496 thoughts on “Choices, Choices, Choices”

1. ‘I CHOSE IRRESPONSIBILITY and then accepted whatever happened after that because of what I needed.’ Thank you so much for illustrating what the consequences of those choices can be and that when we deny the responsibility of those choices we are left feeling disempowered and like victims of circumstance when life really doesn’t have to play out this way.

2. Thank you Julie, for the sharing of the two experiences. This just goes to show how we perceive an illness, injury or whatever the body is throwing out of it, can also be a healing or harming.

   When we’re more open and receptive, the experience just flows and the others around us reciprocate it too. When we are closed, blaming or wanting to be fixed, then the experience leaves us with a bad taste and we blame it on a particular thing that follows us or holds us prisoners, for the rest of our lives.

   In everything, we have the opportunity to make choices that are lovingly supportive to us and our body’s or not, it is that simple.

3. ‘Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.’ I love the examples you are sharing here Julie as they highlight beautifully the outplay of the choices we make, either to be with ourselves and feel everything there is to feel in the moment and for what is needed, or, to check out, not be present, not to feel and not to take any responsibility for the way things are panning out, leaving ourselves out of the equation and blaming everything and everyone around us for the events that unfold. Gold.

   1. Agree Rachel, it is ‘Gold’. It boils down to the choice of responsibility of being there or not. When we are with ourselves, then we accept the part we have placed. When we are not with ourselves, then we hand and blame others for our ill choices. Can we live with this knowing?

4. Every moment there is an offering to choose love regardless our previous choices hence we are given countless opportunities to choose love in our lives.

5. Thank you Julie, today reading this I feel I understand more easily and am allowing a deeper level of honesty, a greater awareness, of the way that I behave and the consequences that arise from those behaviours. Whatever and however I express has an influence on those around me – there is a huge responsibility in this but it need not be daunting when we are truly connected and allow for constant inspiration.

6. Years ago on a cold dark night in December on a twisty road, I had fallen into the trap of familiarity with the road and excess speed on my large motorcycle. On the way to the A&E in the ambulance, I got my first ever opportunity to experience Entonox. I was told how to use it and asked if I could overdose on it and was told not to worry about it. When the pain from the two broken ankles arose and other lesser injuries, I tried the gas and sure enough when I had enough gas, the hand holding the mask flopped and the mask fell off my face. I became self-medicating for what was needed by the body.

   1. There are so many examples of how the body simply knows. Learning to listen to it and trust it more and more is a process that continues to unfold.

7. A beautiful reflection on the responsibility of every choice we make.

8. This is very powerful. How often do I give up and give in because the circumstances don’t seem to meet my expectation? It really is me avoiding my responsibility. We always have a choice, and we have a choice to command that choice.

9. I have found it interesting also to observe events in my life and to realise that they are definitely influenced by my own choices and movements beforehand.

   1. Agreed. Even on the subtle level of choosing to place my focus on appreciation of the space I can feel in my body as opposed to letting the tense areas take over and become all consuming has a massive difference in how my movements are impulsed and how I enter into communication with another. Both these things influence greatly what is to unfold next.

10. It’s great that you noticed the difference – how often do we have a bad experience and blame that experience rather than our part in it? Or we don’t consider that the outcome could have been different if we’d approached it differently?

11. It makes such a difference the way we are – the state we are in and the quality we hold ourselves it. It makes me realise that a choice is never just a singular thing – it also factors in all the other choices we have made leading up to that.

    1. I am also being made aware that every choice we make affects everyone; there is an enormous responsibility in every choice that we make.

    2. I am back in the USA and have had nothing but positive experiences with people, including in NYC. When I was 21 I was not such a happy person and was struggling to make sense of life. In NYC then I encountered so much hostility and rudeness. At the time it never occurred to me that this was what I was attracting by my contraction to life.

12. Thank you Julie a great sharing and one that we can all learn from, especially the importance of asking questions even when we are in pain, a simple prompt of asking how you needed to take the pain relief may have prompted a full explanation as we all have an equal responsibility in these things and when we blindly seek relief there are always consequences.

13. It is true that we are making choices all of the time and depending on how we make that choice will determine the outcome; either way negative or positive there is always something to learn.

14. It’s so supportive to realise we can empower ourselves with our choices, to trust our feelings and to even slow down something happening around us, such as in this medical situation, to ask more questions and express how we feel and what our needs are. I definitely feel more empowered now when I work with medical professionals, realising they too need my feedback, and that we can work together more harmoniously as a team with my input.

15. Our choices reflect the quality of energy we align to and in our willingness to embrace and surrender to truth and honor the love we are, our choices then follow to support this alignment and our opportunity to evolve.

16. The way we approach the healing process determines the way we experience it. Good to remind this, since it is a choice we ourselves make.

17. Thank you for sharing this great example of how when we choose irresponsibility we become a victim of how the situation then plays out but when we accept our part in whatever has unfolded we can then allow ourselves to be appropriately supported and thus transform the way we experience challenging circumstances and re-imprint them.

18. A great learning and reminder for us all that it is the choices we make that determine the outcome of every situation.

19. As I read this I couldn’t help but think how our lives would be so different from young if we were raised to know the power, the consequences and the responsibility we have for each and every choice we make. For a start the ‘blame game’ would no longer exist as we would naturally be taking responsibility for these choices. Now that is one game the world would be so much better off without.

    1. Yes it really exposes the nature of blaming others by calling it the ‘blame game’ and is one that we would certainly benefit from not playing!

20. Making choices based on past experiences – it sounds like there’s no other way to make any sensible choice, but I can feel how I use it to ease off the level of awareness and responsibility that the moment calls for. This is huge. Thank you for sharing your insight, Julie.

21. I appreciate the honesty with yourself that you share here, recognising the impact of your part in the equation rather than just seeing it as random that there was a difference in how you reacted on different occasions or just blaming others for what happened.

22. How beautiful that you had the opportunity to re-imprint your experience and how much more loving and supportive it was for you the second time when you were honouring yourself.

23. “In the second experience I was open to there being another way and how I could be supported and choose this.” Beautiful, The two different experiences demonstrate the importance of asking for support when we need it, but also to having no expectations as to an outcome. When we let go things often flow.

24. We can go through life seeing things that happen as mere randomness or we can deeply appreciate that we are being supported through the magic of the universe to make choices that are evolving for us and humanity as a whole. It seems as a worldwide society we prefer the randomness vs truly seeing the reflections we are offered, I love how we always have a choice as growing up I thought I never had a choice and yet that was not true – something that I am exploring more and more each day and whilst not fully lived is transformational in my life.

25. We always know what is truly happening, even if we then go and override our sense. An uneasy feeling should be an alarm bell in our minds but we have become so numb to the communications from our body that we often walk ourselves into danger whilst ignore the bell.

26. What really stood out for me was that we do feel when things are not ok and even though we can blame a situation or others, there is always a part of ourselves in it as it is happening to us and we always have the choice to change it. It then becomes about if we wanted to change or not instead of being a victim and that is very empowering.

27. It’s really about which way we turn in difficult situations, or which way we approach life that determines the outcome or our experience. Do we approach it with responsibility and truly wanting healing, or do we approach it wanting relief and a quick fix? Same scenario – different outcomes.

28. Life becomes so much easier to live when we live with the knowing that there is always “another way” in any given situation. And as you found, the way you were not honouring how you were feeling led you to feeling even worse. How amazing it is what can unfold when we bring all our attention to what is going on for us and then bring that awareness to the next choice we make, especially if we make that choice a self-loving one.

29. Beautiful Julie, thank you for the reminder of how our choices either lead us further towards the love and divinity we are all truly from or further away from love – a simple choice really but we complicate and make it hard for ourselves when we separate from this truth.

30. Before going into hospital and having any sort of surgery, I profoundly recommend that one takes the time to know oneself deeply enough, so that there can be a real and true sense of surrender within… Then there is a very different experience that is there to be had.

    1. True Chris, it gives one a complete different perspective of the support that is always there when we surrender to what we know is true within.

31. More and more I realise it is my choices that dictate the outcome of what is taking place, so empowering and really so simple when it comes down to it. I had this recently, I had a picture of how something was going to go and of course it did, exactly, which gave me a drama to get wrapped up in and take a long time. Talking with a friend they asked what was my part in it? how was I approaching it.. and ah ha! there it was I realised I had set it up to be this way as I had already chosen how it would be by my picture I had of it. I changed my choice and my approach, dropped the picture, stayed open, without expectation and sure enough it flowed beautifully and completed quickly. It was all down to me.

    1. That is a beautiful example of how our intentions do have more power than we currently think.

32. “I CHOSE IRRESPONSIBILITY and then accepted whatever happened after that because of what I needed” – this is such an brilliant realization. Thank you for sharing, Julie. I can see how I have played this pattern many times in my life. Being very honest and understanding what I really am after is a great way to bring clarity into why things are the way they are.

33. A beautiful example of how Esoteric Medicine is a complement to Western Medicine.

34. Julie your words ‘My choice was based on that previous experience.’ This reminded me how many times we deal with things based on our previous experiences, and don’t see them for the grace that they truly are, which is another opportunity to do things differently.

35. This is a great example of how we can use medication to support us or use it to fix us.

36. It is amazing how we ‘pre’ set up our experiences depending on the choices we make. This really is something to ponder on.

37. It’s amazing the difference awareness and understanding can make to the way we perceive things. We can choose to see the things that ‘happen’ to us as an inconvenience, or as an opportunity for growth.

38. A great example of how our intention can give us totally different experiences with the same situation.

39. this is huge in how we approach things – if we blame or don’t want to take responsibility, then that plays havoc on our bodies. If we are honest with how we feel and where we are at, it supports us for whatever is needed.

40. Coming to the understanding that in any situation I always have a choice even though at times the choice is not one I really want to make, has been life changing for me. No longer do I feel the victim of circumstance but the master of my own ‘ship’, and I know without any doubt whatsoever that the direction my ship is going is the result of all my choices but I also know that I can change direction whenever I choose.

41. Beautiful Julie, it is the quality we choose that determines what happens. We are always the ones in the driver seat, no one else to blame

42. Sometimes we lose sight of the big picture and that is simply that WE ARE DIVINE and to not live in connection with this divinity opens us up to forces that seek to mask it.

43. We are not raised to understand that the quality in which we make our decisions actually effects the outcome. I couldn’t agree more with your example in this blog, as it is not what we do but how we do it. Each choice we make in life has an out play, it confirms the last choice, that confirming may seem positive or negative but in truth all experiences are a chance to learn. The second time you had the gas, you supported yourself and therefore your experience was supportive, confirming that you made a true choice. In the other instance you made a choice based on numbing and fear but equally you were confirmed, you were confirmed that making rushed and panic based choices is an insult on the body, thus the reason you passed out. This story is proof that there are no wrong choices, just lots of ways to learn and evolve if we choose to.

44. You story is a perfect example of how different an experience can be depending on the way we approach it, the responsibility we are taking for each step and choice in life and the way we perceive ourselves and our circumstances… we indeed are the masters of our life through our choices and it is beautiful when life confirms the power we have in undeniable moments like these.

45. The support is always there for us if we open up to it, both from conventional medicine and from God and when they are combined then deep healing follows.

46. Thank you Julie for the clarity with which you present that it is always about the intention behind our choices and that we can make the same choice with a completely different outcome if we chose to take responsibility for our actions and support ourselves with this process.

47. Bringing your conscious presence to your experience took away the struggle and as you say brought a responsibility that made all the difference. Brilliant.

48. Very true Doug, and very empowering to realise this, as we then understand and know how we have reached a particular point in our lives or quality of life we are living, through which we then know and understand exactly what is needed to change or correct this, or deepen the quality that confirms us so that the enrichment in our lives continues to be magnified.

49. Thank you Julie, for sharing how our choices shape the quality of life we live. I also could feel and have experienced myself, that the ‘not so grand’ illusion we so often fall for, believing that we are better off to choose to escape or numb ourselves, is one that never supports us to be truly free. For in attempting to numb, override, or escape the truth on offer for us to feel, we only create more dis-ease, complication, unrest and greater dis-connection within ourselves. For the only true freedom we can live is that which comes naturally through our surrender to the truth at hand.

50. Love the distinction about the same action but chosen with a completely different intent and starting point. I can see the fallacy of expectations: when we respond as if the same object, activity and scenario is guaranteed to deliver the same as we experienced before (whether good or bad), but really we need to look to see what was our part in the picture.

51. Great sharing Julie, our choices play a great part in how we cope or don’t cope so well in certain situations, you give a great example here how through wanting relief from the pain of your experience of using Entonox had you passing out, and on your second visit you used it to support you, and at the same time the support you had from the nurse was very different too.

52. Universal Medicine and complementary medicine are most certainly a match made in heaven! Basically, honouring yourself and what you need combined with the necessary pain relief = a fuss free, simple experience. Not to underestimate the discomfort and pain, but my feeling is, the experience could have been a whole lot worse if you chose to disregard your body’s need for your loving attention.

53. A beautiful example of the difference when we take responsibility for how we are with ourselves in everything we do.

54. I loved reading this today. How we experience life really is up to us completely. Nothing gained in bemoaning the past but everything gained by reconnecting or deepening our connection right now and living from there.

55. The power of choices and every moment leading up to when a choice is made influences the outcome. This was a ‘Divine’ experience for you Julie and also for those around you that were part of the whole experience. Conventional and Esoteric Medicine are a match for whole health and I can’t imagine experiencing any illness/disease where I would not choose to reflect on my part in what was happening as I open to the wisdom of the professionals around me.

56. It is interesting to read how we can choose to make the choices complicated when there is an opportunity for them to be pure and simple. The willingness to step up to responsibility can be as simple as letting the moment unfold rather than get caught up in the quick fixes that support no one in the long run and don’t give us an opportunity to learn and heal at the same time. The powerful sharing in this blog is how the person who administered the care was equally able to understand and heal in the process.

57. A very poignant sharing for humanity. Such clear writing that describes the effect of our choices and the truth of what it means to be responsible for our circumstances is something that very few surrender to when illness is being lived in the body.

58. It goes to show that every choice we make has an impact on our next choice in one way or another. When I am present with my body, the presence determines the loving choices I make, but when I lose this connection I can make choices done in autopilot that are not loving; but the more I am aware of this happening, the more I can pause to make changes to stop the momentum and therefore make different choices based on checking in with my body.

59. A great example of how our attitude and relationship with self can make all the difference.

60. This is definitely a marriage made in heaven. Several years ago I had to have a routine health check and I remember part of the process was an ECG. Having had many sessions over the years with Esoteric Practioners I had become aware of the importance of the gentle breath meditation and how this would support me in situations where I might have felt nervous or slightly anxious. By totally surrendering during the check, the machine warning bell went off and staff came over and noted that my breathing rate was so shallow and relaxed that the machine couldn’t register the breathing rate. This was not the norm my doctor mentioned later that day, but a great confirmation of how he was amazed to notice a patient so settled in their body.

61. This is a fascinating read. What an amazing sharing showing the difference our choices can make on a seemingly unrelated outcome, but in fact how related and powerful our choices can be on our daily experiences.

62. I had an experience like this on the weekend Julie. I bought something in a shop, even though it didn’t feel right. As I walked away I could feel my body shut down and my mind start to blame the sales assistant for the situation. Yet something in me knew this wasn’t right. After a short walk I went back in and said how I felt and through this exchange worked out what was amiss and walked out with the perfect gift. What helped me come back was the upset I felt in my body. Imagine the impact of all the choices we make every day when we do not take responsibility for how we feel inside. Thank you for your choice to write this blog.

63. It’s not always easy to see the consequences of our choices. However as you have highlighted Julie we can always make new choices and accept the part we play.

64. To let go of the need, and sometimes the demand, for someone to fix us, and instead take responsibility for our part in our healing, is in my experience the most liberating feeling; and it all begins with a choice. We have become a society that expects everything to happen at a fast rate and being fixed is definitely on the list of expectations, and once fixed many go back to living the same way again until they end up needing to be fixed again, quickly. To make a choice to acknowledge that our health and well-being is our responsibility is such a sensible and life changing decision to make.

65. We can go through life in so many different ways…. What are the choices we are making now? … because this will be the path that we walk on tomorrow

66. This is lovely Julie, and so important, ‘In the second experience I was open to there being another way and how I could be supported and choose this. I made sure I felt supported’.

67. I am sure that the way we go into surgery, and being anaesthetized , has a profound effect upon the way we come out… This is most definitely my experience.

68. When we choose to be irresponsible, we accept all that comes as an after effect. But when those irresponsible choices start to tax and wear down on our bodies, our choices are the last place we question. However this really makes sense as to why issues in my life lift almost as soon as I take responsibility and feel the quality of what my choices are and how I can choose otherwise. Thank you Julie.

69. Every situation in life offers an opportunity of growth and that is determined by the choices we make.

70. This was a great example of how we are more than our minds, emotions, and physical bodies. There is something divine within us that can be called on to look after us even when the usual faculties are numbed out.

71. Julie this is amazing, it shows that it is our approach to medicine or in fact anything that is key. Based on our approach to the same situation we can expand or check out. Everything really is about energy before it is anything else.

72. Julie I have also learned self care through Universal Medicine, which has naturally developed into a a very detailed level of self care. In your second hospital experience that is what I could relate to, taking your time and letting each part of the process be felt and attended to by yourself with detailed care. It’s an interesting point you make about taking responsibility allowing you to feel settled in yourself and able to self support as you did. It makes sense to me when I am erratic and not attending to my own self care in a loving way moment to moment, there is something I am being irresponsible about. Simple but powerful – thankyou for sharing.

73. So it would appear that you received quite a blessing when you injured your big toe! Is it possible that there are no such things as accidents?

74. When we stop and take responsibility for all that occurs we can look at the underlying cause and this offers a healing at a very deep level.

75. Whenever we choose to take responsibility for ourselves, and this is the full deal, that means really taking responsibility, then it cannot help but empower us. And this empowerment then brings more clarity to our choices , and thus a lovely cycle of re-connection takes place.

76. I always think of my toes as telling me to pay attention to the small details and that seems to be something of great importance here. Small details like feeling rushed, not having a pillow, have big consequences when ignored.

77. “Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.” Lovely to re-read this Julie. Do we choose to stay with ourselves – or give our power away – wanting to be ‘fixed’ – which is so different from asking for support to deal with whatever matter is in hand.

78. “Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven.” They are indeed Julie. Universal Medicine provides the energetic understanding of our illness or disease and an opportunity to assess the way we are living whilst conventional medicine deals with the practicalities and supports us while we make the changes if we so choose.

79. I haven’t been in hospital very often, but when I have been in there or at the GP’s I have felt this suggestion, or mood to go numb, and not be responsible. And this is without gas and air, and so it is interesting to consider why this occurs, it came from wanting to be fixed, by another, and not step up myself.

80. An interesting experience, and one that does beautifully express how different choices, different energetic alignment makes a huge difference to how we experience life. Thank you.

81. I know a lot of the time that simple choice of irresponsibility is holding back what in truth is needed. This requires us to be fully aware that that choice is not coming from a hurt but in the full power and knowing what the truth is for us and all around us. Through observation and therefore understanding the right communication and the way that truth needs to be expressed will be there if that continual choice is being made. Love in truth does not hold back.

82. “I CHOSE IRRESPONSIBILITY and then accepted whatever happened after that because of what I needed.” Its an all-to-common choice to be irresponsible with how we want to perceive life – what we need. Life is controlled by our hurts when there is a responsibility that is higher or a deeper truth on our part to go too. Reactions of life are based on knowing this higher truth has not been sought, and the more you feel and know how clearly this is presented the more possibly irresponsibility can be chosen. I find it simple to accept that I hold that higher responsibility in every action – sometimes I cannot be so intensely involved with everything going on around me but its a choice, a responsibility, to feel and confirm always in me there is a higher truth.

83. What a clear message you got Julie – that numbing literally gets us no where. It is quite an apt reflection of how checking out is like getting ‘knocked out’ versus the healing that can take place when we honour our awareness.

84. There is no love or tender care in just wanting to be fixed; it is opting out of taking responsibility for our choices and what a difference it makes to our lives when we choose to come from loving choices.

85. It’s so easy to blame outside circumstances for our experience of life, but in truth it gets us nowhere. Thanks for sharing Julie, aside from sounding pretty horrendous, what you learnt from it is a beautiful example of what taking responsibility for ourselves is all about.

86. It is amazing how a simple self loving choice can change the way we feel and respond. Asking for support, and receiving it lovingly, makes a huge difference, as is evident in what you have shared Julie. Thank you for sharing your experiences and inspiring us.

87. Thank you for sharing your experiences Julie. I can see that you clearly got what the difference was between the two experiences you had. It inspires me to make sure that I too respect and love myself enough to ask for what I need in the moment, and not see myself as undeserving of a nurturing experience such as your own. It is my responsibility to not ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS THAN LOVE .

88. I love these 2 experiences Julie and how you show that we cannot hold onto comparison as we have to look at our role in every situation. Yes it was easy to blame the gas, but when you were open to what had happened and changed how you were in the situation, everything changed. To me it shows the absolute responsibility and power we each have.

89. Thank you Julie for sharing your experience, you have described what true intelligence is and the true power within that is ignited when we make choices in connection with our heart.

90. It is the greatest gift in life to know we are in control of our lives by the quality of choice that we make so we can let go of the victim mentality which makes us feel powerless and not responsible for our actions.

91. What is of particular note here, is that we actually DO have a choice, in so many aspects of our life, just this discovering is extraordinarily empowering in itself.

92. “Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.” Thank you for sharing your experience Julie, it really highlights the choices we make, and whether they are harming or healing. Once you took responsibility for what had happened, the outcome was very different.

93. Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made; how true this is Julie in everything we do in every moment. The choice is always ours.

94. This is a good point here Leigh that how you approached the cough doesn’t mean the symptom will go away but whether we respond or react changes how we deal with it. The second equation you present feels more gentle on the body and keeps you clearer in the way back to wellness.

95. Universal Medicine and this blog are great examples of how powerful our choices are and when we make them knowingly we get to feel how powerful we are and the effect those choices have. Having a very bad cough this morning I could go into ‘why me, this hurts, I want it to stop’ complaining mode and I did momentarily, but my body felt flat and the more I entertained that, the more depressed I felt. By stopping it and saying ‘No, I chose to experience this’ it stopped the reactive and moaning behaviours. It hasn’t stopped the cough, but it’s not compounding the issue even more. Bad cough + reaction and blame = 2 painful situations in one. Bad cough = bad cough and an understanding that I can support myself to feel better or worse.

96. It’s quite miraculous to have taken the same substance for pain relief but to have such different outcomes from it’s effects. It seems to boil down to intention and why the choice is being made in the first place. So perhaps the only true choices are either between responsibility and irresponsibility… or connection and disconnection..? And then everything else stems from here.

97. A wonderful story Julie, thank you for sharing your experience. Through acknowledging the body and choosing to support ourselves first, all choices there after can be made in this light.

98. Very simple but accurate summary Suse

99. Yes I find this is in life too. This then really highlights how time on earth is always continuously forever about learning until we are living a true way. The magic of life 🙂

100. Thank you Julie, I loved reading your blog again, so simple yet life changing are the choices we choose to make. I enjoyed your last line “a marriage made in heaven, the best of both worlds.

101. The word choices… It seems such a simple thing… Choosing what to eat on a menu, what colour tie to wear, whether to go for a walk or not, but choices run extremely deep, and the choices that we make in life have a profound effect on our experience of our life in this world, whether we had a sense of harmony and flow and connection, or whether it is an endless feeling of going against the tide pushing uphill.

     1. Very true cjames2012. There are many layers to what ‘choice’ actually means and the more time goes on, the deeper I am finding I am going in understanding what is actually involved. It really shows up where health is concerned and is definitely a valuable part of taking responsibility for our intentions behind the use of conventional medicine.

        1. Yes this is true there are many layers in choices and also the amount of time they can take to play out as one choice can lead to another to another and so on. It can then be some time before we realise the mess we are in if they have been ill choices but all because of the initial one. For many there is no realisation of how choices really impact in our lives. Something I am still learning.

102. Thank you Julie for sharing your experiences with us, what you shared was so simple but really huge in the effects on yourself and those caring for you, it seems that when we choose self care especially in the hospital situation, the care we receive back from the nurses is much more respectful and caring.

103. I have read this blog several times and each time the title reminds me again and again that the way we live is all about choices. You can’t get any simpler than that!

     1. I agree. I am reminded of this fact of life around choices regularly and when reflecting back on any situation this is what it always comes down too!

104. Very wise indeed Joe as was the message in your blog Julie. Being responsible for our choices feels so freeing and expansive; even if the consequences are sometimes painful. The opportunity to learn and evolve is always there.

105. Something that I read recently was our life is determined by the choices we make and not by chance.

106. Julie re-reading your blog I really got to feel how we always have a choice. No matter what our choice we are the ones who live with the consequences of it and we can never escape the fact that ultimately we are responsible for how our life unfolds. Reading your words reminded me of the fact that the quality of what we choose, whether to numb oneself to escape or be lovingly present effects the quality of our choices and knowing that it really brings a deeper level of responsibility to the way we live our lives.

     1. You’ve touched on a great point here Jade. We always have a choice and sooner or later we need to feel the consequences. When we name it, the call for responsibility is there loud and clear.

107. Understanding that we are indeed responsible for everything that happens to us, is the doorway to a totally reconfigured reality, it is a very different world, and yet it is exactly the same it is as you say, a matter of choice.

108. This is a great example of what we can choose, and everything that happens to us is because of a choice we’ve made. To fully accept that is not always easy, but very empowering when we do, because we then know we can make another choice.

     1. Very empowering indeed Benkt.

109. Thank you for sharing your revelations Julie. No mistake I came across this after breaking one of my toes yesterday! There is no support if I choose to check out and go about life in separation.

110. I have learnt that it isn’t necessarily what we do that is the true choice, but rather ‘how’ we do it that matters. This was demonstrated very well through your sharing and is such a confirmation.

111. It’s amazing what can happen when we don’t allow the space to reconnect to ourselves and ‘rush’ through things. It allows disregard of ourselves and others, when there could otherwise be complete embracing, honouring, equality and love. Allowing more space to connect is key – and it is indeed a choice Julie. Thank you for sharing the revelation you had with this process, as it is something we can all learn from I am sure.

112. Julie what you share here is wonderful – we can choose to be responsible and get all the help that is needed, or we can choose to be irresponsible and definitely get not all the help we could get otherwise. So perhaps it makes it easier to decide to be more responsible the next time . . .

     1. This is a good point here Esther getting all the help that is needed is responsible though in the past I would have seen this as a failing because I used to expect to do everything by myself.

        1. I was the same jsnelgrove36 – “used to expect to do everything by myself”. If I am honest – I was trapped in this “hero-disease” and I was fallen for it for such a long time. I love it that I am able to ask for support now – that is so much more loving.

113. “….things don’t just happen to us for no reason, we make them happen.” And herein is where the difficulty lies as this can very challenging to accept. I know I still come across situations in everyday life where I will not see that I am part of a situation. Which is then possibly why a situation occurs again and again and again until it is so obvious that I can not but see and accept my part!

114. Beautifully expressed Sally. In the past I always went to the doctor to get fixed and thanks to Unimed and Serge Benhayon I know now, that it is all about my choices – either harming or nurturing.

115. This blog gives us a much bigger insight to what is a choice?
     We can look at choices as bulky physical things with no intention but only action.
     For example in both situations entonox was used however with very different effects on the patient.

     1. passing out
     2. not passing out

     When we look deeper into why we made the choice in the first place, we can get a very different after effect, which isn’t related to the physical action being performed.

     To understand a choice, looking into the details is very liberating.

     1. Absolutely, Luke but usually we blame the action, which caps our learning and we don’t have to be in the equation and take responsibility for why we made that choice.

        1. Agree, but in all truth the action came to be through the lack of responsibility taken. It’s the perfect get out of jail free card.

116. I enjoyed re-reading your blog Julie. It has reminded me yet again that in every moment I make choices and that I can choose irresponsibility, numbness etc but that what follows will be a direct consequence of that choice. It’s a case of ‘be careful what you wish for!’. On the other hand, when I choose to openly face what is going on, the outcomes are completely different.

     1. So true Helen, the correlation between cause and effect is lost when/if we choose irresponsibility. I have often been truly aware of why something has happened due to my own previous choices but have chosen to not look at this and instead looked for something else to blame – taking back responsibility feels amazing as you feel you can start to change anything in your life with your own choices – things don’t just happen to us for no reason, we make them happen.

        1. I love this Michael and Helen, it is all about taking the responsibility for our own lives and to not hide away for that. And by taking this responsibility I am appreciating what lives within, the truth and love that is in all of us equally so. To me that is what makes it so powerful, to respect and appreciate what lives within me and to let it be my guide in life, instead of the irresponsible way by ignoring and avoiding this truth, that is there unconditionally so, to be lived in full.

117. Thank you Julie for sharing your two different experiences, our choices are so powerful to either harm or to heal, how different our day to day living is when self loving choices are made.

     1. Yes Jenny – when we are open and claim any changes in our bodies, we are confirming and appreciating a step forward. I never used to even consider doing this and therefore left most decisions about me up to other people. But this blog is a great example of how respecting, listening and confirming in our bodies means that we honour how wise we truly are.

118. ‘…..I knew I’d just been through a special healing moment in understanding and experiencing the power of our choices and how these play out.’ How our awareness about the energy that we make our choices in affects us is very real , thank you for sharing Julie.

119. Yes Sally there is a difference, it’s like in wanting to be fixed we just don’t see ourselves as part of the picture, whereas when we ask for and accept support, we can see we have created the situation without denying our responsibility.

120. Julie it is amazing what level of depth we can reach and feel when we choose to be responsible for our choices and actions.

121. Julie,
     I enjoyed reading your sharing of your experiences with what you choose and how the circumstances in your life mirrored your choice. What I really love about this blog is the absolute commitment to truth that shines so bright in your words. For without such commitment, the understanding from either experience would not have been present for you to learn and grow from. Then to share with us all. The simple reading of this article has again confirmed my commitment to truth, which has deepened today, so to have read this tonight is a great healing for me.

122. Taking responsibility for being loving and caring towards ourselves in trying times and all times wins hands down. It was great that you had these two experiences to learn from and feel how much more supportive and healing the second way is..

     1. It is amazing how we stop ourselves from seeing that caring and loving oneself is a huge responsibility. Taking this for granted is shown through our actions and as you pointed out so clearly it is a simple choice we can make that can marry the universal and conventional medicine.

     2. I so agree, what a great opportunity to reflect and take your caring for self to a much deeper level. It just goes to show that the quality of our choices and care for self makes such a difference to the experiences we have. By choosing to be more loving and attentive to yourself you were able to offer yourself healing and true support showing how truly powerful we can be when we choose to live with responsibility and love for self.

123. It is so true Samantha that people are looking for the quick fix or the easing of the symptoms for whatever illness they may have. Their refusal to accept responsibility for how they are living and what this does to their bodies. I saw an Acupuncture practitioner for many years and would strongly recommend him to any one who was interested. But he only ever treated the symptoms and never addressed what was causing the problem in the first place. He never encouraged me to look at how I was living and accept responsibility for that. I now know people and practitioners who do ask me to look at how I live and accept responsibility for the choices I have made. We can delay responsibility but we can not avoid it.

     1. This is a good point raised here around it not only being conventional medicine that people turn to be fixed. For many years I turned to alternative therapies for a quick fix which did a great job with the symptoms but it never lasted as I was never asked to stop and take responsibility for my choices through life and what may be contributory to the problem. Universal Medicine is the only organisation I have come across that has presented that how we live is our medicine.

     2. Indeed bjpiper1958 humanity has put true responsibility on hold and the consequences are unravelling right before us.

124. People today present themselves to doctors, psychologists, trainers or the like with a fix it mentality today, void of taking any responsibility in the part they played in getting there or of the lessons within. So it is amazing to read you going against the norm and empowering yourself with responsible and loving choices in recognition of the importance they play.

     1. Yes Samantha I can agree that people today present themselves like this (mainly only asking for the quick fix) because I am working in a hospital. It would be so amazing if they would take more responsibility in the part they played in getting e.g. this illness. And it would be also very interesting how the doctors will then react to it . . .

125. I really enjoyed reading your blog Julie. You had great clarity in seeing and feeling the truth of each of your choices and the difference this made to your experience. I wholeheartedly agree that Universal Medicine and conventional medicine make the best healing team, with us at the helm of course 🙂

126. It is amazing to read of the skills you have developed to be able to insight into your behaviour and choices even in an emergency situation. A great example of the power of self reflection a and connection.

127. A very wise man I know, Serge Benyahon, is always teaching his students that life is all about responsibility and choices. Some of us get it immediately (the rare few) and the rest of us have to hear him repeat it over and over again until ‘the penny drops’ so to speak.

     1. Tamara your comment is spot on. Serge lovingly repeats it over and over again until every last one of us gets it.

        1. yes indeed, he says the same things over and over again, but its always refreshing to hear it- truth brings light to our body, it supports us enormously when we open to it.

128. Julie this is a great example of the greater level of care that is available to us if we claim it. Over the years my approach to having a cervical smear has changed dramatically, I now feel able to vocalise my discomfort, ask for another blanket and basically allow myself all the support I deserve. As a result I feel more open with the nurses and able to ask real and important questions that keep me fully informed about my gynaecological health. Equally Universal Medicine have inspired and supported me to make more self loving choices that build my self worth.

     1. This is a great point Lucinda, if we enter into a medical procedure with no ongoing lived care for ourself, how can we be open to ask for the support and care we deserve from another or a procedure, because we are willing to be treated as we treat ourselves on a day to day basis. By being caring and open, we can ask all the questions we need to, which then means a relationship is not only built with our body but with the medical staff too and then we all grow!

129. Thank you Julie, a great example of how important is our underlying intention and choices around healing and understanding of illness and injury in the first place.

130. I like that you have brought in the reality of a responsibility beyond simply choices, but our intention behind those choices. The same food, medicine, conversation – anything really can have a vastly different impact and outcome based on why we made the choice in the first place.

131. A timely re-read and reminder on responsibility for myself, thank you Julie for sharing your experience. This is a great example how we can either blame an illness or accident for being placed onto us somehow from outside of us or even from our own bodies as I have led myself to believe. Or I can admit that I cause my illness and disease and with that in mind if I made choices that led me down the path of illness what choices can I make that support my body to heal? And with that Universal Medicine is a great support in building the understanding of how to make supportive and loving choices.

132. How very true Julie, it is all about choices.
     What you have written is a timely and powerful reminder to make loving supportive choices.

133. Yes surrendering to support is more powerful than surrendering your choices to be responsible.

134. Wow. That’s what I would call ‘the power of responsibility’. And we sometimes take it is a burden – but in fact it is a blessing. Thank you for this very clear example Julie.

135. Your example shows so clearly how easily we are willing to give our power away and not take the responsibility that is ours to take, which leaves us with the option to complain and blame it on others or circumstances. Yet, when we decide this has something to do with me, it is my body, hence it is my involvement and responsibility to take care of this precious vehicle I am going through life with, it becomes a completely different experience, suddenly we look from the inside out and become aware how we can best support us and how much support and care is actually coming towards us. Beautiful. Thank you.

136. There is a subtle difference between the two experiences, from the outside looking in, yet the change of care with in you and the claiming of the moment by you Julie, made all the difference and changed the level of care you received. That is gorgeous.

137. The way we enter into things in general, whether it be medical procedures, day-to-day tasks, even relationships, has a marked effect on what the experience is, and how the event proceeds… It is the foundations that we lay that are so important now, and these foundations of course affect everything.

138. Hear hear Julie, Universal Medicine is the missing link to Conventional Medicine, each complementing the other to allow for true healing, through our choice to go there or not.

139. So true Sylivia, a doctor might fix up the injury but unless we take responsibility and are involved in our own health care and maybe look at what caused the injury, their is no true healing.

140. Such a great piece of writing for me it captures a the essence of the many opportunities we are presented in a day your line “In that moment I then remembered how I had felt rushed and unsafe, but had let it carry on because of what I wanted – to be numbed.” For me when I stop and ask these questions it takes me back to a place of accepting responsibility and as opportunity to learn.

141. It seems when we are irresponsible we look for someone to blame to alleviate the feeling. These days I see responsibility very differently and, that is accepting that I am responsible for everything on some level and my actions directly and indirectly affect what goes on around me.

142. I am forever appreciative of the power of choice – as in this beautiful example- it can be exactly the same action – but the choice of HOW we approach things can make a world of difference. This only shows me that we are human beings not human doings, and it is how we are in each moment that marks the way we do things.

143. I can really relate to getting a deeper appreciation for the fact of choices. In the past I would often say things were out of my control, i had no idea why they happened or it was not my fault. That could be related to any area of my life including my health. Yet with this aspect not only would I deny all the “bad” choices but it also meant I never claimed any of the “great” choices that I made. The fact is before I started to see everything as choices I was in fact choosing to be irresponsible with everything. With everything being a choice there is a much deeper sense of freedom and responsibility than I had ever felt before – I now know I am not a victim of life but a product of my choices.

144. Wow Julie, such a clear example of the difference the teachings of Serge Benhayon make if we choose to align to them. Thank you!!

145. awesome Julie. What a clear difference from the result of our choices- choosing to numb or choosing to support.

146. It’s a learning process to understand and accept other people’s choices as well as my own. The awareness of the fact that our choices have wider repercussions in the world is the next step to take in responsibility.

147. This is a great revelation Julie that shows so clearly how if we choose to be with ourselves and take responsibility, we offer ourselves a deep healing of so much more than a very painful toe.

     1. This is so true Mary, each moment of the day we are given these choices to choose what will most support us and allow us to live life in a way that is both responsible and self-loving. When we approach life in this way we offer others the opportunities to also be open to seeing their responsibilities in life. When we are free from blame as we accept our responsibility for all the details of our life, our lives begin to flow and become complementary to one another rather than life being at odds with the world.

148. You have show cased a new level of responsibility. Beyond what we physically do but also the intention behind action. That is responsibility!

149. love this Julie it is definitely a marriage made in heaven and makes any other suggestions otherwise simply not true.

150. I love this blog Julie. You demonstrate so clearly the link between our choices and their results – the explanation of wanting to be fixed without taking loving responsibility for yourself and what the consequences were compared to how it felt when you did – two very different experiences based on your relationship with yourself – awesome.

151. Marika you are so right, it can be a difficult pill to swallow knowing what unfolds before us is a result of our choices. Most of us have grown up with blaming fate rather than taking responsibility for our choices, possible because we never had that understanding.

152. I enjoyed reading your blog Julie. This is a great reflection on how we are responsible for our choices.

153. What a great example demonstrating the different possible outcomes dependent on what we choose. What is an eye opener for me is that I can see that numbness has been the driving force behind my choices at times, even though I would have considered myself to be someone who has taken a lot of care and responsibility for my health. Thanks Julie, you have given me plenty to reflect on.

154. Julie I love how you took responsibility and therefore changed the outcome. It is so easy to blame external situations, but how we are, most certainly influences what happens.

155. This is awesome Julie, loved reading it. A gorgeous example of how it’s not what we do but how we do it, what our intention is behind everything we do. Even the way you describe taking the Entonox the second time feels so different to the first time. The first time is in the panic, the ‘fix me and fix me quick’, and the second time is full of grace. You connecting with yourself, feeling what you need to support yourself and honouring that. Awesome sharing Julie, thank you.

     1. Having experienced that way of living (the first time and then the second) it is more then clear that the way we choose to respond to life, issues and anything that takes place along the way, affects ourselves and others hugely.

     2. Thanks Katerina, so often I waste a lot of time trying to work out what I should be doing. Your comment highlights how I could instead just focus more on how I am, and my intention, rather than on the decisions that I think that I have to make. This will be very helpful.

156. “Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.” Thank you Julie for showing us that asking for support and taking responsibility lead to vastly different outcomes and healing.

157. Thank you Julie, what comes up for me is we are being offered all we need to evolve. It is our choice to be aware of that offering or hide from it.

158. This is HUGE. It goes to show how powerful the intent behind how we choose to use something can be and thus how important taking responsibility for everything that happens in our life truly is.

159. It’s good Julie that you have presented the fact of taking responsibility for all that happens to us and that every accident or incident has the potential for healing, if we so choose.

160. Julie this is a very interesting look at how we can be in the health setting and highlights a few very key issues. One I felt to expand on was that of how we can feel rushed, or like something is not right when we are having a procedure or something such done. The medical environment is one that can succumb to rushing and force quite easily in order to get the job done, and can lose sight of the people in it due to the sheer amount that can need to be done, especially in an ’emergency department’ environment. That’s why it’s so important as you say for us to be connected to ourselves so we can communicate and make those choices that we know are going to ultimately support us.

161. It is so powerful when we take the time and responsibility to make sure we do what we need to support us, your blog Julie is a great reminder of the power we each hold in our own healing.

162. Thank you Julie for sharing your experience. It truly reveals how when we make loving choices for our selves we will be supported with further loving opportunities that come to us.

163. I recently experienced the power of my choices in the periodontist chair. The second time around I claimed responsibility for myself and received the care I deserved which contrasted with the previous time when I passively submitted to the treatment. There is indeed power in our choices.

164. “Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven” – so true. The way you have explained the two choices is so clear and a wonderful sharing of your learning for others.

165. I agree Melinda – it is great to feel the contrast between your intent of these two different occasions Julie and where the true healings lays – with responsibility. Thank you.

166. This is actually a really amazing story, it’s like in those two situations you were in two different foundations, as you say the irresponsibility and numbness, the other of responsibility, self care, and loving choices. You’ve presented everything so simply and I love how in sharing your learning it has also become the readers learning. I could see so clearly two templates for approaching life and could easily identify both in many of my life’s situations. I really appreciate all you have shared Julie, thankyou.

     1. Well said Melinda. Julie your blog really shows both sides of choices we make in life. We either take responsibility and bring love and support or numb ourselves with irresponsibility. Everything we do can either support us to move forward with truth or keep us held back in disregard.

167. Looking at why the injury happened and learning from it is one very valuable thing I have picked up from Universal Medicine. I have a weak ankle and always go over on it when I am working ahead of myself and the severity of the pain usually correlates to how far out I was.

     1. For me my ankle is also a great marker, if I’m basically “out” or if I’m connected to myself. When I go into the doing, the raciness in my ankle increases. So every moment, when I feel my ankle I can check, how much I’m connected or not. It always comes back to my daily choices.

168. A match made in heaven for sure!

169. I am also learning every day, in every moment, how my choices and level of responsibility effect EVERYTHING! Thank you sharing this fact so clearly, Julie.

170. There is so much emphasis we put on occurrences and incidents in our lives. We label them good and bad. What I feel you are showing us Julie is just how powerful our choice of energy is. It seems that the ‘way’ we are is what everything pivots around, not the specific activity.

     1. I can agree with that Joseph, that our choice of energy is very powerful. And we are blessed by living on this world where everything that is presented to us is there to support us in evolving back to where we original come from. So either way if we have chosen the fiery energy we will be confirmed by what the world will reflect to us, as if we choose the astral energy we will be confirmed in that as well by the reflection of the consequences that choosing this energy brings.

171. What a difference it makes to our thougths and our state of being the choices we make, even in the presence of a powerful substance, we can range from being faint and disconnected to feeling your divinity and allow for the healing. The choice that you made beforehand allowed the nurse to be more supportive and your esxperience to be of healing. Amazing experience of awareness.

172. What a difference it makes when we take ourselves into consideration and take the time and care to feel what we need and ask for it. As you say, the choice you made beforehand allowed for the nurse to be more considerate herself and explain everything and make sure you were supported. It also reminds us that everything is energy, and even the most powerful substance can induce different states and thoughts in us, from being faint and disconnect to feeling your divinity and allowing the healing to take place! Amazing experience of awareness.

     1. Very true Julia. This story is absolute confirmation that everything we experience is up to us. We are choosing it all and we can change it all in a moment as well. This is powerful evidence that we are much more than what we see.

173. How very revealing reading your blog Julie – it makes me recall those times when I have had painful procedures in a hospital and at those times I chose to not want to know – “Just give me the anaesthetic and I will totally give my power away to you” – I then thought as the explanation of the procedure was given to me – not wanting to look at any aspect that was my responsibility in any part that I may have or could have played.
     On reading your blog and having a more responsible understanding now as a result of the wisdom that Serge Benhayon has shared at the Universal Medicine presentations, I can see that indeed I also was choosing to be ‘numbed’. I find it revealing and very healing to see now that I do have a choice, a choice to accept my responsibility for the part I play in all things, including medical procedures.

     1. Such a good point you make Roberta. When I was in reaction to the diagnosis, the medical process seemed like a nightmare, one I did not want to face. What I did not want to face was my responsibility for the choices I had made in my life which got me to the point of needing medical intervention. Once I accepted my responsibility in it all the loving support was there, in fact it had always been there.

        1. I find it really inspiring hearing your account Suzanne and Roberta. There is a real humbleness in what you have shared, whereas the alternative is full of arrogance, disregard and irresponsibility. I know what I want to choose and live!

     2. I agree, Roberta.

        This blog is such a simple description of how patients need to take care of themselves and their healing takes on a completely different dimension – becomes much more powerful in other words.

174. Julie I can really feel how taking responsibility can significantly change an outcome. Sometimes it is easy to see an illness or an injury as a major inconvenience and to give our bodies a hard time for being unwell or functioning less ably, as if we had no responsibility for it. You have shown us how responsibility can be a game changer when it comes to our bodies!

175. Thanks Julie. It is amazing when we make choices. I had a periodontal operation a little while ago. It was a 12 hour long procedure. I listened to Serge Benhayon presentations, and a Universal Medicine trained practitioner held my feet. There was a lot of blood splatter, drilling through bone etc :-). The medical team felt amazing, and considering the amount of trauma, my recovery was also amazing… As you say, choices choices.

     1. cjames your comment reminded me of a recent dentist appointment I had. It was my first root canal experience. I had some anxiousness leading up to the appointment because of all the stories I had heard from work colleagues & friends about their nightmare root canal experiences. But I was so looked after…as it happened the head dentist of my dental practice was able to fit me in & he was so lovely and gentle in every way. I asked for the minimal amount of anesthetic to reduce the amount of hours my mouth would feel numb after…so he gave me a half dose without questioning me. It was such a lovely and honouring dental experience & 2 hrs later you wouldn’t have even known that I had just had root canal! I know this was my experience because of the loving choices that I made leading up to the appointment. I was deeply held in so many ways which began with me holding myself first. I have my followup appointment next week and I am so looking forward to it.

176. Thank you Julie so much for your blog. It is a reminder how we actually do choose a way of being at the very start, and this choice plays out or carries through into our experiences. Yet, if we are not aware of our initial choice, then get a ‘bad’ experience, how easy is it to blame others for the misdoing and not take responsibility for what had just occurred. This is an awesome reminder of how staying in connection with ourselves and body awareness really is a vital ingredient in our lives.

177. Great example of how not taking responsibility can create more pain.

178. I love this blog Julie. Your story shows us so clearly that how we experience life is completely based on how we are with ourselves.
     If we choose to be disconnected from ourselves and we need a fix then we get a fix with all the hardness that is in this disconnection.
     If we are in connection with ourselves then we feel we are part of the whole and we bring in our own responsibility of dealing with the situation at hand and are willing and open to receive help and support to truly heal the hurts of life we carry with us.
     How amazing life would be if everybody on earth would live like this! I can’t wait until the day comes that this is the case, but until then I too choose to live to my inner-heart to the best of my ability and share this way of living with all the people I meet.

179. A great reflection of choices we make and how they play out in our daily experiences. I love having the awareness to be able to see things for what they are, instead of blaming others and not taking responsibility for my choices (most of the time).

180. What a fascinating experience and lesson. To be given the opportunity to feel both situations and ponder on what was truly happening.

181. Julie, that is a beautiful example of how different an experience can be if we feel into the situation first and then make our choice in full connection with ourselves, taking full responsibility for that choice. Awesome.

182. Julie it is not surprising that when we take responsibility for our actions the outcomes can be surprisingly pleasant. There are many situations in daily life that I dread with anticipation because it has always been difficult to speak up for myself. And yet I realise that expressing who I am, starting in small ways, does not bring the sky down on my head but instead an easiness and flowing effect that I never suspected possible. Thank you for your blog.

183. Julie, the words choices and responsibility really stuck out for me when reading your article. Great examples of two totally different experiences. If we take responsibility for all aspects of our life instead of trying to blame everything and everyone for what happens to us, then we stand a better chance of making loving choices to support and care for ourselves. What a huge difference this makes.

184. “Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made”…
     Great realisation Julie, thank-you for sharing your (very painful) experience, ouch!
     It is not always easy to make true choices to support ourselves and take responsibility, but by having the awareness we are half way there, and like you say, conventional medicine and Universal Medicine is indeed a match made in Heaven.
     I spent a long time being very “anti doctor”, believing that they didn’t have all the answers and I could get my healing elsewhere. My attitude had changed now, thanks to Universal Medicine. And I think we all agree that conventional medicine doesn’t have all the answers, but round it all up into a package of conventional medicine and Universal Medicine working together and we may be onto something.

185. Julie it is so true what you have shared here. The way we are affects others around us anywhere and everywhere. So in effect any choice we make can heal or harm not only ourselves but another. It’s all about responsibility in our choices.

186. Great to feel the difference between the choices of your first experience and when you went back to have the stitches removed.

187. Great example of how taking responsibility in a medical situation and choosing a more loving approach to care needed when having a medical procedure done, results in a more positive outcome. Great reminder and inspiring to hear.

188. Your experience Julie shows us there is support available in every situation from places we don’t even realize. There is more going on than we think. Thank you for writing about it.

     1. I agree Lisa…there is always support in every situation and what Julie’s story highlights so well is it is just a choice away.

189. This is a fantastic example Julie of the responsibility we have to heal ourselves and how each and every choice has an impact.

190. This is a great reminder – being responsible and present with whatever is happening in our lives – and knowing we bring the support and healing to ourselves when we make the choice to take responsibility for all actions, accidents and incidents.

191. You have nailed it with your description “I was angry this injury had been ‘done’ to me and I certainly did not want to accept my part in why it had happened. I CHOSE IRRESPONSIBILITY and then accepted whatever happened after that because of what I needed.” I have done this many times and it has been a horrible downward spiral for me. Thank you for highlighting how simple it is to turn this around.

192. It’s amazing how our choice can change our experience completely. Simple choice to either honour and support us while making a choice can be so healing and supportive vs. numbing which can be quite unpleasant. You just made it so clear on honouring what body needs vs. numbing the body to not feel and what impact both these choices can have on us and in effect others around us. Thanks Julie.

193. Beautiful Julie, thanks for sharing how we always have a responsibility to feel our choices in every moment.

194. Wow Julie – this post is very insightful. I am reminded of the responsibility I have every time I take a painkiller when I read this. You have reminded me that I have had some very strong reactions to over the counter medicines in the past. I put these reactions down to the fact that I am a very petite person, however, I can see that these reactions were more likely to be caused by by refusal to take responsibility for the state of my own wellbeing.

195. Thank you for sharing this Julie… a timely reminder, I have choices, and I am responsible for the outcome of the choices I make! 🙂

196. What a gorgeous example of how our choices impact our experience of life, such as the choice to be open to being supported or the choice to withdraw and go into numbness. How different the two choices are and how different the two experiences were. Thank you for sharing your learning with us. I love how simple being responsible actually is.

197. All of our experiences are the result of choices and this article demonstrates that. The point you make about Universal Medicine and conventional medicine being a heavenly match is absolutely true too.

198. Responsibility in all our choices – what a different world it will be.

199. I really relate to how the same choice causes very different consequences, because of the way we respect ourselves when making the choice and take responsibility for it.

200. I love the simplicity and unmistakability of the power of choices presented in this blog. We make so many choices throughout the day – we can make any and all of them healing or harming – our choice will always determine the quality of the outcome and your example here Julie is a testament to this truth.

201. Wow thanks for sharing this story Julie. It just goes to show what happens when we realize that healing is not something that is just done to us by someone else but is a process that very much needs our involvement for the healing process to have full effect – whether the healing process involves medication or not. It is not just the drug that does the work. Perhaps the Pavlovian effect that scientists use to dismiss that which they do not understand is rather proof that we have more say in our healing than we like to think.

202. Awesome blog Julie, it reveals yet again the importance of our choices. Well done for offering yourself a true healing experience.

203. What a great example of how we can take the same situation yet HOW we approach it makes a huge difference. How awesome that you were able to make different choices the second time around when you got the stitches out and not hold onto ideals of how it had to be given your previous experience.

204. “I made sure I felt supported properly to start with”- what a difference it can make in any moment to choose to support ourselves first- it can almost feel like time slows down as we are so at ease with ourselves and what is happening. This was gorgeous to read, as this was a clear choice.

205. Awesome blog Julie. Choices, choices, choices. Everything is a choice.

206. I loved reading your blog, Julie, as the feeling of wanting to numb out from a consequence we deep down know comes form our choices is all too familiar. But isn’t it amazing how much different the outcome when we do choose to be responsible? Your blog is a great example of this and an inspiration to keep choosing to be deeply aware of why things happen and then to choose to really care for myself.

     1. I agree Carolien, when we choose to be responsible, the choices we make are much easier to be with later. And when we reflect on, as you say, why things happen, much greater understanding can occur much faster by taking responsibility. The level of self-care will always show itself as the result of a choice we may make. A great reminder to really really choose self-care and love on a deeper and deeper level.

207. A great example of how taking loving responsibility for our ourselves can make all the difference to the outcome of a situation.

208. The broader topic of same situations but different experiences is fascinating. Intent, preparation and support all seem to go hand in hand to determine quite diverging outcomes and experiences. It seems like a choice is being made just moments before it all unfolds.

209. We all need to take responsibility for all our decisions in life. We cannot blame other for our mistakes. Love yourself as you would others.

210. ‘I am divine.’ Something we can remind ourselves of every day, no matter where we are or what we are doing.

211. Lovely Julie, two similar experiences in a short time, yet so different from each other. The difference is in you, your choice, and never in the situation, other people or other things outside of you. Like I always say: there is no such thing as getting out of bed with the ‘wrong leg’ (Dutch expression), there is just the left or the right leg, the rest is our choice.

212. I love how the way we are totally affects how the medical staff are with us, I too have experienced this. When I’m not wanting to get a procedure done, or not wanting to see my part in what is going on, then I usually get a nurse who is rough and doesn’t explain anything and rushes me. If I am totally present, seeing it as a healing experience and keeping my eyes out for where and how I can support myself more, then I get a nurse who is really caring and supportive. It’s a lovely reflection of my choices.

     1. Yes Danielle and Julie, I have had the same experience. It’s uncanny how your attitude affects what happens. It cannot be coincidence; it must be how the world works.

        1. Yes Bernard, it’s mind boggling to feel how much our attitude affects every part of our life around us, in one way or another. For example it’s not just the medical procedure that we need to take responsibility with what quality we bring, but when we go to the super market, when we make a phone call and when we finish a report…plus much much more.

     2. I have had exactly this experience too Danielle. I totally discounted myself when I had a procedure done recently thinking it was only minor so fitted it in around a rather busy day. The whole thing was a bit botched and got complicated. I realised too late that I could have done it very differently and had a very different outcome if I had taken time and space and loving care to prepare myself. I hadn’t taken responsibility for my part in the process and it was a big ouch. I now have the awareness for next time.

        1. Yes I understand Jeanette, and reading this now I see that when it unfolds like this, where it get’s complicated and not gentle or caring we have totally set this up to not feel our part, or not feel what is there to be felt. So maybe any time there is a drama or complication it’s possibly us constellating it as a way to not be aware – ouch.

        2. So true Danielle, if we constantly get served by people that seem grumpy, then instead of focussing on others, let’s look at how we are and why we are attracting that grumpiness. What we put out is what we get back.

        3. Yes that’s my understanding Tony…what we give out comes back full circle, that’s how energy works. We cannot escape the karmic cycles that we are creating each and every moment through our choices. I used to think that the fight I had with someone could be contained between me & them…but then I realised that if I didn’t clear that energy within myself and come back to harmony, then everyone else I came in contact with thereafter would also get the energy of that fight, because we can’t escape energy. So of course it would make sense that I would then come into contact with other angry people…the old saying ‘like attracts like’ is so true and why we have such a responsibility in our choices…and why I keep bringing it back to making loving choices as best I can each day, knowing that this is what will return.

213. What a difference the choice we make, either responsible, loving choices or not. Every moment, even in the so-called smallest detail like with you to ask for a cushion or not makes the difference. I found out it requires conscious full presence to make these loving choices and stop unloving patterns just by creating a stop moment, feel and reimprint this pattern /situation I am in by another more loving choice.

214. Julie, it took me a couple of reads for the penny to truly drop. I had up until now a concept of choices being much more tangible e.g.what food to eat and also that we can only choose something that involves only us. But I get now what you are saying about choosing what experience we want to experience, which takes it to a whole new level. Up until now I have always felt that things like medical procedures were out of my hands. What I now feel is that they are very much in my hands, depending on how I engage with the situation.

     1. I’m not comfortable in a room full of strangers. But I did it the other day choosing to enjoy it. Had a lovely conversation and made new connections. So the old self conscious way of being doesn’t serve – bring in the new people conscious me.

215. Indeed our experiences are a product of our choices and our willingness to accept our part in them. Great to feel the difference when you did honour yourself and the amazing level of support you received as a result.

216. Thank you Julie. It is so true that the choices, the ongoing choices that we make will be reflected in the experiences that we have, and it’s great that you were writing about it.
     With so much wisdom and understanding available to us now both through our inner awareness and of course Universal Medicine, we can go into these intense situations with much more conscious presence, and with amazingly different outcomes.
     I came out of a three-hour operation recently, and it felt extraordinary, very very light, as if a great weight had been lifted off me. The support we can have is palpable. And as you say it’s all about choices

217. It seems that it is typical to look for a way out of accepting responsibility for our lives and for our experiences. We generally tend to look to the outside to blame other things for our own experiences or the state of the world. This blog shows how different life can be when we take responsibility – and its not so scary.

     1. I agree…we do this especially when things are not going the way we would like them to. We seem to be very good at justifying or blaming…but in my experience there is no growth or true understanding in that at all. If I am in reaction to what has happened I am not able to see things clearly so it makes it very easy to play the blame game.

218. I love the idea that I have a choice in every moment. That needs to be taught to every child from the word go. Imagine if they knew they could choose self-love or harm, to be themselves or twist themselves to fit into a world they really don’t want to. I imagine the world would be a much grander place to live!

     1. So true Jeanette, and therefore it is so beautiful that while we are learning this for ourselves we are also bringing this awareness that there is a choice between self-love and harming oneself, back in our families and communities we live in and with. How amazing this is!

219. You have shown Julie how every situation presents us with opportunities to learn. You learned from your first visit and took responsibility for what happened. By making a different choice on your second visit, you enjoyed a totally different and more supportive experience. First you supported yourself, and because of this the support you needed was given to you..

220. Thanks Julie You have captured it all with the words: “I chose irresponsibility. Sums up where we got to from then.

221. Thanks Julie for your reflections on your experience. I agree it all boils down to choice and us being able to maintain our presence to make the choices that reflect a greater level of personal responsibility.

     1. The choices, that I make and holding them in my presence are a continual reflection for me of my own level of personal responsibility. It’s work in progress as I uncover deeper levels and the way my interaction with others changes.

222. What a beautiful example of how we are responsible for everything in our lives and how honoring ourselves can give a very different outcome. In the past I felt a victim of life, especially in hospital situations. I now open up and connect with medical staff, let go of feeling a victim and the outcomes are very different.

     1. I have seen so many people in hospital, feeling helpless and giving their power away to the medical staff by not speaking up – feeling like the victim, as you have felt. How inspiring that you now take responsibility for your life and speak up, as it is not only a great healing for you, but also for the hospital staff, and as a result; ‘”the outcomes are very different.”

        1. Thank you Irene, I can relate to deciding to be a victim of life – and to the very great difference in being open to life on my terms.

223. The same situation and two very different outcomes – thank you Julie for writing about the way you chose to respect the treatment offered and honour yourself in the healing process, when given another opportunity. The power and responsibility of moment by moment choices is made very clear.

224. A beautiful example of choosing awareness.

225. This is a beautiful example of the way we have an influence by choice in everything that happens to us.

226. Great example Julie, highlighting the power of intention and self-responsibility. Often in medical situations it can be a bit daunting and we can just give in to what is being offered rather than truly feeling what we need to support us. Loving ourselves enough to know what we need, or not, provides a very different experience as you share.
     Staying as present as possible with ourselves is key here, and it also builds a steadiness and inner confidence which we can take to any situation.

227. Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven with us being the central point. It is all about choices – accepting the responsibility for self and making the loving choices. Thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for putting the spotlight on the part we play in who we choose to be and living life.

228. A great reminder that you always need to be in charge of (or main part of) your own health and well-being.

229. Learning to take medication to help assist the healing, instead numbing yourself, is huge and a great experience to go through, being refined each time.

230. You make an amazing point Julie, any of our unpleasant experiences do not have to limit us thinking they will all be unpleasant. When we choose how we are in that moment then our experiences can be beautiful, loving and healing.

231. Thank you, Julie. This is brilliant, and explains a lot of my experiences at hospitals, and reminds me that by not making a conscious choice I am making a choice otherwise.

232. Julie it’s amazing to read how when you choose to accept responsibility how much you were supported. I had never really appreciated how taking responsibility is so incredibly supportive. The level of honesty required asks me to reconnect to who I truly am and from there I can feel both the pockets of disregard I have chosen towards myself and others, and what will support me. It makes sense then that the world mirrors this and supports us back.

     Thank you so much for your blog showing me how amazing this other way really is.

233. Thank you Julie for your beauty-full blog about the impact of our choices that we make. Your story reminds me of a similar incident when during last year I found I had to present myself in the emergency department of our hospital whereby I was asked to sit straddling a chair and leaning on the back whereby a tube was so very gently inserted to relieve over a litre of fluid from my lung area – the nurses could not believe that I was so still during this procedure and kept seeking assurance that I was truly alright. It was then that I was very aware I had a choice of either going into a reaction of some kind or just breathing gently and connecting with me at a deeper level allowing the medical staff to carry out whatever they had to do.

234. What struck me about your blog Julie was that you took full responsibility, after a negative experience, and made loving supportive choices. This is a gentle reminder for us all; thank you.

235. Julie, such a powerful blog you have written with such amazing insights I rejoice in reading this because it is rare that you read (or hear) such responsibility and awareness being shared/spoken about. Thank you.

236. It is all in the way we approach the medical procedure, if we choose just wanting to be fixed, or we can choose accepting the support we need and taking responsibility of the part we can play in the healing process

237. It’s interesting to consider how our choices can actually be a reaction to a previous experience, which can then tarnish all future similar experiences if we allow. It’s great that you made the choice not to do that Julie for your follow up and were open to the support that was available for you on that day – producing a whole new experience.

238. Sometimes our choices can come back to bite us on the bum so to speak, but you have shown us here that when we make a loving choice about how to support ourselves the outcome is very different.

239. Thanks Julie, great to read your blog. I had a blood test done today and got quite dizzy after the first ampoule was drawn. The assistant wanted to keep going (another three to go) and get it over with but I insisted her to stop until I felt better. We then decided that I will come back next week to have the rest of the tests completed. We talked about how I could prepare myself for the next appointment, which felt great and empowering. It can be so simple to honour yourself and your body.

240. Thank you Julie for your helpful blog – a good reminder to take responsibility for what happens in our lives. Last year I had a foot injury that occurred when the rung on the old metal ladder I was using broke. At first I didn’t want to take responsibility for this, but soon realised that of course I was responsible for supporting myself and taking care of my own safety. I did all the right things, had an Xray, which showed that no bones were broken, and talked to my Doctor about how to look after my injured foot and ankle, but I didn’t take the next step, which was to see my Universal Medicine Physiotherapist. When I finally did, a couple of weeks later, she showed me that with specific exercises, my foot and ankle would have been supported even more and healed quicker too.

241. Julie I can so relate to not wanting to feel my choices when something has ‘happened’ to me particularly in relation to my health. I have learnt over time also that everything is an opportunity to feel what is really behind my choices and situations and begin to make true choices and take true responsibility.

242. I find it is so easy to just want the uncomfortable feelings/pain etc to go away without stopping and really being discerning about what is actually going on. Julie, this is a wonderful reminder that ‘Irresponsibility’ can be so ingrained and seemingly invisible. When I stop and check in with myself honestly things often unfold in ways I never dreamed possible! Thank you!

243. The need to be fixed when something is painful is quite strong. Thank you for the inspiration to stop, feel, take responsibility and make more loving choices ALL the time, – so there won’t be an injury in the first place..

244. My first experience with Entonox was during my second child’s labour. I was having severe contractions and the mid-wife just shoved the mask towards me and said ‘just breathe into this’. I followed her instructions, trusting that she knew what was best for me at the time. I didn’t even realise what it was until I started feeling light headed, almost passed out, and not myself. After a few breaths I said ‘no’ to it and pushed it away. I then chose to be fully present for the entire labour, which was thankfully very quick. Even when I wasn’t given the choice to begin with by the mid-wife, I was able to make the choice to not take Entonox after feeling it wasn’t supporting me. We can often go into things without realising it is harmful until we feel it our body, we have a choice to continue ignoring the signs or choose to listen.

245. Thank you Julie for sharing your experience – It highlighted for me just how in the past when I felt rushed into making a decision/s – I made a choice (from my head) which was not supporting but when I gave myself time and really felt what was truly going on my choices came from a completely different place within.

246. Great sharing Julie – it is wonderful to realize that we make the choice of any outcome in our life to be either one of love or not and the huge differences involved in not so loving choices.

247. What a great reminder of the difference choices can make in all situations.

248. Your experience shows how important our choices are and the power of our intention. If we want numbness and fixing, that is all we get. If we care for ourselves and respect what our body needs, then there is potential for healing.

249. Thank you for sharing this inspiring article.
     What I have experienced is that the more I open up and the more I let got of my fears and what I expect situations to be or bring for me, the easier life does become. It is stunning how much love and real connection suddenly is there, where I would never have expected it to be.

250. This is a great reminder that Universal Medicine’s teachings are pro-medicine, and work hand in hand with medical practitioners and practices.

     1. Indeed Heather, this has been my experience too – Universal Medicine brings a depth and responsibility to my relationship with conventional medicine which had previously been lacking.

251. Beautiful reflection. It is so much more empowering, to take responsibility for our choices and to give ourselves the support our body needs. us… which can change the ripple effect of how it all unfolds.

252. Great blog, Julie. Thank you for highlighting the fact that the choices we make have a huge effect on the outcome…it’s so true and something I try to keep in mind daily, if not hourly. Reading your blog just reinforced this.

253. Great reflections Julie, of how we can choose something to check out, when we don’t want to take responsibility, or use the same thing to fully support us.
     And the reflection of our choices we then bring to others.
     I have also felt the great support that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been for me.

254. The clear message I get from your blog is the power of our choices in any situation can determine the outcome

255. Yes, Julie, I agree. We are making choices constantly and it is up to us how loving or not they are. I can’t say enough Thanks to Serge Benhayon and UniMed practitioners for bringing awareness of our choices to everyone, taking responsibility for it and making it part of our medicine.

256. Julie thank you for sharing your experiences and the amazing difference making a choice to support you and not from feeling like a victim. I am finding this in my own life which has been also been supported by Serge Benahayon and Universal Medicine.

257. What a great example of choosing to take responsibility for oneself, and the totally different outcomes that were experienced. Thank you Julie, your blog really highlights how we can change the direction of our lives and health and well being by the choices we make.

258. This blog clearly shows how our intentions behind our choices are super powerful. The same choice can be made but for very different reasons and thus two very different outcomes arise. It is through the presentations from Serge Benhayon that have helped me develop what I innately know; the intention and level of responsibility (to self, to all those around me & ultimately all of humanity) behind my choices is indeed a crucial part of living with integrity and love.

259. Julie, when you say “Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven”, I could not agree more. Conventional medicine gives us all its technical and skilful expertise and know-how; Universal Medicine – medicine that is universal and steeped on what we all innately know but have forgotten that we know – offers us the opportunity to take responsibility, make conscious choices and actively contribute to our health and pro-actively co-operate with our health care providers.

260. What a marked difference hospital and medical treatment can be when we have the honesty to feel and see what might be going on for us at the time, and taking full responsibility for ourselves – as opposed to autopilot blaming the drug or medical professional. How we are/feel in ourselves at the time is everything, which then determines everything else.

261. Thanks Julie for sharing your story, yes we are blessed with choices at every moment, how we see them depends on what state or quality of energy we are in at the time. What if every choice was an opportunity to evolve and we were absolutely supported in that process and all we had to do was be who we are and not hold back what is there to be expressed.

     1. I so agree with you Brendan.

262. Thanks Julie what an awesome example of choosing self responsibility over numbness and the resultant healing that occurred. I agree esoteric healing and conventional medicine is a marriage made in heaven.

263. Wow Julie, making a choice is definitely a major responsibility, not only for self, but for others too. Your blog really highlighted this for me. It’s definitely not about blame, as this just passes the buck so to speak, but bringing understanding that the issue and our choices or lack of making a choice (which is also a choice!) can come back in another form somewhere down the track.

264. Thanks Julie – I felt the word responsibility coming up as I was reading this and I can so relate to this. Often when I injure myself in a small way- knock my knee on the bed, cut my finger while doing veges, jam my finger in the door – I can be very quick to blame the article of injury – door, knife or drawer! This causes an angry reaction inside me. I am now aware that if I own the reason for the injury occurring, which is often related to not being consciously present at the time, then I do not feel the anger. I am learning to see it as a gift to pull me back – a choice to react in a different way. Self responsibility is so empowering!

265. I love your blog Julie. Reading it reminds me of a similar experience. One night whilst on holiday in Bali I tripped on a step causing a severe break in my foot. Like you it felt more than just a broken bone, the depth of pain was like nothing before and I had to be taken by ambulance to a not so reputable Balinese hospital. There came a moment when I had to choose between panic and emotional terror or presence. I thought this is no time to panic so I started doing Serge Benhayon’s Gentle Breath Meditation and I became very serene and with myself. The pain became bearable and all fear subsided. My friend suddenly said: “You look incredibly beautiful and angelic right now, you are not supposed to look like that in this situation, it’s so strange, what did you do?” I said I chose to connect to me and breathe. It’s so true Zoe, it’s all about how we choose to be and express in every single moment, no matter what is happening, that determines our experiences.

266. A very timely and beautiful reminder on how, at every moment, we have a choice and that choice is our responsibility, as is the outcome. I have learned that even when we think we don’t have a choice, we do; it is simply that the choice is not something we want to face as the outcome is not something we want to think about, usually because it involves a life changing action. The most loving choice I have ever made was to follow my impulse to attend my first ever healing workshop with Serge Benhayon and what has flowed on from that choice has been simply life-changing. I made that choice as every part of my body, my being, was telling me that this was the one to make. True Choice = Amazing Consequence!

267. Thanks for this article Julie. The terrain really does shift dramatically when the choice is truly made to be responsible as opposed irresponsible. Positioning ourselves as the ‘victim’ never serves anyone, it just perpetuates complication in life. I enjoyed your sharing here – a very real example of the power of making loving choices.

     1. I really enjoyed this blog too Rachel, I love how it shows how the support is there for us when we do make those self – loving choices. Thank you Julie – I really appreciate how you chose responsibility for your part in the injury and in your healing and how responsibility is another loving choice – not just a duty.

268. Choices and Choices. Same situation different outcome. All depending on the intention behind our choices. As seen doing something the same in a different way has a profound effect and brings healing. Depending on the choice that is made. Thank you for highlighting the fact.

269. I too agree ch1956, Angela & Mary, as this was the way I was choosing. Never did I consider, let alone accept, the responsibility for the emotional train wreck I was. I believed my life was a result of my childhood experiences, so therefore I always had someone to blame. But thanks to the teachings by Serge Benhayon & Universal Medicine, I have since accepted the responsibility I have in & for the choices I make, with the awareness of the responsibility I have and the love that I am. This is still a work in progress, but with wonder-full developments each and every day.

     1. Thanks Julie for your blog, it is beautiful the choices we make when supported by Universal Medicine to make life about love. Becoming more responsible for my life has empowered me greatly, and to know that I have a choice in each and every moment allows greater freedom and awareness.

270. What a difference a choice can make to one’s life. Your article, “choices, choices, Choices”, has assisted me in seeing how ridiculous to hold that we do not makes our own choices and end up playing the blame game. I feel it is more painful not to makes choices as the end result is pain, pain, pain.

     1. What you have written makes sense. Entonox can support greatly when one is in pain.

271. Prior to the gift of Universal Medicine presentations and particularly those on ‘Choices’, I had no idea about the part I played in the creation of my life and believed it was the result of forces ‘outside’ of my control. Now, although initially it felt painful to start looking at the part I was playing in everything that was happening, I feel such appreciation of the messages that come to me through my life and feel true love and presence growing every moment of everyday. Thanks Julie for sharing.

     1. I so agree ch1956, and this has been my experience also. I too resisted feeling my part in my choices for a long long time and wanted to blame others or events or circumstances (i.e. anything outside of myself) for what happened to me. The more I have begun to accept responsibility for my choices, the more I have been also open to be supported in my choices… I’m still learning and practising this, and even though it’s uncomfortable at times, I also feel appreciation for being able to approach life this way.

272. Every choice has a consequence, so it’s important to make the right choice.

273. Super blog Julie, over how all our choices impact every situation and every thing we do, wow… your very practical example clearly showing the huge difference of wanting to be fixed and being open to there being another way, which can apply to all the choices we make.

274. ‘Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.’ This is a revelation that just from what we choose we experience and your example shows it to us so clearly. It’s inspiring.

275. Amazing….. whatever happens to us is a clue of how much self-love is in our body.

     1. That is putting it in a nutshell Maryline – and so clearly, thank you.

276. A part of making loving choices is accepting we are love and we need to take care for our body, we are the only ones who can tell what we need to be fully supported. I love what you say; Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven. True!

     1. Yes and when we take responsibility for our healing, the process and thus the outcome are very different. It’s whole new way of approaching western medicine.

277. I was re-reading the blog and wondered about the difference between using it to support you, and using it to numb you. My experience is that if I’m trying to control every situation as can often be the case, that is exhausting and naturally I want to check out from time to time, to put it all down and just whatever… But what if I don’t try to control.. what if it is simply an awareness of things then there is nothing to get tired about, no seeking relief and conscious choices of what does and does not support.

     1. I agree Simon, trying to control situations can be so exhausting and the wanting “a break” from it all is needed. When we observe and bring awareness to any situation the result is so different. From the second scenario, I have noticed for myself that I can be much more part of life than wanting to escape from it.

278. Beautiful reminder Julie on the purpose and the appreciation of making loving choices and allowing ourselves to do this. Support is all around us only all to often we can reject this and it is only through making self loving choices that we can accept the support that is ther

279. Julie that is really lovely to read its inspiring to see how you changed your relationship with the medicine (gas) and how by using it differently it supported you. It resonates with so many things where we blame something for being the issue rather than our relationship with it. Thank you.

280. Its so easy to slip into the numbness and not being aware on the choices I make… A life time of ease and comfort, not taking responsibility for how I am feeling and what I am doing. Most of my life I have thought it is just me and my choices and that I am the one that has to live with them but getting an understanding and living a responsible life means I can’t avoid the fact that all that I do and say effects everyone. Knowing and feeling this I can’t live a life of being numb and I don’t want to…

     1. ‘I have thought it is just me and my choices and that I am the one that has to live with them, but getting an understanding and living a responsible life means I can’t avoid the fact that all that I do and say effects everyone’ – That’s been my experience too Natalie; every choice brings great responsibility.

281. Thanks Julie for a great blog, it is great to know that every illness or injury no matter how small is there to evolve us and is a message of all our choices, if we take the time to pay attention.

282. It is so interesting to realise that we are a result of all our choices, with no blame to ourselves or anyone else, because it takes away all the beating up that I have done to myself and others. And I can just move on to a different choice, it is empowering for sure.

     1. Absolutely Gill, there is always only one person to take responsibility and it is ourselves and this helps us to grow.

283. ” Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven.”
     Absolutely! For it is when we do not go into blame or being a victim and choose responsibility that true healing occurs. My experience of this has felt very empowering and has taken away the ‘scare factor’.

284. I love this Julie. What you have so beautifully and clearly expressed is how powerful our choices are – both the ones that are unsupportive and can lead us down a path of blaming others for where we find ourselves and those that support us to reconnect to and feel the Divinity of who we are.

285. Great to read Julie and see how are choices are everything. It shows that we create our lives and the way we see things ourselves and have the responsibility for how and what comes to us. How precious every moment is where we are in connection with ourselves and live from there lovingly and this brings more of this love into the world as a reflection. Thank you.

286. Wow awesome, Leigh, I love what you say here “we are so much more and deserve to support ourselves in knowing that as a fact”. A very practical and loving way to see pain relief.

287. On my return and re-read of this blog I understand now more how our choices can not only support us on a physical level during experiences but also confirm that we are so much more and deserve to support ourselves in knowing that as a fact. Numbing out avoids the pain but it also keeps us from feeling that we are Divine. Thank you Julie.

     1. Great comment Leigh, how numbing out keeps us from feeling that we are Divine

     2. This is very true and something I will take into contemplation in many aspects of my life, thank you.

288. Thank you Julie. Your article shows so clearly how our choices can make an enormous difference to how events affect us. Understanding that an injury or pain can be my body asking me to look at how I have been living and treating myself puts the responsibility firmly and lovingly back with me.

289. Wow Julie, what an amazing experience and thank you for your honesty in sharing the details with us.

290. Big smile here Julie. I think I just went thru your experience by reading your blog! I read the first line and had to stop as it made me feel sick. I came back to it a little later and made sure I didn’t imagine your gruesome toe or dwell on this part of the story, I chose to not get distracted, and instead got to share your fab example of how we can always choose in every situation 😃

291. What a contrast of the two events Julie. It was lovely to read how your responsibility, self care and gentle way in the second experience made all the difference, thank you for sharing.

292. Yes, Natalie this is so true, there are patterns and behaviours we don’t realise we have. At times this can feel like a catch 22 because we are in it so can’t see it! but with a willingness to be aware and honest with ourself they can be seen, and then our experiences in life can change.

     1. I know that catch 22 really well – its like once you get over the hurdle and your really up for looking at what is going on you can’t but help and reflect on the choices that you made that got you there. No one else can make those choice for you; so you must have created it! One I know I have tried to dodge and not look at.

293. What I also love about this blog is the openness to look and feel what the two situations are offering you Julie. With that willingness to be aware we really do get the opportunity to change the way we have been choosing for very long time. Old patterns and behaviours that we don’t even realise we have start to become apparent.

294. Great Blog Julie thank you for sharing this situation highlighting situitations and our choices as to the outcomes and how we play the main role in this. Very empowering and humbling at the same time.
     With love and responsibility we can heal everything and choose loving choices knowingly. Wisdom !

295. Such a clear and obvious difference between the set up of your choices. This was great to read, and only highlights how simple choices need be for a completely different loving and supportive outcome to play out.

296. Your blog really shows the distinct difference when we take responsibility for ourselves in a loving way.

297. What an awesome article Julie. I recently had two large injections for some dental work. I made a commitment to myself to stay present and to have this work done, even though I was scared. I explained how I was feeling to the dentist and the dental nurse and they were very reassuring, understanding and explained what they were doing step by step.

     At first, when I felt the anesthetic hit my system, I had a mild panic because it felt like I was on drugs and I was scared of being out of control. I breathed gently and came back to myself. I just felt the usual sensations of numbness in my mouth and continued to breathe gently making sure I did not wonder off in my head but stayed present. I could feel how I let go and trusted the two people looking after me. I could feel that they were there supporting me (it was a very long appointment over an hour and a quarter) and I knew it was my responsibility to stay present because we were all in it together. I feel the choice to stay present was so important especially as the work that needed doing was a result of choosing to numb out to life.

298. I am very aware that when I have a pain, it certainly makes me stop, but I know I immediately want it fixing, just as you described in the first instance in the blog, Julie. I know nothing ever happens without a reason, and it’s my responsibility to look at that.

299. We all need to take responsibility for our bodies and what happens to us.
     Love yourself and your body everyday, of your life.

     1. Thank you Mike Julie shares the difference Love makes and Love always starts with yourself first.

     2. Absolutely Mike, love your comment.

300. Thank you Julie, this is such a great way of looking at and taking responsibility for our own choices. As Stephen says earlier, the momentum can carry us along creating more dis-harmony. For me, pain definitely gets me to stop and look at the momentum I’ve been in, even when I still want to resist it. The body shows me the way to choose when I decide to make the choice.

301. Thank you Julie. Another example of how our choices determine the outcome of a situation. It seems there is always a reason for an injury to happen. Again and again nothing happens by chance.

     1. So true Maryline, nothing happens by chance, there is always a reason.

302. This is beautiful Julie – a great example of how different our experiences can be – and how choices can all build up to lead to a certain outcome.
     I love how you traced it back to your need here and called that out before the second procedure. That’s a new way we can take responsibility and work with doctors and nurses. Not just be a victim who wants to get it over and done with!

303. It really feels like the momentum we carry into certain situations is often the reason we create a dis-harmonious outcome. If we can stop the momentum then we have the space to make the choices that can properly support us.

304. Julie this is an awesome revelation and experience you have shared. The power of our choices is our future. So interesting they were two very clear choices you made one with responsibility and one with out and the out come was complete opposite. I like that.

     1. Natalie I love how you said, ‘The power of our choices is our future.’ So true.

        1. Thank you Natalie, Simple and powerful words, “The power of our choices is our future”. When each choice is made with this awareness, we can then only live with responsibility.

305. “Two very different outcomes as a result of choices made.” Wow great blog Julie, thankyou. Western medicine as yet doesn’t seem to acknowledge the huge power that making choices has, not just in what treatment but also in the how – in my experience. Last year I had some varicose vein treatment and I chose to fully support myself as much as I knew how. The doctors and nurses readily complied with my requests and enjoyed the music I chose to be played during the procedure. I left the CD for them to use for future patients, if they so chose.

306. Well said Stephanie. This awareness is golden.

307. A brilliant example of how our choices can either support us or make our situations even worse.

     1. Yes I agree Leighoflight.

308. Thanks Julie. This blog is a beautiful reminder for me to feel where beliefs and choices are so interwoven. To stop and respond to my body in the moment is revealing some well hidden beliefs and from there I have the ability to choose differently.

     1. And if we let them, these beliefs, are being formed all the time from one experience to the next which can taint a choice. I am learning that staying present is therefore super important to make the right choice.

309. Thank you Julie for this insight. I too have experienced something similar where I have been angry with myself for the injury and dismissive about the medical process
     required. Compared with ‘going with the flow’ on another occasion where I was more
     gentle and considerate, the difference in discomfort was palpable.

310. Thank you Julie, I find it very interesting how I make my choices and how different they can be depending what else is going on and where I’m at, at any given moment.

311. This really is a great example of how we can just believe something from a past experience and allow it to colour our perceptions from that point onwards. I love the way you showed that we can take responsibility for ourselves in any moment even if our experiences and beliefs try to tell us otherwise. Thank you Julie.

     1. That’s a great point Rosanna about not just expecting things to be how they were in the past. And an awesome example Julie has given of how things can change.

312. Thanks for sharing Julie it shows me how we are in the driving seat when it comes to our own choices and how we handle different experiences. I went for an operation a couple of years ago and inspired by what Serge had said about operations I told the Surgeon in no uncertain terms that he was to be as gentle with me when I was under, as was humanly possible, I would never have thought of this previously.

     1. This is so true Ariana. Even though I know that I am in the driving seat of my own life and know I can’t blame others when things go wrong I am still quick to look for someone to blame none the less! I have to catch myself and look for the opportunity for healing that I have instead.

     2. To remember that we are divine in these most human of moments is of great value I believe – and the way we handle ourselves as a result can only support health care being truly caring.

313. Wow Julie, a great example of the difference between self disregard and self care.

314. I love that you bringing yourself into the present moment and choosing to support and love your self in that moment led to a complete re-imprinting of what had happened before….and a confirming of your true status. Great blog. Thank you Julie.

     1. Well said Elaine. It is a great blog Julie, thank you for the reminders for choices and self care.

315. Great article Julie, and reminder of how important our choices are in every second.
     I also like what you added in the comment on 25/8, ‘Having lived, for a lot of my life as a victim to life in the belief my life is ‘what has been done to me’ therefore constantly putting the blame on a situation or others, I am now learning how I can be a master of it by accepting my part in these situations and taking responsibility for my choices made leading to that point. This is empowering and confirming that nothing is random ‘ I can really relate to this and it is so true.

     1. Great point Lorraine, I know in the past I would often ‘blame’ outside of me for a given situation but now I am learning to take responsibility for my part and not blame the outside – others or a situation.

        1. Interesting Judy that you express the opposite of ‘blaming’ the outside world as taking personal responsibility. This is one of the huge, and ongoing revelations that have come to me via Universal Medicine – no need for blame, acknowledge and just move on.

316. This is awesome Julie how one reaction leads to a series of choices that is not so great and then how with connection and understanding that lead to a series of choices that was loving and caring! It really does make so much sense to keep coming back to yourself and responding instead of reacting as your writing clearly demonstrates!

     1. Yes Vanessa. And to me further demonstrates how every little bump in the road is an opportunity to shine some light in a dark place.

        1. True mmryan, My ‘little bump in the road’ this week
           has shone a spotlight on a dark place my body refuses to let me ignore any longer

        2. AT this time of the year in the northern hemisphere the sun is low and this angle its light can show up dust. For me there are then 3 choices. Start wondering who else might have seen it, how long it might have been there etc, etc; go and get a duster pleased that I have had the chance to clean it up; wish the sun would go in possibly even drawing the curtains.

           It’s feather duster every time these days

        3. Well said Michelle. It’s wonderful to want to know why something has happened. Bumps and stops call out for our attention and if ignored return again and again!

     2. I love how a simple choice made with awareness can lead to an outcome that’s in harmony with my body.

317. Amazing Julie, so its not what you decide to do as much as why you decide to do it? :-That’s very helpful to me, thank you 🙂

     1. Yes, absolutely, Rachael, so simply expressed. Thank you.

     2. I agree – it’s a very helpful example of the same situation with two totally different approaches, and the different outcomes. Thanks Julie

     3. Yes Jane I feel very empowered when I realise I can just make a different choice and ditch all the blame. Then playing with words, I noticed that blame can become b(e) lame, that what it does, hobbles me with the past rather than choosing the past as a springboard to propel me into a different future

     4. ‘Not what you decide to do as much as why you decide to do it’ opened up a whole different vista for me Rachael. Great observation

318. This is a great account of how important our choices are Julie. I full-heartedly agree, if you take responsibility for your own health and care, and really look after yourself I find doctors are so lovely and helpful, but more often-than-not if you go in having neglected yourself you will not receive that same level of care. Amazing how the same situation can play out so very differently, and it’s all down to our very own choices.

     1. This feels very true to me. The level of health care from doctors and nurses that I have received has beyond doubt been influenced by how I am in my relationship with them.

        1. So true Meg and Doug. It is back to being responsible for everything that happens to us, no excuses! I have felt truly supported by doctors and nurses recently and find they are willing to work with me as I respect the part they can play in my health care. Great article Julie;.

     2. I’d agree Meg, and also say if we are willing to give the doctors and nurses our care and respect in the way we speak to them and are with them, then the level of care they can provide for us will always be so much greater.

319. It is interesting how events seem to play out according to our choices and how we are living every moment. It has been my experience that we are feeling the truth of any situation all of the time and we all have huge potential awareness but often choose to shut down this awareness for various reasons. I have often experienced an accident or an injury which has really made me stop and consider what am I choosing to not be aware of? It is usually something that I had been ignoring for some time and it took something dramatic or painful or upsetting to make me look at it. Certainly a very different way of viewing an accident or an injury compared to how we are told to view them.

     1. Very true Andrew. I have noticed that when I hurt myself I am not very present with myself or what I am feeling – when I injure myself usually the first response is an outrage about being forced to pay attention, followed closely with colourful expletives which I would not normally utter.
        I am learning more and more, to stop in those situations, to remember that there is always a reason, that I would have set something in motion previously that has got me to this. When I do this, and take the time to feel to the best I can what the situation is pointing out, There is always a potential for some amazing realisation.

        1. It does help when we are just willing to consider that there may be a reason for our injuries after the expletives! Be curious and be open to what may be there to reveal, often for me it is a call to stop. Stop rushing usually!

        2. I agree. I used to get frustrated with injuries etc and only see them as something bad that was stopping me. I have found that by asking myself why it happened and to just consider the smallest possibility that it happened because my body was trying to tell me something to be very useful and when I do this I feel that I gain a new understanding.

        3. So true for me too. I use to find injuries being a nuisance and putting a stop in what I was doing at the time. But now I see it as an opportunity to reflect, possibility this stop has happened because my body is trying to tell me something very useful and when I do stop to feel, I gain a new understanding.

        4. very true Andrew and Golnaz, I too have started to become aware that whatever the accident or injury that has occurred it is not a sudden unfair thing happening to me. It is actually my past choices that I have chosen not to look at popping up and saying I need to look at it. Usually there has been a series of little things like a bump on my head or small cut on my finger where by I ignore it and then something bigger will happen to get me to stop.

        5. ‘always the potential for some amazing realisation’ Great Comment. For me its usually my body saying, come back to me, and if I ignore that , I get another reminder, and a bigger bruise!

        6. These are all such great points. It makes such a difference when I accept that when I have an ‘accident’ it is a consequence of my choices and actions rather than because it has been as a result of something being done to me. It make it understandable, no longer dis-empowering (in fact the opposite) and as stated an opportunity to assess how I have been living and to make changes.

        7. Yes it is a simpler way to look at life and more rewarding knowing my part in it. Even the smallest hurt can now be the greatest gift, where I can stop, be curious as to why something happened, bring understanding and follow with the potential to choose to do it differently next time. Beats the hardness and irritation that I used to choose any day.

     2. Great point Andrew and all that follow. The sooner we can learn to stop and look at how we have arrived at a situation the greater our awareness grows so the ‘accident or injury’ that makes us stop does not need to be so great. In fact what previously we would not have taken notice of becomes as significant in the learning from it as a major trauma.

     3. Yes I can certainly agree with an injury pointing out what I have, up until that point, ignored. If I am honest about the injury I have to see the many, many opportunities I was given to make loving choices that would have stopped the injury happening in the first place. I also have to recognise I still have a choice to ignore my responsibility in creating said injury but then I know I am choosing to continue to behave in a way that bring even more disharmony to my body and a greater injury or disease.

320. Thanks for this Julie, a very important point that medicine can be used in two ways – to shut off from what our original choices created, or to support us in not making the same choices to end up in the same situation.

     1. Absolutely Cheryl. So we can choose to be ‘fixed’ or choose to take responsibility for ourselves and make more loving choices that support us.

        1. ..and by the nature of making more supportive and loving choices – we’d naturally get less illnesses, therefore have nothing to ‘fix’!

321. Really interesting article thank you Julie. So often we look for the ‘right’ way to approach something, as if there could be a set rule book for life. What I love about this article is how you have showed that taking the same action can either be supportive or not, and that no rule book as to whether or not to have gas could have held the answer.

     1. Great point Catherine, it brings it back to ourselves making the difference in the outcome of the choice.

322. HI Julie, I love the fact that there is always a choice to make in every moment and that it is always ours to make.

323. Thank you Julie for sharing, deeply inspiring.

324. Thank you Julie for sharing with us the importance of taking responsibility for all our choices.

325. I enjoyed reading your comment Stephen ‘Are we perhaps, not hard done by in certain situations or unlucky, but in fact complete masters of our own future with the choice to make our lives what we wish.’ This is beautifully written and feels very true,

326. This is great Julie. Your experience shows how taking responsibility is truly loving. You loved yourself enough to take care of yourself and make a different choice. Very power-full.

327. I love that you were able to tell yourself that you are divine, how very true!
     It is fascinating to hear how two different choices resulted in two totally different outcomes. This really highlights our responsibility in all we do. Thank you Julie for reminding us that ultimately every thing that happens to us is because of the choices we make. Its a wise move to choose divinity, what an awesome choice!

328. Thank you Julie I agree with what you say and how empowering and confirming it is to take responsibility for ones choices. I am learning this more every day and it makes life so much more simple and treasurable.

329. Absolutely, Stephen. Having lived, for a lot of my life as a victim to life in the belief my life is ‘what has been done to me’ therefore constantly putting the blame on a situation or others, I am now learning how I can be a master of it by accepting my part in these situations and taking responsibility for my choices made leading to that point. This is empowering and confirming that nothing is random or unlucky.

330. I have been reflecting again on your blog Julie and it has again helped me deepen my own responsibility for what happens in my life. Are we perhaps, not hard done by in certain situations or unlucky, but in fact complete masters of our own future with the choice to make our lives what we wish. Taking the perspective that we control our life course by each and every choice we make certainly seems a better way to live than pretending that it is fate and out of our hands.

331. Lovely blog Julie

332. I love the way your experience shows us we can use medicine to not accept our responsibility or we can use it to support us. Great article, thanks.

     1. I love how you have summed up the choice in how conventional medicine can be used. Very simple, thank you Julie.

333. At the most basic of levels surely the bodies we inhabit are changing as the seconds roll by with our cells constantly dying and regenerating.

     What a brilliant example Julie of not lacing the future with how we chose to experience events, other people and ourselves, in the past. Thank you

334. A great article Julie, clearly showing the outcomes of our choices and our responsibility with every choice we make.

335. A brilliant example, Julie, of how taking responsibility for our choices, and making sure we choose to support ourselves in any situation, can make a difference to what unfolds. And you describe it so well and honestly, I have spent a lot of time at the hospital this year for various reasons, and been very aware of the difference of response from staff and in treatment depending on how loving I am in my choices. It has also been a great lesson about the times I want to numb out but choose to be present. I find that the old fears are unfounded and I have the strength to be there, with myself, and observe what is going on, and it is often so interesting!

336. And it continually changes in every moment, my next choice is the most powerful one.

337. I was captured by your blog and your experience, Julie. What you have shared makes so much sense, that when we make a split moment choice an outcome can change. We are responsible for the outcome of each and every experience. Thanks for writing.

338. This is brilliant Julie, thank you. It shows to me how much power we have through our choices and how different things can be if we are willing to see our part in a situation.

339. Super blog Julie, thank you. And such a clear layout of how choices affect everything.

340. An important message about staying open and not being closed off. What you said ‘no’ to last week might be just what you need to say ‘yes’ to this week. Great blog Julie.

341. Thank you for sharing your sedation experience. We all need to think carefully about our choices. You should be writing more often.

342. Hi Julie I found this blog really interesting that the intention you set brought two very different effects. It shows just how powerful we are, so within the choice which was essentially the same to have support from the gas but then there is the root intention for the choice. Revealing to say the least. thank you for allowing me to stop and feel that.

343. Thankyou for this blog Julie – it really does highlight the difference between making a choice to numb and choosing something in love (and the total difference in outcomes!)

     1. Well said Susie

344. Choices, choices, choices. The power of putting ourselves back in the driving seat and taking responsibility for every moment. Thank you, Julie.

345. Lovely to read of the responsibility you took for your situation, it is amazing how being responsible changes our perspective when things occur, and the choices we have as to what happens next.

346. OUCH! isn’t that it just there, when we experience an ouch and we just want it all to stop – the pain and let the numbing in any way it wants! I love how you describe both choices of how to be with essentially the same situation. I have had gas and had the clarity of knowing exactly what was going on and no pain but also completely refused it when I was in another situation as I could feel I was too chaotic and stressed to benefit from the gas – I just knew it would have made me sick. Amazing isn’t it how our choices of how to be with something significantly impacts on what happens next, down to physiological functioning. And of course what you show in your summary that it is how we come to be in that moment/situation that is the most influential part of the equation.

347. Expressed so beautifully, the power of our choices, thank you Julie

348. This is so true – these are exactly the choices that we make every day but it’s so much more because it’s the energy of the choices that count.

349. Thank you, Julie, for this great article. It is really interesting to ponder on… somehow we have come to see medicine as black or white, either/or, conventional or alternative, when we can have it all! It feels great to allow ourselves to be supported by modern medicine, as it was truly developed, to help us in our extremities of pain and suffering, when we need it. It also feels great to support ourselves – to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we live our lives, to make great choices that allow us to live well, rather than making poor choices and expecting medicine to fix us. Us living well and medicine – truly a marriage made in heaven.

     1. Anne, that’s the true power of choices, how we live we can make great choices to live well or expect medicine to fix us, why western medicine and Universal Medicine make a great partnership, the first with it’s great skills and the second bringing the power of choice and the fact of energy and absolute responsibility.

     2. I couldn’t agree more Anne – “Us living well and medicine – truly a marriage made in heaven.”

350. Thank you for sharing Julie – a very profound experience that can be applied to all areas of our lives – we just have to make the choice to be aware and present with what is around us.

351. I really loved here how you were so aware of what was happening on every level, and took in fully the opportunity to make a new choice when the situation was presented to you again. awesome.

352. Great to read about your experiences here… a reminder to us all that we can choose the quality of what is happening around us, and what a profound shift that has on the experience. Thanks Julie.

353. Thank you Julie for sharing your experience and choices as this is something we often forget we have which can take away our responsibility in life for both ourselves and others. This is a simple way of seeing this and can lead to many other opportunities we are given and also to take responsibility for our own health too.

354. Our choices lay down the path for everything that happens to us in life. This means absolute responsibility, lovingly embraced and lived. Thank you, Julie.

     1. Gorgeously put Matilda ‘ absolute responsibility lovingly embraced and lived’ – a gem.

     2. You put that so well, Matilda, such a short sentence, but it’s had a monumental impact on my day. Thank you

     3. Love it Matilda. We have a choice in everything and a responsibility to lovingly embrace the choices we make.

355. Absolutely brilliant Julie.

356. It was interesting to see how by merely approaching the issue differently (taking the gas for the pain) the second time had such a profound change in how you felt and your experience. Just shows how thoughts and emotions are really different kinds of energy that can come in various forms as different as electricity and steam.

357. Thank you, Julie. Beautifully expressed the power of our choices and what we experience is the result of choices – our responsibility.

358. Thank you for sharing Julie, really interesting to hear how describe your choices as producing different situations and experiences, when we are usually taught that in life we don’t have a significant impact on how we experience things, as life ‘does us’. You have clearly exposed that this is most definitely not the case

     1. So true Jess, we are rarely educated how we affect our own lives by what we choose and how we can alter our lives by the quality and intent of our choices. Julie’s post clearly shows how when we are desperate to escape a situation we don’t want to take responsibility for, we usually end up feeling worse for it or someone else does. How amazing to be offered a true way forward by choosing to take responsibility and making responsible, loving choices not only for ourselves but for others too.

359. Thank you Julie for sharing with us what happens when we don’t want to take responsibility for the things that happen to us

360. I love Lyndy’s comment about how the world re-organizes and settles around us once we are open to learning and taking responsibility rather than coming into a situation with blame, need or being a victim. Thanks Julie for sharing your moment of re-connection so that you could benefit from all the support around you.

361. Thank you Julie. This is a great reminder to use everything that occurs as an opportunity to feel into why it has happened and how we can change the outcome just by the choices we make.

362. great blog Julie. This just reconfirms that there is a healing opportunity in every situation we encounter if we choose to see it Thanks for sharing

     1. Well said Tim – lovely to consider that opportunity to heal is there in every moment.

        1. Well said Tim, a healing opportunity is always available.

363. Thank you Julie, I too have learned through the teachings of Serge Benhayon that the energy I take into any situation directly impacts everything everyone and my whole experience. You beautifully described the difference between the two situations: one hospital visit with you choosing to be aware of your responsibility in your life and to make loving and caring choices and the other hospital visit without that choice. I loved the humour and the learning in what you shared.

364. Since studying the work of Universal Medicine (UniMed), I too have come round to fully appreciating the value of Western Medicine and all those who practice it. Yes it is a marriage made in Heaven, because the more I look after myself in a truly loving way, as inspired by UniMed, the less I look to doctors and western medicine to fix me. Instead I seek support and guidance from both camps and couple this to taking full responsibility for myself. Beautiful Julie, thank you for such a succinct and inspiring post.

     1. By taking responsibility for my own health, I I feel stronger and less dependant on the NHS. I know they are there if I need treatment, but it would always be in harness with the esoteric modalities for a true outcome.

365. Awesome Julie!!! Isn’t it beautiful how when we take responsibility the world re-organizes and settles around us in magnificence support. Thanks for this great blog!

     1. Yes, it is really awesome how this magically happens Lyndy.

366. It’s amazing how much we can learn about ourselves and life from one seemingly minor injury. Your experience truly shows every happening in our lives presents us with an opportunity to develop a deeper awareness of what true care for oneself really is, if we are open to it….

     1. So true. Every experience offers us a choice to deepen our awareness of the choices we make.

        1. I love your observation Mary it is so true. Every experience does truly offer us a choice to deepen our awareness of the choices we make. If we choose to ignore that and carry on our ill way we don’t wake up to the fact that we create our own reality! Awareness is the key to living a joy full life.

        2. Spot on Mary, and Fiona. I agree completely. We do indeed ‘create our own reality’, by our awareness and subsequent choices. How powerful we are.

     2. Great point Judith – if we can learn so much from one ‘minor’ incident then it calls into question why we do not listen and then create a more major incident to provide an even greater stop

        1. Very true Jess. A few years ago I wrote my car off and because I didn’t stop to look at the momentum my life was in and two weeks later I got ‘food poisoning’ and had to take nearly a month off. Everything that happens to us is for a reason. The question is, are we prepared to look deeper into why?

        2. I agree Jess and Tim. A few years ago, I fell over while drunk and tore my cruciate ligament in my knee, a very clear message for me to stop and look at how I was living. I had to take time off work and do lighter duties. Now I don’t drink alcohol anymore.

367. Thank you Julie for this blog. I am a practitioner (of dentistry). Occasionally we use sedation in the practice and I have wondered about this exact issue; is it supporting numbness and checking-out, or can it be done as a true loving support? You have clarified for me that the latter is entirely possible. I cannot stop someone from using to numb out, after all, we are all free to choose. But what I now understand, from what you have shared, is that there is a way to use the wonders of modern medicine, and hold a loving connection to yourself. This will be a great support for my in my daily practice, even in the way I approach local anaesthetics.

     1. Yes and this is great support for me today as I embark on having a tooth extracted this afternoon. I love what Julie wrote “Universal Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in Heaven.” So true.

     2. This is amazing.

368. Yes Esoteric Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in heaven. I feel if they were to be used side by side there would be an immense change in our health care system. We would find ourselves in a situation where care of the patients and staff would be of the utmost importance, how we viewed and treated health conditions would be totally different and the best part is, I feel medicine as we know it, would become one of true support and growth, ever expanding in its understanding and methods of treatment. One can not exist successfully without the other, this is quite evident through the steep rise of illness and disease that is occurring all over the world, even with all the advancements that have been made in the field of Conventional Medicine.

     1. I so agree with your comment, Toni, as I have exponentially enjoyed better health and wellness since choosing to combine support from the usual medical avenues with esoteric support available via the esoteric presentations and healing on offer with Universal Medicine.

     2. Well said Toni, I completely agree.

     3. Yes, I agree Toni, bring it on. ‘ Esoteric Medicine and Conventional Medicine are a marriage made in heaven. I feel if they were to be used side by side there would be an immense change in our health care system’. This is so true and so needed.

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