by Ulrike Baker, Lismore Heights, Australia
Twenty-six years ago whilst pregnant with my second child I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, a dysgerminoma. Once the tumour the size of a football was removed, I went to term with the pregnancy and delivered my baby.
One month after the birth, scan results showed the cancer had spread throughout my uterus and to the other ovary and the radical treatment offered did not seem an option to me. This treatment was radiotherapy and a radical hysterectomy. I did not have confidence in my doctor and on some level felt I would not survive the treatment. Subsequently, I discharged myself from the hospital.
The months that followed were filled with reading, seeking and trialing many alternative therapies, including energetic and psychic healing, macrobiotic diet, buying under the counter kombu, coffee enemas (oh, too much detail!), etc etc.
I felt I was getting stronger, with psychic surgeons saying ‘the mountain’ in my abdomen was shrinking. In actual fact I was getting worse to the point where I could no longer walk and was a shadow of my size now. This was all in the dogged belief I could heal through energetic/alternative means alone.
It took a friend from outside my immediate support network to see me looking like ‘ET’ and get me to hospital. This was 4 months after giving birth and 9 months after the initial operation. It was a different hospital under a different doctor who offered a different treatment. On admission the nurses said I wouldn’t last two days. However, when admitted to hospital I had a strong inner knowing that I would be OK, that I would heal from this disease.
When I was first admitted I had dangerously high levels of calcium in the blood so this needed to be stabilised before chemotherapy could commence. The treating doctors were not certain on the treatment for the high calcium levels, but proceeded to flush the calcium from my system, resulting in me blowing up like a balloon but gradually the calcium levels reduced. Following this, chemotherapy was started and my body slowly responded. (Maybe it was due to the million-dollar view of the harbour and the big boats in the Bicentenary Year!) In the months that followed, 25 years ago, the overnight visits for chemotherapy were anticipated with dread and I found the only way to get through them was to take charge and manage the situation. I did notice how other patients seemed so disempowered in their hospital bed and felt I had to be different to get through this. For example, I would walk laps of the hospital ward for hours pushing along the drip; manage my medication schedule by deciding when to have anti-nausea, sleeping and pain medication, so I could get through the overnight infusion of cis-platinum.
I knew at the time the decision to avoid hospitalisation was partly based on fear I had of any invasive treatments to the body ie surgery/needles and the fear of the pain this would inflict. I can say now that western medicine saved my life and within that I was still able to make decisions on how I would manage the treatment I received.
During the recovery phase, my family moved to the north coast of NSW. I saw my oncology doctors for the regular checkups and continually explored complementary medicine/alternative modalities as a means to provide a more holistic form of healing and to support my recovery. Over time this included herbal remedies, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, Chinese medicine, rebirthing, Bowen technique, colonics, Gematria, to name a few. I thought and felt at the time that with each new alternative treatment/modality I had found the answer. All that I did seemed right for me at the time, however I still had the sense of searching coming from deep within me.
One day I came across a flyer for an Esoteric Healing treatment in a local health food store. The Universal Medicine clinic had a lovely calm feeling about it, which felt somehow familiar and hence from having a treatment there I started to attend the presentations.
It’s through attending Universal Medicine presentations that my understanding and awareness of the healing process and of living has changed. I noticed how my previous decisions showed disregard for my body and that I wasn’t really taking responsibility for my wellness – that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input. This does not discount the need for medicine as a tool in assisting this process.
I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.
Since that journey I am keenly aware in my body of the need for a balance between conventional medicine, complementary medicine and now esoteric medicine (being open and allowing my own healing ability within).
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
We wouldn’t have a health system going bankrupt if all of us would realize what you write:
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.’
It’s beautiful when we can stay open to all kinds of treatment but also be strong enough to follow what we feel is true – what we intuit from within.
It is a beautiful moment when we come to realise that true healing comes from within, and that we all have that capability within us to heal ourselves when given the space and true support to do so.
More and more people are experiencing what your wrote: ‘I can say now that western medicine saved my life and within that I was still able to make decisions on how I would manage the treatment I received.’ And they find it very empowering to work together with their doctors and also have a say.
Before Universal Medicine I had very little connection to my body and whenever something was ‘wrong’, I just wanted it fixed by the doctors. I wouldn’t look at my contribution to this and change some of my choices but kept on pushing and overriding what my body was actually communicating. The teachings of The Ageless Wisdom have offered me additional insights and an extra point of view. I would never consider not going to see my GP or specialist when something is at hand, but I will also look at the energetic aspects of any disease or illness that occurs and consider what choices I can make to be more loving with myself.
You hit the nail on the head here when you said that you are aware now that your body needs a balance – we need to be physically taken care of by conventional medicine, but we also need to take care or our well-being with something like Esoteric medicine and also consider our life style choices so that we can begin completely afresh without heading down the same road again.
There is a deep settlement in your body when you attune to the Ageless Wisdom that is being presented this time around by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The search is well and truly over.
Ulrike reading your story again today I can feel the grace we are all held in and the opportunities grace gives us to heal even when we are in a very serious position, as with the nurses telling you they didn’t expect you to last two days. That grace is there for us to connect to even if we are to die and move onto another cycle.
‘I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.’ This is such a deeply honest statement Ulrike, and one that applies to many of us, we want outside to fix us and we do not want to have any input or commitment ourselves, it’s the ultimate in dis-empowerment and irresponsibility and we know it, and how amazing is it to have come back from that to living from a knowing that you and we all have the power of choice in everything we do and that it impacts everything for us and for the all.
Looking after ourselves on a daily basis to the best of our ability goes a long way to how we cope with operations and procedures, and then subsequently our healing process.
“that true medicine is the way I live” – never a truer word spoken.
This article is testimony to the fact that it is in the challenges of life that we can grow and learn and deepen in our understandings, both for ourselves and for the bigger of life in general, with what is on offer to us and how it is possible to try different things out and yet know when to still choose with discernment.
Choosing the medicine or medical route can sometimes be a vital part of our healing, and I find it can offer an incredible opportunity to begin with a fresh page and discard or move on from something that has hindered you for a really long time.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing this, and as you say true healing starts with ourselves. We have deeply underestimated the benefits of self-care and building a relationship with ourselves and our bodies.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.’ The choices we make every moment are either harming or healing and it is knowing the difference which supports us most because we can always re-imprint our choices and learn from those that don’t support us.
I love the opportunity we are given to learn from the choices that don’t support us and change them. That we are never too old to learn and start making loving choices and that we don’t have to be perfect but can change and evolve.
As we are beings within a body, it only makes sense that we care for both with equal importance. As such a holistic approach involving both western and esoteric medicine is what allows us to deeply heal and maintain our health and well -being. We absolutely need to support our bodies through corrections, adjustments and illnesses alongside understanding what is behind our dis-ease, understanding our responsibility in it all, why and how this can be addressed and healed as together this is what arrests ill-momentums and allows true healing to take place.
What I find is that esoteric medicine places us back in to the driving seat of a healing process. It allows us to be open to support available without giving our power away. It has certainly supported me to reinstate and accept the value of conventional medicine.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.’ Absolutely Ulrike and you are an amazing woman, a great example of what that looks like, shining, playful and a contentment that is not from this world.
Our committed input is always needed and without it we allow ourselves to become mere pawns in life. We have a huge part to play in how we live and our own healing.
very true Monica, we disempower ourselves enormously when we think we are solely dependent on medicine and do not have the ability to change or heal ourselves.
I love how you seemed to always trust your inner feelings on how to deal with your health situation Ulrike, even if it at one point lead you down a path that was not truly supportive of you. This is so important, and there is learning in all these decisions, although the state of our bodies is always the marker of all these decisions, and when we are falling apart physically, it is obviously time to try something different. This is where the marriage of Esoteric Medicine and Conventional Medicine comes in to be the super combo that it is, as shown by Ulrike’s recovery and true health today.
The healing process depends greatly on us and the pictures we hold of what it means to be sick, and sometimes like the author we can delay getting the necessary treatment due to fear of treatment or having listened to other peoples horror stories. It feels like we have yet to fully grasp the important part we play in our own healing.
It can be so dangerous to turn our backs on medicine and I love how you share it is a hand in hand approach. The ease you now feel in your body clearly comes from deepening your relationship in your own way and your own time, I am just pleased your friend took a no-nonsense approach and got you to hospital in time so you had the opportunity to discover it for yourself.
That last sentence is so true and I’d add that there’s a time and place for complementary medicine, conventional medicine, esoteric medicine but they come along side and support my daily choices which is the greatest and preventative medicine.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live” So true Ulrike. Hard to believe seeing you now how ill you were back then. When we take loving care of ourselves miracles can happen.
Conventional medicine is incredible, there’s no question that it can save our lives and it does just that for thousands (maybe more!) people every day. But when you combine it with esoteric medicine which gives you a deeper understanding of what’s going on and the tools to really care and nurture yourself, you get a whole new perspective on your health – and with the two together you have an amazing opportunity to truly change your well-being.
” I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.”
This is so beautiful and what a wonderfull learning thank you for sharing Ulrike.
There is so much support for us out there that never goes away and is always there whenever we are ready to embrace it. There are also equally as many solutions that do not in truth support at least not in dealing with the root illness. I have learnt that it is only through being deeply honest and humble within ourselves that we can start to descern the difference.
Wow what a turnaround Ulrike, it is great you began to accept western medicine and alongside the Esoteric Modalities you were able to fully support and bring true healing to your body. Your blog is a testimony of the power of how western medicine and the Esoteric Modalities work beautifully together and support us to be more responsible in the way we are living.
I can relate to a dismissal of western medicine as I have done this myself in the past, but ironically in discovering the esoteric healing modalities I have come to appreciate the science of western medicine more and would not hesitate to go to the doctor or seek medical help should I need to. In taking responsibility for our symptoms we can take responsibility for our healing and if part of that healing is to get conventional support then I have learned that this is the most supportive thing we can do.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.’ This is such a powerful story and such an amazing message for all to read and understand that we hold the key to our own health and wellbeing in the simple choices we make every day in how we live.
Ulrike, as I read this what stayed with me throughout was the strong inner knowing that you clearly always had – and how when Universal Medicine came along in your life, its teaching simply confirmed all that you already knew.
What comes to me reading this is how blindly arrogant we can be when we reject the support offered by conventional medicine, and likewise how blindly arrogant are those who reject that Esoteric Medicine is the missing link which supports conventional medicine to offer true healing instead of just a cure.
Yes!!! blindly arrogant again and again and again!!
That is an incredible story Ulrike thank you for sharing and super inspiring seeing you are such a shining woman now knowing where you have come from!
It is amazing what we are prepared to put ourselves through rather than trusting the medical profession who are extremely skilful at fixing most situations, and perform many life saving operations, when we use Esoteric healing alongside western medicine we get to heal the whole body, and through changing the way we live we also get to support our body everyday.
Today I have an enormous amount of appreciation towards conventional medicine and when I read blogs such as this my appreciation deepens. But my appreciation towards conventional medicine has not always been the case as I have reacted quite soundly which I have come to understand that any reaction is abuse to my body. Thankfully I was able to let go of the reaction mainly towards others giving their power away to mainstream medicine and the fear of what conventional medicine would have on my body to welcoming and embracing it into my life, a turnaround that has been incredibly supportive to myself and my family.
It is important to feel confident in your doctors especially as we feel very vulnerable during those times of illness.
I can so relate to not having confidence in a doctor and turning to an alternative, and like you, in that, I was still seeking to be fixed and not quite understanding the part I had to play. Medicines are the tools and we are the key to the healing.
This is an amazing story of how to approach true healing with the best conventional medical support and taking self-responsibility.
It seems to me that our choice to heal really comes from ourselves and our relationship with our bodies. The rest is the specific support we choose from either traditional medicine, complementary or esoteric medicine, and sometimes, as you did, from all three.
Such a great story Ulrike, one that everyone should read as it is a huge inspiration.
Before I came to Universal Medicine I would not regularly see the doctor, always trying to do everything myself even my own healing and it had to be “natural”. It was both a fear to uncover something by diagnosis I wouldn’t know how to deal with, and rejecting the chemicals inherent in pharmaceuticals, however these decisions for me really compromised my ability to truly take care of myself. As part of a presentation celebrating western medicine and their vital part in self care by Universal Medicine I started to open to seeing doctors regularly and I now have two wonderful doctors and they are both very supportive on many levels. They are both amazing doctors and truly caring, wonderful people. I have now had many different kinds of tests and procedures and am in awe of the care that can be in the medical system. The medical world is definitely not perfect, there can be incompetence on the part of medical professionals, but instead of reacting like I once would have I’ve made my self care a priority and discerned great care for myself with the right people.
What a story of power!
Well said Nikki – and it’s empowering for anyone who reads this.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.’ Once we have felt this inner loveliness it would seem impossible that we would do anything to not be in it however we have had lifetimes of disregard and a lack of true caring so it is a gradual building of love in our body that happens and a continual appreciation and confirmation of this that allows us to change our lives around.
Wow Ulrike, what an incredible story. I can’t imagine what that was like to go through all of that… and give birth in the midst of it all. Knowing you as the delightfully playful and joyful woman I do today you are a true testimony to what it means to really heal.
I completely agree. This would have been a hugely traumatic experience and yet, knowing you now Ulrike, your playfulness and gorgeousness is what shines through. There is not a skerrick of that trauma – which is why I was so amazed to read this and consider what actually took place. What an incredible example of true healing.
Your experience Ulrike illustrates to me how important conventional medical treatments are in supporting us in the process of healing our physical body. For without conventional medicines – analgesia, antibiotics, chemotherapy, vaccinations, diagnostic procedures and treatments as examples – it does not bear thinking about where we would be today and the depth of suffering we would be feeling.
So beautiful to read Ulrike how you did not hand over your power to the medical system but stayed in connection, although partly from fear for pain etc, with how you felt to manage the medical treatment. You just knew how to be part of the healing within conventional medicine.
I can’t imagine going through all of that after you just gave birth, it is amazing that you came out the other end really. It is great that you are now able to see what a huge support Western Medicine is but you did it your way, making sure you are in your power with the walking and feeling when to have what.
Wow Ulrike what a story, from the search on the outer to true responsibility, an incredible journey in finding that true medicine comes from within, from this place we move and accept what is needed to heal.
‘…from the search on the outer to true responsibility’ I love it… this sentence simply summarizes the way back to health.
After so much searching and unsettlement, it is beautiful to come to a place where you get to truly understand the responsibility we have in our own health and well being, and how the choices we make in each moment allow you to connect to and find the settlement within, or separate from it.
What a story of illness and recovery, and how it is possible to take charge of your own healing. Very inspiring.
Wow Ulrike, thank you for sharing, what an amazing miracle, your journey is inspiring. I feel if we all took responsibility of our own healing and embrace self-care, I am sure our health on a global scale would improve dramatically.
Our own responsibility to self-care is not one we can avoid. The body will without fail tell us when we do not attend to self-care.
“I can say now that western medicine saved my life and within that I was still able to make decisions on how I would manage the treatment I received.”
In this sentence, you have taken charge of your health and your body. It feels like an absolutely needed key to unlocking illness and diseases.
What a miracle Ulrike. Like you said you had a strong inner knowing that you would somehow come out okay despite being medically terminal – The work of medicine in this instance is incredible. And yet the goal of medicine is not always to save lives even though that is what it does most frequently, you shared that caring for yourself, choosing a responsible way of being – this is also medicine and the medicine we much need in society.
That you managed to survive is amazing Ulrike! Such bravery to take healing into your own hands and when that didn’t work to try conventional Medicine. To find the healing within through your connection to Universal Medicine and your own inner knowing is a lovely outcome.
‘I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input’ … how insightful, and indeed it exposes how many of us can approach medicine, alternative or otherwise, until we begin to see and understand that there is more to heal and that we have a very active part in this. Thank your Ulrike for sharing your journey, and reminding us all of the part we play in our healing and that life is in fact the greatest medicine of all.
Discovering we are the key to our own healing is huge in the face of society encouraging us to give our power away to the latest trends and anything outside of us.
In every occasion life is teaching us that we are not powerless. We are powerful from the beginning and we are returning to take charge to care for our bodies by surrendering to what it is communicating to us lovingly every single moment. Sometimes we take a long time without listening, other times we are quick to heed, but every time we take more responsibility in responding to our bodies, we are taking more responsibility in life.
Beautifully expressed Adele and I totally agree. When we take responsibility for our body, our health and life, we naturally inspire people around us, reflecting to everyone we meet that we are indeed all very powerful.
Our bodies are naturally configured to heal, to return to a state of harmony, and to guide us to know what is needed for us to heal. We only need to pay attention and surrender to the truth of what is being communicated. As we may not have the understanding and expertise of what is going on in our bodies and being, this support includes visiting our doctor and/or practitioner to seek guidance. I have also experienced how powerful the union of esoteric medicine and conventional medicine is in allowing us to explore and understand the choices we have made to bring us to a point of dis-ease, whilst offering great support for our physical bodies, both working together in correcting and arresting ill-momentums that are making us unwell.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.’ We can have all the medicine in the world to fix ourselves, yet if we don’t start to take responsibility for ourselves we will always be looking for the fix, rather than changing our choices and supporting ourselves.
It is shocking how far we sometimes push ourselves to the brink without being aware of what we are doing. How important is it then that we do not hold back when we see another needs help and speak the truth in what we see.
It can be so easy to dismiss conventional medicine and turn to alternative therapies, but we need to be very discerning to look at what they are really offering. This is where Universal Medicine is amazingly supportive and works with conventional medicine and not against it, and offers an understanding of the illnesses we have and shows us how to honour and work with the body in a way that has not been offered before.
Ulrike, what a beautiful story of someone knowing there is more in life and not giving up on that. There were multiple points along the way where you could have given up but your inner strength and will is very clear. Super awesome to read.
We are constantly faced with choices and we do not always allow ourselves to be aware of the impact of those choices and so we can choose to care so we support ourselves or not, and the more we do so, the more we realise that no matter what happens to us we can always choose how we respond. I particularly love how in the middle of chemotherapy you honoured you and your rhythm in how you were with the medicine and took charge, and that is how we can be, to get the support we need in whatever form, but take an active role in how we are with it and how we live. How we live in the ultimate medicine.
I am back again! Yet I am struck by how often we make decisions about our health based on fear. I have started to realise how this fear stops us surrendering and therefore being aware of the tremendous amount of support that is available to us in every moment.
I used to believe that getting an illness was like being punished and that it was not my fault, or at least I had no say in the matter, but since attending Universal Medicine workshops it is clear to me that I have always had a say in the illness and dis-ease I have created in my body, and always will have.
I deeply appreciate the support offered to me by Universal Medicine and their practitioners world wide. The have supported me to see the way we have such a major part in the outcomes for our own health and wellbeing. Teamwork.
‘I thought and felt at the time that with each new alternative treatment/modality I had found the answer.’ I had exactly the same Ulrike and we were and are not the only ones, constantly on the go to search for a solution and never finding the answer. This endless search stopped when I truly started to look within and felt my responsibility for my own body and health. And yes, just like you it were and still are the Universal Medicine treatments, presentations, workshops, books and retreats that inspire me to live a loving life making choices to heal what stands in the way of us being who we are in truth. Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experiences and for being you.
“true medicine is the way I live.” Without a doubt this is the Truth and is Universal Medicine.
The beautiful teachings presented by Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine is “that true medicine is the way I live”. When we take responsibility for all our choices it makes sense to seek support from all the learned experience of conventional medicine as well as a deeper understanding of the cause and effect of all our choices as presented by esoteric medicine.
I presume from the title the ‘angel’ that called was your illness. Or perhaps it was the grace of your awakening inner self you are referring to. Either way, recognising the enormous healing that can come from our conditions is beautiful and graceful approach to what we otherwise attempt to shun.
Amazing that even before you knew anything about Universal Medicine and what it presents, you knew deep within that you would be ok, and that it came down to a matter of what you chose to support you to get well again. We all have this inner knowing, always have had and always will. It’s whether or not we are willing to listen to it or not that is the key. If we do, there is no end of possibilities, as you have undeniably shown us here.
‘I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment……’ So true Ulrike. When we take responsibility for our own health and wellbeing it is amazing how many miracles can occur.
Wow Ulrike, what a story of healing from being days from death. I have seen a few instances like you describe over the years where women have refused medical treatment, fully convinced that the growing masses in their bodies are in some way part of the healing process. Thank God for the good sense of your friend turning up when she did and breaking that trance-like state that seems to lure us down a path of self-destruct.
Treating life as medicine is a wonderful way to live – knowing that each moment is a moment to choose love or not and that that has an effect on the body.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experiences and your wisdom. I love what you have expressed here, a very beautiful lesson indeed;
“I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation”.
Quite often we get ill and then feel lost as to what to do next, but when you read articles like this it helps to clear away some of the confusion, and to see that anything is possible.
‘An Angel Calls’ – A beautiful title and so aptly describes what we all have available to us when we stop and listen to our body. Reflecting on this ‘voice’ from within and the sacredness and honouring it brings to our lives and our health I am feeling truly blessed – everything is available to us, all we need to do is re-connect and live from this loving space..
True healing comes from allowing ourselves to consider all aspects that are on offer – conventional medicine as well as complementary medicine, so that the best possible outcomes can be available. Sometimes the healing itself can be the fact that we have denied ourselves the support from conventional medicine and then we open up to it – the healing is in the fact that we have finally dropped the rigidity of not allowing something in our lives that could be of enormous benefit. Ulrike, I too came from a staunch approach where I prided myself for not having been to a doctor in many years and not having used any conventional medications for many more years, but in doing so I looked at conventional medicine with disdain and criticism, not understanding that it brings part of a very important picture. When I finally cam across Universal Medicine which is open and aligned with conventional medicine, whilst also bringing the Esoteric approach and hence completing the full picture, I was able to open my eyes more and appreciate conventional medicine and allow it back into my life to give the full support that I (and all of us) are worthy of.
Your comment got me thinking Henrietta – how stubborn we can be when we have an image in our mind about what is best for the body without actually listening to the body’s own wisdom. How can the mind know when the body is the one experiencing our every choice? Doing what’s needed for the body, by the body, makes for simple decisions.
It is our responsibility to heal and take deep care of ourselves, and our body shows when we are or are not. It is such a trap to keep searching for the cure outside of ourselves as it isn’t there, it is in the inner healing power that we regain strength and are able to live a life with all that we are.
Wow what a process to go through and share so inspiringly with your inner the knowing and strength standing out clearly. The power we all hold in taking responsibility for our own healing and the way we live is remarkable and the combination of Conventional medicine and Universal Medicine is obvious and truly powerful for us all as you share here with taking responsibility for ourselves lovingly.
‘true medicine is the way I live’ A great revelation although obvious really and when there is not anything obviously wrong with us sometimes difficult to put aside that which we know is harming. Gradually though with compassion for ourselves and commitment to the truth we can begin to live in a way that supports true health rather than undermining it.
Rabit holes seem endless not because they are but because we choose to continue to leave one and go down another.
Hence the analogy trying every rabbit hole (alternative medicine) until we decide enough is enough and we choose to seek real change.
What an experience to have Ulrike, and thank you for sharing this so openly. It is so common for many people to be fearful of conventional medical treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation and medications in general, and I too was one of those people who prided myself for never taking any medications not even aspirin, basic painkillers, not even anaesthetic when I saw the dentist! But when we deny ourselves what all that conventional medicine has on offer, and when we come with fear around what it offers, then we are in effect making our choices and options very limited. Conventional medicine does not have all the answers, but they do represent a very important part of our healing and learning and growth and hence it is about us being open to working with it as much as we possibly can, and in this we can learn to re-build our trust in it too.
Re-reading your blog I am once again surprised by the turn-around. The healing process sounded like a process of continual searching for something to fix you, only to come back to your own body and listening to what it is communicating with you. It is such a simple form of medicine but incredibly powerful.
Beautiful to read how Universal Medicine supported you through your illness alongside Western medicine and how they both helped in your recovery.
The way that so many feel that they can do whatever they want to their bodies and then expect someone else to fix the ensuing problem is leading to a huge and increasing load on the public health system, a load which has the potential to bankrupt these hard working facilities. To come back to the simple fact that we are responsible for our own health and our own bodies is the first step in turning around this concerning trend. The second step is to acknowledge that esoteric and western medicine both have such a huge part to play as well, and to combine them with our own self responsibility is the ultimate recipe for our healing.
Spot on Ingrid – this is certainly a true recipe for truly being supported:
(a) accepting conventional medicine and what it has on offer is an important part of the healing;
(b) embracing the energetic aspects through esoteric medicine to support with identifying and healing the true cause of the illness/disease etc.
(c) Realising that we have played a part in the development of what has happened and so it is for us to examine how we live – for how we live is our medicine or is our way of getting sick.
Simple, but not always easy to embrace when we have ideals and beliefs around these things stopping us from going with it smoothly. So it is about dealing with our ideals and beliefs so that we are then absolutely free to choose and act as needed for our whole wellbeing.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself…” This is a simple yet very powerful statement…it does seem obvious doesn’t it? To not care and be dismissive of myself is something I have slipped into all too easily, but to really care for myself takes a developing sense of worth that I deserve it.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day” this is just gold, we don’t want to take that responsibility a lot of the time and the fact that it is something we have to do each and every day. Not bottle it up and think we can make it all ok in a fews days after weeks, months, years of disregard. It is a daily loving commitment.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. This is the level of understanding needed if we are to respond to illness lovingly and with mastery.
I have been reading some of these articles lately and it is quite shocking what we choose to do to ourselves. While saying that it’s great also to see people sharing things like this, while shocking it’s important for us to see what people do in these moments to support themselves. There is something that runs that is saying it will never happen to me but yet this is not always the case. For me it’s important to read these articles so I can have a sense of what may happen if I am ever faced with a similar thing. While things like this go on at times it maybe difficult to get a sense of what to do next but as this article is saying I can choose what to do now in that my choices of how I care for myself and the quality of it will support me from here forward.
Yes Ray, it is shocking. What I observe is that even with all the knowledge and understanding we’ve been given on health and well-being by Universal Medicine, old patterns can continue to rule our choices. Without a commitment to reflect honestly on choices and truly connect with our bodies as a daily practice, and make changes, we can easily mistreat the body and over-look developing conditions. There is no perfection here and we know we learn from illness, but there’s much we can do to nurture and support our bodies on a daily basis..
Even with that mindset change there would be a huge difference: “we know we learn from illness”. We aren’t even walking to a point to say we learn. There is something deep seeded in all of this as we still think we have failed when it comes to illness or need to fight. When illness like everything else around us is a reflection to “learn” or deeply read from. There is equally such a judgement carried by us all on those we see ill, similar to you get the flu and you’re unhealthy. We don’t read or learn why others are ill or even open to a possibility of what is going on. With more and more articles and people like this at least the thought will be available that there is possibly something else going on to bring about an arrest of the momentum we have done in the past.
Wow, what an amazing journey with your physical health. It is a testament to the true marriage of western medicine and complementary medicine that you are today not just physically better, but also more responsible and whole and well rounded as a person having discovered coming back to you.
This confirms the support of both Western and Esoteric Medicine to fully support and heal the body – and see it as one.
It is so empowering to understand that we know through our bodies what is best for us, not only in normal life but also when in illness or with disease. Our bodies know as they hold a great wisdom and to allow this to be there in our healing, will not only bring different physical results but will also provides energetic and psychological healing to our humanly existence.
I feel we do know that we hold the key to our own healing, but we are not willing to see that the way we live is a contributing factor to our illnesses. Because we don’t want to really address this we look for other possibilities that we think have the answers but in truth takes us further away from our own healing.
It is empowering to recognise that we hold the key to our own healing and we can choose to work with conventional medicine to support the healing process and start to take responsibility for our choices in every moment.
More and more I realise that I am love and all else is what I have allowed to stick to me from outside and the more I let go of this crust and the layers that form it, the more I can just be my true self. As I do this more comes up for healing, sometimes in physical form, and the more I can release and make room for what is healthy in me, the more love is available to live.
Conventional Medicine is great for the body but as I am learning it benefits so much more when we play our part as well. Asking for help when we feel we need it rather than waiting until we are forced to ask for help or get to a point where others call help for us – this in itself is a huge healing! to ask for help because we feel we deserve to be supported and healed rather than leaving things to develop.
I have come to understand as well Ulrike that true medicine, on a day-to-day level, is the way I live, “I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment” and that healing is a result when those choices are guided from our innermost.
I used to avoid seeking help from the medical profession and search for alternatives in all sorts of complementary practices. Having found Esoteric Medicine, as presented and lived by Serge Benhayon and several others, I realise that the combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is the most healing and wholesome way to go.
This is a great blog to read, I have to get real and be honest i live with absolute disregard for my body – I think I love and care for my body deeply, but if I’m honest I don’t really. It doesn’t come with true love and deep care, more from my head of the mechanics of it, the knowledge, this is what I should be doing rather than genuinely with a loving quality because I really want to, as you would naturally and want to do with a baby. To be honest this can be very uncomfortable to feel. But there are only two choices to keep going, or stop, feel all the stuff that comes up, the emptiness and love myself. I’m not sure how this will look as I have pictures in my head of how it should be, but only listening to my body can tell me and guide me in this.
Healing does come from within ourselves by how we live and the choices we make, ‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.’
Thank you for sharing Ulrike, it is easy to look outside of ourselves for a cure or a quick fix without actually taking the time and responsibility to connect the dots between our choices and the way we are feeling. As you said “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” The more we can live this way and teach it to our children, the more responsibility we will take for our lives and then medicine will be used when it is truly needed, not as a be all and end fix that it is currently being used for.
Recently I neglected to treat a ‘minor’ condition immediately it occurred. At that time my first choice would have been to use simple remedies to support the healing. However, by not taking responsibility earlier and seeking advice, the support of a medical doctor and antibiotics was required. I am appreciative of the treatment that was available, but also noted the need to be more attentive to my health and not take it for granted.
Universal Medicine (UM), as the name represents, is a type of medicine that is available for us all. To consider that every choice I make, which makes up the way I live was well outside of my thinking prior to attending workshops presented by Serge Benhayon (UM). Now it makes absolute sense that how I live is going to determine my health and well-being. This along with medical care, when needed, marries my responsibility with professional support beautifully.
“I noticed how my previous decisions showed disregard for my body and that I wasn’t really taking responsibility for my wellness – that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.” I have sometime wanted a big stop to happen through an accident or an illness. Wow, its pretty hard to feel the total copping out of responsibility that these thoughts contain. I know to the core of my being that the way we live is our greatest medicine, but I have not been committed to living this knowledge consistently, so now my body is needing to intervene and start to communicate more loudly that this is not working. Our health is in our hands and choices. Time to live that fact.
We can be so resistant to medical treatment when we are, at the same, more than willing to ingest all sorts of poisons such as alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, too much food, etc. It doesn’t really make sense, does it?
“true medicine is the way I live.” Esoteric medicine presents a way of living that takes responsibility for our everyday well-being and conventional medicine is there to support us when we have an illness or disease. When we choose esoteric medicine and conventional medicine to work together we are taking responsibility for our own health.
It’s amazing that the underlying message presented through Universal Medicine is self responsibility. This stands out to me like nothing I’ve ever come across before. Life is medicine, so it’s how we choose to live it that will determine the quality in which we live it.
What I love about Universal Medicine is that it always brings the ultimate responsibility back to us, it manages to do this without any blame. Other alternative therapies that I have explored over the years have never asked me to look so deeply at all my choices like UM does. I had never been brought the simple fact that life is Medicine, either one that supports or a medication that numbs and dulls, the choice is yours. Now that is a hard pill to swallow for some but I would prefer to struggle with the truth than comfortably live a lie.
Awesome Sarah, and exactly what I was feeling when I read this. UM has presented a way of living that requires you to be responsible for every single choice you make. That is unbelievable, and certainly not something I have ever been taught previously.
What a great testimony to Universal Medicine, that after all those alternative therapies, you found one that was truly complementary to conventional medicine, but also that empowered you to take control. Placing our power in the hands of another, or a belief, will simply never work.
I agree Simon it is a great testament to Universal Medicine – I myself have tried many differing therapies but none actually empowered me to take responsibility for my life. After all, what I have found is that no one can do it for me, however much I want them to or they want to!
It is so worrying when we turn our backs on medicine so completely that we fail to recognise when it is in fact most needed. I am so pleased you found a way of finding a balance.
This is a perfect example of a complete healing of the body a holistic approach of western medicine and complementary medicine can achieve.
Our angels are always there for us but it is not until we learn to trust and surrender to this inner knowing that the magic happens.
Some of us can be so arrogant in our beliefs that conventional medicine is to be avoided at all cost. Both Esoteric Medicine and conventional medicine are needed when we have illness and disease in our bodies.
Before Universal Medicine I also had a fear and aversion to traditional medicine, believing that by going the alternative route I would get to the root cause. Looking back I can see that it was not responsible or caring to avoid the doctor like I did. Now I am very open to and appreciative of all medical care, and love connecting to the medical staff that have supported me. Looking back I realise how worried I would be underneath about my health issues, and it only caused me more worry and anxiousness by avoiding the doctor to go it alone. Now I can feel how supported I am in my decision to promptly see my doctor – physically and emotionally there are many benefits in receiving appropriate medical care.
As I was growing up I got a sense of ‘giving one’s power away’ to conventional medicine so that when I was diagnosed with CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) I reacted and went the alternative route. I always felt that there was more to healing and although conventional medicine has its place and rightly so, I feel to get to the root of all illness and disease, sacred esoteric healing also has to play an important and equal part in one’s healing for a true healing to occur.
I also used to be one of those people who were anti western medicine. Not that I have been as unwell as you describe here Ulrike, but I definitely didn’t go to the doctors on many occasions when it was actually the right thing to be doing, instead I would visit many of the types of alternative medicine modalities. Thinking that I was doing the right thing, but usually making myself sicker, and definitely a lot less richer in the bank, as many of the modalities were very expensive. Going along to Universal Medicine presentations and understanding more deeply what healing truly is, that I accepted that there needs to be a marriage of western medicine and healing other modalities, that understand the different in energy. I now have a very different relationship with western medicine.
It’s unwise to discount that how we live and how we are with ourselves is our greatest form medicine.
I like that despite all your searching you somehow knew what was right for you in the most dire of your situations and that you knew that you needed to take responsibility to get through the heavy medication and therapies by not giving in to but by ‘actively’ working along what had to be done.
Thanks to Universal Medicine and presentations from Serge Benhayon “I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” This has changed my life and the way I choose to live. My life is joyful, full of love and laughter.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” It is our about own responsibility to take care for ourselves, knowing when to seek help and not ignoring the signs from our body. Our body does to talk to us clearly; we just need to stop and listen.
I appreciated reading here how even though other people were saying you only had a couple days to live you stuck to your own inner knowing of how you would be OK. This I feel is important, especially when combined with deep honesty about how we live our lives up to the point of illness, which has caused its occurrence in the first place.
I too, when faced with a major health problem thirty years ago, looked every which way to heal myself with alternative therapies, causing delay and distress, rather than accept conventional medicine. In the end conventional medicine and surgery to remove a tumour and my uterus was the only answer. True healing and emotional recovery came two decades later when I became a student of Universal Medicine.
Today’s wisdom is more accepting of conventional and complementary medicines working together and should be embraced in all settings.
‘true medicine is the way I live’ It is indeed. A simply truth missed or ignored (by myself for years) and for many who still fail to make the connection between how they live, quality of life and health. True medicine is an actively conscious state of being in the world, in which we choose what to wear, eat, drink, do, where to go with full awareness of what we’re doing and how this may impact on our bodies, health and sense of well-being. Each day, each activity, either contributes to build a body of love or weakens it.
I love that you have highlighted the false belief that we can heal ourselves through energetic/alternative means alone, but as you have shared 4 months later, you were so much worse that the nurses said you wouldn’t last 2 days… many people fall for this belief, but in fact it is our own resistance and delay of taking responsibility for all our past choices. It is our own resistance to ‘ returning’ to our true natural state of harmony and vitality and to who we truly are. I had a similar experience.
I have tried a lot of alternative therapies, and the reason was because I was always searching outside of myself for the answers, and in which I became even more lost! I did many courses with Reiki and rebirthing which just buried my stuff deeper. Then I
came across Serge Benyhayon and Universal Medicine, and my searching ‘ out there’ stopped, as I got to relearn that all the answers and all true healing comes from within.
What an amazing journey you have had Ulrike, as ill as you were and to continue to search for and come up with the answers is incredible. You are an inspiration to us all.
When I look back at the support my body is and the rigours of life I put it through in the past, I have a humbling appreciation of the exquisite support and love I am being offered constantly.
We all have our versions of what being healthy means and usually people are only talking about their diet excluding how they sleep, work or play as if it’s not a factor. Through Universal Medicine I have now an awareness that everything is the result of everything, meaning nothing is in isolation. So when I looked at the ‘ everything’ it wasn’t good and I could see the path that had led to asthma and a hysterectomy in my 50s, I was overweight eating and drinking, late nights and always working, never stopped. So with a body that now appreciates the care and honouring I live it is able to function and support a vital me without the inevitable decline we assume is ageing.
When our body presents us with a disease, illness or broken bones, it’s a signal that we are disregarding an element in our lives and in combination with conventional medicine we can heal the body, with esoteric medicine to heal the root cause. Both methods are complementary to clearing the dis-ease the body has presented for us to deal with personally, no one can do this for us, this is our journey.
It is the marriage of Allopathic Medicine (Western Medicine) and complementary esoteric medicine that actually offers the most holistic approach. By Holistic here, I mean a complete and whole approach that offers all options and looks at all aspects. We cannot approach each person and their illness with the one and same formula – every individual is different and requires a different treatment plan. But most important is to allow an openness to the options available. Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experience and your realisation that Western Medicine has much to offer, and that Universal Medicine therapies helped complete the picture for you.
What a huge turn around from desperately seeking in many directions and trying many ways to get your self well you came to the realisation of deeply caring for yourself and looking at how you were living asking for medical help when needed.
‘Healing comes from within’ feels so deeply true.
Great article Ulrike, as complete healing of the body is a balance of both the conventional and complementary (Esoteric) medicine.
It is hard sometimes, to make wise decisions when we are scared. So many times we just give our power to whoever looks like they can save us. It is quite hard to connect to a deeper knowing in these circumstances but so worth doing as your amazing story attests. It is important that we remain open to doing the very best for ourselves with western medicine and also with our responsibility to know what our body needs and to follow whatever truly supports it. Accepting the support we need and allowing others to help us is also important. Thank you Ulrike for your amazing story.
It is indeed a case of taking responsibility for our own health, as the medical system can’t fix it when we keep feeding it from choosing to live in disregard of our bodies, void of love. It is our choice to heal, and what western medicine can do tremendously well is supporting the physical body to heal, but it can’t heal the core of the problem, which comes from the energies we choose to live and move with.
I just heard of a tragic story this week where a young child needed medical attention but the parents refused because of their anti-medicine approach and the child ended up dying. I have found beliefs and ideals to be very damaging and an illness in itself, especially when it takes us further away from what is loving and true.
How many continue to die because they hold onto beliefs that prevent them from accessing whatever form of medical attention their bodies truly need? We all make choices which we can learn from and grow. Our bodies at times can be the last point of call, as in, it’s the last part we consult with and listen to. Reading how you finally made the steps into medical care, felt like your body was put first, this was a palpable difference to before.
I find it quite staggering how even as ‘close’ friends and family to others, let alone as casual colleagues or complete strangers, we still do not speak up when we see something happening or playing out right before our eyes. When people are being abused, when they are abusing themselves. Somewhere in society we have taken this freedom of choice manifesto and let it take over any responsibility we feel we have. It’s not about changing anyone or anything but at the very least offering our support out to them.
Conventional medicine has to be respected, but in my experience on its own it doesn’t lead to true healing and in some cases can cause delay. I am thankful that we have medicine men and women that remove tumours, but know they are not always equipped to help with the emotional fallout. For that you need the support of dedicated and caring practitioners of the kind you meet at Universal Medicine clinics. I turned around my life when I accepted that I am responsible for my own health, and fully committing to this and changing the way I live my life.
“It’s through attending Universal Medicine presentations that my understanding and awareness of the healing process and of living has changed. I noticed how my previous decisions showed disregard for my body and that I wasn’t really taking responsibility for my wellness – that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.” Universal Medicine has supported so many of us to embrace western medicine where required, but also to make the necessary life-style changes that support our livingness.
We always have a responsibility to ourselves to look after and maintain our body that caters to our every need. Through lovingly supporting ourselves we are able to be a support to others too.
A great example of the different approaches to healing. The take home message is that we must steer our own ship, and that means to work responsibly with the healing modalities available when needed, but more than that, to make our way of life our medicine. Universal Medicine showed me that medical services were not to be feared or avoided, but nor are they a substitute for living a way that is responsive to what our body needs on a daily basis.
it is amazing that you survived such a dire prognosis Ulrike. Your connection to what you were feeling is so strong. It is so important that we make decisions for our treatment and care within the western medicine system and with other modalities we choose to support us. It is also important that if we are unhappy with one doctor that we get a second opinion and not just walk away from the wisdom that western medicine holds.
Wow what a journey Ulrike, thanks for sharing. What I find fascinating of your story is, that your body was super patient with you as you experimented with several different paths to come to the truth of true healing, which is the marriage of conventional and esoteric medicine. This shows the wisdom we hold in our body and that it is a vessel of our divine expression and that it is our forever companion to live truth.
Having now studied many years with Universal Medicine, it seems ridiculous to entertain relying on a strategy outside of me for building and sustaining wellbeing while remaining in disregard of my body and my own choices in how I am living. Yet this is so prevalent, when you suggest it to people, they look at you as if they had never thought of it. It is so important to go deeper with the understanding of the general way of living people are choosing and what truly supports to come back to basic self responsibility. Thanks to Universal Medicine I have been empowered to do this in my life and to support others as well. It is the greatest gift, anyone can choose to receive.
When we reject western medicine and seek only for solutions from complementary medicine, we throw the baby out with the bathwater and become so deeply self-disregarding in the process. Esoteric Medicine combined with allopathic medicine offers us a truly responsible way of supporting us with illness and disease. Esoteric Medicine brings with it the understanding that the way we live is our greatest form of medicine, which apart from anything else, shows us we hold the key and the power to living a vital and truly well life with our every choice.
“that true medicine is the way I live”. When that is realised, both conventional and complementary medicine and everyday stuff like diet, exercise, rest and sleep, relationships, work etc etc become equally important factors in our overall wellness. Connecting to ourselves in order to have greater awareness of what is needed in any given moment offers us the best chance in the health stakes.
Esoteric Medicine has never been presented as an alternative to western medicine. What is does offer to do is treat the “being” whilst western medicine “treats the body”. And this is important, because in the obsession to cure the body, the being is often forgotten.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body’ this is a brilliant reminder for us all. Our body will always tell us if something is not right from early stages of our illness and disease but how often do we ignore these messages and hope that they will disappear. What you’ve shared here Ulrike is empowering. We are responsible for our health and our health system is there to support us. We ultimately are the ones responsible for the healing process and the care of our body’s state of health.
What a wonderful story of transformation and recovery Ulrike;
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live”.
What a responsibility we hold when we truly understand that healing comes from within, thank you.
We will consent to the most abrasive test, the most rigorous diet, the harshest regime, the most radical treatment, yet we resist so doggedly loving ourselves in every moment. This clearly reveals that there is something deeper going on with us all that makes no living sense to comprehend. Thank you for sharing Ulrike and reminding us that there is only one true way to heal in the end – to be Love each and every day.
This is so, so true Joseph, it doesn’t make any sense to treat our body in this way. I agree with what you’ve shared, it is deeply inspiring, especially this part: – ‘there is only one true way to heal in the end – to be Love each and every day.’
The depth of wisdom with which Serge Benhayon continually presents on healing and medicine is extraordinarily all-encompassing, and lays a true foundation for us all to be taking responsibility for our lives, healing the disregard that is so obvious now in all stratas of society.
“…I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body…” Taking responsibility and self care are necessary and great partners with conventional medicine.
Thank you Ulrike for an amazing story of a recovery from her death to live again to find “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.”
Ulrike this is an incredible sharing of your journey to healing your body through many modalities, conventional medicine, complementary and Esoteric medicine that combined for you to heal. With so much happening personally for you , it seems almost impossible for someone to keep going as you did to achieve the results that you have!
Ulrike this feels like the beginning of what you have to share about this incredible journey. l look forward to the next installment of your experience. lt took incredible strength and wisdom to read the situation and respond with courage and l feel your absoluteness also, to listen to your body first, once you were brought to your knees. Such wisdom here.
it sounds so simple and yet self responsibility can be such a key to our true healing, in fact without self responsibility we will just be on the symptomatic ping-pong table going backwards and forwards, but with self responsibility this ceaseless rhythm stops, and we can actually start to address what is at the core of our issues.
Those moments when we drive on with our vision of what healing should be, and think we are ‘getting stronger’, we are often our most lost and numb. What you share Ulrike reveals how the healing strategy you were running with was underpinned still by fear, so your body could not clear. Contrast this with the way your life and health has changed with accepting in the straight forward and simple human support we all need in life. Remarkable.
The teachings of Serge Benhayon & Universal Medicine have supported me to be open to seeking conventional medical support, something I was i very reluctant to do in the past. I now see the combination of Esoteric and conventional medicine complement each other in the healing process.
Ulrike the words “responsibility to look after myself each day” is a wonderful reminder that self care is not a part time job.
Ulrike this is such a relatable piece of writing as I feel so many have chosen to try alternative medicines in hope of finding a cure or to avoid what can be perceived as harmful conventional treatments. Yet the key in what you wrote for me was the fact that when you began to see that healing begins from within, that conventional, esoteric and alternative therapies can each play a part, but we must first see the power of our choices to either heal or harm. It reflects to me the huge responsibility we each have in determining if our life and choices ultimately heal or harm us.
This line says it all Ulrike – “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live”. This is empowering and we all have the choice to take responsibility for our health in this way. How we live and the choices we make plays a huge role in our quality of being and quality of life.
It is a true gift to know that true medicine is how we live and incorporates everything we do, say and think. Accepting the responsibility for our own health instead of leaving it solely up to health professionals is the way we must progress.
If we taught society that medicine is something that belongs to us all, and not just to the medical profession, we would redefine the way we look at health, and a beautifully symbiotic relationship might arise between doctor and patient that understands the role each has to play in assisting us to restore or even better maintain our health.
A couple of times throughout your writing you share how you truly felt about your healing prospects and how what your next steps practically were that supported what you felt. How wonderful to have such a strong connection to yourself.
“I can say now that western medicine saved my life and within that I was still able to make decisions on how I would manage the treatment I received.” This says it all within the amazing support of conventional medicine to heal your body you took responsibility for yourself and took care of yourself within the healing process. This is exactly what Universal Medicine supports people to do, to play their part in it and assume responsibility. Assume responsibility includes seeking medical support.
It is quite remarkable that after an impressive list of all the actively taking charge of and seeking and providing the support – conventional and complementary – that you had access to for a long time, it was not until the teachings of Universal Medicine that you realized that your previous decisions had an element of disregard for your body and that you still wanted something to fix you without your own committed input and you were not really taking responsibility for your health. And this has deepened your understanding. It shows how vital what Universal Medicine teaches is. Without it many people simply do not have the information to be able to make an informed choice. Some of us end up at best chasing from one therapy to another in the hope of finally finding the one that does it. And most of us simply give up and give over our responsibility to the doctor or practitioner, not realising that true healing requires our inner unfolding and input alongside the great work of the doctor and the practitioner.
This is a beautifully written blog Ulrike, stating your account matter of fact and no overstating the truth that when you know you have found true healing, you just know it. There was no coincidence that you had the good sense to seek out conventional medicine as well.
Everything we do, say or think has an impact on our health and others’. It is how we live on a daily basis that will determine how we are going to feel inside and how people will feel around us. What we choose to eat plays a big part, but we also have to deal with our previous choices. Western medicine is definitely a great support, combined with Esoteric Healing which helps to understand and take more responsibility with our own body. By looking after ourselves, we are also taking care of others, simply by inspiring them.
Yes this is true.
I too have come to realise that true medicine is all about the quality how we live. True healing comes from within us. Through each choice in every moment we can build a body of love or not.
Absolutely lorettarapp, to understand that healing starts with myself and my choices in every moment is my responsibility and my power. No longer need I look on the outside because deep within we know whether we harm or heal ourselves and others.
Ulrike to see the vital woman you now are it is hard to believe you were ever so ill. It feels like the turning point was accepting that you needed medical intervention, and then taking charge of you within the treatment schedule, and now choosing how you live on an everyday basis. Yours is an inspirational example of how miracles occur.
That’s quite a journey… I love your honouring of the inner feelings that supported you throughout, that subsequently brought you to feel and connect to a flyer for Esoteric Healing treatment that led you on a journey of return.
You are the living proof Ulrike that the loving choices we make, to actually deeply care for ourselves, our very living, are all the vital ingredients to true medicine – the kind that has no nasty after taste. Thank you for sharing your incredible story.
I really enjoyed this blog Ulrike, it does bring it home that no matter how much searching we do outside of ourselves, ultimately the responsibility for our health comes back to us.
An amazing story of healing and the peer of both western medicine and esoteric healing, thanks Ulrike for your sharing.
I had been searching for years and just like you Ulrike, every time I discovered something new I said ‘this is it’ but after a while I felt it did not bring me what I felt deep within myself as true. Serge Benhayon with Universal Medicine was the first I did not have the feeling of going on to yet another modality to try out, I knew and know Serge is presenting us true medicine, this is the way I live and if I do need support I see a doctor and I go for esoteric healing to get to the root cause of what is bothering me.
Yes this is what I feel as well. He is indeed presenting us the truth this is what I can so clearly feel in my body.
I agree Annelies. I shudder to think of the amount of money I have spent over the years, ever hopeful that whatever I was trying was going to provide the answers, only to have to admit down the track that it hadn’t made any lasting difference. Universal Medicine hasn’t offered any ‘magic cures’ but through various presentations and sessions with practitioners I have continued to slowly build my awareness of what true health actually means and how best to support myself. Western Medicine certainly is part of that support but it doesn’t have all the answers and esoteric medicine is a beautiful complementary way to bridge the missing part of the health and wellbeing equation.
“true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” Rhythm is the key that supports us to live from our inner most – Serge Benhayon lives by a rhythm that confirms him in every moment, from the steps he takes to walk to his desk and the way he taps his fingers on the keypad – all these details bring true health.
“that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input”
There is no greater reflection of self responsibility than that presented by Universal Medicine, true wellbeing requires consistent committed input.
Ulrike, your story shows a great commitment to life and the commitment and trust you had in knowing that there was another way. Holding this knowing in your body could do nothing else but align you to the truth. Very cool.
Many of us search for the healing in many different places, one has to question why is it that none, other than Universal Medicine, have brought the responsibility back to the self. It’s a veil we live under that when lifted is such an obvious way to live. Such joy is felt in rediscovering the wisdom of our own bodies and knowing we have the power to heal. Combine this with Western and Esoteric Medicine and we can find true health.
Absolutely agree Kim. We can live each moment in true self responsibility or we can abdicate and expect others, ie Western Medicine, to do the work and feel let down when they haven’t got all the answers. Little do most people realise that primarily they are their own healers.
Western Medicine is just a part of the whole. The true responsibility begins with each of us.
Wow what an amazing story, what a journey. I agree the key to healing is taking responsibility for the way we live in that the choices we make either heal or harm the body. The teaching of Serge Benhayon & Universal Medicine have supported me to be open to seeking conventional medical support, something I was in the past very reluctant to do. I now see the combination of Esoteric and conventional medicine really complement each other in the healing process.
I echo what you express here Margaret – I previously held western medicine in extreme arrogance and was very resistant to any support offered by the same. With the understanding that has come through taking responsibility for my choices – as inspired through the example and teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – my approach to healing has totally changed and now embraces a marriage of western medicine and esoteric medicine – an approach which has offered healing on the inside and the out.
The results I have seen in my self and others using the combination of esoteric medicine and western medicine have been an opportunity to truly heal the root cause of dis harmony in my body by me taking responsibility for my health and well-being.
I rarely take the time to sit and appreciate just how advanced and skilled western medicine is. It is amazing that your body was able to heal with the support of medical intervention even after you had become so weak. Ulrike, your story is inspirational.
The truth of these words “true medicine is the way we live” are very powerful…if we live lovingly our body responds positively; if we live in disregard and disharmony then dis-ease will occur…it is all about energy.
Yes Paula it is indeed all about energy. Like the tide – what goes out must come in. It is a good metaphor I once heard by Serge Benhayon that what I am putting up, must by Universal Law return to me and x 10 fold! Check. Best to keep an eye on what I am putting out or how I am living.
“I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” And it is the choice to go within that allows true healing to unfold and the wisdom of our body naturally supports this process.
How very inspiring Ulrike, that you were able to leave hospital with such a full on diagnosis, feeling deeply confident in your ability to heal is truly inspiring Ulrike. This commitment, and your choice to be involved in your own healing, eventually led to the marriage of conventional medicine, alternative medicine and esoteric medicine with its understanding of our own ability to heal from within.
How great that you listened to your body and the moment and felt to leave the hospital and take full responsibility for your illness. Understanding both the medical and energetic side and being able to apply both shows the power of true healing and that both are just as important as each other.
I understand why we react to western medicine at times. For at times it can seem arrogant and dismissive, when we know deep down that there is an element of healing that we innately know but which cannot be explained by western medicine. However, this has lead to a counter movement in society where people turn away from all that western medicine has to offer in the hope of finding something that at least honours that healing is more than just a pill and a prescription. This is unfortunate, for it often leads people down paths that are just not true in any way shape or form, and leads to situations where people dismiss western medicine altogether. Western medicine may be flawed, and is certainly not infallible, but it does have its place – a very important place.
The truth however is that we need to look at Medicine holistically. We need to return to understanding medicine as something that is not owned by the medical profession, but connected to all of life. If we take this understanding, then our relationship with life will change, and this is where the philosophy of Universal Medicine is unique in the complementary field of medicine, for it does not ignore western medicine. It simply says that there is more to understanding medicine and life than that which can be found between the walls of a test tube.
I agree Adam…western medicine has pushed some people away, and some have chosen to avoid it, but it certainly does have its place. Despite working in the health profession I have personallly gone down the track of trying many alternative and complementary therapies and ignoring western medicine in the process (except in emergencies), however through Universal Medicine I have come to understand the role western medicine and complementary medicine can have in working together to support everyone. It’s not about one being good and the other bad, one right and one wrong…each has its place in different situations and together they can support humanity to truly heal.
I agree Adam. We do need to look at medicine more holistically. Right now the medicine we have is a reduced version of what medicine is all about. Until we start to see and know that not dealing with the hurts that we carry actually affects our health, we will have a limited view of medicine.
It is a shame that we are choosing to understand health purely on a functional level. The story of the Roseto effect shows to us that our health is affected by much more than just the physical lifestyle choices we think affects its quality.
There is so much to consider here about healing and medicine – all kinds of medicine conventional, alternative, complementary and esoteric. Thanks Ulrike for writing about your experience with them all.
Such an important and life/world changing view that it would be prudent for all to consider – ‘I am keenly aware in my body of the need for a balance between conventional medicine, complementary medicine and now esoteric medicine (being open and allowing my own healing ability within).’
Ulrike that’s quite an intense story of your illness and recovery. Like you, I’ve found that the elements of healing are first and foremost, responsibility, and from there, feeling for oneself the balance of treatments and practitioners to seek and work with. But whatever the condition, I would not wish to be without esoteric medicine being part of it!
It’s great Ulrike how you have taken responsibility for yourself and committed to living in a way that is medicine, and within this seeing that conventional medicine is an essential tool.
‘True medicine is the way I live’ This is so true and something I too discovered as a result of attending workshops run by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I have found that responsibility for my health rests at my own door and the greatest support I receive is through esoteric medicine and conventional medicine combined.
This is exactly what medicine is about ~ being empowered to listen to our bodies and support them in every way with our choices.
This is a wonderful story Ulrike, showing the balance between esoteric medicine and conventional medicine, where both supports the other to deepen the healing for a person. Thanks for sharing!
This is very inspiring Ulrike…your story clearly demonstrates the responsibility we have for own health, that we do know deep within us what is true for us or not, and that true medicine is the way we live. We can try and deny the authority our bodies deliver its messages but it has lived with the consequences of all our choices and therefore knows precisely what is needed. And when we live in a loving way our bodies are so quick to lap it up and to respond in way of healing.
What a great testament you are to the benefits of marrying the esoteric with conventional medicine Ulrike. It is so precious when we have the awareness of our inner knowing letting us know that we will survive this, there is a reason for this learning and the understanding is given. I love your words ” true medicine is the way I live.” I couldn’t agree more 🙂
A great blog showing the true necessity of conventional and surgical medicine. Thank you for sharing.
Well said Harry – these blogs really do show the countless examples of how medicine and how we live can work together. This is a whole new concept to some, but the living examples I know personally who have allowed this, are living and breathing miracles of how responsive our body is to love – which is in itself medicine.
Great example of how things simply progress when we take responsibility and accept the support that is available (and that we couldn’t see before, clouded by our beliefs and ideals of how things should be).
I love that you recognised something about the feeling from the flyer regarding the Esoteric Healing and the clinic as being familiar – deep down the esoteric is already known by us all, we have just chosen to look the other way.
Perfect summary “true medicine is the way I live”…. Therefore it makes sense, the way we live and the choices we make can either harm or support us… What a simple but clear approach to health and well being.
“True medicine is the way I live” – this is what I have learned too Ulrike, that it it not any doctor’s responsibility to look after my health and find solutions, but that I can support my physical, psychological and emotional well-being with daily choices in food, exercise, thoughts, and behaviours. Your decision to take responsibility for your healing process, and to work with the medical team inspires me.
Indeed Bernadette. It is an absolute wonder to hear these stories and feel inspired by what they present. To feel the truth and depths of love that people are living is beautiful and to have an opportunity to reflect on our own way of living is awesome too.
Yes Bernadette, so often we ignore how we have been living as being a major factor in our health outcomes and then expect the medical profession to have the ‘solution’ so that we can go back to our lives again. I find it quite magical that conventional and esoteric medicine can complement each other so well.
I can so relate to you not wanting to give your power away to the hospital system and even though you eventually came around to accepting surgery and chemotherapy as what was needed to save your life you still took charge of your own healing process and didn’t give up on you.
Ulrike It is an amazing journey that you have shared. And at a time of being pregnant and looking after a baby. There is a lot to take in from your story. The way you didn’t give away your power and the knowing that you would survive. And that life is our medicine. Thank you for your sharing.
Ulrike firstly it’s incredible you survived your cancer so many years ago. It really stood out for me that you already knew you were going to be ok which I can relate to and have heard from other people. This knowing doesn’t come from a hopefulness, it’s something that is felt from within us which confirms to me that we are always being guided by our inner wisdom, we just need to be willing to listen to it.
I’m blown away by your experience Ulrike and agree with you when you say that “true medicine is the way I live”.
To my experience we all have a knowing and experience of life that is beyond our imagination if we allow ourselves to feel within and surrender to the wisdom our body carries and is connected to, our body that cannot do anything else than living the truth it is part of.
I loved reading, and was inspired by, your amazing story of transformation.
The fact that you made self loving choices was obviously critical to your healing.
Your story also confirmed for me that Esoteric Medicine works in partnership with Conventional Medicine and also we must listen and discern the truth that lies within.
Indeed Naren, every moment in our lives provides us with the opportunity to learn and evolve from and I will embrace every moment of it to the best of my ability.
Hear hear, Nico!
I remember dabbling with many different modalities and spiritual endeavours for years. Each new thing tantalised and amazed and yet nothing really held my attention, for I still found myself easily swayed to the next thing, like stopping and trying everything at the different stalls of a mind, body and spirit festival.
I found myself in awe however, that after my first session with Serge Benhayon and a Universal Medicine event, I stopped looking and never even thought to look elsewhere again. I just knew, undeniably so, that I had found the truth and what I had been searching for all along.
Great point Samantha, absolutely the search is over.
Ulrike, I love how you express “and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” From all you have described it is evident that you cared for yourself and knew all along what would or wouldn’t support you, but taking these feelings and this awareness to another level is the key to true wellbeing and a living vitality.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. ” The key to your healing, to care for yourself and to seek help from conventional and esoteric medicine is great advice Ulrike, and I love what you shared about trusting your own feelings in the healing process.
Serge Benhayon is renowned for his pro-conventional medicine philosophy… He is always presenting for people to take responsibility for their own well-being, and to, within that responsibility, make sure that no stone is left unturned in one’s own healing.
What feels key in what you share is the difference in healing when we truly connect and honour our body. When I reflect on my exploration into alternative therapies as opposed to conventional medicine I was looking for a way out, a way out of taking responsibility for the choices I had made up to that point. Conventional medicine doesn’t have all the answers but when linked with Universal Medicine we have two healing modalities that complement each other that work beautifully and symbiotically with the patient. You couldn’t wish for a better outcome than when all three are working together to heal illness and disease.
Thank you for your sharing Ulrike . Using conventional medicine and complementary medicine including esoteric medicine is marrying the best of both worlds. The complementary medicine that Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon present provides a much needed support for all that conventional medicine offers.
When we are sick or have a disease I feel most people are really scared. And from a long life of looking towards external sources such as health care systems, research and education, of course our first call to order is to look outside of ourselves to find a cure.
What the above blog has beautifully presented is that everything that was needed to be known about healing was already known to him and within his body. Even though mainstream thought is we don’t know how we got our disease, when truly honest and willing to assess ourselves in full, we too will know the answers for our own healing.
That is so true Luke. In our body are all the answers for our ill choices, and ailments. We don’t have to look outside of us to find the root cause – there is nothing to find.
Exactly, we carry all of our issues within our bodies. If this is the case surely we can’t blame or look for answers in another place.
Ulrike – you certainly listened to your body and knew that there was something in you that was stronger than the illness. Perhaps your survival was doubted because so many people at the state you were when you walked back into hospital, have already given up and have put their lives in the hands of the hospital.
To me this makes sense, as true health requires us listening to our bodies and honouring how we feel. Your approach now of supporting your health with western medicine plus your own awareness seems a huge opportunity to see what is really going on, and is also perhaps the key to all lifestyle related disease and illness.
When we get rid of the ideals and beliefs we have identified with that colour the way we see life we can again start to relate to every aspect of life in an open and discerning way, recognizing everything for what it actually is and not for what we need it to be. In regards to choosing what medicine and or kind of healing we need it is only then that we can truly know what serves us as no ideal is blinding us.
You share real gold here about our responsibility for our own health in true partnership with the marvels of conventional and complementary medicine. Your lived experience can’t be denied and so brings a real credibility and authority to anyone who is in any way sceptic.
What you bring Ulrike is defining because it makes clear how important it is to work with both conventional medicine and complementary medicine together – one without the other doesn’t work. But more importantly your lived experience shows the true benefit of the Universal Medicine modalities as compared to all the other options and the way that Universal Medicine opens up to truly complementing what western medicine is trained to do for us.
Thank you Ulrike for your open sharing. It is logical we seek our ‘fix’ outside of us as no one has taught us to listen to and understand our bodies. No one before Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has made me see that my body reflects the whole of my choices, that my body is the marker of truth and that I am worthy of caring for myself on a very deep level. Serge Benhayon has been presenting we need to work side by side with conventional medicine and take responsibility without judging ourselves.
With your near death ‘ET’ experience I feel exactly what you have shared in your blog Ulrike is one of the dangers and problems with alternative therapies. There are a multitude of them out there available today and many seem to think that they are just that, alternative to and instead of Conventional Medicine. As you came to realise Conventional Medicine is an essential ingredient (as you share, it even saved your life) and tremendously supportive to our healing process in this present day. This is why I love the Universal Medicine modalities and philosophies, as they work with, are complementary to and truly appreciate the science of Conventional Medicine.
What an amazing story, I have in the past also let fear get in the way of making supportive decisions around my health care. Universal Medicine played a major role in healing this as it is truly complementary to allopathic medicine. It doesn’t give just lip service to this statement as many other therapies do so they can “keep out of trouble”
It is evidenced by the growing number of doctors and allied health professional and health care workers who are seeing benefits in their own lives and their patients.
I’m wondering why it seems to be so common that people have a fear of ‘conventional medicine’ and why we don’t trust it and want to seek other ways? It could be that conventional medicine alone doesn’t have all the answers but has temporary medical solutions to our acute problems. Of course we need operations and all of that. But what if there was a way that was incorporating of understanding how we live as well. A true healing could occur if we addressed lifestyle factors that are causing us to be sick in the first place.
Harry this is a great observation. There has always been a questioning out there about ‘conventional medicine’. Somehow many of us do know that it won’t deal with the cause of our illnesses, but to reject it all doesn’t make sense either. Esoteric Medicine presents the answer I had always been looking for and it does so with a respect for conventional medicine and all that it offers too.
Thank you for sharing your deeply inspiring experience.
How often we seek solutions at any cost and do not always discern the choices we are making. As you have highlighted the choices show themselves to us one way or another and it is wise to make loving and responsible choices.
Wow, what a true miracle you experienced Ulrick from being told you only have 2 days to live, to now 25 yrs later living more healthier and more connected to the real you than ever before. You have shown that the key to health is the marriage of conventional medicine and esoteric healing, with some complementary healing.
And taking responsibility for your past choices and learning to make more loving, nurturing and honouring ones.
It is remarkable to hear people’s experiences with conventional medicine and the array of alternative therapies out there. Conventional medicine does a remarkable job of supporting the ills that present in a practical way.
I agree with you lorettarapp the true miracle is experienced with the marriage of conventional and esoteric healing.
Ulrick what an inspiration you are, your wise choices have lead the way to true healing.
Yes, I agree when the two work together, the body is supported to be given the best opportunity to heal.
Sometimes we do need a disease (and a close friend that loves us no matter what… ) to realize it is time to start taking responsibility and take true care of ourselves. This also means going to see a doctor, going to the hospital, taking medicine etc. But at the end of the day it is how we live, how much love we have for ourselves and our body and the choices that we make, that makes up how we are feeling today. This is our true medicine.
The ” inner knowing” you mentioned Ulrick I have experienced many times and it’s incredible it takes a disease to awaken us to connect to that inner part we know to be absolute truth.
Somewhere deep within us, we all know that we are in control of our own healing through the choices we make. The key is whether we want to take responsibility in making true choices to support our paths of healing or not. At the end it is always our choice which path we take. All forms of medcines are there to support us in our healing path,
I feel this is the true magic of Esoteric medicine because we all have that inner knowing that is so often dismissed by conventional medicine and so leaves us with that restlessness that we just want to walk away from the conventional route. Esoteric medicine shows us true healing and responsibility and leads us back to conventional medicine in a more empowering way. We are so well supported in our healing bringing back true harmony.
A great observation Amanda. Conventional medicine so often shoots itself in the foot by dismissing any validation of the patient’s experiences and awareness, and so patients lose trust, and Medicine itself is diminished because of this. A greater understanding of the esoteric aspect of medicine can only support the powerful role that conventional medicine plays in the healing process. This also can lead to healing on both sides of the partnership, as has been experienced by so many already.
So well said Annie and Amanda. I too have had that experience of conventional medicine and its dogmatic approach, and chose to turn my back on it as a result. But with the true understanding of how it is a vital and amazing support when used in conjunction with Esoteric medicine, which I have learnt from the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now value greatly what conventional medicine has to bring, and the people who deliver it.
Ulrike I loved how you didn’t want to give your power away when you were at the hospital and you took charge during your chemo visits. Even before you discovered Universal Medicine, you had a deep knowing within that you were going to be ok.
Yes I agree lindellparlour, that instead of feeling helpless to the system, that taking and being a part of decision making is very important to feel what is true for you – as other people do not know what is truly going on inside of you, and how you are feeling about things.
It is always great to read these stories. For me it is such a joy to see that you were able to choose in time to let western medicine support you. Thank you for sharing Ulrike.
Thank you for sharing your story Ulrike. Thank God for your friend who took you to hospital to seek the much needed treatment. You deliver a very necessary message about the importance of conventional medicine working in collaboration with energetic healing, as together sustainable results are achievable.
“Being open and allowing my own healing ability within” an amazing journey you have had Ulrika – thank you for sharing.
There are so many alternative treatments today. I once had a book that detailed all the treatments and what exactly they were. It was a bible to some who actively opposed western medicine, but really this was all in reaction to misinformation or a hurt of some kind.
Being in the health field I’ve always felt both fields of medicine were important, but today it’s complementary medicine delivered by Universal Medicine that is the true and full support of western medicine.
It’s such a blessing that we can give to ourselves, when we allow ourselves a way of living that keeps us so clear and pure, that we are actually able to listen, when an angel calls. Serge Benhayon’s life is fully dedicated to present to us all a way to live, see, and serve as an angel.
……….Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have always presented, and then given us the keys to unfold that knowing through the way we live each day.
I really enjoyed reading this Ulrike, what stood out for me was that all through your journey you had an sense within yourself that you would be ok, that you knew you would heal, even when the nurses said you wouldn’t last a couple of days.
We do have the knowing within us, we always did, but how to truly access this knowing was not generally known. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present both the fact of this inner knowing and also the way to unfold and live this knowing in an ever deepening way, this is a wonderful gift to us all.
Yes, that inner knowing is indeed very close to us, if we but stop and listen. The power lies within for our own healing. What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present is the way back to this inner knowing and to who we truly are.
“True medicine is the way I live”. If this were part of everyone’s education how much better would we all be! I know my body responds to the healthier choices I have introduced in my life since knowing about Universal Medicine.
Never has there been a more powerful truth…“True medicine is the way I live” … Serge Benhayon delivered this to 1000’s who are seeing the difference living this truth will make.
Yes Joel I agree, “True medicine is the way I live” The power of our own healing lies within.
How easy it is for us to get led astray when we are searching for answers for our health to go from one modality to the next and avoiding Western medicine as much as possible. In fact we can spend a lifetime doing this, not to mention spend a fortune and never truly be healthy. Yet, as you say Ulrike – we hold the key to our own healing through an understanding that how we live each and every day is ‘medicine’ and a blueprint for our health and wellbeing. Combine this approach with Western Medicine where applicable, and the possibilities are endless. How awesome is that!
So beautiful to hear your story of recovery Ulrike. Traditional medicine certainly has a place in our world as it is today, after all we are human so it’s important to be practical. I loved hearing how your inner knowing guided you to this realisation.
For many years, I held mistrust for the conventional medicine, and at the same time it used to put me off when I saw someone solely reliant on an alternative/complementary medicine, claiming how that was ‘it’ and how natural etc. – I knew there was something very off about the way we approached medicine, yet I didn’t know what it was that I was reacting to. Even with a preventative medicine, something felt incomplete.
When I heard Universal Medicine presenting about life as medicine, and how everything is energy, therefore everything is because of energy – it made complete sense, and it gave both conventional and complementary medicine a place in the way I cared for my body, and introduced the fact of self-responsibility.
When we can manage to cure something by taking care of it we feel good about ourselves. Yet, the feeling that is in our body when we discover the key to healing and honour it is simply out of this world. So, the value of what Serge Benhayon presents is invaluable.
I too tried a lot of alternative therapies, however Serge and Universal Medicine present something that is whole and complete. Everything else presented only part-truths.
I agree Pernilla, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents something that is whole and complete, all encompassing to all of humanity and the universe. What I have learned from attending and listening to the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is that I have to take the responsibility for my life and to not let it be the responsibility of someone else. How simple life can be.
I just googled what coffee enema was… What the?! Hahaha this bit was golden Ulrike-‘ I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.’
Thank you for sharing your amazing journey Ulrike. What I love is there was a deep knowing in you from the start that you were in some way able to heal yourself and bring this to your cancer. Universal Medicine gives us an opportunity to bring an understanding of what this inner knowing is and with the support of conventional medicine bring about a true healing.
The great balance between esoteric and conventional medicine – the two put together bring great strength to heal.
I agree, before attending any universal medicine events I felt the glimmers of truth and knowing that lives within me. These were glimmers only though. Universal Medicine and my continued commitment to exploring how the way I live affects every part of my life has made this knowing so much more accessible and clearer. There is no doubt I would not be who I am today without the healing and teachings I have received through Universal Medicine.
What a truly beautiful lesson to learn from this experience, Ulrike, that, “I I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” What I am learning is that this responsibility is not the heavy ‘Here I am wearing a lead jacket’ type of responsibility at all, but rather a joyful nurturing and celebration of oneself within one’s own body. Why would ever baulk at that?
This is a powerful article Ulrike that shows so clearly that to deeply heal we have to take responsibility for all the choices we make in life. Conventional medicine is essential to support our human frame but, as so lovingly shared by Universal Medicine, we can support ourselves by taking the medicine of how we choose to live our life.
“True medicine is the way I live…healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment” I love this Ulrike, so true. Thank you for sharing this experience of coming to understand what truly complementary healthcare is.
Beautiful to feel Ulrike that a balance between esoteric and conventional medicine must be struck for the whole true healing to occur. One is about the illness itself, the other is about the choices we made to get to that point.
“One is about the illness itself, the other is about the choices we made to get to that point.” I love the simplicity you present the difference between conventional and esoteric medicine here Joshua.
Thank you Lieke
This is so true Joshua, without seeing the choices we made to create the illness, there will be no true healing.
Ulrike after re-reading your blog I really resonated with this. “I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input. ” Life is about taking responsibility for our choices and we can find all of these answers from one place. That place is found within our own innate knowing of ourselves and the deep love we all hold. It’s beautiful to feel how you started to listen to your own inner knowing and healed yourself through more loving choices. Truly inspiring.
That line felt powerful to me, also, Kelly. It’s as though we have a false sense of what commitment is all about, as though it is something heavy and / or scary in some way. However, bottom line, why would we ever not want to commit to our gorgeous selves and to our own health??
What an amazing testament you are Ulrike to the fact that Universal Medicine works when used as a complementary therapy in and with our current medical system. I too found “alternative therapies” only offered relief or a distraction and it wasn’t until I embraced what Universal Medicine offered that I also fully embraced what our medical profession is offering us as support to our healing. Instead of running away from it I could stand an face my responsibility in having got to this point of needing medical intervention so in effect my healing became a three way communication. A very powerful relationship indeed!
This is a very inspirational blog to read Ulrike. It so shows how true medicine for the body is about connection. Responsibility and reconnection is what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine represent. Self care is, I feel, is the ultimate form of self responsibility
In truth, there can be no separation in medicine. The divides between Esoteric and conventional medicine are indeed constructs that show us how we have evolved (and devolved) in many ways with regards to how we have viewed the body, healing and medicine over time. It’s beautiful and real sharings like yours, Ulrike, that bring the Esoteric back to the fore – so it can be seen and felt with the healing it brings.
So true Amelia. Shows us how limited we have decided to see true healing/medicine. The two cannot be separated.
I love what you have written here Amelia. It is indeed articles like Ulrike’s that reveal the truth of how Esoteric Medicine and conventional medicine work so well together.
I agree Amelia, it’s like this way of seeing things as so separate is part of the illness we suffer from. How cool is it that as things progress, we as patients will be seeing a doctor who is also living in respect and regard to their body too.
The combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Healing is truly a marriage made in heaven. This blog shows us that both aspects are invaluable that neither alone is the answer we cannot rely on the energetic alone since we have a physical body which sometimes requires a physical treatment like surgery. Esoteric Medicine – how we live, is the foundation our health is built on.
Without taking away the importance of conventional medicine, and complementary medicine, esoteric medicine, which is all about taking responsibility for our own health by becoming aware of what we are feeling in our bodies and making the loving changes needed to support the healing process, is vital.
That how we live is our medicine makes so much sense now, but before hearing this being presented by Serge Benhayon I had not thought of this or understood it for the truth that it is. This fundamental truth needs to be included in our education system, otherwise we all end up on a wild goose chase, missing the essential ingredient of responsibility.
Wow Ulrike, sounds as though you truly came back from ‘the brink’…
What I find particularly powerful about your sharing here, is this statement, “I wasn’t really taking responsibility for my wellness – that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.” The resistance you went through, to the needed support that allopathic medicine could offer you, felt a part of this, and to me, is one of the most powerful aspects of your story.
If we don’t truly want to take responsibility for ourselves, we can find ourselves resistant to even the most straight forward ‘temporal measures’ in life, avoiding them seemingly at all costs (in regards to health, finances, and many other things).
The steps to practical and sensible responsibility are thereby the key to truly empowering ourselves. From there, we can embrace the call to go deeper, as you have so beautifully – and again powerfully – found in via your association with Universal Medicine. For our ills are most definitely not healed via the body alone…
Ulrike, I love the fact that you are sharing this from the perspective of offering a learning about responsibility, healing and wellbeing and how we can also get caught up in the alternative healing roundabout too and the effect of this on our bodies. I have seen patient’s refusing all sorts of treatments, even simple blood tests because of the beliefs that are held very strongly about conventional medicine. It’s not perfect, but what is offered is amazing and when we bring our own true understanding of our own bodies and match that with how we live everyday and the choices we make, this makes for equally amazing partnerships in health.
A great sharing Ulrike, as your experience demonstrates the union between conventional medicine and the esoteric. Your experience shows that the key to truly healing is having the honesty of how we are actually living our lives, and how this momentum contributes to disharmony and ultimately dis-ease in the body. With this awareness, the root of the illness is addressed and surgery and medication remove the diseased lump/tissue.
A great article with an important subject Ulrike. I had become deeply disappointed in conventional medicine and went to search in the alternative circuit as well. I never really stopped or rejected conventional medicine but i had no trust in it at all. I would never welcome what it offered. Alternative medicine made it look like it was actually working for a while but in the long run i would always return to the same place.
Not until Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon did I learn about true medicine; the way I live, the choices I make and the quality of energy I am in. All of this is my sole responsibility, I am the one who is in charge of my health and wellbeing and there is nothing outside of me that can do this for me. if I live this, then, when my body needs some support, i welcome conventional medicine as a blessing for it knows how to deal with my physical body in brilliant ways.
Wow, Brilliant Carolien. There really is a lot of responsibility to consider if we look at our own choices and how they are contributing to our health, this is something that western medicine doesn’t take into account, but it should. Thank you for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting a holistic way which does not ignore conventional Medicine at all but rather embraces it as its necessary part, and says that responsibility is the missing ingredient in all of this.
Absolutely Harry thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine as we are in dire need with our conventional medical system near bankruptcy and our inability to deal with the ever rising numbers in illness and disease both physically and mentally. The spiritual trend of thinking we can overcome our physical problems with just meditating is also very dangerous and most definitely not the answer. We need conventional medicine, without it many of us would simply not be alive or able to live in a decent way, but we need a broader and deeper understudying of why we get ill so we can change our lifestyle to one that is responsible in every way.
Thanks for your open and honest sharing of your “search for something, coming from deep within”
It has been so empowering to learn from Serge Benhayon that ‘life is medicine’, it is our responsibility, we have choices and opportunities every minute of the day.
This article helps us again to reflect self responsibility with regard to our health and wellness in general. It is such a different feeling now going to hospitals and doctors with a reawakened sense of self, and the empowerment that comes with this connection.
I used to go to hospitals and doctors with a very dismissive and arrogant ‘new –agey’ approach, with no sense of appreciation for what was being offered in the medical system, and to be honest, a deep ignorance of my own body.
One of the most beneficial aspects of attending Universal Medicine presentations has been to actually start to know my body, its functions, its organs, all the internal relationships that can be working in harmony or not, and then to be able to make much more informed choices, and, when I choose to go to doctors and hospitals, I’m not going in with a chip on my shoulder, and some ridiculous old defence paradigms. This has resulted in some great connections and outcomes, and a deep appreciation of what we have available to us.
Thank you Ulrike for the beautiful sharing. I feel that the reason why many turn away from conventional medicine is because we feel so disempowered. Therefore it is such an amazing experience when we re-connect and start to truly take care of ourselves and through that find a way we can work together with Western Medicine and all it can offer us. It gives us the wonderful opportunity to claim back our power.
A great example of the support that Western medicine provides, especially when we start taking responsibility for our health and cooperate as equals in the equation.
Ulrike – the combination of the esoteric and conventional medicine seems to be a perfect one, especially if we are truly open and accepting of both. Maybe one day the esoteric will naturally sit alongside conventional medicine for everyone, and they will be one modality rather than separate. This is currently being reflected to others by many of the Universal Medicine student health practitioners who work esoterically in their practices.
Ulrike you bring up the illusion some of us have and are caught in. The illusion of looking outside ourselves, instead of taking responsibility for our own healing. Which is where the true healing begins.
Kim, that is so true, healing begins within. We lose trust in ourselves so we start to look outside of ourself for the miracle answers, but if we just stopped and connected within our body, the answers are inside of us.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing”. I now know thanks to Universal Medicine that I can heal myself through my commitment to loving and caring for myself. Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experience of the healing process.
Wow Ulrike, what an amazing recovery and transition. This is beautiful and so true – ‘Since that journey I am keenly aware in my body of the need for a balance between conventional medicine, complementary medicine and now esoteric medicine (being open and allowing my own healing ability within),’ as you now live as a reflection of this truth.
Thank you Ulrike for your testimonial of your life. It is great to read that you could say “western medicine saved my life” compared to the way you were appreciating western medicine in the first place. Western medicine and the complementary medicine as presented by Universal Medicine are great in assisting us to deal with the illnesses and diseases we develop by the way we live our lives in society today.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your story back to wellness and the part Universal Medicine has played in your recovery. More and more I am becoming aware of the fact that in every moment I have a choice, and the power of that choice to change my life.
Ulrike, I now I tried all manner of things too to help myself out of illness but I came to understand from presentations by Serge Benhayon and from my own practical application of what he presented, that those day-to-day choices are our best form of daily medicine for supporting recovery from illness – as well as our ongoing health.
Great Rosanna – every-day medicine: to make loving choices. An illness starts not with a diagnosis, it starts with unloving choices and disharmony. A disease is to be not in the full glory of who we are naturally. And who can say she/he is in her Glory/Harmony all the time? So it is always time to take our medicine: to make true loving choices.
Ulrike I have just re read your blog and I find it really inspiring the way you approached your illness basically throwing everything at it until you realised that you had the answer all the time within. A lesson for all of us who still look outside ourselves until we realise we are it. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon’s teachings have been a huge eye opener for me about taking responsibility for what I have created in my body.
Me too Roslyn. Prior to being introduced to Serge Benahyon and Universal Medicine, I had not considered or understood what it was to be truly responsible for all of my choices. The great thing I have found is that it has been that it has been far easier to accept responsibility and to be open to the support on offer, than it was in all the years prior, not taking responsiblty or avoiding it! Not suggesting it’s all been easy, but it has without doubt been the first time that I have experienced true change in my life that does not rely on a temporary relief or fix…
I add my name to the list, Roslyn and Angela, as one who looked outside for the answers and as you say Angela, it’s not all been easy but meeting Serge was life-changing for me and gradually I have made more self-loving choices. I often questioned doctors and felt more comfortable with complementary medicine whereas now I appreciate what each modality can offer as support to our own healing.
Yes Roslyn, taking responsibility for what we create in our own bodies has been an absolute gift. Very empowering. No more looking outside of myself. As Ulrike has written feel and listen to your own body’s inner knowing
It is curious that we would rather look for a ‘cure’ than look within for answers to what ails us, Serge really presents that we are completely responsible for every aspect of our lives. That can be a bitter pill to swallow! I am so grateful to have come across the esoteric healing modalities I truly can not think of what my life and body would now be like if I had carried on with my lifestyle.
Ulrike it is truly amazing that you have allowed yourself to feel and listen to your own body’s inner knowing of what is right for you. ” I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. ” These words really stuck with me the most, for that I am very grateful for your blog.
Wow Ulrike what an amazing journey and recovery. ‘I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation’ Brilliant blog and inspiring to read. Your honesty and strength is empowering. Thank you.
How amazing it is to have gotten through this, and now have found the answers you were always looking for and now have a chance to live, with a greater appreciation and importance to life.
Universal Medicine modalities for me (and many) blow all other alternative therapies out of the water. The first time I had an Esoteric Healing session I KNEW the person KNEW exactly what they were doing, they understood my body, understood energy and were not imposing but working with it. I had NEVER felt anything like it before. It felt real, true and deeply healing. Since then I have never looked backed or continued to ‘seek’ answers. I have learnt and remembered so much from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and am still learning : )
The other things I felt reading your blog was it is good to have friends like yours, your friend that saw you, saw how unwell you were and took action into their own hands at a much needed time for you. Also I saw how I ‘reacted’ a bit reading ‘On admission the nurses said I wouldn’t last two days’. How very wrong they were and very quick to judge and cast their personal opinion.
Very well expressed Vicky, I too searched for years but once I had read a book written by Serge Benhayon I knew my search was over and I had found the truth. In reading your response I also noted that my feeling was it just shows us that we know when things are true for example when we are strong enough to make it through – no matter what someone else thinks or says.
Thank you Vicky for expressing so clearly and lovingly my own experience of finding Universal Medicine. The ‘just knowing’ is an amazing feeling when we are all searching for the inner knowing. It’s like coming home when we have been searching in the wilderness for so very long. It is about honouring that within we have a knowing of the true way to live life and that God is there always patiently waiting and accepting us unconditionally. We know we have come home.
Vicky your first sentence is the same for me ‘Universal Medicine modalities blow all other alternative therapies out of the water’. There is such clarity, realness and simplicity in these healing modalities I am time and time again in awe of how simple and powerful they are.
Vicki you have so clearly encapsulated my first Esoteric Healing experience which was at a Level 1 Sacred Esoteric Healing workshop with Serge Benhayon. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced in any healing modality I had previously found my way to, in fact the whole course blew any doubts out of the window as to whether I had made the right choice to attend. That choice was the most self loving choice I have made in this life, as by choosing to become a student of Universal Medicine, I have also become a student of myself, and the life of just managing to exist has been replaced with a life full of joy and an amazing quality of well being, and like you, I am still learning.
So many cancer survivors described afterwards all the lessons they have learned through their journey. I find it amazing that you and others get to a point where you stop fighting the cancer but rather embrace it and take responsibility for past and future choices. This is very inspiring and something we could all choose to do, preferably before we are even faced with cancer or some other major illness or disease.
It is interesting that despite trying all the other modalities you still felt the need to keep searching for something – finding Universal Medicine was also a turning point in my life – one where everything started to make sense, where conventional and energetic medicine go hand in hand and patients are equally responsible for their healing on many levels. Your blog captures all of this beautifully.
I have also found that healing originates from within and that it is dependent on my level of honesty and responsibility; and from there I can go and seek the great support of conventional medicine combined with the many insights and healing sessions that esoteric medicine offers. Together they are an unbeatable combination.
Wonderful to read how you have made your choices along this path up to the detail of what time to have your injections /treatment. All loving choices for your body, within a situation where you had to face the facts.
This is a wonderful testimony of the powerful combination of conventional and esoteric medicine. Thank you Ulrike.
Ulrike, great blog, I love how even in the midst of a health crisis and being hospitalised, you honoured what you felt. By taking charge and working with your medicine in a way that supported you – you decided not to be a victim, and you continued after to investigate other ways, and see what needed to change. That’s something we often do, we want to get better to go back to living how we did, often ignoring that living that way may have contributed to our illnesses. Our true medicine really is how we live and we’re the ultimate masters of that.
Thank you Ulrike, what a journey you have had. Such an important message that you share. Whilst it is important to seek help from ‘western medicine’, that’s only half of the equation. Nothing can change long term unless we do our part too, by taking responsibility for all of our choices in how we are living. Not only does this impact on our own lives, but also on all those around us.
What an amazing unfoldment of yourself in the disease. Thanks for sharing!
It was great to feel when you did turn to western medicine that you honoured your body, empowering yourself and therefore you were a part of the healing process. There is so much in that for us all to consider as it is commonplace that we disempower ourselves, not seeing we hold the key to true healing. As you say “true medicine is the way I live”.
Thank you for sharing your healing process. “It is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” Great reminder, we can choose our inner loveliness no matter what, and when I don´t, I am choosing separation, and therefore illness.
“It is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” Indeed Julia, this sentence stood out for me too when reading Ulrike’s blog.
Thank you for this lovely sharing Ulrike – A great reminder “The true medicine is the way I live” beautiful.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experiences – I can relate to the many years of searching to finally find that now you are home and have let go of that need to search, when we realise that it was all there in the first place – within.
Wow! What an amazing journey of discovery about yourself, your body and medicine!
This is a beautiful example of how conventional treatments and Universal Medicine therapies can walk alongside each other in harmony and the outcome is physical, emotional and soulful healing at a very deep level.
Ulrike, thank you for sharing your experience, this is the second blog in a row this evening that I have read related to serious health conditions surfacing during pregnancy. I learnt a lot from reading this.
I used to carry a lot of arrogance about the medical profession and I too would have refused their treatments if I had been in your position Ulrike. I have now come to realise through the presentations of Serge Benhayon, and my own experience that conventional medicine has so much to offer us. We just need to combine it with our own commitment of taking responsibility to lovingly care for ourselves everyday.
We as a society very much live in disregard for our bodies. I know I certainly have, but these days I am learning to be responsible in caring for myself, including going to the doctors when I feel to instead of having the attitude I’m wasting the doctors time/ I’ll get better on my own. Thank you for sharing your story.
I can not really imagine how it is to get this diagnosis and then go through all this journey of medication and healing. I once had have a lump in one breast removed and – although it was not cancer in the end – I remember how much this stopped me from going on with my “normal” life. It was shattering and I was shaken up. In this moment it was not so easy to take it as a “friendly notice”….Now I know that I was not so much shocked about the disease – I was shocked about not getting away with my everyday unloving choices. I am accountable – no way out – I will not get away with anything. THAT’S quite shocking…. Thanks God for Universal Medicine, helping me and others to not just come through this shock but also learn to embrace responsibility.
Ulrike thank you for sharing your experience of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and how you managed your treatment. Although I never had cancer, I can totally relate to looking to alternative medicine and shunning western medicine with the many health issues I was experiencing. I like you have come to understand that the way I live is medicine from what I have learnt from Universal Medicine. Due to this, at nearly 55 years old, I have no health issues and I live a vitality I have not experienced since I was a young child.
What stands out for is the fact that we have a part to play and a responsibility in our own well being and self worth, how important it is to not give our power away and assume some one else will fix us, a huge level of disregard not only for ourselves but the doctors or practitioners that we choose to see. But not only this it also highlights the fact that this expands further into our life, how we choose to live effects everybody.
Great blog Ulrike with the rise in the rate of cancer going through the roof,as in the Uk there is talk of the number becoming 1 in 2 people getting the disease in some form , everyone needs to find the key as you did.
wow, and I know you now Ulrike and I would never have know this was your history unless I had read this blog… You look very healthy and you’re a very beautiful woman. It’s almost a miracle the transformation since attending Universal Medicine!
I loved your comment about knowing that ‘I held the key to Healing’. It is about taking responsibility. To choose Energetic responsibility and self care, naming self disregard when it is present, is a powerful way to live. It is the way I live my life that supports me in true health. Sometimes I get caught up in an unhealthy momentum and feel the pain in my body which reminds me to stop and check in. There is always choice in every moment, by stopping and listening, self care becomes the natural way to be.
Thanks Ulrike for your blog. It’s beautiful to come to the awareness that living in a healthy body is our responsibility, and Western Medicine is there to support our bodies in disease and Esoteric Medicine is offering a way of Livingness in our bodies.
Hear, hear Paul. This is my experience too in recovering from illness and disease; this threefold approach is what truly works.
Thank you for honest recount of the multiple ways you sought and tried in your attempts to be healed from the outside and, then, your personal revelation that it is all about the way you choose to live your life. I love how you found that a balance between Western Medicine, complementary health care and esoteric medicine was the way to go for you. I too have found that each of these has a part to play in my own wellness. It feels right at this moment in time.
“I discovered I held the key to my healing” – this is such a powerful message and once lived delivers amazing results.
The stand-out line for me was “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” Imagine what a difference it would make to the health and well being of our society if we accepted responsibility for self-care and the way we live, as the basis for healing… what a pressure this would release on the current health care system by enabling us to work hand in hand with western medicine, rather than expecting it to save us without doing our part…
Ulrike, I love how you took charge of your healing and accepted the medicine but on your terms. You knew you would be ok and you were.
I was also inspired Bernard by what Ulrike shared about how she listened to her body and asked for the support of medicine when she needed it. It feels completely different to what I can remember and still do at times, of the wanting someone else to fix us.
Ulrike, this was great. It completely de-bunks the myth that all complementary therapy is anti-medicine. Thank you for your story!
Spot on, Amelia. Alternative medicine looks for alternatives to western medicine; complementary medicine walks hand-in-hand with it. True complementary medicine practitioners will happily walk and work alongside their medically-trained colleagues.
True Amelia. Complementary therapy in my experience is pro-medicine as is the case with all the Universal Medicine practitioners I’ve seen. It makes so much sense to combine the knowledge of western medicine with the wisdom that complementary therapies bring – a true marriage for healing.
..love that Sandra: “a true marriage for healing.”
This is beautiful Ulrike, I can feel the wisdom, power, strength and love that you reconnected to by listening to the call of the angel that lies within. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
Thank you Ulrike. I agree with you the balance of conventional medicine and esoteric medicine has supported me in my healing and that it is my choices in every moment.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your journey back to true health and the wisdom that has developed over this time. Through the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have also come to understand so much more about my body than I had ever known; especially why I have suffered from ill health and pain for so much of my life. I too now know that; “I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” Yes – the marriage of conventional medicine and Esoteric Medicine is definitely True Medicine.
Thank you very much Ulrike for sharing your experience. Your inner strength and trust in your own ability to heal is truly remarkable in the midst of what must have been a very traumatic and difficult time for you. It is this inner strength and trust within have helped you to find Universal Medicine and the way to truly heal. I really loved reading this, thank you Ulrike.
This is a very powerful message Ulrike for all of us – the importance of western medicine and getting the diagnosis and treatment we need PLUS getting the complementary session to heal, let go of the patterns that hold us back and contribute to our illness and disease, caring and loving ourselves AND being aware of the choices we make and if they support us or not.
We need both, I agree. Otherwise we’re just expecting 1) western medicine to do all the work for us and 2) that western medicine alone has all the answers. It does to an extent, and it can give us great and renewed functionality, but without understanding how we arrived in that place in the first instance are we not at risk of the same dilemma repeating or showing up in a different form?
I so agree Victoria. Western Medicine is marvellous in how it can investigate and diagnose illness, and provide treatment to manage or even remove symptoms, but it doesn’t look at the root cause of why the illness manifested itself in the first place. That’s where esoteric healing and self responsibility come in. I’ve had some wonderful experiences of combining western medical investigation and diagnosis with esoteric healing where the Drs where very open and supportive about my using esoteric healing and complementary medicine. It felt truly empowering.
There is a lot of fear around illness and cancer, but only as much as the neglect that we give to ourselves throughout our life and our avoidance to living a life in connection.
Powerful, yet true words!
So true Simon and the humbleness and graciousness that comes from our body stopping us to go deeper within.
Wow Matthew! So true. Fear is just reflecting to us that we live (choose) a life in dis-connection. Strong.
This article expresses clearly about the knowing inside around being able to self heal. It also emphasises that no matter how much we may ignore that knowing and the wisdom that can come through our bodies, it is always there to be picked up on again and with our assistance, our bodies can do what they need to do to heal.
I relate to so much of what you share here Ulrike. ‘I noticed how my previous decisions showed disregard for my body and that I wasn’t really taking responsibility for my wellness – that I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.’ I too allowed this way of thinking to pervade my every day after I became sick in my early 20’s. With blinkers on I did not see it was up to me to take care of myself in all that I did. I wanted someone else to do it for me. I arrogantly believed looking for the fix outside of me was enough. Thank God for Universal Medicine, for showing me there is another way and that true medicine, hand in hand with western medicine, is indeed the way that I live.
“The choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation”. Yes Ulrike western medicine discovered a condition I did not know I had and Universal Medicine showed me to take responsibility for my own health, a power-ful combination.
I love the simplicity of what you have presented here Ulrike, that we have the responsibility to take care of ourselves and that life is the best form of medicine. I say absolutely – making loving choices is the greatest form of medicine.
Dear Ulrike,
Your writing clearly shows how very important western Medicine is, however it also shows through your lived experience how important it is that we take responsibility for ourselves and to make clear choices for ourselves even when in the midst of receiving what ever treatment we may need. I feel a deep stillness in the wisdom that you have delivered here. Just recently I have had a bone density scan and have discovered that my body is actually showing signs of having bone density issues as I age. Knowing this now has given me the opportunity to adjust my way of living to support my body to build my bones. I am forever grateful to the technology of western medicine that has allowed me to know this. I am also extremely grateful that I am now choosing to support my body as it needs to be supported, by living the tender loving woman that I really am and also supporting it with foods that will help to rebuild the calcium levels that are needed in my body.
Hi Leigh, it’s when we feel the stillness within that all answers will come. In allowing the stillness, I feel the expansion and wisdom that comes with this which feels glorious. A lovely reminder for me to connect moment to moment, not only when it’s a life changing event, thank you.
This is such a key point ” I have a responsibility to care for myself, ” up until I started attending the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I thought I did, but I now know that to be a very different story, one that I can say has changed and I am lovingly and joyfully working on each and every day. But before this I would put off going to doctors until I really really needed to, I would see it as a hassle or as you say want them to fix me when I go there, give me some sort of relief or escape from what I was going through, and not taking responsibility for my part in it. Now this is a very different story, and I see going to the doctors, dentists etc as a very loving and caring thing to do for myself alongside making more self-loving and caring choices each day. These go hand in hand, one is not separate to the other – living medicine as you say.
This blog Ulrike makes everything feel very simple, thank-you for sharing your experiences and insights as it has delivered a level of clarity in respect to illness and disease that potentially will support many others.
I love that you tried all of these different modalities yet always stayed connected to your inner knowing, which allowed you to feel they were not true for you, which essentially guided you home so to speak.
I am hearing so many people lately say ‘you know when you just know?’ ‘I just had to listen to my inner knowing,’ ‘you know when you just have an inner feeling?’ I love that our bodies speak a universal language that supports us all to take exquisite care of ourselves in every moment. You choosing to listen to your body teamed with western medicine Ulrike along side the support of Universal Medicine has evidently been deeply healing and the reason why you can write from a place of health and well being today. Amazing. I appreciate all you have shared as I can feel all that it has offered.
I love what you write, ‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live,’ Ulrike. It feels so harmonious to live in this way.
I totally agree Karin and Ulrike: ‘I hold the key to my healing’ and Western Medicine and Universal Medicine are my facilitators.
Nicely said, Sandra. I feel the same. I have a health condition I approach medically and energetically, via my doctors and my Universal Medicine practitioners. Not only are both entirely complementary, when I add me to the equation, it feel complete. ‘Completementary’ medicine any one?
Sandra I love how you say “Western Medicine and Universal Medicine are my facilitators” – I feel that really expresses a deeper understanding of how to truly heal our bodies.
That is a beautiful comment Sandra. Definitely something to ponder on.
I agree Karin
Agree Sandra and that we are ultimate practitioner of our own health and well being with the support of Western Medicine and Universal Medicine facilitators.
More and more people are searching for a true way to heal rather than to just manage symptoms. I too have discovered that working with both conventional medicine and esoteric medicine allows for true healing to occur.
I totally agree Elizabeth
I agree Elizabeth a combination of both brings true healing.
Awesome the way you ‘self empowered yourself’ in hospital Ulrike. I found being in hospital for five weeks after a serious motor cycle accident, that it was easy to become very institutionalised and disempowered, and reliant on the care that is given. So much so that is was frightening to be discharged and go back into the world.
I only had 3 days in hospital, and I began to feel disempowered. The way Ulrike took control and refused to be steamrollered into the initial treatment until she had checked out all other options is amazing.
Thank you very much for your blog. What you say is very true, people spend a lot of time and money seeking outside of themselves, anything to alleviate the condition and especially so when faced with death.
I love what you have said about taking responsibility for your own wellness by virtue of the teachings of Universal Medicine, and how you sensibly combined this with the best that conventional medicine had to offer by way of treatments.
Thankyou Narelle. It’s true, as people we often search outside of ourselves for solutions, an answer which will satisfy what we want to hear and something to help us, but never do we first seek to look inwardly and start to address the relationship we have with ourselves. Well said.
We really do hold the key to our own healing across every spectrum of our lives, especially our health.
Lovely call of accounts, thank you
Great sharing ! Thank you for sharing about the “hand in hand” of conventional medicine and Universal Medicine. The Esoteric Healing Modalities are a great support and are very needed to go deeper into the true healing, the understanding for our health, and the choices we can make.
Thanks for your sharing Ulrike. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer I also went on a bit of a rant, wanting to shun the Western Medicine treatments of chemotherapy, as I viewed it as poison. Over time, I have come to understand that the chemotherapy probably saved my life and am deeply grateful that I decided to have it. Although I had the chemotherapy, I wanted to understand the reasons as to why I had the breast cancer in the first place. The Esoteric Healing modalities have helped me understand the part that I played with the choices I was making and how I was living. I am a big advocate for the two working together, Western Medicine to support our body in times of illness and the Esoteric Modalities, which assist us to take responsibility for how we live. The marriage of the two offers true healing.
What an amazing journey! I loved the way the doctors were dedicated in diagnosing and providing treatment for the blood calcium, everyone rallying to support you even though the initial diagnosis was dire when you succumbed to returning to hospital. What I’ve learned from this blog is that there is a big difference in choosing to be in control of my health and actually taking responsibility for my health. Taking responsibility often means letting people help in a way that can leave a person very vulnerable and confronted with the realities of life. Thankyou Ulrike.
Thanks for your sharing Ulrika – it truly reminds us about the importance of responsibility and how conventional medicine and esoteric medicine work so beautifully together.
Deeply connecting with our bodies where the truth lies is what is inspiring for me here Ulrike. This sharing will support all women. Thank you
The real human tragedy of alternative medicine is that many people think it is just that – an alternative to conventional medicine. The wonder and wisdom of Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Therapies is they are hand in hand with conventional medicine, and so a person can get much needed physical support, and at the same time have the incredible opportunity to heal the root cause with the assistance of the Esoteric Modalities.
Ulrike thanks for putting forward such a balanced view of Western and complementary medicine and the missing ingredient that esoteric medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon offers. It was one of Serge’s presentations that opened my eyes to alternative medicine and how it can be used with the same irresponsibility as western medicine – in that I can use both equally to alleviate and relieve my symptoms without reflection on my part in creating the symptoms/illness/disease. I however was holding alternative medicine as the superior choice.
Thanks for sharing your story Ulrike and how you have connected deeper to your own understanding of what it means to heal .
Your experiences with cancer and the marriage you made with conventional medicine and esoteric healing make it very clear that we play an important part in our own good medicine, thank you Ulrike.
Thank you for sharing you experience Ulrike. I have found the Universal Medicine modalities to be the only true complementary therapies with practitioners encouraging clients to seek medical treatment. The modalities are used to support medical treatment rather than as an alternative to medical treatment.
Yes Matt, the deeper level of understanding Universal Medicine has presented about true medicine has allowed me to become more engaged with conventional medicine and all it has to offer.
So simple, we cannot get there by ourselves, we need the other part to win this one.
” I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.” love this sentence it nails it! Thank you for sharing Ulrike.
Thanks Ulrike for sharing your story. A very powerful process to go through. I used to dismiss conventional medicine too and did so at my own detriment searching for alternatives. I ended up spending a huge amount of money on alternative therapies (too many to name here) and only got worse and worse. It was not until I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, that I could come to truly understand about what healing really is and how important the way I live affects my health and wellbeing. I am forever inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting this to me. My search is over.
This is such an amazing testament to truth. The body is supported by our technological and medical advances, however, to fully heal requires the commitment to responsibility and self care and this is often the part of the deal we all conveniently forget. Thank you Ulrike for an amazing sharing.
Years ago I signed myself out of hospital after an accident only to return the next afternoon, what I found out was I had this misconception about hospitals and that they were all hard asses, what I actually found out was that they were pretty good and caring it’s us the patients that bring in all these crazy ideas what we think should be or is medicine
Hello Ulrike and what an amazing story to share. I suspect many have gone through similar situations to you, but maybe not the extreme you did. What seems apparent from what you have said and from my experience is that we often think the answer to something that hasn’t worked for us or has done the wrong thing by us is the opposite to it. So in your case, if western medicine can’t fix it, go to the opposite because that must be ‘it’.
What you are saying is a balance approach, not just to medicine, but to everything. We seem to be reactors to life at times and then we think from that reaction we are making a different choice. But the opposite of something is the same choice really – just the opposing end of it.
A true choice is a balanced choice, this could mean you choose one thing but there is an openness to what the others are saying. Only through a true choice do we get the everything.
I love what you have presented to us and the real way in which you have said it, thank you.
Ulrike, I was un-aware of your story until now, thanks for sharing it with us all.
It just seems incredible to me that the beautiful, glowing woman that I know today, was so sick and close to death.
You are a living testament to the fact that true healing is possible if we allow ourselves to be supported on all levels. Amazing!
Absolutely Rob. An amazing story and an amazing testament to true healing.
Reading this again made me remember how up myself I was with thinking that conventional medicine was nothing for me and they were the bad guys “in bed” with the pharmaceutical companies just in it for the money. At that time I was big time in bed with all sorts of new age spiritual modalities and I suspect the arrogance was heavily fuelled by my then marriage. We have now separated me and the new age stuff and I’m pleased to say that my new partner which is me is going along well – greatly supported by the endless wisdom poured out from Universal Medicine and with a newly undertaken contact with conventional medicine.
Thank you for sharing your story it serves as a steady reminder to care for ourselves daily.
When my Partner became ill, I too found myself traveling what seemed like an endless road of alternative therapies, supplements and treatments, in fact I felt guilty if I didn’t follow up on suggestions from friends and family, I might have missed the one thing that was really going to help. Now, thanks to the love and grace of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, my understanding of true healing is so much deeper than ‘the road trip’ and I realise how important regular pitstops and car maintenance are, rather than waiting to try and fix something when its broken.
The realisation that we have the inner ‘key’ to our health and well being (sometimes aided by Conventional Medicine) is empowering and healing itself.
Thank you for sharing your story with us all Ulrike – Your words ” I discovered I held the key to my healing” such a gift to acknowledge and to work with ourselves with love always.
Ulrike, your account of what transpired feels like you could have been writing about my own medical experiences. It is amazing how many of us go through situations searching for the ‘right’ thing that will heal us, not realising that what we think will help, is doing the reverse. Accepting western medical treatment with the right doctors and choosing what treatment we feel is best for us, makes all the difference in the outcome. Not having the right doctor/hospital can be the opposite of this. Knowing that we can choose both western and complementary medicine to support us, whilst making loving choices for ourselves, can turn things around from a hopeless situation to one of healing. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Ulrike thank you for sharing your story. It is very humbling to read.
So true it is the moment by moment choices, in how we choose to love and nurture ourselves or not, that determine our state of being. I agree that we need to balance our use of conventional and complementary medicines.
Growing up I was under the impression that our local GP was God-like in his knowing and that I simply follow his instructions and no questions be asked.
Years later as I sat in front of a specialist (More God-like than a GP!) waiting for the results of some tests I decided to do things a little differently.
As images of my brain were pulled up on the computer screen I pulled my chair alongside this ‘superior’ man as we both marvelled at the technology that has made such images possible.
We chatted in the time allowed as this man struggled to take notes, one finger at a time on his computer.
By the time I left we’d shaken hands three times and I have no doubt he enjoyed the experience as much as I did.
What I realised that day is that a specialist, like a GP has an incredible ability to hold information and an amazing capacity for recalling that information.
They work hard and most do an incredible job.
This in no way makes him better than me, or me less than him.
While he’s an expert in his chosen field, I’m an expert in mine – Me!
It’s ok to ask questions. It’s ok to speak up about how you feel and what you want for yourself.
Yes Western Medicine has astounding know how and we benefit greatly with how far it’s come but we must never lose sight of the fact that our bodies have an ability to heal in a way that has only just begun to be truly understood.
In our daily choices, we can support that.
Very inspiring Ulrike, thank you for sharing your story. I have the greatest respect for the human body and how it heals. I have also come to appreciate the combination of Western Conventional Medicine with Esoteric Medicine and found it makes perfect sense to treat my body and my being. Taking an active role in our own healing is key as you say, where we can bring an understanding of how our choices in life are either ‘good’ or ‘poor’ Medicine. Thanks to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I also have a broader understanding of how true healing works.
Victoria, I love your words ‘to treat my body and my being’. When we allow ourselves an active role in our healing there is much the body offers.
Your story highlights the need for us all to take responsibility for our ongoing health and healing on all levels and this needs our constant focus. Thanks for sharing your story Ulrike.
“…I still wanted something outside of myself to fix me without my committed input.” This line is absolutely revealing of the relationship we have with ourselves, as I know many, many of us (if not all of us at some point) have felt like this. Wanting something or someone outside of us to take away what is happening for us rather than us truly feeling it and dealing with it. Bit like the mainstream religions really. Asking a God who lives outside of us to take away all our ‘sins’ rather than us feeling the choices we have made and the impact these choices have had on us and others. Feeling all the ways that have led us to the situations we find ourselves in, is part of how we are able to change our ways, giving us the opportunity to make different, more loving choices. This is true self-responsibility and an essential element for true and sustaining healing.
Universal Medicine presentations also helped me to see that conventional medicine has an important place. I was into every natural therapy known to man and similar to you ran my body into the ground with illness, feeling afraid of medicine. Universal Medicine present their complementary health modalities without making themselves superior to western medicine – everything is presented in balance. This is rare in the complementary health field. It has certainly supported my health enormously to marry the two.
Once again, another blog about the choices we have in a situation where we feel we have none. Thank you for sharing what sounds like an extraordinary part of your life. I love that you have found a balance in life now between all the different medicines, your choice to love you being the most important element of them all 🙂
Great story Ulrike, and so true Natakiesterk, I’ve ‘been there done that’ with the many different spiritual modalities also for years, with not one bit of improvement in my health. Since being a student of Universal Medicine, I have never felt so healthy in my life. I’ve learnt we have choices and responsibility on how we live and what we eat is true medicine.
It is amazing how when we want something to work for us or be true, we cannot see what is right in front of us (like looking like ET!) It is sad that people’s mistrust or fear around conventional medicine keeps them from making the most of what it has to offer, in conjunction with complementary therapies. It is so empowering when we as patients do take an active part in our healing.
That is certainly a full-on experience to go through Ulrike, not only during pregnancy but also to be hospitalised so soon after giving birth. To see you now with very noticeable good health is a testament to your own strength and commitment to the work with Universal Medicine. Amazing.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experience. It is amazing to feel the turn around that you have done by firstly choosing the chemotherapy and then later by incorporating more loving and self regarding choices in your life. Sometimes we can feel so alone and unsupported and in those times it is hard to make major decisions around health care especially when dealing with illnesses such as cancer. Your friend was a friend indeed to take you to another doctor and another hospital and support you in choosing a more loving life bit by bit and one that allows both medicines to support you (conventional medicine and esoteric complementary medicine).
Thank you so much for sharing your story. True medicine is the way we live and it empowers us to care for ourselves, take responsibility for our lives, our health and our relationships with ourselves and others.
To turn our back on Western Medicine, just because we feel let down by it, is a reaction that we cannot afford.
I agree, and the marriage between Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is what is needed.
Thank you for such powerful sharing Ulrike. Yes – there are many of us that have searched for the next modality as an answer to our ills – and as you say, it’s looking outside ourselves for the ‘fix’ as opposed starting to truly connect and feel within what is really happening…I appreciate this article…
I love how you show Ulrike that in every situation there is an opportunity to listen to that inner knowing that we all have, and then act from there or not. I was all one sided only relying on conventional western medicine and looked down on anything alternative and then flipped to the opposite and criticized the other. It was only after attending Universal Medicine that I got to appreciate the bigger picture and feel that for me to truly honour my body it requires medicine from how I live everyday, conventional medicine and esoteric healing.
Ulrike what a great account of your spiritual and medical journey; your words “..that true medicine is the way I live”, is the greatest reminder, thank you for sharing.
“..true medicine is the way I live” is the profound underlying message for me in this really interesting story and blog. It’s also really important to honour the support one receives to make quality choices. Well done.
gosh – you can just feel how much you changed in how you approached your health care and your life. By the end of the blog, it seems as though you settled within yourself, rather than being in some kind of battle or struggle. Your story made me realise to that I have a choice about how connected I am with the loveliness within me and that it is my choice whether I separate from it, (which for the record never feels good)!
“I thought and felt at the time that with each new alternative treatment/modality I had found the answer. All that I did seemed right for me at the time, however I still had the sense of searching coming from deep within me.” I could have written these lines, I keep on searching until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and came in contact with the truth and I stopped looking for an answer outside myself. And I let go of my anti attitude towards conventional medicine. Universal Medicine therapies and conventional medicine are an amazing couple.
Yes Annelies, those few words very much resonated with me as well. I only stopped the seeking outside of my self once I came across Universal Medicine. That was nearly 7 years ago. Prior to that I was jumping from alternative treatment to alternative treatment, never finding in those what I was truly looking for…ME. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has lead me home. Amazing story Ulrike!
Ulrike, thank you for sharing your story. It struck me reading this blog that before finally finding our way to Universal Medicine, so many of us have explored a vast array of alternate healing remedies yet were always left with ‘… the sense of searching coming from deep within …’. I am grateful that through attending Universal Medicine workshops and presentations I have a stronger awareness and understanding of how my health is intertwined with my life choices. When this aspect of self responsibility is combined with Western medicine we are very empowered to live our lives in full harmony and joy.
The beautiful and completely down to earth way of Esoteric Medicine is that it puts our care right into our own hands. While leaving plenty of room for western medicine, the esoteric approach is to look inwardly at how I live has brought me to the point of health I am at. Western Medicine is on hand when we do get sick, but a deeper introspection can take place to change what may have caused the sickness in the first place to allow for a healthier and more vital way of living.
It really is amazing that we have so much power in taking true responsibility but seem to avoid it at all costs, always looking for something outside ourselves to ‘fix’ the problem. Great blog, thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for sharing Ulrike. I too have gone down many a complementary therapy route and now I have found that conventional medicine along with the responsibility of truly looking after myself (as also inspired by Universal Medicine and its practitioners) is the best medicine for me 🙂
A beautiful story Ulrika, thank you for openly sharing.
You are an extraordinary testament to healing Ulrike. Conventional medicine is essential to restore the body, but it does not address the being within that body. Only we can do that, but it requires the “know-how” provided by Universal Medicine through its modalities and presentations.
Great blog, great transformation in your life. It’s fascinating how you “went through” all the spiritual modalities under the sun with no true progress. Been there, done that too, – at least some of them, and it wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon and explored Universal Medicine that I truly understood what life is all about. Deepening my love for me and for all is indeed in progress.
Thank you for sharing your story Ulrike. We all know deep within what our bodies need to truly heal, and when we listen to this knowing and utilise what Western medicine and Esoteric healing have to offer we have everything on hand to support us to maintain healthy vibrant bodies, or to assist us through a healing process.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing such a personal story. Your experience gives a great example of how conventional medicine is very much needed when the body is going through disease, and after, how lifestyle choices do make an impact in maintaining health after treatment is completed. The two really do go hand in hand.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your amazing story. What a blessing it is that we have the opportunity to actually witness and participate in the melding of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine. I have found this to be so in my own experience and I have also found that we are surely an integral part of this major unfolding as we take more responsibility in listening to our whole body – not just the mind.
I love how you went from being dogmatic to being open and fully responsible for your attitude towards treatment, health and life! An inspiration.
Gorgeous- It is always interesting to read how people came to discover Universal Medicine. And I keep reading, that everyone was feeling there is something more that they were looking for, and that nothing else covered this. It is awesome that you had the opportunity to heal beneath the ‘name’ of the disease/illness as well as the disease/illness itself by Universal Medicine and Western Medicine combined. The beauty in this combination is unreal and so deeply healing.
This is such a powerful story of coming full circle from searching for cures outside yourself (which I have done too) and finally realising you hold the key to your own healing – thank you Ulrike. Over the last few years I’ve found like you that true medicine is the way you live your life and how you treat your body from the choices you make. Your story and experiences help us all understand that responsibility is a self-caring and self- loving way – not a doing way. I’m sure it was by staying open to your inner feelings you were able to embrace the simple sensible loving presentations of Universal Medicine and the assisted healing of the esoteric modalities. What is beautifully presented here is the importance for the body to have a balance and marriage of complementary medicine and conventional medicine.
This is a great blog Ulrike showing how by changing your way of living by being self caring and self loving is the key to improving health. For years Western medicine had a missing link until Serge Benhayon presented esoteric medicine. What a beautiful combination we have now to understanding the cause of ill health or disease.
It’s great that you share the combination of the responsibility for our own health and how western medicine can help to heal the things that medicine is needed for.
Great example Ulrike of the combination and importance of conventional medicine and esoteric medicine
I find the most amazing lesson from your extraordinary story seems to be: When you are not happy with what your doctor suggests – don’t turn your back on medicine! Go to another doctor…
That is amazing what you went through.
Good point Christoph, I love your common sense and how you get to the bone.
I, too, have travelled full circle in this life, moving away from the ‘arrogance’ I felt in western medicine to the ‘airey fairey’ alternative modalities that really seemed to work at the time but never addressed the root cause of any ill; to finding the truth of all that I am and that how I am in every moment of the day is true medicine, as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine; to recognising that I cannot ‘fix all’ on my own – that western medicine has a vital support role when I honour that it is needed when it is needed and I have understood the root cause (lived choices) that have led to the condition.
I love where you say…”that true medicine is the way I live.” It is true, and that includes, as you so beautifully showed, taking responsibility for our choices and Why we make them, as you mentioned not wanting to go to hospital because of fears. Through your healing with Universal Medicine I would guess that you have addressed your fears and healed them – life is bigger than biology.
Your story Ulrike reminds me of the powerful and deep knowing we all have. Like when you knew somehow that you would recover when admitted. Or when you saw other patients resigned and given up around you, you felt to go another way. It is like this knowing, when listened to, is the most amazing advice. I love that this article comes full circle to show the key part personal responsibility and conventional medicine also played in supporting you to re-pair.
That’s key Joseph, that somewhere in me I knew and trusted in me – something many people have forgotten. Also, there’s a big difference between taking responsibility for self and giving up. Through the teachings of Universal Medicine, I now know more and more about the power of what I hold within, as I continue to truly release what’s not me and live by the truth of who I really am.
I also feel Ulrike that while you did not give up on yourself, it does not feel like you went into battle against the cancer. Truly an inspirational example of self-acceptance and self-responsibility in a very loving way.
‘True medicine is the way I live’ awesome words Ulrike, thank you for sharing your journey through the healing process.
Absolute Gold you share with us here, thank you for sharing Ulrike,”I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.”
“I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” Well said – if only more people would take this level of responsibility and begin to understand that how we live is either our very own prescription of good or bad medicine.
Since you have written this blog a new website called Unimed Living as been launched that discusses (amongst others) this very topic of life as medicine http://www.unimedliving.com/medicine
It is a deeply healing experience for humanity to give conventional medicine its right place: as a needed balance on a physical level equally necessary to the true alternative modality that supports the body energetically. Unfortunately both are rarely found, if you’re looking for a true treatment with a person who really connects to you. An angel is Serge Benhayon who supports so many complementary practitioners as well as doctors to become truly connected and true!
Thank you Ulrike. When I read your incredible story I was struck by the way you very clearly explain how important it is for each of us to take responsibility for our own healing while receiving assistance, treatment and support from medical professionals. I imagine many doctors and nurses rarely meet patients that are truly ready and willing to take responsibility for their own healing process. What a wonderful change it must be from having patients come in asking to be ‘fixed’.
This is exactly my experience Ulrike. After a lot of resistance to western medicine, after a lot of discussions with family and friends and much support from Serge Benhayon I began my course of treatment which lasted almost a year; chemo, an operation and radiotherapy, combined with esoteric medicine I sailed through my treatment, especailly the dreaded chemo! This combination of western and esoteric medicine supported me to take responsiblity for my life and making new lifestyle choices which resulted in lots of true healing.
Thank you for showing so clearly how Western Medicine and complementary and Esoteric Medicine can support each other and present a healing that, with our responsibility in choosing truthfully and with the love that we are in our daily lives, can have a long lasting effect.
A combination of Universal Medicine, Western Medicine and ourselves taking responsibility, how we live and care for ourself seems to be the way forward.
Conventional medicine supported by ‘The true medicine is the way I live’ is very supportive and means I have a responsibility for my part of the healing.
This is a revelation, “That true medicine is the way I live.” and to be taught this is a gift. To grow up without this awareness is for me now like trying to live life without food. I have come to understand that every choice I make and every emotion I indulge in has a direct consequence for the health of my body.
‘I discovered I held the key to my healing’ – this is fantastic. It is so empowering to know we hold that key.
Even from the very start you were not prepared to sit back and let things happen to you even though some of your choices may have not been so wise. It’s great you now found the right balance for a truer healthier life
As you mention Julie the looking at medicine from the whole person which, includes Esoteric Medicine as the missing ingredient is truly, deeply self loving. Globally, our whole view of illness and disease would change if esoteric medicine sat along side conventional medicine.
So why doesn’t it? There’s still too much monetary investment in conventional medicine if the truth be known. Yet rates of illness and disease are out of control and not looking at slowing down any time soon.
Slowly people will question what’s happening and what seems like human nature will prompt them to keep looking and asking for ‘another way’ because the current is not working. Like I found, esoteric medicine will be lovingly waiting and available as providing truthful answers to the questions that could not be answered by conventional medicine alone.
“…esoteric medicine will be lovingly waiting and available as providing truthful answers to the questions that could not be answered by conventional medicine alone.” Expressed in truth and from loving experience Ulrike, that day will surely come. And when it does, the marriage of conventional medicine and esoteric medicine will provide the platform for healing on a level the world has not seen for a thousand years or more.
Thank you Ulrika for sharing your experiences with us, I have always been fascinated with anything to do with medicine and for many years I went down the route of alternative medicine to find the answers but they never materialised – lots of promises but no results (for me at least). But then I found Universal Medicine, which for me feels like the best of both worlds, having Esoteric Medicine and Conventional Medicine working together feels very supportive and complete.
What a powerful story. Thank you for sharing Ulrika. As you say “true medicine is the way I live” with a balance of conventional and esoteric medicine: such a powerful combination.
Yes Jonathan, “true medicine is the way I live,” I love that too, and am glad to be reminded of it as it helps to support me in the way I approach everything I feel, think and do. It brings the way I live my life together as a whole, which includes the balance of conventional and esoteric medicine.
Since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have become more open to conventional medicine, I now see it as a support for me and my health, rather than a place to go to when I’m really ill, and expect to be fixed and get frustrated if they don’t have the answers. I accept my responsibility for my health, and appreciate the support available from conventional medicine.
A very honest account of how complementary, esoteric and conventional medicine can support our well being. I really connected with the quote “true medicine is the way I live.” I am finding this to be true in the way that my body has responded to me beginning to care for it over the last decade. The general improvement has been startling and it is because I am learning to take responsibility for myself. Universal Medicine as an organisation is an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Ulrike thank you for sharing, it’s crazy how so many of us have got caught up in the trap that we can heal our body just with alternative or complementary medicine, when in fact we need support from western medicine from time to time. When we truly connect to our body it does become clearer when we need to step in and ask for western medicine to support alongside complementary medicine. It’s very much about connecting to our body and listening and feeling what it is saying.
I love this: – that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation. It’s true and amazing that we can all take control of our bodies at any given moment – we always have that choice to empower ourselves or not…
To be open to all that Western Medicine can offer and at the same time take charge of my own healing and make choices about when and how I accept suggested investigations and treatments is what I am learning at the moment with the support of Universal Medicine. It means I am no longer dependent on any one thing, but feel for myself what my body needs, and at my pace, yet take full advantage and be appreciative of the skills that exist to support my healing.
Thank you for sharing your journey, Ulrike. You mentioned that you kept thinking that you had found the answer and all that you did felt right for you at the time – it is amazing that you honoured the feeling deep within in you to keep searching, and that you found the answer to healing was within you all the time. I love what you wrote: ‘healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment’. How amazing would it be for Medicine if we all took that responsibility for ourselves!
I love it. After years of searching and trying all sorts of things, returning to “true medicine is the way I live.” And after seeking to be fixed by something external to come to the knowing that “healing comes from within and it is about choices”.
Delightful reading about your story Ulrike of how you chose to take responsibility for your experience and your health from the time you were in hospital for your chemotherapy and how it has unfolded since, and how you are choosing to honour the wisdom of your body in choosing what to offer it as support.
Thank you for openly sharing your transformational journey Ulrike.
Discovering ” true medicine is the way we live and we hold the key to our healing “.
Universal Medicine practitioners teach this truth.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your powerful story there is much to learn from your journey. I totally connected to the words you wrote here “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live”. This is what I have learnt too through Universal Medicine, that while Western Medicine is very much needed, it can only do so much, and that the real healing is down to me and the choices I make to change the way I live to lovingly support myself.
Wow what a powerful story Ulrike and an amazing journey that you have come on from searching everywhere outside of yourself to coming to the realisation that the key is how you live your life and working with doctors etc when needed to address any medical issues that arise. Taking responsibility for my health and allowing Western Medicine to support me in this has only happened since attending Universal Medicine presentations before that I was proud of how little I had used their services. Incredible arrogance given that I was constantly feeling exhausted with lots of niggling issues.
Before I came across Universal Medicine, I had very little inkling to search for something to complement western medicine. I had dabbled in some eastern philosophies, but nothing really struck me as something practical I could use to maintain a level of well-being. Once I began to attend Universal Medicine courses, I learned of how I can do this myself and how it is our responsibility.
I agree Ulrika, there is nothing quite like a serious illness to get us searching high and low for the complementary or alternative therapies to conventional medicine! I too felt ‘there must be another way’. It wasn’t until I tried and witnessed the simplicity of making personal choices that really supported my day to day wellbeing. I discovered that I could have a relationship with myself that considered my daily way of being which supported healing from within myself and the advancements of conventional medicine that treat the physical symptoms. This to me is a complete and powerful combination.
A powerful combination it is Rosanna, the power of making loving choices daily is remarkable in the changes it can bring about to health and wellbeing. I recently saw a friend who had started to appreciate her self by writing down daily what she appreciates about her self, the change in one month was remarkable she looked so well and vital.
Wow Vanessa, I love the example you use about appreciation. Imagine if there were before and after photos of this, what an amazing catalogue.
Great point Ulrike, this would make a good study Vanessa. Your example shows the power of self appreciation and as the other side to the coin the impact of the internal chatter that goes along side low self worth.
Thanks Ulrike for sharing with us your journey. I agree with what you have said as the time has long since past the point where we have to take responsibility for ourselves. Heath systems can’t cope with all the illness and disease around. It is a symbiosis relationship, we need western medicine but also it needs us to take the poisons out our lives to ease the burden on it .
Thank you for sharing your story Ulrike Baker and you sure went through a load of ‘alternative’ modalities which reminds me of myself. My husband called me a ‘spiritual junkie’.
I can also say the same as you Ulrike that western medicine saved my life when I got a tumour but I am certain had I not changed my daily lifestyle choices it would have spread. I came across Serge Benhayon and got much needed support at the time and then with regular sessions from Universal Medicine Practitioners I came to understand how they 2 actually work together in harmony. Yes I needed western medicine but Equally I needed the teachings of Serge Benhayon which I today call ‘common sense medicine’. It works and I am living proof of that.
Thank you for your article Ulrike. I too have found that taking responsibility to care of myself has been the key to my healing with the support of western medicine as an integral part.
I can so relate to the experience of going after and trying lots of different alternative therapies. My experience is that it can be seductive as I always thought I was alright, unaware that I was blindly going from one to the next to the next to get my next fix. It was like an addiction. What I am aware of now is that a part of me that is never satisfied and always wants more was the part driving the show and seeking. I equate it to just like when we overeat and eat lots and lots of food but never feel satisfied.
I totally agree Shevron sounds familiar that ‘almost addition’ to the next fix is just it and before I came across Universal Medicine I tried many many alternative therapies. Universal Medicine is the first one which emphasised the use of medical care along with complementary care. It is also the first one which brought me the word responsibility for my own wellbeing and its the first one that ever made sense.
It seems a huge call for people to stop ‘relying’ on doctors and other people/ medicine to fix them, and also take responsibility for their part in the healing. To see ourselves not as a victim, but as a partner in working to heal – is a revolutionary way of looking at health.
Its great to read here the difference when that responsibility is taken!
Love the way you highlight the fact that we as a society often talk of being ‘the victim’ of illness and disease, rather than looking at the choices we make that allows the disease to develop.
Yes, it is still very much common thinking that disease is just something that ‘happens’ to me, out of the blue. And then it is someone else’s job to fix me so I can get back to life and carry on as normal or should I say regardless…
If we collectively woke up to the fact that we are responsible for our health we would see a lot of pressure taken off our health care systems which are stretched to breaking point.
‘I can say now that western medicine saved my life and within that I was still able to make decisions on how I would manage the treatment I received.’ Yes, I agree, Ulrike, Western medicine has a huge part to lay in helping humanity recover from illness and disease and your article points out the importance of our own responsibility in aiding that healing process. It’s great to read how you took that responsibility and the difference it made.
From my experience as a health professional and having seen many ill people and those that recover from their illness I would agree that healing appears to be a two way street – the healer or doctor or practitioner needs to be committed and have integrity and the person who is unwell needs to commit fully to the healing as well otherwise the healing may not be complete. So it was great to read a blog about someone taking full responsibility for their healing.
Hi Andrew, this is very interesting, I like the way you have talked about the commitment of both the practitioner and the patient as having equal importance.
Good point Andrew. It’s usually a given that we expect our doctors, nurses, practitioners to be committed and have a certain level of professional integrity, but also the patient needs to have responsibility to their own healing as well. As you say, approaching it in this way, the healing has a better chance of being more effective.
It is important that we take full responsibility and are honest about why we get ill. As of yet it is not widely accepted that it is our choices in daily life that get us that way. If I get ill, I may not like it but it allows me a stop moment to feel how I have been running myself and from there the space to make different choices. I will always be thankful to Universal Medicine for getting to understand this and for supporting my understanding that everything that happens to me in life is the result of my own making!
Yes absolutely true Maryline. “It is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in seperation. “Thank you for sharing your story Ulrike.
Many thanks Ulrike for sharing with us your journey of discovery. The way we live is our medicine – taking true and deep care for oneself and feeling and listening to our bodies.
Yes, Maryline, remembering that “the way we live is our medicine” brings such a new and different way of viewing illness and its healing. It opens up so many more possibilities, and supports us to take responsibility for choices in daily life, so that medicine naturally becomes our way of life.
“The way we live is our medicine” is such a strong statement when truly lived and goes a long way in changing ones’ consciousness which in turn means actions would stem from self responsibility. Oh what a different world we would live in, to be lived by all.
HI Ulrika, a great blog and sharing thank you. I can really relate with myself having shown disregard for my body, and then wanting something outside myself to fix this whilst I continued in that same pattern… ouch.
I have come to the same understanding that I hold a ‘ key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.’ This is so spot on, beautifully put.
I love the idea of this trio working together as a team, Western Medicine, Universal Medicine and ourselves being responsible so being ‘Livingness Medicine’. How awesome, indeed a team made in Heaven.
Thank you Ulrike, I love how you wrote about the overnight hospital stays that “I found the only way to get through them was to take charge and manage the situation.”
Thank you Ulrika for sharing. I love your lines, ‘that true medicine is the way I live. I have come to learn that healing comes from within and it is about the choices I make in each moment that can either bring me closer to my inner loveliness or keep me in separation.’
Last year I didn’t get medical help as quickly as I could have. I ignored what was going on in my body and needed an emergency operation as a result. But even with the need to respond to the diagnosis quickly I was given different options and respected for whatever treatment I choose by the medical staff.
I knew the way I lived had resulted in my medical situation and know how I live can either keep me healthy or lead to more physical reflections in my body that I am not living lovingly.
‘‘true medicine is the way I live’ this is such a timely reminder and it applies to everything in life.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing the changes you have made in your life. It feels so great when we find the way that we have been seeking for so long – like you I have had many diversions and distractions that led me astray. That inner sense of knowing when we do arrive at the point where everything makes sense and that everything that went before just falls away. There is nothing else we need but the truth and love that life offers us when we reach within.
Thanks Sue. Surrender, acceptance and appreciation makes it all possible.
That is lovely to read ‘that true medicine is the way I live’. I feel I need to be with this comment and it will really help me. I can also really relate to wanting to be fixed and not taking responsibility for how I have lived and the choices I made but this is starting to change now and feels gently empowering.
Thank you for sharing Ulrika, it was great to read about your story and how you found nothing worked because it was all focused on the outside fixing your inside without your own input. Perhaps as you say, we’re all our own saviours. Awesome.
This is such a powerful and inspirational blog for anyone who has a similar journey. The key is taking responsibility for ourselves and understanding our own healing powers with the help of the combination of Conventional Medicine and Universal Medicine.
Wowie Ulrika… What a rescue mission of yourself, well done! You say it so true – “that true medicine is the way I live.” Perfect!
Thanks Ulrike – great to read of someone who did not just hand over the keys to Western Medicine, but who was willing to use it and complement it with gaining a fuller understanding of the way you live so you get support from both. Very powerful
I totally agree Jane, it would be amazing to provide this blog and others like it in doctors waiting rooms. How inspiring it could be for someone who is going through difficult times with their health.
Your blog will be an inspiration to those who receive a diagnoses of any type of cancer. thanks for sharing your incredible journey with us Ulrike.
I’ve met so many people, women especially, who go down that route of seeking their healing through many alternative therapies and won’t go near a doctor. I was like that myself, but since meeting Universal Medicine I have learned how beneficial it is, and it feels so rigid to me now. As you say Ulricke, to use the support of conventional medicine, complementary medicine and esoteric medicine is a loving way to care for ourselves. A long time ago there was no division between them, they all stem from the same root. But the most important element I have learned from my studies with Universal Medicine is, as you say, “that I have to take responsibility to care for myself every day”, and then I can choose to be open to whatever will truly support me.
Ulrike, what a great blog about being responsible for the way we live our life and how this can impact our health. I find very inspiring your commitment to yourself and your openness in using the support of conventional medicine, complementary medicine and esoteric medicine combined in a way to support you.
Thanks for sharing your story Ulrike. I also disliked and mistrusted western medicine for many years. I would not even take a paracetamol if I had a headache. Since becoming a student of Universal Medicine that has changed. I now see taking medicine as a way to support myself when my body is unwell, but I also take responsibility and don’t just expect to be fixed by doctors. I know by playing my part I can contribute to my own healing.
Jane, it’s time many more stories like this got out there for the general public. Thank you for highlighting this. Imagine if in doctors surgeries, TV documentaries, magazine articles, hospitals, social welfare organisations, education institutions, there were countless examples of ANOTHER WAY, how all lives would have the opportunity to transform.
Universal Medicine offers this bridge to other possibilities for living life and handling life’s circumstances. I feel an enormous gratitude and joy in returning to the way of truly living, the Way of the Livingness…how awesome it will be when the right way becomes the normal way!
Ulrike, Jane. Love the idea of these stories being available in doctors and hospital waiting rooms. That would be so hugely serving and inspiring.
An amazing account of self-discovery and the responsibility we have to care for ourselves as a key to healing. At the same time seeking support from Western Medicine while retaining personal responsibility for what treatment is offered and whether you feel it is right for you. Universal Medicine brings a true healing with this teaching.
This is so true Ulrike. We ARE the drivers in our own healing and I too accept that it all comes down to our daily choices in the way we live and the relationship we have with our body. Amazing blog, as you have shown here that illness CAN be healing. I also love that you clearly recognised that all those things you were searching for out there weren’t it.
Ulrike’s blog shows how amazing we can be when we listen to our bodies. The way she managed her treatment, avoiding negative energy when she felt it in her ward, taking medication to ease the chemo when she felt she needed it. What a great example of working with the medical profession rather than giving them the responsibility for healing her.
I would like to take this a little deeper as this situation was an extreme one so highlighted the focus there was in listening to my body which was talking very loudly to me during that time. I ask myself do I listen as intently when I am well or is there some overriding and disregard in not slowing down to hear the voice from within? Or is it possible that I am not adjusting to my next level of evolution and thus have not refined what next needs to be refined so what may have seemed loving a time ago is now felt as disregard?
Thank you for this beautiful account of your healing journey.
I had a great fear of western medicine to the extent of feeling sick just thinking about seeing a doctor, forget even the thought of entering a hospital. Attending Universal Medicine presentations and UM practitioners helped me get over this fear and showed me the importance of western medicine as part of my self care, combined with how I look after myself and the life choices I make. A few years ago I was able to have an operation and 3 night stay in hospital, something that would have absolutely impossible for me even to think about before. And it was an incredibly healing and beautiful experience.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your journey of healing. I love how you say ‘I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live’
I have also realised how much I was in reaction to western medicine and that this was disregarding my body and Wellbeing. By rejecting western medicine I was neglecting myself and denying self responsibility for my health. This is no longer the case and my visits to my GP and Esoteric Practitioners feel equally nurturing and supportive.
Wow Ulrike this is an amazing story to share, thank you. It’s so true that our health is our own personal responsibility, it’s so easy to look for someone out there to fix us and take it away for us, so we don’t ever have to take responsibility and really look at what’s going on and how what we chose got us here. I also agree the marriage of conventional medicine and an individual commitment to healing is vital.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing this personal story with us all. It is amazing how we can step away from what we know is the truth to help heal ourselves when getting caught up in the spiritual new age. Conventional medicine is so important along with the self responsibility that Esoteric medicine inspires. Thank you to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for supporting us to understand this.
Very well expressed Ulrike, I love how you wrote: ‘true medicine is the way I live’ – we put soo much pressure on doctors to cure/fix us we do not take responsibility ourselves or for our own choices. Before Universal Medicine I had tried to distance myself from Western Medicine as I knew doctors were great for when you are really sick but up to that point they, in my experience, would settle for function and I knew there was soo much more. I wanted to feeling full of life, vital not just managing to get through the day. Now I know that Esoteric Medicine in combination with Western Medicine, as Serge Benhayon has always stated is a perfect combination for the body, of course coupled with the self responsibility Esoteric Medicine brings!
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your story here. It’s beautiful to read how you embraced self-responsibility and how this doesn’t mean you have to go-it-alone by any means but make best use of the support available to you through conventional medicine and complementary medicine with Universal Medicine.
I would say the same, that I lost trust in western medicine and turned to complementary treatments for all sorts of ailments but nothing seemed to make any difference. Then after attending presentations by Serge Benhayon, I started to look at things differently and my ailments have either gone or reduced significantly, and I no longer avoid western medicine. Thank you Ulrike, for a very inspiring post.
This is a great article, highlighting the importance of self responsibility in our healing. I too had no trust in western medicine and went down the complementary route for many years until I met Serge and Universal Medicine.
It is an amazing story Ulrike, and a great learning for us all to take responsibility for ourselves, thank you.
Thanks for sharing Ulrike, Western and Universal Medicine really can complement each other beautifully and as you say, how we live each day is our best medicine.
I came back to this blog and it’s well worth another read. Thanks Ulrike, I can feel it’s loveliness all over again. Isn’t it amazing how much we can do, when we choose to, we are indeed the masters of our own healing.
Beautiful. I am amazed at how much we can put our bodies through while we are learning that WE are the one who needs to see to it that WE are taking responsibility and being sure we get the care we need and deserve!
So well said Jo. It really showed me the disregard I had for MY body, the attachment to an untruth of not being the ONE and not taking responsibility for ME. Another lesson here for me is that things don’t need to be complicated as this really only feeds DELAY. At the same time, I can also feel a loving acceptance of the path I chose, because I needed a very ‘loud’ voice to start to crack this thing called arrogance.
Thanks, for sharing your story. I was never really a fan of alternative medicine, but I equally didn’t have full confidence in Western Medicine either. As others have commented above, since joining Universal Medicine I have so much more confidence in Western Medicine than before. I also feel that Western Medicine and Universal Medicine is a match made in heaven!
Whatever is going on around us and however chaotic or dramatic it may seem, there is always that inner wise voice patiently waiting to be listened to. Thank you, Ulrike.
yes that struck me when reading this I had the strong image of you Ulrike on your death bed and that inner knowing there holding strong when you must have felt so physically weak. It really is a remarkable story and a great balance of western medicine and the whole picture offered by Universal Medicine.
Beautiful sharing Ulrike… It’s inspiring to hear about how important taking responsibility of your own medicine and treatment is, and how much you have benefited from doing so yourself – well done.
Ditto to that. Awesomely inspiring story about taking responsibility for one’s own recovery, rather than handing your body over to the doctors, as so many do.
I’d like to pick up on your point ‘handing your body over to the doctors’ Otto. I felt when I was receiving treatment many people gave their power away to the doctors, I could feel it in their helplessness which sometimes translated to a childlike demeanour. It is important to surrender to the treatment but also to feel the best way to manage what’s being done and happening to your body.
For example, at times I would sleep in the visitors room and not in the ward, when I found the ‘given up’ energy in the ward (there were normally 4 people in a ward) too overwhelming and heavy. The nurses were great as they’d always find me for treatment, showing no signs of me being a nuisance and remained totally loving in their connection with me.
Thank you Ulrike, for this presentation on the different stages we can go through in the process of healing ourselves. Accepting our self-responsibility certainly enables us to turn things around, profoundly so.
Thank you for a great blog Ulrike, I loved the way that you took responsibility for the way your treatment was administered. Years ago,( before Universal Medicine) I had a non malignant tumour on my jaw, and I knew it was there for a reason. I explored that with all the tools available to me at the time, before I had the op to remove it. Now, with the knowledge and support of Universal Medicine and the therapies it teaches I can appreciate how we contribute to our own healing, and what an amazing team conventional medicine, Universal Medicine and our own selves, make in the treatment of disease
Hi Ulrike, I read this blog and I loved how you were able to support yourself with active participation in your own healing. I know I still look outside of myself to be fixed and appreciate the reflection. Love the comment Arianne made too ‘I am my own saviour and the key to fixing me is in my hands.’ The true and loving support which comes from Universal Medicine is there to enable us to re-connect to who we truly are. From that re-connection we can feel and live a truth we may have previously denied. Thank you Ulrike for bringing me a moment of truth and wisdom.
Ulrike, thank you for a great blog. I am so struck by what you say that often we look for things outside without taking our own commitment to us and how we live into account. And I love what Ariana notes no-one else can shine for us. We have such power and choice when we truly allow it and I too have learned the real truth of that through my interactions with Universal Medicine.
Monica I love your comment ‘no-one can shine for us. We have such power and choice when we truly allow it” Feeling this – so true.
What an awesome story – thank you for sharing. I, too, had no trust in Western Medicine until I met Serge.
Thank you for sharing, Ulrike. Your words “I discovered I held the key to my healing, that I have a responsibility to care for myself, every day and to seek help if all is not well with my body – that true medicine is the way I live.” This is so true the responsibility starts with us and not with the doctors or practitioners, they are there to support and assist in our healing.
Great blog Ulrike. The last line sums it up for me- ‘being open and allowing my own healing ability within’.
I love here how you describe the fact that Universal Medicine presented you with the choice to take responsibility for your body and your life. brilliant.
I love this very balanced and comprehensive view of the health care options open to us. thankyou
Thank you Ulrike for sharing this. I had a big distrust in Western Medicine. It wasn’t until I met Serge that I felt I could let go of that and open up to the medics and have been amazed at their support and how Western Medicine can support true healing if we let it.
That is true for me too Fiona, I spent a couple of years trying to find a way of managing a heart problem myself and rejecting the drugs being proposed by the doctors to manage the problem, which I would then be on for life. After failing to manage it myself without the drugs, I discussed this with Serge and he felt that I should be seeking more help from the medical profession rather than trying to deal with it myself. I therefore went back to the Cardiologist and asked if there was a solution to the problems rather than the managing them with drugs approach which they had advocated and it turned out that there was “ablation” procedure which could address each problem with different success rates. The success rate of one procedure was quoted at 90% and the other at 60% and so the combined probability of a successful outcome was just over 50%. I went ahead and had the two procedures together and both were 100% successful, which the surgeon felt could be partially attributed to the healthy lifestyle that I clearly had. So I can confirm that Serge is very supportive of western medicine and always recommends it. Esoteric Medicine supports and is complementary to it and adds another dimension of understanding.
This is great to read Doug and just flies in the face of the allegations of Serge Benhayon being anti conventional medicine. I too have only heard Serge speak of working with doctors and medicine.
Ulrike, this is awesome and thanks for sharing your story. I too used to have a morbid fear and strong dislike of western medicine and found it quite hard to stomach. Consequently, I also had a string of ‘bad’ experiences (I must have attracted them like a magnet, seeing where I was coming from). When I first heard Serge Benhayon express his strong support of medicine I found that equally hard to stomach but over time, I have come to realise how irresponsible I used to be when it came to my own health and how dismissive I had been of a profession who do their utmost under at times very difficult circumstances. Thank you again!
I smile as I read this Jane, I can so relate to what you are saying. Yes, I too have come to the understanding that we are responsible for our own health.
Wow. What a story. It strikes me now as so strange that we don’t learn that all important piece – looking after ourselves on a daily basis. Taking responsibility for our own health by the way we live. Thanks Ulrike.
Ulrike, I really enjoyed reading your blog, it is amazing how natural it is for us to work with western medicine when we are open to it, I too have found western medicine to be a huge support in my life.
Ulrike – this blog was so beautiful to read – I loved the part when you talked about the way you actively participated in your own recovery in hospital. I have developed a trust and openness towards western medicine through my involvement with universal medicine and I have been taking a much more active and responsible role in creating a healthy body instead of just expecting doctors to fix me and reacting to them if they can’t or don’t. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing your story, it is pretty incredible. The best part is in coming to the realisation that we all have a responsibility for our own health care.