘I know best’. In your comment Eunice, the words ‘suffering of any kind’ identifies the many ways, our way of being, can be compromised or hidden and thus not be noticeable to others or at times to ourselves. The profound design of living as a human being in a physical body is one of the wonders of God and the gift of illness in order to re-connect with the truth of what being here is all about, is to be honoured and celebrated. In true humility and deep appreciation of this precious life, thank you Eunice for sharing.

80. Imagine the world today if Plato’s wisdom and works had had the same advancement and resources pumped into them as modern day medicine and pharmaceuticals. Would we even have illness and disease and would being soulfully connected, be the normal thing of the day?

81. There are so many stand-out passages of this blog Eunice, I could quote it all, its full of gold. The way you paint a picture of the true landscape of dis-ease is profound. When we understand life this way, we have the ultimate responsibility but also we get to see that in disease we are powerful (to make a change) and not powerless at all.

82. Thank you for taking the time to articulate this world changing understanding of illness and disease Eunice. To appreciate and understand illness and disease this way now for a few years, I find myself staggered at the lack of responsibility of how people treat their bodies – not in judgement in any way – but with an impassioned desire to help them understand how they can instead be empowered to be in charge of their own health. So deep appreciation for writing this article Eunice, to truly educate and share in an eloquent and clear way the true science and meaning of illness and disease.

83. Very impressive article Eunice and it certainly inspires me to read more about Plato. Everything you write makes a lot of sense to me and it is an accessible read for all.

84. What jumped out to me when reading this blog is “the body can be used as a marker for the choices we have made, for it lives all our experiences and all our choices impact it”. I was just pondering today about illness and disease and that people don’t take responsibility with how they live, and then get sick and blame everything else but themselves for it. Surely it’s the sugary foods, or the alcohol or constant disregard to themselves and what the body is telling them. Or could it be that they are not living a true life, a life that looks great on the outside but not feeling good on the inside. This blog puts it all in perspective.

85. So great to read about the beginning of conventional medicine embracing a true understanding of healing. Taking self care from being ill to being well is a huge step towards experience a great quality of life all the time.

86. Could it be that illness and disease are the body’s way of returning to true health? We often attribute illness and disease as being unhealthy, making unhealthy choices for ourselves, but have we taken it deeper than that and realised that the body’s natural equilibrium is to be in harmony with the universe. Instead of illness and disease being a bad thing and something we try to avoid or don’t want, perhaps surrendering to it and feeling within every cell of our body what it is our bodies are returning to, then perhaps we will be able to see what being truly healthy is i.e. living with truth, love, harmony, stillness, wisdom and joy in every part of our lives.

87. I love that you are asking us to contemplate personal responsibility when it comes to our health and the part we play in our own illness and healing. It is a deeply empowering way to live compared to the victim mentality upon which the health industry is built and can initiate a deeper understanding about ourselves through the examination of our choices. I commend you for incorporating this into your work and walking the future of medicine.

    1. Well put Samantha.

88. Eunice I am particularly taken with your words, “It is important to understand that how we treat others reflects how we treat ourselves and vice versa – so if we judge and criticize others, we do that to ourselves, if we dislike or hate parts of ourselves those too will get projected onto others, and if we truly love, accept and understand ourselves then so will we truly love, accept and understand others”.
    These are insights truly worth deep pondering. For they hold a huge key to living life lovingly.

89. “What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body?” I love this question Eunice and what you are proposing with it – this brings a whole new perspective on how to look at illness and disease and how we need to approach medicine and healing.

90. Your article is amazing Eunice, such in-depth offerings around illness and disease, as well as support offered for us all to broaden our awareness and understanding of them. Thank you, this is huge.

91. Isn’t it a beautiful way to look at illness and diseases as a marker of unloving choices? It supports us to become more caring and loving for ourselves. It brings responsibility to the way I live. Now I know this I see illness and disease so differently and as a support for me to learn about how I am living and making this simply more loving every time.

92. Such depth of wisdom and truth felt in your blog Eunice.
    For me what stood out and my body reacted to, was the truth that:-“It is the separation from soul, from our true nature, that is our deepest ache, our deepest dis-ease.” But what is so empowering is the truth that “Equally, it is being re-connected with our soul, with the love that we are, which heals.” I have found this to be so true.
    I am deeply appreciative of the ancient wisdom that Serge Benhayon has shared with us all at Universal Medicine, and the esoteric healings that I have received from esoteric practitioners.

93. It feels to me that one of the greatest issues with our understanding of illness and disease is that it is just part of the norm as living as a human. While this is true, as it is part of healing our relationship back to soul, it does not give us a licence to be irresponsible and assume that illness and disease ‘just happens at random.’

    1. Agree Joshua, another way out to someone who doesn’t want to even face the possibility that they had a part to play in their own dis-ease process.

       1. I agree Luke. The part we play in our own dis-ease process is an opportunity to break patterns of behaviour that have harmed us till now and the choice is there to make changes that can bring back the vitality to our bodies that we can naturally live.

       2. Agree and to a point it almost seems a shame that we need to get to this point to have the opportunity to change. However this more highlights our insistent arrogance.

    2. I agree Joshua. I used to think of illness as just an obstacle I had to overtake, or a bit of random bad luck. It is in fact a gift allowing us, if we choose to, to reconnect with our true nature.

    3. So true Joshua, the irresponsibility that many people show towards illness and disease show us clearly that these people have chosen to be or stay unaware of the understanding that the way they live has an impact on their wellbeing and that illness and diseases are gifts to clear that what does not belong to us and our bodies.

    4. Well said Joshua – you just nailed it.

       1. Indeed and how sad is this to feel the lack of awareness/irresponsible choices of people. The more we live for ourselves, express and communicate the truth around illness and disease, the more this truth will be known and felt again. There is a gift behind illness and dis-ease that is immense and it is for each of us to choose or not choose to reconnect to this.

94. “How we perceive illness and disease can make a profound difference to how we see and understand it and how we understand healing.” Understanding that illness and disease have something to do with our choices is a huge step forward, since we are much more responsible for what happens to us that we dare to admit. This is also very empowering to deal with the disease, since you can feel very clearly why you got there and what is the direction to move into.

95. Thanks Eunice, I love the way you write it is so you 🙂 I don’t know you personally, but have heard you present and when I read your blog I hear your voice so clearly.
    In learning to be more loving, I am noticing how ingrained my attitude of self criticism is, not just in bigger issues but in the small passing thoughts during the day, the little put downs I once wouldn’t have even noticed, because I would simply have accepted them as “the truth”. It is these little instances of self abuse I need to arrest in order to truly live the tenderness and delicateness that I am, and in so doing build a thoroughly healthy and vital body.

    1. This feels so empowering 1timrobinson, the dedication I feel you live to arrest all instances of abuse in your life to be able to become the tender and delicate man you are in full.

96. To begin to live with this understanding; “one that does not render the person a victim but is instead empowering and encourages them to take responsibility for their health”, was one that was a life changer for me. I began to realise that illness and injuries just didn’t randomly happen to me, they happened because of me, because of the way I was living and the lack of love I had had for myself and my body over such a long period of time. Now that I have really understood this and have begun to live a more self loving and self caring life, the incidence of illness and injury is diminishing, but my body is still having to clear out the impact of my old disregarding behaviours – that is a work in progress, but a very welcome one.

    1. Taking responsibility for my choices and for how my body was / is, has also been a life changer for me – not easy at first because it meant I could no longer blame others for my circumstances or health, but certainly also very simple and true, and the more I care for myself and take responsibility for this, the easier it is to accept my health and well-being and to make choices which support any clearing of the body which may result.

97. I agree Eunice Minford with your thorough and thought provoking blog. Perhaps it is as simple as understanding that all illness and disease is a response by our bodies initiated by our souls to maintain balance not only internally with ourselves but with all in the universe.

98. Considering the often quoted figure that 80% of all illness and disease is lifestyle related, it makes sense that we need to sit back and reconsider where the responsibility for true health lies. So much focus is placed on improving our medical health system, but very little emphasis in placed by individuals on considering the impact their own lifestyle choices have and the pressure society places as a whole upon the medical health system by refusing to play its part – which is a significant part and one that should not be understated.

    1. I totally agree Adam, until each and everyone of us takes responsibility, or are shown that we are responsible for our own health through the choices we make, illness and disease will continue to be on the rise no matter what advances mainstream medicine makes.

99. Thank you Eunice, as I was reading this I pondered on how not only is pushing ourselves to the limit, hard at work, at the gym etc considered normal, it is in fact championed. We have as a society stepped so far away from simple self-caring ways that we applaud someone who can do an all-nighter and down copious glasses of beer and then rock up to work the next day seemingly ‘ok’. And then we blame the disease and our bad luck when illness strikes. Whereas the answer is so simple staring straight at us in every moment.

100. I love this piece of writing Eunice, as every word resonates with me. You are also someone, like Plato who knows what they’re talking about as I’ve read very few writings on the real nature of illness and disease that are relateable and make sense like this one. Your writing oozes wisdom and understanding True qualities from the Soul.

101. “Esoterically and energetically the fundamental truth is that it is living in separation to our true nature or essence of love that results in illness and disease and indeed suffering of any kind.”
     When this is inscribed within our medical annals, university courses and medical philosophy, we will know for sure that we have, as a humanity, truly evolved.

102. What an amazingly cohesive article, which draws together so many strands associated with illness and disease and makes absolute sense of the causes of illness, our avoidance of these causes, and how these can both be resolved through connection with our true nature, Love. Such an awesome example of how Western medical practice and thought can combine with a holistic paradigm which embraces the esoteric, and offer a much deeper understanding of the aetiology and reasons behind disease and the way to heal them.
     Brilliant, Eunice!

103. Wow! I felt amazing reading this, because it is all Truth.
     I used to use disease and illness as an excuse to keep beating up on myself…but I am now seeing symptoms as the call my body makes for me to make adjustments in how I am and, hence, how I treat myself. This is such a blessing as I feel the physical benefits of living Lovingly with myself and all others!

104. Great informative blog Eunice. How is it that the rise in illness and disease is increasing, despite amazing advancements in medical technology and millions of dollars spent on research? Is it possible that if we understood that the ‘body is the marker of truth’, and took responsibility for our choices in life the statistics would be different? Thank you for showing that there is indeed another way to live, and not put blame on genes, environment, social situation etc.

105. Dear Eunice,
     Well said, revealing with such simplicity that the answer to all ailments in our bodies lies within. Connecting back to our love, our soul, feeling our body from here and to begin to responsibly make the changes that will support the natural harmony of our body, allowing the harmony to continue to guide us each and every day. Also to accept that to return to our own natural state of harmony that western medicine may be needed to support our body in its return to its natural harmonious state.

     1. I agree Leigh, and how beautiful it really is when conventional medicine is approached with the understanding Eunice shares here. Going to the doctor would be so yummy regardless of what’s actually ‘wrong’ with us.

106. Thanks Eunice. I hope this blog reaches the masses! What if?! What it we saw illness and disease as an opportunity for healing. How responsible would we be then? How accountable would we then have to be? Sounds spot on to me! Can’t get away with treating our bodies like waste bins forever.

     1. I agree Elodie, I too hope this blog gets seen by the masses.

107. What a powerful in depth explanation of the true reasons for illness and disease, giving us the opportunity to be responsible for the important part we all have in caring for ourselves. Then of course illness and disease can be / is healing if we are willing to choose to live in a more self-caring and loving way.

108. The truth of illness and disease has to be brought back to humanity and that is what you do with this article Eunice Minford. A patient treated for cancer does not need to fight or battle their disease, but instead has to learn to appreciate what the cancer is telling them about the way they have lived up to this point. Then the true power of healing is given back to the people and we can come to the statement, which some people already start to express, that ‘cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me’ because of the enormous healing opportunity it has brought to our lives.

     1. So true, nvanhaastrecht, that our attitude about battling cancer or any disease is based on a completely false premise that we are haphazardly victims of an external invasion by germs, genetics or whatever. Similarly, being seen as ‘victorious’ in this battle is equally false and indicates that he body’s truthful messages have been completely ignored.

     2. I like your statement about, that illness and disease is a gift. They give us the opportunity to reconnect to ourselves and to check which unloving choices we have made in the past.

     3. Yes Coleen and Alexander, it is about reading the messages of our bodies and nothing less. To me our bodies are connected to the truth and cannot but tell us the truth, if we are willing to listen to it or not, it will never stop in doing so. And I know that it is a wise thing to do, to start listening to my body in everything that it communicates to me. While it is sometimes challenging to my mind it brings me a clarity and simplicity to living a human life here on earth.

109. Despite our technological advances illness and disease perpetuates and in many cases advances, so does it not make simple common sense to reconsider what we think we know and explore the possibility that disease may in fact be something to appreciate? Your words here confirm for me Eunice that this view of illness as our enemy, is a crucial part of the disease we are here to heal from.

110. I so agree that we have not taken self responsibility when we talk about ‘fighting cancer’. It feels so much more loving and gentle on the body when I accept responsibility for where I am at rather than being in a constant state of fight and flight. It also allows us all to see that how we live affects not only us but those around us. Fighting and escaping into another world only cuts everybody off from what is truly happening in our lives and in this way we live separated. An amazingly beautiful blog to ponder that encompasses the whole-ness and complete-ness of the cycle of life and the impact of laws of the universe.

111. Eunice once again a truly magnificent blog that makes understanding the reasons for our illnesses much clearer. It is at first hard to understand that we would all choose to learn this way,(through illness and disease) but so much is proven through looking deeper at our thoughts, behaviour and actions, toward self and others. To be truly committed to self through love and therefore humanity, will make this world a place of joy and harmony.

112. The very concept that we are responsible for our own health and well being rocks the foundation of our society, and yet it is so extremely logical that it still beggars belief that this understanding does not underpin all of our current medical, ethical, philosophical and fiscal systems… because if it did, things would be radically , wonderfully different.

113. Thanks Eunice for a comprehensive explanation around the true meaning of illness and disease. Your words ‘When understood energetically and esoterically, illness and disease are the body’s way of clearing or healing that which we have put into it.’ really expose the enormous responsibility we have for our own health and well being. Other forms of medicine are an adjunct to what we can do for ourselves – the scope of possibilities here are mind blowing.

114. Thank you Eunice. When illness and disease and the responsibility we have for our own body is explained like this it all makes sense. I particularly noted where you say “Through the understandings of love, we come to know not only that we are love but that we have also made many, many unloving choices that have detrimentally affected the body and which it must clear in an effort to maintain harmony and return us to the love we actually forgot we already are!”

115. I used to live my life in a reward mentality, whereby because I didn’t appreciate myself enough, the only way I could get through the day would be to reward myself with food, or distractions, always something to look forward to. While this still plays out, it is less extreme, and the choices I make reflect more that I appreciate myself. Within this I see the need to consider how far I am willing to go with this. Is it enough to just live a life where if I don’t eat chocolate or numb out on hours of TV (to use two of many examples) I am living a healthy life? Or do I take wellbeing to the next level, where I constantly refine how I look after myself in response to the signs my body gives me. The mere absence of illness and disease should never be our marker of true health, and the illness and disease we do suffer has the potential to waken us up to our true potential, if we respond not as a battle, but with deeply committed self loving care. Thanks Eunice, another great article.

116. To take responsibility for all the choices that we had made is a great step in awareness to start truly healing, because yes, our body is registering all of those choices, and it is letting us know exactly what we have done and what we are doing. We just need to start listening

117. Thank you Eunice, you gave me a grand new perspective on illnesses and diseases as to be the symptoms of being separated from being love and our true nature. With this new perspective it is completely different, to look at the statistics of illnesses and diseases, seeing the bigger picture, our state of being as a humanity as a result of our not loving choices. I love to imagine everyone will recognize it as such and take responsibility for through being self-loving and self-caring. The approaches to prevent illnesses and diseases will change completely. This wide and true perspective brings as well deep responsibility as a loving sight on oneself and humanity. Wow.

118. Eunice thank you. What you present here makes perfect sense and if it is embraced and accepted as such it opens the way to much healing. I have found many people around me to be in resistance to this truth and would much rather blame genetics, radio waves, chemicals etc. but the truth is its a resistance to taking responsibility for ones own choices perhaps one of the greatest dis-eases on earth today.

     1. Well said Kate and something to ponder deeply on, “the resistance to taking responsibility for ones own choices, being the greatest disease on earth today”. I know from my own experience that there are some changes that my body calls for and at times I have resisted making these changes. Yet the moment that I do and commit in full to the adjustment in how I live, I immediately feel the strength of being in my body rise. However the fact that I resisted to begin with is something to understand fully, as you say it is the biggest cause if dis-ease, so if I can understand my resistance, yet not let it win, then I have the tools to support others to understand their resistance.

119. Our bodies have the ability to clear themselves, heal themselves and if their natural way is inhibited this will be expressed through illness. Our relationship with our bodies is often detached, building one allows great opportunities to learn and truly heal.

120. Eunice what you have shared simply says it all for me. It explains the impact of our choices, dealing with our hurts and knowing we do have a choice to live another way. As medical professionals, I feel it’s super empowering that we are not victims of our diseases and that we can have a say in a loving and positive way forward that comes from the love for ourselves.

121. “Disease as being a manifestation of health”. Not so long ago I would have considered this argument as counter intuitive but my body has given me proof of its truth. Through my choices and awareness I’m now in better health and I understand the root cause of my ailments.

122. This is a brilliant article Eunice, I love how you bring a spotlight to issues and turn them on their ear. You give us an opportunity to consider there may be another way. I agree with you here “what if our illnesses and disease… are a normal response of the body to the choices we have made.” Science is definitely beginning to go in that direction and the ‘scientific results’ of the survey I have undertaken of my own body over the years has proven that to me many times over.

123. Awesome article Eunice! ‘What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made…’ Here Here! It makes perfect sense that we are in fact responsible for what happens to our own vessels we call bodies. How different the world would be if we all took on this responsibility.

124. “Scientific research is producing more and more findings that affirm that we are more responsible for our health than we have previously realised, particularly in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, psychosomatic medicine, and epigenetics.”

     We might be much, much, Much more responsible than we realise.

125. Thank you Eunice for your informative blog, powerfully supported by the research and historical documentation so far. Sometimes, I feel ‘surprise’ when I hear or see something happening which is in direct opposition to what is here stated – for it feels so true, proven and is currently experienced by me in my everyday Livingness. I have had just recently, a reminder that this was the case even before I had the words I have today to describe it. The writing is on the wall. Thanks to Plato for the statement made over 2000yrs ago – “for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.” – We are to the greater extent our own physicians thus connection to self is the way forward.

126. Thank you for your insight Eunice. Illness can be a great leveler, it affects all of us at some time. If illness is a reflection of the choices we have made and how we have treated our bodies and lived our lives, then it provides a great opportunity for us to reflect on those choices and then choose differently as we move forward.

127. Eunice, this is a wonderful blog which is leaving me with lots to ponder more deeply on. Working in the healthcare field myself I have found in recent years that the more things tighten up fiscally, the more there is a push by governments for the field of health and medicine to be reduced back to the biomedical sphere. This seems such a backward step – making what you have written so valuable as a counter perspective in supporting people to consider alternate understandings of illness and disease.

128. Eunice, what a blessing to have you among us. If this were presented not only to every medical student but to every student in the world illness and disease would not only be seen as something we can learn from and something to deeply appreciate, there would be far less of the medical conditions that we have today.

129. ‘It is the separation from soul, from our true nature, that is our deepest ache, our deepest dis-ease’. This post, with such clarity, brings me back to self responsibility. Thank you Eunice.

130. On reading this article again I was about to say it’s full of gems but that would be wrong because the whole thing is one gigantic gem! You cover so much Eunice and it has come from an inner strength of utter love and commitment to truth. This is something the whole world needs to read and understand.

131. This is a fabulous article Eunice, thank you! These words:
     “Esoterically and energetically the fundamental truth is that it is living in separation to our true nature or essence of love that results in illness and disease and indeed suffering of any kind.”
     say it all – until we accept we are love and live from that then there will be illness and disease to help bring us back.

132. This is a really thorough explanation of the cause of disease and the rewards of disease. Often the rewards of disease are not known or reaped because we are unwilling to truly examine the extent of our unloving choices, or because we have difficulty trusting our ability to understand what our bodies are telling us. Thank you for bringing the balance of your medical background to this subject Eunice.

133. Wow Eunice. What if love is the missing link in health care? It certainly makes sense to me. The idea that we have no control over our illness and disease rates is quashed by the raising rates of lifestyle related issues as reported by the World Health Organisation. What you have presented here is that we have a choice, and that love takes many forms.. your example of not just eating healthy food but not eating it on the run takes us to a new level of responsibility with how we treat our bodies and the love we can be with ourselves.

134. Great article Eunice, a must read for doctors and patients. Most of us carry disease in our body through our choices to live and ask our body to walk in those choices, and the body even before we make the choice can talk to us in terms of an uneasiness that manifests as disease if we pay the body no heed and demand it, through our ideas and beliefs, to soldier on, so we can have our own way at the expense of the body. Could all disease be a manifestation of living disconnected from self (the self that would never allow the body to be used in disregard) and the illusion that we are separate from each other. i.e. separated from our soul. Thank you Eunice.

     1. I agree Paul, when we look deeper and listen and own the communications the body is offering – every moment going forwards changes. As stated – very empowering.

135. A great article Eunice. Illness is the body saying “come back to love”. Its definitely worth exploring!

     1. I was ill last year, and took a month off work with a dose of flu. But even as it began I knew it was more than that. I had been working too much, and though I thought I was taking care and ‘pacing’ myself I had ignored my body’s need for deep rest. So I welcomed the illness as a reminder to deepen my self care, and an opportunity to clear some of those old ideals I held about work, being needed, and money. Now I am back at work, but the way I look at the whole me/work/money balance has changed completely. That illness has been a true healing.

136. Thank you Eunice for really great article , “it is the separation from soul, from our true nature, that is our deepest ache our deepest dis ease” beautiful words.

137. For many years I though illness and disease were simply “bad luck” and that we were all at the mercy of lady luck, maybe I would get ill, maybe I would not. After having some problems in my early 20’s I asked the surgeon what caused the illness – his response was “we don’t know”. This was such a disempowering way to live!!! Thank goodness for Esoteric Healing, a complementary medicine that works alongside mainstream medicine to help us understand how the way we live and the choices we make contribute to our health and wellbeing.

     1. I agree Heather, thank God for Universal Medicine, where the true understanding of ill health is talked about freely and the way back to harmony in the body is presented for us all to consider and maybe choose for ourselves.

138. For a while now I have been trying to get my head around the fact that illness & disease are not bad. This article has taken it one step further for me: not only are they not bad, they are a blessing and a healthy response. What a different and freeing way to look at illness and disease, rather than seeing them as imposed on us without our control. Thank you Dr Eunice.

139. “Esoterically and energetically the fundamental truth is that it is living in separation to our true nature or essence of love that results in illness and disease and indeed suffering of any kind. To reduce all the illnesses and diseases and suffering of any kind to the separation from love, from our true nature might sound simplistic – but what if it is true? ” This makes so much sense. As illness and disease sky rocket we need to look underneath at the true causes. So much time and money is spent on trying to cure ills, but how much on prevention? And how much are we willing to look and take responsibility for our own health? Listening to our body’s messages is a first step.

140. This concept that how we live is the deviation from our natural and harmonious way, not the illness and disease that comes as a result and correction to it, make so much sense that we have to ask “why have we not seen this and embraced it even as humanity plunges deeper into conflict & suffering with so little understanding as to why?”. It does feel, as many above have mentioned, that we have not ‘wanted’ to see it, as it is at first a lot to accept as far as the accountability it requires us to consider and the pain we feel when we realize the part we have played in our suffering; the misery that has ensued as a result of having abandoned our connection to our inner essence or soul…but in order to make a correction for true change, in order to stop the need for illness and disease, we must get courageously honest and look at and feel what is going on in our own body and in humanity.
     The truth is here for us to know.

141. A great peace of writing Eunice , mostly as humanity we don’t want to take any responsibility for the choices and lifestyles we have led in relation to illness and disease and then want to fight it when it comes. To yield and truely feel what it has to offer in our evolution as humbling as it may be, feels to me like a more holistic way of understanding it.

142. Thank you Eunice for writing this fantastic article. Everyone and every doctor should read this before they actually start practicing.

     1. “Everyone and every doctor should read this before they actually start practicing.” Ryoko, as the circle of practitioners and students keeps expanding, this is bound to happen.

143. “for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.” Plato was and still is considered a pretty smart guy. For me, this consideration that you discuss in this blog Eunice is of vital importance and has great implications for our health care systems and our individual responsibility to self care.

     1. I agree totally – Eunice’s beautifully presented article brings us back full circle to the esoteric origins of true medicine with Plato’s wisdoms.That our true essence is love and to try and fix a health problem by a ‘ fix it ‘ philosophy without considering if we are making more self caring, self loving choices doesn’t work.
        This blog does have huge implications for global health systems and for all of us as individuals coming back to more responsibility for the way we live and treat our bodies.
        I love Eunice’s question ‘What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body? ‘ It brings us back to respecting how our bodies tell us the truth of how we are living as a loving support for us to stop, reconsider and perhaps make more loving choices. Not to fix something but to return to the love we truly are – that has a powerful affect on helping the body return to its natural balance and vitality too.

        1. Thank you Susannah and Lee. So much to learn from each other through the integrity of our sharings and via this medium we are promoting a responsibility that is now normal.

144. In such clear language, Eunice, you’ve just said it how it is. For myself, I understand each ailment or broken bone these days to be an opportunity to heal the momentum that lead to it; (just as you’ve said). Thank you.

145. Nobody is a fan of illness and disease, but how else are we to learn that the way most of us live is not in the true nature of our design.

     1. The concept that illness and disease is a healthy response by the body to how we live makes perfect sense. As Kev says, how else are we to learn to live in harmony with our body. In today’s world we are constantly bombarded with instructions to eat/ not eat certain foods, do/ not do certain exercise, take/not take certain vitamins and supplements. No two bodies are the same, so it makes sense to listen, and respond to our own.

        1. Yes and how empowering to know that we can turn round or prevent illness developing by listening to the messages our bodies are telling us, by looking at how we are living that is not aligning with our true nature.

146. So beautifully articulated Eunice. Your paragraph on ” our separation from our soul and true nature, that is our deepest ache ” brings back memories, I have felt that ache in the past.
     However, thanks to Universal Medicine, I am now re-connecting my true essence, cultivating harmony and love for myself, which has enriched all areas of my life.

147. It makes so much sense to understand the body in this light. I know now that my body is always communicating through aches, pains, stiffness, bruising, viruses etc the way that I’m living. If it ever gets to that point, I remember to stop, surrender to it’s healing process and reflect on how I’ve been living whilst taking deeper care of myself.

148. This is an amazing article turning around the true cause and healings illness and disease offers us and our choices with this. Awesome Eunice so beautifully explained with simplicity understanding and love. Thank you

149. It’s great to read from a Doctor within the medical system who is open a new way of looking at illness and disease. As you describe Eunice, Cancer is often viewed as a battle, but what if we view all illness and dis-ease as an opportunity to heal, clear and discard the ways in which we have previously lived that haven’t been best supporting us.

150. There is a lot to be said for our normalising of choices of daily living, eating gluten and dairy is normal, drinking alcohol likewise, exercising to extremes, so anything that is opposing to this is seen as weird and contrary and strongly questioned. But the best gauge of normal is to use how we feel in our body when we decide to make any decision, is it really normal if we then feel lesser in our body than we did before that choice was made. That is surely the true mark of normal, and it is an individual reasoning that requires self honest appraisal, is this working for me, for my body?

151. Awesome blog Eunice and one that makes so much sense. I totally agree that illness comes from us instead of illness coming to us. As you say, it takes away the blame and puts the responsibility squarely at the feet of the individual. I love how you describe how illness and disease can be seen as healing and not as a failure or weakness. Looking at it that way, I know if I do get ill then it is my body’s way of telling me I have not been listening to it and therefore it is getting me to stop and take note.

152. Such a great blog Eunice – thankyou. This statement could make all the difference to patients when receiving a diagnosis: ” how we perceive illness and disease can make a profound difference to how we see and understand it and how we understand healing. There is the tendency to see illness and disease as the enemy, something to be fought against and overcome.” I feel it would be great to view illness as an opportunity to make lifestyle changes rather than as a total disaster – and to seek immediate appropriate medical attention, but then also to seek healing for the causes of such illness – rather than returning to ones own ‘normal’ life, which often seems to result in a reappearance of the disease.

153. So much is here and said, reading it I couldn’t help feeling everyone should be reading this and in doing so maybe it would provide a space in helping to see disease and illness a different way from the majority of beliefs that are currently held which is “that we are victims of circumstance, chance, bad luck, our genes, toxins/chemicals or infectious agents. In this system, patients are devoid of responsibility for their own health and dependent upon the doctor to fix.”

     You write about Plato’s words, over 2000 years ago! Which were ““for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.” This was 2000 years ago we knew this! After reading these wise words I could see how far we have gone off course since this has been said, which we have. I know there have been many advancements in medicine but we have forgotten this incredibly fundamental piece of information and still so many do not see medicine in this way. My feeling is eventually this will be the norm, it has just taken us thousands of years to get there and remember it. In the meantime, as you say, we need to start taking responsibility for our health and choices.

154. It is way past the time we started taking responsibility for ourselves and face up to the choices we make and the way we live. Great article Eunice I also will be reading it over again. Living in separation from love, why do we choose this way of living?

155. Words of wisdom from a doctor understanding the full meaning of universal medicine.

156. There is a lot in this article, much more than a once time read can gather so I will certainly be back to re-read. What stood out for me here was the perspective of illness and disease being a means through which the body makes us aware of our choices and lifestyle past and present.

157. Brilliant Eunice… Choices choices choices! This makes so much sense to me and allows me the freedom to take control of my own life, woop!

158. Eunice, this is a brilliant article bringing together the traditional medicine with the esoteric and how they can work together with understanding and treating illness and disease. There is much to ponder upon and I will enjoy reading this many times.

159. It is great that the body gives us a pain with an impending illness or disease but not so great that we have a tendency to override and ignore the message. We have been given an opportunity to stop and listen and make some changes, and we tend to take medication and not heed the message we are offered. I know I have done that and the message then gets louder and I have another chance. It is a blessing to view pain as a way of learning and changing behaviour.

     1. I agree Gill the body is the best friend we have if we choose to listen to its messages. If we don’t as you say it just gets louder until we do!

160. I now know through experience that the symptoms my body presents are my own medicine. How freeing and enlightening this has been, To actually thank my body for telling me the truth about how I have been living, and know therefore how to begin to care more lovingly for myself and respect my body is something I never dreamed of before I met Universal Medicine.

161. Eunice, you have provided here a whole new way of looking at illness and disease in a way that takes the “why me?” attitude out of the equation, and replaces it with an opportunity to pause and reflect on how we’ve been living to cause it in the first place. This is both empowering and showing us the responsibility we have for how we care for ourselves if all our actions and thoughts control the level of well- being we live with. It should also create a sense of meaning for the illness and diminish the notion of victim hood if it is simply a natural blessing that brings our bodies back to a state of equilibrium.

162. This is a really great article which poses some important questions for us as humanity to consider. What if illness in our body is the sum of our choices and how do we then deal with it?
     I grew up believing illness was bad and something we tried to avoid. Only through feeling the truth of the presentations by Serge Benhayon have I developed an understanding and am letting go of the perfectionist ideal that ill health ‘is bad’. For as things arise now, I am treating them with the understanding that they are there to show me a way of how I have been living that I can change which brings me greater freedom to be myself.

163. “Illness and disease arise as a result of us living and making choices in separation to our true nature of love. This can also be expressed as living and making choices in separation from our soul.” Thank you Eunice it is all too common belief that illness and disease are something to fight and to no way accept, your article allows us to consider the fact that illness and disease are normal responses to choices we have made and the healing we need in order to address these choices.

164. How healing to approach disease as a manifestation of health, wiping out any sense of victim or disempowerment and opening it up to looking at what choices we have been making in our day to day lives.. Thanks Eunice.

     1. Feeling disempowerment, or feeling a victim of our illnesses is the way the vast majority of us feel about getting sick. It is so much more empowering to know that illness is simply manifesting our choices.

165. It is understandable that medicine only looks at the physical body and ignores the other dimensions of the human being, but the problem with doing so is that because we are energy first and physical second, everything happens energetically before it happens physically and so therefore medicine will never understand the root cause of any illness and disease until it embraces this fact. Similarly, healing will not be understood until it embraces this fact, which is a fact. The truth is that we are five dimensional beings who think we are three dimensional and so long as we sustain this all the answers will remain elusive to us. This is why a marriage of western medicine and esoteric medicine is the way forward. Western medicine has the great skills and the knowledge of the physical body and esoteric medicine has the understanding of the causes and of healing.

166. What you share here is the Truth Eunice. This is an absolutely awesome post. I used to think that it was enough to love myself by changing what foods I ate. Whilst my body felt better and started to heal when I stopped eating foods that made me heavy, remaining focused on just addressing that small part of my life in my healing to live a more harmonious life has not been enough.

167. Fantastic blog Eunice, somehow the way you put it, that illness is our bodies’ way of clearing really hit home – and allowed me to see and accept how my body is in a different light. And it is so refreshing to hear you talk about what illness and disease truly is and the opportunity for us that they provide. Thank you.

168. I really love this article Eunice. Thank you very much for writing it. You say with such authority about the soul being a part of who we are, and in consideration of this our bodies are constantly showing us the effects of how we choose to live. Truly inspiring.

169. Wow, imagine that Gill:
     Doctors asking us “how have we been unloving to ourselves?”
     How the world would change ?

170. If only this were taught in the medical establishments, Eunice, it would turn our approach to illness and disease upside down. So the doctor would be asking the patient to describe what they had been doing to be unloving to themselves, rather than dishing out the medication to avoid feeling it. We all need to learn the true energetic reasons why we get sick, to learn how to help ourselves.

171. I love your take on illness and disease as being part of the healing process, “What if, illness and disease, instead of being considered abnormal or an aberration or deviation from normal, are in fact the normal response of the body to the choices that we have made with the body?’ How refreshing and profound to hear it from this level of understanding and responsibility. It means that we are invited to take true responsibility for our choices and support ourselves through illness, without the self shame or condemnation.

     1. Well said susang12! especially your words “supporting ourselves through illness, without the self shame or condemnation.” That’s something to deeply ponder on once we have accepted that our daily choices do cause our ill health in the first place.

172. This article turns the table on illness and disease happening randomly to us and clearly shows another perspective worth considering, by presenting that our choices in life lead to our ill health or well being. It is a celebratory indeed when we are presented with any illness or disease as I discovered when diagnosed with breast cancer. I then embraced and appreciated turning to conventional medicine and Esoteric medicine as this brought a balance and understanding to my healing. Thank you Eunice, a valuable and clear piece of writing.

173. Thank you Eunice. Your article makes me wonder if we all took this responsibility for our own bodies and health on board how ‘get well’ cards would be transformed, no sorry to hear about: your accident, you’re sick, you’re under the weather etc?!!!

174. Your blog turns how we view illness and disease on its head… your words, “It can however be quite confronting and challenging initially to discover that we have what we have as a result of our own choices” are powerful.

175. This is an amazing piece of writing that bring common sense to the confusion that surrounds why we get sick. If we are to look at our choices and the way we live then surely it makes sense that our actions and the way we live will have an impact on the ease or dis-ease within the body. This is harder to look at than “It’s in my genes” or I’ve just been unlucky. There are so many ways we can deepen our understanding of the body and what it is telling us in every moment. How powerful for a health practitioner to present in this way, I know from my own work experiences of how much stock is put in what the doctor says, how refreshing to recommend looking at ones self first and the role we play in our health.

     1. Great what you say here Stephen G about bringing common sense to the confusion that surrounds why we get sick. I agree we need to look at our choices and how we live because that has an impact on our body even if we are not aware of this. The stop is when the illness, sickness or disease comes out. It is our body talking back to us to say we need to change as it can no longer continue the way we are choosing to live. I now see illness and disease as an opportunity to ‘take 2’ change, re-imprint and not go back to our old way of living but introduce a different way that genuinely supports our body.

176. You have made it so clear and accessible, Eunice, and demonstrated so well how medical science and esoteric healing both play their part in the the whole way our healing. It became very clear to me as I read your article that how people are trained locks us in a mind set that is very difficult to change. Anything other than what is considered normal is suspicious and not to be taken seriously. I know that when I started to truly understand the responsibility I have for my body’s health through listening to Serge Benhayon, and the way it is always working to regain its equilibrium, my life became richer and fuller and infinitely more rewarding, at the same time as ridding me of many fears I had about illness. It took a long time not to want to be rid of some symptom but to view it for what it was. It is a freedom I treasure, I spent too many years locked in an expectation of being cured of all my ills by a health professional without realising my body was actually working for me.

177. This is a very indepth article Eunice and one which makes total and utter sense.
     For me personally, I judged myself when I was told I had a tumour.
     I was not able to Accept this as for me it was saying I failed. This added to the pain and trauma which went on for over a year.
     With the direct support of Serge Benhayon who gave me a completely different understanding about why this had happened, things began to make sense and eventually I began to take small steps daily to love and take care of myself. It took many years and as you say it takes time, work and deep self honesty.
     Thank you Eunice Minford – how blessed are those who get you as their surgeon.
     Keep on writing as your words are deeply healing.

178. well said.

179. This is stunning Eunice. What I find so intriguing is that all our choices can be factored into two very starkly different qualities and the more I choose to feel, the more aware I become of the energy I am choosing to be in my body. Food is a huge one for me.

     I love the way that this article is delivered. With the fullness of YOU-NESS EUNICE!

180. We perceive that we are here to have the perfect physical body and feel let down by it when we get ill or sick. However if we could look at illness as part of the body’s self regulation and healing systems perhaps we would pay more careful attention to the messages it is sending us and choose to live in ways that are more care full, supportive and respectful of the body.
     Thank Eunice for being so free thinking in the way you approach health and Medicine

181. Life seems to be like a path with numerous signposts along the way. You have clearly shown the consequences of our everyday choices, Eunice. We either pay attention to the signposts to maintain or return to health and vitality or blithely ignore them and head further down the path towards pain and disease. That certainly encourages taking responsibility for oneself and then some!

182. This is a great summary and perspective, which could benefit all: both health practitioners and their patients.

183. This is a truly great article, thank you Eunice. As you say ‘ it does demonstrate what is possible if we are open to seeing illness and disease as being healing and potentially transformative rather than just something ‘bad’ that has happened to us.’ This is definitely possible speaking from my own experience with illness. Having originally thought of illness as a failure I now see it more as the grace of the soul. It offers an empowering and transformative time where we have the opportunity to re-connect and take responsibility for our our own health and true healing.

184. How amazing would it be if we were given this paper, this writing, on our first day of high school, and were asked to read, learn and understand this before we learn about any other single thing; how different would the choices we make be!
     Thank you Eunice for your deeply-founded understanding and wisdom on this.

185. Through all my practice and study of energy, healing and the way our bodies work including, a degree in Acupuncture a masters in Chinese Medicine, several trips to hospitals in china, investigating the philosophies of new age therapies including kinesiology and hands on healing . . . never once was the body, illness and disease explained so simply yet profoundly as this article conveys. Thank you for making this simple and loving approach to life accessible to us all. The esoteric way has been a revelation for myself and my practice.

     1. Well said Rebecca and I agree we would benefit so much more from medical practitioners with this understanding of illness and disease.

186. I remember you speaking this to me years ago – in Calgary – will never forget that.
     thanks so much Eunice

187. To have a consultant surgeon write about illness and disease in this manner is beyond refreshing – music to Everyone’s ears! Thank you very much Eunice.

     1. Absolutely Dragana, if medical training included the above we would all benefit from Dr’s with a whole body understanding and approach.

     2. I totally agree Dragana. We could do with more specialists like Eunice in the world of medicine. I wonder how many surgeons would resonate with this article that is definitely music to my ears. From little acorns, oak trees grow and I feel that you have planted a field of acorns here Eunice.

188. Now I know where Serge learns all this stuff! Great write up Eunice.

189. Thank you Eunice for such an amazing piece of writing, your words are as healing as they are profound, thank you, you have given me much to reflect on….

190. Eunice, thank you for the care you have taken in helping to clarify this. What you present is something I’ve always felt, but never have I seen/heard it presented so clearly. Very empowering to feel how this actually works and that we’re not just ‘sitting ducks’ but interactive ducks with multi daily choices to make as to how we might best support ourselves and our bodies. Awesome.

     1. Ha Kate I love your comment ‘we’re not just ‘sitting ducks’ but interactive ducks. Really made me smile and was a lovely way to picture the difference between taking responsibility for our own health or not. Brilliant. Thanks Eunice Awesome blog.

     2. I love that comment too.. we are not sitting ducks but interactive ones! We assume that illness and disease is random and that it just appears from nowhere, but to learn that the body manifests illness through our choices is a sea change.

     3. Yes very true Kate and our bodies are our key to finding out how we are truly living. My relationship with my body is currently going to a deeper level and this is something I can feel I have been ignoring for a while but my body and the pain and discomfort it high-lights to be is too big nowadays to ignore and when I truly listen I feel very honoured by myself.

        1. How gorgeous Amina.

     4. I agree with the above, the comment ‘we are not just sitting ducks, but interactive ducks’ is a great way to sum up taking responsibility for our health. Great blog Eunice and yes Mary, how crazy we have normalized drinking alcohol to be seen as different if you don’t drink it.

191. Amazing article Eunice as it so clearly highlights the important and vital element of love as being the main ingredient that is missing and so poses deeper reflection in terms of what if all the medical professionals/doctors of today such as yourself, had maintained and upheld this philosophy from the physicians in the days of ancient, what would our medical system, industry & trade, our world and so the human race all look like today? From your article it is clear the simple understanding of the absence of love in today’s times is the answer to understanding the root cause of all illness and disease and that there can be no love, or true-healing of the root cause unless responsibility is first taken, that is responsibility to the love of self through a conscious choice to do so. Thank you for writing what is possible if there be love.

192. I have long seen my body as a source of weakness. Looking today with loving eyes, I am beginning to see just how supportive and honest my body has actually been and how illness is my soul, showing me the way. Its so confirming to read all that you shared Eunice, so eloquently expressed. With appreciation and love.

     1. ‘Illness is my soul showing me the way’ You put that so beautifully Joseph. thank you

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