611 thoughts on “Getting Away with It…”

1. I can’t tell you the amount of times I haven’t held myself preciously and allowed a pattern of behaviour that I sensed or knew was not supportive, but I let it go on and on… and when I decided to stop it (because I had to) I was in a momentum of it, it had been so repetitive and ingrained it seemed to have a life of its own like a wind up toy and run itself, i.e., it was much harder to correct because I’d left it so long, and then there was the effects on my body, and all the work to walk back through all those imprints and change it back to love. Wisdom tells me to start with love and hold it preciously and don’t step out of it.

   1. Melinda I can so relate to what you are sharing that when we decide to stop a negative pattern there is still the momentum of what it is we are saying no too. For example I can feel the hardness across my shoulders where I have held myself in protection and there is a lot of pain that is coming from them which I feel is all the protection I have been releasing from the muscles. I remember going to have a back massage at a beauty parlour as I had been given a back massage as a gift and the lady who gave me the massage said all my connective tissue in my shoulders had crystallised and they were breaking this down for me. When we hold onto life it does have an effect on our bodies which can lead to more serious issues. I agree with you that when we reconnect back to love to deeply appreciate what we have reconnected with and not to step away from it again.

2. Anne what you say here is what most people I have come across feel. That we live encased in a hardness that we know is there, we call it our protection against other people and the world, then there is the most damaging aspect of all this feeling that we are never enough and because of this we look outside of ourselves and look to someone that we think has something we don’t but we should have and so we try to be like them and in doing so can completely lose ourselves. This produces a huge gap within us which can never be filled because no matter how hard we try to emulate someone, the sadness of not being ourselves will be nagging away in the back ground, so we end up being very dissatisfied with ourselves and life in general.

3. We can say, ‘we get away with it’, but the reality is, we never do. As the body signals, we ignore whatever it is expressing. And then one day, as in your case, a lump develops or something else comes through, an accident or an incident.

   I whole heartedly agree with the statement, ‘we never get away with it’. At the end of the day if only more people took heed of this statement, would the world be in a different place? I feel it would.

4. I love your honesty here and the truth in we do not actually ‘get away’ with anything as everything is energy. This we cannot escape no matter how much we try as it is the law of the Universe.

5. There are many moments in my life when I have carried out what I knew was a sabotaging behaviour and yet I remained very capable, productive, articulate, caring and able to support myself and others. I imagined this was ‘getting away with it’. Yet once I was invited to consider if I was able to be this amazing with such sabotage, imagine the level of love, support and wisdom that could flow through me if I allowed myself to be all that I can be without the sabotage. Wow – it was a great humbling stop moment – imagine how we could all so easily be living a far more glorious expression.

   1. Thanks Golnaz, as you are aware it’s not just the illusion of how much we can get away with and still produce, it’s the loss of the fullness we are capable of by being reckless – and that’s a big loss for the all.

6. We can’t really complain when we get illness and disease when we use the body in a way that is reckless. I for one have pushed and used my body in a way that has been less than loving. I take my hat off to those who have a deeply loving relationship with their bodies and show others that it is possible to tame the arrogance of the spirit.

7. Thank you Anne, this is a blog that I sometimes have come to my awareness, perhaps at times when I need to be reminded that everything counts. I appreciated your words about it not being about beating ourselves up, just the honesty that then allows us to choose differently, to make more loving choices for ourselves. This really touched me as well “It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.” We may think we get away with things because the outcomes that we can see, such as physical symptoms, can take longer to manifest. Understanding that everything is a helpful or harmful imprint really is a level of very beautiful support and self care.

8. I appreciate very much this sharing because it feels very true, we still push beyond the boundaries and rhythms of our body. Love the way you wrote about this Anne because it’s very inviting to look at these moments in which we arrogantly know what we are doing and we still choose to override our inner-senses. After reading your words I feel inspired to deepen in the level of care I want for myself and others. It’s not about perfection, but awareness and responsibility.

   1. Inma, it was great to read your comment, and I liked what you shared, there is no perfection. There certainly is more to deepen, in how we live and how we are with ourselves, it is forever unfolding.

9. “Is it possible that the way I have lived has led to this?” We know the answer to this is Yes but still so often push the boundaries to see if we can ‘get away with it’ for a bit longer. We all know that if we drive our vehicle recklessly it will break down or crash sooner or later but we pin our hopes on the later.

10. I agree – the arrogance of thinking we can get away with it is stupendous. And the truth is we can’t. We can try pushing to the extreme and fight and all that as we have done, but it is about time we realised everything we do will catch up with us eventually.

    1. I have worked as a volunteer at a local hospital and it is very obvious to me that we do not get away with anything. When we are young we feel the world is our oyster and we can do anything and get away with it. What I see is the elderly and the poor state of health they are in and many conversations I have had with them where they have expressed how they wish they had lived life differently. That all the drive to be successful, the best mum etc., has ended in tears as they realise too late the damage they have done to their bodies and their mind.

11. We can think we are getting away with it – but just because we cannot see internal damage does not mean it’s not there. We can look totally ok when we smoke, yet our lungs are being permanently blackened and damaged – it makes you wonder what do we truly get away with? And is it not worth taking much more care in life of every little detail – including the parts of us that we cannot actually see?

    1. Great point Meg and Isn’t this a reflection of our attachment to all things external at the expense of the internal. We give more attention to what we see than what we feel, but also when we drive ourselves hard we stop feeling: the body may speak to us but we can’t hear it or we ignore its alarm signals even at full volume.

    2. That is true, anyone who smokes knows that they are damaging themselves, so the question is – what is it in us that allows us to damage ourselves to that degree?

12. There is so much learning in life. More commitment can lead to more purpose, more purpose deepens the awareness to re-connect with the body deeper, or not. Nothing is hidden and every choice leads to the next. Realizing this deeper, that our choices are not always supportive and we think we can get away with it, but we don’t, leads to the learning of not beating ourselves up but understanding why we do it. That ultimately we are understanding a part of ourselves that everyone has and is reckless and irresponsible, which is responsible for all calamities in the world.

    1. It’s understanding why we do what we do, that is the key to freeing ourselves from the patterns and momentums we get caught up in. I now have a deeper understanding, that we do not think, we are bombarded by thoughts that come from a consciousness that we have all bought into and constantly supply at the same time. We are controlled and manipulated until such time that we can master ourselves and realign back to our Soul.

13. We’re often sly and very measured in how we are, pushing it, just a little bit out there, because well, we can get away with it, or so we think – you can tell I know what is spoken of in this blog! I have my own variations on what getting away with it is, and the truth is I don’t … I’m getting increasingly honest about what works and what doesn’t work, and I can feel further refinement is now required to allow even more honesty about what supports or not.

14. Why is it that we keep pushing and doing things with our bodies that have us believe that we will get away with it, but in actual fact, we never get away with it, as it’s all registered in the body.

    1. Then we get upset when it breaks – or we get sick. Yet we totally drove it to that point and then expect it to keep going when it can no longer continue in the same manner.

15. There have been times when I have consciously thought that I was getting away with something, but in truth we really don’t get away with anything, and the worst thing is when we realise that we are not living in a responsible or loving way, it is not only ourselves that we affect.

16. The body is super clear eventually that it actually copped all the things we thought we got away with. It’s incredible how it copes with all our bad and wayward choices, but eventually it has to stop and fix itself and give us the opportunity to change those wayward choices for good.

17. Great to read this again, thank you Anne, it’s true that if we can not feel much in the short term consequences we may think we are getting away with it, even though we absolutely know it’s not serving us and especially not in the long term. A call for greater honesty and self love, thank you.

18. I can see how my spirit thrives on doing all the same things that Anne has mentioned (all the while thinking it is getting away with it) because it looks at the human body as a throw-away item due to the fact that it can simply reincarnate into another body when this one gets ruined by all its wayward choices that are not in line with the love that we are from. There are times when I am considering making one of those sneaky choices and ‘getting away with it’ and there is almost like a battle going on between my spirit and soul, with my spirit winning out in the end as if it was a foregone conclusion. But what I have found is that it was all my movements and way I have taken care of myself leading up to this that lead to the energy (prana) running its course and causing the eventual disharmony in my body.

    1. Michaelgoodhart36 this is such a great contribution to this conversation because you are bringing to the fore the fact that there is a spirit and a Soul and that it is the spirit that is wayward because it knows it can reincarnate into another body if it trashes the body it is in. It is so reckless and doesn’t care one jot about the body it had incarnated into. How many of us know this science and how many of us stop to take into consideration it is how we move that determines whether we are moving with the spirit or our Soul?

19. That feeling of “getting away with” is just an illusion that makes us think that we can be in the control of our life, having wayward, irresponsible and unloving choices. Uncomfortably but fortunately, our body will show us at some point (sooner or later) the clear effect of those choices in our life.

    1. What you are sharing Amparo is that there are consequences to our choices that catch up with us, we do not in fact get away with anything we are just storing the harmful energies in our bodies that then are released in the way of illness and disease to clear the impositions we have placed on our body via the reckless choices made.

20. Thank you for exposing the arrogance behind feeling that you have got away with anything. Whilst I am living a much cleaner life than previously there are still pockets where I still revel in feeling I have got away with something despite ample evidence from my body that this is not the case. A powerful reminder today that every choice has a consequence.

21. My body has let me know how I have lived in disregard for years and years thinking I got away with it but ending in severe osteoporosis. Quite a shock or better to say a stop moment to really get my act together and to listen to my body like you say Anne ‘It is about being willing to stop, be still and listen to my body, and to live from and with the knowing that lies within me, the wisdom of my inner-heart.’ I cannot say I have mastered it yet but I know I cannot get away with anything.

22. I reckon that this is one of the pure gold statements in life: that you are wiling to give it a go. Whatever it is, to just be willing to get up and have a go is huge in its importance in relation for how life is today, with complacency at perhaps its most all time high.

23. We do have this obsession with speed as if going faster would make it harder, if not impossible, to be caught up with the consequences. The fact that everything has consequences is a law and our reaction only confirms our inclination towards recklessness. We’ve resisted and fought it and we are still not getting away with anything. We seem to forget that the same law still applies when what we choose is healing and love.

24. I love the ‘matter-of-factness’ of this statement – ‘we live with every one of those imprints, every day.’ – as it is directly asking us if we willing to be honest about what we are choosing, why and are we willing to feel how our choices, behaviours and quality of our movements are affecting us and the all the relationships we share, as such what we are contributing to the world. As you have shared so wisely, we never get away with anything, and there is a saying that says, ‘life always catches up with you’, highlighting the truth, as our body will always show us, that the quality of life we choose to live is always with us, all of us. And that is the quality of love or all that is not of love.

25. I find there is a big difference in driving at the exact limit where you won’t get a speeding fine or below that. Driving at the limit, even with cruise control, is quite stressful while the other allows a lot more repose to the fore.

26. I can recognise two on your list: I eat and I stay up later than my body wants to. I put things off till the last minute and then at 9 o’clock when I want to go to bed, I have to spend at least half an hour doing a daily task that could have been done much earlier. As for eating – it is a compulsion – I eat a meal then want to eat something else, as if the meal wasn’t satisfying enough, and then i keep on grazing through till the next meal, so my stomach is dealing with a constant assault of food, never being allowed to rest until I go to sleep. I know it’s not good, but I haven’t yet found the key to stop. Self love is the key and movements I know are what I can work on.

27. The things I thought I have got away with..a total lie to myself, as my body always tells me, eventually – although more and more immediately. The more I build a connection to my body, the less dishonest I can be: it feels like everything is felt and known much faster, but actually, in truth, I feel just more aware of the impact of my choices: my body has always been aware, but it’s me that’s chosen not to listen to this awareness.

    1. Yes, and the increased stress levels are a good example of not getting away with it. Getting a kick out of doing something is still a stress response.

28. I love your honesty Anne, we so often push the boundaries and arrogantly we are to think that we will get away with it, it is not until we are brought to a stop in some way that we reflect back and realise that we cannot carry on like this.

29. “It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.” So true yet even knowing this I still try to ‘get away with it’. Time for a big stop and a re-imprinting, without being hard on myself.

30. How often do we think we have got away with it and think we are being clever when in fact we are being super arrogant and reckless. I know when I have tried to get away with it and been pulled up in the past, I wanted to blame everyone and everything other than myself because I was not willing to take responsibility for my own actions.

31. Thank you Anne, a great moment to stop and remember that all of our choices we carry with us, and show up in some form or other in the body – and a good thing that they do, or else we would probably carry on making the same erroneous choices that we know don’t work for us. We take good health for granted when we’re in it, but we don’t need to wait for illness and disease to start listening to our bodies and taking their fragility and sensitivity seriously – the time to listen is now.

32. It’s like we navigate life trying to get away with as much as possible, we cut corners and we don’t account for how truly precious life is – until our body shows us in no uncertain terms that we actually did not get away with anything, and every single choice, movement and action we’ve done has had a physical impact – thank goodness for the honesty of our bodies.

33. I know I can fall into this trap as well Anne, feeling as if I am getting way with something when in truth my body has felt the impact of my choices even if I am too numb to notice. When we begin to move in a way that is more supportive and loving for the body we will no longer have any space for any harming or abusive behaviours.

34. And the truth is, humanity pretty much lives in this way, and until the cycle of life both in death is understood, and recognised for the inherent truth that it is, the arrogance will continue.

35. What are we getting away from and with what? Could it be we are getting away from the truth of who we are and we are, in that moment, with our spirit that thinks it can do what it likes ignoring the laws of karma and akasha, that is, what goes round comes round and even our thoughts are accountable?

36. I feel it’s a pervasive idea across society that we get away with things, possibly also because we are disconnected from our bodies so we don’t feel it’s immediate communication about our choices. It’s a really good sharing Anne as the absoluteness of what’s true for us and for our health and wellbeing doesn’t go away, so we are fooling ourselves if we think we are getting away with it.

37. What I love about the body is that it is a marker of truth for us. No matter how abusive we are to it and stubborn in our ways, it is forever pulling us back to who we truly are.

38. I today felt a level of this thinking I am getting away with it in my study so how funny reading this today. It is true even though we might get away with the thing at the moment, like I might just pass my study because I did enough, but I won’t have dealt with why I am not giving it my all and wanting to get away with that. So this will come back at some other area in my life as it can’t be ever just in my study, it is affecting the all.

39. I can so relate to this ‘getting away with it’ thing. I do know what would support and nurture me, but there are times when I allow myself to be pulled towards being ‘naughty’ and do the opposite. And this makes me wonder why I would hold back on love unless things get diabolically messy. Like, what am I waiting for?

40. Don’t you feel that when we think we’re getting away with it, we are also crying out for our body to stop us? There’s a huge irresponsibility in that but it also exposes how desperate we are – we know we’re on a speeding train heading for the edge of a cliff but either can’t see or don’t want to see that it is within our power to stop it.

41. Anne I love coming back to this and rereading it, because it is a great reminder of how arrogant we can be when it comes to speeding, as if we know better, and that we can get away with it until we are caught, and then we are indignant about that too, and as you say this is a great reflection on our lives. Maybe it is time for us to not push the boundaries and be more loving in the way we live and if for any reason we get sick or ill, accept it gracefully for all that it is there to teach us.

42. Thank you for the reminder Anne that any sense or message I get from my body, regardless of how ‘small’ I may choose to label it as, if ignored comes with a consequence. I will never get away with ignoring my body.

43. A great call Anne, for in truth we can fool ourselves for a while (or pretend we do) but we know deep within that what we think we’re getting away with we’re not, and that eventually our amazing bodies will catch us up.

44. I wonder how quickly the way that the majority of humanity live would change if we were all taught at a very early age that if we push our body too hard, too fast and too recklessly that we will “not get away with it” forever’…that for every choice there is a consequence and those consequences are ours and ours alone; there is no one to blame, not even ourselves. And part of the lesson needs to be that, yes, our body is amazing and can work hard, but it is not ‘unbreakable’ and if we do ‘break’ it in any way the healing that is then needed is our responsibility.

45. The overriding of what is needed in each moment is a stubborn trait so many are familiar with. Knowing that you need to attend to something, move in a particular way, speak up at a given moment. All opportunities that are there to support us and often we sabotage them to feel less staying in our comfort.

    1. Yes staying in our comfort we kid ourselves that everything is fine when all along we know we are being a shrinking violet and so much less than our potential. We may be aware of the irresponsibility we are in and yet still let ourselves sink further into the mud until something or someone jolts us out of it or sometimes we might even get honest enough and self loving enough to turn the tide and commit to life rather than getting away with it (non life)

46. You really hit the nail on the head – if we think we can get away with it we’ll do it. I’m beginning to see more and more that the moments when I do not apply the same dedication and commitment and care to as other times in my life have massive consequences, and I would agree that we don’t truly get away with anything.

47. Oh, I can feel the arrogance, dance away in its own tantalising moves – because getting away with it is so so ingrained. For me these days it might be more fine-tuned and not as obvious, as I don’t consume alcohol or drugs, I’m caring with what I eat and a whole lot more. But the notion that I can get away with something is always lurking, and it’s a brilliant thing to see, because the more I let myself see it, the more I can call it out in myself and take more responsibility.
    And with that responsibility, I feel more and more expansion.. more and more joy and more and more love. And that, is something my wiley little spirit that wants to get up to mischief and arrogantly dance its way along, cannot get away with.

48. It’s a great way of looking at life and how we live. There is no getting away with anything, no cutting of corners that is not registered, no behind closed doors, and no “no-one saw me”. Every action we take is a basis for the next, every thought, every step.

49. We are not getting away with anything for the wisdom our body registers and accumulates all of our choices.

50. Very true, how ever much we think or even feel like we are getting away with it, we do have to deal with it at some point. It is basically only delay to postpone it when we feel that something in our diet for example has to change, we can still eat it but what we are often not aware of is what is going on energetically and deep inside our body. Until it surfaces of course. Thank you Anne for your sharing.

51. Such a great blog to read again and to be reminded that we are never getting away with anything even thou we feel we are or at least hoped we were. Taking time to stop and reassess how we are living, how loving we are being and honouring of ourselves is super important. What I have found over the time is the more I do this the more I realised that it can go to deeper levels of attention and it is the consistency that is super important as well, without it being a chore but having loads of fun with it.

52. I am big on getting away with things. I am still doing all the things on the list you mention in this blog, it’s like it makes me feel as if I can keep secrets, like if I speed and don’t get caught, somehow it’s something I am proud of but would not tell others about. Or I eat ice-cream by myself, that then it doesn’t affect anyone but me. All of this is untrue because it’s been a couple of days since I sat down and ate coconut caramel ice cream and my nose is blocked and I have a headache and then I am less engaged and I miss things at work and I am not as fun with my kids and so forth and so on. So the innocent ice cream becomes an irresponsible choice. When I really consider why I am sneaky, I am trying to hide things from myself because I know the truth and I know in my hearts of hearts, there is no real “getting away with” anything.

53. This is a conversation that needs to be held regularly. I want to say ‘with the younger generation’ but in reality, with everyone. Some where in our lives many still live with this mind set. How damaging is it really? And even more so, how much does it give us an escape to the responsibility we each hold.

54. It is almost the norm that most wait until our body is screaming at us before we will actually listen, but in truth, and in honour of it we should respond to even a whisper. There is enormous wisdom we are denying when we choose to remain unaware and a way of being that is deeply loving and worth giving a go.

55. Cautious speeding, check. Eating against my grain, check, Any number of ways I harm myself, check. Yes, my spirit – the part of me that knows I’ll be back in physical form the next lifetime and the next and the next – loves to think I too can get away with it all. Your story Anne is a brilliant reminder to get my own act together even more. Pushing ‘our luck’ until something really dire happens is a difficult way to wake up to the truth of what we’ve been doing to ourselves.

    1. We really do undermine ourselves when we ” push our luck’. Payback isn’t always immediate and consequently we continue until the body reacts or bites back.. We can kid ourselves, but the body doesn’t lie and to listen, love and honour it as a norm, is to work with not against it.

56. I love the message here in this blog, as it highlights the arrogance and destructiveness of the spirit, and how we are always pushing the boundaries to think we can get away with anything – at the end of the day we will be held accountable.

57. Great wake up call.

58. Yes Anne it is about not getting away with it for in reality we never do; all of our choices will eventually catch up with us in one way or another.

59. All of your examples are the same as hitting our selves in the head with a hammer because it feels so good when we stop. So, even when we are so numb that we can no longer feel the abuse we are causing, the body feels every blow. Or, we can feel and respect what our body is continually telling us! That is living lovingly.

60. Feeling the lack of transparency that is reflected every time we feel we have ‘got away’ with something. Accepting the reality that every single action has a consequence is huge and something that I can still avoid when choosing to, for example, allow myself to get distracted and go to bed late. Thank you for exposing the unloving choices that lead to this behaviour.

61. Ouch the arrogance of feeling we ‘got away’ with something is so massive but I have had a wake up call recently due to an infected cyst on my breast which now needs to be cut out. I know that this is because I have been holding back my expression but the fact is that this is a recurrent issue from a few years ago. The last time I went and got it checked out by the GP and thought I had addressed it but although it significantly reduced in size it never completely went away. My arrogance allowed me to think I had ‘got away’ with it until it came back and literally erupted bringing me face to face with the reality of how I have been living.

62. Yes this is true. we can absolutely trust our body to communicate with us what is true for us and what is not. And it keeps on doing this however much we ignore it . In truth our body is our best friend.

63. Every step I have made has led me to where I am today in this very moment. In the past I would avoid moments, times of pause and stop to register where I was and how my body felt. I stop and pause after reading this and I feel so much more settled than ever before, yet I can feel the drifting off thoughts are still avoiding a deeper awareness of this moment and it makes me wonder – what am I getting away with? Because all these distractions and rushing around eventually grind to a halt, either by our choice or the body calling out via illness and disease. If this level of settlement feels amazing then how much more is there to be aware of in stop moments?

64. I feel I could have written this blog I so live that arrogance you share. It just goes to prove to me that we have an aspect to ourselves that is so unloving, if we choose to let it run. It’s not about controlling that bit, rather about making loving choices rather than otherwise. We are never ‘getting away with it’

65. The truth of the matter is that we never ever get away with anything – it might just take a long time, possible lifetimes, to catch up with us. As they say, ‘what goes around, comes around’.

66. Thank you for the reminder Anne, as I can see there are many ways I too think I am ‘getting away with it’, but that is such an illusion. We get away with NOTHING.

67. A great, upfront and honest blog to come back to, Anne. It’s clear that we don’t get away with it…even though we try!

68. That fact that we sense that we are doing something that is not right highlights that we do actually know, and we simply ignore it. We all have an inner-truth that is forever present, for the purpose solely to guide us and our movements through life. The choice is ours to listen or to ignore it, but regardless of what we choose we can never escape from what precipitates thereafter from the choice made. As the fact is, our bodies are the marker of truth and always will reflect the choices we make and are making. To embrace a loving relationship with our bodies is truly a beautiful and empowering thing, as we realise the awareness available to us to know if the choices we are making are supporting us to live in honour of the love we are and deserve to live.

69. It is interesting the notion of ‘pushing the boundaries’ a little bit. Really? What boundaries are we really pushing when we feel we are doing so? If there is this notion of getting away with it behind our actions, it means that we are not really pushing any true boundary.

70. The list of things we think we can get away with, continues to grow as we numb ourselves out with more distractions that we use to avoid the wisdom the body constantly imparts to us – Until it comes to a point that the body stops us in the form of illness or disease, which finally, grabs our attention to the fact we have to choose to live a different way or continue to struggle and suffer.

71. Beautiful Anne, we ‘get away with’ nothing in actual fact, the body wears it all, and what goes in (that is disharmonious to our natural stillness and purity), must come back out again. That is what all illness and disease is… and when this is known and accepted, we will see that taking responsibility for our own health and healing is the only possible way.

72. Anne your words “Getting away with it” is ringing in my ears, as I sit and feel into what I believe I get away with, like eating something I know isn’t right for me now, although it was a few weeks ago, because somehow there is this arrogance within that makes me think I will deal with it later, when the reality is I need to deal with it now, before my body tells me very clearly that it will no longer accept the foods I eat.

73. Recently when asked what really irked me, I found myself including “people who get away with it”. Reading this blog today I realise where I am still wanting to get away with it. The things may seem so much less significant to what I was referring to in answer to what irks me, but really it’s all the same. Thank you for aiding me in seeing more clearly what I am doing and can change for myself so as not to belong under this category.

74. The concept of us getting away with it is in absolute arrogance as our actions do not only hold actions for us but for all else too.

75. When we think we are ‘getting away with it’ we are in fact choosing to keep ourselves away from feeling the beauty and Divinity that we truly are.

76. This is a call to responsibility for everyone, thank you Anne.

77. There are so many things we think we get away with, I wonder how long a daily list would be! For me over-eating is a very common one, we think when we overeat we’re just a bit uncomfortable but that discomfort is actually our stomach being stretched. We negate, or overlook the facts of what we choose, especially when the discomfort or the tiredness passes, but how much damage do we do to our body in those moments where we think we get away with disregarding its signals, and by virtue of that our health.

78. It’s great to expose the illusion of getting away with it, for everything catches up with us eventually…this life or the next!

79. I see how I push beyond the limits that my body is comfortable with and can relate to what you have shared about certain foods and doing that extra job when I know I clearly need to stop. I really appreciate what you have shared Anne because it shows in very simple terms how we never really get away with anything.

80. Thank you Anne, I can relate deeply to this. I went to a point where I was no longer able to get away with my behaviour and shifted my entire focus of life. The change has been incredibly inspiring.

81. Great sharing Anne, there are always consequences to whatever we do, and we never get away with anything, exactly how it should be otherwise we would never learn.

82. There are many days when I have noticed I will put off today what I can do tomorrow and often these choices are about the way I live and bringing in more loving choices. Sometimes not choosing to be more loving can be about meeting a need that we hold onto to be ‘included’ and ‘approved’ of. We are not getting away with what we put off, we are just denying ourselves an opportunity to live the most amazing life and supporting ourselves in bringing more love into a very messy world that needs it.

83. There is an arrogance that wants to push the boundaries or stretch beyond its limits until the body is harmed and/or breaks down….What about the flip side? I ask this question to myself as well – how far can we go with self-love?

    1. Great question Leigh and brilliant to bring the focus back to love.

84. Thank God (literally) that we don’t get away with it – imagine if we did!

85. Thank you for showing there are consequences to all our choices, and we pay the price if we are not living a loving life.

86. It sounds so simple when you put it like this Anne, and I guess it is. Now to put in action the love that you are speaking of and treat myself and my body to a more honest and more responsible way of being. I suddenly got a feeling of the harmony we could engender if we all did just this.

87. How amazing that our body is always there reflecting back to us all of our choices… Every single choice that we have made will be there to be felt.

88. Yes, do we really get away with anything? Or do we simply choose not to see the consequences brewing or the immediate ones we might not even associate with a certain behaviour?

89. It’s so true, every choice we make has a consequence, and it shows up either in the short or long term. We fool ourselves that this thing we are doing “doesn’t matter”, but it does. Not only do our choices affect us but they affect the whole as well. Everything we do matters. As you say Anne, realising this offers us a stop moment, and we can change our choices to be motivated by love instead of recklessness.

90. I have had reason to pause recently and consider how I have lived, especially in relation to lifting/straining my body. When I began to explore how I have done this, much of what I thought was ‘the thing to do at the time’ was in fact too much strain on the delicate frame I have. If only I could share this with all women, that how you use your body today will definitely show in the future. I offer a moment to stop and to consider our bodies in all that we do.

91. The futile quest of the human spirit is to see how much not-love (recklessness, waywardness, arrogance, ignorance etc.) it can ‘get away with’ before it makes the choice, often due to lifetimes of illness and disease, to walk back into the open and loving arms of the Soul. You are a great example of such a return Anne, thankyou

92. Thanks Anne for your sharing and reminder that we can try to fool ourselves, but our bodies won’t allow us to get away with not listening!

93. Getting away with something creats this moment of “I can do what I want” that is the basis for our irresponsibility that has delivered our world into the mess we have today.
    It is like the stage a young child goes through when it is claiming itself. However, like the child,we need to take responsibility for our actions and grow up.
    I have understood this responsibility and thought I lived it, untill Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine came along and presented what true responsibility is. Thank you Serge.

94. This is a big wake up call for us all to really be honest with ourselves. I know there are behaviours I still hold onto that are ‘getting away with it’ – and every time I’ll be caught out – my body will feel it and show me that my actions are not loving – and yet I’ll try again and again. But to what expense? This is a great point of reflection for me to ask myself ‘is it really worth it if I can live in a way that inspires others, rather than being sneaky and trying to play a game with ill choices.’

95. Every time I catch myself saying to myself ‘It doesn’t matter’ I know I think I am ‘getting away with it’ but my body is tenderly and consistently letting me know that everything matters and inviting me to be ever more honouring and respectful in the way I choose to treat myself and everyone else. Everything matters.

96. Anne, I just love this blog – packed full of honesty, truth and wisdom with a good dose of humour.

97. It’s true we can live a life of getting away with it because we think just this once will bring us no harm – but the thing is every ill choice adds up – just as every clear choice adds up. Life is a process of moment to moment, and if we treat each moment with the same importance as the next, perhaps we won’t even consider making an ill choice. This brings with it the power of being responsible that we are accountable for.

98. This truly made me stop and feel how I have chosen to live and what I may have chosen to ignore as having possible consequences, therefore allowing it to remain as a behaviour in my life that although not recogniseable from the behaviour of days gone by, is still there just in a new form. What a call to responsibility.

99. Anne, what you share is very familiar and many will relate to it. You also openly bring to view a phenomenon often difficult to comprehend: ‘why people continue to do what they know harms the body’. Scientists at one Australian university say the reason why most people ignore modifiable risk factors known to cause illness and diseases like dementia is because the long-term effect of particular behaviours is delayed. In other words, there is no immediate cause and effect (although we know there often is, if we listened to our bodies). Most people, continue to do what they’ve always done because they’re so deadened to their bodies, they no longer feel and begin to think they’ve ‘got away with it’. The Way of the Livingness offers another way, to live with conscious awareness, love and listen to our bodies and find the source of what makes us feel unwell or out of balance – continuous communication with ourselves and our bodies, and not simply waiting for the wake up call.

100. Thanks Anne, you make it clear there is in fact no getting away with anything, and that is something I have understood for many years, not only observing clients and their life-time choices and eventual ailments, but also myself. We are designed to live in harmony with ourselves and each other, and anything not in line with that, is registered in the body. Eventually that has to come out… and often in ways we get ‘shocked’ about, as you say.

     1. Thanks Jenny Ellis for bringing a greater understanding on this topic as we can often bury our head in the sand and ‘think’ that the body is not registering all the harm that we continue to pile on time and time again. A bit like a pack horse that we don’t think will break. Although the ways in which it all comes out can lead to huge life lessons and so much healing in the long run.

        1. So true Natalliya, I have often marvelled at what the body seemingly ‘absorbs’, for years and years without apparent ‘consequence’. But in time it does come out again, and the severity and debility caused then is proportional to what has been lived in earlier years. A great point you make though to balance this is the opportunity offered to learn and heal a great deal in one’s life… for those who take this as the opportunity it is, their healing process is usually quite profound, far less traumatic and something they often come to the end of and feel very grateful for having experienced. They are never the same again… which means they will not just start re-creating the exact same thing again. When we understand illness and disease this way, it is very empowering.

101. Can we see as a blessing that our evolution involves clearing in our bodies, as illness or disease, back to a quality of being and a way of living with absolute responsibility for who we are? Therefore, getting away with things, such as through the belief that we can eat anything in moderation, is counter evolutionary. This huge false image of life that Anne has spotlighted holds us back from experiencing and embracing the divine nature within us as the true essence of life and what we are here to rediscover.

102. Goodness I find myself back here, this is a great blog. How often do we carry on regardless of the consequences to our bodies? The conversation can be incredibly subtle but the body is actually always in communication with us. The less sugar and other stimulating foods I eat to distract me the more I am hearing and listening to the conversation. An amazing life education.

103. Such a great reminder that every single choice has a consequence, whether good or bad. This is a responsibility that doesn’t seem to be taught in full. We get taught not to treat others badly and the focus is always on how to treat others, but what about how we live ourselves and the impact that has on us and then on everyone else. Only worrying about what’s going on externally doesn’t work if what’s happening at home is a right mess. Thank you Anne for your honesty, because all you share here I’m certain most of us can relate to.

104. I know I can’t get away with anything but there are times when I arrogantly ignore the feelings in my body and don’t want to take responsibility for what is happening. It can be over-eating or reacting to the children but whatever it is I have to take a few steps back, maybe more and address those choices I made that were not loving.

105. ‘everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day’ Very true, a powerful reminder to observe the quality of my thoughts and be more aware of what I am choosing as I know I can, at times, slip into judgement, which not only harms me, but others too.

106. Some great points here “It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us.” Being honest about our choices can bring a simplicity to life. The getting away with it part is because we are so good at ignoring the short term consequences, only stopping when something big happens such as an illness. The truth is though our daily marker can be so low for what we accept as quality of life, that our choices can just get lost in the daily self abuse and self neglect that has become our normal. For me everyone around me reflected self abuse and self neglect, until I met Serge Benhayon I didn’t have a clear reflection for what a truly vital, healthy, and self loving way of living was.

107. “Getting away with it’ and the arrogance that goes with it cause so much harm and disease to our bodies. The fact is, as you have pointed out Anne, we never get away with it; the corrections will come at some time!
     Great blog Anne, thank you.

108. Having never suffered major or even minor debilitating illness really, it still feels as if every choice brings accountability. For example some amazing opportunities have come my way and I just was not in the right place to make the most of them. This was because of thinking I was getting away with living a certain way while knowing it was not true to my potential.

109. Anne, it honestly is a huge wake up call in how much we need to take care of our ever-so-delicate body and not hold back what it is we are feeling. I appreciate the firm reminder here in your blog – an inspirational read again from you.

110. “It is about being willing to stop, be still and listen to my body, and to live from and with the knowing that lies within me, the wisdom of my inner-heart.” So true Anne. Everything we think, say and do has consequences – for ourselves and for everyone. There is no ‘getting away with it’. So do we choose to heal or to harm?

111. Great blog this Anne. We certainly can con ourselves that we are getting away with stuff but who are we trying to fool? We can’t avoid knowing what we are doing so its impossible really to get away with anything. A crazy trick for sure.

112. We can abuse our bodies as much as we like, it is free will however, there must always be a correction from our bodies in order to get us back to harmony with the all.

113. “Getting away with it” – oh my goodness. The whole of society lives this way – the level of irresponsibility that even the tip of this conversation exposes is mind-blowing. Just take speed cameras. When you pass one over the speed limit, do you worry about the fact that you were going too fast and might have put some other drivers or pedestrians at risk….or do you worry about whether you got caught? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

114. Anne this getting away with it is something I ran for most of my life, it’s also how I see we as society approach our healthcare, most of us do as little as possible to look after the true way we live and even those that take care have areas that we think we can “get away with”. Be it eating something that is not so good for us, not exercising, or pushing ourselves to finish an email instead of take a bathroom break. All in all getting away with it and doing seem hand in hand for me, the moment we bring in quality to what we do, everything changes.

115. The whole phrase of ‘getting away with it’ is bizarre. The things we do are so horrible and unloving too, it’s like we may as well pipe up and saying ‘phew I was able to saw my leg off today and no-one saw me do it – I escaped!’. Who are we kidding? and what is it exactly that we are getting away with anyway? A kind of daylight robbery but of our joy, our health our vitality. So really it’s a case of us continuing to live without access to these things, rather than the pleasure we think we get. Talk about a dud prize. Thank you Anne for this blog that gives rather than gets away.

116. Thanks Anne for this reminder. It’s true everything in life has a consequence but a lot of the time we do not want to recognise this.We want to think that we are somehow above these things, the ‘ it will never happen to me’ syndrome and then when it does happen our whole world begins to crumble and we can no longer deny the falseness, although saying that there are some who continue to blame outside factors for their demise and refuse to take responsibility. It seems though that the only way back to true health and joy is to take responsibility and begin to care for ourselves and have more respect for others. We forget that when we speed in a car that it is the speed that causes the catastrophic harm and that we could injure, maim or even kill someone through our choice to thrill ourselves or check out while at the wheel.

117. Great blog Anne, very revealing and confronting.
     Also a great question; “So why not live in a way that is loving?”, I cannot think of one good reason why not, so I’m giving it a go and loving it.

118. Your blog Anne pushes a lot of buttons. I think I can and am getting away with plenty. But there are signs showing this is not the case. I get sneaky in that I compare myself to my past. I can appreciate myself and what amazing changes I have made but there are some further changes I need to make instead of ignoring them and pretending I get away with it. Beautiful blog, thank you.

119. I relate to thinking I’ve got away with something. I will often push and push until I am forced to stop – especially when it involves one of my comforts – food being a particularly obvious one. But the biggest harm is not the overeating etc. but the ‘stupendous arrogance’ with which I look at the scene, in full awareness of what is going on and that I am deliberately choosing. That’s breathtakingly arrogant.

120. “The arrogance of this is stupendous”; as is the level of irresponsibility to ourselves and others. Sad to say Anne that I would have had the same reaction; but no more. Thank you for highlighting this level of arrogance and irresponsibility.

121. Our body registers everything, from the apparently big to apparently small. Everything means something, which is very beautiful because it’s not about being right or wrong it’s actually about being more love, more of who we are. I see people who become unwell that feel that they have done something wrong, but really it’s a great opportunity to appreciate the body we live in for it’s honesty, truth and clear ways of communication.

122. Powerful blog and story Anne. It is so common to feel like we are getting away with something when nobody else sees it or when we do it in our own room/car, in a different country or anything really. Yet as your story shows all our choices are lived by our body and will have their either healing or harming impact, which will reveal itself in time.

123. We have become experts and great masters at papering over cracks, at ignoring the over-due reminders, at cutting off from the health warnings. We have developed a fantastic skill at ignoring what our body feels. Imagine if we devoted this same dedication to living with common sense and responsibility. Perhaps then we would see that there is nothing we ever escape from under the sun, just issues we can momentarily numb ourselves from.

124. What a timely piece for me to read this morning. The truth is we DO know everything. We know exactly if it feels true to us, what we are doing…yet we chose otherwise, thinking we can get away with it. I too am learning the hard way that you cannot and will not get away with this. The madness is that we chose the misery, pain and illness over joyfulness each and every day.

125. What do we really think we are getting away with? Clearly that thought is fed to us to keep on thinking we can avoid responsibility for as long as we feel like it.

126. What is true and consistent is that we never actually get away with anything… we are accountable for everything we do, unfathomable as this may seem when first introduced to the idea, but when one has understanding of the energetic interplay that is happening all the time around us, it really does start to make sense.

127. Reading your beautifully honest blog again Anne Malatt, I realise that I understand and appreciate much more how my body reflects my connection to its true wisdom and the precision of its communication. It misses not an iota of my choices. It is the key to understanding who I am and the vastness of my body’s connection to the wisdom of the universe. I love this!

128. Could getting away with it also mean getting away with not letting the love in that is all around us? The love that surrounds us and holds us and allows us to express with love.

129. Anne, thank you for sharing this. It was great to hear about the different ways we try to get away with things. Especially the examples with food for me. It’s a great way to look at responsibility.

130. ‘It is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on.’
     I love what you have come to Anne – how you are taking responsibility and choosing to live lovingly. For me, I don’t want to wait until something happens to get the kick up the bum I need to start living with the knowing of who I am and the enormity of what that means. Although, if I keep going the way I am it will inevitably end up with a kick! I watch other people live a life of disregard and wonder why they get away with it.. and if they ARE getting away with it then I want to too! OUCH! How’s that for irresponsibility!? Ok, I know I am a leading light, so it’s time to take responsibility for who I am and how I live. Again, Anne, this blog and sharing your experience is extremely valuable to me right now.

131. Wow Anne – your honesty and reflection of life is like a knock out for me!
     I can honestly say that ‘getting away with it’ is my motto too – I can do sneaky things sometimes, like eating food that is not mine just to get away with it. I know the food I eat is not supportive or the amount, I know that holding back my true feeling or not expressing is also not support, but I get away with it because I can’t see or feel a huge consequence. Funny thing is though, that I DO feel not myself and am totally terrified of the consequences of my actions, like illness or disease. It is a real wake up call and gentle slap in the face reading your blog this morning Anne. I will take head of its messages loud and clear.

132. Loved the example of the policeman and the speed limit, also received the core of the message which is all our choices catch up with us

133. I love this blog, it highlights that we ultimately do not get away with anything. We can often think we do but our body will always reflect our every choices and reminds us to take responsibility and it never lets us get away with anything because it is the marker of truth.

     1. Well said chanly88! When we are made of this truth, our body and its particles will always register when it has been put in harm’s way! What a beautiful reminder that we inhabit this body but its parts are not ours to own!

134. Well, I can really relate to this. The pattern of continuing to do something my body has already warned me about because the effects are minor, really made me squirm to feel today. As you say Anne, the truth is we get away with nothing, because everything is having an effect and in the long term it shows up. A great reality check.

135. Anne, I love the serendipity of life and how today I found your blog from a link on dating exhaustion http://www.esotericwomenshealth.com/blog/dating-exhaustion-women-in-livingness-brisbane-2016. And I needed to hear what you say today, how getting away with it is not working, I know this, I deeply know this and yet I still push those limits, thinking that somehow this time I’ll manage to get away with it, or even worse that I know how to recover and well that will be fine. So today I am feeling the consequences of my choices and I’m exhausted and most definitely not getting away with it, and yet I still can feel that I think I have; in other words I’ve decided that a certain level of exhaustion is fine for a certain amount of time and I can feel how I’ve calculated the recovery period in there too; I’ve decided this level of harm (it is harm, my body is telling me so) is ok because I know how to get back from it and I am willing to be with that discomfort until I do, and yet while I do that I am less than full with me and all around, this seems crazy and yet here I am. And as you rightly say it’s not about beating ourselves up but getting truly honest with what we do and why, and being willing to see the payback we get – we get something from those things we do, so my question now is that payback worth it, and I am willing to drop more of my arrogance and admit that it hurts when I treat myself in this way? Am I willing to truly see how much I’m not getting away with it?

136. When seen in this way, it is so super loving of our soul to pull us up, stop us in our tracks and make us listen. Our desire to have complete free will and individual choice is so strong that we simply do not stop our wayward behaviour until our body makes it impossible to continue. Well that has been my experience with certain patterns that I stubbornly did not want to let go of. We do have free will but we must learn that we can choose within the divine principles of order that we are bound by. There is a universal law that we can know from our connection to ourselves and it is our evolutionary path to re-turn to this knowing.

     1. Beautifully said Emma – there is always consequence for our actions because of these laws we are bound by. We are still connected and governed by the bigger picture of the Universe. So really, when I think I am getting away with it, I now know that this is a trick and I have lost connection with the bigger purpose here on earth. Perhaps getting away with it is just a rich ploy to make delay more attractive?

        1. Yes it feels like that, like we are gaining something by revelling in rebelliousness, showing those around us that we are beyond needing to listen to the divine Universal laws! Exposing the arrogance we can so easily fall for…..

137. Dear Anne, I have just found your blog from 2013 from the link from the Esoteric Women’s Health blog on the recent workshop on Exhaustion. Wow, I didn’t realize you had dealt with a cancer diagnosis in recent times. Your writing certainly carries the authority of someone who has lived what you are sharing.

     I find it interesting how this thought sits there for most of us, the idea of ‘getting away with it’, that we think it is OK if no-one sees. We love to indulge in irresponsibility. From my experience, there is a rebelliousness, like a teenager who ‘just wants to do it anyway!’. We will do everything we can not to feel the wisdom the body presents to us, simply and consistently, from every choice we make. We stubbornly hold onto what we think is working for us, even though it is not, being fearful of what we don’t know or at least telling that to ourselves. For underneath the fear is the arrogance of just wanting to do whatever it is we like.

     From recently making some big steps towards actually listening to my body and letting go of my habitual ways, I can say that I was afraid of the power it would bring to my expression, to really listen to what my essence was telling me is the truth.

138. Our energetic imprints add up to a score we have with God and no one else. It has nothing to do with whether or not another person sees, but rather whether our choice is in alignment with what our inner heart tells us to be the truth.

139. The ultimate in responsibility is behaving in a way ALL the time where it doesn’t matter who’s watching, if anyone. We’re responsible to ourselves first and foremost, cheating only ourselves.

     1. Exactly Suzanne and that’s what I’ve been beginning to feel – that I’m only cheating myself when irresponsibility seems more attractive than the consistency of living responsibility. Even if no one is watching, we are all always connected, so we take whatever energy we were in alone out to the rest of the world to see.

     2. I remember noting this very comment Suzanne as a little girl. Watching others stand and blatantly lie and know deep down that they knew they were lying foremost to themselves. It doesn’t surprise me that this is a lesson we are constantly shown to learn to this very day.

     3. Gosh, well said Suzanne “The ultimate in responsibility is behaving in a way ALL the time where it doesn’t matter who’s watching, if anyone” why would we have to change our behaviour when someone else is watching? this clearly indicates that WE KNOW when what we are doing isn’t true for us. Otherwise, we wouldn’t feel guilty, weird, ashamed or worried if anyone else saw and we wouldn’t try to hide it.

140. We really do think, that so long as no one is watching us…we’ll get away with this teeny tiny self misdemeanor. But, truth is, we can do all that we want in secret, BUT, our body was there for every single choice we have ever made, and it will need to correct the wrongs at some point. So, we never ever get away with anything.

141. The idea of getting away with it feels so familiar to me. From my own life I can see that I have been presented with many opportunities to take notice of the choices I am making which bring harm to me and others but the question was what would it take for me to take notice? How bad did things have to be for me to consider that I was no longer getting away with it?

     1. This feels like a key to me Michael! We are not taught that our bodies don’t actually belong to us, we live in them and have control over our choices whilst doing so, however on a cellular level we just borrow what belongs to the universe to become physical. How arrogant that we then trash what we have borrowed!

        1. Wow – I love that Bernadette. It strikes me that we all know this and yet choose to forget, to enable us to indulge in our own investment into a way of living that deep down we know is not working.

142. I know this is a big quote “It is not about blaming myself, finding fault, beating myself up. It is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on. It is about being willing to stop, be still and listen to my body, and to live from and with the knowing that lies within me, the wisdom of my inner-heart.” A big Quote but a gem of a quote! I am so appreciative of this blog right now, there are still things I have tried to get away with which have caught up with me. I can feel the shame I have from myself to myself but I need to apply love and be willing to stop, listen, be honest with myself and make choices that honour the wisdom of my inner heart.

     1. Same here Lucy with everything you’ve quoted and shared. In the experience that I have from listening to my body it makes every bit of sense to follow my body. And to beat myself up for the part of me that doesn’t want to listen and pretend to be ‘getting away with it’ is the very opposite of listening to my body. I have not gotten away with any ill choice, they are in the body until I address them. So then how would the body address them? By not repeating them first came to mind but I know that actions will speak louder than thought – so why not give it a go? It’s nothing new it’s just expanding on what I have already started.

        1. Well said, building and confirming a foundation one choice at a time.

143. “Getting away with it” does seem risky behaviour but at the same time, I know I do still take a few short cuts such as eating what I know my body is telling me to stop putting into it. But as you say Anne, Are we really ” getting away with” anything, when it comes back to haunt us through illness or discomfort.

144. I am pondering on whether realising we never get away with things is really the complete motivation to change. Perhaps it is equally important to fathom the enormous love that we are and how healing for mankind it is to express this with all the care and attention for ourselves and equally others.

145. I love the fact that we cannot “get away” with anything really. It means that we have to be responsible for our actions/thoughts/behaviours.

     1. Yes Elizabeth and the ‘thoughts’ is the word that stands out for me in that list. It brings an attention to detail that can stop the behaviours and actions before they happen.

        1. Awesome point Lucy. The thoughts certainly dominate for me. Taking more responsibility for those will lead to more loving choices.

     2. While there was a time where I did not appreciate this fact, I too now love the fact that we can’t get away with anything, and that taking responsibility is in fact much more supportive than being irresponsible and arrogant.

        1. I can feel myself getting to the same point Angela – although my life has run on getting away with it, I know that inside I do not want to live life like this any longer.

     3. Absolutely, we certainly do Elizabeth, taking responsibility and being honest with regards to everything we choose is not only supportive for ourselves but this supports everyone around us too.

     4. Great comment Elizabeth, when we think we can get away with things we are only kidding ourselves because we are ultimately avoiding taking responsibility and it is a delay tactic that doesn’t support us or others at all.

146. Anne I can so relate to what you’ve shared here thank you, particularly when it comes to driving. I could just say ditto, with a couple of minor variations. It was only a few months ago I had similar realisations about why I felt the ‘right’ to speed whenever I felt it was safe to do so, concluding exactly the same as you have. I realised there was a certain ‘special’ I held myself in, compared with ‘everyone else out there’, and hence the rules didn’t apply to me. This was a great leveller to see and feel, as I could also feel the constant judgement I was holding ‘everyone else’ in to uphold this position on the roads and hence in life.

     1. Yes Jenny, I have never really gone this far into considering that perhaps I see the speed limit as applying to me only when it suits me but it is true. Since I have had the honour of teaching a few young adults to drive I have had to look at what rules I feel ‘apply’ to a learner and what rules ‘apply’ to me – mmmm- – tumbleweed moment and very humbling. There was a reminder of that over this holiday period as we enter double demerit points on our licences if we get caught for anything…as my husband says…you would only be worried about that if you intended to do something wrong – or perhaps thought that the original rules didn’t apply to you…eeek. This is not simply about how we behave in cars but a great reflection for life.

        1. Oh so true Lucy… why be worried about double demerit points indeed! Very exposing as yes, shows a willingness to take a calculated risk, if the consequences are deemed to be acceptable! Definitely guilty there too!!

147. ‘It is about understanding that we never get away with it.’ We don’t. It is never too late to make loving choices. Every little thing matters.

148. I absolutely love the rawness of this post Anne. Love it! Particularly love the facts spelt out here: ‘It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.’

149. I love this blog too Anne, it is a very familiar attitude to me. I know I often bargain with myself…if I do this now then later I will really take care of myself. Why do I still think, with all that I know and have felt, that the natural wisdom of my body doesn’t always apply to me? There is so much truth to be really felt and loved.

150. I have loved re-reading this blog as we are never getting away with it, but delaying what we need to deal with.

151. Awesome Anne, re-reading your words it is a great reminder that there is always a consequence to the choices we make and that every choice is felt and held within our body. A great reminder to treat ourselves with the true love and care that we are.

152. Thank you Anne, yes we are so conditioned to ‘getting away with things’ , and until we understand the energetic flow of the universe a little more we will continue under this illusion UNTIL we realize that we get away with nothing , absolutely nothing

     1. That feels so true to me cjames2012, that we do not get away with nothing, absolutely nothing. Although my mind now tries to tell me that it will not come to that quickly, I know from experience that what you say is the truth and I have to take the responsibility to choose to listen and care for my body, as it is my vehicle in this life that will show me the way to go, to live the glorious life of a Son of God on earth.

153. What I really got from reading this blog today was to appreciate more deeply how amazing our bodies really are. Despite our choices, our bodies NEVER stop talking to us … It just a matter of how long they need to keep shouting before we stop to listen!

154. We can never get away from being the love that we are, although we may run a mile to do so. Our unloving ways are the mileage we accrue when we refuse to be what we so simply are – love.

155. Thank you Anne, what a superbly honest look at how we never in-truth, ‘get away’ with anything but nor are we punished. Our bodies are simply our markers of truth – have we lived the love that we are OR have we lived everything that is not this love and thereby polluted the vehicle (our body) we have, through which to express this love? Every thought, behaviour, word and action that we are responsible for, can only ever come from ‘that which heals’ or ‘that which harms’. Thus, we do not need to ask ourselves if we ‘got away’ with anything, we only need to ask if what we did came from the source that is love, or from the source that is not. This can be known in an instant through what is felt in our body but if it is ignored, then our body will give us the answer further down the track when the accumulation of unloving ways that have been embedded in the body, eventually rise to the surface to be seen for what they are. It is easy to ignore a feeling we cannot ‘see’ but harder to ignore a clearly visible lump in the flesh that we can touch. Thus, at any given moment we have the choice whether to listen to our bodies the moment that they speak, or to the recording of the message that will play some time later.

156. It may seem some people ‘get away with it’ in terms of avoiding major illness for many years while living quite irresponsibly in regards to food, drug and alcohol indulgence or partying hard too often and so on. Yet even in the absence of such major illness I can testify in my earlier years, there was bouts of exhaustion and depression, accidents and clumsiness, reckless spending of money, fights with girlfriends and family, poor employment record and being fired from jobs and the list goes on. Then, later in life perhaps many choices are buried in our bodies and come out even though we may have ‘cleaned up our act’. So I agree, we do not get away with anything and instead ‘put up’ with a quality of life far from joyful and harmonious.

157. Dear Anne, thank you for another great article, it is amazing how we can abuse our bodies and think we get away with it, until illness and disease hits us, sometimes saying , why me, not realising that this had been the result of every unloving choice we have made. Choosing responsibility and self love will bring back the healing our body is asking us for.

158. I have made a life of just doing enough to get by, in school, at work, in relationships and most of all with myself. Falsely telling myself that a piece of cake is a reward, a reward for who? in what way is eating something that feels so terrible a treat? It is a reward for the part of me that is choosing to be less, to play it small, to just get through this with out taking on too much responsibility, etc. Not much of a life, I know because I lived it for so long.

     How different one life can be when choosing to be aware, to take responsibility, to be all of who I am, without perfection, but with appreciation and maybe even adoration.

159. I remember very well that my body always contracted, when I read something like “you won’t get away with it”. Like a fear of being busted! Reading it today after having spend some time with Serge Benhayon, this reaction is still there, but much slighter – much more in the background. Now I basically feel safe reading those words, because I know that God’s love is eternal and patient enough to bring me back to my full responsibility no matter what.

160. I am forever grateful that at about the age of 15 when I was in full swing rebellion and disregard of my body and myself and everyone around me my mother grabbed me and said I want you to have a long look in the mirror ( she meant literally) in 10 years are you going to look back at some of the choices you are making now and be proud and happy of yourself. I did actually look in the mirror and it was a shock imagining myself as a mother or an older woman explaining some of the things I was doing. It didn’t match the future picture I had of myself. I was living in a way that I knew was not going to get me where I wanted. I didn’t stop straight away but it was definitely a pattern interrupt, and an opportunity to change the course.

161. The arrogance of thinking I can ‘get away with it’ is as you say Anne, stupendous. With that arrogance we can convince ourselves that we don’t have to be responsible for what we are actually choosing. I love the way that simple comic humour can trigger such depth to your article.

162. I love coming back to this blog as reminder of what life is truly about and how we can never really get away with anything as much as we try. It would be so great if we were brought up with this awareness as a child. Thank you Anne.

163. You will stop a lot of people in their tracks Anne with this line: “The arrogance of this is stupendous.” Thank you for being clear about this way of living, thinking you can get away with stuff. Just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there or not happening.

164. We delude ourselves thinking we can just eat a little of a food we know our bodies will react to, measuring the amount that we know we will only have a milder reaction to, thinking we can get away with it. But whom do we think we are fooling?

165. Reading your blog Anne I am reminded of one of the big Stop signs you see whilst coming to a junction on the road. This sign must not be disobeyed, you can’t slow down and creep through slowly, one must come to a complete stop then proceed with care. My body has given this stop many times in my life, I have become clever and arrogant by not pushing things too far so I’m not stopped, but still I pay the for the consequences of my unloving treatment of my body.

     1. Could this be the way pretty much the whole world is living Thomas, by pushing through life just so much so that there’s not necessarily a major stop moment (of course there is for many as we see continuous rise in people experiencing disease and illness), but a very many smaller pause moments that are barrelled over with by drinking more, eating more, entertainment and sport or exercise? Maybe we all desperately need a stop moment, coupled with an understanding that everything we do affects us and everyone else.

     2. I think what is interesting Thomas, is that before the big stop sign there are so many smaller signs, bumps, turns in the road that we don’t listen to. In some regard the big stop signs are the easy ones to see.

     3. Great example Thomas and a brilliant reminder for me in regards to how I listen to my body and when I am driving, do I pay attention to the many ‘Stop’ signs I come across?

166. I love the honesty in your blog Anne. I have come to understand that not only do we harm ourselves with the unloving choices we make, but energetically we harm everyone else, our harming choices support others to continue in their harming choices, so the responsibility is not just to ourselves but to everyone.

167. I appreciate that you have written on this topic Anne, as I have noticed a similar set of behaviours and thoughts around ‘getting away with it’. Speeding, eating, expressing, living. I completely agree, we do not get away with anything, and who do we think we are fooling? only ourselves.

168. This is a great exposure of the arrogance many of us run with, for as you have shown, it only may appear that we get away with our unloving choices, when in fact they are just stacking up, waiting for us to stop and pay attention and feel the damage we are choosing for ourselves.

169. We cannot get away with anything, because everything that we do/say/think is registered in the body as being either supportive or harming for us, so even though we might think we get away with things, we don’t. The body knows everything.

170. We often think of the major consequences of getting away with it, like cancer or the speeding ticket, but these are the end result of pushing the envelope too far. What about how our body is feeling during these ‘getting away with it’ moments. How does your body feel when we do speed? We do it with the tension of the possibility of getting caught, or losing control or having an accident. Or is it the thrill of speeding which is an elevation in the body. Or it could be a combination of all. So not only are we speeding in the car we are speeding in our bodies. Why? Why do we think we can get away with it?

171. I have been living my life with this attitude of getting away with it but I also live with the fear of what my consequences will be and if it’s a major illness I will not enjoy the intrusion in my body. Now I’m taking on a more loving choice to deal with the tension I carry in my body so I don’t continue to harm me and think I’m getting away with it. By making this choice I maybe eliminating any future illnesses or body break downs but I’m also aware that my past arrogance can/could present itself at any time and I am accepting of this as I now know why.

172. Anne, your line ‘And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.’ hit me at the end, so I think I’m getting away with it; I’ve been the queen of knowing how far to go, and yet it’s in my body the consequences and it’s only when my body in the past has shown me how much I’ve not been getting away with that I’ve begun to listen. It’s changing, but there’s traces there still of that reckless arrogance that wants to live on the edge but really is measuring and it’s there always the affects, definitely one to consider, and as you ask could it be we live with love as our absolute imprint, and what would that look like – one to explore.

173. Awesome blog Anne. Our bodies are a living record, of how we have lived in the past – to think that all the limits we have pushed and continue to push in all facets of our daily lives is not recorded in our own bodies is us just being plain disrespectful and ignorant. Eventually all these choices do indeed ‘catch up with us’, how can they not..…ouch.

     1. This is so true , Suse. While we are not physically experiencing consequences of our choices at particular moment we think it is all okay but our bodies are feeling and recording everything! Our spirit enjoys playing with us!

        1. Oh dear, yes – the record – it all comes round to clear and balance in the end. This is not judgement but a rebalancing of love. Why add to the list? Good inspiration Suse and Anne.

174. Even though some of us may choose to not be aware of the repercussions of our choices upon our bodies, each of us are nevertheless students of free will. That is why humanity needs to have laws and rules, because within them we are alleviated the responsibility to make choices that do not harm ourselves or others. But these choices still continue and I’ve made lots of them too. To come to accept that we can’t get away with anything can’t come from a fear of impending karma or consequences, but from the love with which we regard ourselves and others in; knowing that another person is our brother or sister, whoever they are.

     1. A great point Jinya – choices that come from fear of retribution can never come from love. And choices that are not made from love will need to be revisited again and again until love can be chosen as the guiding light. If we want to simplify our lives, it makes more sense to choose love so as not to have to sort the mess out after.

175. Anne, I so enjoyed your lighthearted approach to a serious subject and it brings the point home very clearly that we we never get away with it, even if we think we do – the consequences catch up with us, and affect others, sooner or later.

     1. True Sandra. If not this life, the next. But our choices always catch up. how we feel, the relationships we have and our life is a reflection of that.

176. Anne, your blog left me wondering just how much I am currently doing where I am thinking I am ‘getting away with it’. I can already name a couple of things and I am sure there are more lurking around. I know that everything I do counts and it either heals or harms me, so it’s definitely time to stop the excuses before my body has to provide me with a message I can’t ignore. Thank you.

     1. Yes Gilesch, ‘it’s definitely time to stop the excuses’. This blog shows up the arrogant ‘excuses’ we all use to avoid being responsible and it highlights the fact that the body is all the time letting us know the consequences of what we are doing to it and if we don’t listen it, has to cry louder to be heard.

     2. Awesome Gilesch, I like that you nominate the ‘getting away with it’ notion is pretty much just an excuse we choose to not take responsibility and delaying what our body is already telling us.

177. This is very honest and refreshing. You are so right it is not about beating ourselves up because we can no longer get away with things anymore or if we are doing things that we know are truly not supporting us; but about being willing to stop and take stock, be honest, feel and see what is really going (what we are doing/living that is not loving) and then changing this. I can really relate with what you have shared as I am still doing things that I think I am getting away with, like with food, but from what you have shared I can see the only person I am cheating in doing this is in fact myself because it is one more thing that is stopping me from being all that I am.

     1. Vicky great point. The only person we are cheating on is ourselves. I like this, I’m going to take this into my every day livingness. Thank you.

     2. Beautifully said Vicky. There comes a point when we have to stop and take stock, and take responsibility for the choices we have made whether they are past or present. We then have the opportunity to make different choices and the potential to be all that we are. Then not only do we benefit, but so does everyone else.

178. “It is about being willing to stop, be still and listen to my body, and to live from and with the knowing that lies within me, the wisdom of my inner-heart”.
     Very beautifully expressed Anne.
     Bridging the gap between what we know to be true and what we can get away with is sometimes such a challenge!!
     I too am ready to give it a go!!

179. Thanks for this Anne, it is amazing to consider that we wait until our body is screaming at us before we take notice. That thinking “I will get away with it”, premeates so many areas of life that it can become hard to be honest about all the ways we abuse ourselves, both big and small.

     1. So true Joel. It is so crazy, that often the body has to scream before we even notice the body. How long must we have ignored the body to reach such a state of being ? I was very good at overriding the signals of my body and I’m very grateful, that I’m able to change this now.

     2. So true Joel. Just reading what you’ve said here has made me flinch a little, because I know I’m walking around with the arrogance of thinking I will get away with the ‘small’ stuff. When it comes to our choices, there is no such thing as small, if every choice we make has an impact on absolutely everything and everyone around us, then does that not explain the dis-ease in which society lives?
        There needs to be a call to action around accountability and self responsibility..starting with me!

        1. Nice, Eloide– “No such thing as small stuff” – it is in every choice, every breath even.

        2. Awesome Elodie, well said. It is interesting what you shared here, I can totally relate. It is now obvious to me that I can’t measure my choices, they are either loving or unloving, no in-between and they have equal impact either way.

     3. Brilliant Joel, so true. If we wait for our bodies to be screaming at us before we take notice, the damage we’ve done to our bodies at times may be irreversible. Our bodies are so precious, loving it and caring for it as best we can is certainly worth it.

        1. This is true and I have also noticed our bodies are incredibly resilient and can heal in ways I never thought possible. So either way being more loving is a good bet!

        2. Certainly worth it indeed Chanly88 “Our bodies are so precious”

180. Anne, this is brilliant. Your sharing has simply supported where I am currently at – an awareness that we absolutely do NOT get away with it. What you have mentioned and what is becoming abundantly clear for me is being HONEST about how we actually feel, and what is truly going on for us, health wise in our bodies. This awareness then builds a foundation to go gently forward, without judgement, to develop more loving changes.

181. The consequences feel too far away or we can’t feel them at all because our actions have made us so numb that we are insensitive to the body’s messages, or we kid ourselves that it will be OK, it won’t affect us, and it is only when we have a full blown medical scare, that we finally stop and take notice. It’s a big ‘ouch’ to see it for the arrogance it is. The lack of care we have for our own bodies is sometimes appalling.

182. The truth is… That we actually do not get away with anything, but this is such a dichotomy according to most of humanities conceptions that this level of responsibility is never considered… But this is where we must return to to lift ourselves out of the swamp of irresponsibility that we have sunk into over the centuries.

183. Beautifully honest writing Anne. I so relate to thinking I can get away with things but the consequences to the behaviour (wanted or unwanted) are always felt, eventually anyway.

     1. I agree Annie.. to “think” you will get away with it is crazy! The body doesn’t hide that which is not loving. It’s up to us to either listen to the signs or continue to ignore them.

184. It funny how we think we can get away with anything really, the body feels or takes the punishment or we just leave a negative imprint that we need to re imprint or deal with later on down the track .

     1. Even when there is not any physical sign of the consequences of our actions there is always the underlying imprints as you say Greg…the is always a reaction from our actions.

185. Anne, I so understand and relate to what you have written here and I have engaged in very similar behaviours and thoughts myself, as I am sure have many, many others. If so many of us do this, I wonder where we get that notion that we ” can get away with it,” with the inference that we are “special.” It’s not from our bodies because, as you say, our bodies relate the facts and the truth of the situation to us instantly. So what is the source? Is it what we have called our “intelligence”? If that is the case, then how is this “intelligent’? Especially, when we end up sick with the consequences….

     1. Good point, Coleen, ‘drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney’…is certainly not ‘intelligent’ behaviour, even if we do have a PhD. We all know that what we are doing is not worthy of us, as evidenced by such expressions.

186. What a wonderful blog that I am sure we can all relate to. When I kid myself I am getting away with something, there is an incredible amount of arrogance that I can do what I like to my body and it will just have to take it. When I think about it what I am really ‘getting away with’ is hurting myself and my body with these choices.

     1. I feel the same Fiona. The level of pain the body is feeling as a result of my choices is felt soon after.

        1. I so agree Fiona and grounded05 no matter what we can not escape the pain and hurt of the choices we make, when those choices do not support us.

187. Oh Anne, I can totally relate to the notion of thinking I am ‘getting away with it’! Yet even as I type those words I can see them as the nonsense that they are. We humans can be such stubborn, careless creatures! But thankfully, since attending Universal Medicine workshops etc, I am developing a deeper sense of connection with myself that supports me to slowly but surely pull myself up when I sense I am falling into old habits.

188. Thank you Anne for reminding me that everything I do is kept in my logbook and that no matter what I think at the times and the thrill I enjoy, it is but short lived. Eventually the time arrives when I have to face the consequences of my choices. And the pleasant surprise is that some wise and considered choices have made a big difference in my life in recent years. What better way to know the truth about the energetic imprint of my thoughts and actions.

189. Thank you for this article and the opportunity to reflect. I find there is an arrogant bravado that overtakes me when I am in that state of knowingly engaging with something when I know “I am getting away with it”! And I have seen enough examples in my life to know that such a scenario is a bubble of illusion that will eventually pop. There is a gorgeous harmony and flow to the world around me that somehow I often want to push against and in the moment when I am caught in the arrogance, drive and perhaps a thrill, it all seems fine. But looking back I realise those choices lock me in a groove away from my own inner harmony and awareness of my own inner wisdom which later I have to work hard to return to.

     1. I agree Golnaz, the arrogance and dominance that the mind runs the body with, show us something worth looking at deeply… if we are interested in being more loving, it seems that the mind driven approach doesn’t deliver much love.

        1. The mind driven approach has never worked for me, only by giving the body a say has my life and well-being (and my mind!) changed from the non stop destruction direction it was going in. In those moments I have often gotten this sense of watching my body go through these motions, its not me, the real me, in those instances.

     2. Absolutely Golnaz – well said. The arrogant bravado has us battling ourselves, our own love and harmony with ourselves and the world around us. Thank goodness ‘the bubble of illusion’ does pop, I feel that this is testament to the fact that our love never abandons us. It keeps nagging at us to say something isn’t right, we either keep choosing behaviours to numb that pull back to love and harmony or we ‘pop’…so as I said – thank goodness for ‘pop’!

     3. So true Golnaz, to me it makes sense to take responsibility now instead of waiting further down the track to have to corrected and clear up the mess we’ve accumulated due to our choice to be irresponsible which ultimately was slowing us down in our evolution back to love.

190. The idea that we get away with it is pure illusion in a world of energy. How sad and shocking is the need to stop because the body reminds us that we did not get away with it. Would it be nice to say, I can get away with it? I do not think so because this would picture that our life is all about nothing. The fact that you cannot get away with it is a sign that life is a serious business.

191. Anything that is not self-loving or self-caring actually harms us and there is no way our bodies will ignore this, so why do we? Many of us put up with illness and disease on minor levels and they are clear messages telling us that there is something that we are doing that is or has not been self-loving or self-caring.

192. Gosh, nope, none of us are getting away with anything. I’m realising that more and more. One step out of line by your body’s standards and if the repercussions aren’t immediate, then rest assured…they’re coming. It’s quite a bit of undoing, the treating yourself with love and care vs the complete opposite. But it feels to me that it’s well worth the exercise.

193. Hi Anne, I think I ought to put a sign up in my kitchen: “Are you really getting away with it!”

194. I love this blog as it so relates to how I constantly think I have ‘got away with it’. I am not sure who I think I am fooling – I trust no longer myself. Thank you Anne for this wonderful wake up call.

195. Thinking we have ‘got away with it’ is a slippery slope as we then try it again and again and perhaps push the boundaries just that little bit further until – STOP. It brings us face to face with cause and effect. No escape from the fact that it is a self-inflicted wound.

196. If the reactions to our actions are not instantaneous it is easy to dismiss them and think that we are getting away with it. In general we have to be clobbered by the reaction for us to finally realise that we are not actually getting away with it, but if it is something we particularly like doing or eating we will avoid the truth at all costs.

     1. So true Tony, if we are honest we know exactly what to do or eat and what not to do or eat and we also know that we are not getting away with it. But somewhere I feel that I tend to ignore this knowing because of the unresolved hurt that is driving me and that feels itself more important than my body in which I live. In a way I purposely postpone the moment in time where I have to become truly honest and responsible with myself.

197. I love the way this works, Nicole. I read your comment in my emails and went back and read the blog myself (now nearly two years old) and I cringed myself when I started reading it! For I too am still learning to live in every moment of every day the gift of awareness I was offered in that moment. A great reminder for me too of what I know to be true, and an inspiration to live it more deeply. Thank you

198. Anne , this is a great reminder about the loving way our body tells us what is not okay and the arrogance we have in just carrying on because what the body is showing us does not really “hurt” us! What an illusion that is. How I am feeling in my day is always a result of the choices I have made whether they be loving or are the consequences of a care-less attitude.

199. Very insightful what you felt, realised and shared. Yep I agree we do not get away with anything, in the end we are only fooling and kidding ourselves. Better to just be honest and own up to how we live and what we think we are ‘getting away’ with; that is the only way true change can come. Your sense of humour is wicked ; )

200. Thank you Anne for your honesty. I was trying to smile at your antics about ‘getting away with it’ and found I couldn’t lie to myself, as I sometimes do all of them: the driving, the eating and pushing myself. I realised that I use these as a form of punishment: that I am not good enough and by ‘doing’ the driving, the eating and pushing myself, I have the evidence that this is so. Hmm. Methinks some nominating of what is really going on is in order!

201. Ahhh yes, in round two of reading this blog I am given a love slap, a reality check and a gentle reminder that I am never ever getting away with anything – no matter how much I justify or convince myself. As always is the deepening call of responsibility.

202. Anne just great to re read this, I am so a getting away with it type of person, still am even with all I am aware of and know to my bones I know, I still want to get away with some food or some tv or some conversation or some what ever it is but it ain’t love. It’s pretty simple really loving or not, live with it either way. So like you I feel it is time to just give love a go.

203. This is a wonderful blog Anne and one that should be made into a tv commercial such is the importance of what you have expressed. We very well know we can’t get away with what we are doing but we have the arrogance of thinking that whilst we are still young enough we can. Interestingly though is what each individual decides is their age to start playing ball with being responsible in the choices they make.

204. Perhaps in just being willing to give it a go, living in a more supportive and honest way with our bodies, is the first and biggest step we can make towards an everyday consistently genuine vitality.

     1. Yes, Shami, we cannot expect the huge momentum we have been living in to turn around overnight just because we say so (well, we can, it is that simple, but not always so easy to put into practice!).
        All we have to do is be willing to give it a go, and if we slip up, be honest about it, admit it with an “oops!” (not a word you ever want to hear your surgeon say!) and give it a go again.
        Slowly but surely, we make more loving choices, build that love in our bodies and every day, we grow into the love we naturally are.

205. Nicely nominated Anne.

206. A wonderful blog Anne. The honesty with which you write is inspiring. I have pushed the boundaries in many areas through out my life, thinking that I have gotten away with it. In reality I got away with nothing. Everything was clocked by my body. My awareness of this is limited to my level of honesty that I have with my self. Thankfully I can now look at the choices I make with an understanding that the choice I do make affects not only me and my body, but others as well. Responsibility.

207. ” It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us.” This statement expresses so much Anne. Quality and choices are everything and we can never escape that.

208. No Anne “we never get a way with anything”. Past behaviours are catching up with me but now I can decide to make them right. Universal Medicine has shown me the way and it is my responsibility alone to change direction.

209. Up until Universal medicine and Serge Benhayon came into my life I was very reckless and shamefully abusive to my body and reading your blog Anne has kind of made me brace myself for an earthquake. I do know that the last 11 years or so will help me through whatever there is to come in my life though.

210. I love your blog Anne, because it’s so relevant – getting away with it, or not taking responsibility for our actions – either way I know I have played the hide and seek game of ‘if no one sees me doing it, it didn’t happen’ or ‘no one knows so I have gotten away with it’. What I am beginning to see is that everything I do affects others, because it affects me and the way I am with them.

211. There are things I am sure I am doing that I am not yet aware of thinking I am even getting away with them. I know this because I can look back on many things in my life that I have let go of after realizing their effect and consequences. It makes me wonder what else there is to see and therefore where else I am being fooled.

212. So much truth when you say ‘We never get away with it’, Anne! Awesome blog, and glad to hear that it was just the lump and not the leg that got removed! 🙂

     1. It seems the only way to keep living recklessly is to say “we can get aways with it”. However at times it clearly doesn’t, and it shows from a lump to a leg ;).

        Thats the point – if we were ever honest enough, 90% of us would stop the behaviour if we accepted that “we never get away with it”.

213. “It is about understanding that we never get away with it,” so true Anne, there is always that ‘hope’ that we have got away with it or ‘ that no one will notice’. Knowing that our bodies have to live the consequences of ‘trying to get away with it,’ is a step towards the healing of our irresponsible choices.

     1. Love that, Alison – “that no one will notice”. Such a tricky old mindset! Would we eat that if God were at our table? Would we say that if God were listening? Well, He is! Not only that, but we are living and breathing inside His body of love – are we choosing to live in a way that honours that, or not?

214. I wonder if the harmful part was the feeling of ‘getting away with it’ and not so much the actual actions? This constant irresponsibility in our body? The funny thing is if that is true then it only requires a decision to be fully responsible, nothing more.

     1. Very true Christoph, the opposite to the “getting away with it ” mentality is to take responsibility for everything in our lives and many people do not wish to be that responsible.

     2. I agree with you Christoph well said -we are only deceiving ourselves if we think we are getting away with anything and that all our choices are not accumulating.

215. Hi Anne, ooh yes, I definitely do this one “getting away with it”. Such a great blog and one I will re-read. Our amazing bodies forget nothing and remind us constantly of the truth, thank you for sharing yours.

216. Enjoyed reading your article and your honest account of believing you were “getting away with it.” Our bodies have an amazing way of showing us when enough is enough. If we then choose to take responsibility for our actions we can see that we never really got away with anything!

217. Anne thank you for the STOP you share in your blog. I have been getting as few of these in the past few months and have had to re evaluate and admit that my body needs to be treated more lovingly and gently, in respect of its age and my acceptance of this and being fine with who I am . I still have things to look at, food being one!

218. I agree with you Anne, the way we live has an undoubtable correlation with the illness and disease we get. It’s very easy to think it won’t happen to me. In this society we do so much that harms our bodies, creates tension and anxiousness, puts ourselves and others at risk. This blog is a great stop and a call to look at our feeling of responsibility – for ourselves and others.

219. “It is about understanding that we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.”
     Thanks for such honest truth in your article, and a great daily reminder Anne.

220. A powerful piece Anne on the fact that there are always ‘consequences’ for our choices and that we are always responsible for all that we choose in life.

221. I can totally relate to not resting when tired but instead waiting until exhaustion makes me stop – a timely reminder to have another look at that and feel how I am not actually getting away with it! Thanks for sharing Anne.

222. Loved your blog Anne- a wake up call to humanity to realise that “we never get away with it”, even though our mind can be so arrogant and righteous.
     Lots to ponder upon. Thank you.

223. Such a great reminder that everything in life is healing or harming, full stop.

224. Anne, I know “that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint” which is either beneficial or not. But I’ll try nevertheless and see if this one time I can get away with it. This cocktail of arrogance, stupidity and stubbornness is not only harmful to me but to others.

225. Anne, I enjoyed reading your blog. It is so true if we live in total disregard and loveless of our body then this will at some stage have an impact on our health. The lovely body can only put up with so much before it then has to stop us in our tracks trusting that we will then reconsider how we are living.

226. I can feel the irresponsibility and arrogance that I choose when wanting to ‘get away with it’. I also wait until a food makes me double over in pain before I stop eating it. Until that point, I hold onto the comfort of that food, putting up with a bit of mucous, bloated tummy or tired feeling. But this does not leave me with true health and vitality – everything either heals or harms. As you share, we get to choose, but we never get away with it.

227. Dear Anne, I feel in truth that if we were allowed to ‘get away with it’ then what we would be getting away with is forever living lovelessly. We are love and our body is designed to continually pull us back to that love. It would not be loving at all if it did let us ‘get away with it’.

     1. Beautifully said Alexis.I may think I want to get away with things and hook in on the distraction of doing things I know are not self-loving, in an excitement of not getting ‘caught,’ but do I really want to not get caught? No, actually having consequences that ask me to love myself again shows me I am loved 100%. It is a bit like a child knowing they are loved because their parent cares about what time they are in for tea. The child whose parents aren’t bothered or aware they are out all night show they don’t care.

     2. I love what you have offered here, Alexis. We ‘think’ we want to get away with things, and resent it when we don’t, but all we are being offered is an opportunity to be more love, and to be more aware. Thank God for our bodies – where would we be without them?

     3. Great comment Alexis. You’re right our bodies are always there for us, forever supporting us, talking to us and lovingly showing us when things are to excessive. It never judges us, or gets angry with us. It is forever reflecting our true love back to us.

228. It is amazing that we can ‘think’ we can get away with something. It seems the way that we do this is to not feel how something which is happening now relates to something we may have chosen earlier. For example we could be at work, wasting time, distracted and not focusing on what we are there to do, which can easily be discounted as nothing at the time. But then in 3 days time when we find ourselves in a situation where we may need to say something important, our lack of presence and commitment at work 3 days earlier for example, now means that we are not present enough to express what is being felt or experienced.

     1. That is very confronting and important for me to hear.

        1. I find it confronting and inspiring all at the same time iljakleintjes. It constantly reminds me of the power of our choices, as staying present and committed is an amazing preparation for what is coming towards us next.

229. You have named one of our greatest arrogance and ignorance – the belief that we can do what we like to ourselves and our bodies and we will (or should be able to ) get away with it. Even with the obvious things like smoking that we know are harmful, we cling to the hope that we will be one of those people who live to 100, smoking everyday. But do we really get away with it? The person who gets away with smoking, spends their life stuck with a feeling of emptiness, needing a cigarette to take away uncomfortable feelings instead of letting go of it and embracing more of the love we are.

230. I love your honesty Anne and you are spot on. We can never get away with anything because our bodies remember and feel everything from our past and present choices.

231. Very candid and honest blog, its true you don’t get away with it.
     Our choices always catch up with us sooner or later.
     In my recent experiences it’s more likely to be sooner rather than later 😉

232. Anne, oh do I know this story….Yes, I will just push a little bit more, or surely that extra mouthful of food is doing no harm and of course I will honour the tiredness – after I do the next task. Perhaps I can get away with this today and will change tomorrow but ultimately the body screams out. Mine gave me a very loud and clear message in September 2001 with migraines that could measure on the Richter scale. Thankfully I found my way to Universal Medicine and the rest, well, is no longer a natural disaster.

233. And of course it goes even deeper than this, doesn’t it. Because if everyone understood the ongoing and imminent consequences of our choices that would and have echoed through our lives past present and future, then the world would go through one big paradigm shift, and we would be experiencing a very different reality on this earth.

     1. This is very true, Chris. Most of us are on the floor, flattened by feeling our level of personal responsibility (or lack of it!) still, but when we pick ourselves up and start to move, we feel the fact that everything we think, say and do affects not only ourselves, but everyone and everything around us, forwards and back in time! That is a lot to feel. The fact is though that it is happening anyway – whether we like it or not – all we can choose is to be aware of it and honour it, or not.

234. I loved reading your article Anne, it’s incredible how we take our bodies for granted until something happens, and then it is too late, we are then upset because we wished we had taken responsibility, and made different choices in the first place. We are caught up in the momentum of past choices, but as you have shown, it is never too late and there is always an opportunity to start make those changes now. Thank you for sharing.

235. Your article really puts the brakes on the momentum we are travelling in Anne. Thank you for saying it as it is. A poignant reminder of the consequences of our choices and that our body eventually says.. ‘Enough… I need to clear this out and the way I am being used needs to change” I am touched by your story, thank you.

236. Wow thank you Anne this is brilliant and boy do I know the ‘getting away with it’! As you have shared with us we do not get away with anything, our body is so onto us and pretend all we might the body will always have the last say. A very humbling sharing Anne.

     1. So true Marcia, we do not get away with anything. It catches up with us in the end, but how many of us push it thinking that we can “get away with it” until it is too late, taking our bodies for granted. Maybe it is time to take our heads out of the sand and realise that what we do, say or think has an effect on our bodies and only we can take responsibility for that, no one else can do it for us.

        1. Yes Sandra – what you say here ‘no one else can do it for us’ is a major reality check. We are responsible for all our choices and the effects they have on ourselves and others.

237. “Yes officer I did see the speed limit sign, I just didn’t see you”. This statement has been the story of my life, terrific blog Anne I can really relate to it and it gives me plenty to feel into

     1. This statement has been the story of my life too Joe and I agree, awesome blog Anne.

238. This is a great blog. Love the wording of “we never get away with it”. A long time ago I would feel resentment to people and friends who could continue drinking or doing unloving things and I’d be like, “how do they continue to get away with it?”. If I ate a pack of chips I would be slammed by my body and know I had made an unloving food choice, yet others appeared to get away with so much worse. I slowly realised that eventually we do not get away with our choices and the wise move of committing to being love was the best choice of all.

     1. I can relate to this too Tracy.. Not only wondering why others could seemingly get away with things I couldn’t / can’t but also in considering why many of the things I used to seemingly get away with, I now can’t (or at very minimum realise the impact much quicker!). I have come to understand that for me it is all directly related to my level of self-care and the relationship I then have with my body… I have discovered that we never get away with anything in truth, and that in fact our bodies are ‘always’ reflecting our choices, but often that we are choosing not to listen…

239. I love this blog Anne and can relate to having sneaky layers of arrogance where I still believe I can get away with things. The body is amazing though and this week I have been given the blessing of a stop. This has supported me to look at the lack of care I have been bringing to my body in the last month and lovingly choose again. I had the most refreshing sleep I have had in a while last night and I feel this is because I was open to reviewing how I have been living and stopping the arrogance of believing I can get away with making choices that don’t support my body. Living with honesty and a willingness to review the choices I am making is a beautiful and deeply caring way to live.

     1. Thank you Bianca for your lovely comment – and yes, I can relate to those ‘ sneaky layers of arrogance’ when I feel I can over-ride what I am being told. I too have been given ‘the blessing of a stop’ and a moment to recognise how once again I chose to ignore an impulse, and this time it hurt me more deeply as I am aware that I have over ridden this feeling so many times in the past. A wonderful blessing to have another opportunity to change and deepen the care that I have for my body and to treat it with great respect and integrity – and to appreciate these moments.

240. Arrogance and honesty – hot topics in my world right now so I really heard what you had to share here Anne – I may not have cancer but I do know when I am pushing myself and where I think I am getting away with it – and it’s fair to say it’s time to go deeper with my self loving choices. Thank you.

241. Recently I had to do a speed awareness course as I got caught speeding, I felt it to be a nuisance as I had to take a day off work to do it. To my surprise it was a real learning curve I realised that unbeknown to me I was an arrogant driver and even good drivers can’t stop any quicker if you are going too fast and the danger you are putting yourself in and other people on or near the road by blatantly going too fast. Reading your blog Anne really made me appreciate the learning experience here and I also related it to other areas of my life.

242. Reading your incredibly honest blog Anne, provided me with many “ouch” moments, reminding me of the way I too lived in disregard of my body and the consequences that followed. You are so right in saying that we are being very arrogant to think we are “going to get away with it”. Our body has a long memory and when it tires of us not listening to its warning signs it will simply stop us in our tracks, just to get our attention. Thanks to Serge Benhayon for presenting another way to live that is so far removed from this self abusive way of life; a way that is full of simplicity and common sense.

243. How absurd is it that we even ‘think’ we are getting away with something. Like if no one else see’s it, it is ok.

244. I appreciate your conclusion Anne that it is time to allow yourself to live your potential. For me I feel there is a link between making choices that somewhat limit my potential and an old feeling that living my potential will not be possible to sustain, will disappoint or make others react. Without really going for it of course I can never know, so I agree, it is about time.

245. True, we never get away with it, some how, some way our choices catch up with us, in fact I would say of the impact of those choices are felt immediately in our bodies but often there is a cumulative affect. Our heads are the things telling us that we made it through what ever risky venture we have undertaken, if we pay attention to our body it will tell us the true story. I know I have told myself I got away with it, but I can feel the lack of truth in this and now chose another way.

246. I can feel from reading your blog Anne, the same attitude constantly working behind the scenes in me… until it gets jolted by a big stop in the form of an accident or illness, that says ‘hey, you can’t keep going this way’. Why this is so easy to slip into is something I am still getting to the bottom of, but at the beginning now at least is a commitment to the honesty of ‘why’ and ‘how’ which leads to a deeper understanding and awareness of what is behind this game – a work in progress.. awesome blog Anne.

247. Wonderful blog Anne. I found myself nodding all the way through it. On reflection, I don’t speed when driving because I don’t risk the consequences so am very responsible in that sense, however, I do things with my body until I can no longer get away with it. Wow, I hadn’t stopped to realise this. This seems crazy now. I have had speeding tickets (not many in my years of driving) but the pain of the fine is too great and so you could say I’ve learned my lesson. But, I still continue with foods or behaviour knowing they don’t serve me until I get a very loud sign from my body or something not working in my life for me to say ‘time to stop that’. Something for me to ponder on…thank you.

248. This blogs inspires me Anne, to become more aware of all my measured committed offences. Although I can sometimes feel the so called luck I have by not being caught, it also brings to the fore that by allowing these small offences I also allow them to become more over time as well. As I think I get away with it, I can try allowing a little more of these pleasures in life, while I can also feel that at a certain moment there will be this police officer that will stop me and will tell me the truth I deep within already know. Why do I live like this and do not take the loving choice to be my own police officer?

249. Great blog Anne, I love how you expose a very common and often as normal considered way of living. Getting away with it – it’s such a life motto. Its so powerful how you show that we are not getting away with it. Our responsibility in life goes far beyond our own wellbeing, our choices always have an direct or indirect impact on others, so there is no getting away with it, it’s just not wanting to see the consequences.

250. I love how you used the comparison to going over the speed limit. It’s a great reminder that we need to take responsibility for our actions in all areas of our life including our own health.

251. Anne. I can relate to what you have said. We think we can get away with so much in this life, but eventually the truth will catch up with us.
     The best policy is being up front in all we say and do in this life, and have no fear of any sort of reprisal afterwards for our actions.

252. I can relate very much to what is being said here. I especially like the speeding as I too very often will do just over the speed limit arrogantly think I can get away with it! I know I find it difficult to accept rules for a start but reading this awesome blog has got me feeling more deeply into this choice I still make.

253. Hi Anne, you have uncovered a very deep pattern that I have, and again very simply clearly expressed it: “I am doing something that is not right, but I somehow think I have a right to do it, and that it will not have the same consequences for me that it has for other people”. I can relate to that arrogance and even slightly react when you say “we never get away with anything” (although I also feel the truth of it and it feels very clear) but there is a part in me that still wants to get away with things, the part that wants to do the minimum and be successful, the part that wants to eat sweets and be ok, the part that wants to bend the law a little bit in my own interest, bending the driving code when I feel a bit wild, and feeling I have the right to bend it, to stretch things to accommodate to my desire. Getting away with things brings us illness, complications, dramas, and in the end repetition after repetition. I love the awareness you bring with this blog, shedding light in every dark corner and taking greater responsibility. Good for you, good for us.

     1. I love the honesty you bring in. I got a little smile how you write about your reaction. It exposed my feeling of ‘I have the right to..’ Attitude which still is in me on occasions; occasions where I find I have the right to do it my way, continue with a ‘bad habit’ and/or I mind my own business (little dictator in my). Deep down I know this is a very old pattern in me and that it not true: I just like anybody else can and will not get away with anything. I am just like anybody else….. No excuses!

254. Great blog and interesting comment that Julie makes on the difference between honesty and truth. I had the same experience yesterday. A craving for something to eat, although it was almost bedtime. I was also honest enough to nominate what was going on including the moment I put a nutbar in my mouth, although my body was not asking for it…. I overrode that and with that a truth that was going on for me. Next time I will not only take notice of the sign, but also listen to the officer!

255. Every time I read this I am brought to another level of awareness that there are still areas in my life where I am still trying ‘to get away with it’ and the truth is that “we never get away with it”.

256. Beautiful honesty here Anne and a great demonstration of how we are accountable not to anyone but only to ourselves for the choices we make.

257. Your blog here Anne has highlighted the difference for me between being honest and being truth-full.
     As I reached for a packet of chips yesterday I was honest enough to admit that I was not making a great food choice and there was something I wasn’t choosing to feel but
     overrode the truth of what was going on for me as I popped the tasty morsels into my mouth!
     Take care of you Anne and thank you for the inspiration you are.

258. “It is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on.”
     You are so honest Anne, it is inspiring and valuable for us all to hear about your struggle and taking things to the limit before you will listen. I am sure many others will recognise that behaviour in themselves. I know I am kidding myself a lot of the time, and it is not until my body really screams out I acknowledge how it is feeling. Then I find “It is not about blaming myself, finding fault, beating myself up.” very important, or indulging in the guilty feelings around when I am doing something I really know is not loving for me or my body. What I appreciate now, through working with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine Practitioners, is that there are more frequent and longer periods of time when I do take notice and live what I know.

259. Thank you Anne, this a great reminder that everything we do is either something that supports us or harms us and that by thinking we are getting away with it we are actually only just fooling ourselves.

260. As far as I remember myself I always knew that even though our thoughts and deeds might be hidden from people around we can not hide anything from God. (I wasn’t growing up in religious family, quite opposite-my grandparents were communists and my parents were second generation of atheists. So the idea of God was absolutely foreign to me but somehow I knew that God is.) So I always knew that I need to “pay” for anything I’ve done against myself or towards others. Nevertheless sometimes I couldn’t help doing seemingly “small insignificant” things like eating foods which don’t feel right to my body. What your article is saying and what I am learning from Serge Behnayon’s presentations is there is no “small” things-everything matters. Heap of small things becomes a huge mess. So it makes sense to put small things right.

261. Thank you for your loving blog Anne which deepens my understanding of what committing to truth really means. We can no longer get away with all the things we do in our day that take us away from committing to living a life that is truth.
     Our bodies are communicating with us all the time. It really is the marker of truth and if we don’t listen the messages get louder and one day we may in fact end up with a life threatening disease.
     This is not about inciting fear or confessions, it’s about stopping and really feeling what is really going on, connecting to our own innate wisdom and allowing it to show us the way out of the mess we keep creating.

262. You make my day with this blog, thank you, I love it.
     I also still speed at times, I also still eat things that I know are not good for me, I also have thoughts that I know are harming me or others, I still sometimes put on my shoes while bending over, when I know this does not feel loving to my body, I can go into a hurry and push myself when I know that everything will be fine, and I can stay a bit longer in bed in the morning when I know I will feel better when I just get up.
     So many things I do know, but yes, thinking I can get away with it. Well, I can’t, because most of the time I get the affect within one minute…..

263. When the return of the “unloving choices” I’ve made in the past come back to bite me and I have this uncomfortable feeling of “something’s not right” I now know I have a choice, to step out of comfort and re-imprint with self loving choices and take the hand of responsibility and to be honest. No more hiding or thinking that I got away with it.

264. I laughed, Anne, at your stories about ‘getting away with it’ because I could relate to all of them and I, also, knew that I wasn’t taking any responsibility for myself or my actions. Thanks to Universal Medicine I have become aware of what I think I am getting away with and realise that I am getting away with nothing: everything is known. I now slow down, be still and come from a place of caring and honouring myself.

265. When I look at areas in my life where I am feeling like ‘I’m getting away with something’, that is clearly showing me that I’m not wanting to take full responsibility. I’m avoiding seeing, or even wanting to see what is really going on for me there. Mmmmm, there are a few big flashing lights that I could be paying a bit more attention to.

266. At first I laughed and enjoyed your humour and wit. Then I felt the relevance of what you shared in myself. And then the whole contradiction of there not actually being a ‘getting away with it’ at all hit home. Thanks for 1)the ease in which we are invited into your article, 2) the honest and lighthearted way you expose your patterns, and 3) the way you challenge us all, including yourself, to make a change.

267. I loved your honesty in your writing and I can totally relate to all of it. It’s also a healthy reminder of instances in my life that can be improved upon.

268. Anne it’s so true how much we think we can get away with! I still find myself playing this game even when my body is telling – or should I say screaming at – me that it’s ok. It’s like I have a ‘let’s forget’ setting that erases what it felt like when I ate that food or stayed up too late. This has changed and continues to change as I commit to make my life more loving and self-honouring.

     1. That’s it Sharon. It’s not about just stopping the behaviour from a rule or a judgement. It’s about feeling the impact something has on us or others and the lack of love in it. Any lasting changes I’ve made have all come from very lovingly feeling how something isn’t serving me (and being honest about the fact that I’m not really getting away with anything) and knowing that I am worthy of making the change to support me in living more honestly and lovingly.

269. Thank you Anne for this amazing blog. It has made it so obvious for me where I tried to convice myself that I would be getting away with it, but in fact am not at all.

270. Thank you Anne, such an honest and very powerful sharing. ‘we never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day’. So true.
     I know I am still not taking full responsibility for ALL of my actions. It’s so good to be reminded, very clearly, that there is no grey area, no reason to be at all confused, ever, if we want to be honest. Everything we think, say and do is either healing, or harming.

271. Awesome to read this blog and realise that having addressed (over the past 5 years) so many of the indiscretions in the way I was living, that indeed there is an ongoing and ever-deepening honesty required that will expose the ever more subtle ways in which I think I’m getting away with being truly energetically responsible.

272. A truly awesome article Anne thank you, I could totally relate to the mentality of,”getting away with it”. I used to think I could get away with speeding when I drive but got a couple of unexpected wake up calls (Police driving towards me, and clocking my speed with radar). This has slowed me down considerably, but I do still catch myself thinking I’m getting away with it (speeding).
     Our choices do catch up with us, and the same goes when we make loving supportive choices for ourselves, which then feed us back in a positive way.

273. How inspiring this blog is – so easily my mind runs away with ‘you can do it’ attitude but my body is saying ‘feel into this’ old patterns are so ingrained and the gentle re-imprinting of self loving choices tells me there is ‘no getting away with anything’ all is observed and noted in whatever form it is shown back to us/me. Thank you Anne.

274. Pure honesty and accountability presenting that we can always choose to be aware of our choices or not, or take responsibility for them or not. “We never get away with it, that everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint”. Empowering to know that we determine our future by the choices we can make now.

275. Let’s give it a go instead of getting away with it. Love what you are writing. I know exactly what my Gettingawaywithitters are. Eating just a bit more than my body asks for or food that doesn’t really support me in that moment, but still eat because it I like it or it’s there and so on in several areas in my life. What is it that we keep on going with this? Waiting till we hit that officer? Yes, arrogance. I know better. It will not hit me. As if I have a privileged position. Just by writing this I feel the absurdity of it. So I will turn it around. Let’s give it a go these days knowing the officer /my body is watching me lovingly. And let’s see what happens!

276. This is a powerful blog Anne, I can totally relate to minimising harm, but still thinking I am “getting away with it”. Moving from self harm to self love for me is a gradual process of refinement, with the need for patience with myself and acceptance that at times I still make the unloving choice.

277. I was drawn to the title of this blog..I know all about getting away with it…I know I still try and get away with it…I am learning that this responsibility I am beginning to feel and live as part of my life supports myself and others to live with more love in our lives “everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day” I feel this quote to be deeply true and the changes that have occurred for me within my body and life are testament to this truth.

278. Thank you Anne. Until Humanity realises the energetic truth of reincarnation, (amazingly it’s going to happen whether people believe in it or not) there is an enormous illusion of thinking that we are living, lying, hurting, cheating, hating and getting away with it. As you say, we NEVER get away with it, and all will be revealed, and the wheel will keep turning until self responsibility is the foundation of humanity’s return to its true place in the universe.

279. I feel many gentle nudges when I read this blog – and the line which stands out so clearly for me is “So why not live in a way that is loving”? I know that I do not get away with any of my unloving choices(my body has clearly shown me this) and in the past I’ve made so many excuses to avoid the amazing gift we all have and that’s to self love. So in answer to that question YES I am ready to give it a go. Thank you Anne

280. Ah the old saying what goes around comes around – how we treat ourselves comes back to bite us on the bum so to speak. It’s true – we think we’re ‘getting away with it’ but in actual fact we are just racking up what we will eventually have to step back through. Living and treating ourselves lovingly right now is the only way as I see it!

281. I love the honesty you have written this in because it is free of judgement and self criticism. I too push the limits and think I am ‘getting away with it’. We never do though and even though I know this it’s like your speeding I think, I plan it so it’s a consequence that isn’t too bad, won’t impact on me too much, but I conveniently ignore those consequences that are more than I bargained for. Thank you for sharing.

282. Anne, your blog has brought up to me some obvious ways I also continue on with my lifestyle, subtly thinking I am ‘getting away with it’. What an arrogant illusion! I have also realised reading your blog that it’s not that I don’t know better because in the depths of my heart, I know my body is sending out messages all the time. I appreciate that this subject has been brought to the forefront of my attention as I can clearly see it is time for me to more honestly face some of my behavioural patterns. Thank you.

283. Gorgeous Anne! I love this blog as I can so relate to how you have described “getting away with it”, from the more extreme behaviours, to the more refined. For me this includes eating a little of something that doesn’t agree with me, or a little too much and not feeling an intense negative reaction, so having another small amount the next day! Constantly pushing the boundaries – mild discomfort is ok, but very obvious pain or bloating and I will stop and “clean up my act”. I love that your blog poses the simple question of why? Why not be loving with yourself instead of engaging in this crazy game, seeing how far you can push your body, then taking steps to alleviate the harm.

284. Amazing blog Anne. How I can relate to it. All those things I thought I could get away with came back to bite me in a HUGE way! And the arrogance of how we think that it doesn’t matter, that it won’t make a difference to us.

     I now know through meeting Serge Benhayon and the work of Universal Medicine, that everything we feel, think, do and say makes all the difference. Energetically, it is impossible to escape this fact and the consequences.

285. A great blog Anne, thank you. I love the analogy of the Police officer from the Facebook post – and isn’t it so true, we do whatever we want if we can get away with it but are on our best behaviour if there are consequences.

     I feel this is one of the most evolutionary things Serge Benhayon has presented to us – and it’s no wonder its not popular with many people as what he presents is that we are to be responsible for our actions and choices and thus the consequences which show up in the quality of our emotions, our relationships, our money, our health etc.

     1. So true Alison – we like to think that we can get away with certain things and try to make everything look like we do, but deep down we know that it does not work like this. And as you say, it is very challenging to allow oneself to look further and actually admit that we are responsible for all our actions and choices… it makes us extremely uncomfortable.

286. Your blog Anne caused me to reflect on how I can be Too Easy on myself by allowing myself to eat foods that I know will not feel good in my body and then be Too Hard on myself because I ate foods that did not feel good in my body. Neither is self loving. Our bodies will always tell us if we are ‘getting away with it’ or not.

287. I keep coming back to this great blog Anne as it serves as a reminder for me to really STOP and feel where I am at particularly with the food choices I make – do I want pain or bloating/diarrhoea? No! So as you say “It is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on” because deep down I do know what is harming or healing.

288. Greatly honest Anne, thank you! Very inspiring to deepen the honest view on how we/ I live – knowing that our every-day-choices has con-sequences, that every detail counts. Wow, and that sometimes it looks like “we can get away with it “…but we can’t! I clearly feel my / our powerful responsibility !

289. Thank you, Anne, for calling out this classic pattern of behaviour that is very familiar to many of us, me included.

290. Hi Anne, I too have lived (and still do on many levels) thinking I can get away with it. More and more I am shown that we can never get away with anything. My body will show me instantly if I have pushed into something that is not true. I have developed great overriding techniques to ensure that I can ignore those signs and continue on. As I expose these more and more, I am able to be more honest as to why I choose to do this, and live more honestly and responsibly each time.

291. Anne thank you for saying it how it is for the majority including myself. I find the subtle disregarding choices hardest to stop at times because I see them as not extreme to what I’ve lived in the past. Definitely can relate to the arrogance you speak of that can override what we instinctively know is not right for our bodies. I can see where I do it with overeating and also speeding to get places. This was a great reminder to read today.

292. Thank-you Anne for your honesty, this exposes to me how by not listening to the warning bells my body is showing me, I can think I am getting away with it. From past experiences my body has shown me I know this isn’t the case really. It is so true in the end I can never get away with not taking responsibility and caring for myself. So, as you say, why not live in a way that is loving?

293. Thank you Anne, It’s an exposing blog that makes me look at how I so often can think I can get away with it, but after a while I recognize I don’t and feel what I have actually done to myself, my body. Everything has a consequence, Life is one big reflection of how we are.

294. Such an open/honest blog Anne thank you – reading it again I can relate to how even now at times i’ll have just one more piece of – whatever I feel is a healthy option! This happens when I’m tired – and my brain says that’s healthy, but my body has to work extra hard to digest my choices. Instead of feeling that ‘I got away with that’ it’s time to feel why was I tired in the first place. Just feeling to be more honest with me.

295. I just love this blog & even better second time around. I really appreciate it when it is just expressed so openly how it is, no fluffiness. Just the title in itself, ‘GETTING AWAY WITH IT’ is a revelation…because we don’t get away with anything. Knowing and understanding that every choice we make gets clocked in the body is potentially life changing. Simply stating that we don’t get away with anything is a sobering reality that can be easily surrendered to, and I have found brings a more honest way of living.

296. Thank you Anne for your honesty – I can so relate to what you are saying, this measuring of how far can I go off track and still get away with it. I (like many) was born with that attitude and already tested my parents on how far I could push the boundaries. This new found awareness gives me a lot more appreciation for parents that are setting boundaries and do exercise the consequences of not abiding to them – it is a true lesson for life!

297. Anne this perfectly exposes how we lie to ourselves, which is a complete joke, because deep down we know we are kidding ourselves. Yet we go along playing the lie out in our heads convincing ourselves of the lie…until the body can no long take it and you get a shock in what ever form that is. Thank-you for sharing your story and revelations.

     1. That’s it Zoe…you hit the nail on the head so simply…it ‘perfectly exposes how we lie to ourselves’

298. Dear Anne,
     So thank you for your sharing, I for one know what you say when you expose the many ways where we think we are getting away with doing something that we have felt is in some way harming our body. For me when it comes to driving, I don’t speed, but I do pass at times when I feel that it is not a good time to do so. What I am beginning to feel is that when I do this I tense up my body. The question I ask is what does this do to my body? Physically my breathing changes in fact it stops, then when I am pass I find that I take a deep breath in relief, I made it. This one little thing that I am becoming aware of is inviting me to explore where else I do this in living my days. Offering me true choice to change, I so love being connected to my body and becoming aware more and more how my choices either impact it in a harming way or support it in its harmony.

299. Very honest and awesome blog Anne. It highlights the fact that we are all responsible for our every action and the choices we make. Accepting, taking responsibility and being completely honest with ourselves with where we are at. Our body is a map of how we’ve lived and the choices we’ve made. It’s amazing it can also heal when we choose another way, a loving way.

300. Such an amazing sharing here Anne thank you – Your line “it is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on” I’ll second that – I used to think that I was being honest with myself but really I was hiding as I was a little scared as to what I may really find/feel. After all deep down I was so hard on myself physically and mentally something had to give – it did I got my wake up call loud and clear. So to be more honest with me, working every day on my self loving choices, taking responsibility that’s a great start. I shall return to this blog often I feel so thank you.

301. I love your honesty here Anne, I too can relate to the mentality of thinking “I am getting away with it” when really I am not. It feels like it is time to stop, feel and listen rather than pushing through. Thank you for exposing what is there for all of us to feel.

302. Hmmm, thinking we can get away with it…. more fool us/me. I am grateful to have awakened from the major delirium I was previously in to understand more about how God, the universe and everything operates in respect of my life and body. Thank you Anne for presenting your story that has prompted me to reflect upon mine.

303. Anne, this is so revealing and timely for me! I have had some nudges from my body, but I do not want my body screaming at me, so it’s loving choices for me from now on!

304. Anne I really enjoyed revisiting your blog again, you ask some great questions. Since my first reading, I am beginning to become aware that I clearly know when something is going to serve me or not, be it the snack I reach for or that extra helping, speaking out in reaction, or attempting to text when driving. The choice is then mine to make, to try and get away with it and ultimately abuse myself, or not. Because in truth, there is a natural consequence that follows, which either results in my tummy hurting, an argument or hostility or my focus being compromised and that’s just in the immediacy. The long term effects as you have witnessed and we all know, can be much more damaging. We’d like to get away with it, the food tastes so good, I’m cross and I want to shout, that text needs to go right now, but then where is the real responsibility for ourselves and ultimately for everyone, in feeling what is truly going to work?

305. Yep spot on Anne Malatt. And another thing, after six and a half decades of experience, I can say with reasonable accuracy that the longer you attempt to get away with it the more chickens come looking for their roost and the hungrier they are….

306. Wow, it’s quite strange how I have in the past thought that I would indeed get away with something when no one was watching. I realize it’s a very silly thought, as the energetic imprint is just the same. Thank you for the inspiration to take FULL responsibility for my choices at ALL times.

307. That’s the thing isn’t it, we ‘THINK’ we get away with it, when all the while our bodies have been gently at first, then later more loudly, indicating otherwise. How blocked are our ears that it can take an almighty scream before we hear. Many Thanks to Universal Medicine for inspiring me to recover from deafness and give my Inner Heart voice.

     1. Barbara…I laughed when I read your comment…partly because I can relate, but also because sadly it is so true for most of us. I am so grateful to have found Universal Medicine who have shown me a way to really start listening to the wisdom in my body. I am imagining what the world would be like if kids were taught just this one truth & honoured the wisdom in their body to guide their way…it would be beyond amazing.

     2. This is so true Barbara for what we think is a mere construct of the mind in disregard of the whole. I once saw a bumper sticker on a car that said, ‘your thoughts are not your own.” If only we were taught this at school, the body might not have to scream so loud.

308. Walk into any hospital and we can see that we do not get away with anything, Yet that has not stopped me and others who work in hospitals and see it everyday from trying to get away it is. The arrogance, as you say is “stupendous”.

309. I love your blog Anne, thank you for being so honest. It is not surprising we get into trouble when we separate our mind from our body and expect it to run harmoniously. I know from my past experience I really never got away with anything, and I have felt this arrogance you speak of, choosing the stimulation over self responsibility. I find listening to my body is an ever refining process.
     Since reading your blog I have also noticed I am more aware of how I am driving… especially around the 50km zones.

310. Brutally honest! Thanks Anne! As with a lot of other readers, I too have lived in a way that has had me completely overriding what I’m feeling, to my body’s detriment.
     Thanks to Universal Medicine and what it presents, I am sooooo much more aware of my own body and what it needs. I still make the decision to override it more often than I would like, but I’m not perfect. The difference is that now I’m aware I’m doing it, as opposed to before when I knew, but played the ignorant game instead. Now I can present myself with a choice before I make the decision to either sabotage or be loving with myself.

311. Great honesty Anne. It really made me realise that we really can’t get away with anything. Sooner or later it will catch up with us.

312. Yes – it is so very true Anne. We never really ‘get away’ with anything that harms ourselves (and others) despite what we have all said throughout our lives, particularly when pushing the boundaries. I can relate to a lot of what you’ve shared here – and appreciate the honesty in this article. We really do need to say it how it truly is – I feel you’ve done this here…

313. This is a cracker blog thank you. Sometimes I re-connect with the fact that ‘everything we do, matters’, only by way of pragmatic observation. I’ll definitely observe the way I drive today and many other of the things you mentioned.

314. Anne… I relate to only changing the things I think I can’t get away with…but in reality when I look just below the surface I’m not really getting away with it….

     1. I was doing the same Joel, but from Anne’s honest and reflective blog I can see now how I’m not getting away with any choice that is not a loving one. There is an arrogance there of thinking I’m the only one that will be affected, but as Anne pointed out, an ill choice is an ill energetic imprint hanging around that affects others. It’s like leaving a damp mouldy towel in the doorway of your home that everyone has to step over to get in or out. As I come back to being more honest and listening to my body, I can feel how these ill choices affect me and then my behaviour to others – so I’m getting more and more that I am not getting away with it . More than this, as I am more loving to myself and to others – I don’t want to keep harming myself and others by this make believe that I am getting away with it. Anne thank you – your blog is helping me to see how responsibility in all that I do and say is a loving way, not a duty I must get to to be a ‘good person’.

     2. Like your comment Joel – we never get away with it – I realise that now because our bodies never lie.

315. A great reminder to go the whole way with listening and honouring ourselves Anne, not just half way. thank you.

316. Anne, you’re really making a point here! And you’re not just talking about yourself – you’re talking about us – all of us. What an eye-opener,
     – fantastic!
     Or should I say:
     – real?!

317. As an older person, it’s getting harder and harder to “get away with it”. To use other clichés, “my body is catching up with me” or “the mind is willing but the body isn’t”. It’s in our language, it’s known that we (well me and a lot of others) abuse our bodies and in some circumstances, it’s almost a badge of honour. By learning to listen to my body wisdom, I’m finding my life is “much more loving”…which seen from the outside to be “pure and boring”, holds a quiet joy that has been missing for many years.

318. Hi Anne thanks for your candid sharing, it feels as if you have really tested and proved the truth that God is love whether we like it or not.

319. This is so simply said and so powerfully received. That same knowing, all wise, all accepting of the choices I make everyday and always there, never gives up on me. The choice is always ours as to when we choose to listen and hear what is being said. Whether we like it or not – the outcome of these choices, absolutely love us in every way and never gives up on calling us to be accountable. Thank you Anne – powerfully received.

320. I agree with many others, I think I can push the boundaries a little with food, sleep etc. and when I really have something challenging coming up (like presenting at a conference or workshop) then I am extra ‘good’ with how I live and fine tune myself. It seems clear that this keeps us treading water and seeing the same challenges as peak challenges and not something we can live every day. Therefore, perhaps such a measured way of living prevents a developing foundation of quality of life towards a true potential and if so, it leads me to ponder why would I hold myself back from truly living my potential?

321. Yes, I can also relate to what you write Anne. Reading it was like ‘oh oh’, where do I try to get away with thinking: I am doing already so much that is good for my body, a little thing here and there doesn’t matter. I negotiate with myself in giving 80%, but not the 100%. And I have many excuses why it’s ok.
     But I don’t get away with it; every choice comes back to me like a boomerang.

322. Your article reminded me of a man I met on a cruise. He had diabetes and every meal he would eat ‘naughty’ foods and say with a cheeky smile, “Oh well. My doctor’s not here”. After hearing this a couple of times I said, “Yes, but your body is!” Amazing how we think we are pulling the wool over our body’s eyes or that our doctor is somehow affected by or responsible for the dis-ease we create in our bodies.
     I think we can all relate to this, Anne. We all push our bodies that little bit further, to eat more, rest less or get the job done. I know my body feels and is affected by everything I choose and yet as you say there is a stupendous arrogance that wants to be able to override and do things its own way.

323. Getting away with it! How absolutely true this is Anne, love all your examples and can relate to them especially around food and doing/keeping busy. When we really do start to feel what the body feels/communicates in its relation to ‘whatever it is’, we experience great freedom, though it depends on how much we want that freedom or the comfortable otherwise.

     1. After sixty plus years I can truly say that despite my best endeavours, I got away with nothing. Only thought I did. Via Universal Medicine I began to check in with my body and there the truth was written large.

324. Great post Anne, and I can totally relate…for me, it was thyroid issues…that have recently prompted me to stop and re-evaluate more deeply, how I have been living!

325. I don’t understand why any of us would do this ‘getting away with it’ and yet we do – over and over often until our body simply won’t tolerate it any longer. Crazy way of living and time for a change!

     1. Judy I know we know it’s crazy yet we do it again – when I was driving back on a long trip the other day I felt a sense of connection to me and with that – that nothing else is more important. Yet whenever I play the “getting away with it” – which is quite common – I lose the one thing that’s most precious to me – me.

326. Thanks Anne. I love your candor in your article. Working in hospitals I hear from patients all the time: “I knew the…….would catch up with me eventually.” So even though we like to think we can get away with something, we somehow understand that this way of thinking has many limitations, and in fact keeps us from being truly honest with ourselves. It’s like we continually play chicken with ourselves. We can however choose to stop being the chicken…anytime.

327. Thank you for being so honest and showing how we never really get away with anything, even though it might look like we do for a while, or even for a very long while.

328. I used to think I had little secrets about myself such as overeating, indulging in hear say or worse still judging what was heard and I always felt inside me how wrong it was to do yet as you say the arrogance of this is stupendous. From the teachings of Serge Benhayon and as he says “everything is energy” I too am feeling what is unloving energy and am taking steps each day to make more loving choices in life.

     1. This is awesome, Lynda. The ‘little secrets’ are killers, aren’t they? I now, to the best of my imperfect ability, act as if everyone is watching, speak as if everyone is listening, and think knowing God can hear me. We are all affected by everything we each think, do and say; so why not live in a way that honours this truth?

329. The life and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine inspired you, who now inspire others, who will in their turn inspire others. This is an extraordinary thing when I stop to consider it. Serge consistently tells me “It’s all about the Livingness” no matter which of his many revelations I get excited about. And its true. We cannot get away with knowing something in principle and just talking about it, or thinking about it, we have to live it. Only then are we able to inspire others as living examples of what we espouse. That is how Serge inspires so many, and now you too. Your blog, is a fine testament to the ‘School of the Livingness’, thanks Anne.

330. Thank you for your honesty Anne. I can relate to all you have said, I also lived my life making choices I thought I could get away with until my body and my life showed me I couldn’t. With the deeply loving support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am now making more loving choices. I have come to see how subtle the unloving choices can be, and that it requires an ongoing honesty with myself in all that I do to uncover this.

331. We definitely aren’t getting away with anything. Serge Benhayon presents that the body never lies. And this is what you are saying Anne, even if we think we are getting away with it. I love how you describe that arrogance too, with cancer rates just going up and up there is an arrogance that it won’t happen to us rather than an honesty as a society of how we get there. Fascinating.

332. Thankyou for your honesty Anne. We all can relate to the arrogance of youth, but in truth we remain arrogant for well after that, especially in relationship to our health. And the worst of us are those who know how to balance things so that we keep ourselves in check. I personally held the arrogance that I was healthy because I was not fat, knew how to abstain from alcohol when I needed to, and exercised regularly. But in truth that was all illusion, and I did not understand how vital I could truly be until I developed the honesty to look at how even things like alcohol in moderation were in actual fact depleting me more than I cared to admit.

333. What an amazing blog to re read. I could do with re-reading it every day! Every thought and action is either harming or healing and nothing in between.

     I know this even when I think I can get away with something ‘just this one last time’. There is a dis-ease, an inner knowing that what I’m thinking or doing is in any way harming. So I carry an anxiousness that is harmful just in itself.

     I know I needn’t feel this anxiousness if I listen to my body. Honouring what my body tells me is far more lovely than any of the getting away with it activities.

334. I can also relate to Anne’s comments. We always think we can pull the wool over people eyes, so they do not see the real person we really are. We eventually wake up to the realisation that we are destroying our bodies, and it requires healing, so that we come back to whom we really are.

335. This is a very revealing and honest blog that shows so clearly how you can abstain from “sex, drugs and rock and roll” and still find plenty of other ‘drugs’ to be addicted to. While speeding or not resting when tired may be a less obvious form of ‘drug use’ to others and even ourselves – they can be just as harmful.

336. I relate to everything you have said Anne and am working through the same ongoing challenges. There always seems to be more to address though… I think that’s part of life.
     At first it was the really gross and obvious things like smoking and drinking and staying up past 5am partying. Then over time it has become more subtler things like the way I think and how I am around other people – am I accepting and understanding of them or harsh and judgmental.
     Bit by bit I continue to review what is unloving in the way I live. At times it goes really well and other times find myself resisting my own evolution. On the whole though, with the deeply life changing support of Esoteric Healing (an as yet undiscovered treasure to mainstream society) I have transformed over and over again into a stronger more connected version of myself each time that little bit more myself than the last.
     How ever long it may take, I couldn’t imagine what life would be like without that feeling that I was slowly heading back to myself.

     1. Bit by bit, Dean! I’ve been sneaking in certain foods that my body really doesn’t want me to eat, but which my head and mouth find addictive. I’m not getting away with it, and it’s teaching me to be a lot more honest with myself!

        1. Deep down we all already know better.

     2. So true Dean, I can relate to everything Anne and you have shared here and I cannot imagine life ‘without that feeling that I was slowly heading back to myself’ either. My life would have so little purpose!

337. Very true we never get away with anything at all, I spent the better part of a year on cocktail of pain meds for trying to get away with something while the whole time my body was screaming at me.

338. Thanks Anne, I too spend my life thinking that “I could get away with it” , Using the old cliché ” A rolling stone gathers no moss ” not at that time knowing that everything I did carried an energetic imprint , and karma.
     Learning to Live in a loving way has been a big wake up call and ( I am still constantly learning) brought to me through my body as it broke down , forcing me to look for a different way , through doctors first and then luckily enough arriving at the door of Serge Benhayon and universal medicine where Esoteric healing allowed me to learn to slow down and feel my body, more and more.

339. Thanks Anne for your honesty and for sharing your reflections about your life.
     You have really touched a nerve in me, made me stop and reflect on the way I have been living and in some aspects of life, still live.
     You offer great wisdom in your conclusion that we live with the consequences of everything that we think, say and do – either loving or harming.
     It is now time for me to be more honest and more loving

340. This blog has got me thinking. To think that we get away with anything is a strange concept, yet it is something that most including myself can identify with. For if whatever we choose always catches up with us, and usually this comes through the body, then this says that we have at the time felt what we did. This feeling comes first as a quiet knowing. How crazy is it that we wait until that quiet knowing has to get so loud, uncomfortable and painful or make us completely stop for us to listen to and realise we didn’t get away with anything. That’s just not so smart at all.

341. A very powerful article that we can all relate to. The consequences of “living in (or from) an unloving way” are felt not just by our bodies and ourselves but by others (family members, friends, work colleagues, and perhaps those drivers who happen to be driving in front or behind you when you were driving recklessly). Yes, the ripple effect. But the good news is that the opposite, “living in a Loving way” is equally felt by us all.

342. Absolutely Mary. It’s like we are constantly refining ourselves and we can’t leave out what we are eating from the equation. My body reminds me of this all too soon and I have to go back to what I chose to ignore in my caring of myself – what was I really trying to get away with?

343. Understanding that the ‘problems’ I have in my body are because of the way I have chosen to live is very revealing. My body is my responsibility and it is constantly letting me know how I am treating it. I cannot get away with anything and the more I am aware of this, the more my body shows me.

344. Inspiring to read how you have turned your life around Anne, and thank you for exposing the mindset of us thinking we are “getting away with it”

345. “Is it possible that the way I have walked through life…. has something to do with where I am now?” Resounding yes! from me Anne, we have such clever ways to ignore what we don’t want to feel. How much we are prepared to feel and acknowledge in our body is relative to how much we want to ‘get away with’.

     1. Oh of course, spot on Rosanna. We do have clever ways of ignoring all the signs, not feeling our body, turning a blind eye to the intimate relevance to us of what life shows us. And this is all connected to us wanting to keep going when we kind of know it’s not all okay and wanting to ‘get away with it’.

        1. Yes Rosanna and Golnaz, and we can do that most unhelpful thing of making the body an excuse to get out of something we have made a commitment to that we blame for making us exhausted, whereas it is the WAY we went about it that created the exhaustion.

     2. Well said Rosanna we calculate how much we want to feel and then act accordingly to get away with it, or so we think but we never do.

346. It’s so obvious when we notice it; we can fool ourselves but we don’t get away with anything in truth. My body gives me the messages every time.

347. Love this blog Anne, it is one that makes so much sense to me and one I’d love the whole world to read and understand.

348. Awesome sharing Mary and the starting point as you say is with loving ourselves and choosing that as often as you can until it becomes a consistent choice. Once you start you can feel the amazing impact that loving yourself has and I started to get a taste of it and wanted more. When I got to that point I started to see what I was allowing myself to ‘get away with’ and realised it is a strong woven web that I had created to not look at what I have been choosing. A web that is so worth breaking free from and I am the only one that can do the cleaning. Spring cleaning on a daily basis is the only way forward!

349. This blog makes a lot of sense, it highlights to me just how much credence I have given my mind over my body. All my body is doing is being honest with what it can do whereas my mind will do it regardless of the consequences just for that momentary buzz/taste/comment/emotional drama etc.

350. Since reading this article, every time I find myself thinking I have ‘got away with it’ I stop and ask what is the ‘it’. The ‘it’ is usually disregard of myself and expecting my body to cope with the consequences. Time to put a stop to IT.

351. I can relate to the waywardness of thinking I can get away with things and not being a responsible adult with my daily choices. Thank you for the reminder – I know all too well those thoughts of I will deal with it later but knowing later never comes.

352. I loved reading this this morning. I could relate to everything and it gave me a wake-up call as to how disrespectful I was being to my body and soul and actually to the universe by being so arrogantly minded.

353. This has stopped me in my arrogant tracks Anne. It is so true about doing things whilst knowing full-well the consequences, especially when it comes to food, and thinking it would be any different this time. I really need to listen to my body more because it is so much more honest than my mind.

354. I love this blog. It leaves no room for lying to ourselves. Yes I speed, yes I overeat. yes I push myself beyond my limits. I love the description of the funny photo your friend sent you. It shows that we allow police officers (or people in positions in authority) to remind us of our responsibility, instead of claiming this for ourselves in a loving way.

355. Thanks Anne, I can feel that it is so true, we don’t ever get away with anything, I can live arrogantly thinking it will happen to someone else but dis-ease is being ill at ease, so the question I ask is am I at ease and living as I know I can, full of life and sharing that responsibly. I appreciate the stop your blog puts in my day.

356. HI Anne, ‘Getting away with it’ is the lie we like to tell ourselves, but we know deep down that this is not the case and we end up living what we have put our bodies through.

357. Hi Anne just bumped into your blog again second time round, well worth another read, it’s the sort of blog that keeps you on your toes, thanks for this

358. Hi Anne, Hmm ‘getting away with it’ no it actually does not exist, these are words we use or thoughts we accept as true but it’s a lie every time and clearly our body reflects that fact. So if we allow this lie to enter and accept it how many other lies do we/I accept as true?

359. So often I have thought ‘Phew, I got away with that one’. But I haven’t, it is another point on my licence of self care. So often I have said ‘It doesn’t matter’. But it does, everything matters because I matter. Now, whenever I hear my head saying ‘It doesn’t matter’ it gives me a stop, a time to come back to me.

360. I love your three examples of getting away with it, Anne, and realise they reflect the way we do everything in life. It is shocking to think how much of the time this happens. Your message at the end about the choice we have in every moment rings out with great clarity and truth, a call to respect ourselves in all our choices.

361. This blog is such a great reminder to not ever think I can get away with something. I can easily see ways that I have tried this and still do in ways throughout my day that are the obvious ones . . going over the speed limit, not buying a parking ticket, eating food that doesn’t support me. Reading this though I can see in essence though it is every time I go against what I feel from inside what is true in that moment. Trying to getting away with something is simply me being dishonest and ignoring or denying this and what my body feels.

362. It is so much more loving to pay attention to the little signs and symptoms and deal with them, rather than wait for the big signs, that totally floor us. I like the way you describe it, that we think we are getting away with something, it’s quite sneaky behaviour and it shows how we try and kid ourselves even though we know deep down what is not supporting us. At the moment I just have to keep questioning myself about these behaviours, be honest and aware, and let go of the little abuses, which lead to the big consequences… a process totally inspired and supported by Universal Medicine, the students, the practitioners and the amazing Serge Benhayon.

363. “For me, it means that I know I am doing something that is not right, but I somehow think I have a right to do it, and that it will not have the same consequences for me that it has for other people.”
     This statement is pure gold for I feel it talks for each and everyone of us.

364. Wow, what a strong reminder that we only harm ourselves when we act in a way where we think we get away it. It is ourselves who we harm the most. Thank you Anne, this blog was a push to take full responsibility for my choices.

365. Anne, I keep coming back to your blog as it is always timely. Today what caught my attention is this part: ‘It is not about blaming myself, finding fault, beating myself up. ‘It is about being as honest as I can with myself from now on.’ Thank you again.

366. Anne this is such an awesome blog. I so still have a huge arrogance of thinking I can get away with it just this last one time…. Boy am I feeling this in my body! But, if I’m honest I like the excitement – e.g. will I get caught speeding? I used to do some things and wonder if I’d get caught. I’ve toned many things down because the anxiety was too uncomfortable. I know when I want to distract myself from feeling how amazing I feel or be honest about an issue one sure way to do this is to do something I know isn’t self-loving and feel the excitement of will I or wont I get away with it.

     The more I feel who I truly am the more I choose to be self-loving.

367. oooooh so true Anne what you have shared so openly and honestly, thank you. I have most definitely got that game going on and as I haven’t had any illness and dis-ease as of yet I feel that my arrogance is even stronger because I haven’t had anything major to show me that it isn’t working. I am at a point where I know my awareness is everything and that I have to start listening to it when my body and soul are telling me things. I have brought in a deeper level of awareness since being inspired by Universal Medicine but I know I have been ‘getting away with’ making changes but not really digging deeper and exposing what so strongly runs in the most subtle ways possible. Like you said, being willing to get honest is a great start at shaking and letting go of what is in the end crippling me from not being all of the Love that I am. I have completely chosen this set up so I don’t go there and each action that isn’t Love is a confirmation that I ‘think’ I can’t be it. It is Time to STOP controlling my existence and let Love reign my evolution.

368. “Even though I cleaned up my act, I was still not self-loving in the way I lived. There was still a hardness there, especially on myself, and a drive, that came from never feeling enough, just as I was.”
     I have been looking at how I ‘drive’ myself through my days and have realised this is not loving to myself. So today it did not do that and found that my days flowed with ease and my relationship with people was very open and honest. I had a really enjoyable day at work today.

     1. I can definitely relate to that mmryan37… The way I drive myself through the day is horrible, and I end up feeling totally exhausted by the end of the day.

369. Anne. Such a wonderful blog. We all do things, thinking we can get away it, from child hood to becoming adults.We eventually get caught out. We really need to think more clearly before making decisions that could effect so many other people.

370. This blog and the comments have made me pause and consider just how much in my life can fit into this. And it seems pretty much every area. I know the way to live a committed, loving and truthful life, and every moment I get a feeling of what will support my evolving in that way. When I choose to defiantly go against what I feel, or when I choose to numb myself to what I feel, there is often no immediate outfall as a result. There is often a delay in seeing the physical impact of our choice, so it is easy for me to fool myself that there are no consequences. But as so many have pointed out, either my body or life will eventually reflect it. Then If I want to carry on playing this game I can act surprised and say “why me?”.
     But in reality we never get away with it – not really. If we did get away with it, we would lose a big support for showing us which of our choices are not in our best interest – we are loved far more than that.

371. A reality check here for sure! So true that sometimes we think that if we’re the only one who knows, then it doesn’t really count…so wrong! What I’ve learnt over the years, is honesty, true honesty, starts with yourself first. Only from there will it grow. The same goes for how we live. I can’t support other people if I don’t support myself. Reading this blog has been a real, honest and simple sense check for me today, and I’m grateful to be able to read all these amazing honest stories and be very much inspired.

372. Anne, reading your blog today is absolutely perfect timing. I’ve begun to consider that the little things I let slide might actually be the precursor to the big disasters that can follow – I’ve started to get a little more honest and trace back from those big disasters and realised it’s those little things that start that ball rolling. The way I think I’ve done enough, or that I deserve a break, a reward or a rest now, that this little thing will be ok – I really do thing I’ll get away with it, and I measure how far I can go and you know I think I’m clever about it, but the body doesn’t lie. Those little gaps / slides matter, so you’ve inspired me to turn the lights up to see those gaps. A very timely and profound blog – thank you.

373. Hi Anne this blog brings honesty to a new level It really made me take a closer look at the things I think I am getting away with but in truth am not. As you pointed out everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint.

374. I love how honest this blog is that no matter what we do we will never just get away from our ill choices, they will be addressed one way or another. I have started to question my life in the sense that ”Why don’t I just support myself? Then I don’t have to go in for a full repair job so frequently.” The less time I spend ignoring my body and pushing it to do things the better I feel, the better I feel the more I can do naturally. This I am willing to experiment with.

375. While I was reading the blog, I did wonder how many of us get those stops you refer to at 28? I think we all do, and we make some changes to our life. But what the blog so beautifully shows is that we measure those changes… we will do just enough to solve the immediate concern but not look at other areas of life that we are getting away with it until of course we don’t get away with it any more.

     1. I agree Simon, well said. We get the stop moments but then change, at least for me, only enough so it does not effect me anymore, at least not obviously so, instead of seeing the truth and completely dropping everything that no longer fits, dropping all the self abusive behaviours, etc. which means we still think we can get away with it, just a lesser more refined version, until as you say we can no longer get away with that. It is still playing the game, arrogantly so, and not truly listening to our bodies.

376. I thought I was getting away with many things and I also thought that on the whole I was very responsible. I had a huge revelation this week. I discovered that I had chosen to misunderstand what responsibility really is and how it works. I had fooled myself to believe that there are infinite levels of responsibility and that I was already taking a high level and was working constantly to take more. But I discovered that this is all illusion, responsibility is black and white. You either are responsible or you are not, there is no middle ground, no degrees of responsibility. The moment I realised the truth of this I became aware of some of the numerous things that I was being irresponsible about, but now I am aware, it feels great to be dealing with them one by one.

     1. You are so right Doug. If we are responsible in one area and irresponsible in another then that is just selective responsibility. True responsibility is being responsible in all areas of our life. It cannot be measured or qualified. It either is or it isn’t. As you say Doug, having this clarity enables us to become aware of our irresponsibility and make different choices.

377. This blog is huge for me. There are still many, many areas that I think I’m getting away with it. I don’t have cancer or a life-threatening illness to stop me in my tracks. But I do have nine points on my driving license and nine points on some of my other life licenses. (but actually what is amazing and EXACTLY proves what you are talking about is that I have just this minute checked my license because I was sure that some of the points were no longer valid – but no, nine points it is – I knew that. Of course I did, yet even there, even after the points have been issued, even after it is written in ink on my license, I am still trying to get away with it and kid myself that I’ve only got six!! Shocking.) Whilst I have made zillions of amazing, amazing choices and changes to my life and to the way I live, your brilliant blog has highlighted to me the areas that I am still getting away with it. When the police stop you for speeding, they will not accept “sorry Officer, I didn’t know what the speed limit was” as an excuse. And nor does your body. Because both the policeman and the body know that we DO know. I want to thank you deeply for this blog that has come at a perfect time. I think I might start stationing policemen and patrol cars in various little corners of my life!

     1. I love your honesty and playfulness with this Otto, equating policemen and our bodies and that neither can be fooled by the lies we tell, and really we’re just kidding ourselves – but we keep trying until something major stops us, or until we hurt to a level that we can no longer ignore. Yes it might be time to have some more policemen on the beat!

     2. Thank you Otto Bathurst for being so honest here and sharing about your points on your driving licence. I don’t have the same but Yes I have thought in the past how much I can get away with even though I knew it was being clocked and recorded. Just because people could not see it and I can hide it does not mean I did not leave an imprint. This blog has inspired me to take a deeper look at all areas of my life in more detail because in Truth I am not getting away with anything. Thanks Anne Malatt for a new reminder and it is not about perfection or a goal – just a real way of Living Truth.

        1. I have this blog on my Bookmarks Bar. It is such a great display of honesty and such a powerful message for me to return to. I know what I am doing, exactly what I am doing…and yet I still try to get away with it. But the more and more that I commit to myself and to my love for humanity then the less and less I need the policemen in my life. That is what I now see as the crux of it for me. It’s not about having lots and lots of policemen in every corner of my life keeping a watch on me. It is about making those commitments and choices that render the policemen irrelevant. Because when I am committed to life and everything that entails, then I never even contemplate trying to get away with it. So therefore don’t need any policemen keeping a watch on me.

        2. Yes Bina, there is no escaping it just because what we do may not be seen as the imprint will be there. I too am inspired to look more closely at my life at what I am .. or not getting away with.

        3. I like that Otto, to make those commitments and choices that render the policemen irrelevant, commitment to life and all it entails cancelling out trying to get away with it … I am inspired to look deeper at my commitment as to why I try to get away with it in different areas of my life.

378. I love reading this blog Anne as it resonates as so true. We do drive ourselves and keep going with what we think in our minds is right to do – whereas when we listen to our body we can be much kinder to ourselves and others and from there there is no drive. I will certainly take this into my day.

379. Thanks Anne for your beautiful and honest story. I can relate to believing I am getting away with something just because it does not have obvious physical consequences but really I am just choosing to be unaware of what is really happening at perhaps the more subtle level until the cumulative effect makes it too difficult to ignore. A great example of how the best medicine is how we live.

380. Anne I like you have become a master of ‘getting away with it’ and it makes me wonder what exactly am I getting out of that, its like a think I have the game sussed so therefore I am in control of the game of life not the other way around. Instead of surrendering to the love that is all around us to guide us. I am learning to let go and there is less of the ‘getting away with it game play’ but it still has a foot hold, like you I am willing to give living fully in a loving way – why not the other way hasn’t really worked! It baffles me why I then try to hold onto the status quo so much but its a game and I just need to be truly willing, not just say I am but feel it in the depths of my being that there is no other way, love or not.

     1. Vanessa great comment. I love how you put it about being truly willing to feel what is needed and not just saying so – I’ve been a master of stating it but now necessarily always doing it and of course thinking I’m getting away with it.

        1. Like Vanessa, I’m learning to let go, Monica, but I know there are still times when I ‘go through the motions’ without feeling the truth of them, and think I can get away with it. Of course I can’t, because while no one else may know, I do.

381. Even with addressing a serious subject Anne, the sense of humour you’ve shared with us here is equally paramount! Thank you.

     1. I agree Shevon, I love Anne’s humour and way of sharing an really important subject that has really resonated with me.

382. I can totally relate to the ways you describe Anne, how we act in order to kid ourselves we are getting away with it. We seem to know how much we can push or lie to ourselves before it gets too evident in our body. But like you explained it’s the long term and cumulative effect that often reveals the truth of how ‘getting away with it’ affects our body. I got away with a lot, I even got away with ignoring the early clues that maybe I was pushing too hard and driving too fast (in more senses than one!) until my body just shouted ‘enough!’ and crashed into a serious thyroid condition. I understand that everything I do leaves an indelible experience in my body, but I can tell when I make a choice that isn’t a truly loving one that I still believe the default rationalisation; “I’ll get away with that”!

383. Thank you Anne, after reading your article I am pondering where the thought ‘getting away with it’ begins, could it be as a child there is a moment when we do ‘something’ we have been told not to do, nobody notices so we think we have gotten away with it?

     1. Jacky, I have this image of myself as a child, taking something from the pantry ( a spoonful of condensed milk usually) Little did I know that my Mum left the lid off the tin on purpose, I was a pale little thing and she thought the extra vitamins would be good for me. So I didn’t ‘get away with it’ , and still don’t, because my body knows.

384. I agree Jane having re-read this amazing Article from Anne that is comes down to our own choices.
     What drives us to keep abusing our bodies and thinking we are getting away with it when we know deep down it is harmful but we do it anyway. It asks the question – who is driving the mind to overide what is natural for our body?
     Every choice is abuse or not abuse. I call not abuse real Love.

385. This blog stopped me in my tracks. It is extraordinary, and so powerful. I love the absoluteness of ‘we never get away with it. … everything we think, say and do carries an energetic imprint, that is either loving and heals us, or is not loving and harms us. And we live with every one of those imprints, every day.’

     1. I agree Catherine, this blog stopped me in my tracks too as I could see that I too have done things I thought I had got away with but realise now that we never get away with it as the energetic imprint is there! Big whoops, but how amazing to now know that everything we do either harms or heals. That brings a whole new level of responsibility to the table.

386. Thanks Anne for such an honest account that stops you right in your tracks… Very powerful words. You either heal or harm, too very true and worth remembering, always.

387. I love returning to this blog and comments. It is an inspiring read to keep on my case to continue refining my choices. Thank you Anne.

388. This is a really great blog in supporting people to take stock. I feel reading this that I am being asked to just ponder on where are my boundaries, and then where are MY boundaries…love it. Do I live life using the outside of me signs as my markers, the 60mph zone, or the “5 a day fruit & veg” as examples. Or do I live my life according to my speed limits and my required intake of fresh greens. I am very grateful to the presentations from Serge Benhayon and all of the practitioners of Universal Medicine for they have helped me blow the dust off of my signs for me to read, and inspire others.

389. You are so right Anne, that the arrogance I can feel too has been stupendous. It’s great to be aware of this, because it’s a sneaky one that I had the arrogance to think I wasn’t arrogant! Looking at everything with honesty is so important, because every little thing is something to look at. We get away with nothing, as you say.

390. Great point Ariana, and a visit to a care home would be an inspiration to look at our choices! Annes blog has reminded me to address the things I have tried to get away with, fooling myself that ‘it will be ok just this once’. It won’t.

391. Thanks Anne. I know from the past, life is not a race, and I am still learning to listen to my body, realising how much I override it at times.

392. Beautifully expressed Amina.

393. Thank you Anne, you have described my life pretty well. I have in the past done things that could have been likened to skydiving in the dark with no parachute…just to see what happens, if I could get away with it, was a bonus. If I had not found Universal Medicine, we all know what happens when skydiving in the dark with no parachute.

394. The beauty of this forever reminder to appreciate and honour our body’s ‘voice’, a wisdom we have access to every moment. Thank you.

395. Thank you, Anne, for this honest blog that speaks for us all in thinking we have ‘got away with it’. It feels like an arrogance that in truth serves no-one. I too speed just a little, usually when I’m excited about something, and still eat things I know don’t nurture me or simply overeat, and I stay up later than my body tells me is wise, overriding its clear signals. You have reminded me to live with a steadiness and understanding: ‘It is about being willing to stop, be still and listen to my body, and to live from and with the knowing that lies within me, the wisdom of my inner-heart.’

396. Thank you for your honesty Anne, as Julie has said, a great reality check. Time to root out a few more of those stubborn ‘its different for me’ habits!

397. This is a great blog Anne, thank you. There are all sorts of things I can relate to, as in how I am at work or at home affects people or refusing to say no and being stubborn with it and the list goes on. As we are aware that everything is registered, how is it we still feel that we can do what we want and get away with it; as we are only fooling ourselves. Thank your for the reality check.

398. So True Anne, whether we like it or not, every choice we make matters!

399. Thank you Anne for your very honest article. There are things that I do that I know are harmful for me thinking that ‘I’m getting away with it’, but reading your article makes me stop and reconsider this, thank you.

400. Yes great to return to re-read. A great reminder.

     1. yes, it’s a great one to keep coming back to!

401. Yes I agree with Rachel I would love to hear more from you ,this article is a real gem. Thank you Anne.

     1. Yes true, a real gem. I enjoy coming back to this for inspiration and I have found some today!

402. So true Michelle, this blog is worth returning to as we like to keep pushing to get away with things, I know I do. And as Anne expressed so clearly, it isn’t worth it as everything is registered and we don’t get away with it.

403. I continue to find inspiration and moments for stopping and pausing with this very honest blog. There is much wisdom here in these words if we are to stop and truly feel what is being said.
     “For me, it means that I know I am doing something that is not right, but I somehow think I have a right to do it, and that it will not have the same consequences for me that it has for other people.”
     I too have fallen and still often do, for what is stated above. This is a such a reminder to be humble in life.

404. Anne Malatt – I absolutely Love this blog of yours. Well I would have to say that my middle name was ‘getting away with it’ but now I struggle because my body tells me fast.
     I saw the getting away with it like a game and played well but at the expense of my body. I did get a tumour and then had major surgery. Soon after I was back on the game.
     It took time to realise the deep harm I was causing to myself and in Truth I was not getting away with Anything. My foolish behaviour had to stop and I catch myself even now with a bloated belly saying out loud – I knew this would not work.
     I have come to realise that the teachings of Serge Benhayon is real medicine and learning how to live in a way that supports me is well worth it. My body reaps the rewards and finally I have meaning and purpose in my life.
     Yes maybe people think my life is pure and boring as you say, but hey ho – I know it works for me and inspires many so I am sticking to it!

     1. Hi Bina, love what you have said here. I am also learning so deeply to appreciate the true medicine that life can be.

405. I love the honesty of your post Anne, an inspiring read and great reminder for me, thank you

406. Hi Anne, I love your comment from July 24th and can really feel the difference in your gentleness with yourself now. There’s much less judgement on yourself, and an acceptance of this is how it was, and this is how it is now. It’s great to observe how healing illness and disease can be when we view and feel it in a different way.

407. Hi Anne, – reading this really reminded me that no matter what I may think I’m “getting away with” – my body will eventually show me what I’m doing to it… After reading this I realise the benefits that will come from stopping to listen to my body BEFORE I get ill, diseased or injured.
     Thank you for sharing.

     1. Very true Cheryl – sadly for many they wait until their body is practically forcing them to listen to it, by becoming ill or diseased, when by paying attention to the little reflections it is always showing you can (as you and Anne have both beautifully said) truly benefit and re-imprint the way you are/feel within your body.

408. Well said Amina, I agree.

     1. Beautifully expressed Amina.

409. Anne this is an amazing inspiring article, very honest and clear in showing how our way of living does affect us and that there is no getting away with it.

410. I loved reading this Anne. I relate to everything you have written. We live in so much arrogance and think we get away with all our harmful choices, but it is only when we get sick do we really stop and listen… and sometimes not even then! I thoroughly enjoyed your humour and the way you expressed this article. Don’t stop writing, I feel inspired to say “no” to myself a lot more because of reading this and to remind myself I am NOT getting away with it.

     1. So true Rachel. This revealing article is an inspiration to observe how often we fool ourselves that we are ‘getting away with it’. And that ‘it’ is self-abuse.

411. I absolutely love this Anne, the mixture of humour and honesty! It’s unbelievable really that we are so reckless with our own bodies and why don’t we live in a way that is loving. Thanks Anne I too am ready to give it a go.

412. Loved this wake-up call, Anne. The body tells us the impact of our choices if we choose to listen. There is no ‘getting away with it’. So, I’m going to ‘Get WITH it!’ instead. Thanks for the inspiration.

413. The lessons of this post really stayed with me yesterday in the choices that I made.

414. Thank you for this great blog Anne. Deeply honest and open. Indeed it reminds me that everything is energy and everything is because of energy. Every choice every deed every thought has this interplay. We fool ourselves with the belief that if the consequences are not immediately apparent that we have gotten away with it. Thank you for the truth in the reminder that everything is felt and there really is no ‘Getting away with it’

     1. Annemarie so true that we fool our selves when consequences are not felt immediately that we have gotten away with it. There is no getting away with it.

415. This is a great post and as some others have written an “ouch” moment. Great reminder to pay more attention to the bodies messages.

416. Anne, Thank you for this great blog. There are countless examples of where I think I can get away with it only to find out I can’t. From a small example yesterday I had done all my work early before lunch (it just flowed simply) so instead of feeling what to do such as take lunch early or a walk I found other things to do that didn’t really need doing. Then about 30min later I felt really sick. What I realised was that time was there for me to re-connect and rejuvenate and so not allowing this time I was denying the rhythm, connection, care and love I had setup for myself.

417. yes Gill, this was a real “ouch” for me too, and thank you Anne for being so honest, it really brought me back to feeling myself and how dishonest this “getting away with it” is, and how many times I think I can, especially with food. A timely reminder and opportunity to really commit to myself.

418. Anne, Scanning through the blogs my eye caught the line “thinking I was getting away with it.” That is me! And that is universal! What human, who takes a moment to get honest, would not say “yup. Me too. I can feel I’m doing harmful things (or things out of alignment with what my true heart says) and thinking I can get away with it”. Thank you for this simple and powerful message about honesty. I feel honesty is truly our way out of the hell on Earth we have all created.

419. I have been overriding my body for a long time. When I felt tired I would eat. (I noticed that I ate more then my teenage sons}. This worked for a long time. ( weight does not change}. Deep down I knew that something did not make sense, but I was getting away with it. Eventually I got stopped by hepatitis and deep exhaustion. With the suport of unimed I have done a lot of healing and have started working again. I felt amazing! However I had to touch on that exhaustion again, by overriding my tiredness and try to get away with it. Why do we try to get away with it? I did not want to accept where I was at. I was exhausted. I realize to truly heal my exhaustion I need to accept it. I am still working on that.

420. Thank you Anne. So beautifully put, as with time and working on oneself how much more gentle we can be with ourselves, how we live and are with everyone else. Honesty can then remove the arrogrance and be replaced by love.

421. Wow. This blog has really stopped me. I too understand the arrogance ‘of getting away with it”. As I write this I understand what a falsehood it is because ‘I know’ even if apparently nobody else does at the time. Thank you for writing with such light, honesty and clarity.

422. Wow, this is so powerful, and I can fully feel how I ‘think’ I can get away with it too. The arrogance is huge, because we can feel it in the body whether we get ill or not. Thank you Anne for that ‘ouch’ moment.

423. Thanks Anne. I can relate to all the disregarding ways you’ve spoken of and I am ready to live more lovingly too.

424. The startling truth of arrogance, brilliantly expressed.

425. Love this blog Anne! I couldn’t relate more… So many times I have thought that i was getting away with things when actually it was harming my body (even when it wasn’t completely obvious) and that even if I thought I was consistent with my rhythm or expressions etc, I actually wasn’t because of these instances where I would push my body or eat too much, and I would only stop doing this when I put on loads of weight or could no longer ‘get away with it’. Recently I have started to pick up on these things, and am in constant refining towards things that no longer support my body, before they affect my body the way I used to call ‘the point where I could no longer get away with it’.

     1. Another great reminder, that life is not about getting to a point of perfection, but about opening up to the learning on the way and developing a relationship with ourselves, and life, that allows the joy of responsibility and refinement to be part of our every day. For me this has completely taken the sting out of ‘getting it wrong’. Thank you, Anne and Susie.

426. Thanks Anne, your blog is so apt, we do think we’re getting away with it but in truth we never do, and as Ariana puts it so well, we’re not fools yet we fool ourselves knowingly too – crazy huh. Beautiful to feel and know that we can choose differently at any moment, and Anne it’s lovely to feel and hear how it’s developed for you since you’ve written the blog and how increasing honesty and love in our daily lives and choices opens out even more honesty and love.

427. Hi everyone, it has been great to read all your comments and to be inspired to re-read this blog and feel where I was then and where I am now. I can still feel a hardness in the blog that is not in me now. And because I don’t give myself such a hard time any more, I am more willing to be honest, to see things as they really are, to see people as they truly are, and am more able to be aware of what is truly going on. This has been a great process of healing, just through the willingness to be gentle with myself, and honest and true. No-one wants to be injured or ill, and certainly no-one wants to see or feel anyone else suffering, but illness and disease can be a great opportunity to stop and feel what is truly going on in our bodies, and reflect on how we are truly living our lives, if we but allow it.

428. This has got to be one of my favourite things I’ve read – we all think we are getting away with it but ultimately we are not. I know I have definitely pushed my body to it’s limits with things I knew were wrong but thought I could get away with (bungee jumping, skydiving, 4 doughnuts at once etc), it’s a ginormous arrogance that has not served me, my body or anyone around me. I, for one, am ready to give love go too.

429. Yes although I have often tried to “get away with it” – and thought I had succeeded, as you say every choice, be it thought, word or deed has a consequence – either harming or healing. There is NO getting away with anything. great blog Anne, thankyou.

     1. Jane, I too love re-re-re-reading this blog as a reminder of the consequences of all our actions.

430. So true Anne. We never do get away with it!

431. This is an amazing blog, thank you Anne, it brought a deep stillness to me as I read it. Jane, thanks for the reminder that we either heal or harm in every moment, it’s a great way to live our lives, every choice matters, deeply so.

432. Thank you Anne – your post exposes a deep culture of disregard we all indulge in. How much can we do to ourselves before the body caves in, or a relationship breaks up, or we get banned from driving and then have to live through the consequences? A clear lesson in how we create our own suffering. We never get away with anything and our loving friend Time will always show us the results of our recklessness. I too feel huge gratitude for the wise and simple teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon – teachings that have educated and enabled me to choose wisely for myself so that Time does not have to show me the results of my attempts to “get away with it” anymore.

     1. Rowena such an insightful comment, I stopped when I read ‘how we create our own suffering’ – we do, I do and I’ve often refused to recognise it and indulged it – ouch. Great to feel and see that.

     2. I agree Rowena, our bodies will take a lot of abuse from us before something gives up. But why do we let it get to that point and more importantly why are we so surprised when something does give up? With the presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, understanding the ‘why’ has helped me to make more self-loving choices so that I won’t be surprised anymore.

        1. I agree Rowena and Tim. The presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine give me understanding of why I have made my choices and from this I then can make more self loving choices and not have the consequences in my body of trying to get away with it.

433. Such a powerful and revealing blog about how what we do, think, say, and how we live does actually have long term implications and we do not get away with anything

434. Love this Anne – it so resonates! I definitely can feel how I often think I am getting away with it – yet of course I know we never do!! And my body tells me so as well….we get fooled by ourselves thinking it won’t matter and then wonder what we did when we get some condition or other!

     1. So true Eunice, I had an experience recently thinking I could get away with eating some food. My body felt it, I felt very tired and low, my daily rhythm messed up for a few weeks. I am just coming out of it, it’s a lot harder to get the rhythm back in place.

     2. I agree Eunice, even though we probably get many messages along the way, as soon as we get an illness, disease or have an accident, instead of looking at how have we contributed to whats happened, the first thing we do is try to find an answer outside of ourselves. Could it be possible that we are responsible for everything that happens to us through the choices we make everyday? If that is true then the only place we need to look is, at ‘ourselves’.

435. Thanks for sharing so honestly Anne. Its a reminder to us all that we never really get away with it and that we only fool ourselves and buy time, but that eventually all our choices have consequences; loving or unloving. Your article invited me to stop and be honest about where I am still thinking I’m getting away with it, and choose to be more self loving and responsible toward myself, rather than wait for my body to make me with an illness or disease.

     1. I agree Debra, so honest. I too have been inspired to be honest about where I think I am getting away with it, for now.

436. The madness of trying to get away with anything when we inherently know it will come back to bite us. Our bodies show us everything, as individuals and collectively as a whole humanity. All we have to do is listen and learn.

     Thank you, Anne.

437. Hi Anne. I first read this blog a year ago when it was first posted and it has stayed with me. It is such an awesome reminder exposing to myself that I constantly try to get away with things and test myself over and over. It’s like a game we play with ourselves. It’s like I have a rebellious teenager inside of me constantly testing the boundaries! I feel it’s time to give my inner teenager some Love!

438. Thank you Anne for exposing the fine line we walk when we think we are getting away with it. I used to think that if no one saw it then I had got away with it but it was so untrue and I could feel it in my body, but I over rode that feeling. I can now feel the arrogance that getting away with it brings. We never get away with it, we may think we delay the impact but it catches up with us in the end.

439. Anne, I loved the way you write and this blog is so honest and show how our bodies highlights the consequences of our irresponsibilities. We do not get away with them.

440. Thank you for sharing soo honestly – I too have moments where I allow the I can get away with it thought. All my life I have pushed the boundaries but only so far as so I can get away with it, and when I would push them a little too far I could always find a way to wiggle my way out of it. It was like I was testing and challenging how far I could take my body to – crazy really when I am the one who gets to live with my body 24/7, yet I would choose to disrespect it. As for driving fast I love it but do at times look out for police and thats really when I know Im going too fast and yes whilst I may get away with it – as you said it does all catch up with you.

441. I can definitely relate to the misguided belief of “getting away with it” – Thank you Anne, for the reminder that our choices have consequences.

442. Hi Anne, thanks for reminding us that everything we do is noted and will come back to us in some form. I’m glad you didn’t lose the leg!!!

443. Thank you Anne, A very powerful and rather exposing blog. Beautiful reminder that I am very aware when I am choosing to go against what I know truly supports me, and that I hold a ‘hope’ that there will be no consequence so I can pretend I did not really go against my own inner truth. It feels very useful to name the pattern and to see it for what it is. “Getting away with it” sums it well. I now have a renewed commitment to change this long standing pattern.

444. Thanks Anne – I found this a wonderfully practical expose that I can directly relate to. The real treat was I started reading it at just at the point when I am about to go to the cupboard for an unnecessary snack, so totally got the power of the message you are sharing.

     I’ve been pondering it for a few days, and just looking at so many areas where I live a half truth – great on the face of it, but underneath when no one is looking just not following through with the same quality…. because I think I can ‘get away with it’. And your blog reminds us all that deep down, we don’t get away with anything… we know… our body knows… and in one way or another there are always consequences.

445. Dear Anne, this blog from 2013 is a gift to us all. There is such grace in the laws of life that mean that we can never get away with hurting ourselves or each other. God always calls us back to truth no matter how arrogant or how far off track we end up. Magical, as Marika says so beautifully…

446. Anne, this is so beautiful. It has made me aware that if I am really truthful with myself I am still living my life in so many ways still ‘trying to get away with it’. A huge wake-up call – thank you.

447. Hi Anne, wow that is some sharing your absolute
     Love and honesty and questioning in writing allows me to look and see where I do that in my life too so am able to change it. Thank you for sharing and writing in the rawness of it happening.

448. Wow Anne there is so much to consider here. This is beautifully expressed, thank you

449. Thank you for such a honest article, which has allowed me to stop and honestly reflect on my own life, and the areas I feel I can get away with stuff. Your words are truly inspiring, and have allowed me to take my honesty deeper, awesome!

450. Thank you Anne for sharing this – I loved it! I read this blog when first published and it is one that returns to my awareness regularly and is a great reminder to not think “oh its only…..”. As if it being ‘only’ makes it ok. Many ‘onlys’ in a day can add up to a lot!

451. Isn’t it just magical that we don’t get away with it…
     That we have such intelligence in our divine bodies to bring ourselves back to harmony when we have strayed too far. Whilst illness & disease are not pleasant to experience, it surely delivers the message that change is imminent and is the beginning of the healing process back to the essence of who we are, should one choose to.

452. Reblogged this on annemalatt.

453. Anne this is an amazing piece of writing. As I read I was ticking off the boxes, I do this, yes and that, I get away with this or that. The deeper honesty is absolutely necessary for the truth is as you have written we are totally responsible for every thing we say, think, do. It is our body and consequently our life that suffers from the abuse, and this directly adds to the pool of abuse that all humanity swims in. Thank you for your clarity and true inspiration.

454. Thank you Anne what a wonderful blog. I love your honesty and reading the other comments have also been a real blessing. The very first paragraph came at exactly the right time for me as I have been going over the speed limit quite a lot recently. Just before your blog come out I had questioned why I was doing it and brushed it aside (as I was being arrogant enough to feel I was getting away with it.)Since reading your blog I have actually enjoyed keeping with in the speed limit and seen it as an opportunity to be with me, I also seem to get to places in the same time if not earlier!
     A brilliant blog for humanity! As a race of human beings we think we are getting away with it in our many many different ways, but we don’t have to look too closely to see that this is not the case. With true honesty like that in your blog we can see things for how and what they are and start foundations for true change.

455. ps I would just like to point out that the times on these posts are UK time- it is 6.42 am here!

456. Hi Luz Helena, the “sweet treat” is my Achilles heel too.
     In fact, I have written a blog about it: ” I treat myself with love”. http://truthaboutsergebenhayon.com/2013/07/05/i-treat-myself-with-love/
     I have had to come to the understanding that “even” gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free cake is still cake! It still affects my body, because I eat it from a need. And the need, the emptiness, the hunger, is there because in that moment I have chosen to separate from the greatest treat of all – the love that lives inside me. Now, I see these cravings as a signpost, showing me that I am struggling, and offering me an opportunity to return to love.

457. Dear Mark, now that is a love letter! Thank you for “getting” me- for feeling where I am coming from- it is absolutely not about beating ourselves up (which is more self-abuse) but about being as honest as we can and listening to our bodies, which have to live with the consequences of every choice we make.

458. Thank you Anne for a real, serious but funny post.

459. Anne, what can I say but thank you. Your words speak loud and clear of all the grey areas in many of our lives. I personally can relate to all of them in varying degrees…the only difference is that I am getting away with it…only kidding! In truth that’s if I discount the osteroarthritis in my right hip that makes it now very hard to speed..but don’t worry I have worked out ways to push through! Ha ha! But not after your blog. Thanks also for sharing your results..must be a huge relief. Amazingly powerful and inspirational blog.

460. Hi Anne, since I read your blog yesterday I’ve gone through different reactions… I can relate very much with the ‘I eat’ bit. I’ve already let go of many issues from my old self or at least I don’t feel so identified and helpless with them anymore…. but the sweet treats! oh! they still hang around. I feel very unsettled when I imagine letting them go….My arrogance also makes me think “I have the right to have them, I like to have them, everybody has them, I can’t punish myself because of this, as it just makes it all worse, etc….” I have come to my own terms with sweets, I’ve decided to accept that that’s were I am at and stay there…even though I’ve always managed to acknowledge the need behind, the avoidance to feel, the comfort, I have put all names and nominated all issues… still, no matter what… I am still dependent on these moments of pleasure, comfort, fake love and care…..and I feel I can still get away with this! When I read your blog I went into judgement and fear mode, I felt sad, uncomfortable, I realized that what you wrote was something I didn’t want to read. I even fooled myself to think that you were beating yourself up.. However, I settled! and got to clearly feel that it all came from my spirit’s cleverness and helplessness…. I can relate exactly as Kim Schultz described above: “I fought, kicked and screamed to hang onto my self destructive unloving ways”, after that something inside said to me: “Why is it, that a part of you insists in hanging onto a deep, unknown hurt with such an intensity and force, that it feels almost impossible to let go of the solution you’ve created to deny and deal with that hurt….?…..Specially now, when I’ve connected back to the knowing that the real healing, power and love comes from the guidance of my inner heart! Why is it so difficult for me to accept the immense glory that I am from and live my human life from there? Thanks for sharing and inspiring me to go into all this processing….

     1. Hi Luz, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing so honestly what Anne’s blog bought up for you. I could feel every part of my body knod with a “Aaa Haa” relating with the sweets and treats! When I get questioned why I have just eaten a whole cheesecake or something I would roar like a lion defending it at all cost. I felt so unsettled to be questioned or to imagine if I could never eat sweet stuff again ( my God how boring would life be??!!) Now I can laugh and say OMG I just ate a whole cheesecake without smashing myself more. It is lovely when you allow to be honest with yourself and nominate why you feel to eat them. For me it would be because I didn’t want to feel something or I felt exhausted, dull, hated the world moment or for whatever million reasons. It really touched me that you have accepted that’s where you are at and to stay there and to honour that. For me the more I allow myself to feel and the more Love I allow the less the treats are becoming. It can be more damaging to stop eating them when we are not ready to let the sweet stuff go if it is not true for us to say goodbye to it. It truly is an unfolding process to let all these things go that stop us from being the Glorious humans that we are – all in our own time.
        It’s such a quality to have true honesty with yourself – Go Girl!!! 😄

461. Dear Anne,
     From the opening title “Getting away with it” I knew that this blog was very much about me as well, how beauty-full that felt. That what you shared with us was also about us, giving me the opportunity to look at what I’ve been doing to “get away with it”. This for me isn’t about flogging myself nor is it about punishing me for not being “good” it’s an opportunity to look at and feel into what my body is saying first and move ahead from that point. My love for you and what you express through the written word is endless, just as it is for all.

462. This is the first comment I have ever made, on well any public forum . I would like to note that it is not that your piece was special or different but because it is really common and relatable. Whom exactly are we trying to fool by just toeing the line at the last second? Now is the perfect example, I am staying up way too late and fooling myself that….” I was getting away with it!”. On that note, I will resign to bed. Awesome reminder of what I know already inside me.

463. Dear Anne…….Double thanks – once for the original article and once for your update. It is a big relief to me (so imagine how you must feel!) to hear your bone tests are clear. And I couldn’t agree more – what an amazing time and place to be living where we can have the marriage of conventional and esoteric medicine. Blessed.

464. This article is so powerful …. throughout my life there have been many times I have thought I was “getting away with it” – this article allowed me to feel where I still let this lie play out. Wow. Thank you Anne – your honesty and expression are very inspiring.

465. Dear Anne, your sentence, ‘For me, it means that I know I am doing something that is not right, but somehow think I have a right to do it, and that it will not have the same consequences for me that it has for other people’ is my spirit’s mantra! In fact it loves ‘getting high’ on such behaviour – somehow being outside or beyond the furry fingers of the law. I have been clocking this consciously for a couple of years now in my behaviour (including the speeding!), observing it, naming it etc. – it has been such a strong pull of a momentum, but not until now when you have written this has every little exact detail been spoken out loud. Thank you for exposing this incredible arrogance which we all feed. It is the spirit’s individualistic last desperate stand to stay intact, its total lack of consideration of the all, and of the effect our behaviour has on every little flower and every distant star (memories of a poem I loved as a teenager!) Thanks again for this powerful blog Anne. The kookaburras have just burst out laughing.

466. Thank you Anne,
     The saying “Getting away with it” has never felt so cheated before … who is really getting away with it if we have to deal with the end result?? If I didn’t have the workshops that Serge Benhayon presents and the support of the Universal medicine clinic I know I would not be doing as amazing as I am now, as all of my “getting away with it” did catch up with me as well ….

467. Hi everyone, thank you all for your lovely comments. It feels like I have hit a raw nerve in others too! It felt very important to write from the rawness I was feeling and to share it, before I glossed over it in my mind or ate something sweet to take my mind off what I was feeling!
     My bone marrow biopsy is clear, so I have local disease only and will have local radiotherapy, as recommended by my amazing doctors, with the loving support of Serge Benhayon, Michael Benhayon and Esoteric Chakrapuncture. I feel so blessed to live in a time and place where I can have it all – the best that modern medicine has to offer, with the support of the amazing Esoteric Healing Modalities, and even more amazing, the unwavering love and support that the Benhayons offer us all.

     1. Awesome news from an awesome lady!

     2. wow Anne – that is such good news that bone marrow biopsy is clear — it is such a huge healing you offer everyone by writing as raw and honestly as you do about what you are experiencing. It means that everyone gets the healing with you. And in an age when disease is such a part of life this has to be talked about in the public domain — it dispels so much fear. You are an absolute inspiration.

468. Beautiful Anne, reading this felt so powerful and made me stop and look at what I believe I am getting away with. There is no where to hide. We need to be honest with our selves.

469. Thank you so much for sharing Anne. I find myself justifying that how I’m living now is so much better than how I used to live, so it’s ok, even though I know my body is asking for more and telling me that it’s not ok now. Your right, we all tend to wait for the undeniable sign from our bodies before we make changes. I don’t want to do that anymore. Thanks again Anne.

470. Thank you Anne for being so honest and open in sharing your experiences. I really enjoyed the theme of this piece. That ‘rush’ and ‘thrill of excitement’ that I used to feel when I thought I had gotten away with something, now feels so empty and irresponsible. And I also know from experience that there is no getting away with anything that isn’t my truth in that moment.

471. Wow Anne, thank you this is so openly honest, simple and powerful.
     I have always lived thinking I could get away with just a little bit of abuse to myself via food or pushing myself. I can feel how arrogant that is and how I just ignore my body to do that and how damaging that is for me and for others around me. If I am heavy and dull in me what is that like for my family friends and colleagues???
     I am with you – living in a more self-loving and caring way is the way to go, for me and my body and for everyone around me.

472. Thank you Anne for writing so simply about the consequences of our day to day choices. I too have done soooo many things that I thought I would get away with and am now realising my body is showing me that the time has come ‘to pay the piper’ and no it is not something I can get away with anymore.

473. Thank you for sharing Anne. None of us are perfect, our souls are there to bring us back in whatever way we will listen. I too hope I can get away with my past, hoping it is not too late for me to connect to my soul and be love. Your honesty, clarity and openness in expression and life is inspiring.

474. Great blog! I know the feeling you describe, the I-can-get-away-with-anything-feeling, I always have the idea I can think not loving about myself without those thoughts affecting my body…but they still do have an effect on my feeling of wellbeing anyway.
     It is awesome that our body is so honest that it will keep saying things like ‘no this food does not work for me’ or ‘being this stressed does not work for me’ or ‘this striving for perfection does not make sense to me because it makes me hard’ etc. etc… And when we listen to it we have the opportunity to learn to be loving with our body and our inner selves again.
     Thanks for being so super honest Anne.

475. Ah yes…. how many times have I thought that I have gotten away with it!! Thanks for making it real! How we live does eventually catch up with us. There is no where to run or hide, as we take our bodies with us!

476. Wow…what a wake up call (for me). Thank you for sharing your story and your humour Anne. The ‘body police’ might be hiding, but sure as eggs they’ll catch up with us.

477. Wow Anne, this resonates deeply with me and particularly at the moment as I’m struggling with food choices, arrogantly believing I’m getting away with eating foods that I know do not support me but because I feel ‘OK’ I keep choosing them. Yet in truth anything less than feeling totally healthy and vital is not OK and is not getting away with it. Thank you for your honesty and sharing it with us – it inspires me to be more honest about where I think I am getting away with it

478. I can totally relate to what you have shared Anne.
     It is certainly no fun ride when all the unloving choices we have made catch up with us. For me I ignored all my warning signs I was given over the years and took drugs to ignore them all . I thank God for the huge dead stop I was given 4 years ago – not to mention I fought, kicked and screamed to hang onto my self destructive unloving ways. Now I fight for me (at my best) and although my body feels my past choices everyday, it is the choices I make now that count and not to beat myself up for the past. It is so empowering to know I have that choice for each single step. Is it going to be a unloving choice or a loving choice? Choice is ours…
     You are such an inspiration Anne, Thank you.

479. thank you Anne for sharing this. We don’t get away with it no matter how we trick ourselves. Why not live in a way that is loving? It is so self honouring to do so.

480. Thank you so much Anne for sharing your experience in ‘thinking’ you were getting away with it. I can relate to taking this attitude to a number things in the way I live my life at times. It is so easy to think the little things don’t matter. A timely warning for us all!

481. Anne

     I simply love and completely relate to what you have shared. My ability to override my own body sometimes astounds me. I am deeply inspired and grateful for your willingness to be honest and truthful about our ability to kid ourselves. Your words were just what I needed to hear today and have already impacted my next choice. Thank you again.

482. Anne this blog really offers the opportunity to stop and re-evaluate all the areas I also live a measured life. What I mean by a measured life is all the areas I have calculated I can get away with “it” a bit longer. But what will be the stopping point? Will it be a loving choice I make or an illness/ailment that lovingly stops me in my tracks because I have not chosen self-love for myself. Thank you for sharing; it has been quite confronting for me.

483. Wow Anne, what a powerful post! I can so relate to what you have written – I have, and ‘do’ many of these things myself, thinking I am ‘getting away with it’… Your post is such a powerful reminder that every choice we make in life, and the way we live, is held in the body, and that if we don’t pay attention to our choices, that eventually the signal from our body is strong enough that we are forced to take notice. Thank you again – this was very simply written, but in absolute truth.

     1. I could have written Anne’s blog myself! Thankyou for being so honest

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