376 thoughts on “Medicine for Humanity”

1. Working in health and social care, and generally just looking at the news or talking to people, there is enough money in the world for things, yet we get told or repeat the fact that it’s a lack of funds that is the root of all downfall, at least that’s what the media would like you to think. It’s not the money thats the issue, it’s the lack of responsibility that creates sinkholes on many levels, our own health and the systems that get created. Taking responsibility for our actions and the quality we live and work in doesn’t create sinkholes.

2. I totally can relate to this Cherise, the missing piece of the puzzle for true health. Even growing up as a Midwife, there was more than accepting that this is birth and life. Everything is more than how we live, it impacts the whole world.

   Worldwide health care is at its brink, and the simple deeper research needs to be done. Can you imagine if scientists really looked at this, then we wouldn’t need millions of dollars/pounds funding. It would be the most simple and the least expensive forms of scientific findings, a lived experiment. Worth pondering on.

3. Taking responsibility for the choices we make in the way we live is to support conventional medicine professionals in understanding the underlying causes of illness and disease.

4. “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” This is a great question and offers us all an opportunity to ponder on what you offer here. From my own experience every choice we make either releases something from the body or becomes an addition for the body to deal with; consequently the body is continually working either with ease or under great stress, the choice is ours.

   1. Sally what you have presented is a lot to fathom for some people and if we are completely honest and open to this, everything affects everything around us. The question is are we prepared to accept and be responsible for our part in all of this? If yes, then be open to receiving the answer, even if it “appears” to be the good, the bad and the ugly.

5. “What will be the future of our health in our humanity?” If we continue to live in the way that we do illness and disease will become more and more complex than ever before and the strain on our health care workers, our hospitals and general practitioners will become so overloaded the system will collapse under the strain, and when we realise that there is so much we can do to help ourselves let’s not leave it too late to start taking responsibility.

6. It may seem to the majority of the world that “conventional medicine and complementary medicine predominantly appear worlds apart”, but I have come to see so clearly that they belong together, for together we are offered all the answers to the ills of the world. With the ill-state of the world’s health increasing in intensity every day you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that there is a missing piece to the puzzle, as to why, and this is the piece conventional medicine is offering the world, so why do the majority reject it?

7. “What will be the future of our health in our humanity?” This is a fantastic question, especially as our global health is rapidly declining, I suspect that to begin to reverse this massive problem we need to begin to address our health now and begin to live with a much greater care and regard for ourselves, and not wait until we begin to get seriously ill.

8. One way forward for the future of humanity’s health would be self care. If we were educated from a young age in body awareness and honouring the body’s intelligence and signals we would have a foundation of self care to take into adulthood. This would be a huge step forward to support humanity to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing.

9. “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others”- here here.

10. I almost have a sense of many involved in the medical field scrambling for band aid solutions for the rapidly escalating ill-health of humanity, but the way it is being done seems to focus on the parts of the body that are needing treatment and not the body and the person as a whole. I have come to know that the way I live in every moment has a huge part to play in my health and well-being. I am not just a sore foot or a sore back, I am a whole human being who has so many aspects to my life, and every single one of those aspects will have a part to play in how I am feeling right now.

11. It might be worthwhile when presenting a case study to include both demographic data but also an impression of ‘what makes that person tick’ and to see if this is connected with the ailment.

12. “Our health profession is primarily run by people (members of our humanity) who seek to provide solutions and invent new medicines for the rest of our humanity; a solution to best support and heal another” – this is such a humbling statement that reminds me that at the core of our being, there is the same essence that just loves. We often hear only about what is wrong with the system and forget a system is run by a group of people just like us, with their own dose of life to live.

13. With all that has not worked to date with how we are living, the lifestyles we are choosing to embody, this alone is evidence enough that how we live is medicine. If how we currently live is not working as the fact is we are getting sicker as a humanity, then we need to look deeper into how we are living and why we are choosing the lifestyles that are making us ill, so as to understand the power and responsibility we all hold to live our true and vital potential.

14. While the health profession does an amazing job in may ways, these ways are often short term solutions and not long-term healing. But now we have Serge Benhayon in our midst, an amazing man who is offering the missing pieces to the healing puzzle, a man who has no agenda but simply the heart-felt purpose of providing humanity the answers to its escalating ill-health problems. He totally supports Western medicine but at the same time knows there is more to be understood and that understanding comes from the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom and the study of Esoteric Medicine. Humanity is finally being offered the answers to so many burning questions, but the biggest question is – are we ready to listen?

15. The thing is it is evident how someone is living by the quality of their health and the energy they move in. But we live and move as if no one can tell and we then pretend that we are doing better than we are – essentially lying to ourselves.

    1. Very true Julie. Honesty is the precursor to embodying the alchemy of ‘how we live is medicine’.

16. “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” A great question Cherise. There is so much more for us to look at and take responsibility for when it comes to the state of our health.

17. We must not forget that what we call medicine today has only been around a very short time compared to how long humanity exists. We are very fortunate to have what we have but at the same time it would be very unwise, ignorant and arrogant to throw overboard all that we had prior to this. We have for the longest time considered the body as a whole, the energetic aspect and the interconnectedness of all things as completely normal and part of what is true medicine.

18. “How can this be, given that we live in an era with unprecedented knowledge of the human body? There must be more to our health and the way in which we see and practise medicine”. This is key Cherise as the way humanity’s health is right know should have us being seriously humbled and open to many more options than the narrow road we have gotten ourselves on to.

19. Cherise a great reminder that all our choices have a reflection on our health, we either heal or harm ourselves through our everyday choices.

20. We can no longer abdicate responsibility for how we are living our lives and expect those in healthcare to pick up the pieces. As you say we need to look at how we are living in every aspect of our lives and commit to bringing more transparency to the way we choose to live.

21. How we choose to live our life is medicine – what food we eat, the exercise we do – or don’t do – and the how not just the what. Eating food if I’m angry will give me indigestion, but the same food eaten in loving company and with uplifting conversation has a completely different effect on the body.

22. It is obvious to me that the majority of the medical system is struggling to find quick-fix solutions to the ill-health of the world but these solutions, in the main, are simply bandaids that will only temporarily cover up the issues while they continue to fester underneath waiting to burst out again. I love how you have looked at the health of each one of us as not just how we are feeling but how we live, what we eat and drink and how we are in relationship to those around us. Maybe if the medical profession expanded their views of what is true health to incorporate what you have shared they will slowly come to discover long-term answers instead of quick-fix solutions.

23. What if we started from the premise that we deserved amazing health? I think our standards of what we accept as healthy are dropping lower and lower, to the point that if we don’t have a serious illness or a terminal disease then we are classifying ourselves as healthy, when we might be tired, or have a sore back or bloating or whatever, it’s like we live with these things on a daily basis like they’re normal – but do we not deserve true vitality?

24. There is a huge weight of expectation placed on the medical profession to be able to fix the person in front of them; to come up with the best drug, the best surgical technique and the best on-going care. But there is definitely something missing in this medical equation and that is the responsibility for the level of care each of us brings to our lives. We may have a medical condition that needs healing but it is the way we live in each moment of our lives that is the key to the health of the body we take to the doctor. Self-responsibility is, to me, the missing piece of the medical equation.

    1. Yes, and all of that without knowing the causes of illness and disease. A tall order.

25. “Statistics inform us that a number of diseases are on the rise, with increased complications and co-morbidities. How can this be, given that we live in an era with unprecedented knowledge of the human body? There must be more to our health and the way in which we see and practise medicine.” A great point Cherise. Despite ever more money being poured into drugs and treatments today even the expected life span is reducing for the first time in ages. Why isn’t true prevention – in the form of life-style medicine being championed? Oh of course, there’s no money in it. Am I being cynical or is there some truth here?

26. Where I live in Europe there is at least one pharmacy on every second or third street. At least it feels that way because they are so common! With such numbers there must be so much demand for medications. It makes me wonder whether we are generally sicker as a race than we care to realise.

27. Such a beautiful sharing Cherise, the more we take responsibility for our own health and healing the more we reflect to humanity the possibility that there is another way to live that can support our health and well being.

    1. And that way has to be worth exploring as our current systems are sinking under the demands that are increasingly being put on them as the majority get sicker.

    2. Yes Anna, and this ‘another way’, that is, the Universal Medicine approach, along with the increasing number of people confirming with their own lives that it works, should be considered at those medical conferences. Then, the missed part of the puzzle would be complete.

28. It makes simple sense that if we have amazing medicine when it comes to the body and it’s physical and physiological aspects. Yet we keep getting sicker and increasingly so – then there is another aspect of the human being that needs medicine beyond what is currently offered. That other aspect I have found in Universal Medicine as it is medicine for the being while conventional supports the human.

29. We are not there yet but we will get there, we will discover that missing piece of the puzzle. It is funny because in some areas, we already acknowledge that quality of energy affects matter…an example of this is…You can say to someone that baking a cake when you are angry destroys the taste of the cake and many people will agree. Or maybe you can talk about how a really sweet family at the farmers’ market grows apples and I swear they taste so good because the family is so loving and most people will agree with you. These examples, even in their simplest form, are demonstrating that quality of energy affects matter.

    Taking this and applying it to medicine, will be more challenging, for it is removing our outlet to blame our environment, genetics or our circumstance for our illness and disease. What we are missing and what you are presenting in this blog, is that it is not about shifting blame from external to internal, we should not ever blame ourselves for our illness. What is being offered is the chance to lovingly review our choices and see if any of our choices may have been obstructing our natural order and flow of energy in the body, we were all born very beautiful and loving at our core, but the way we live must match this love or eventually the difference will be pushed out to heal.

30. How empowering it is to actually start taking responsibility for our life, and the way we live, when I chose to take responsibility for myself, I started to understand how society and humanity is set up to destroy itself, if we keep eating the amount of sugar that is in food, and continue to indulge in what we know is not good for us, we will be needing more doctors, and more hospitals.

31. You’ve raised some really great points Cherise, about sharing our ideas and resources but also recognising the ‘behind the scenes’ of why these were created, and whether there is an underlying overwhelm, agenda or concern that is playing out through the work. We can support each other massively with this.

32. I so love what you say in the last paragraph, Cherise – a very powerful and deeply inspiring invitation for all to consider self-responsibility as the main ingredient for the future of healthcare.

33. I would agree Cherise that there is a lot of overwhelm in the medical/health professionals at the moment and the outlook is not getting any brighter. I recently visited an ED and several times it was mentioned that if one patient requires urgent attention, then 20-30 more keep coming through the doors as they work on that patient. As this was shared, I had images of the vast battles in Lord of the Rings, where the ‘good guys’ are completely outnumbered and the opposing armies just keep coming. I think everyone agrees that this state cannot continue but vast reform and responsibility from all parties is required.

34. Now and again we see a report of a potential medical breakthrough and then we never hear of it again, as if it is being used as a carrot on a stick. Everyone knows within them that the population is getting sicker (hard to miss as those around us are also getting sicker) and that there is nothing more we would want than a cure for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, but what if the answer is not in finding a solution, and that a solution will only work as a bandaid for a short while. What if by getting to the root cause by looking at the quality of our movements in our everyday interactions with life, could prevent these diseases from occurring, and that maybe it is our current way of living in dis-ease and dis-harmony that is escalating the rate of illness in the first place.

35. The quality of how we live our everyday from what and how we eat, to how we sleep, move, exercise, work and interact with others collectively forms the most basic form of daily medicine we are blessed with and thus in turn forms the foundations and quality of our very own health and wellbeing.

36. Humanity doesn’t see medicine as a whole body experience, in other words it is not about looking at the symptoms and curing the illness but it is about looking at everything in our life, our sleep, the food we eat, our behaviours, how we speak and interact with each other, how we move, do we live with exhaustion or low grade anxiousness, the list is extensive, but these are some of the not so obvious factors that over time if not looked at contribute to our illnesses. This is where Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine comes in, they bring a deeper understanding of the body and how healing the whole body is very different to curing or managing our illnesses and diseases.

37. The medical industry if rife with solutions but it seems to want to know very little about quality and how the detail of our choices affects our health. Esoteric medicine will one day just be normal mainstream view, everyone will have to pull up their socks if we want to keep the whole system from busting.

38. It is inspirational to be able to ponder over the future of medicine should the marvels of modern medicine be combined with the wisdom and self responsibility that complementary medicine brings. The current paradigm sadly only supports humanity and the illness and disease that abounds to a degree, for it only addresses part of the puzzle and not the whole, ignoring the responsibility we have and the part we play in our own health based on the choices we make in our lives.

39. WE absolutely do deserve better health care. The EPA ( Esoteric Practitioners Association) has the highest standard of requirements for health practitioners of any organisation I know. If we could all follow such protocol we would raise the bar on our general state of health and the energy in which we can be of service to whomever is in need. It would re define “health” altogether.

40. Realising that when we see illness or dis-ease presented in our bodies, it is in fact the end result of a repetition of ill momentum, patterns or behaviours that are running us, will lead us to begin to understand how powerful healing can be when we address and arrest what ill momentums, pattern and behaviours are at play and why the being is making such choices. Otherwise what we are generally working towards managing or reducing are the symptoms alone, rather than addressing or understanding the cause. Through developing a loving and honoring relationship with our bodies and being we begin to understand the effects our choices have on our lives. As such we also begin to understand that we are the ones responsible for the state of our well-being and that the way we live our lives in fact ‘medicine’ in itself.

41. Our whole approach and experience of the medical system would be immensely enriched if what is taught by Universal Medicine is embraced, and conventional medicine and esoteric medicine worked together.

    This morning I have woke up with a painful back, so a painkiller or maybe gentle movements to ease it off would be rightly prescribed. But also through the support of Universal Medicine I know it is wise to consider my own choices that have led me here, and reflected back I can see how I pushed myself when I was exhausted at the end of the day to complete something I had decided was more important than taking care of myself, and also the lack of care in the days leading up knowing that yesterday was going to be a long day.

    Armed with this insight not only am i in a more empowered place to resolve my pain, but also it is a learning of how to not get into the same predicament in the future.

42. We all understand that many of our lifestyle choices reflect on what disease or illness we may get, how amazing would it be if we all realised that it’s every choice we make that has a bearing on illness and disease, from how we take ourselves to bed at night, to how we talk whenever we open our mouth.

    1. exactly Sally, our everyday life is either our medicine or our illness.

43. This is so inspiring and has to be the way forward ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.’ Only when we are all willing to look at how we are living and how this affects our health and wellbeing will the medical profession be free to support our healing relieved of the burden they are currently sinking under of trying to work miracles on patients who are unwilling to take responsibility for the life choices that have led to them needing medical intervention.

44. Seeking a solution without understanding all the underlying causes is only part of the diagnosis. Conventional medicine complemented by Esoteric Medicine and Universal Medicine offer the full diagnosis and health care plan.

45. ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others. Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.’ I couldn’t agree more and this is where Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine come in as they show us the way to live that very life.

46. Medicine is doing a great job and it will be even greater when it gets reunited with its origins, the treatment of the person as a whole and addressing the way we live, think and conduct ourselves. At present it can feel as though we are stubbornly making unhealthy choices, then feign ignorance and disbelief, possibly throw a tantrum when we are told we have a diagnosable condition, demand to be fixed and then go back for more of the same deleterious lifestyle choices.

47. The day humanity accepts that the way we live can be our “greatest form of medicine”, is the day that the endless surge in the numbers of illnesses and diseases will slowly begin to slow down and eventually start to decrease. How we live, including what we eat, has been proven to be the root cause of so many of these ‘lifestyle illnesses’, so then it follows that by making changes to the way we live will eventually experience changes in our health.

48. I have a huge respect for science, research and our medical systems. Yet at times I wonder how amazing it would be if we stopped limiting our sight. Often how we approach things seems like having an anxious dog that bites and we choose to muzzle it. Ok so the biting situation is sorted for the time being, but how come the dog is biting in the first place and what aspects of the dog’s life need healing and re-imprinting? Including a broader understanding of the patient’s life and considering self-responsibility makes absolute sense.

49. ‘What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?’ This is a great question because the medical profession pride themselves on finding solutions, where if you look deeper there has to be a root cause to the illness which is not part of their diagnosis. If we looked into the root cause of illness and disease we would find that many of them are a by-product of the choices we make and the way we live, if we started making different choices and living differently we might avoid getting the illness or disease in the first place.

50. Everything we think say or do impacts on our body, the trillions of cells that make up this vehicle that we drive or cruise around in. I have noticed that in general it seems that it is not cool to take care unless it is one’s children or partner and even sometimes that comes in to question, but delving more deeply we usually find that that is exactly what we want for ourselves, more care, more loving and tender care. By giving this to ourselves first and allowing ourselves to feel how supportive it is we can let go of what everyone else is doing and begin to feel ourselves more connected and more self confident in a different kind of way. A way that does not rely on recognition or acceptance from others but builds a relationship with ourselves that we can count on and that brings support when needed.

51. “Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.” For it is with inspiration and reflection that we will reconnect to our natural responsible way of being.

52. This makes perfect sense Cherise, ‘Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.’ It is our responsibility to show there is a different way to live, a way that is responsible and loving.

53. It is enormously beneficial to find the best and most supportive intervention for a patient and there is also more than the intervention to consider. A framework for medicine to consider this ‘more’ would be very beneficial.

54. It is so glaringly obvious that we must, as a species, take individual responsibility for our well-being … The overloading of the health systems of the world is simply reflecting back to us that this is, at the moment, most definitely not the case.

55. Serge Benhayon presents a true physician’s understanding of the underlying causes of illness and disease and invites us all to consider the way we live and the choices we make as our responsibility for our part in the prevention of illness and disease and thus relieve the increasing burden on the conventional medical teams.

56. “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” without a doubt in my mind, medicine can cannot continue down this path, allowing people to rely on ‘ the system’ without taking responsibility for their own health. It is a blessing that Universal Medicine is presenting the way forward out of this dilemma simply available to everyone.

57. True health and well being is ‘everything’. Every thought and movement. It is huge Cherise because we are bigger than our ‘average’ thought. We are not who we think we are.

58. Most of humanity go about their lives in ignorant ‘bliss’ and do not make the connection that they play a key role regarding their health – that how they live every moment of every day makes an impact not just in their own bodies but also spreads far and wide ‘silently’ affecting everything and everyone without exception. We all have a huge responsibility in the way we choose to live, as health and medicine are Universal.

59. This is exactly what is needed to “view the way that I live as my greatest form of medicine”, I had not considered this before Universal Medicine but without this being both known and lived we are fighting a losing battle, one where we seek medicine but choose to hurt ourselves everyday. Would we keep our hand on a hot stove whilst seeking medical treatment for the burn, or would we remove our hand and take care of ourselves? Obvious in this case but how many of us walk around angry, frustrated and in doing so affect everything about our life.

60. Just including an understanding of self care in the medical world would change the trajectory for doctors, nurses and their patients. It is terrible to realise how many doctors suicide. How much are we ready to ask if our caring system needs some care for themselves too?

61. As the ever increasing rates of illness are evident, it’s obvious conventional medicine can’t solve the problem on its own, thus the partnership with esoteric medicine along with responsible lifestyle choices is essential in reducing rates of illness and disease.

62. The opportunity to use the best of both worlds – in the combination of western medicine with esoteric healing – is something I have been taking advantage of – for which I am forever grateful. We do need to start taking responsibility for our own health, as the way disease is going, health services worldwide are becoming over-burdened. We need to start making different choices, as many students of Universal Medicine are doing – with some amazing results to the benefit of their health.

63. The medical system is overburdened and ?failing, with the ever increasing rate of illness and disease and now multi symptomatic illnesses which don’t follow the common pathway. Is it possible that we need look at healthcare from a different perspective – perhaps preventative and making each person accountable and responsible for their dis-ease, looking at lifestyle choices and selfcare as an important factor.

64. I agree with you as well that there is a feeling of overwhelm and a feeling of never fully solving the problem. As I find in my daily life as well it is when I include the factor that we are more that physical and also have an energetic part that is equally playing its role in daily life that I can make sense of certain behaviors I am choosing.

65. It is beautiful to come together as health professionals to discuss and come to an answer for the problems that we are facing. Together is the way forward for sure.

66. There is definitely a lot of sadness and, increasingly, overwhelm felt by those who work in the health system. This blog goes a long way to addressing such issues, it needn’t be hard either.

67. Understanding that the way we live is medicine is to me very beautiful. It brings true and loving purpose to everything we do, to every moment of our day and to every step we take. It is in fact common sense – common sense we have ‘talked ourselves out of’ over time, ignoring things we feel innately and dismissing our our intuitive connection with our body and our beingness in favour of ‘proven facts’. My feeling is that our scientists will one day find proof of the fact that our intuition and our real common sense is very accurate and catch up with what those in humanity who have learned to trust this sense have been saying all along.

68. Sometimes I reflect on whether we have created a society to divest ourselves of responsibility. We have medical professionals to look after our health, social workers to take care of the elderly and vulnerable, police to deal with crime, schools for education and government to build infrastructure, the economy and the bigger picture. It makes sense to have such organisations to support us with our lives but not to take responsibility for us. Surely we have to work with these professionals and look at our part in the picture rather than point fingers at them when things ‘go wrong’. I have studied ‘stress and health management’ in the past and it is very clear that there is a link between our lifestyle choices and our stress levels and hence our health. Complementary medicine has a big part to play in our wellbeing and the prevention of illness and disease. It seems to me the evolution of complementary, pro-active health and wellbeing services is a responsible step for humanity.

    1. That is true. When we support our professionals there are a lot of benefits for them, for us and for society as a whole.

69. I too felt in my years of health related training and work, the sadness of health professionals taking on the burden of lifestyle illness and not understanding how to empower people. Then through Universal Medicine I understood the power of living in a way that inspired people and have never looked back. When the care and love for people is spoken from a body that is reflecting those qualities, it makes all the difference.

70. What if our greatest responsibility in life was to step up and play our seemingly small part in the greater whole that we call life? Through understanding that how we are affects everyone and in connection to the harmony of living true to ourselves. Our part in the universe makes a difference as we can easily be contributing to the messiness we have all created or alternatively offering another more responsible way. The awesome gift with making this choice, that for those still yet to make may not yet know, is that with true responsibility comes a lightness, joy, love and a beautiful way of living that far exceeds any other way as it is full to the brim with a true purpose and sense of brotherhood (that which has been lacking) that graces one every day.

71. This is GOLD Cherise, Thank you!: “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others. Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.” It call us all to play an active and responsible part in our own health care with the realisation that every choice we make not only has an impact on ourselves but all those around us.

72. Our greatest medicine can be found in our responsibility, the kind that comes naturally to us and when chosen, allows us to keep our awareness switched on throughout all moments of life; and to live with an integrity that knows how the choices we make affect ourselves and others too.

73. Our present quality of health and wellbeing is not only being seriously compromised by the fast pace of our modern day society but it is also being exacerbated further by our past choices coming back to haunt us. We then just expect a doctor to make all our illnesses and dis-eases disappear with a swift diagnosis, followed by some magic pills and/or a miraculous treatment to correct all of these past choices. This is a feat that we all know in our hearts is impossible. How many more magic pills and miraculous treatments do we expect modern science to come up with to correct our errant ways and past lifestyle choices? Surely there a better way to use the wisdom of conventional medicine to support our health and wellbeing in this day and age?

74. Our present quality of health and wellbeing is not only seriously being compromised by the fast pace of our modern day society but it is also being exacerbated further by our past choices coming back to haunt us. Choices that in many ways we just expect a doctor to make disappear with a swift diagnosis, followed by some magic pills and/or miraculous treatment to correct all of these past choices. This is a feat that we all know in our hearts is impossible. How many more magic pills and miraculous treatments do we expect modern science to come up with to correct our errant ways and past lifestyle choices?

75. I agree Cherise – The way we live is indeed the missing link which currently does not generally come into the equation when treating illness and disease. While we remain with this approach – avoiding taking responsibility for the quality in which we live – there may be a relief of physical symptoms for a period of time, however this will never offer true healing.

76. Taking responsibility for the level of care that I offer to myself, has deepened the level of care that I offer to others. There really is no other way to bring care, responsibility and love to our communities, other than to offer it to self first.
    As you share Cherise, in time this will be understood and humanity will greatly benifit from self responsibility and an equal understanding of those we live on this planet with.

77. The healthcare systems of the world are not able to support humanity now… And it will simply become more and more of an entangled mess until the age-old understanding of medicine encompassing everything up to and including the soul is rediscovered and taken into account.

78. Yes Cherise, Conventional Medicine and complementary medicine are still far apart but a stronger relationship between them will support humanity to have true wellbeing and health
    “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others”.

79. This is a great blog Cherise and having attended Universal Medicine presentations I have also been inspired to look at the way I have lived my life. For a true reading we do need to take stock of everything – not just blood pressure and various medical tests etc but to encompass the quality of daily living without harsh criticism on ourselves.
    “With honesty and complete responsibility it would include the food that I eat but also the way in which I buy, prepare and eat such food, the way I connect to me and bring the quality that is naturally me to others, to work, the way I walk, speak, sleep, think, how I am with my body and any emotions that I hold on to …everything!”

80. As more people enter the Medical Profession with the knowledge and learning that you have had through the Teachings of Universal Medicine, as presented by Serge Benhayon, we will see big changes come about. How amazing that you were able to see the missing pieces , and just by your presence there, would have made a change occur through a new way to look at our health, through the whole body and the way we treat it, not just parts of us.
    Thank you Cherise.

81. Yes, I fully agree Marika, lifestyle choices can change everything.
    “Lifestyle medicine is by far the best medicine one can give themselves.”

82. This is such a great question Cherise: “How can this be, given that we live in an era with unprecedented knowledge of the human body?” It would be good for all of us to really stop and observe what is going on in the world. With all the technology and medical brilliance, which is amazing, still more and more people are getting ill. It is to the true benefit of us all to start to look at this honestly and see that what we are currently doing is not working. From there we can make a true change.

83. The missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle are Esoteric Medicine, and only when this is realised by the broader community will things change for the better.

84. Your expanded list of how you care for yourself Cherise, what you consider your responsibility in your health shows the fullness of everything we do having an impact on our health. It makes our health directly related to the way we live our life. Our life is our medicine.

    1. This is an extremely important point Lucy. That we are solely responsible for the way in which we live life and thus equally are we in charge of all that we experience in life and in our health. This sounds big but it’s also very natural, how could we possibly think that we could treat our bodies or live in a way that was harmful and not bear any consequences for it?

85. This blog is great in highlighting both the strengths and the limitations of conventional medicine if trying to isolate the healing of illness and disease. For many years I was puzzled that despite all of the advances in technology and medicine, our world as a whole is getting sicker not better… It didn’t make sense until I was introduced to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine which introduced the fact that everything is because of energy and therefore finally understanding that while convential medicine is there to support and still very much needed, the way we live is true medicine.

86. The future of healthcare for humanity rests solely in the care of those who understand that we are not just symptoms, we are an energetic totality, and it is only this awareness that will stem the rising tide of muti-symptomatic patients that are confounding the current health system.

87. So powerful and inspiring Cherise, I could feel in your expression the depth to which we, through our choices, can have a massive impact on the way humanity as a whole is living. As you share the picture remains incomplete if we do not consider the whole. The fact that we each are responsible for the choices we make and quality of life we lead. When we begin to see our equal role within this I feel we take a massive step forward in progressing humanity, as we move from others trying to solve our problems to us each actively being part of the solution.

88. A powerful blog stating our current trend of lack of responsibility in the areas of our health and wellbeing – our lifestyle is a huge factor in vitality levels. We’ve seen the rise of the multi-symptomatic man and the healthcare system buckling under the weight of an ill society – the whole of the human being needs to be addressed with western medicine, esoteric medicine and a huge dose of self-responsibility around self-care.

89. “without the study of a human being as a whole – with the inclusion of one’s physical body, their way of living and the knowing of the quality that each human being naturally holds – the puzzle will remain incomplete.” Every cell in my body agrees with this Cherise, and what better education or prescription could we have from our doctors, than the reflection of what it means to live one’s own medicine.

90. Yes Cherise, consider a world where each of us embraced every detail and nuance of our body. Consider a society where we communicated and viewed dis-ease not as an inconvenient interruption but a helping hand towards a more loving life. Our medical world would be transformed out of sight. We have the ability to start this change now, by choosing to accept the truth about our responsibility and honour the fact that “the way that I live as my greatest form of medicine”.

    1. This transformation is sorely needed Joseph, and it will come in due course as we continue to choose to see that the way in which we are living and the choices we make daily are not truly working.. If we are left with disharmony and illness in our bodies we are living less than the natural pull of wisdom and divine movement that our bodies are calling for.

91. Cherise, I love revisiting this blog “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.” This should be taught in every School and University.

92. My idea of the word medicine has completely changed also Cherise. My best medicine as I have learnt from the presentations of Serge Benhayon is the way I choose to live. And as you say so well, ” if I was to present to you my personal medical history it would not only state examples of current health as listed above but it must include everything and every way that I choose to live my whole life. With honesty and complete responsibility it would include the food that I eat but also the way in which I buy, prepare and eat such food, the way I connect to me and bring the quality that is naturally me to others, to work, the way I walk, speak, sleep, think, how I am with my body and any emotions that I hold on to …everything!”

93. “self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.”
    The bottom line is our health is our responsibility; i.e to live a life of healthy, vital choices coupled with working in partnership with conventional medicine where necessary.
    Self responsibility in all aspects of our life is certainly the key.
    This is a very powerful blog thank you Cherise.

94. The healing that is available to us when conventional and esoteric medicine are combined is an exceptional and responsible kind of health care. The day this is embraced by humanity will help to turn around the health care systems.

95. A case history that outlines not just the symptoms, not just the pre-disposing factors, not just the pharmaceutical regime, but the choices people have made and the energy and emotion in which they have been made…. it would be a real evolution.

    1. Absolutely Joel, that would support medicine no end – bringing in the missing factor of our choices and the energy behind them.

    2. Case studies like this need to be presented.. and until we do, until we make our big and whole picture the one to present, we are only kidding ourselves that the true ill is being exposed and healed.

96. It is very note worthy that you observed your medical colleagues to be sad and overwhelmed. Health professionals enter their work with great intentions and want to help people heal. With illness and disease so common and complex these days, it must feel like they only have bandaids to work with when major surgery is needed. I feel the overwhelm comes from having too much to treat without the full picture of the lifestyle and energetic causes, and without the full honesty and responsibility of the patients. It can feel like an uphill if the health professional tries to take on the burden of this responsibility.

97. Great article Cherise, “self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.” This is the start and with the union of conventional and complementary medicine humanity’s health problems have a chance.

    1. Dear Shelley,
       the mental health of humanity being but one of the health problems that could have a chance. On some level humanity knows the harm that is being done to bodies, by the choices that are made. Living not wanting to know, what we know is causing mental health issues to sky rocket, a terrifying statistic, if one but ponders the harm that comes with mental health issues.

98. Cherise great sharing. The many details on how we live our life is important and that contributes to healing or harming.

99. The power in your sharing Cherise is felt in your words. Your knowledge of both the medical sector and your own personal connection with the living way that Universal Medicine offers to our world is a very powerful combination. I have also a deep sense that in time the principles of Universal Medicine teachings will be a natural part of conventional medicine. For to treat the body with out first looking in to why the body is presenting with the disease it has is like trying to keep a fish out of water alive.

    1. True Leigh, it is a merry-go-round with no end or answers. In my medical workplace today we had conversations about the topics of health and cancer; what I noticed was that without the key of looking to our choices as a part of the whole process there is a huge piece of the puzzle not there and people are left shrugging their shoulders as to how they will reach an answer one day.

       1. And Cherise, that feels to me like an enormously disempowering way to live, feeling at the mercy of randomisation.

       2. Dear Cherise,
          Talking with people I often feel the helplessness in them when they are discussing their ill health or the ill health of those they love. The belief that something has been done to them and that they don’t deserve it is so very strong and leaves them no where to go. No wonder many are left shrugging their shoulders. What we are connecting to with our own commitment to ourselves and our bodies and feeling deeply how our choices impact them each and every day is definitely a conversation that needs to become more mainstream in our world today.

       3. Yes, I see it everyday too Leigh in the hospitals. People look like they are wearing blindfolds and walking into dead ends when they communicate about their physical health and share no clue as to the root cause beneath it. Everyone deserves to have access to the readings of the physical body that are presented by Serge Benhayon, so that we re-empower ourselves to read our own bodies and actually listen to them again. The blindfolds need to come off, a choice that people can make for themselves when they are ready and when they do the support will be there for them.

    2. I agree Leigh. The more we live this way ourselves and doctors feel the difference, the more they will encourage others to do the same.

100. Your last paragraph powerfully captures the future of medicine, when it will be deeply supported by humanity willing to bring awareness and responsibility to their choices, rather than to live in the recklessness most now do, just expecting medicine to fix them.

101. Thank you Cherise for your observations as a professional in conventional health care. The questions you ask are very important and we should all talk about this with whomever we encounter, both professionally as well as privately. Things will change, things are changing and you, me and a growing community of students of the Livingness are exploring and reflecting those missing pieces of the puzzle you talk about.

102. Great blog Cherise, it feels as though us expressing this missing piece of the medicine puzzle both in deed and in word is the beginning of the needed change.

103. It is a very old and wise proverb, Prevention is better than cure, and I’m sure who ever coined it was talking about the way in which we live each moment and everything we do, say, think and eat and also how we sleep, in order to keep ourselves as harmonious as humanly possible as the best prevention to illness. I’m with you Cherise, I also look forward to a time when everyone starts looking at the whole big picture to health, where everything we do is either good medicine or bad and Conventional Medicine and Complementary medicine can work side by side, hand in hand.

     1. We as students of Universal Medicine and practitioners of the esoteric modalities are living the future in this, Conventional Medicine and Complementary medicine working side by side. Much to appreciate and the ripple effects are already showing in the present.

     2. We as the students of Universal Medicine are able to show the world by case studies that the combination of western and the complementary medicine as being taught by Universal Medicine do have the outcome as we are describing. Therefore we have to make these case studies of our lives and show the world the way to go.

        1. I agree Nico, we are living proof that ‘Complementary to Medicine’ is what is needed and called for in our world. Good medicine is more than people think it is and great medicine is an entire way of living that is possible and accessible to each and every one of us when we seek it.

104. I like your last sentence, because it is not utopian, it feels real and like a prediction, what will definitely happen: “Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.” You have defined what true health care is, not to carry other peoples responsibility, (which is so common in health care professionals , with its own ill consequences for them) but living in a way that inspires and reflects what we all are. Healing by reflection and inspiration. How awesome is that, and how possible and normal…

105. The puzzle of humanity’s health and well-being does remain incomplete until what is known as “ The Ageless Wisdom”, which has really been a resource able to be accessed for many thousands of years, is incorporated into every health practitioner’s training, because until that happens, it will be like trying to pick up jellyfish on the beach, the lack of substance means that it will just keep falling through your fingers.

     1. This is true and a great analogy. The state of our health is a reflection of the whole way in which we are living as human beings, be that in disregard to the intelligence our bodies naturally hold and have always been. Tap into this Ageless Wisdom and I find that my body speaks louder than ever, I am the custodian of this body so it is simply my responsibility to listen to it in full and with openness.

     2. So very true cjames2012. Western medicine / science is very very good teaching the what, but not the why. Without the Ageless Wisdom, the puzzle of illness and disease remains incomplete, a pile of cardboard sitting on the dining table forever in the way.

        1. Whilst currently studying health at University I am noticing most often this incomplete puzzle and at the same time am learning to appreciate that I have the Ageless Wisdom inside me and can simply bring the whole picture to the table, for myself and for those around me who are open to listening. I realise how much I have reacted in the past to the incomplete picture I’ve been educated on and how this is simply what our current forms of education look like – but they won’t be this limited forever. As the Ageless Wisdom is available to all equally and due to the purpose I hold of presenting true medicine wherever possible.

106. Cherise, what you have written here needs to be in all medical and nursing courses- in fact in schools as well. It explains the total health picture including our role in self responsibility in how we live our lives as well as the conventional approach from medicine. This combination is so powerful in healing the human race.

107. “…to view the way that I live as my greatest form of medicine.”
     This is a great point you are raising here Cherise and one that makes such a difference if paid attention to and adhered to. We need to focus a lot more on this and support each other (as people) with our life-style choices. There really is no other way, as the medical system is on its limit already.

108. Cherise, I love how you share our medical history ‘must include everything and every way that I choose to live my whole life’. If we consider the fact that all our lifestyle choices accumulate- does it not become clear that the responsibility of our health and well being is our own and not just the responsibility of the already overburdened health care system?

109. Responsibility for our own action plays a huge part in our ability to truly heal our illness, there is a lot of help possible by all the doctors that are trained to look at and treat the symptoms, but as I feel there is also a big part to play by every patient that comes through the doctors doors.

110. Our health is our responsibility. For too long we have hung the responsibility on a coat rack and expected to be fixed by a system that can only take it so far, which is not far enough to facilitate complete healing. What Universal Medicine has introduced into the arena is essential and the piece of the puzzle that is missing.

     1. Absolutely Matthew through self responsibility Universal Medicine has introduced the missing piece of the puzzle. It is now up to us, the patients and the medical professionals, to let go of pride and arrogance that keeps us trapped in continually trying to make the puzzle work without all the pieces, and accept or even just consider the missing piece on offer.

111. If my doctor asked questions about how I was living, what I was eating and drinking, did I feel angry or frustrated, I would have to look at my responsibility for my own health. The wisdom, healing sessions and practical tools that I have received from Universal Medicine have improved my psychological, mental and physical well-being immensely, as well as my understanding of our responsibility with illness and disease.

     1. It would be wonderful if those questions were part of the routine survey, wouldn’t it! When I go to the doctor I am always aware of my responsibility for even having to go, and for my responsibility in my healing from that moment on. No matter what their diagnosis or remedy, I have an equal part in the healing and I think it takes a load of pressure off my doctor’s shoulders.

112. This is a very well expressed blog, about the dedication to conventional medicine, yet at the same time awareness of its limitations. Certainly we would be in a much greater mess without conventional medicine, but there seems to be a missing component as Cherise states, about why the mess in the first place that needs so much pharmaceuticals and so much need for symptomatic relieving of the suffering. We are not only taking about poverty stricken countries here, but even very wealthy ones. It is true for me as well that what Serge Benhayon has presented certainly addresses this phenomenon in our world.

     1. Conventional medicine is certainly doing a great job and is very dedicated and capable in finding cures for all symptoms people are showing but, they are reaching a point where they are not able to provide the cures anymore because the number and variety of illnesses and diseases is increasing in an explosive way.

        We need to start looking at our own behaviour and to the ways we live and nurture ourselves because this has a great influence on the illnesses and diseases we as humanity develop and has to be integrated in the total picture. Additionally we need the complementary medicine modalities as delivered by Universal Medicine and its associated practitioners which provide healing for the underlaying causes which conventional medicine is currently not able to address.

        This all together will bring a greater understanding of what health and wellbeing truly is about and will show us eventually that we for ourselves are responsible for our health and wellbeing and in order to regain and maintain that we have to change our lifestyle with the assistance of conventional and complementary medicine modalities.

113. That’s a great question to start the day with, felixschumacher8. I have no expectation of reward or recognition for my own impact in this world, I just want to serve God’s purpose for me, and feel that Serge Benhayon has helped me to re-discover the tools within me to do that.

114. However we are in the world, we leave a great impact. Each one of us. Be it the celebrity person or the homeless, the public or the private person. What kind of impact do I choose to leave behind? This is the question that I start my days with. And since I have met Serge Benhayon, I can feel the purpose behind my life. I slowly understand that each of us plays a much bigger part in the world than I had ever thought.

     1. Awsome Cherise, we do need to look at the big picture where health is concerned and firstly and foremost take the big leap into accepting responsibility for ourselves and everything we do, no matter how small. At a recent healing course with Universal Medicine, I was able to feel, nominate and heal something that I have been carrying arround since I was four. This is part of an all-over wellbeing that your local GP would not discover in a million years, but is as important as seeing him/her regularly to make sure everything else is in order.

        1. That in itself sounds like a miracle kevmchardy and yet that is the normality we are experiencing and heading to more of.. Universal Medicine, complementary to Medicine.

        2. This is huge kevmchardy and an example of the depth of quality of health care that will become the norm in the future. How long in the future depends on how willing we are to take that self responsibility step.

     2. I agree felixschumacher8, we leave an imprint wherever and however we are. It’s actually a beautiful thing to feel and to know.

        1. Yes it is a beautiful thing to feel and know! Because it gives us the opportunity to feel how grand and amazing we are and with that all we do does really have an impact on everyone. It gives us the opportunity to then choose to live according to this grandness and it starts with truly loving and caring for ourselves.

     3. To fully take responsibility in a way as Cherise and Felix present is our way forward. The world is a long way from being open and embracing this way of living, but by expressing as we are and living and honouring this way in our livingness, we provide the ground swell and foundation on which to reflect and bring change. We are part of something incredibly grand.

        1. We are a part of changing history and this is something grand and amazing! For many see that the world needs to change, but most do not look to themselves and their own self-choices to support the change. Most look outside to seek issues’ roots in another, community or government but lack true responsibility of their own part in the one big picture.

     4. I love the way you start your day felixshumacher8. Imagine if we all did that, if we asked ourselves “what kind of impact do I choose to leave behind today?” how magically the terrible strife humanity is in could turn around.

     5. What a great question to ask ourselves each day. It would certainly ensure a level of loving responsibility.

115. “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” – a great question, Cherise. When so many are suffering exhaustion and there are so many substances/products/services available to counter the symptoms, it wouldn’t be that easy for a person to start seeing the way they live as medicine. For me, it only started to make sense when I encountered Universal Medicine and started understanding that everything is energy and it affects everything, and I have seen many who have taken that step and transformed their lives.

     1. I totally agree Fumiyo, until I understood the concept that “Everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy”-stated by Serge Benhayon, I relied on the medical profession with the “fix it” attitude.
        They were responsible for diagnosing illnesses and disease and finding a cure. This belief didn’t allow me to take responsibility for the quality I was living my life and the choices I made.
        This I feel is the missing link in medicine.

     2. I agree Fumiyo, it wasn’t till I came across Universal Medicine that I understood the concept that Life is Medicine and that the way we live is either good medicine or bad medicine. What an amazing opportunity that is.

116. I feel true self responsibility is a missing ingredient in discussions about health care in mainstream approaches to health. Yes, it is given lip service, but not in its true meaning. Many people would likely reject the messages, preferring someone else to ‘fix’ things for them. However if it was consistently raised in its entirety, then I feel bit by bit people would come to have a fuller understanding of their health, wellbeing and healing and change would occur. We clearly have someway to go before this will be the norm but at least, thanks to blogs like yours Cherise, discussions are happening.

117. Cherise what a transformation we would experience in our healthcare system and in our own individual health if we did indeed truly be honest with how we are living in each aspect of our life. From the way we sleep, shower, dress to not only the food we eat but the way we prepare the food and more so the thoughts that we often choose to run with. As Universal Medicine has shared, true medicine starts firstly with the energy you are living in and thereafter the choices you make in the simplest of activities, such as opening the door or making a cup of tea, to the way we speak with another person or look in the mirror.

118. I love this “Although the ability to diagnose and manage the immediate symptoms could be made, the puzzle still felt incomplete.” Once you open your eyes and heart to the fact of energy, you realise that energy has to be factored in everywhere. Otherwise it does not just feel incomplete, it is incomplete.

119. ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.’ This sentence is gold Cherise.

120. Imagine we as a society would choose to live in taking more responsibility for oneself- what a huge change this would make for our health system concerning the numbers of illness and disease, the numbers of visits at doctors or hospitals.

121. Yes imagine a case study that really did include everything! We are missing a big piece in the medicine puzzle and that piece is the taking responsibility for how we are living every day and in every way.

122. Life is about the whole life not just a part, just as we cannot take one arm in isolation we cannot separate everything we live from the total sum of our well-being. Very well laid out article and I whole-heartedly agree.

123. In knowing what I do now – thanks to the awareness Universal Medicine has offered me, I can say that the way I live is the greatest form of medicine. From the way I put myself to bed, the way I walk to work, the way I speak to people, my choice to not let things stress me out.
     If the most chronic diseases are lifestyle related, and self inflicted (obesity is now more life threatening than malaria) then I have a responsibility and a choice to ensure my lifestyle is in such a way that supports me and does not harm me.

124. Well said Cherise, we have a medical industry across the world that is based on solutions, and not adressing where we went wrong in the first place. When a doctor asks a person if they smoke or drink alcohol, they should also ask whether they get angry, frustrated, sad or don’t know how to cope with life. Life is not a moment that we arrive at, it is the moment we are in whilst the next moment arrives.

     1. So true Harry, we are so often seeking solutions in this moment because we have not been fully present to moments in life in the past.

     2. I agree Harry we are good at asking a list of lifestyle factors in our medical examinations but perhaps not so good at asking that all important question why? We can observe our human behaviours and study them and even try to mend the outcome of those behaviours but unless we really understand what is driving those behaviours we will be forever merely scratching the surface when it comes to healing illness and disease.

125. “Even as I write this I feel the enormity of what ‘everything’ actually means.” When I read this I could feel this too Cherise. To consider everything to be contributing to my health and wellbeing feels huge but it also feel very honest and makes the puzzle complete. Thank you for writing this, it is indeed our future!

126. Cherise despite the current state of illness and disease worldwide I have a deep trust that we shall all return to a natural level of wellness. I feel that life is forever gently guiding us towards that wellness, whether or not we currently choose to take heed or not. Eventually over time we shall all get there. It does not feel that life is in a hurry.

127. Thank you Cherise for sharing your experience at the medical conference. I feel very much like you that there is something missing in conventional medicine, it looks like we are advancing in medicine with all the new equipment and improved diagnosis, but really nothing has changed and if anything it is getting worse. At present our health services are buckling under the weight of our irresponsibility of how we live and care for ourselves. I wonder how much more our health services can carry on, as the financial burden is becoming impossible to manage. This could all change with the bringing together of Universal Medicine and conventional medicine for they go hand in hand, this is the missing link and when they come together this will change the way humanity looks at illness and disease.

128. So well presented Cherise! I nominate you to be up there at the next symposium presenting all that you have re-learnt and re-connected to, which would undoubtedly inspire everyone in attendance.

129. Beautifully said Cherise. “In the past few years I have been deeply inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon on the subject of medicine and have since begun to view the way that I live as my greatest form of medicine.” The truth that everything is everything and that you cannot leave anything out when understanding why we are suffering any illness or disease.

130. “What will be the future of our health in our humanity?” We still have lots to learn in how we connect to ourselves, to God and to the rest of the world.

131. Thanks Cherise, well said.

     And yes I whole heartedly agree with what beauty lies there awaiting… For the eventual amalgamation of “conventional” medicine and esoteric medicine.
     Then the actual cause of the dis-ease can be truly addressed and while this is taking place “conventional” medicine is there to support the body with the healing process that is required as a result of the untrue and damaging if not irresponsible ways of living that we have chosen to this point.

132. It was inspiring to read your blog Cherise – it offers everyone an opportunity to take charge of their own health. This is a far more empowering approach than becoming a victim of circumstances that are seemingly beyond our control. If our children were taught this responsibility from very young, their lives would turn out to be as joy-full and play-full as a three year old – rather than ending up in old age in bad health and giving up on life.

133. Absolutely Sally, it could be only a one or two hour lecture and I have no doubt that each small child would understand the responsibility we have and can uphold that brings a supportive sense of health and wellbeing for all.

134. I wish our politicians were making statements like this “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others. Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support”. Beautifully said Cherise, thank you.

     1. Totally agree Sarah! This is what we will one day read in our health policies…Cherise, I nominate you:))

        1. Nomination accepted Sara Harris! ..Evolution is inevitable.

135. “without the study of a human being as a whole – with the inclusion of one’s physical body, their way of living and the knowing of the quality that each human being naturally holds – the puzzle will remain incomplete” – So beautifully put. And when said this way Cherise, it is so obvious that the whole picture is never complete without looking at the whole person!

136. Thank you Cherise for sharing from the inside of the medical profession and the challenges you face with the escalating rates of illness and disease. Western Medicine and Universal Medicine are complementary and can bring enormous benefits working together but the third part of the pyramid is self-responsibility as you so beautifully state: ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.’

137. It will be a turning point for Humanity’s health and vitality, when people start taking the level of responsibility for the way they live and the choices they make.

138. The way Western Medicine is currently developing is just by trying to keep up with the enormity of illnesses and diseases that occurs in our societies without considering the deeper root causes of these illnesses and diseases. Universal Medicine has the answers to assist in healing these underlying causes and have developed modalities and support groups that assist in the healing process. A marriage of Western Medicine and Universal Medicine would be a blessing for all humanity and is intended to become so.

139. Cherise I feel that your statement about how you have come to view the way you live as your greatest form of medicine really says it all. If we all took more care for our bodies and our health, our health systems would not be groaning under the weight of the fixit mentality.

140. This is brilliant, Cherise. For me this blog points out that conventional medicine is great at treating the physical body but not the person in it. It is when the person and their body are brought together to receive treatment that true change can occur. This is why Universal Medicine therapies are complementary to medicine, as they treat the person, which filters down to the body in so many ways. There will be an explosion of true healing when these two get together to support humanity. And that is certainly something to feel joyful about!

141. I think you are right Cherise, Medicine will lead the way in bringing humanity together. Self-responsibility, integrity and true care is already leading to a more holistic approach in Western Medicine. Although it is only baby steps now and it will take a long time, I am encouraged that there are already signs.

142. The power of the last paragraph of this blog is profound Cherise. The whole blog is of course powerful but what you have delivered there really sets in stone how medicine, and we as humanity can be. It is clear every cell of your body knows medicine, what it is really about, and what is so needed for us as humanity. How awesome is it that you can lead and inspire in this every day, just by being you and the choices you make every day to live that medicine. It is a powerful reflection for all. Thank you.

143. After looking outside of myself for many years for the answers to so many of my health issues, I have finally realised, like you Cherise, that; “the way that I live is my greatest form of medicine.” No longer can I mistreat my body and simply ignore the consequences, hoping that someone else can fix me: my health and well being is my responsibility, but in times of illness or injury Western Medicine is there offering many forms of support for me, and then this amazing support is complemented in full by the wisdom of Esoteric Medicine, as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. What a truly powerful and unifying team to support me through any time of healing.

144. ‘With honesty and complete responsibility it would include the food that I eat but also the way in which I buy, prepare and eat such food, the way I connect to me and bring the quality that is naturally me to others, to work, the way I walk, speak, sleep, think, how I am with my body and any emotions that I hold on to …everything!’ When we are prepared to be honest and feel the impact that everything has in our daily life on our body we would not have so many illness and diseases as we have now because as you say every thing is medicine.

145. Once again we come back to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine concerning the way we live our lives and taking responsibility for this.
     The need for each of us to self nurture and Love Ourselves that then goes out to the wider community. Thank you Cherise for a great blog.

146. Great points made here Cherise and it got me thinking, what if all the variability that plagues modern medicine and medical research was there because of the missing piece of actually looking at how that person lives every day? Perhaps if we actually considered the whole person and their lifestyle the variance in how people respond or do not respond would be easily explained?

     1. Absolutely Andrew and the fact that patients often do not follow the recommended actions. I have a friend with a heart problem and her consultant said that she was the first patient he had had who had followed his suggestions on, for example, amount of exercise to the letter and seen a marked improvement. She was willing to tale responsibility for what she could change in her daily routine and work with the medical profession whereas so many appear to give up and hand their body over and wait for someone else to fix it.

147. The teachings of Universal Medicine have changed my life and will continue to, so far as I take full responsibility for everything I do. As you said Cherise, every loving choice bring us nearer to optimum health, although I may still need conventional medicine.

148. “The way that I live is my greatest form of medicine.” Thank you Cherise and to Universal Medicine for showing many people the way to a vitally rich life for humanity. If we so choose.

149. This is so true Cherise, “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity where self-responsibility shape an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others”. The combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is the way that true healing can occur.

     1. Yes this is an excellent quote from her article and sums it up well, we need the combined approach to truely move forward.

150. Students of UM, we are Living examples of the future of medicine.

     1. I agree, the combination of conventional and esoteric Medicine is pure magic and liberates not only the patient, but the medical professional and the healthcare system as well, and in time that will be fully known and practised.

        1. Well said Gabriele, it is liberating and in many ways is returning to what we already knew, ancient wisdom complemented with science and medicine – awesome combination.

151. Cherise, that was beautiful to read the end of your blog and feel humanities potential, and where we will inevitably end up. It is easy to get caught in how it is with our health and not where we are going. When we finally see our missing link to health it will change the medical world.

152. I can really understand what you are presenting Cherise, and how our way of living, alongside our choice to bring the fullness of ourselves to life has a direct influence on our health. For me the joy of living me in full connection, healing past hurts with Universal medicine modalities (so life can feel light and joyful), being conscious of my daily choices and whether they support or harm my body etc, all add up to a way of living that is health-full. For me healing stored hurts and issues like low self worth has a direct effect on choices, for example with food and exercise, which influence health outcomes. For me I was able to deepen the responsibility I could take for myself with the Universal Medicine modalities because they actually work. Prior to this I tried many things to heal my issues but couldn’t get very far because they either didn’t work or only gave temporary relief. For me the marriage of Esoteric Medicine and conventional medicine really does work.

153. Yes, this is definitely our way forward. Universal Medicine, the missing key, and you Cherise, your reflection and your level of accountability, responsibility and self love is there to revolutionize (change) the Medical Industry, you are sure to be presenting on the stage of those symposiums very soon.

154. Thank you Cherise, for your blog, I too feel that there is a missing piece in the puzzle when taking medical/nursing history, as with everything, there is often a series or chain of events that ultimately result in an outcome. So it makes sense to me too, that the way we live must have a part to play in the end result of our physical health.

155. This is a vast topic you have touched on Cherise and I think you are right. Medicine in the future will have to be more holistic. As most of the illnesses are lifestyle related they cannot be cured without a change in lifestyle that includes diet, sleep, exercise and emotional issues. Universal Medicine is clearly leading the way here.

156. “the simplicity of true support” this is the essence of true medicine and it is a concern that this is so readily over looked in the strive and drive for medical breakthroughs and all the solution seeking that comes with the medical ‘industry’. It is so essential to look at how we got to where we at health wise in the first place, where we went astray and lovingly support ourselves to come back to living a true and vital life. Thanks Cherise and thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for lighting the way home.

157. A great article Cherise and I agree that is paramount that we begin to consider and observe the effects of the way we are living and why dis-ease is on the rise in our society. We need to be open to the possibility that there is more to us than what is physically in front of us at that moment. That everything we do, all of our experiences and how respond, everything we eat, basically how we live and why we live this way passes through our bodies.
     The Universal Medicine presents the opportunity to develop this awareness, to take responsibility for the choices we make on a daily basis to support our true well-being. That the way we live is our medicine. I have found this way to be very honouring and supportive and I have found that my health, well-being and vitality have improved immensely. I have healed some chronic and reoccurring ailments with the support of Esoteric medicine and Western medicine and now have a quality of life that is more loving and connected to who I truly and naturally am.
     It was only when I was introduced to Esoteric medicine that a real understanding of my ailments and true healing began. Western medicine is a mighty modality – however there is something missing, as we as a society are not improving our health and well-being. Esoteric medicine is complementary to Western medicine and I believe that marriage of the both is our way forth for a truly powerful union for preventative healthcare and healing.

158. It is sad to see so much ill health and so much desperation and overwhelm in our health professionals. Perhaps we are so far from the truth of how to have health and wellbeing that we need to be brought to a standstill by our bodies.

159. Cherise a truly profound reflection on the missing piece of the puzzle dealing with illness and disease. I have found what you have shared about how we live and care for ourselves as the way forward in improving my own health and wellbeing. This has come about from all the support I have gained from the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

     1. I will add my support to that too Sharon.

160. What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present is precisely that: ‘universal’ ‘medicine’. Not a solution, but tools for empowering each person to take into their own hands the responsibility for their healing, by considering how it is that we live and how the choices that we make affect our health, vitality and wellbeing.
     ‘Universal’ ‘Medicine’ works alongside Western Medicine to heal the whole. Both are equal partners, one addresses the symptoms and helps us to manage these symptoms, the other addresses the root cause of the ill in the first place.

     1. Thank you Donna and Cherise, standing up for the way of the livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon is the way forward for humanity, because we have lost our true sense of identity and divinity.

     2. Well said Donna…couldn’t agree more!

161. With lifestyle illness taking over as the number one killer in the world, it is great to read here from a health professional about the importance of taking medicine into daily life and considering all the choices we make. For example, why indulge in food that weighs us down or makes our bodies racy or numb – food which has no or very little nutritional value? Understanding why we choose this can be part of medicine.

     1. It’s a paramount part of medicine Simon, during a research conference recently I found it interesting to hear that the majority of sought ‘answers’ in medicine come from surgery and diets ..with the look into lifestyle trailing lowly behind. This tells us an important piece of information about where we are at as people, and how far away we have stepped from wanting to see how the way we live affects us and our bodies.

162. The potential that the union of what Western Medicine and Universal Medicine together can offer is beyond measure in the healing of us all, if we are also willing to play our part in taking responsibility for the way we are living in everything we do.

     1. That is well put Deidre. Medicine includes so much than what we get seeing a regular doctor. Medicine is also the way we live life, our choices our relationships the way we work and so on and so on. Everything is medicine.

163. You see and hear of many young people out on the town, ‘living it up”- to then end up in the emergency dept. needing their stomachs to be washed out , drugs to be given to antidote what they have done to themselves, sutured from brawls they have been involved in – the list goes on, only to reoffend and abuse their bodies once again the following weekend, and then need to be patched up again by the medicos.
     No responsibility is taken from the patient/ victim. This needs to change, with an already overburdened health system.
     If we were all made accountable for our lives in “everything” we did as you Cherise have beautifully described how different would that be? Definitely good medicine.

     1. I agree Loretta. In the UK we have a free health care system, in some countries it is covered by insurance, but somewhere along the line health has become something that for many, is ‘fixed’ by the medical profession so that they can continue their lives without changing the way they abuse their bodies. Perhaps now, with the health systems so overburdened, people will begin to wake up to the responsibility for their own health.

164. I can only hope to inspire the people around me to start to feel their bodies and honestly acknowledge that maybe it’s time to not always look for answers outside of themselves or quick fixes and take responsibility for choices they make.

     1. And the way we can do this Christine, is to live such a way for and with ourselves first.

165. For a period of about 8 years, I refused to see any Doctors or take any medications, and at the same time took very little responsibility for the way I lived – what I ate, my stress & level of overwhelm. I also declared myself ‘healthy’ because I didn’t have any major illness or disease – my irritable bowel, hay fever, anaemia, asthma, obesity and chronic pain didn’t count, I considered those part of normal life. I then heard presentations by Serge Benhayon, discussing how the best medicine was self-care in every part of my life, including seeking support from a Medical Doctor when necessary. 15 years on I am healthier than ever before – I take full responsibility for my health, appreciate any symptoms that come up because they give me an opportunity to look at how I have been living, and am extremely grateful for modern medicine and the support that it can provide. What Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon present is the missing key for Doctors, nurses and patients alike.

     1. Isn’t it interesting Carmin, that we can call ourselves ‘healthy’ and yet have discomforts, pains or ailments that do not feel this way .. I would have to say too that it’s important to look at our words and what ‘healthy’ means for us, because most times it comes with a comparison to others, comparison to how we have felt when we’ve been ‘really unwell’ or from a point of looking at the society scale of what is healthy. But when we consider our whole and overall health to be exactly that – whole and all encompassing from every angle – it’s interesting to gauge a new marker of what feeling healthy can truly look like.

166. Having just presented a professional development one-day course to healthcare professionals in the UK yesterday, the overwhelming chorus from the staff is, that we just put down our heads and work, there is no time to anything else. The momentum of this from management down is very strong and has become an institution so to speak. But what was amazing was that in such a short time staff were inspired, with a combination of gentle breath, conscious presence, and listening with their tuned in bodies, to understand that it was possible to both look after others and to look after oneself as well. This was inspiring to see and to feel.

     1. Thanks for sharing cjames, I know that from my own experience in healthcare, once I felt this potential and possibility for myself there was no going back. It is absolutely possible to both take care of ourselves and others and I am living proof of this within my own nursing profession.

167. I had never really considered that the medicial system and the professionals within it were taking on the responsibility of another’s health until I read another blog by a GP the other day and now your blog Cherise. It seems kind of crazy that this is happening but so true. How could anyone possibility take responsibility for another’s choices? It just has to inevitably come back to self care and self responsibility, there really is no other way!

     1. This is so true Suzanne, and I can attest to the fact that taking self responsibility for my health and life as a whole, absolutely works for me.

        It is not the burdensome form of responsibility, but rather a joy-full and rewarding ability to be in complete control and understanding of my life.

168. The Healthcare is something very important, but as you very well explain there is quite a lot missing from where we think we have to heal. I can feel how important the self responsibility is in this part. We are all responsible, and can always find assistance in the amazing healthcare there is, but we have to always take our way of living into account.

169. I am struck by the burden placed on health professionals to cure, fix, look for solutions for complex health conditions, balance both the treatment and risks, the cost of healthcare and much more. In some ways the system has been set up so the health professional is educated to be responsible for their patient’s health and rightly so – if you are going to prescribe powerful drugs and handle a scalpel, there is a large amount of responsibility to take for the well-being of another person. The problem with this is the reinterpretation conveniently taken by many patients – that the health professional is point blank responsible for their health. Health professionals do truly want to help with their patient’s healing, and as Cherise wrote are both saddened and overwhelmed by the current circumstances. The failing medical system should not rest as a burden on the shoulders of medical professionals, the system is due to look at the whole person and a large portion of responsibility handed back to the patient. It is a massive shift for the medical system and it is all encompassing, more than educating the community on lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise. Take for example exercise; there is no shortage of research demonstrating the positive impact regular exercise has on health – everyone knows this or has at least heard ‘exercise is good for your health’ but there is a huge gap between health education and compliance. The same can be said for dietary advice. So there is much to explore than just improving medicine and preventative ‘should do’s’. Cherise has touched on the significance of medicine is everything and everything is medicine, as pioneered by Serge Benhayon and expanded upon in his online audios. Thank you Cherise for a brilliant post and the love and wisdom you bring to health care.

170. Cherise I really enjoyed reading this and can so relate to what you are saying. As a nurse working in the community with older people, I am increasingly seeing people with so many medical problems and -such complicated medical and social issues. Of course Serge Benhayon predicted this many years ago – the multi symptomatic man. I feel that it is going to reach a peak where the medical profession will no longer be able to cope – the budgets are stretched already and people in need are not getting their needs met. Then we will be forced to look at other ways of being and other reasons for our health issues. Only then will we begin to take responsibility for our health and start to really feel that the way we live is our true medicine and not what comes out of a bottle, from a scalpel blade, or from a heath provider or organisation. A different way of viewing health is now being reflected by many Unimed students and in what Serge is presenting. We are on the way!

171. Thank you for sharing your inspiring blog. How exciting is it that it is not just left up to chance, bad luck or genetics.

172. Yes indeed Cherise the blending of conventional medicine with self responsibility and a greater understanding that the body is governed by more than just physiology will surely be great medicine for humanity.

173. I also can feel the grand opportunity and immense joy when I ponder on our future knowing that we are blessed with people like yourself within the medical profession. Thank you Cherise for your brilliant article.

174. Thank you Cherise, it is lovely to see a modern health care worker making reference to such an age old proposition, in that one must truly look at the whole picture for anything other than symptomatic healing to take place.
     This is where Universal Medicine is such a shining light in the healthcare and self-care industries, in that it really augments what modern medicine can offer, and complements that with ongoing and all embracing courses on self-care and self-responsibility that really do provide complementary medicine that is essential in today’s society

175. This is an amazing blog from within the medical field Cherise, and is written in a way that is so loving that one couldn’t help want to understand more about what you offer here. I would be looking to write for a medical journal of some description – this is exactly what people need to read. Revelatory.

     1. Thank you Jo, I agree this would be a new way of understanding medicine as a whole for many, many people working in or associated with the medical profession.

176. I did a double take when I read “We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity”. I have often been critical with people for the choices they make around health. With lifestyle illness being the greatest killer on the planet, I wonder if humanity is getting what it deserves. Yet what the above statement offers is a different viewpoint and I appreciate this. It shows a great level of love for humanity and seeing people as they truly are, soulful beings who do deserve to be presented with a true choice and not merely another quick fix remedy or symptomatic relief. I will continue to reflect on this and how this is the loving impulse behind the offerings of Universal Medicine practitioners. It is not mere words.

     1. Thank you Simon, for bringing a new depth of pondering and philosophy to these ‘words’. I can feel more appreciation of what we are being shown through our illness in the body, and that we deserve a healthcare system that provides a lot of support for us during this time and how this is vastly different to what we can think we deserve when we settle for less than a deep sense of care; and how we can carry a shame or a guilt for our past choices (or even judgement on another for theirs) and think we deserve whatever level of care we are given — when actually, I can see that the illness is coming from a place of love as the body is aiming to discard illness and the disregard it’s been living with (making space for more love to be lived). So if love is behind it all, is it that we deserve more of what is loving – integrity, support and care, from ourselves and our system?

177. Cherise, I agree that the presentations by Serge Benhayon are an important piece of the medicine puzzle. What a great joy it is when you know that the puzzle you are working on has all the pieces and it is up to me and my choices to put it all together.

     1. So well said Karen, “What a great joy it is when you know that the puzzle you are working on has all the pieces and it is up to me and my choices to put it all together”. This feels like a fundamental truth to me and in fact an inescapable responsibility if we want to truly heal from our illnesses and disease processes.

178. Love this informative post Cherise, and yes agree – our choices are both the creator and healer of our health, and found in the way we live life they are our best medicine.

179. You’re right Cherise for posing the question. What if medicine was not just the solution to all our ill health?. Universal Medicine is showing us how we can have a healthier and more fulfilling life through nurturing lifestyle choices.

180. Well, thank the heavens Cherise Holt is in the medical profession.

     1. A thousand times over AGREED Luke!

        You’re a blessing and a star in true healing for humanity Cherise, keep shining bright and thank you for your ever deepening sharing. With love!

181. A great article expanding what “universal medicine” is truly about, the missing link in conventional medicine so that health can become consistent, which can lead to wellbeing which can then expand into harmony and joy. Universal Medicine has shown us that medicine is not just about not being sick, it is about living our complete potential.

182. It is such an important point you make Cherise that unless we look at the ‘whole’ then the puzzle of health is incomplete. Having come from a complementary health background this is an acceptable concept but from my experience it remained a concept rather than a true understanding. It was not until I met the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon have I felt that this concept is practiced in full.

183. It is so true that illness is often looked at from the perspective of finding solutions, yet there often isn’t time taken to gather a full picture of the way a person has been living and to help the person link that back to what they may be experiencing. In our current health care world, where cost is a major consideration, there is also a lot of focus on ‘throughput’, meaning how quickly you can get a person in and out of the ‘system’. The quicker, the more successful ie cost effective, the treatment is thought to be. It is sad to see this happening because people don’t get the opportunity to realise what is perhaps really going on and therefore, the possibility of choice to make changes. They often rebound through the health system as their symptoms continue and they return for further treatment. It is also overwhelming for health care professionals, as the demands in health care are ever rising.

     1. I agree Here Helen, there is a sense that when priorities are made about the system and finances ahead of (and instead of equally so with) people – there are consequences and missed opportunities of healing all ’round.

184. This is a great opening Cherise, to expand and discuss the relationship of the way a person lives with themselves and its influence on their medical health. This also encouraged one to ponder on the possibility of a link between hereditary diseases, and the similar behaviors or traits that follow suit between each generation within a family.

185. Great blog Cherise, What you have presented here is so true. I thought you mentioning the missing pieces in the puzzle was a great example. Our medical system is struggling and the way we have been viewing illness and diseases from a limited point is overloading it even more. To educate people about preventions and ways to increase health and vitality is the key to reducing illnesses and diseases. To look at what is not working for us and make changes. To practice self-love, self-care, take responsibility, become more aware and listen to our body.

186. Thank you for sharing, Cherise.

187. As I reflect on what is being said, I find myself considering the lives and lifestyles of those around me and know that what is being said is true. When illness strikes people often look for something to blame – working too hard, too many expectations, they have come in contact with something viral or maybe they have been in an accident. Many of these may be true in part but there is not the consideration that they may have played a part in this illness happening to them.
     To consider how I have chosen to be with me, to walk, to talk, the food I choose to put in my body and how I have bought and prepared it, and the impact of all of this on my wellbeing is so empowering. I am choosing to do this in my life. I have not always lived this way but the changes are amazing.
     To have this promoted and supported by our Medical Authorities would be life changing for our health system, humanity and our earth. By attending these gatherings Cherise you are bringing a taste of that – you are living the truth we hope to see.

188. You’ve raised some great points Cherise, the first for me being appreciation for the many dedicated folks supporting humanity who need medical care, and the greater responsibility we must all become aware of in how we are living and how our daily choices impact our health. People can still see disease as very mysterious, and “luck of the draw”, however every choice we make for ourselves matters. Continuing this conversation on what’s missing in how we view illness and disease is very important.

189. I think I’ve read this blog three times so far and I continue to feel the enormity of what it is you share Cherise.
     “…conventional medicine and complementary medicine predominantly appear worlds apart, correspondingly I feel the grand opportunity and immense joy when I ponder on our future…”
     i imagine a day when for everybody, it is normal to wonder why a disease or illness has taken hold, not just how to fix it. In that wonderment, I see doctors, nurses, scientists, practitioners from all fields, hairdressers, shopkeepers, plumbers and woodworkers (list is endless) all working together in a way where we all feel we have a part to play in the health of our neighbour/member of humanity. No one gets left out and the puzzle is complete. I will continue to share this blog around, so everyone gets to ponder on this opportunity.

190. Brilliant blog which is a pleasure to reread. You raise so many interesting points here concerning medicine and life and a great question to ask “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” How simple and inspiring to consider that we can support our own health through the way that we live and that way can be medicine itself.

191. If the medical community could embrace the way in which we live as a part of our medical assessment alongside the physical assessment which diagnoses and treats our illness we would have a true indicator of a persons state of health and wellness, illness or disease. Acknowledging that the way in which we live can harm or heal our bodies, also acknowledges the way we live as part of our medicine towards true health and vitality.

192. Thanks Cherise awesome blog and with people like yourself inside the medical system in the midst of this reawakening of what is true medicine , the future is very bright.

193. Thank you for sharing that the way we live is our greatest medicine Cherise. As you said, the enormity of everything was still becoming clear while you were writing this blog, so too was it becoming clearer as I read it. The way we are in every moment and in everything we do has an affect on our health. Every aspect of our “livingness” is significant. This brings a whole new level of responsibility.

194. Cherise I really enjoyed this the enormity of health meaning not just your current health but that “it must include everything and every way that I choose to live my whole life” is certainly a completely different view to the way health is perceived. Every choice is medicine. It’s something that is bringing me more awareness the more I ponder on it.

     1. Yes and this responsibility is far too big for many including myself at times especially when I am in the home doing housework. It is a great reminder ‘everything’ even though it stirs a little uneasiness in me!

     2. It’s true David and Caroline that there is always more and deeper to go with it for ourselves, and as we come to appreciate that medicine is every choice we make which affects ourselves, medicine is also each choice that (in a world which is a sea of energy) equally affects all others too – bringing our responsibility to a greater awareness and understanding which when exercised, is not a burden but a true support for ourselves and everyone. When others are living responsibly we can feel held in a way that allows us to just be ourselves.

195. Great ponderings Cherise. I too can feel the overwhelm of these systems that are at best trying to cope!
     When I come back to me though, I know without a doubt the answer to be self-responsibility…and although as yet our numbers may be small (in relation to all of humanity) there is a constant growing in both the numbers, as well as the depth of what that truly means. As you wrote, self-responsibility must include everything and every-way that we live!

     1. And the numbers will grow as more people choose to live with self-responsibility, because (as it was for me) when we see others living this way and making choices that are actually more simple and are taking stock of our lives we make such big changes that are undeniably inspiring to see.

196. Thanks Cherise for your insights and wisdom on the topic of healthcare.
     It seem ludicrous that in a lot of cases we only want to look at the symptom and not the cause. I feel it’s the sneaky or dark side of us that chooses to be irresponsible rather than honest, to be able to look deeper into the way we live and do things that keep us lost in looking for quick fixes/ solutions. In my own life I have found only when I was honest enough to see and then nominate what was true or not, did I have the ability to change, make peace with or begin to heal.
     I also find the mapping process very empowering at breaking down negative patterns of behaviour that have effects on my wellbeing and health.

197. Wow what a way of looking at the big picture of health and the missing piece of the puzzle… the consideration of how we live every part of our lives, not just the usual questions, of do we smoke, drink alcohol or exercise. Thank you Cherise

198. I feel it is important, as a student of my own life, to communicate this to any medical professional I meet so that the way opens much more to an harmonious relationship between what Universal Medicine teaches us about our own responsibilities for our health and the expertise and support of Conventional Medicine. To come together in an understanding of both and work this way would be returning medicine to its origins when it meant treating the whole body and the way of life.

199. Such wise words Cherise and I love the part where you say “We deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others”.

200. Awesome blog, thank you Cherise. I too am a student of my own life and have developed more responsibility in the everyday choices that I make. This has had a very positive effect on my health and I now feel how looking after my body is an investment worth making.

201. Cherise, thank you for a great blog, and thanks to Universal Medicine, the missing piece in the puzzle; the puzzle can now be so much more complete.

202. With health care practitioners like yourself, there is very good reason to feel that there are grand opportunities ahead.
     The “medical history’ (a record of a limited number of lifestyle factors and past disease) in its current form is useful, but it has the potential to go so much deeper, to become an active and evolving chart, managed by the patient themselves, of the hows and whys of the way we live.
     Imagine that – the medical history becomes the medicine itself, as people chart their own course through life and become their own medicine and their own science.

203. You write a remarkable article again. I do enjoy what you write Cherise and how you write. I have to agree with you that medicine is intent on pursuing the forever evading ultimate fix of our diseases without looking and observing the journey of choices and how it broke on the way. It is now normal to have epidural injections, strap up knees, consume antiinflammatory and pain analgesia to get through the day. Really, is this what we have accepted without question.

204. This is so absolutely true Cherise. Taking responsibility for our own bodies, for what we put in and what we put out is the truest form of medicine I have come across. As a student midwife I am working in the overburdened hospital system and often hear nurses saying we just don’t know why people are getting sick. I too have learned so much from Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine’s presentations on health – that health is all encompassing and very much related to our lifestyle and personal choices.

205. What a great way to look at health:
     ‘But without the study of a human being as a whole – with the inclusion of one’s physical body, their way of living and the knowing of the quality that each human being naturally holds – the puzzle will remain incomplete’

206. Having read the blog, I was just imagining going to a GP and him sitting there and looking at my medical records and asking me ‘Ok Judy you have a knee pain so what is going on in your life?’ Asking me to discuss with him with honesty how I am living rather than the normal run of questions and the offer of pain killers. Western medicine is totally great but it isn’t the whole picture and I would love to have a GP who understood both Western Medicine and Energetic Medicine as the two go hand in hand so beautifully.

207. The Universal Medicine online audio presentations do indeed reveal so much in the way we live and how we can change this, they are incredibly valuable for all; and as you say the way we live can be medicine in itself.

     1. I agree Vicky, the Universal Medicine online presentations have been a great support for me, to ponder on things myself in a different way, to ask myself questions and to inspire me to ask the questions about how medicine plays a part in my life and what do I include in my daily medicine to support and bring value to my daily life.

        1. Thank you so much Cherise for your beautifully presented and thought provoking article. I have worked in physiotherapy for 30 years and I also had that feeling something was missing from helping people live and recover from illness and injury or chronic pain. I have found like you that the way I live is either my good medicine or bad medicine depending on my choices. I share your joy in our future for a complete health care system with the marriage of conventional medicine and complementary medicine – that is the way.

208. Thank you Cherise you raise some interesting and valid points that need to be aired. The Health Service is seriously under a lot of strain and unless we, humanity, start to take responsibility for our own health and the Medical professions see that illness and disease is about the whole body and not individual parts that need to be fixed, then we can maybe start to change something that is not only not working, but it is getting worse, with more and more complicated illnesses coming to the fore. Trying to fix things may look good on the surface but long term it is not working and is putting an inordinate amount of pressure on a struggling Health Service especially all the doctors and nurses.

209. I agree Tim. And we need to incorporate this responsibility into the lives of each one of us. Somewhere along the line the so called advanced societies have come to think that they can do whatever they like, and if it goes wrong ‘someone’ will fix it. ‘Someone’ is ourselves.

210. You pose a great question, “What if medicine was not just the solution to our ill health?” What if it is more than taking a pill when we get sick. Universal Medicine has presented a whole new way at looking at this topic and it has revolutionised my awareness of medicine completely. I now understand that their is a link between the way I live and the choices I make daily. With this awareness my ability to discern the ever increasing effects of finer choices materialises. From the way I walk and move my body to choices around food and how I react emotionally to situations. This the best medicine that I can prescribe myself. I feel the vitality and my health vastly improve by being on it.

211. Awesome blog Cherise, what you say here is very profound. When you really stop to think what ‘Everything’ truly means it can be quite daunting. Everything really does mean everything. If we don’t give the full picture, it is not possible to get the full answer. I agree when you say ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.’ Yes, we do deserve it but I feel the integrity will only be there once we start to take full responsibility for our lives and not rely on an already overburdened health system to fix us. We need to start to look at every aspect of our lives and be totally honest about what does and does not truly support us.

     1. I agree Tim, beautifully expressed. It does make complete sense to me that any change to our health system on the grand scale will come from our very own responsibility and choices to truly take care of ourselves. I am super appreciative to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for inspiring me to make such choices for my self so that I can begin to share this within my health profession and inspire the future system to make new choices to support us all even more.

212. Is it possible that medicine could become an every day way of being and that by simply being honest when we’re asked “how are you?”, actually stopping and considering this question… then when we ask another the same, listening to what they say… Can we begin to support each other and not just push on through the daily grind until we have to visit the doctor with a serious health condition, something that could possibly have been avoided with a little more care for ourselves? We see more and more medicine can literally work miracles and yet are more and more unable to truly give people back a life of vitality, that can only come from within each one of us and from our choice to be more honest, responsible and loving with ourselves.

     1. Awesome questions to ponder on, thank you Laura. I can relate to answering ‘how are you?’ with a quick reply that wants another to see that I am doing better than I really am or likewise, am not feeling as amazing as I may be. My feeling is that there is a lot of measuring that can take place with this question, already based on what I may want or think another needs to hear – when I may have just missed a great opportunity to share a real sense of honesty from my body and in-turn, as you share, an opportunity to stop and really hear another. This later way of being in relationship with another brings more of an openness and a place for growth and understanding together.. More of this I say.

     2. Could truly preventative health care be as simple, and difficult, as to honestly answer how we are? How is our daily way of living? What is the quality of our being that we bring to every situation and interaction?

        1. Honesty and self-care are indeed the best form of preventative medicine for humanity and Universal Medicine is spreading this awareness among all of us.

213. Just to addd Jane, I find it interesting how a part of the puzzle that’s missing in the one right in front of us – self responsibility in how we live. With this in place we have the opportunity to see the bigger picture more clearly.

214. There is a lot in this blog to read and re-read I feel. If the way we are living was natural why would we break down so much? When we bring it down to basics surely the way we live impacts on our health. If I feel stressed my breathing rate increases and my chest feels tight just to name a few examples. If I live in a state of stress everyday my body lives in a state of rapid breathing and a tight chest. Maintaining that for a long while taxes the body and eventually as I have experienced it breaks down – exhaustion, illness and disease in many forms. Ithe way we are living was natural why would we break down so much? Yet it all comes back to my choices and the way I live.

215. A beautiful and grand blog, it felt expansive to read. Thank you. I have reconnected with my love of science and the human body through my connection with Universal Medicine it has been truly inspiring. I really appreciated what you brought up in the blog about how medicine is currently a solution to conditions that arise rather than a way of living. It is incredible and yet so beautifully simple, how the body responds to being cared for and often can do everything it needs to, to maintain health and vital if we do not submerge and over load it with toxins and stress. Thank you.

216. As I re-read this amazing article from you Cherise what you said about case studies are the best bit in the conference applies to me too. I love real true stories as it holds my attention. Imagine this way of bringing Truth to the world – We get to learn and understand from others so we become more aware. That way we could choose to take action because someone else has lived that experience you are going through. Anecdotal evidence is not really supported right now yet we are not stopping and saying why is science not using our true life experience as real solid evidence which it clearly is? Who wins here? It sure ain’t us because illness and disease is escalating so fast and science does Not have all the answers. Real medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon needs to be studied simply because it makes sense and works in harmony with our natural state.

217. I love your last phrase about the future of Medicine: “not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.” I know first hand how taking responsibility for how I live my life, alongside any support I may seek from traditional or complementary medicine, is the most important key to my health. I have found that when I ignore and neglect my inner knowing of how my heart would choose to live, specific areas of neglect result in specific impact on my health. And the areas that get affected have been consistent enough for me to realize there is in fact a direct cause and effect from our choices in how we live our life to our health. This is an area that our general view of Medicine has not caught up to yet. This understanding is absolute key in changing the bewildering trend of exponential increase in health issues.

218. As Universal Medicine has given us, we get the medicine we ask for and the medicine we have been asking for is a quick fix, a patch up so that we can continue to live in the same way whether it is abusive to our bodies or not. As you say Cherise, modern medicine is missing large parts of the puzzle because it doesn’t consider the whole and is mainly concerned with treating and managing symptoms, not even considering for the most part how the patient lives, what they put into their bodies etc. Universal Medicine has shown us that if we focus on the quality of how we live, we can start to truly heal as opposed to just manage symptoms and I know many many people who have truly healed from changing the way that they live.

219. This is a beautiful closing piece Cherise… “Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.”

220. Self care and self nurturing do not cost us anything and we can offer this treatment to ourselves. The health profession work tirelessly and offer wonderful treatment when we have an illness or disease but by taking responsibility for the way we live and treat our own body we become part of the healing process.

     1. I agree Mary, great point. Self-care and Self-nurturing are free and are found in the very choices we can make to honour and support ourselves and our own bodies, from here our choices reflect the deep sense of care we can live with and develop a deeply nurturing relationship with ourselves – Where has nurturing come in to our understanding of medicine so far? As it is a fundamental part of the way in which we live with ourselves and within our own bodies.

221. Thank you Cherise, It is a great point you make about the medical profession being filled with people who want to find a solution to the ills of the world but are missing the one vital link – to look deeper within and understand that it is our responsibility in how we are every day and our choices. Combine the two and you have great medicine.

     1. Great medicine is combination, complementary medicine Julie, thanks for sharing. It is draining to seek solutions, when you all the while feel in the dark to the whole picture and actually makes things quite complicated. I feel there is quite a simplicity that comes with ones willingness to reflect with understanding, respect for the body and in a way that supports us to seek the ‘root cause’ for an illness as opposed to temporary fix.

222. While medicine is incredible in its ability to combat illness and disease, it feels to me that we still miss a big part of the puzzle. It does seem to make sense that the “way we are in everything we do” will play a significant part in how long term healthy or otherwise we are.

     1. I agree Stephen, even your use of the words ‘to combat illness and disease’ feel like a way of trying to fix or solve after the fact, when there are important keys to the puzzle that we can be aware of if we choose to be, those that contribute to our bodies in all that we do.

223. An expression comes to mind “They are their own worst enemy”. The health care services may do everything they possibly can to treat the medical problems that we present with but above all this we have the responsibility to care for our own body in the way we live. If you put the wrong fuel in your car it soon splutters and stops, drive your car recklessly and it will soon get damaged and possibly damage others as well, clutter the inside of your car with junk it will be no pleasure to travel in.

     1. Awesome analogy Mary, and what a great question go ponder on..

        How is it that we can treat our cars in a disregarding way and yet know that our choices contributed to the outcome and we can choose to not be aware that we hold this same responsibility within our very own bodies? ..and these bodies are with us every moment of every day, they’re not a vehicle we can simply ‘trade in’ for new..

224. Absolutely Cherise… There is so much we can all do for ourselves if we look at the whole picture, including all the tiny things we often ignore about the way we live.

     1. It’s true Rachael, and I love that the tiniest things, when understood to be apart of everything, can actually magnify into grand and beautiful moments to appreciate.

225. I love all you have written, Cherise. From my own experience of embracing both conventional and Esoteric Medicine and looking at how I live everyday in my choices made in food, sleep, exercise etc. the only way forward in health care is a marriage of the two, as well as a person being able to know they are responsible for the illness or disease they are presenting whether a cold or cancer. How amazing would it be if this was the first ‘pill’ the doctor administers and the patient has to swallow?! I know myself this is the hardest part but absolutely necessary and the only way.

     1. Very true Julie, it is a big pill to swallow, but real healing happens when we can accept this and work alongside all that the medical profession offers.

        1. Thank you Jsnelgrove36 and Rosanna, I agree that being responsible for our way of living is initially necessary to understanding our own part and contribution to our own health. Whilst it feels like a big pill to begin with, I would say that the initial ‘gulp’ moment when experienced from a place of understanding of ‘where we were at’ and with an openness to ‘where we know we deserve to be’ .. brings about a greater ‘appreciation’ moment to swallow and this one makes for a great acceptance of the bigger picture of medicine and opens up a whole new choice of how we can live more lovingly.

226. This is spot on Cherise, thank you. I absolutely relate to your appreciation for modern medicine whilst also being able to see that it is not the complete answer – that the way we live is medicine too.

     1. Thank you Fiona, it isn’t about finding a complete answer to medicine but I do feel the importance of being open to each and every aspect that contributes and therefore affects our everyday living – we deserve to continually deepen this awareness and our relationship for ourselves of what medicine (and good medicine) really is.

227. I love your vision for the future Cherise

228. Thank you Cherise. We as humanity certainly do deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity – where each individual is responded to as a whole being rather than just the part being diagnosed, and where instead of heralding health as a lack of sickness or satisfactory function of the parts, each person is truly supported to build on the quality in which they live.

     1. I agree Golnaz, it is absolutely about the ‘quality’ in which we live and everyone deserves to feel a harmonious, joyous and aliveness to the way in which we feel and live in our bodies. A way that is truly supportive.

229. A really beautiful blog and follow on comments on a much needed topic. It is key to our health that we start being responsible about our choices and how we live, as Cherise shared, ‘it would include the food that I eat but also the way in which I buy, prepare and eat such food, the way I connect to me and bring the quality that is naturally me to others, to work, the way I walk, speak, sleep, think, how I am with my body and any emotions that I hold on to …everything!’ It is enormous, and yet it is so important to our well being.

230. ‘With honesty and complete responsibility it would include the food that I eat but also the way in which I buy, prepare and eat such food, the way I connect to me and bring the quality that is naturally me to others, to work, the way I walk, speak, sleep, think, how I am with my body and any emotions that I hold on to …everything!’ This is true medicine Cherise and that a group of people, Universal Medicine students are living this to the best of their ability is the most amazing reflection for Humanity.

     1. I agree Anne Marie, the willingness to see my responsibility in ‘everything’ brings such a deeper purpose and level of love to my life as well as a way of living that feels super self-empowering.

231. I totally agree that we are definitely playing catch up with illness and disease and losing the race! As a health professional I have witnessed that the majority of all cases of physical problems could have been prevented or at least lessened by the person making different lifestyle choices. I have also witnessed in my own body that many minor ailments have been stopped by simply being more pro-active with my health by making different choices about how I live every day. Everything does mean everything!

     1. I have observed similarly Andrew, thanks for your comment and I can share for myself that it has been the willingness to want to look, to want to truly see and to want to understand medicine, my part played in it and then the consequences of my choices that follow .. this willingness is a beautiful thing as without it I feel that I would be still feeling the stubbornness of dealing with (and in honesty, not wanting to deal with) the consequences of my choices after the fact and in the same game of ‘catch up’.

232. Awesomely expressed Cherise…I really enjoyed reading this blog..
     Imagine a world where complementary medicine and conventional work together. The doctors not only dealing with the symptoms, but also asking us, how have you been living in your body that led up to this Disease/Illness and us as an individual, being honest with ourselves and taking responsibility for our choices.
     Missing piece…

     1. Thanks Jody and I would love for a doctor to ask me ‘how have I been living in my body?..’ This is certainly a question that I ask myself when disease and illness present, and not from critique or analysis but purely from the point that I want to see how I have contributed, so that I can deepen my awareness and feel empowered to make new choices in the future.

233. Your blog has launched a wonderful discussion Cherise. It has become clearer and clearer that we can all contribute to beneficial changes in health sevices. If we are honest about the level of responsibility we take for our own health and well being, the heavy responsibility that health professionals carry will lighten, and they will be freed from the strictures of having to fix us.

     1. It’s true Catherine, and I love that there is none of that feeling of ‘but how can only I make a difference?’ .. when the truth is that we don’t have to look outside ourselves for any sort of outcome or investment in the system itself, the benefits that we begin to feel and live for ourselves will naturally make waves and changes within the system and simply inspire those around us to not seek ‘fixing’ from the professionals but make choices to support themselves too.

234. Thank you Jane, I enjoy re-reading this article too! We have to keep asking these questions as there is so much that hasn’t made sense and the more we are able to see medicine with a new understanding – that the very ways in which we ‘live’ have the potential to be either healing or harming to our health is the most important factor, in which case medicine really is about everything and is something that we cannot ignore anymore.

235. I enjoy the simplicity of this question Jane, ‘How is this person (or How am I) living?..’ In the beginning this may seem a little confronting, but as we become more aware of ourselves and the small and every day choices we are making, becoming more self-honest, we are able to bring this depth and level of relationship to our Doctors when we see them too. Supporting them to support us, in seeing the whole picture of our health; after all, are we not deserving of as much support as possible?

     1. Yes, a great question Jane, ‘‘How is this person living their life and how is this affecting their physical and mental health and wellbeing’?”, and how amazing to take it to the next level as you say Cherise. So we would be supporting our Doctors ‘ to support us, in seeing the whole picture of our health; after all, are we not deserving of as much support as possible?’ Definitely we are, and we can lead the way by example.

236. Fantastic blog Cherise . Thank you. Your love and dedication to humanity palpable. Beautiful.

237. Great blog Cherise, thankyou. Lifestyle choices and self responsibility can contribute so much to our well- being in addition to seeking medical help if necessary. As Monica comments, we need to start with deep self- honesty.

     1. ..and self-honesty is actually a very beautiful thing, a friend that once made and brought about with love and never self-bashing or judgement builds a very supportive way of living.

238. I love how you have clearly stated where the medical profession is headed. It does feel like it has a huge burden on its shoulders but when as a humanity we can recognise that illness and disease comes with the choices we make in each and every moment then the profession can let this burden go in the understanding that the responsibility lies firmly with every individual that comes through its doors. Then it becomes a question of not just supporting the symptoms but supporting the patient in the awareness of the choices they are making.

     1. True Michelle. Healthcare has become such a confused and complicated aspect of life. Universal Medicine brings back simplicity and self-responsibility things that have been long forgotten in the healthcare system.

        1. So true Michelle and Anne Marie, the burden to the healthcare that you speak of comes from feeling the grandness of the state we have found ourselves in, and from looking ‘outside’ to seek solutions for fixing things.. however, simplicity is the way forward I feel and is a way that we can live with ourselves, that once lived is appreciated for its simplicity and abundant benefits – and equally liveable when chosen by anyone.

239. Cherise your last paragraph is very powerful – ‘We as humanity deserve healthcare founded on the highest forms of integrity, where self-responsibility shapes an honest and deeply loving relationship with self and then with others.’ I agree that by looking after ourselves and taking responsibility, we hold the missing link that will complement the work of our amazing medical professionals.

     1. ..and I agree, that we are absolutely deserving of this.

240. There is much about this article that stands out for me and that I find very inspiring. However, what strikes me the most is that the writer, is sharing such a love of people and is not at all worn out by current medical practices as many medical professionals are; feeling there is no hope. We are lucky to have you working within our medical system Cherise.

     1. Thank you mmryan37, I can absolutely share that my love of people has undoubtedly grown and deepened throughout my career, I used to feel ‘worn out’ by current medical practices as you describe, at a time in my life where I was not choosing to be aware of my own responsibility within the field – and was only looking to ‘help others’. Now, with a true foundation of self-support and a view to understanding the ‘whole’ picture of medicine and what it means to my life in whole, it has consequently resulted in a vitality within my own life and a new understanding that I can now bring to my professional practise. Any change to the very system we are speaking of, for me, has begun with my own body and way of living first.

241. Cherise great blog, you describe so well how medicine is with real honour and care for those who work there, while exposing the missing piece how we live. it’s so true, I’m finding again and again that everything is indeed everything, and everything matters. And I love the question Sally poses what can we bring .. so our heathcare systems supports us all – I feel it starts with deep honesty about how we live and an appreciation for the power of our choices, and how we live impacts us and everyone around us; when we embrace this, we approach medicine in a different way as a way to support us but we know our part, it’s a collaboration – as you note Sam this is indeed what this generation and the next will be doing, changing how medicine is. Indeed life is truly medicine.

     1. I do feel that holding our current understanding of medicine in general with respect is imperative and as such forms a foundation for us to be able to marry what we have learnt and what many have studied for years.. with all that we now know and understand medicine ‘in full’ to be. Our health care system deserves to be supported from a place that is respectful of all and with the appreciation of where science has brought us today and of where our bodies’ natural science can support us to develop further.

242. A great blog with inspiring insights Cherise. It is clear to all that modern medicine is marvellous but also that it doesn’t have all the answers. It needs to relearn what Plato knew 2,500 years ago when he stated “You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul.” The ancients knew that we are more that just this three dimensional physicality that we can see and touch and until Medicine comes back to this truth, it is working in the dark with one hand tied behind its back.

     1. I agree Doug, and what an awesome quote that is..

        “You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul.”

        We are made up of a ‘whole’ being, and have the opportunity to view ourselves and make choices from this understanding to support our ‘whole way’ of being.

243. Thank you Cherise, I agree, a greater responsibility is being called for in the medical profession itself. They are not alone in this, we have the answers – they lie within Humanity as a whole. Let humanity gather together to get to the bottom of our illness and disease so we can be an active part of the healing process, rather than giving that responsibility to others to do it for us.

     1. Agreed Susan! Let us choose to be an active part in healing the very body we live with every day.

244. A great article Cherise. If we all took responsibility for ourselves and the way we live the unsustainable pressure on health services would no longer be spiraling out of control.

     1. I love your simplicity Mary, change begins from our very own self-responsible choices.

245. This article is awesome Cherise, and asks some incredibly poignant questions. When you accept and appreciate the way you live effects the all it does feel enormous at first, but the reality I feel is that I am feeling the weight of the momentums that have kept me wrapped up in all the excuses to not be loving to myself. As I realised this I then found that this weight shifted, I really appreciate what this level of awareness over my body brings…and the level of medicine it brings to how I live everyday. I love the way you ask the question, why isn’t this level of self appreciation an integral part of how we support our bodies in collaboration with western medicine.

     1. Thank you for sharing Phill, what an amazing revelation you have felt for yourself and have brought to us. It shows how important (and absolutely possible) it is to allow ourselves to feel the lack of self-responsibility we have lived with but without the need for harshness or judgement, we are then able to appreciate that we are asking for a greater awareness of ourselves and our bodies and with this (the part that is really worth it) we begin to really appreciate that we have made choices the best we knew at the time ..and the opportunity to make more loving and self-honouring ‘whole’ lifestyle choices are indeed possible and beautiful to make.

246. Hi Cherise, I loved reading this blog again, especially the part where you emphasize that ‘everything’ matters. The way we choose to live has ongoing consequences and directly effects our physiology – is this not something that ought to be studied Day 1, Term 1 at Med school?

     1. Great question Janet, I am now loving the study that ‘everything’ matters and thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, we are able to study this for ourselves and bring our own understanding to the healthcare setting ..until that day comes when it becomes the ‘norm’ in all medical schooling.

247. You are so right, Cherise, that we need to look at the whole picture and not just the parts.

248. “Humanity will gather in the field of medicine, not to heavily carry the responsibility of how other people live through their own choices, but by living in a way that inspires and reflects to our brothers our undeniable equality and the simplicity of true support.” Yes Anna wonderful revelation. If we are to truly change the state in which our current health system is in then this has to be the way. True support and responsibility is definitely the impulse needed for greater health and well being for all.

249. Amazing, Cherise. It is a very perceptive summary of how the public health services are and what it could be like if doctors and nurses included the patient’s lifestyle choices, as well as their mental and psychological state of being in their diagnoses. I was recently undergoing tests with a senior consultant in a private hospital, and I could see his puzzlement over my symptoms. I knew full well and could feel the dishonouring choices I had been making to cause the symptoms, so the ‘missing piece’ in medicine was really highlighted to me in this instance.

     1. Thanks for sharing Janet, I can only imagine that if you had shared with your consultant your own understanding of your choices and working together, then coupled this with your symptoms you would have been inspiring them too!
        You have allowed me to appreciate that our consultations have a much deeper relationship to go to.. and everyone involved can get so much out of them.

250. Love this Cherise. It would be a very different situation in hospitals/medical centres etc if the patients came into the waiting room already knowing that whatever the results or feedback was from the doctor, that it was just a reflection of how they had been living.

     1. It would be very different Susie, and would bring a new foundation of honesty and responsibility to the relationship for both patient and practitioner, equally so.

251. This is such an amazing article and I can feel the enormity of what is written here. The potential for a greater marriage between complementary and western medicine makes great sense. Our current approach to our health and health care is reactive and is obviously failing us with the strain placed on it to fix everything, I also love the point Sally makes in the first comment, what can we bring to the table to support ourselves and the healthcare system we use.

     1. This is a great point Stephen, I am enjoying the fact that we have this great opportunity to see things from a whole new light; the opposite end of the spectrum.
        Why would we only choose to look to our ill-health or ill health-care system from the point that everything has happened, is strained and requires fixing? when we have this great opportunity to see the bigger picture, the one that tells us we do have control over our choices and lifestyle and it is indeed possible to reclaim a more supportive and self-honouring way of living – it can only flow on to our health-care system from there and feels a much more simple place to begin our focus.

252. How wonderful that through your experience and life lived you are bringing a deeper awareness to the medical field, that we need to look at the whole and the individual and our choices made in connection to our health.

253. WOW Cherise Holt what a powerful article that really has made me stop.
     I will be re-reading this over and over again and sharing at the dinner tables wherever I go as this is something that the world needs to ponder on right now.
     My work is in the well-being sector and I know that without me choosing to take full responsibility for everything in my life, then how on earth can I make a real difference and offer another way of living.
     As you say you feel the enormity of what the word Everything actually means.
     I too have been inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon on medicine and I apply ‘common sense medicine’ by making daily choices that truly support me and there is no aim for perfection. It works and my current state of health and well-being confirm that.

     1. I agree Bina it is ‘common sense’ medicine to look after ourselves. We can not expect the health services to keep trying to fix us because we do not want to take responsibility for the way we live.

     2. Thank you Bina, I love that for the many of us that work in the medical or wellbeing professions there is now a way of truly supporting ourselves, in our own lives and with our very own self-responsible choices so that we have a greater understanding and can then bring and share this with others – be they at the dinner table or as our clients.

        I have always felt and upheld the responsibility of supporting my patients throughout their own medical journeys, but had never done so in such a way that feels so light and naturally inspiring as I do now, responsibility used to always feel ‘heavy’ and loaded with ‘what more can I do to help?’ which left me feeling drained and tired within the very system I so enthusiastically trained for. It has been through my own self-responsibility that I am now developing my way to support others in the true sense – through compassion and understanding of the whole picture, and not weighted down by seeking solutions for others when I wasn’t living self-supportively for myself.

254. I have had the benefit of the teachings of esoteric medicine alongside conventional medicine when I was diagnosed with amenorrhea. My periods returned after a lengthy absence but I know this would not have occurred if I had not had the support of these teachings, Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine practitioners and taken responsibility to stop negating and trashing my body.

255. Great insights in this blog Cherise. I love this part: ‘Even as I write this I feel the enormity of what ‘everything’ actually means.’

     1. It continues to feel enormous Priscila, and in a really inspiring way that we can always deepen the relationship we have with ourselves and our bodies, so as to truly support them in ‘everything’ we do.

        1. It does feel enormous to me too, but as I look at the way I live my life, and the choices that are my medicine, I feel that each small change I make takes me to another level of living, a deeper level of change. It feels very gentle, yet powerful, and only seems daunting when I allow my mind to take charge.

256. Its beautiful to read your words on humanity and our ability to stand together and be honest about our lives, and so bring true healing to the wonders of modern medicine. I feel your deep respect for your colleagues and people, which is beautiful, thank you

257. Thank you Cherise for your insightful overview of where the Medicine of the current times and the immense potential that can be fulfilled for humanity if it was to claim the role in healing it was born to do. As a practising medical practitioner in a highly-industrialised society such as Australia with the benefits of all that is advanced in scientific technology, law and ethics, we as practitioners in Medicine often neglect the fact that more than 3/4 of the contemporary world still rely on traditional form of healing out of economic challenges, logistics of grassroots health care delivery and sheer lack of advanced medical care of the so-called modern standards.

     Thus, neither we can ignore the contributions of healing modalities nor can we disregard the core issue of integrity, truth and all encompassing Medicine that is inclusive and discerning of all that is amazing about what Modern Medicine can do or healings can do. Our current generation and the next must ‘re-invent’ the role that Medicine play in the preventive health and well-being of the entire globe through the quality of how we interact with people who work in and with Medicine so the doctors, nurses, paramedical health professionals and healing practitioners can truly understand and learn from what Medicine must offer for the future.

     Sam Kim

     1. Thank you Sam, I agree with you that the potential for ‘Medicine’s’ future is very grand and absolutely ready and waiting to be lived (the future) by us now. We are the current generation as you say, and with a developing awareness of the enormous benefit to both patient and practitioner, when an understanding of our health as a whole is sought, is not only supportive and self-empowering – it is truly beautiful.

        Let us look to our health and way of living as a way that serves our bodies and our system in preventative health care as opposed to drowning in a sea of solutions after the illness occurs. Let us also not wait for our bodies to show the signs and symptoms of the way we have lived, before we make a change and instil new self-loving choices to our every day.

258. Love the title ‘Medicine for Humanity’ and how you look at the whole picture and not just at parts of the puzzle.

     1. I agree Steffen. A great article. “Even as I write this I feel the enormity of what ‘everything’ actually means.” The full meaning of ‘everything is everything and nothing is nothing’ allows us to look at the whole picture and not just at parts of the puzzle.

        1. It’s true that the whole picture, the everything as you say, does have a sense of enormity to it but it also brings about a great opportunity for us to take stock and develop a deeper sense of responsibility to how we live. We are then not only able to support ourselves in health, but our families, friends and indeed everyone when we live this way. We naturally then inspire others to see their whole puzzle, feel self-empowered to make new choices and support their own bodies and health. This would have to be an amazing step forward in supporting our health care systems and the future of our health and wellbeing.

259. Your respect and appreciation for medicine is so clear in the way you have written this Cherise. There are many beautiful and committed people in the medical field, seeking solutions to our increasing woes and ills. As you have so clearly and poignantly shared, there is a missing piece, not to be found in solutions. Rather, it is found in our daily living choices. Enormous indeed, but also very simple when self-care and self – love light the way. Thank you for sharing this, I feel refreshed and inspired.

     1. I too felt inspired after reading it. Her love is obvious

     2. Thank you Rachel, I also feel refreshed and inspired having read this article again. I agree with the simplicity you speak of, that through seeing medicine as all encompassing of the way we live, actually serves to simplify things and supports to not leave us hanging out – waiting for something or someone else to bring the whole picture. It’s actually quite self-empowering.

260. Beautifully written Cherise. Science and medicine can never be used in separation from the understanding of how one actually lives to heal. When this is known, the marriage of the two is a match made in heaven!

     1. That’s true Suzanne, and I love the joy that you speak with when you say they’re made in heaven when they’re married! I can appreciate for myself now that they don’t seem so joyful when the two are trying to work things out on their own. Conventional medicine in one corner and understanding of a whole way of living in the other – I know for myself that my own awareness of medicine, illness and disease in my work and within my own health (and body) has expanded so much by ‘marrying’ the two together. It’s as though they were meant to be coupled!

261. This is a very powerful piece, and looks at some critical issues regarding how we work with the human body in a diseased state. The point you make that the way we choose to live is a very power-full form of medicine is so very true. We all know some one who has eaten right, exercised regularly, doesn’t smoke/drink alcohol and lives a “healthy” lifestyle but has still got cancer or other health issues. This clearly reveals to us that there is more to the picture than the physical aspects. Emotions play a very big part on how our faces age, it just makes common sense that our internal body would also be affected. How we live in our day, whether it be always in a rush, reserved, cranky, frustrated, joy-full etc has to have an enormous effect on our health and vitality…..

     1. I agree Toni, and when we can run our bodies in ’emotions’ for most of the day, are we actually stopping to become aware of this, what emotions we may be indulging in; if we are walking around with tension and how it feels to live this way?
        I know for myself that if I feel frustrated for example, my body feels to hold itself in a way that doesn’t feel relaxed or in the natural flow of harmony that I have experienced it to otherwise feel.

     2. Another beautiful article by Cherise, and great sharing Toni regarding how we can live this exemplary ‘healthy’ lifestyle and still get ill. So what is the missing part of the picture, what is really at play? Toni continues to say, ‘Emotions play a very big part on how our faces age, it just makes common sense that our internal body would also be affected. How we live in our day, whether it be always in a rush, reserved, cranky, frustrated, joy-full etc has to have an enormous effect on our health and vitality…..’ Definitely a huge impact on our health, we can all feel how horrible it is if we allow ourselves to indulge in say frustration, we lose the natural beautiful feeling of harmony in our bodies.

262. This article beautifully delivers to us how complementary and conventional medicine can work together for humanity. I for one would love to see people taking responsibility for how our health care system is today. What is it that we can bring to our health care system that will support us all in a much more loving way?

     1. Thanks Sally, what a great question you’ve asked – what is it that we can bring to our health care system that will support us all? And for me, the answer would include to bring the simple willingness to be our true selves.. Self responsibility is an amazing tool that can support us too along WITH our health care system.

     2. Yes this article is beautifully written. I love the question as I work in the health care system and so self responsibility – the willingness to be part of the healing – letting go of the fix me and appreciating their own part in the process would be high on my list.

        1. I agree Judy, without the responsibility of making changes in our lives, being ‘fixed’ is never enough, because whatever the root cause of the problem, attitude, diet, drink etc, it will always resurface, requiring a bigger fix each time.

        2. I agree Judy. A willingness to be part of the healing process and letting go of the fix me syndrome, taking responsibility for their health issues, looking at making changes in their lives, all simple tools to get back on the road to a healthy way of living.

     3. I totally agree Sally a beautiful article blending medicine in all its forms is needed and responsibility for our health care lovingly as a way forward.Thank you.

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