By Lee Green, Business Owner, Melbourne, Vic
The picture of the traditional family doctor is well known to us all – a General Practitioner that has a history of the family and is well versed in the ailments of all generations. This role is often depicted in period dramas, especially in well to do families of old – the visiting practitioner being the authority figure that knows ’health,’ or seemingly so, as is portrayed.
Interestingly, as illness and disease climb through the roof, the pressure on our worldwide medical systems is such that they veer closer to collapse – in effect a breakdown of a system that has been essentially supporting us to get on and function – the same system as portrayed by the family GP of old that we have given our power away to and expect to fix us and ready us for the next thing to do.
We have essentially made the role of the GP the first line of support – we take along our ailing bodies and ask for help. The appointments are often short, there is often a wait, and the GP may or may not be having a good or bad day; how they look after themselves in their important role of looking after other people is a key component to this particular element.
Another one being how we walk into the surgery ourselves.
Is the family doctor any more important than the person who checks us through at the supermarket? We are certainly all equal, yet some of us have learned skills that support us in different ways. One of the key factors in life that may skew our own views of the GP is that, with education, we place more status on the person – wrongly assuming that they are better than us because they know more about this particular subject or that.
Has there been too much emphasis placed on education and, in that, an assumed status of the person above others? This may or may not be held by the GP, but it sits as a construct in society and to some degree we may always look up to the family doctor as someone who knows more about our ailments than we do. This continues to feed this construct of superior status and does not support true equality in these relationships.
How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies? Do we allow ourselves to truly express all that we know about ourselves in that moment or do we hold back because we ‘don’t know’ as much as the highly qualified man or woman sitting in front of us?
Recently I attended a Chakra-puncture course, one of the many modalities offered by Universal Medicine, and heard one of the presenters, Serge Benhayon, say that the modalities and their original intent is for the domestic homes of all to truly support friends and family, as we require it through life.
What struck me about this and our current medical system is that all the pressure could be relieved if we all started to look at how we move ourselves around the planet. Are we truly taking care of ourselves? The answer has to be ‘no’ because of the state of our health as a society. Yet we continue to live in a way that results in more complex medical conditions.
How interesting is it then, that when we know truly what is and what is not good for our bodies and our health, we continue to live in a way that does not support a true state of health?
To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.
This allowed me to feel that, as we develop ourselves, all of us the world over have the opportunity to connect with the modalities as taught by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. We can build a different relationship with health within our family and friend groups. The understanding that we are responsible for all that the body is – that every ailment and dis-ease is a result of our choosing – can be communicated. The foods and drinks we consume, the way we handle our emotions, accept and appreciate ourselves, the way we walk etc. all have an amazing imprint for all to feel and see.
Although there will always be a need for General Practitioners and medical specialists, it becomes apparent that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner” and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.
Herald in the new way
What a support this would ultimately be for the current long-suffering medical systems. Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.
There is no fix needed when the batteries have run down – the GP is not ticking another box and coping with another being needing fixing. There is a responsibility brought into the surgery and, as that is felt, the relationship between patient and the family doctor naturally returns to an equal footing. One knows their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health. Together the body benefits and becomes more harmonious as a result.
I am forever inspired and deeply appreciative of the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
“To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.” When we take responsibility for our own part in the healing process we are working with the doctor rather than expecting them to prescribe a ‘fix it’ pill.
When we truly begin to grasp the fact that life is medicine we gain a far deeper understanding of the human being and the body it is enhoused within so that no longer do we see the human form as a machine that is subject to wear and tear that must be ‘fixed’ when it ‘breaks’ but more so as a vessel for the divine that can be cared for and nurtured in such a way that all the love that naturally lives within us can express outwardly without being encumbered by that which we otherwise move into place to halt such expression.
What you are sharing Lee is a collective responsibility for each person, that we care for ourselves, receive the care of our medical professionals, and support one another in family groups and beyond. It feels like health and well-being through brotherhood.
I remember when I lived in Japan the older people would massage each other nearly every day..or would be treated by their children or grandchildren. For those working in the fields it would be part of the nightly ritual to be rubbed and stretched and loosened up after a days work. Generally speaking we don’t do this for each other in the West although having been on training courses for the Sacred Esoteric modalities I find it possible to do swaps or have some bodywork from someone even if they are not a professional practitioner. The people who come on these courses are generally not there to learn a new craft for a career change but to find ways to support themselves, friends and family in ordinary life. I feel we do not do enough of this for each other and if we were to we would relieve a lot of the pressure from the NHS (in the UK) because our stress levels would decrease enormously.
While it is necessary and indeed wise to take the required medications when we fall ill, nothing compares to the exquisite warmth of human touch and the healing that occurs when hearts speak to hearts.
Lee you make some great points here, and we definitely have the choice to consider how much our choices affect us, and how those choices ultimately are reflected within the body, the more we are able to connect to our body the easier it is to know if something is supportive or not and we become our own doctor initially with the support of western Medicine and our GP to support us further.
Reading this, what comes to me is how connected are we to be able to feel and express honestly how we are in our body? Some years ago, I certainly was not. The modalities that support us to build this connection so that we could place ourselves back in a position to be able to care and love our own body is an amazing accompaniment to conventional medicine.
Reading through all you have shared in this wonderful blog Lee, I got a clear sense that my true “Family Doctor” is me. But it doesn’t stop there as this doctor also includes the quality of my relationships with all the members of my family and my friends, the food I eat, the way I move, the way I live, the way I work and so much more. Then, no longer relying on one person, my doctor, to have a cure for every one of my aliments, it is now up to me to be responsible for the foundation of my health and well-being, with the doctor being there when I am needing medical support.
Giving our power away to another in regards to anything including our health is so unloving and disregarding to ourselves. Yes absolutely there are some amazing trained healthcare professionals in many different fields and we need them for sure but what, as you say, about truly looking after our own health first. So much so that we are living in a way to prevent illness and dis-ease by how we are living! This is exactly what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present and have been presenting for years. On a separate note to do with GP’s, it used to be you could make an appointment get one quickly and go and see them what it is regarding, now you have to wait at least 1 week to get an appointment and when you get the appointment are told you can only speak to the GP about 1 thing regarding your health, so if you had several things you wanted checked or to speak about you need to book several appointments! This alone tells us how much stress and pressure the NHS or health services across the world are under. More of a reason to take care of ourselves.
Thanks Vicky for everything you have shared here. I have seen some doctors that have taken a detailed history and then asked me what I feel the problem is, not so much a diagnosis but when do I feel it started, what was happening at the time and beforehand, as well as getting an oversight into my life in general when symptoms occurred (life stresses etc). Those appointments are quite extraordinary because it’s more a feeling of team work, both myself and my doctor working together to understand my condition, how it came about, and how to treat it. It’s beautiful to have a relationship like this experiencing the depth of care and knowledge of my doctors and their humility, genuine concern and equality.
Yes it is great to expose how we see people’s value in the titles and jobs they have even though this does not make the person any different than any one of us. It is just that the person chose to study something and therefore has the knowledge but this does not change who the person is, neither does it change the person when they don’t study for a profession at all. We are all the same inside.
It is true, rarely do we go to the doctor and see them as equal to ourselves due to their level of education. This belief is so ingrained in us from young that it has us looking down on those who did not or chose not to achieve a certain level of education.
It’s great when we can look upon our doctor as an equal and a friend, when we can take responsibility for our own part in our healing and share this with our GP In this way we all learn from each other and the world is a richer place.
If we were to all take responsibility for the choices that we make, it would not take long for us to realise those choices that supported us are very different to those that don’t, therefore it makes sense that we should know how our body feels at any given time, and sharing that with a doctor if we need medical support will provide a positive outcome, rather than one that is left purely to the doctor to diagnose.
Great point to make about presenting at the doctors in equality – and adding here, observation and love, filling out the description in more detail. This kind of equality is crucial in any interaction. For example, I have just been engaging with some workmen whose company charged me quite a lot for some French sliding doors which in the end weren’t opening and closing flush correctly. They were saying that ‘near enough is close enough’ regarding little gaps in where the door met the jamb! I had to remain simple and equal and state that the whole thing about a door is that it shuts without any space letting air through. It was quite an exercise to speak in the mode described above and not care whether they thought I was being fussy, but to stay open and not reactive.
This is very interesting – how we feed the construct of superiority when we avoid our responsibility.
“we all have our own inner “General Practitioner”” when we listen to the advice of our own inner GP, our body, and take this wisdom with us when we discuss a health issue with a professional GP we are working together to improve our health.
The responsibility we all have for our own health and wellbeing is paramount, and we should not expect Doctors to pick up the pieces of our disregard of that fact.
I would love, love, love to have family doctor who really related warmly to me and everyone else. An efficient, dedicated doctor who, if you really couldn’t get out of bed, would come around to visit you. I have very fond memories of a childhood in Lismore where the wonderful Dr Sillar would come around with all his expertise and wonderful supportive manner, and who always stopped to have a conversation with my favourite teddy bear.
What an amazing doctor and how lovely to experience his wonderful manner and expertise with teddy bears! Today I feel people become their profession and mould themselves into a way to be, instead of being their natural and beautiful selves and bringing that to their profession, expressing all their qualities in full.
With so many health services collapsing under the weight of our increasing ill mental and physical health there has never been a better time for us to start taking more responsibility for looking after our bodies as best we can and consulting doctors when necessary with the commitment that we will take all the necessary steps to support our healing process and work with the doctor to facilitate this.
A true partnership becomes possible when we are willing to play our part in supporting the healing process.
Enormous pressure would be taken off the medical system if we as a society started to take responsibility for our wellbeing, body and health and presented that to a specialist or GP instead of the usual demand for a speedy fix followed by more of the same behaviour that got us into the situation in the first place.
The Way of The Livingness is literally guaranteed to just take the pressure off the world health’s budget, but to turn the whole relationship of humanities health on its head… Returning the responsibility back to the individual and the individual taking responsibility for true expression
Family doctors, like all other doctors, are highly qualified as to how our bodies work and what happens when they are not working as they ought to be…but it makes sense that they do not know our body as deeply and as intimately as we do. Therefore, it is up to us to communicate all that is going on for us, very clearly and not holding back in any way. The doctor and the patient are a team and like in any team if one member is not communicating with another, the strength of the team weakens and things start to go wrong.
True health is really our every day living choices because it is those choices which determine our susceptibility to illness and disease.
This is so simple yet we shy away from changing the comfort, stimulation or avoidance techniques that our usual choices bring us. How wise to begin to honour our bodies and see them not just as functional things but as holders of our spirit and soul and conduits for Astral or Divine energy.
True health is a responsibility for us all. We can support each other in this, and the visit to the doctor is then just a part of it. We do not have to lay ourselves down in front of the doctor and expect him to have all the answers. We can empower ourselves by knowing what is going on with our own bodies so we do not have to give our power away to the doctor. It is a level of responsibility that is required, and that is very joyful to live.
The relationship we have as a patient and doctor is completely imbalanced at the moment. It is a big part of the stress, burnout and suicide doctors are experiencing. It is also why we as patients are not taking responsibility for our health, even though on some level we know it’s our ‘lifestyle’ choices causing the problems. Responsibility is very squarely being laid on the doctor, rather than it being a partnership and equal relationship. Although the family doctor of old is part of this consciousness, I also appreciated some aspects of that time and level of care. The family doctor didn’t need to ask your family history as he knew if there was a history of cancer, heart disease etc. They were also able to take the time to know the whole story, rather than just the most acute issue on that day.
All that we live at home, work and play accumulates and is exactly what we present to our GP when we go visit them – but sometimes we have to accept that what we live cannot always be corrected without the associated illness and disease from our bodies that is simply telling us what is going on within.
I understand what the article is saying and I support it and also I have another spin on the “traditional family doctor” because I have one and he is truly there for all the right reasons. It’s a blessing to see him and even though the system tells us one thing he very much carves his own path through it. The relationship is more than doctor-patient and how we take ourselves to him has always stepped into an equal footing and knowing that we are both doing a part in whatever we are talking about which supports this article. We have a very active role in how we are and how we are moving, we can ignore this and then attempt to find the answers everywhere else or we can pick up things where we left them and touch into our being and from there build out.
It is interesting how we place more status on what we assume another knows based on their education in that particular subject learnt and what is also interesting is that the learnt, knowledgeable person glorifies in being put on a pedestal and some are not willing to listen that we are all equal and we can learn so much from one another regardless of how well trained, experienced and educated we may think we are.
We also need to be careful not to give our power away to the internet. Googling ailments has become quite popular and self diagnosing easily precedes or follows on from this. There is a lot on the web that is not true, and looking at things in isolation also does not support us a s a whole and can make matters worse.
When we begin to connect to our bodies we realise there is a wisdom coming from them. Our bodies have an intelligence that our own brain intelligence tries to overrule, replacing the truth with what we want reality to be or creating some kind of drama to spice up our lives; alternatively we might ignore the body’s intelligence so that we can be told by the professionals and give away our power and inner knowing completely. How empowering and love enhancing it is to connect more deeply with our own bodies and express how we feel to the doctor and have a collaboration with him/her.
If we are encouraged to feel what is going on in our bodies then we are absolute masters… albeit that we may need support to interpret or treat it when things go wrong. But as a first line our own relationship with ourselves is absolutely fundamental and often missed.
What a difference it will make when we all realise the responsibility we each have for the state of our health!
Yes what you present here is the potential future of how we can be with ourselves, our bodies and with medicine. Our current system is now working, as you note, we mistreat ourselves and our bodies and then take ourselves to the GP to be fixed, expecting them to fix us up so we can get out there again and do it all over again. This is insane, no wonder our medical systems are collapsing, and we’re putting those who work in it and ourselves in an impossible possible … if I consistently do something to my body which harms me and expect a pill to deal with the symptoms so I can continue this, how can this ever work, and what is it that I might not be willing to address here … perhaps it’s that I need to look at how I live, and to begin to take care of my body and yes to get medical support when it’s needed, but doing it with my part addressed supports me and the medics, for the biggest thing that impacts us is how we live.
Absolutely. Handing ourselves over to be sorted out by others is not sustainable, and more so not even a true possibility, because no one can really choose for you…so we can mask it all with ideas that it is other people’s responsibility, but ultimately we’ll continue to have the same stuff come up over and over again until we own it.
I completely agree that we have to take our idea or perception of medicine beyond just doctors in surgeries and hospitals and actually understand that we can be living medicine and healing every day in our own homes in addition to the already superb medical care that we have in many societies.
Even though we may have neglected our bodies and it may be telling us through sickness, this does not change that there is something within us that is still connected to joy and to understanding. This is an authority that we can step into life and know we are choosing now to take more care of ourselves and to create more space within us to accept more of ourselves.
We do not look after ourselves as well we could, there is this idea that we are sick and we go to get fixed by the GP. We do need to take more responsibility for ourselves, we know our bodies better than anyone else. I still make full use of the NHS, as I need it, but I make it a point of attention that I look after myself and my body as much as I can first.
We have indeed put an emphasis on education and as such have constructed a society where status is based on one’s professional attainment and where we have given our power away for doctors to fix us. But as you have exposed, having lived in our bodies and being the master of our choices we have an innate wisdom that should not be placed aside… and should we choose to take responsibility for the steps we have taken to develop the disharmony in our bodies, together with medical knowledge and expertise, we can truly and holistically heal our ailments.
I love this blog, I am a huge fan of this approach when it comes to Doctors, I have always try to do my part when it comes to seeking medical advice. Sometimes I even do a few things that I know the Doctor may ask me to do leading up the appointment, in case I can solve the problem myself. I also make sure that I never ingest poison, such as alcohol/drugs, I avoid caffeine, Guarana, sugar and other stimulants that have the possibility of making the Doctor’s job harder. Water is my drink of choice and I can say proudly that that is largely due to my involvement with Universal Medicine. I also seek regular Pap smears, breast checks, blood tests, massages, Chakra-puncture and counselling appointments to ensure my body is not holding onto the stress unnecessarily and that I have a foundation of true vitality.
Imagine what the health care system would look like if all patients came with this level of responsibility? Perhaps the media needs to jump on board and support an organisation that is inspiring tax payers and everyday community members to come to Western Medicine in a way that does not drain the system? Now that seems like an important message to spread.
Just a point that we may well be in better health and living with more vitality than many doctors – something to appreciate before we (potentially) give our power away at the next checkup.
To truly take back responsibility and care for our bodies is gold. What an amazing opportunity we have to not look at doctors as those who fix us but use them as part of the whole. The fact is that as soon as we give our power away to doctors, we are no longer in control or taking responsibility for our bodies. It is up to us to change the state of the healthcare system.
” Are we truly taking care of ourselves? The answer has to be ‘no’ because of the state of our health as a society. Yet we continue to live in a way that results in more complex medical conditions..” So true Lee. We continue to live recklessly, and expect the GP to fix us – an impossible task that is leading to bankruptcy in the health systems of the world. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has been an epithet around for years, but we as a society don’t live this way. Enjoying the comfort of fast foods, sugar laden drinks, alcohol and drugs all hide a deeper malaise within society. What does it take to wake us up? Does cancer have to rise to one in two before this is so?
This is such a great call for us all to step up and take on the responsibility we all in fact have, to reflect on openly and honestly the way we are living, the emotions we allow to run us through the hurts we are burying or avoiding to address, for ourselves first and then as a family. Who know us and our behaviours better than our families? How empowering would it be if we began to live in a way that focuses on bringing this openness, honesty and a willingness to heal to the table, so that we express to each other the truth we see and feel of the ill-momentums we get caught in, allowing us greater awareness of the loving and honoring choices we can make thereafter.
This is where self-responsibility and the willingness to be an equal partner in the health equation come into play; the GP has the knowledge and experience and we have the everyday lived science of our body.
What you have expressed here Lee is simple, true and wise, thank you. Our purpose and our challenge is certainly to heal ourselves and to live from the loving essence that we so truely are, thus evolving ourselves and others;
“To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet”.
If we can nurture our authority and bring it to every situation in life we would be supporting ourselves enormously.
Our GP has a key role in the community including being a point of contact for onward referral. When we see our responsibility to our own health, our relationship with our GP can change from ‘fix me’ to ‘support me.’
Yes, when I went to see my doctor (GP) recently I decided to go early, (about 15mins) before surgery started and was surprised to see that despite the drizzle of rain that morning there was a long queue waiting outside the doors, waiting to be let in. Apparently it is always like this now. There is extra staff in the surgery and yet the numbers of people coming outweigh those there to serve them. The National Health Service is being crippled by claims brought up against it. We do need to take the responsibility of our own care more firmly in our own hands and in so doing support the National Health Service to carry out it’s job less encumbered and potentially more enlightened.
I loved this question Lee, ‘Are we truly taking care of ourselves? The answer has to be ‘no’ because of the state of our health as a society.’ This is really highlighted by the strain on the health systems, when we don’t take any responsibility for ourselves and we expect the health system to fix us up and send us home.
It seems like we have our Inner practitioner, our Universal Medicine practitioner and our General practitioner, (our doctor) and the combination of the three allows us great healing from all angles.
The inner General Practitioner can provide much wisdom and is an important part of self-care and an overall approach to health.
‘How interesting is it then, that when we know truly what is and what is not good for our bodies and our health, we continue to live in a way that does not support a true state of health?’ Great question here Lee, all we need to do is to change some of our choices making them more about lovingly supporting ourselves and take responsibility for the choices we make.
‘How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies? Do we allow ourselves to truly express all that we know about ourselves in that moment or do we hold back because we ‘don’t know’ as much as the highly qualified man or woman sitting in front of us?’ A beautiful question about our dependency on others when it comes to our own bodies dismissing the wisdom that is in us all equally.
‘We can build a different relationship with health within our family and friend groups.’ And we can do this by reflecting through our livingness that there is a way to live that is deeply nurturing and caring of our bodies
The Family Doctor is a role that is pivotal to society. Society depends on it so much, and yet as individuals we can all choose to “participate in our own rescue” by making self-care part of our day.
I love what you share, that the patients “their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health.” other meaning the GP Doctor. Truth is without our own connection and knowing of our body, no true healing can take place. It is when we connect to our body we allow the healing to commence.
I can see how a new model within families that deal with health could start simply with sitting down to eat together at dinner and sharing how each person day went. It is very healing to feel listened to even if no solutions are given. We pay a lot of money to therapist to do this for us. Why not do this within our own families? Great blog Lee.
“Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.” I love this. We are our own first line of support. Why is it we look outside ourselves first – for a quick fix? – when feeling into our lifestyle choices could be a good place to start to heal our ills.
How amazing life would be if we all came to understand that “we all have our own inner General Practitioner”, that the way we live is our medicine and that our homes are our first line medical clinic. Yes, we can all be our own “family doctor” but at the same time accepting that there will be moments that we will need to take our care to the next level and utilise the wonderful support of the available medical services.
I like the sound of that Ingrid – it feels like taking more responsibility for our own health instead of just leaving it to the GP, and so much more supportive.
It was not until I became aware of the huge support that Esoteric Medicine and the Esoteric modalities provided that I was able to hold myself in equalness with my GP. I had always been bombarded with the images and beliefs that the doctor would have the answer, would know what was the best point of call and would support me in the steps to take care of myself when recovering from an illness or disease. Yes I was given the Western Medicine support with medication and testing but the missing ingredient was why I allowed this condition to surface in the first place. That came from developing a deeper connection with myself and the choices I was making. I had to become the ‘body doctor’ first in order to get the treatment support my GP provided. What is great to appreciate now is that my relationship with my GP is about what our two halves bring to create the whole understanding. No longer treating the symptom but understanding the root cause.
At the moment there is this inequality when we visit our GP’s but what if we were to take more responsibility for our everyday well-being, wouldn’t it change the relationship we have with them and give them the space to talk to us freely about the workings of the body without having to hold back.
Great call Lee for equality in our relationships, medical and otherwise and with that, the necessary responsibility of looking at the part that we have played in e.g. our dis-ease rather than taking our bodies to a ‘professional’ to be fixed. It makes so much sense that we are the experts on our own bodies but we sometimes need the support of others to heal, along with the willingness to look at how we have got to this point of un-wellness.
It is very true Lee that our health starts and ends with ourselves and that we cannot expect another to fix it. The family doctor has been of immense support and service to countless families and still is. I would still love the doctor to visit me at home if I were to ever become too sick to drive to the clinic.. Yet, as you say, having a family doctor can sometimes mean that we do not take responsibility for our own health – we can trash our body and then expect the doctor to fix it: ‘We have essentially made the role of the GP the first line of support – we take along our ailing bodies and ask for help. The appointments are often short, there is often a wait, and the GP may or may not be having a good or bad day; how they look after themselves in their important role of looking after other people is a key component to this particular element.’ To impart true healing the doctor too needs to be living in a caring loving way, not telling patients to stop drinking for example, when they, the doctor, drinks too.
I love what Liane shares in a comment above, ‘Our love lived is the greatest form of medicine. That’s why God bottled it and put it in our bodies, so that we would forever have the true elixir to life available on tap within’. Wow, gorgeous. How we move in every second matters, and either harms or heals.
The way we live and truly love ourselves and others, caring for our bodies, is certainly the way to go Lee! It is the greatest medicine on earth. All other medicine is a support and aid, and ‘patch-it-up’ commodity. But I have to say the old family GP who came to one’s house if you had measles or chicken pox, was one of the loveliest traditions. That way anyone contagious did not sit in a waiting room spreading it around, and a really ill person could stay in bed instead of dragging themselves to a surgery. We had a beautiful family doctor who used to ask me how my favourite teddy bear was doing. I really loved him. I wouldn’t throw that away, just simply add the true medicine of The Living Way into our lives!
“Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.” Great point Lee, this allows the GP and the patient to clearly see the problem and not be distracted by the effects of living in disregard.
‘How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies? ‘ – this is a great question to ask and should be a question on medical forms! The truth is our bodies are constantly communicating to us about where we are at – but we have a choice to override this with someone else’s advice, or to honour what we feel.
Our love lived is the greatest form of medicine. That’s why God bottled it and put it in our bodies, so that we would forever have the true elixir to life available on tap within. How important then is it to truly understand that there is not an ounce of emotion or self in such beholding love? If we are to truly heal ourselves and arrest our wayward ways that are impacting our bodies and the earth they walk upon, then we need to pay attention to the way we move about this planet and through our lives, be it in our homes or ‘out in the world’, there is no difference. Every move matters because it either expresses all that we are and thus has a healing effect on EVERYTHING or, it expresses all that we are not and therefore can only cause harm to all that moves alongside us in this great sphere of life we live within.
This blog is brilliant Lee – you have touched on something that most of us have (or have had) in common – so readily giving our power away to others who we perceive to be more knowledgeable than ourselves. This is not restricted to but is very evident in how we usually go ‘cap in hand’ when visiting a medical professional.
We have certainly moved away from being responsible for the choices we make and well-being of our bodies, to the point that as a society varying degree of illness and disease are now accepted as normal. This doesn’t make sense as we are and deserve to live so much more than this, and our bodies are clearly calling us to pay attention. We are the ones who know our bodies best, if we are willing to be aware of what our bodies are telling us. When we develop a loving and caring relationship with ourselves and our bodies, we then begin to develop a loving and honouring relationship with our health through which we are more and more aware if the choices we are making support this relationship. As a community of family, friends, GP and specialists we can support each other to heal, so together we can reclaim our true health and live with the vitality that we all deserve and are born to live.
I think that what Doctors have to learn at Medical school and take into their practice is remarkable, but I am aware that within part of this huge learning is often quite big gaps in know how, particularly in regard to diet, exercise and lifestyle. This is not a criticism of medicine or the system but more an important understanding, that when we take our bodies to a Doctor, we should do so with a level of interest in our own lifestyle needs for health and wellbeing. Medicine can sometimes cure a condition through drugs or surgery, but it requires healthy living to maintain the fix, correct the ill way of living that brought the condition to the surface for repair. There should never be a reliance on another to keep us well, we have to bring our own wisdom out in regards to health through the simple realisation that our bodies do know what is good for us.
Living this way, of being my own GP, for a few years now, whenever I go to the GP, I know I take with me a really responsible body. Whilst I don’t have all the answers, well my body probably does! I do know that when I go it needs some medical support or some more investigation that I am able to offer it. Asking for support is medicine in itself.
Self-care is the foundation for health and is so true to say that “we all have our own inner “General Practitioner”.
just starting to understand the interaction of responsibility and consequence can be the start of self-awareness that leads to self care, bringing us back to taking responsibility for our own well-being
No more pertinent time than this to offer this observation on our public health systems around the world “a system that has been essentially supporting us to get on and function – the same system as portrayed by the family GP of old that we have given our power away to and expect to fix us and ready us for the next thing to do.” There needs to be both a change in the way we view our own health and illness and our willingness to take responsibility for the choices we make moment to moment. That health is an ongoing state and not one that needs fixing at the end point of physical breakdown.
Taking equal responsibility for our well being will certainly change our relationship with medical practitioners and rates of illness and disease will reflect that.
‘ taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it ‘ Absolutely Lee the new way, to bring a body of love and responsibility to Western Medicine for support for back to health, this would greatly change the pressure on the medical systems.
This is indeed the new era… Knowing ourselves intimately and taking responsibility for our well-being and then in this way, working with the health care system.
This is the way we lived in the past, healing, helping and supporting each other. We have begun to do it again with the healing modalities taught by Universal Medicine. I love how you bring attention to the equality of us all, whether we are the patient or the doctor. Great blog Lee Green. Everyone needs to read this and start to take more responsibility for health. This could be a great newspaper or magazine article.
Lee thank you for sharing this truth with us. I know I have in the past put the Doctor or whoever I feel knows more than myself as the expert, and deferred to them. We as the owner and user of our own bodies surely know more than anyone else on the subject of our own health. This does give that responsibility back to ourselves to look after and nurture our own bodies in co operation with the Medical Profession when we are ill.
Coming back to this blog I would say that putting people on a pedestal or sitting on a ‘high horse’ looking down at others happens in every area of life, I work in a supermarket and there are times I see both playing out, the customer not knowing where to go and the staff expecting the customer to know or treating them as less because they don’t know. None of us can know it all so why do we apologise for something that is not true in the first place? The customer may not know where the pasta is but I may not know how to do their job either but the fact that we are both together means we can cover more of life than we can by ourselves.
I feel within society there are the people that look to alternative health to ‘fix’ or ‘heal’ an ailment, dis-ease or illness, people who deny or ignore health issues not wanting to see or address them, and people that as you say want another person (doctor) to ‘fix’ them, but we never seem to truly deeply get to the root causes of all ailments, diseases and illnesses because they are still here .. and increasing. It doesn’t need a ‘genius’ to see that how we are living is not working. As you, I am ‘forever inspired and deeply appreciative of the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.’ Who light the path of a true way of living, one that works with energy first and foremost. From this people HAVE truly turned their health, well-being and vitality completely around.
What I’m seeing a lot of is how not taking responsibility for one’s health and mental health is running in families and giving rise to anxiety and mental health issues in children and young people to the extent they are struggling to attend school because they do not have a routine that supports them – they play lots of video games, go to bed really late, eat unhealthily and do not exercise.
It’s always refreshing when doctors and children/adolescent mental health workers recognise and express to families that changing the lifestyle habits will go a long way to addressing the issues. So often people want support services to help – fix the problem that actually only they can change. I can appreciate this reluctance but am now appreciating responsibility brings such completeness and confidence that it’s beautiful.
It does seem as though we have exulted the GP into a higher status because they are more knowledgable about the human body, but at the same time we seem to be forgetting that we are living with our bodies 24/7. Taking the symptoms to the GP and leaving out the cause within our discussion only gives us a bandaid effect at best – until the next time.
What you present here is what we innately are here to do, to support and heal each other in whatever way needed. To be responsible for our own health and choose to take this responsibility to the GP, to truly work together on what we can truly heal to the core of the condition for ourself.
Educational statuses reduces the potential of what can be produced, due to hidden constraints that not all are equal. I have experienced in every corporate position I’ve worked in that as the hierarchy increases in different positions, so to does the disconnection to what individuals and teams are potentially capable of.
I love this absolute truth Lee “ with education, we place more status on the person”. I have experienced training groups of people of late and when the whole class is met for who they are equal to the teacher, and each other, no matter the skill set, the class together connected can raise the intelligence of everyone with the feeling of individually more confident. When we act as One instead of individuals learning it is always more enjoyable and easier to resolve and complete what is there to teach, know and remember with the teacher learning from the students as well.
Why is it that when it comes to our teeth, many of us generally take more responsibility than we do with other aspects of our health? We visit the dentist regularly for check ups, clean our teeth every day – and perhaps we floss and use those little interdental brushes too. We don’t just wait for something to go wrong and then go to get it sorted out. We have a rhythm that supports the wellbeing of our teeth. Perhaps it is because we know the pain of toothache, or going under the drill and will do whatever is needed to avoid that pain? Whatever the reason, it seems to me we have it more right with this approach to health – a proactive, responsible model of self-care, than we do with many other health issues. Perhaps the dentist is our role model in pro-active health care showing us the way forward.
Whenever we put another on a pedestal, we create an imbalance of inequality and negate either our innate knowingness or theirs. I often feel tension in such situations because the pull of equalness with others is very strong. What is shared here in this blog makes perfect sense to me – that we work in collaboration and from an equal foundation with our GP’s – taking the awareness of our own bodies to them, expressing the same and seeking their advice.
Have we as a society created systems that allow us to deny our responsibility – because we have allocated responsibility to others for the purpose? As well as the example given here regarding our health, do we expect the Police to take sole responsibility for crime, Social Services for our vulnerable and elderly and perhaps the local council for other things? Surely the original intention of a health service was for professionals to work with responsible beings, not take responsibility for us. Just as we cannot ignore the growing numbers of elderly and just expect Social Services to pick up the pieces. These things have to be everyone’s responsibility working with those who have chosen to be Social Workers, Doctors or Policemen and women.
It is quite something to sit across from a doctor in his surgery and hold myself as an equal, offer information I feel is important and have it received as important. I have found (in 15 years of nursing) many doctors to be very open and respectful of people when they are open and respectful of themselves. Lee you open up a much needed way forward in medicine based on personal responsibility.
This is great article and one that doctors I am sure would welcome if it inspires more people to take responsibility for their own health as they must also feel the pressure of having the neediness of others wanting to be fixed.
It is such great timing returning to your blog today Lee as I had a visit to the doctor, and on the way there I realised that there was still a little part of me placing her above me on account of her perceived knowledge. Yes she, and all doctors, have learned a great deal during their training and then in the practice as a family doctor (in this case), but nobody knows my body like I know my body and this is how I approached the appointment today and wow, what a different experience it was. I felt that I had finally claimed my body as mine and spoke from that place of connection and inner knowing; a very powerful experience.
The days of having the doctor fix us so we can carry on has been transformed. It is a bit like the old well to do family days… you need private health care today to see a doctor quickly. The demands of medical assistance and the pressure it is causing makes the store supermarket our next option to keep us running along coupled with the greatest source of medical information ever and always available 24/7 the internet. All of this madness we are creating for ourselves, to support our ill choices so we can continue our race to the cliff.
The dollars or pounds are always a factor – and it seems odd doesn’t it that if we were a family pet we would not hesitate in spending money to ensure survival, longevity. Why do we question our own bodies? Why indeed is it even a thought that a medical treatment is too costly? Belies and exposes the fact that the body is not seen, treated and honoured as the preciousness it truly is.
This is a great point Lee and I have often observed how well fed a pet can be, the best food and trips to the dog groomer and yet the owner doesn’t care for themselves in the same way. I used to do something similar. I had a horse, and all my money would go on the horse and I wouldn’t have any for me. In my case, it was because I didn’t feel I was worth spending the money on. That has all changed these days, I sold the horse and I invest in me and I love it.
It just goes to show how often we are encouraged to turn a blind eye. I have had similar experiences and told to not worry about things yet I really believe that the slightest thing that is not quite right in our body is a warning sign, or a way for our body to communicate that something needs attending to, a way that we are living needs addressing.
This is such simple medicine, I love it too Sally.
Wow Gill, it is so clear from reading your comment what true care is, or in this case what it is not. Of course it does not make sense to run a marathon when not well. But we have been sold a picture that if we get on with things we are tough and strong and it will all be okay. Time for us to start changing pictures of what true health is.
We in our family had no GP, but that doesn’t matter because when I read your awesome blog Lee – I immediately had all the TV family doctors in my mind, and I was a bit shocked about the fact – that I was not aware of it. I have to admit that I really love it if I choose to be also an expert – an expert in what is going on in my body – to meet the GP who is the other expert who has the skills and knowledge. Together we are unbeatable.
One without the other really doesn’t work. How and why would we expect a GP to know how we feel inside our body. He can only come with knowledge, where as we can come with the experience and the feeling of what is actually going on.
Exactly Rosie yet we as a society have taken up this position of ‘another knows best’. Code for I want to take no responsibility.
Totally…. I had nothing to do with getting myself into this situation and I want you to fix it so that I can carry on just as I was before. What an illusion we can get ourselves into! I know it well as I have been there and had these thoughts.
Most recently in Perth WA there has been a media review on a large hospital ‘one year old’ that the doctors have all come out and said is a disaster due to lack of funding and clear and decisive management. I observed this and within all of the noise and drama I could feel that no-one wants to take responsibility for the collective contribution every element makes to running a huge institution like a hospital. Not even the patients get called to account on responsibility – they will forever flood through the door and they will continue to do so. Yet none asks for support at this level for the game is ‘fixer and need to be fixed’.
The fact that illness and disease is rising and the medical system as it currently stands is struggling to stand, highlights that placing responsibility solely at their feet is not working. By being our own practitioner we then can support others and that is what the Esoteric Modalities have taught in every course I have been in, that we all heal ourselves. We can get support but healing our ailments and issues is far greater, grander and sustainable when we take up our role in addressing what is at our own feet by our own hand. Yet without the support of others often we can go off track and not heal, so really the idea of individuality doesn’t work. We are not separate from others.
Yes I can relate to what you have said here Gill. I too am becoming increasingly aware of when I go into knowledge, especially when I feel a person wants to know more and is asking questions. I am also learning to feel when to stop speaking and not to react when they have reacted to something I have said. There is so much going on when we are in the company of another.
“Has there been too much emphasis placed on education and, in that, an assumed status of the person above others?” I was brought up to look up to those who were regarded as well educated and this had a huge impact on me as I grew up, especially when I was in the company of what I thought were intelligent people. The job title would be enough for me to shrink and contract. I am very pleased to say this is changing, all thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, who are supporting me enormously to speak up and not hold myself back in any way, shape or form.
I know that too Caroline, that the importance of someone’s job title or education does makes me feel less or more, and in fact this is ridiculous as when I observe objectively, they are just the same as me, with the same struggles and uncertainties in life as I have. This takes away completely any held belief that we are different to each other because of our job title or education, but confirms in fact we are all equal human beings.
This is a well trodden deliberate method of dividing and separating people based on the ‘doing’ of their job, the education they received etc. It reminds me of the ‘streams’ that we would be put into at school from early on – A, B and C and how even that process on many levels starts to develop an inequality in all.
‘Interestingly, as illness and disease climb through the roof, the pressure on our worldwide medical systems is such that they veer closer to collapse’ I caught a brief snippet from the news today regarding just how overworked NHS doctors are currently and suggesting that they are almost at breaking point – the warning signs have been there for so long – why do we let things go so far before we’ll do anything to change?
Very true Michael. I was only in the company of a woman yesterday who said she was asthmatic. She had a couple of horses and noticed how her asthma would get worse when she was around them. She also said how she wouldn’t give up her horses because her asthma wasn’t that bad. But this is no different to me when I sometimes rush in the mornings getting the children ready for school. I know it is abuse but I still do it!
It is amazing how we will override what we know and can feel from our bodies. When out walking one morning a few weeks ago I experienced the opposite. I had focused on feeling and connecting to my body. I felt very connected and the rhythm was gorgeous, my body was 100% in charge. As a I neared the flats where we live I saw my partner returning home in her car. I wanted to catch up to her before she went through the gates and I tried to pick up pace and considered jogging but the moment I did my body pulled me back an I stayed in my own rhythm. It was so easy to accept this as I could feel how the flow and grace I was in would not be possible if I changed my movements at that time. My body knew best.
It is amazing what we will do and keep on doing ignoring what we know and feel from our bodies. The cycle keeps on going round and round until the time comes when we make a choice to say ‘No, that’s enough.’ Listening and responding to my body as Michael did so beautifully when his partner came home is key. I am also learning to not allow the needs of another (eg. my children wanting to play until the last moment before catching the bus for school) to get in the way of honouring me in that moment because every time I disregard myself I know I will have to pay for it.
Caroline so astute this observation is – for the abuse is the same – and isn’t it any wonder then that our next generations grow up with then same ‘inbuilt’ inability to make a choice. Your awareness struck a chord with me this morning, for it is often the big things we are on guard against – yet rushing has been so prevalent in my life how is it possible that I can ‘think’ that it is okay and not in any way a part or contributor of the ill health my body gets affected with from time to time. Each and every component of life makes up our choices and I appreciate you bringing this very clearly to the fore.
I loved reading this Caroline as I used to be asthmatic and say I would never give up my horses. I would use anti histamines and still suffer a lot until one day I chose me first. I decided that I was more important and that in truth I had a horse addiction. I wrote a blog about it. https://truthaboutsergebenhayon.com/2013/08/26/overcoming-my-horse-addiction/ and today it is awesome to stop and appreciate the choices I made. I no longer have asthma, haven’t used a ventolin for at least 5 years and don’t carry one with me anymore which was not heard of in the past.
I also love how you have pointed out how it is no different to other ways in which we abuse ourselves. When we start to get really honest, there are many ways in which we are self abusive, some very subtle yet damaging.
Michael I totally agree – the news is never without a story on the plight of the medical systems. When will we stop and deeply assess what we can do to change all of this?
I fear only when we start to see the collapse of such systems through the many problems they face will governments and authorities truly become open to the possibility that there is more to consider than they will currently allow. It’s amazing that in the face of this there are a growing number of people living with true regard of themselves and reversing so many of the trends which are crippling such health systems.
Great question Michael, why do we let things get to breaking point before we change? Perhaps we have to ask, why don’t we want to change?
Is it because so many have not realised or wanted to take responsibility for the fact that every thing we do has an effect on everything, therefore we are responsible for everything but are also able to change everything.
Great question Michael, why do we let things get to breaking point before we change? Perhaps we have to ask, why don’t we want to change?
Very true Shirley-Ann, irresponsibility to the point that we have begun to blame the health services for not being able to make us better, or being able to keep up with the amount of illness and disease they are expected to treat. It is all of our choices collectively which have created this problem and only a change in this will reverse the overall trends within society. This is easily possible with simple self-caring choices made in regard of what truly supports us to be healthy.
Lee hi, its brilliant what you bring up here about the inequality within the patient /General Practitioner relationship – I have found that since attending the work of Universal Medicine and becoming more aware of my body and its messages, that when I do visit the doctor – despite not feeling well – I walk away feeling really inspired. For my GP can offer the parts of the jigsaw that I do not have & together we can form a clear picture of what is going on in the body and how best to rebuild it. I walk away feeling empowered & full of appreciation for this all-important relationship.
Hi Lucinda, I have had that experience too as – it’s like my relationship with health care practitioners have evolved as I have.
It is so empowering to ourselves, and as how I feel it, a blessing for the GP as well, when we visit our GP with taking the full responsibility for our own wellbeing, instead of making it the responsibility of our GP instead.
Nico I have noticed that due to the changes I have made with my lifestyle by listening to the support of my GP in hand with various esoteric modalities has resulted in remarkable changes to my health. I have inspired my GP with the lengths I continue to work on bringing quality care to my body.
Great blog Lee and I could feel as I read it that I have certainly put people in certain professions ‘above me’ but also I have the awareness that I have been quite happy at times to ‘be less’ because then I can remain the victim and not take responsibility. Changing this behaviour has been empowering and i’m deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting a true way to live.
Yes I can feel that I have done the same Shelley. Because someone has had more knowledge than I may have or made myself less as a result. Changing this behaviour within me, I can hands down attribute to the amazing reflection of Serge Benhayon and teachings of the ageless wisdom, along with amazing support from many Universal Medicine practitioners.
I have done the same too Shelly and Reagan, but to add to that I have also used that difference in education to feel myself more, which is in fact no different to the other way round and ridiculous are well.
Brilliant point Shelley and it is this disempowering ‘victim’ position that has ultimately undone the way that each and everyone of us can heal with the true support of others. Having the awareness that being less is a choice is key because ultimately us choosing that automatically alters the true balance.
Love your honesty Shelley, easy to blame others for acting superior but as you say, we allow it if we do not want to take responsibility for ourselves and our choices. We all have a part to play and ultimately all our choices are our own and no one else can be blamed. We can try but that leads no where accept to frustration and bitterness.
This is an honest sharing Gill. The responsibility of a health practitioner modelling self care is paramount for others to see. If they are not a marker then where is the point of loving reflection for us all?
Recently I went to a doctor’s appointment and felt acutely that the doctor was telling me what I should and should not do without truly giving me the choice to feel into my options. In the end I chose for myself what felt honoring at that moment in consideration of all the options available. This process allowed me the awareness of how my choices and patterns affected my body, and even though the medical treatment I chose ended up to be the same as what the physician suggested, the feeling was totally different — for if I only opted for what was being given without feeling deeper and understanding why, it would feel disempowering.
It is so empowering when we feel what is true to ourselves no matter what is presented to us. I too have felt very uncomfortable in the company of a controlling and ‘I’m in charge’ doctor. On reflection I recognised that there were others factors at play that had nothing to do with what was actually being presented. I am finding that the more I get to know myself, the more I can remain steady when situations like this occur.
I have observed in my own GP ‘ an officiousness’ – efficiency with a modicum of care, held firmly at arm’s length. This is a new GP for me in a new area and so I am going to commit to being as open as I can with him in each visit and see how this all changes. Interestingly each person we meet gives us an opportunity to learn a new something that we need or will benefit from. So very simple really.
We are all equal and some have more knowledge on certain subjects than others. So simple when it is put like this.
Exactly Sarah, because of our lack of self-love we have made it something completely different and related it very personal, but in fact it is just as simple as you say, “We are all equal and some have more knowledge on certain subjects than others”. And because of that we have to learn in our way of returning to soul to live together as one, and in that we will help each other with all the knowledge we collectively have.
Where I live, there isn’t a system to register with a GP. Most seem to just go to a local specialist when there is a problem and end up with a long list of doctors/surgeries they go to, and I certainly do. What esoteric medicine offers supports me immensely to take more responsibility in the way I live and my own well being to make the best use of, and appreciate what is available.
In reading this today Lee I was taken aback by just how much in the past I’d put those with what I felt were greater, learned skills than my own on a pedestal (not just GP’s). No wonder I chose to clam up or hold back in conversation and not always express myself clearly. Not helpful when in a doctor’s surgery. This has so changed since it has become clear that ‘we all’ as equals have amazing skills that we can bring/offer and to place more status on another so ‘skew our views’ in life. Now walking into that surgery I take all of me – what a difference.
Marion it is ever present isn’t it – that perceived ‘better than less than’ dynamic is happening in every facet of life. The key to this I am discovering is completely surrendering to the fact that I am enough.
Lee what stuck out for me having a read of your blog this morning was the like “how we walk into the surgery ourselves.” For most of my life this sentence would not have made sense, I would be going to the doctor because I had something wrong that I wanted it fixing. Illness just happened it was bad luck, or so I wanted to think at the time. Today and as you’ve shared here the way to approach medicine has changed back to the simplicity of being honest with what my part in the illness has been. This means a very different relationship with the family doctor than I had before.
Yes David, this line stuck out for me too. The number of times I have walked into the surgery feeling sorry for myself with an expectation that the doctor would fix me to find today that all along I had been giving my power away thinking that the GP had all the answers and it was just one of those things. Walking into the surgery today, I know that what ever it is I am walking in with I have created it and fundamenatly it is my responsibility and not the doctors to look at my ailment and address how I have been living.
Love this Sally – this is true education for all comes from the body in truth.
How true Sally, and the only way to go.
Love what you say here Lee, responsibility starts with us loving and supporting ourselves – ‘Although there will always be a need for General Practitioners and medical specialists, it becomes apparent that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner” and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.’
I love this too Jenny, this is our way forward out of the current mess our world is in: ‘and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.’ Awesome….!
If we went to the doctor for support, by support I mean just this i.e. we are living in a harmonious way for our bodies, so our doctor is simply a support rather than relied upon to be the answer without taking the personal step of living responsibly. We abuse the healthcare system and more importantly our bodies when we go to the doctors without any intention to live/do our part in the way we live.
The way we live in every single moment affects our health. We have to take responsibility for our health and well-being if we truly want to be healthy. It is important to connect with our bodies, listen to them, and make lifestyle choices accordingly.
From attending presentations by Serge Benhayon I have taken responsibility for my well-being in a deeper way. A great relationship has been built with my GP and Medical Staff in the local hospital where my husband has been in and out for the past 10 months. With no barriers of deference, defence or inequality, the response from Consultants etc has been of a very different quality, which both parties have enjoyed.
“Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it”.
“There is no fix needed when the batteries have run down”: a seemingly simple sentence but one that is bursting with common sense and says so much. When our “batteries” are depleted it is the way we are living that must be examined first, with total honesty; what we eat; how we sleep; how we work; how we move; how we communicate / express to others etc, and with this honest and in-depth perusal we will be able to identify what is behind our exhaustion. There is no fix needed as you say Lee, but self responsibility, for it is the way we live that is our true medicine, and along with the marvels of modern medicine and the wisdom of Esoteric Healing we have all that we need to charge those run down batteries.
“To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.” It is our opportunity in this life to heal the momentum of our past and in doing so, be a reflection to others to do the same. The more we heal ourselves the more others and the planet will start healing, only then together we will return back home to God.
Great blog Lee
A while ago my daughter wasn’t feeling well and I rang the doctor and the next available appointment was two weeks away and that wasn’t even with our preferred doctor. Doctors in some parts of the country are trying to turn away new patients because they can’t cope with patient volumes and if a doctor leaves a practice the whole thing breaks down and they can’t cope. Something has to change and it will out of necessity. Universal medicine is the answer to easing that burden by making us realise that we are all responsible for our own health and lifestyle choices.
Kevmchardy this is interesting and the same thing goes on in Australia, how is it possible that surgeries think that its okay to say no more patients. Images of people ill on our streets are not so far removed from the truth. We need an urgent change in how we view medical support – it has to start with us.
“Universal medicine is the answer to easing that burden by making us realize that we are all responsible for our own health and lifestyle choices”. This is an important point because as a society we need to ease the burden that is placed on the medical system. The more we take responsibility for ourselves the more the body responds.
I just watched an outstanding and very wise talk on the UniMed Living website with Professor William Foley and Serge Benhayon on our environment (definitely worth watching) saying that the changes in our environment are actually caused by us not dealing with our issues. So it is important and sensible that if we are unwell we see a doctor but also vitally important we take responsibility for our own health and how we are living.
I love this paragraph Lee because it is asking us to take back our responsibility for our health and healing and in this way we actually support our already overwhelmed health care system– “Although there will always be a need for General Practitioners and medical specialists, it becomes apparent that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner” and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of”.
True medicine does not start with the GP. It starts with us. IF we took this approach with medicine, it would change the immense pressure that we place on the medical profession to be the sole custodians of medicine, and indeed our health.
Absolutely agree Adam: We are responsible for our own medicine and if everyone began to understand and live this, not only would the state of our health naturally begin to improve, the massive weight that is currently on the medical system and all those wonderful people that work in it, would slowly begin to be lifted. What a different world we would live in!
What this blog highlights is our greater shirking of responsibility and even convenient hiding behind the fact that we know less about our bodies than our doctors do and that we cannot take a role in the healing process ourselves. This is simply not true and is a giving away of our power and truth to even say so. We all have a responsibility to uphold as western medicine should not have to bear the weight of our chosen lack of it.
So true Joshua, no wonder our healthcare systems globally are facing systemic breakdowns.
Exactly Brendan it is like we are raised to ignore the body that we inhabit and in some cases even hate the fact that it breaks down or needs support. Taking the time to care and love for ourselves allows a different perspective to be revealed and this can allow us to take that extra level of responsibility.
I would agree that having a doctor that you can feel comfortable bringing the whole family to is important. I like that family general doctors have a little experience in everything so they can help you out with common sickness problems. Thank you for sharing how convenient it is to choose a local family doctor to treat your family, when needed.
Lots of great points raised here Lee, especially your comment about the possibility of family supporting each other quite comprehensively with wholistic healing. The more that we can live our lives with great responsibility, the more we are supporting others and so the ripple effect goes on. This is true medicine and extremely powerful when combined with what Western medicine has to offer.
Taking the responsibility for how we live is such an important part of our commitment to life and all humanity and supporting each other helps all the professionals who are there to support us to do their job, lovingly so also. The first step is looking after ourselves and our own bodies by listening to it and living from this awareness. A great blog thank you.
a clear and comprehensive document that reveals again that what Universal Medicine is presenting to humanity is exactly what is needed to not just listen the pressure and stress of this pressure cooker society, but to go to the core of the dis-ease, and to reconfigure right from the heart.
Absolutely cjames2012. Universal Medicine is blazing a trail by inspiring us to take full responsibility for our lives, and you just have to read articles by people who have totally turned their lives around by choosing to live their lives responsibly to see that it is working. As Lee so eloquently says “What a support this would ultimately be for the current long-suffering medical systems. Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.”
Reconfirming here Sandra – Universal Medicine is literally ‘trailblazing’ the way to support our health and ultimately society’s state of being.
I love Lee how you raise the question of taking responsibility for our own care and engaging with the GP in this way. Rather than expecting them to fix us. We could also apply this to everything, how we look after our car, home etc.But so important to treat the body with respect and more than just something we want to function smoothly.
This is true Benkt – if we care to be honest with ourselves, our bodies are already telling us what is making us ill and what we need to adjust.
I can see how we all have a responsibility for our own health, and have found that when we start to honestly look at what is making us ill, that there are so many things that can be adjusted in life as most live it today. I have learned that listening to our bodies is the first line of medical support, as we know best what causes that what is happening.
Absolutely Benkt spot on.
We have over the last 50 years or so handed over our responsibility to the medical system and lost our own sense of what is going on in our body. Doctors are struggling to cope with the demands we put on them to cure us and make us feel better yet we are not taking responsibility for our own health and well-being
Before the advent of modern medicine, we were forced as a society to have a much more intimate relationship with our own health. The ramifications of not looking after ourselves were simply too dire. This is not to say we should not be grateful to all that modern medicine offers. Indeed we should be eternally grateful, but what we need to reclaim is the fact that true medicine relies as much upon the patients input as it does the doctor, and this is a truth that in time we have conveniently forgotten, choosing instead to place the responsibility for our health solely at the doorstep of modern medicine.
Doctors do an amazing job at handling the mass of dis-ease they are faced with each day, but how often do we turn to the doctor with a need to have them take care of everything we have created. Doctors are essentially at the end of the line when it comes to health, and we are at the beginning, making choices for the health and wellbeing of our bodies. So the responsibility always rests with us first.
Gill this a great point and reveals how much shame there is in just facing our choices and accepting that there is a consequence – which reveals deeply how much then true health is avoided. The reason could be that there is so much that we have all chosen to not be who we are, to deny true health and by this I mean responsibility, we have found a way to abdicate and not truly live this responsibility. If it is not lived it doesn’t exist and thus a constant choosing of disempowerment becomes preferential over the shame we then hide by distracting in another way, another unhealthy choice perhaps… It goes on and on and insidious as it is we are none the less ‘happy’ with the hook we can hang our health on for as long as is possible – another person dressed in a white lab coat who lives in exactly the same way…
Very well said Brendan, I totally agree. It’s a two way relationship. When we take responsibility for our own health and choose to live in a way that supports true health and vitality we are doing our part, therefore supporting our health system and others too.
Brilliant blog Lee. Working on building more awareness and a relationship with our body, we will effectively be able know our body’s condition health wise, physically and energetically. This equality you speak of between patients and GPs is rare. What you present, I see it as the true answer to our crumbling health system, to work together to support our health and our family’s health not just leaving it for the health system. It would be so empowering for us to take responsibility of our own health and well being to a level where we naturally know everything that is going on in our body. Having a strong relationship with our body we are more able to detect illness and disease if it ever occurs and with our own knowledge and the support of the doctors we are then empowered to make decisions from a deep knowing of what our body needs and not decisions made out of fear.
Wow that’s fascinating, I’m sure most people would feel quite challenged if a doctor asked them, ‘what do you expect from me?’
Yeah – what I like about such questions is it gives us the opportunity to honestly reflect on what is going on for us. If most of us are honest, when we are not feeling well we often desire a little sympathy or play a victim, amazing in the situations you describe with your doctor where no pandering takes place, you are asked to simply take responsibility for the choices that got you there, and for moving forward with true healing. It would be interesting to see how much faster that approach helps the healing of any illness!
Yeah absolutely – there’s no truth or responsibility in playing a victim, no matter what is wrong, or how ill you are. It’s so much more empowering to embrace your part in it and what got you to that point, and from there it’s so easy to know how to change things.
It’s not always easy to accept what we’ve done, but what a massive healing when we do finally embrace all of life in full, the good, the amazing, the bad and the ugly and know it’s simply all part of our learning.
Herald in the new way…. Yes indeed Lee, this is what is needed. But this ‘new way’ sounds very familiar and so deeply nourishing as we all eventually return to how we once lived: ‘ within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of’. Families living in this way provides such a strong loving foundations that truly support and hold each other within the family group….
And if we are returning to ways we have previously lived we can not claim this is impossible because we have already lived this reality community wide. So it’s simple there is no huge leap needed, it is already right there with us all.
Lee, I love this blog – we all need to be reminded how hugely important our daily choices and the way we look after ourselves are. ‘ There is a responsibility brought into the surgery and, as that is felt, the relationship between patient and the family doctor naturally returns to an equal footing.’ – This I am experiencing first hand with a GP who always approaches my health WITH me and not TO me.
Love this Eva – your distinction is so clear no one has power over another we all have parts to play in our understandings and explorations of the world, our relationships and our bodies – when we accept in full that we can support by being all we are in the face of physical breakdown and adjustment then magic happens.
Is it ironic or just creating first hand experience for young doctors that we ask them to work 70 plus hours a week so they can relate to the abusive life styles we are living and then we expect them to fix us?
You are advocating self responsibilty here – and I love it! You are absolutely correct, we take our ailing and failing bodies to our doctors and expect them to fix what we have broken through our continuous life choices. It’s very empowering to instead look after your body and know when it needs assistance. I’ve visited the doctor a few times recently and they are literally running up and down the corridor to collect their patients, and that’s in a small country practise! We all have a big responsibility and part to play in this, in terms of actually beginning to truly care for ourselves and our own health.
Meg well said – it is ultimately all of us who have chosen the medical system as it exists by abdicating responsibility. Your point about literally running around a practice left me with the image of mice in a lab running around being tested on and given this and that. Whos lab have we allowed ourselves to be in?
The medical systems can only do so much, essentially because they are run by people just like you and me. People with families, job pressures, personal journeys and lessons to live. So we can look to the systems to support us, but in this we are actually looking to people and asking them to care, which they do in many brilliant and deeply substantial ways.
Great point Shami the health care services that are available are only as good as the quality that the health care professionals live by and in themselves.
How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies? Do we allow ourselves to truly express all that we know about ourselves in that moment or do we hold back because we ‘don’t know’ as much as the highly qualified man or woman sitting in front of us?
Great question Lee – I know I have given my power away to doctors, believing that their knowledge of the physical body is greater than my opinion of what I think and feel about my body, so I hold back from expressing what I truly believe.
Time to definitely take my power back and see the relationship with my GP as a mutual sharing of information, and an opportunity to take more responsibility for my own health.
Feels very empowering, and less burdening on the health system.
I am blessed to have a GP that sees me as her equal, knows I know my body better than anyone, including her. Rather she simply aids me with the knowledge and education so I am able to support myself . I have been to many other doctors that have not had the same impression on me as my present GP.
It is so true ,Lee, that we constantly give our power to GPs as we perceive that they are more educated and know more about our bodies than we do. This is doing a great disservice to ourselves and to the GP as we do not reflect back to the GP the possibility of working in true partnership with him/her in healing our body. As soon as we get in the door we hand over our body to him/her -that must feel so burdensome for a GP and totally irresponsible on our part. Imagine how amazing we would all feel if we came in full responsibility of our health and body and were able to plan together how we would manage the particular health issue. GPs would not then be expected to “fix” everyone as it would be a shared responsibility . How gorgeous would that be!
I have experienced people expressing a mounting frustration with the inadequacy of their GP’s to fix their problems despite the increase in in resources, testing and knowledge. Could it be the missing link is our own connection to our bodies? I know that as I have developed a far greater awareness around my relationship with my body , I am able to better communicate my symptoms and issues to my GP and because I am taking responsibility and not abusing my body I am committed to my health.
And I have found when I approach any medical professional in this way the response the interaction and response is a positive one.
Nicole I have the same experience. Now that I am taking more responsibility for my body and health my relationships with doctors is much more equal. My experiences add to the body of knowledge they draw from, and they are more likely to share relevant personal health experiences.
Great comment Nicole. When we are attuned to our body in cases where we do have to visit our GP we are able to give more information and detail to them when we are sick so that they can easily and correctly diagnose the illness or disease, and this provides great support for both patient and GP. Working together is always more effective and supportive. We have the ability to deeply know everything about our body if we choose to connect to it, care and nurture it lovingly.
I feel you are spot on here Nicole, it is too easy to expect the GP or any health specialist to have the full ’answer’ to our health issues, as opposed to seeing the responsibility we have to stay connected to ourselves, honouring what our body is telling us and by that, work with the doctor. I know that in the past I have definitely been one to choose the easy way out myself.
Not many people approach their GPs the way you have done Nicole, no wonder our health care system has some of the highest suicide rates.
What you have brought up here Lee is so very important and sorely needed in the world. Not only can we begin to take true care of ourselves and actually listen to our own bodies, we have so much support in our families and friendships that we are just not ever utilising. Because we know each other so well and can read exactly what is going on for our loved ones, without letting emotion or sympathy getting in the way, we are the perfect counsellors, communicators and holders of the great wisdom that another needs to hear.
When we live in a way that is loving and in honour of ourselves we naturally honour another and thus bring no needs, expectations or impositions and judgements and these are the relationships that we need to build in our communities to help the burden on the medical system but to also start living the true and full family potential that is possible.
I am learning this also Cherise, “when we live in a way that is loving and in honour of ourselves we naturally honour another and thus bring no needs, expectations or impositions and judgements” and conversely if we live in a way that is abusing of ourselves, this is a form of abuse for everyone, which everyone also feels. So it makes it worthwhile to choose the honouring of oneself 🙂
This is a beautiful way to be and live Cherise, living in a way, ‘that is loving and in honour of ourselves we naturally honour another and thus bring no needs, expectations or impositions and judgements and these are the relationships that we need to build in our communities to help the burden on the medical system’. Imagine this way of living, being brought to all areas of our lives, our world would be one of far more love, joy and harmony.
Cherise, what you have called out here is so important and something that I feel has been lost in the ever increasing busyness that has become the norm in our society today. Which is, building a network around ourselves, family, friends, colleagues, who we can see as the ‘counsellors, communicators and holders of the great wisdom that another needs to hear’. I really feel that when we start to trust others and ourselves, it will help relieve some of the pressure on our medical people and bring some more responsibility back to us, where it belongs, getting ‘support’ from our medical fraternity, but not placing responsibility at their feet to manage on our behalf.
I agree Cherise, there is so much pressure on doctors and the medical system, it is up to us to take more responsibility for our own healing.
There is a huge consciousness in medicine about the doctor being the one who knows and who chooses what information is actually given to the client or patient. Often there is a censoring going in what you are actually being told, in case you can’t handle it. As far as I can see it is my right to know what is going on in my body and I would wish to understand as much as possible so I make an informed choice. So what I’m saying is it’s a two way street, not only do people give their power away to the doctor but the doctor(s) also often take the superior role of knowing what is ‘best’ for the patient/client. To work in collaboration needs a breaking down of consciousness by both sides.
This is very true what you share here Josephine, ‘ it’s a two way street, not only do people give their power away to the doctor but the doctor(s) also often take the superior role of knowing what is ‘best’ for the patient/client. To work in collaboration needs a breaking down of consciousness by both sides.’ Truth and understanding are paramount in all situations.
Indeed Lorraine, if we bring our knowing of what is happening to our body and engage actively with the GP’s knowledge, skills and experiences, I think we can truly honour our bodies and make informed decisions on how to treat our illnesses.
Yes Lorraine, both sides of that “two way street” are so very harming. Just imagine a consultation where both patient and doctor come together to work in union for what they both want, the healing of the patient.
when we approach our doctors with an awareness of our selves and our bodies, a willingness to take responsibility and an acknowledging of how we have contributed to our ill health, and are able to openly discuss our feelings whilst holding ourselves and the doctor on an equal basis, I feel more and more doctors will welcome this change and be open to exploring the patient/doctor relationship, and other ways of looking at the health/healing process.
This is so true Josephine.
The ‘doctor fix me’ attitude exists quite firmly in society. We are coming out of an era where the medical profession was the go to people so there is a hangover of this and it is still very prevalent today. This has really burdened doctors, but also people have given up on themselves because of this and what they can contribute to their own health, wellness and ultimate vitality.
I agree Matthew, and I feel both patient and doctors have a responsibility in how this dynamic plays out. We need to confirm in every situation the equalness of all, no one holding themselves lesser, passive, or disempowered, or holding a superior position – and with the patient taking full responsibility for their part in healing. Without equalness, no true way forward is possible.
Well said Matthew – ‘hangover’ is the right word. However this hangover will not disappear (like some hangovers seemingly do) unless we, each and every one of us, start to take responsibility for our own health and wellbeing by the choices we make on a day to day living.
Imagine taking responsibility for ourselves, the choices we make and the impact these have on our lives and health, so that when we go and see our GPs we are not expecting someone else to fix everything but asking for support with how our bodies have responded to the way we have lived. No giving away our responsibility, no blame and no victimhood. This would herald a huge turn around for our health care system’s well-being (as well as our own obviously!)
You make a great point Matilda, and taking responsibility for our health and being honest about our life choices, does not include judgement or self-criticism as this only adds to the destructive patterns of self-sabotage we run, and which create their own ill-conditions in the body. Let’s turn it around and make it about true support and true care, for ourselves, for everyone and for the health care system that supports us.
I can feel how im starting to do this Matilda, ‘when we go and see our GPs we are not expecting someone else to fix everything but asking for support with how our bodies have responded to the way we have lived.’ I no longer go to the doctor thinking that they are the ones that know everything, I have been twice recently and have felt the difference with these two times to previous visits, in that it has felt more like a support rather than me asking the doctor ‘fix me’, the doctor has answered my questions, used the equipment he has to make checks and i have left feeling empowered.
It would also be an interesting scenario if more GPs attended to people they see with less of an air of authority but more desire to place decisions in their patients hands. I would imagine a great many patients would get a shock, but it might be the best thing that could happen to them. It is far too easy to go submissively to our medical professionals, yet I can only see positive in the idea that we have to be much bigger players in our health decisions. Responsibility is key, it is never another persons job to make us well.
I was in the presence of a young female doctor the other day, in an accident and emergency unit. I observed how she related to and examined the person I was with. There was a lot of care, careful open questioning, listening, patience and eye contact. The person on the receiving end of this attention became more confident and relaxed as the communication continued. It was refreshing to find a kind and gentle doctor with patient care at the heart of her practice.
I love hearing or reading about things like this kehinde2012. There are some brilliant Doctors around.
I work with several such doctors who have the patient at heart, who fully connect with them and are so thorough and gentle, leaving nothing out in their assessment not only medically but in all aspects of their lives. It is so inspiring to me when I get the opportunity be present during their consultations and I can relax knowing that my patients are being heard and understood. These doctors are great in that they have a way of supporting the patient to know that they are in no way less than the doctor or nurse and they have an equal say about what they feel is right for them or not in their treatment.
Yes it is Jeannette, it’s wonderful for you to witness such doctors working and serving patients with all that they are and from their hearts. It is inspiring to be in the presence of doctors that truly care and hold the patient with such tenderness and love. And equally so to learn that this is not a one off. I met one yesterday, a locum GP. From the moment I saw him, I knew he was different: the way he introduced himself said ‘I’m here for you’ open, eye contact, walked with me to the consulting room, thoughtful, considered, respectful. No meds prescribed, but suggested I continue observing symptoms, keep a diary, and use treatments that had worked for me in the past. A clear direct honouring consultation and one that heals.
That is beautiful Kehinde, and as it should be.
I met a wonderfully caring surgeon when having a partial thyroidectomy, we developed a very equal and respectful relationship with each other through that experience together and it has continued through further medical contact we have had. She is open, honest, has time to listen and is always very interested in how I feel and why I make the choices I do. The last procedure I had I watched her with the other patients and her attention, care and eye contact never waivered at any time. Whether she knows it or not this wonderful woman heals not only the body but the whole person with her gentle tender caring.
‘this wonderful woman heals not only the body but the whole person with her gentle tender caring.’ Awesome Rosemary and confirms that whatever work we do we can bring to it the same qualities as this doctor has done.
Yes kehinde we can be healing ourselves and others in all that we do when living from the tender love we are.
Beautifully expressed Rosemary.
That’s so true kehinde, whatever we are doing throughout the day we have the ability to bring love and healing.
Wow beautiful to read this level of appreciation rosemarydunstan, particularly after reading the headlines yesterday which read that “customer satisfaction with the NHS is at an all time low”! It’s divine that once we begin to nurture and care for our own bodies, appreciation rises and flows abundantly for one and all.
This is a deeply inspiring blog and brings the true role of our doctor to light. When we choose to look after ourselves and listen to what our body is telling us, only then can true medicine and healing begin. Working hand in hand with our doctors within the time limits given, with a responsibility and respect for our bodies, really does make a difference in the world in many ways.
Absolutely Tricia, it is in working hand in hand with doctors that we can take responsibility for ourselves as well as take the very heavy burden that is weighing down on the medical system. The more we begin to respect our bodies and connect more with who we are, only then can things begin to change.
The GP and the Head Teacher are two roles that held a particular status for me – whenever I was in the presence of either I held myself as less and was slightly scared! Working with Universal Medicine has brought this disarray back into balance and my relationships with my GP and all the Head Teachers I encounter has changed beyond recognition. Collaboration and a two way support are now the foundation.
Yes that expected bowing to the higher intelligence has had me fooled for years and years. The truth is there is no higher intelligence than where we are all from equally so. This is key to letting ourselves off the hook and taking responsibility for what we choose next.
Indeed Lee – the only one true higher intelligence is Love.
Beautifully said Lee and Eva.
So true Lee, that by playing less we are simply deepening the path of irresponsibility.
Constantly pushing ourselves to be smaller is literally saying Yes to the irresponsibility that we live and then breathe by.
Now you say it Matilda it seems such a natural thing to do, to restore the balance of ‘collaboration and two way support’ in all these kinds of relationships. It’s interesting how easily we relinquish our responsibility when we think someone in a place of authority must know more than we do, yet we are all the same really, all exploring, learning and growing as we go through life. What a simple but powerful shift it is to realise this and to resume responsibility for ourselves, resume control of the rudder and ask for guidance and support on our journey as opposed to giving up and waiting to be told what to do.
I can relate to this Matilda, I learnt from a very young age that there were certain people who seemed to hold more importance than others, and that what they say goes sort of thing without questioning. Now thanks to the presentations of Universal Medicine and the changes I have made to my life, things have definitely changed in regards to how I speak to people and how I hold myself.
Universal Medicine has allowed me to take responsibility of my lifestyle choices and my health, well-being and relationships with others just keep getting better and better .
Absolutely Francisco, the ultimate truth lies in us taking responsibility for all our choices.
Well said Greg – I absolutely agree.
We can often be so willing to hand ourselves over, to lay any responsibility at someone else’s feet , and then we learn nothing about ourselves and how to live life in its fullest glory.
I second this Francisco, it is through the presentations of Universal Medicine, I was able to appreciate and understand how my choices of living each day were undermining every aspect of life, work, family, relationships, everything. And in gaining that awareness, I now have a greater freedom to choose a healthier, more harmonious way of living that truly supports me. And the benefits ripple out to every part of my life.
Yes Annie C, I have had the same experience. Great health and well-being is about every detail of how we live. No GP can bestow a magic potion that will deliver us health – they can only assist the restoration of function when the body needs adjustments.
You took the words right out my mouth Francisco! Universal Medicine has shown me what it means to take responsibility for the choices I make, it’s impossible to describe the enormous effect this has had on my life, ‘better’ doesn’t seem to cover it!!
I can claim also that Universal Medicine has supported me to make lifestyle choices that are leading the way in health and well being.
Bringing in self responsibility into every area of our lives is imperative and makes such a huge difference, well worth the choice.
I agree Francisco the state of our own personal health and wellbeing is totally our own responsibility, not something to be dumped on others when we start to suffer from our own ill choices.
I couldn’t agree more Francisco – as we walk with greater understanding, responsibility and appreciation for ourselves, so too can we celebrate this with others.
This is so great to read. A doctor bringing the power of responsibility back to the patient.
The day when we truly support each other as families and help each of us to evolve, I welcome that day.
I look forward to that day also Lisa, and it starts with us first. Each choice we make, how much we let people in and accept them will determine how quickly we return to the knowing that we are all one.
A revisit confirms what an amazing blog this is. I feel there is a definite thumbs up for the patient to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing {from reading many comments and my own feeling} What a load off one persons {GP} shoulders and a more interactive visit between the two.
This is truly a new way Lee – thank you, “within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.” I loved how in this, we are all working and learning to grow together.
Love it Lee, our own inner general practitioner ‘. Although there will always be a need for General Practitioners and medical specialists, it becomes apparent that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner” and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.’
All too often we have the expectation that the Doctor will have a magic pill to fix our ailments when really we need to take responsibility for the choice in the way we have been living that has created the illness and disease in the first place and together with the GP and complementary medicine provider work together for better health outcomes.
Yes Lee has outlined this so well ~ the true relationship between person, body and GP!
True Medicine inside and out.
That is true healing and looking after ourselves.
Love this Arianne True Medicine is Inside and Out.
Wow sykvianbrinkman I love the trend that is taking place in the Netherlands, Europe. Bringing responsibility back to the patient, shared responsibility between patient and practitioner, after all our health is our responsibility, it is our lifestyle choices that create our illness and disease.
Lee, I was brought up in the days when the family doctor would do home visits and he would take the time to connect with the family and ensure that you got the best care available. Did we give our power to him? I think not – he was an essential part of the family and we valued his expertise just as we valued the mechanic who serviced our car and we wouldn’t expect either to be able to do the other’s job without training. People had confidence in the family doctor because you knew they cared and they did their best to provide service. The burden on the medical system today makes it harder for the caring GP to do their job without feeling the stress of time pressure. Also the patient’s lack of responsibility for their own life-style choices means that the GP is often only able to manage symptoms without seeing any true change something which may make them feel drained if they go into sympathy or are dependent on results. Judging by the high suicide rates of doctors these days it would suggest that they did not find their job fulfilling and so there may be a need for some to put themselves on a pedestal in order to feel worthwhile. However, many do wonderful service in the medical profession because they put people first.
‘Herald in the new way’. The new way is actually a very ancient way, an ageless way as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The Way of the Livingness asks us all to be responsible, to be who we are and express ourselves in full.
It is interesting that despite the call of many, many bodies day in and day out we seek ever deeper wells of knowledge to quell our thirst. The body is the marker of all truth as presented by Serge Benhayon and will one day be known by all.
You raise some great points in this blog Lee, and I was particularly struck by your posing the question of how we walk into the surgery ourselves. Are we plonking our bodies down and wanting the GP to fix us so we can keep on functioning as normal? – “normal” meaning abusing our bodies with over-eating, stress, alcohol, coffee, self-doubt, judgment etc. How can we expect optimal function if we are constantly abusing the body and taking it for granted? Even a donkey would jack up if we treated it like that, so don’t be surprised that the body lets us know by developing a symptom we don’t like.
Expecting something from the GP puts enormous pressure on them, and unless the patient is willing to take responsibility for their own health, they will present similar worsening symptoms time and time again and need stronger drugs to quell the symptoms. This can be distressing for a sensitive GP who may feel powerless to help, as they do not often have the tools to treat the root cause. Here’s where Universal Medicine therapies could come in as a wonderful complement to what western medicine offers, for while traditional medicine deals superbly with symptom management, UM therapies deal with the root cause.
“What a support this would ultimately be for the current long-suffering medical systems. Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.”
I agree Lee, this clearly is the way forward, we need more and more role models of people living and modeling self care, self love and self appreciation this must include the doctors and medical staff as they are placed under so much pressure and stress, often are burnt out and not looking after their own health, so are not showing by example to their patients a healthy way of being and its benefits.
“What struck me about this and our current medical system is that all the pressure could be relieved if we all started to look at how we move ourselves around the planet. Are we truly taking care of ourselves? The answer has to be ‘no’ because of the state of our health as a society. Yet we continue to live in a way that results in more complex medical conditions.”
This is a very important point Lee, the way we move ourselves around the planet, it clearly appears that we have less and less responsibility and we give our power away and our authority to the so called experts. If we disregard our health and mental wellbeing, and we become unwell, we then turn to others for help in fixing ourselves, which is a great first step, but then we could be educated by the medical system to start making changes to take better care of ourselves, so that we can start to support our own bodies.
It is such an important question to ask. Some people want a cure, others want relief, and some people want to work on the “why?” they got the condition in the first place.
If this is not clear at the outset the doctor and the patient ( I did not want to use the word – it is just the simplest way to say it) risk working at cross purposes.
I grew up in a very alternative house hold and when I say alternative, I mean it in the true sense of the word. My mother is an amazing woman, but before she introduced me to the life changing work of Serge Benhayon she was party to many different phases with alternative medicines and spiritual pursuits. She didn’t trust doctors and would only takes us when she had too.
The thing that sets the work of Universal Medicine apart from everything else is how much it embraces main stream medicine, my mother and I now have a great GP and I have the wealth of knowledge to deal with illness and disease that goes beyond the physical and embraces true responsibility.
Lee you have opened up a something great and very expansive here. What if we did present to the Doctor “a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.” How different would this feel from the Doctor’s perspective when presented with a person who is already taking responsibility? With responsibility covered both can focus on the actual healing. It’s my understanding that this is when true healing becomes very available and powerful.
I have loved reading this article again and the comments too. It makes it so much clearer that we as individuals hold the key to the whole system of health care and of health on a global scale. The power is in our hands. The way we live is the key. The quality that we bring to each moment is that which makes us – that is everybody – whole. There may be resistance, but knowing that we are doing all we can is enough and more.
Elainearthey ‘the power is in our hands ‘ or perhaps in our body, when we understand how to access this connection by the way we live, the answers will be there.
The education of the doctor is one to be respected, because a GP knows many things and is able to diagnose symptoms, which is always helpful, but their education is limited, because we are more than just a body with symptoms. The way we live, the energy we are aligned to, is the cause of our illness and at the moment, although some talk about lifestyle – not smoking, drinking in ‘moderation’, not eating too many fatty foods, for example, these are generalisations and not geared up to specific emotions or ways of being such as anger, frustration, drive, hardness, disregard, indulgence. Universal Medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon helps us to understand specifically what these do in our bodies and how they manifest with physical symptoms. Knowing these things enables us to take responsibility for our choices.
I agree Carmel. GPs are amazing because they have such a broad understanding of so many things, yet there is a limit to what they can understand if they do not understand how much the energy that we are aligned to actually affects the body. Applying this understanding to my own life has changed my health dramatically.
‘The education of the doctor is one to be respected, because a GP knows many things and is able to diagnose symptoms, which is always helpful, but their education is limited,’ and their ability to help their ‘patients’ is also limited by the choices of the patient. For healing of a disease or illness to occur as the patient wants it to, it requires input from that patient in the way they are with themselves with respect to the particular issue. Without the active participation of the patient who has created the disease, the education that the GP can use on the patient is also limited.
Lee quite a while ago I identified in myself the reverence that I have placed on the medical profession, specialists being the most hallowed in my eyes. The other belief that I noticed that I held was not only that the medical profession hold more authority than me but that men in the medical profession hold more authority than women in the medical profession. I am no longer governed by either of those beliefs and can see clearly how false and damaging they are.
Lee the article that you have written is of huge significance for many reasons. Firstly it uncovers a widely held belief and that is that people who have lots of studied knowledge know better than those that don’t. You also suggest that we, as people, take more responsibility for our health, which is the crucial next step to turning our health crisis around. But what I loved the most about what you have shared is the suggestion that ‘We can build a different relationship with health within our family and friend groups’, this for me feels like a foundational component of health in the future. Fabulous article, well done.
The family doctor and the pressures they face from people wanting to be fixed is enormous and clearly not working . This offers the necessary revolutionary way of taking responsibility for ourselves and how we live and is the only way for us as humanity to go. Beautiful blog and very necessary, showing another way for us all. Thank you.
The way we live moment to moment is true medicine, it is only until we take full responsibility of this fact that the medical system will change. We heal ourselves by the choices that we make first and receive support from the medical system.
This is fabulous Lee and much needed to be expressed. We still have so many ‘get of out jail free’ cards when it comes to our health. There are the illnesses that come out of nowhere, the environmental hazards and genetics. As a nurse I often hear many of these comments, and think how great it would be if people knew that everything we choose, from our thoughts, speech and actions all accumulate and affect our bodies.
A great blog Lee – the healthcare systems in many countries is certainly on the verge of collapse, but you describe a way to step away from the brink without the need to spend enormous amounts of money – and that is by taking responsibility for our own health between doctor’s visits, and not just relying on the medical system to ‘fix us’ when we break down.
This was great Lee. Imagine how much pressure would be taken off the medical system if we all tapped into our own innate GP. Which really, we all have as we know what’s good and what’s not good for us.
Indeed Emily – it’s groaning under the weight of our collective irresponsibility and falling apart. It’s a reflection of the state of health in humanity – the micro (the health system) reflecting the macro.
I like the way you look at our health systems falling apart as a microscopic reflection of all individuals as a collective. It empowers every single one to not only change himself, but to be able to contribute to society and change the world we live in.
I agree Alex, we are powerful beyond our imaginations. Our individual choices determine the quality of world we live in. It brings into focus the level of responsibility we have to care deeply for ourselves.
Lee what a revolutionary article that has the potential to change the way our entire medical systems are constructed. I love the notion of the Inner General Practitioner and can feel deeply that it is each of our responsibility not only in how we live but also in how we approach the medical system when we do have a condition that needs the support of western medicine. How is it possible that this one article holds the answers to our medical woes, something that governments across the world are seemingly unable to solve? Time to share this with the world as I am sure in years to come individuals will look back, read the date this was published and go ” they already knew it then”. Thank you.
Yes indeed David – this is a revolutionary article by Lee Green showing us another way that makes sense and is possible for all of us if we choose to make lifestyle choices that no longer harm our body. I have a clinic where I work in a pharmacy and it is so crazy busy you would not believe it.
The staff introduced me to the local GP surgeries which were one on top of the other in a huge building. Lots of doors and around 8 staff on reception, phones ringing non-stop. HELLO
I had no idea how busy GP surgeries are and it sure gave me a reality check of what is truly going on.
I now make it my business to find out more and feel the “Pulse” of society as this wake up call is needed for me to
1. Appreciate where I am thanks to Serge Benhayon
2. Feel what is really going on in my community
What I have realised in the past year is that things have got worse not better. More and more people are at the GP surgery.
I agree Bina, I also like to keep up with the ‘pulse’ of society, how we are going in regards to health, including the physical, psychological and soul-full. It helps to appreciate how needed the reflection of truth, love, stillness, harmony and joy are in our return to vitality, because that is not what society is reflecting back.
“Is the family doctor any more important than the person who checks us through at the supermarket?” – great question Lee. Most people would say of course they’re different, but I’d say no, they are the same when it comes to the quality of presence they bring to what they are doing and how they meet and greet their customer/patient, their bedside/tillside manner, how they handle our groceries/our bodies (gently or roughly), whether they listen to any questions we have, and so on. Yes their job is different, but they are equal in what quality they bring to it. And this goes beyond just when we are in front of them – what did they do last night (were they drinking alcohol or looking at porn?), what did they do last week, or even this morning (are they feeling angry after a fight with their partner?) – all this comes with them and is there with them when they meet each customer/patient.
“Has there been too much emphasis placed on education and, in that, an assumed status of the person above others?” – I feel that this is the case in many professions Lee and we only need to look at the corruption and abuse within institutions where people are highly educated however abusing people and systems. We see in within religious instituttions, education, politics, governments and in corporations. There has been an assumed trust in people in positions of power because they have been appointed to these positions because they’ve been deemed qualified to hold the position – usually through their education and qualifications. However, as we’ve seen, this says nothing of how they care for themselves and then how they care for others, or lack thereof. And so, placing someone on a pedestal or assuming they will ‘do the right thing’ or know more than we do is false, they may well do, but in many instances, they are all dealing with the same issues of lack of self worth and lack of self love and so that’s what they bring to their positions, and that’s what plays out.
To develop a sense of health and healing for ourselves and within our families and to make it part of school education from early on will raise our awareness and boost our evolution as a society. It naturally will come with the willingness to be much more responsible on all levels and respectful of each other.
Super true Alex, can’t wait! It will completely change how the world is run…Which at the moment is geared towards lack of responsibility and fix me ups.
I have noticed schools bringing gardening and cooking back into the curriculum to educate our kids, it’s a shame it’s not at the forefront in our families, that would be the most natural way to learn. Once again not taking full responsibility for our own wellbeing at the foundational level.
But nevertheless great that school comes back to relating to real life and teaching real life skills. These kids will be the next generation of parents knowing how great it is to be taught things that deepen your ability to take responsibility, take care of yourself and worldly affairs – it has the potential to deepen one´s commitment to life. Of course it says much about how these parents have been brought up that they lack so much the ability to raise their kids and showing them the practicalities and responsibilities of life.
It is unavoidable for us to develop a way of living that deeply takes care of ourselves in every sense and to take responsibility for our health as a single person, a couple or a family is clearly the future, not in the sense of ‘do-it-yourself’ and ignore the professionals but in honouring the body and being, knowing what harms and what heals and asking for support by one´s doctor whenever needed.
And when we enter the doctor’s surgery unprepared, it puts power in the hands of the GP. Remembering how precious our bodies are, it really is worth reflecting on the purpose of the GP visit before we get there.
I now know that true medicine is the way we live every single day.
So true Mary-Louise. The way we live and the quality we live has a tremendous effect on our health.
Thank you Mary Louise this statement is absolute power.
Absolutely Mary Louise, the way we live encompasses all, not only what we eat, but everything .. . how we move, what we say, and how we are with others.
Exactly Jenny imagine the money that would be saved in medical expenses, sick leave etc if humanity lived with this knowing that true medicine is how we live every single day
My former GP worked in a similar way and became my GP of choice. Visiting him was like meeting an equal, very gentle and present within himself and unimposing. He asked deeper questions like,’ What has happened in your life that may have caused this?’ and handed back responsibility. Very refreshing and sorely missed when he left our busy London practice.
It is very empowering for patients to know that they have so much control over their health. It is great if they don’t come to the GP as helpless victims but rather want to know how they have contributed and what they can do to support themselves.
What if the training of GPs included the patient-practitioner relationship and the responsibility of both parties to work together. GPs could be taught to see themselves as equal to patients, and patients as potential expert physicians of their own bodies. Simple yet powerful questions as Sylvia shares: ‘what do you expect from me?’ or ‘ what can you do for yourself?’ would become the norm and could prompt self reflection, and bring focus on the patient’s relationship with self between surgery visits.
When I was a child I was taken regularly to our family doctor because of my ill health. He would sit behind his desk and chain smoke. I never saw anything wrong with this at the time, as I thought of him as some sort of a god as he was a “doctor”. He would always prescribe me antibiotics which I lived on for most of my younger years, with my parents nor myself ever questioning that possibly I was allergic to the buckets of cows milk I drank, the slabs of cheese, the vegemite white bread sandwiches and chocolate ice cream I ate daily!!! Since cutting all dairy, wheat, and gluten from my diet, I very rarely get sick and have not needed to take any antibiotics except when my teeth have got infected.
I have a similar experience concerning food. My health improved hugely after cutting out gluten, diary, coffee and sugar. It is amazing what we can do for our health in just not eating any more some types of food.
We could all take much more responsibility for our health and well-being If we were to connect with our bodies, listen to them and make lifestyle choices accordingly.
I like your GP, that he calls you into responsibility. But lots of people I can imagine don’t like that, so it must be challenging for the GP as well to offer this kind of service as people will react to that as they want an answer, a quick fix and don’t want to look at their choices. The more people will visit the doctors with your kind of attitude, the more the doctors will feel encouraged to work together as a team with their client and the pressure will be taken off them to provide a solution – as a result everybody will win.
Being our own GP makes so much sense – after all, who knows our body better than we do. I completely agree we need to take responsibility for our health and not give all our power away to the doctor we perceive to be better than we are, simply because they have studied medicine, however there is also the academic arrogance of some, possibly many, doctors who believe they are better than their patients because they have studied medicine. But we have to start somewhere and if that means our doctor is initially uncomfortable with the fact we are an expert of our own body then so be it. It only takes one person to change a relationship, so if we make the change we are no longer feeding the ‘you are better than me/I am better than you’ game and it can’t continue.
It does make so much sense Lucy. Who indeed would know our body better then we do. We can get support and tips but ultimately it’s up to us to feels what’s true and not true for our body and how it does actually feel.
“There is a General Practitioner inside us all”, that we do Lee, I love this line. The inner GP is constantly on duty, knows us inside and out, never sleeps, does night shift every night and gets paid with Light if we choose to listen to the prescription. Otherwise, we pull the curtains to keep the light out.
Matthew, I loved reading this. Well put 🙂
There’s a lot of truth in your anology Mathew, and our body is aware if we choose to listen to our internal wisdom.
So true, and lovely how you share this Matthew.
This blog is monumental Lee Green and on each read I find more to say.
I like the bit about being our “inner general practitioner” as this brings the Responsibility back to us for the lifestyle choices we are making that could be contributing to the dis-ease in our body.
You are so right about not fixing or getting something to continue the function of our body but to “herald in the new way’. This makes sense and this is the answer if we are to ever see the tides turn for our exhausted medical systems. This new way is what Serge Benhayon has been presenting as he is pro western medicine and he is also saying how about we look at the way we are living too.
Next – there is a whole group of people who are the new age spiritual subscribers like I was in the past who are anti western medicine. Just to give you my own example I was going through a very painful mis-carriage and I refused all medication in the A&E and insisted on reading my book and repeating all the affirmations like that was some kind of medicine. The ingrained behaviour was so strong it took years to finally get a reality check (thanks to Serge Benhayon) and accept that western medicine can help me and it sure has. I then looked at my choices that got me to that point and with the help of Universal Medicine practitioners I feel I have made great progress and now if I need it I would have no hesitation to take a paracetamol or visit my GP.
Our state of health is our responsibility and a direct consequence of our life style choices.
I was talking to a man the other day who happened to be a ski instructor. He was telling me about the people who were going down the beginners slope, that they were all actually instructors, yet to me they looked like beginners, just like all the other beginners, although perhaps a little less vocal! I said how that showed me how much my perception of them changed the moment they wore a red and black coat to then see them as my instructor, the one who would guide me out of danger, who would come to my aid and save me. We then spoke about this as being true of every profession with a uniform, how it somehow negated the person inside and threw them into a leadership role regardless of how they personally lived.
And this is evident Lucy in many areas as you say. Look at what has come to light in the immigration detention centres where guards have abused the detainees – people who are supposedly in their care, who are vulnerable and need support. A uniform is a privilege, and should be a symbol of someone who can be trusted and relied upon. It does not give people licence to hide behind and abuse others in their care.
Wow, good point Lucy. It’s true that we often perceive others in a completely different way when they put their ‘profession’ hat on.
There have always been healers in our communities, and those we look to for support with whatever ailments we may have, or to gain greater understanding of what is happening in our bodies. At this current time our GPs are often this representation within the medical community. They have the ability to convey the wisdom they have about the human body, and assist all to understand further the inner workings of their bodies, which may assist in treating or preventing further illness and disease. Unfortunately the way the medical system has been set up and is now made to work, with the pressures of all those that need to be seen every day, there is less perceived time to explain all the wonder that is the human body. In order then to take full advantage of those in our communities that can assist us with healing, we can start to take greater responsibility for ourselves in listening to what we know is not right for our bodies. We can all support each other with this, and our GPs whenever they are needed.
Being a healer in our family brings the responsibility for our health in-house. It becomes a normal and natural part of our relationships. The modalities Serge Benhayon teaches are immense in the support they offer us within our own homes.
We have all known a guy that was a real good mechanic that never had time to look after his own car. Physician, heal thyself came to mind.
‘It becomes a normal and natural part of our relationships.’ And this is the way that we can support everyone.
In the past I used to see the medical profession as responsible for my health and as the ones who had all the answers. Gosh how this has changed, I now see the medical system as a huge support but my health is my responsibility.
Absolutely Kristy. I feel my health and wellbeing is up to me, and I’m very appreciative to live in a country where we have a great medical system to support me when I need it. I know for a fact that true medicine is how I live in my body every day, much like the condition of my car is a reflection of how I drive and care for it.
I too Kristy saw the medical profession as having all the answers in the past, this suited me as then I did not have to take responsibility for my own health and well being. I think that most of humanity have this attitude, they love to indulge in the wrong foods and lack of exercise etc. then run off to the doctors to fix them when their body gives way.
Yes, it is like making use of a service for something, I need the expertise and support of someone who lovingly likes to give his advice, wisdom and support as an equal partner.
Kristy I am completely with you on this point, what a total shift from how I used to be living where I would demand a doctor fixed me but I would not want to change anything. Where I demanded my body do as I please and not break down. Now I am learning to do as my body feels, a far simpler way to live life.
In all situations it is important not to elevate practitioners or so called professionals above ourselves. Esoteric medicine practitioners expect us to take responsibility for ourselves when we walk in the room. There was a time, when I entered the treatment room without thinking about why I was going, or what I I needed, I just wanted to be fixed. With time this self-limiting approach was exposed. I remember one esoteric medicine practitioner’s words. ‘Health and healing is not what takes place during the session but how you live between sessions. In other words, the quality of how we live day-to-day affects our health. Now I enter the treatment room as an equal and to confirm how I have been living, not to have something done to or for me.
‘How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies?’ Such a great question. It’s as if we just hand our bodies over without question and negate the fact that we know ourselves better than anyone else on the planet. It would be such a support to our doctors if we started to take full responsibility for our health by looking at ways to support ourselves in the daily choices we make.
I agree Debra, then the pressure is not solely on them to find a fix or a cure to our ailments. The more in tune we become with our bodies the clearer the information we present to them and so the clearer their diagnosis can become. The problem is so many of us are presenting with so many different disease states it can be very hard for the doctors to pin down exactly what is wrong or going on for us. We need to work in unison with our doctors.
“How interesting is it then, that when we know truly what is and what is not good for our bodies and our health,” yet we still consume foods that do not support us, what is it that drives us to do this. We know from our own experience certain foods, make us tired, feel bloated, feel low, yet we will still eat these foods in moments of need. What causes us to make those choices? Is it lack of will or lack of self worth, somewhere in the body I feel there still is some lack of self worth. Something to ponder on.
Thank you Amita, could it be we are too numb to notice, for me this was the case before the presentations by Serge Benhayon.
When I speak to doctors, what seems to hurt them most is that they have a genuine impulse to heal and support people but some of their patients do not seem to want to heal, they are just asking for medicines to numb themselves, like opiate painkillers or they show no interest at all in taking any steps in improving their wellbeing or health. The GP is ready but some patients are not and that can be wearying.
I agree Christoph. Many people want a magic pill. There are doctors who have become disenfranchised by it all and are too happy to write prescriptions, because the patients are not willing to take responsibility for their health.
A clear example of the magic pill is shown by the recent research that there is now an increasing amount of bugs that have become immune to antibiotics because of over prescription.
Yes Christoph, it suits us to get a quick fix as it means we do not have to take responsibility.
True Christoph, I can imagine that many doctors simply give up because people can be very stubborn, they often don’t like to change their habits. The only reflection that can truly support us in changing something is often when we see someone who lives their talk, it is in that moment that we are inspired to take more responsibility.
Judith I wonder if the reason why people don’t change their ways is more than stubbornness. We are now coming to realise that it is the way that people move that governs the thoughts and behaviours that they have, therefore if a smoker tries to give up smoking without changing anything else in their life at all then it is going to be nigh on impossible. This is massive when it comes to health because if we truly want to change peoples health then our doctors need to write a prescription for people to change the way that they move BEFORE they try to change anything else in their lives.
It probably will take some time for patients as doctors alike to develop a new culture of medicine where everyone equally takes responsibility in the process of healing. The old ingrained consciousness needs to be deconstructed and a newly rebuilt on a foundation of true love, care and responsibility.
Well said Christoph, so many are given advice regarding the choices that they make which lead to the consequences requiring treatment. However, they return for their next appointment having made no changes and simply repeating the same choice but asking for more medication.
Very true Christoph. Many just want a bandaid and not a ‘how to’ to not need one in the first place.
This is very true Christoph. When we are so invested in the outcome of another, particularly when it comes to our health, it is very easy to become despondant when the other person does not take any steps towards their own responsibility and supporting themselves back to health.
It must be very painful for doctors to see patients not wanting to heal as for most they go into that career with the true intent to help others. However, how much of the lack of response of their patients is due to the fact that their lived example is no different from that of their patients? Their approach is so much ‘do as I say not what I do’.
You really have to take your hat off to our GP’s, I can only imagine what its like seeing sick person after sick person but I guess that’s what they are trained to do. Since being a student of Universal Medicine I have been to the Doctors a couple of times not because I was ill but just to check that everything was all right. I thought that the GP might have thought that I was just wasting her time when she asked me what was wrong and I could only tell her what was right and to ask for blood tests. Afterwards I thought it must have been quite nice for her to have someone come through that wasn’t actually sick. This could be the way of the future if everyone could understand what Universal Medicine has to offer, as well as taking more responsibility for ourselves instead of leaving it up to the health professionals.
kevmchardy, what comes to me reading your comment is – how do we treat our belongings. Imagine if we thrashed and trashed our cars and only took them in when there were rattles and bits falling off, or they just broke down on the side of the road, rather than taking them for a regular service. Our body is the vehicle for our soul and so I see that I have a responsibility to look after it as best I can.
I have often mentioned the same thing to my Father and Uncle. They are so totally committed to looking after their cars and their tools. Aways maintained and taken care of immaculately. The smallest noise or bump out of place or unusual and they will stop at nothing to make sure it does not turn into something worse by getting to the bottom of it and sorting it out immediately . If there is an issue with their house or the garden is untidy, they will stop at nothing to have it taken care of in a diligent and timely manner.
And yet when it comes to their health, to their own bodies – it is a totally different story. Sore backs, sore knees, headaches, colds, being stiff and sore… these things will be ignored for days, weeks, months and even years.
They will put off having it seen too over and over – just putting up with the discomfort or even pain for long periods of time – if ever attending to it at all.
To me – that says there is something very wrong about our priorities in life, and how we as men are taught to care for ourselves.
I worked with a lovely man recently who had a tough exterior (but I could feel how lovely he was underneath it all). I offered him non scented hand cream one day, something I keep at my desk at work and I could tell he wanted to have some, but wouldn’t let himself and made a comment about needing to have tough hands because of what his friends would say. I said ‘what about your wife and children, don’t they deserve soft, gentle hands?’. He knew what I’d said was true but just couldn’t let himself go there.
I agree, cars are a great reflection of our bodies, the difference is a car does not compromise, it just does not work any more when it is treated falsely or given the wrong fuel. Our bodies are very patient enduring lots of poison before they give up. From this point of view we should appreciate our bodies even more because how amazing must we feel when treating our bodies like our cars.
I totally agree Sandra, I feel my dad was too stubborn to have regular check ups and could still possibly be with us if he had. He had a massive heart attack due to something that could have have been sorted out. Ironically he always kept our cars immaculate and regularly serviced.
Sandra and Simplesimon888, I paused to reflect on something similar recently, when I heard someone I knew and who smoked all her life had died of lung cancer. Her homes were always immaculate. She was praised by friends because two years before she died, she bought, gutted, completely renovated and furnished her new home, but was unable to give the same level of devotion and love to her own body. Very telling how we’ve become so dis-connected from our most precious resource.
Very true Sandra, I often muse at the irony of the fact that we actually take better care of our cars than our bodies. We would never dream of filling the petrol tank with sugar, milk and coffee, the car would soon show us the real effects of such fuel, yet we seem to think that our bodies need these commodities to work properly. I have since discovered that my vehicle runs best on simple, nutritious things and have never felt better. Universal Medicine has taught me how to become my own mechanic and master technician of this formula one body that I inhabit.
The hand cream story is so revealing of our levels of protection – how we choose hardness over love for ourselves and others. Deeply sad that we as a society are locked in to living this way.
Yes Kevin, I was recently feeling very tired. I went to my doctors just to check that it’s wasn’t anything more serious and asked to have a full set of blood tests. Once I got the all clear, I then made some adjustments to what I was eating, and looked at my sleeping patterns, and also started taking an iron tonic. I was taking responsibility for looking after myself and felt very supported by the doctor. Teamwork, with us the patients playing an equal part with our health care practitioners is the way forward.
It is quite interesting that all my visits to the doctors these days have supported the knowing that what my body is clearing is the energetic effects of how I am living. Very often the ache, pain, erratic heart beat, un-explained rash shows nothing wrong in fact the blood tests came back pristine, I have a feeling the doctor was quite impressed, I know I was. But every visit has shown me that it is me who has to make the adjustments to how I am living, if there is a lump, bump, bacteria, virus or default apparent, then my body is telling me that my daily choices are not supportive and is giving me a chance to sort them out before they do turn into something irreversible. I am very grateful for the messages my body sends me and am learning that a simple shift in my diet can have an amazing impact on several messages all at once. Our bodies are so wise and our medical systems are an amazing support at understanding what is going on inside us. When we marry the true responsibility that Universal Medicine promotes with the medical advances of Western Medicine the results are miraculous.
That’s great Kevin, as you say what a change for doctors to be able to be proactive, forward planning and getting baselines. I have done the same as well and since doing that have really seen my relationships improve with my doctors. It is an equal responsibility with different strengths!
Kevmchardy you would have been a breath of fresh air entering your GP’s clinic. In that meeting you offered your GP a whole new marker as to what is possible when we begin to take responsibility for our own health.
Interesting perspective Kev, we shouldn’t feel like we are wasting the Doctors time in attending for a check up with nothing wrong yet often I feel this is the case, the level of responsibility of doing this is worthy of praise and has to be our future model for healthcare. The way I now see I can care for my wellbeing is remarkable to understand, that every little signal from my body is an opportunity to deepen the level of care and understanding in how I treat myself. That to do this reduces the likelihood of ill health with lifestyle choices being such a prominent part of our health outcomes.
Although it is what they are trained to do, Doctors, especially young doctors now have a high rate of suicide for their profession. Clearly carrying the responsibility for our health (which we should be carrying) is not working for them.
This is significant Fiona and is completely ridiculous when looked at from any angle. Those who train to look after other human beings kill themselves because it is too much!
Fiona and Lee, it is very telling when Doctors have a high rate of suicide. That does not make any sense to me. That in itself should be investigated to get to the bottom of why this is the case.
I agree kevmchardy, if we all start to take responsibility for how we live we would know that all the choices that we make, the way we talk, how we are in relationships is medicine then health professionals and patients relationships would change dramatically.
Yes kevmchardy I also do the same regular check ups. One visit I was asked to log my eating for two weeks to see why I had lost two kilos, this I did and was amazed, as the GP didn’t comment on how I ate (Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Refined Sugar Free) as being the cause of weight loss. I do understand nutrition is a very small part of their training, only consisting of a few hours. I feel when we can connect what and how we eat with disease and illness, we will start to see a more balanced and responsible bigger picture.
Something I experienced yesterday at work was this. One of my colleagues complained that she’s getting headaches (she uses a computer a lot of the day). I asked about her eyes and she said she has glasses but doesn’t wear them. And so I shared with her that if I do not wear my glasses for computer work, I’d have a huge headache quite quickly. So, why is it that something so simple as wearing glasses for computer work, knowing it will prevent a headache is ignored, seen as too hard or disliked? I saw that it was a lack of acceptance of the fact that she needed the glasses. She dislikes the fact she has to wear them and therefore doesn’t and consequently ends up with headaches frequently.
We are happy to give our power away to our GP and later on to the doctors in the hospital so we don’t have to feel we are responsible for our own health. Being a patient has become being a victim with a right on care, care in a very expensive way to treat all our woes from the ill choices we make. But we have a right and this right makes the healthcare going bankrupt and there is no healing whatsoever. Opening our eyes in the way Lee has described is the way forward and we can inspire each other to do so and to make health care healthy again and a true support for healing every human being.
Hospital is a big one for this. Honestly, it is a scary place. All too often the hospital staff feel as though they are at the limit of coping and it is too easy to feel like a number. There are some hospitals or even departments of hospitals that have broken down that approach and have built a very safe environment that fosters equalness, but it is quite rare.
Aslo, things are quite urgent by the time you are in hospital and it is not so conducive to holding yourself equal, unless you have the really solid family and community support Lee described.
Yes, we do need each other and community based healing.
Hey Rachel this is so beautifully observed – ‘things are quite urgent by the time you are in hospital and it is not so conducive to holding yourself equal’ this is very important and something that we completely overlook. The reality check that hospital brings needs to be brought much earlier in the piece – the responsibility has to be addressed in our every movement not just the end results we brace ourselves against, frightened and yet all knowing that this is all because I chose this…
Yes I agree that being a patient is considered by society in general to being a victim to the disease/ ailment etc and with this a huge dose of sympathy from others is given that keeps this victim versus disease relationship alive. There is a strong invitation to believe the disease etc is greater than who we are, is working against us and not showing us the error of our ways – hence all the fighting talk about not letting it beat us etc.
Making connections between how we live and how our body then responds is often met with resistance- if one doesn’t assume the sympathetic position people can feel the discomfort of being presented with being responsible for ourselves. Though presenting love and truth consistently, not falling for sympathy, is so powerful.
“How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies?” For me this is key in regaining the authority over our own bodies and the health of it as it is our body and not someone else’s that we live in and why are we not studying it to its tiniest details to understand the beauty of it? By giving our power away to the GP or another medical specialist we only bring the ailment to this person with the question to fix it, compared to when we have the authority over our body, we will do our part of the healing and we ask for support from the GP or medical specialist instead, as being equally qualified in providing the medical care that is required in the healing.
Most people I have observed, tend to assume a ‘less than’ position when talking with their GP. This already reduces the possibility of co-treating the illness and bringing the fullest healing possible. It also supports doctors who are in the ‘more than’ way of being to stay there instead of working in union with their patients
As you say Fiona, there will be no co-creation when we present ourselves as less than our GP, as co-creation comes from equality and when we deviated from that we have descended into the life of creation, where comparison and separation rules and in that no true healing occurs, but only remedies are found for the ailments we live with.
I tend to do this Fiona, even though I have a very solid grasp of medical knowledge. In the clinical setting I defer to the doctor.
I am not implying that this should be about a battle of knowledge. The simple truth is that we do know (or have the potential to know) our own body better than anyone else, and we do not need to know the words/terms/concepts to make that claim.
My point is that even knowledge is no defence against taking a lesser role in the medical care relationship.
Learning to be our own General Practitioner has made the work of the traditional GP so much more effective. Listening to our bodies and learning to know them well, as advised by Serge Benhayon and reinforced by all in Universal Medicine, especially Natalie, has given us the best possible opportunity to maximise the treatments of Western medicine. I too, Lee, am ‘forever inspired by and deeply appreciative’ of the wonderful things I have heard from Serge Benhayon and the support I receive from him and Universal Medicine .
I have found this too Jo. When I seek treatment whilst having done my part to start healing the root cause, I feel much more solid and empowered to deal with the illness.
I totally agree Jo, it helps the GPs so much to be effective in their work as well, it might even bring the joy back to their profession that for most seems to have been pretty elusive. Imagine a doctor going to work inspired by his patients and vice versa – and the healing that they can learn and work together. Now that would be true medicine.
Absolutely Jo, working in union with your GP is inspiring for you and your doctor.
Exactly Brendan – every seemingly minor choice has an impact with the result being the body that we carry around everywhere. A daily commitment to being steady, true and loving will pay dividends.
For too long we have allowed our medical profession to take responsibility for the health of society, whilst we have conveniently ignored our own part that we have to play.
So well said Adam Warburton. We have been so willing to turn a blind eye on our own responsibility – and casually hand it over to the medical profession – only to blame them when we can’t stop the incredible increase of illness and disease.
Yes, it is always easier to leave it all to the mechanic, who then has to deal with the way we have driven the car since our last service (if indeed we bothered to get a last service).
I agree Adam and Simon, it is time we take responsibility for our own health and well being and not simply rely on the doctor to be the cure all for us providing us with a magic pill so we can continue to live into a reckless way, in complete disregard of our bodies.
Yes I agree gentlemen and what will possibly support us to take responsibility is to feel that when we do take responsibility, life does not have to be a struggle anymore and can get very amazing. We can heal much more when we take our responsibility to the table than what Medicine can do for us.
I imagine a person who drives their car with crazy reckless abandon – leaving the handbrake on as they go about their manoeuvres, smashing into walls, constantly running out of fuel, ignoring oil leaks, warning lights, service notices, and the strange grating noise coming from the engine…..then complaining about the cost of the mechanic when the inevitable breakdown strikes.
How are we any different with our bodies when you get down to it?…Until we have the grace to learn there is a another way.
The car analogy Adam is a clue to many of the ways we overlook how we live life – for many the car is purely a means to get from A – B; a direct reflection of the body we are born with. It can get me to where I need to go. The problem with this lack of care approach is that the car can get replaced, scrapped and a new one purchased – the cycle repeats and seemingly the driver is none the wiser – the car is the issue. As the body declines in health the same process makes no sense, for we cannot replace it, we are with it until our last breath. Is it possible then that we as people have a far greater knowing of our own responsibility – the fact that we will be coming back to a fresh new body so it doesn’t matter?
Love the car analogy, especially Rachel’s car. If we understand that the body is our vehicle that is our greatest ally and our means to return to the Divinity we are from, then would it not make sense to honour it accordingly and treat it with the love, care and nurturing that it needs to deliver us back.
I experience there is a pervading belief that when one gets sick it is from genes, something external or bad luck. Though I feel the truth of being responsible for being my own GP and how powerful this is I also feel to work on being so with out judgement, criticism or putting my head in the sand. If I am responsible in this way how I live presents this truth to others. If I am blaming in any way this is communicated and turns people off from being inspired.
I love the car analogy when we talk about our relationship with our bodies because it de-personalises it, makes it super practical and shows very simply the absolute common sense of actually sitting in the driving seat. It is pretty hard to drive from anywhere else in a car! Yet I know I have tried to live my life (travel along in my body) from anywhere but the driver’s seat and often with my hand out of the window trying to keep hold of someone else’s steering wheel! I have found there is something super powerful, responsible and simple about committing to be in my driver’s seat, both hands on the wheel, eyes on the road and enjoying the company of others if I have passengers.
The big question is why as a species we don’t raise children to treat their body with the utmost care and love. If we did, there wouldn’t be the soaring rates of illness that we have now. Take alcohol as just one example. It’s a shock to the body when you first have it…I remember not liking the taste or the feeling, but it was what we did as teenagers (and then adults). It was a way to temporarily not feel the pressures of life and basically self medicate. Advertising made it look sexy and sophisticated to do. All the adults around me were doing it and having what looked like a great time, and so as teens, we followed suit. However, the ugly side of it was there but was ignored, excused or tolerated … hangovers, abuse in relationships, drinking and driving (putting self and others in danger), accidents, violence at bars and nightclubs, sexual assaults…I could go on. The health risks of drinking alcohol alone are many and now well known, and yet it is still seen as something that is done to be sociable.
A great question indeed Sandra, “why as a species we don’t raise children to treat their body with the utmost care and love.” If we would be taught that from young there would be no chance that we would choose for the abuse that alcohol brings to our lives. I am not parented like that and I also have fallen for the temptation to use alcohol as I lived in disregard to my body and in that dismissed the signals my body was giving to me when I started to use alcohol when I was young. The taste and feeling was not comfortable for my body but I ignored it, as I lived disrespectful to my body, in the arrogance that my body has to get used to it, as I had accepted the use of alcohol as being a normal thing to do in life. But now, since I have stopped using alcohol completely as a result of my journey in reconnecting to my body again, I cannot appreciate the smell and taste of alcohol anymore and in that I am pondering on how it has been possible that I was able to override this feeling and was able to ignore my body completely.
Exactly Nico, how is it possible to override our body when it gives us very clear signs and symptoms when something isn’t right? I too did this for years with alcohol – ignoring and overriding the signs that alcohol did not agree with me. For me, it was a lack of self worth – I wasn’t valuing myself and my body, in fact I disliked my body shape, and so abusing it with alcohol and food was possible.
I agree Nico, I had to train myself to drink alcohol because I assumed that is what we were meant to be doing, even though my body disliked it intensely. And when I gave it up I realised just how much negative effect it had on the body, not just at the time of drinking, but for days afterwards. What is important here is to understand how we easily we ignore our body’s clear signals in favour of trying to fit an outside picture. Giving power back to our innate guidance is a huge step forward in self-healing on every level.
The thing is the people we go to when we get sick are not looking after themselves in the way they could either. This may seem to be like a sweeping statement but when we look into this further and read statistics or stories of doctors, nurses/the medical profession it is about the stress and strain they are under, the amount of coffee they consume, the lack of sleep and long hours they work along with everything else in their life. So it presents the question that no matter what our profession, or how qualified we are doesn’t a humbleness need to be seen and felt with us all, that actually we may not be getting it ‘right’ after all? We are not currently living (the vast majority) in a loving way that truly supports us, our bodies, health and well-being. We desperately need to wake up and truly see this. What you present here is something that should be shared globally and what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are committed and dedicated to bringing in every moment of their lives and actually live what they present; that is a way to live that is loving, takes responsibility for our health and choices and that supports us deeply so that we can actually start to truly evolve.
Doctor Doctor give me the news, I’ve got a bad case of not loving me. Sorry, Robert Palmer lyrics took over.
This made me laugh Marcia. So very true, love is the best form of medicine.
The way we view our well-being or lack of it is largely disempowering. We’re always looking for the reasons why things are happening to us – as if our ailments are bestowed upon us …. not true. And until we accept and respect the reality of cycles and indeed re-incarnation we will probably keep doing so.
In the mean time Universal Medicine and the ageless wisdom will keep pointing the way to responsibility. Thanks for sign post Lee!
GP’s have such a short amount of time to see people in their clinic, and the pressure on them is enormous! It would really help if people took more responsibility, then the GP’s could deliver their excellent expertise to people who truly ant to heal and are not relying on them to fix them all the time.
We have been looking at our healthcare workers to have all the answers but it is becoming more and more clear that we are falling very short on these. We have not truly been seeking answers but solutions to our problems. The illness and disease we are faced with today is not only on a much larger scale but also in varying different forms then 50 years ago. The old approach will not allow us to keep up with what is needed and we will be forced back into looking at other ways and finding true answers.
The bankruptcy of the healthsystem is already upon us. For far too long have we used and abused our bodies and then looked at the medical practitioners to fix the ailments that come from that. A great call on responsibility Lee and also a great vision of the future where we will no longer rely only on a few learned ones but be able to support each other through our inner wisdom and connection as well.
Thank you Lee your blog offers so much. Our body has a very strong self regulation that it always aims for homeostasis, being a state of being where there’s balance offering vitality and health. It gives us clear messages about the impact of the choices we make on a daily basis about food, interaction, self nurturing and even the quality of our thoughts.It teaches us about the cycles and rhythms it naturally needs to adhere to and what happens if we mentally override these. Learning to listen and adhere to what our body is communicating about us, the world and the universe we belong to is Universal Medicine.
Status holds a lot of power in the temporal world – growing up, whatever happened, the person with the expertise would be brought in. Reflecting on this, I have become aware that there is more than one side to every choice, which comes together to support the whole. There are many gifts that humanity have to share and in sharing these specialised gifts all are an important part of the flow in life. Whilst I feel strongly about this, it is also important to take responsibility for one’s own life and to connect with the wisdom we all carry within as we challenge ourselves to go deeper and uncover the truth of our own part first. Taking responsibility means valuing others and ourselves equally, being all that we can be instead of exploiting or handing over the quest for answers where it does not belong.
Historically, many of us have given our power away to doctors and many doctors have enjoyed the status we have accorded them or which they have actively sought. But we each possess knowledge that needs to be shared in equal measure and no one is more than another because of job title.
I remember being a kid going into the doctors always asking why… why were we here to start with then it changing as soon as we walked in to the clinic.
Getting ‘Dr Responsibility’ to make a house call first and foremost seems to be a key point here. Thanks Lee for bringing this to light.
Lee, you describe a model of health here that liberates both the patient and the GP, a return to brotherhood and equal-ness through responsibility.
Absolutely Deanne – who needs a Doctor in the house when you have love in your own house!
Not taking responsibility for our health is like expecting our parents to solve all our problems – the health system is designed to be a back-up, but we are our primary health givers.
Awesome Lee. We are all responsible for our own health and I am the expert when it comes to knowing my body and how it feels. Our health practitioners can only work with the body we present, so how are we looking after ourselves and what type of body do we present?
I love what you are putting forward here Lee Green, it makes so much sense. The way we have currently configured the world is not about people, we are stacked in apartments right next to each other and every second person is lonely? If we all band together and realise that the way forward is through love…. for yourself and others and is the key to true health we will have a chance to get ourselves out of the current pickle we are all in.
This is excellent Sarahraynebaldwin! We live so closely together yet there seems to be so many issues! I agree that truly banding together from love is the way forward, or more accurately back to what we left off.
That’s right Harry, it is more accurate to say getting back to where we left off.
I love how you have nominated LOVE as the key to true health Sarah. The very best medicine in the world and it starts with loving our very own self. When we truly love our self we naturally take great care of our body. Our body responds very well to loving care.
Simply but true kathleenbaldwin.
Thank you sarahraynebaldwin; true and simple, two of my most treasured qualities.
My most two treasured qualities are deep and complex, kidding kidding…. it’s probably in the wrong order, complicated and deep, kidding, I only complicate things when I get caught up in being accepted by others, hold on am I doing it again? Yep….this is getting so deeply complex, I might just stick with your treasured qualities and ditch mine “simple and true” they sound heaps easier. hehehe…
Haha I agree sarahraynebaldwin it is so easy to complicate, as we live in such a over complicated world with everything designed to trip as up by involving us in complication. The very best thing I have learnt through Universal Medicine is the art of stepping back and observing rather than throwing myself in so that I am so totally involved that I cannot see the wood for the trees.
It’s a beautiful art to be able to observe and not absorb situations and one of the biggest life lessons I am slowly learning, I also have Universal Medicine to thank for this profound teaching.
Totally agree – love is our greatest medicine and through community we share it. Maybe letting down the guard should be a standard prescription!
It is a constant choice to be LOVE and let LOVE in and all of this requires us to “let our guard down” We can be fooled into thinking LOVE is a seventies ideal or some wishy washy concept but true LOVE is none of that. It is strength and surrender at the same time.
Love is our medicine, but this sounds like a fluffy statement… that is until beginning to live with self-love and then observe how much our lives can change with love at the centre of it.
Well said sarahraynebaldwin!
Groundbreaking words Sarah, how do we figure that this is okay – every second person is lonely – that we live locked away in our castles protected and fortified from the hurts out there – not aware that each choice to live in this way further deepens the angst, tension and disharmony in every facet of life. Taking that to the doctor is not the way.
We are looking at this whole heath epidemic from the wrong prospective, we are trying to raise more funding for doctors and scientists so they can ‘solve’ or discover cures for our illness and disease. When in fact we could cut in half our doctors work load if we took just a little responsibility in the way we live and love, this would take pressure off our medical professionals having to try fix things that can only be rectified by each and every one of us.
This is so true – the millions upon billions of dollars spent and still spending has no end until we action our needed part in this medical system conundrum.
Thats the truth Lee Green
What you’ve shared here Lee is GOLD, and talks to the R word – Responsibility. Every single person is responsible for their own health and wellbeing on a day-to-day basis, and accepting this would take an enormous strain off the national health system in many countries that are not coping with the rise in illnesses, many of which can be prevented by diet and lifestyle choices. This would leave a health care system that could support and treat people in a different way with true health care rather than an over stretched system that doesn’t look at preventative interventions.
A top blog Lee Green and too much to cover in just one comment so I will be back.
For now I have to say YES I feel there ‘been too much emphasis placed on education and, in that, an assumed status of the person above others?’.
How many of us give our power away to the GP and what they say goes. My parents are classic cases and will over-ride absolutely anything including their own body because the “doctor said”. By the way my parents are ok with me mentioning this as they would confirm it is a true and accurate statement.
Next – there has been much on the news recently in the UK about antibiotics and GPs giving them out when clearly they are not needed and of course not working.
So why does the family doctor prescribe antibiotics when they know it does not work?
It makes no sense to me.
Its like we go to the doctor for a solution as he/she knows more as they are educated in a way that says they know more than we do with what is actually going on in our body. I am very pro medicine and I feel it is needed but at the same time we need to take responsibility and ask the million dollar question – ‘How am I living that got me to this point where I have x y or z now going on in my body?’ This stops the blame and offers us a chance to change things if we are willing and open.
I can’t imagine how it must feel be to be a GP, when as a rule we arrive in the surgery asking for the answers to our ills to be written on a script, popped once a day for a week or so and hey presto, ailment gone … it would be marvellous to see medicos educated to impart the panacea of honesty and responsibility along with medical support but I guess we would need to be asking for it. Until then Universal Medicine does just that.
Yes life as a GP with all the myriad of ills, and the expectations of “being fixed” must be a challenging job!
Exactly Helen we need to ask for it and the way to do this is to unplug ourselves from the way of thinking that says cancer is from the microwave oven, you have a cold, it’s going around, etc etc.
This is such a great example of how we give ourselves away to knowledge and intelligence. Until we understand truly that everything is about energy, and ultimately it’s not what you do but how you do it, then this hierarchical structure we’ve created will keep on building.
This blog really asks us to look at our relationship with ourselves, our bodies, our health and our health systems. Did we create the health systems that we have so that we don’t take responsibility for our health and so that the family doctor is seen as having the answer, but now we’re seeing that this is not working?
Yes Shevon, we have created this health system because of the way we have been choosing to live, the system then has to ‘fire-fight’ because of what we are presenting to it. What we have is a response, or in reaction to where we have taken ourselves.
Absolutely agree Shevon, we can complain all we like about the state of the health system, but until we are prepared to start at the beginning, our relationship with ourselves, and begin to take responsibility for the state our bodies are in, nothing will actually change. The ball is in our court.
Yes Shevon, it has been the perfect set up to not be responsible for our choices and how we live as we know that there is someone we can take our bodies for “fixing” whenever it is needed. The only thing is that the fixing gets more complicated each time our bodies break down until we realise it is too late and something serious happens and compromises how we live.
I heard a panel of health care experts on the radio recently, one of them from the US was very real in stating ‘so we’ve run out of money, how will we manage this?’ A point was also made that the more health care costs the more we will see funds being drawn from other important areas of our social fabric such as education and infrastructure, not only will this be felt across many sectors but it is not sustainable.
The rise in health care costs is becoming more and more prohibitive to the point where people will no longer be able to afford health care even when they desperately need it. There has to be another way, and taking personal responsibility for our own health is a starting point to that change.
It is wonderful Lee conversations about the patient being responsible for their health are starting to happen, both here publicly and in the health profession. It is known statistically that health outcomes are better when a patient is proactive and managing their own health care plan. The re-education, on a wide scale, of the patients responsibility for how they live may simply be a necessity for health care systems in the future. This is not news for health care bureaucracy however to date health promotions have created slow and arduous results, as it stands, outside of the Universal Medicine student body there is little evidence to show how successful this can be. This is even all the more reason to study the Universal Medicine student body.
Working in health and social care it is clearly obvious that responsibility for the conditions we find ourselves with is often missing and that we quickly look to attribute this to anything other than our own choices.
Deflect, another did this to me, not my fault – the standard and never ending conversations of the irresponsible human being seeking to justify the choices made to not care for itself, in a way that supports not just the individual, but the whole of humanity.
Absolutely – so many portray themselves as victims of circumstance and in truth are knowingly perpetuating the ill conditions they find themselves in because they find that they actually serve a purpose – they are identified and recognised through doing so.
You take us to a whole new understanding of why it is so important to look after our bodies Lee, “To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.”
I agree Rosanna, it shows that self responsibility goes way further then just self as every choice we make affects all others.
Yes, and what you say here Carolien makes me feel how our definition and understanding of what ‘self’ is, by the way we use the word today, needs to expand to include its connection to each and every other person.
I know this feeling Lee, of sitting with a doctor and not feeling equal, as there is a barrier of knowledge emanating from this other person which means not all of me is being met and therefore not all of me is being understood. It is perhaps most impacting in the situation where we are sick and a little more requiring support and attention. I have also had the experience of deeply meeting myself while being interviewed by a doctor and because of the appreciation and understanding I have been holding, this time I witnessed this person drop their barrier and open up to me. Half way through the interview, they actually started to look me in the eye and in an almost puzzled way, see me. It was lovely!
I love this part Lee ‘To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.’ You have just nailed our true purpose and how good does it feel to know that we are all in this together? Heal yourself to support healing another. 🙂 🙂
Thank you Lee for this blog. We are all equal. Equal in our responsibility in reclaiming our own health and restoring the balance that is so desperately needed.
The challenge we have is the medical training systems haven’t set up our GPs to know about self-care and personal responsibility. They are trained for many years on identifying and fixing the medical issues, rather than the wonders of what a life of self-care and self-love can bring. Possibly our next steps are changing the medical training systems.
It would make absolute sense for self-care to be an integral part of the training. Medicine knows a lot about ill-health, how amazing would that be if the medical practitioner also understood and experienced good health.
Another amazing blog Lee. This is so important what you express here.
“…in effect a breakdown of a system that has been essentially supporting us to get on and function…” I hadn’t thought of it like this, but then the TV ad for a cold and flu tablet comes to mind, the jingle asking us to ‘Soldier On’. Promoted by GPs everywhere, so that the sick person can get on with life and not be bothered by their cold. People need to ask ‘why’ more; ‘why did they get sick’ and see what happens.
These coping mechanisms – whilst useful in one way – certainly free us up from asking the all important question of why. No wonder the body has to provide us with more and more opportunities (sometimes piled on top of each other) to ask the question.
“…Is the family doctor any more important than the person who checks us through at the supermarket? “ What a beautiful society we will live in when this is understood and is the normal way.
It makes sense that we would know our bodies more than anyone else as we are the ones living in them. However if we have not been aware and in connection with the way our choices have affected our bodies (through our own choosing) then it is a lot more likely we will expect someone else to ‘fix’ the problem. This is sadly how most are living and I was until a few years ago until I was stopped with a serious health issue. This blog is calling us to see our approach to life in another way and take responsibility for our own health and how working with a medical profession means everyone has a part to play. Since attending Universal Medicine courses and seeing the practitioners my understanding of how life is medicine is what I turn to first now rather than always looking for solutions to every health issue that arises. I do visit the doctor but approach as an equal, respecting and appreciating what they bring but knowing I am no less, after all it is my body that will receive the treatment!
Imagine the pressure it would take off the system if we became our own first line of support, and the GP came in as the 2nd line…. There are 7 billion of us so the numbers would instantly be in our favour again, and as you say Lee… there is no one who knows how we are feeling better than ourselves, and no one else can put into practice the simple steps needed to take more responsibility in how we are living each day.
“…There is no one who knows how we are feeling better than ourselves…” And I remember when I was a new mum, I did have a baby nurse totally supporting the mums in ‘just knowing’ how their babies were. One baby nurse said, ‘you know better than anyone if there’s something wrong with your baby’ and this empowered the mums to no end.
Gosh how empowering is this – and how confirming – we absolutely do know our bodies, what it feels and how we are to move next.
Absolutely, even though some doctors may still think knowing your own body equals hypochondria in an attempt to hold on to their superior role, it is important to communicate with our healthcare workers from this inner knowing and learn to claim for ourselves that we are very capable of feeling what our body is telling us.
That sounds like awesome advice suzanne! We need more confirmation that we have the answers instead of more ‘knowledge’ that’s written by others and read by us. Everyone is different and empowering them to listen to their bodies is the biggest gift.
It is time that we as part of humanity take responsibility for how we treat ourselves and not give our power away to others to ‘fix us’ for the bad choices we have made. After all we only get one body in this lifetime, it makes sense to look after it.
I love the combination of a very dedicated family doctor coupled with a family who actually took responsibility for their health and what was going on in their lives, their relationships and with their health. If this occurred we would see a very different type of health service.
I agree Elizabeth. It would be a health service based on relationships.
It is a great model you offer Elizabeth, medical support, and responsibility from the family. That could transform our medical services.
Building a relationship not only with our bodies but also with our GP, and them with us. Very empowering to go to the GP well aware of what is going on in our body, giving them all the information they need.
How incredible would it be for a family doctor to have patients who are also taking responsibility for their health. A partnership made in heaven.
To imagine this level of responsibility taken for the way we live with our body and each other, would be a revolution not yet seen before, one that the world is screaming out for.
I love how Lee writes about responsibly taking ourselves in to see our doctor. It is unfair and irresponsible to expect a doctor to fix us without looking at why we are sick in the first instance, and yet this is what most people are doing these days.
There is a beautiful balance suggested here and imagine how well the GP will be supported when the patient takes ultimate responsibility for their health. It must be overwhelming for GPs now when they are presented with an enormous load of illnesses all wanting to be fixed or to just be indulged. How truly healing it will be when we all support one another to look at what is going on and to deeply understand it.
Yes I agree Amanda, In fact supporting each other simply makes sense as both doctor and patient want the very same outcome . . . a return to good health.
I know that I’ve spoke with colleagues many times over the years and that we’ve often had conversations about not having enough time to do things and rushing around! I’ve even heard jokes about needing a catheter, meaning that we won’t have to leave our desks to go to the toilet, but in truth this is no laughing matter and this is just the type of behaviour that leads to ill health. Once I believed that I wasn’t able to change this and that was the way ‘Life is!’ But now I know that this isn’t true. Through making small changes at work like going to the toilet when I need to, having my lunch break and consistently going to bed early and starting work earlier AND through having Chakrapuncture sessions, I am actually more productive and sharper in my work than I’ve ever been. I’m sure my employers could vouch for that.
So true shevronsimon, it all starts with missing or overlooking the seemingly little signs our body gives us to respond to, that the bigger signs arise. Paying attention to ourselves as we would a newborn most certainly paves the way for a conscious and responsible way of being in the world.
I agree Shevon, the time I have taken off sick in over 5 years can be counted on one hand since making the same choices. The way we choose to live, those simple decisions like going to bed early and rising early have such a massive effect on our health and energy levels. Supporting our health is not hard, it just requires consistent dedication to truly feeling the effects of our every day choices and gently changing course. Over time it all adds up and our bodies truly benefit. If ever I feel grotty these days, the first place I look for the reason why is what have I been eating, drinking or doing that has produced this outcome.
I couldn’t agree more shevonsimon and rowenakstewart. Making changes to the way I eat, work, sleep and am generally in my day has had a massive impact on my health, and when I wake up feeling not so great, I look back to the previous day and bingo, it’s there to see. It always traces back to something like what I ate, how I expressed (was I frustrated, angry, or did I hold back) or did I check out on the internet before bed…all classic examples for me to guarantee I’ll feel less than my gorgeous self the next day. And that’s just one day!
Thanks for your comment shevonsimon, it made me reflect and appreciate the changes I have made at work. Our toilet is right out the back at my work and it is always so busy that it was a joke amongst the staff that when we do finally make it out to the toilets that we run all the way out there. After a while of laughing about it I realised that its not funny as it is one of the small moments of alone time we have in our busy work environment. I have walked down the back ever since and loved every step take, soaking up that consultation moment.
I smiled at the catheter comment as I too have observed that when I am in a pattern of overriding the normal signals of the body that my sense of well-being and overall health suffers, and of course I am more likely to seek external supports like something sweet to boost my energy level. Then the weekends become recovery periods. The simple changes you suggest I too have found to be super supportive.
I wonder how many of us have approached life and work feeling like there is never enough time? I know that in the teaching profession self care is not a priority as everything else “has to come first”. What you share about the small changes are actually rather huge as they help to change your relationship with yourself and therefore your relationship with the world. Becoming productive and sharper is only one by product, becoming more loving with yourself and therefore with all others is another – and this is massive!
Ignorance is bliss they say but the truth is that we do know how to take care of our bodies and how to be healthy but we deliberately choose to do the opposite- how very interesting indeed. Have we really looked at why this is?
Great observation Andrew and one that needs a little delving into. There is disdain in the way that we will crush ourselves to the point of illness and disease, then expect someone else to pick up the pieces. All the while knowing absolutely how to care for ourselves – this really makes no sense.
Deliberately choosing ignorance over the wealth we gain through choosing our health. Big ouch.
What if the hurts people feel are bigger than the knowing of how to take care of themselves? I know a man who was still smoking cigarettes after a heart bypass; I doubt there is a person on the planet who doesn’t know smoking is bad for you, and yet there ae still millions who smoke. I just wonder if addressing why is just too difficult to ‘go there’ yet.
Perhaps if GPs were better equipped to ask these sorts of deeper questions of their patients it would be less scary to get to the bottom of making unhealthy choices.
Suzanne you make a great point – the medical system itself turns out people who are exhausted and in turn needing to neutralise the ill choices by alcohol drugs and other lifestyle choices – some Doctors even smoke? So what then can we deliver as a first step to those that are part of humanity that we give this ‘get us fixed’ badge to. The medical system as do all people need – a way back to connect to themselves – a simple bridge back to the truth of who we all are.
If GP’s told us how it really is, then we would have to change our health immediately.
The challenge is we think taking care of our bodies is either boring, tedious, or hard work! In truth it is easy, simple and immensely rewarding.
It certainly is Heather! It is so rewarding that it seems silly to do anything but take care of that which carries us through life..
Spot on Heather…taking care of myself now is so very simple and easy. The complication used to be when I didn’t and I’d have symptoms, feel exhausted or unwell and drag myself around (that’s how it seems now) trying to work out why I felt the way I did.
Hear hear Heather the time is now and the way we live is our medicine. To come to this understanding and to start making choices that are truly Self-Loving in all aspects of life is when true change starts to occur. Serge Benhayon has been relentless in sharing how this is the way forward and this is absolutely evident in the way Serge lives his life, not just in one part but in all aspects of his life. To be shown that listening and honouring your body is a massive support and to get to point that I am worth the attention, this has meant deep reflection and healing. Which has been extemely empowering.
Great point Andrew. The great extremes are situations where people know that the excess sugary foods they are consuming will predispose them to diabetes but the addiction overrides the known fact … the driving force behind the illogical and health destroying behaviours most of us have had or are currently experiencing is worth exploring. What has certainly assisted me has been bringing self-care into my daily routine and appreciating what I can bring to others when I am well.
We often abdicate responsibility for the most important things – our health as a prime example. We don’t all need to be doctors, but we do need to understand that how we live affects our body, for better or for worse.
Denial is an interesting thing. In order to overcome it I have found that it has to take someone else to point out that `i am in it before I can recognise it, even though deep down there might be a knowing. This knowing is a key factor because when it is pointed out I that I am in denial I recognise it and can feel the knowing underneath, but it has taken me a while to get there as when in denial we get incredibly stubborn, like old miserable donkeys! The key question to ask once we recognise we are in denial is what am I getting out of my ignorance as it is giving me something I want or am invested in. Once we arrive at this point and can look at why we enjoy our ignorance we can start to turn things around…
Great how you highlight how often there is a lack of equality when it comes to visiting the GP. I have been aware of it, where you go in to the room and wait for them to tell you what is wrong with your body. I can feel how my relationship with GP’s has altered through bringing more awareness to how my body feels. I feel equal and responsible in these meetings.
Not only that Sam, but so often I notice a lack of responsibility. I have been living a certain way that leads to the ailment, and I expect the medical system to have a magic pill to clear that all away and make me better. While the knowledge that can be shared is incredibly helpful, its only empowered when we put it into action.
The term ‘magic pill’ reminds me of another aspect of this whole dilemma. Relying on medication – our magic pills – when we do seek medical support can be a trap. There are many effective medications and treatments today, and when these work, we can forget we have a condition and go back to living the way things were before the ailment set in. In other words, we can go back to living with the same level of disregard and irresponsibility we were in before our diagnosis.
There is such an unhealthy hierarchy seen in the medical model, where the administration or support staff are seen as less than the doctor. This has never felt true to me. I prefer to address my doctors by their first name, just like anybody else. I bring my symptoms and usually they confirm what I have already been feeling in my body. We discuss the issue to gain greater understanding and the possible approaches to addressing it, all with respect of their training and education but without making me less. I feel that I am able to bring something to them, a window in their busy day where they can just be themselves.
Lee what you have written about is great, for us all to learn to step up to the natural responsibility we all have. I have felt this equality for sometime now with GPs and also the naturopaths that I see, bringing my body with more and more responsibility in the choices I am making. It makes the practitioners job much easier and clearer, to read the symptoms and results and make appropriate recommendations which I can then slot into the way I am living which is already taking great care of all the other details.
Your suggesting humanity take responsibility for their own wellbeing, I feel the wheel is just beginning to turn in that direction. There are many alternatives being presented some bring a cure but few lead to true wellbeing and responsibility. I feel we may get the message that we can’t rely on the medical profession for all the answers but as for society learning to take responsibility will be the biggest rock for the wheel to get over. This world is not set up to have any realisation that the direction we are heading is in fact the wrong way. Unless of course we get a big correction that has us face our inevitable responsibilities for all own actions and thus our wellbeing.
It is such a different experience going to see a GP with the knowing that they do not know more about what I am feeling and experiencing in my body and taking responsibility for the choices I have made that have meant I have ended up there. There is less pressure on the doctor to have all the answers, but allows them to practice what they are experts in – working with the body.
That’s very true Simone. It really does make a difference to the doctor (or any health professional for that matter) and ourselves when we choose to take responsibility for our own health and wellbeing.
So true Jennifer. I have developed a lovely relationship with my GP and the entire practice over many years. Taking responsibility for my health and working with my GP makes it so much easier to deal with any health issues that require his level of expertise.
Yes, wouldn’t it be great Simone, if the doctor asked the patient why they thought they had the symptoms they were presenting with rather than the doctor feeling he/she has to sort it out. More self responsibility is the key!
Hi Anne, my doctor does just that. She is the most caring, respectful doctor. She listens intently to my feelings as to why I may be feeling a certain way and adds her bit and makes suggestions. She always checks if what she is prescribing me is gluten and dairy free. She is a real deal carer. To me she is like family.
I have noticed this even when speaking with friends recently Anne. Sometimes I talk in a way that says “I have a problem and I don’t know what to do”, rather than honestly saying “I have a problem but I am not connecting to what I know to do”. Similarly, when friends and family have problems I can see the value in asking them how they feel and sharing my feelings in a way that does not undermine but empowers.
Yes, I would imagine much more liberating for the doctor since they are not expected to have all the answers. Working together in equality with your patients would probably prove much more rewarding and far less draining.
It would refreshing for everyone to be simply asked “what do you feel is going on in your body?” An amazing foundation for doctor and patient to work from.
Great point michelle819 – it feels like supporting doctors in this way would not only prove less exhausting but could also reduce the high rates of depression and suicide that are prevalent in the profession.
I give my 6 year old son a massage each night before he goes to sleep. I work on his kidneys some days, others his nervous system…He has his own choices but as his mother I support him. I also ask my housemate for similar treatments when I have something going on in my body, and she does the same. This is normal for our home. We treat each other.
This is so beautiful Nikki and so natural to care so simply for those who live with us. Our bodies are crying out for extra support and it is in these moments that we can get help to check in on how our days were, how are rhythms are going, are we pushing etc. So important and key to the responsibility that we all have.
I am even doing the same more with friends. If I catch up with a friend who needs support, instead of sitting round chatting, why not get them on the table and give them a kidney massage (or whatever it is they might need)? It’s a beautiful way to connect with friends. It’s honest, supportive and loving – on both sides and in many ways.
Brilliant and shows that the true communication for each and everyone happens with and through our bodies. Amazing support Nikki.
Great examples at work of people within families and the same households supporting each other to understand what is going on in the body.
I agree Lee, such a simple and lovely way to support ourselves. Why wait until we are sick or can no longer function before we take care of ourselves? The old saying about an ounce of prevention over a pound of cure comes to mind.
We can do so much to support ourselves and our family very simply Nikki, you are a great example of how the Esoteric Modalities as taught by Universal Medicine provide us with a myriad of ways to help one another. In this way we sort out the minor stuff and only need bother the doctor with the really serious issues.
Further to Lee Poole’s comment, I once heard that on average, 70% of our total life health care spend takes place in the last 5 years of our lives. Sounds like we spend the year prior pretty much ignoring our health until there is no choice but to respond.
I know it from many people and as well myself, this pretend of being okay, not really needing support etc, as if it would be a weakness when we ask someone for a caring support. Honesty and the willingness to be caring and loving with oneself, and that might go along with a healthy sense of self-worth, seems to be a crucial part of changing our attitude and culture regarding health and health care.
I agree Alex honestly appraising what is happening for us in our day to day is so important – it is the opening door on how we can best support ourselves and see k support from others. Crucial first step.
This is inspirational Nikki. Treating each other should be a normal thing to do in our homes. Better than watching TV 🙂
Thank you for sharing.
Quite often my children will come to me and ask for healing as it has become normal practice in our house. Quite often my children will offer me a healing and quite often my husband will ask them for one! I love this aspect of our family life as we are all in it together, supporting one another in equality.
That’s amazing michelle819. Sharing that with your family is your first line of healthcare.
That is a beautiful family set up Michelle. My son now often gives me a healing. We do a heart massage swap before he goes to bed. He loves giving as much as he does receiving.
Nikki and Michelle, it is beautiful to read how you’re raising your children so that healing at home is so very normal and provides a great support for each family member.
That’s amazing nikkimckee! what an awesome way to live.
That is great Nikki and is a prime example of how we can utilise what we have to support each other to stay vital rather than waiting until we get really ill and need to see the doctor. Anything less than living fully vital is already the start of illness and disease so it is important that we do not let our bodies get run down, after all why would we?!
I can appreciate myself in reading this blog. For many years a GP has been a last port of call. I take responsibility for my own health and visit a GP when I need extra support or when I reach a point where I need that help. Long ago I stopped giving my power away to GPs. I remember when pregnant I had something funny going on and I booked in to see a GP. Between making the booking and seeing the doctor I researched what was going on and self diagnosed shingles. I went to the doctor and lo and behold he googled my symptoms! That was exactly what I had done. He came to the same conclusion I had and he treated me accordingly.
I love this blog Lee and the way it claims back our true power to heal and support one another. It makes me realise just how much our traditional approach abdicates our responsibility to life. Living with a family of others who know their own healing power has been one of the most supportive things I have ever experienced.
The abdication of responsibility is so normal, that many will not often see it to be true. How we live is our medicine, and although the support of the medical system is imperative, the time is here for us all to participate in our own rescue.
Heather this is a great point ‘The abdication of responsibility is so normal…’ it is not only in the health system that this occurs, every facet of life is shown to be a playground of irresponsibility.
Becoming aware collectively that we have this ability is a slow process. As has been articulated, the modalities on offer and the fact that we can clear our ailments by being honest about them is something everyone can do. I know from experience when I experience a tension in my body – even before it becomes an ailment, once I nominate what that tension is and where it comes from it clears immediately. With practice this can become a normal every day occurrence and is done naturally, like cleaning your teeth! Talking about it with another can be super supportive too.
Absolutely Joseph. My health has continued to improve (despite my advancing years) since I have made taking care of myself a priority. It is super supportive to be around people who live with the same level of responsibility.
Great point Joseph, about living with others of a similar bent – I’ve found this to be true too. Plus, we all support each other by offering esoteric treatments and other practical supports if required at home. This, plus self-responsibility in our health care and an understanding of the underlying energetic causes of whatever is going on for us is the first line of defence, so to speak, in working with whatever comes up. A kind of ‘first aid’ but at a deeper level. Addressing what we can ourselves and with our family as well as seeking medical support when needed. Beautiful!
I love to read your blog and getting a look at the prospect your offering to ponder on. That is truly a beautiful view, when: “the relationship between patient and the family doctor naturally returns to an equal footing. One knows their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health.” Reading your blog, I realized how frustrating it must be also for the GP’s nowadays, when most of their patients are coming with the expectation to be “fixed”. Giving their responsibility to the GP. As no one is able to carry the responsibility for another and it always leads to harming situations and illness, it is the same in the health care system. So becoming responsible and knowing the own body intimately inside and out to go and then getting a counseling from another one, who is living the same way and having the skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health, is truly beautiful – and it will be.
I can really relate to what you have expressed here Stefanie, it is amazing when the two come together, i.e. GP and us working together in harmony and with a responsibility of the simple fact that we have carried our bodies around with us and we makes choices for our bodies. What a powerful understanding and something that is really not spoken about in today’s society.
Great point Stefanie König, it is about time that as patients we walk into our GP knowing or at least having an inkling of what may be going on. Even if we only bring the tiniest piece of the puzzle. We do not need a medical degree to know if we have been over eating or staying up later than usual. There are always some simple self care things that support us when we are down and out and these self loving actions are often avoided. The responsibility should be equally as important and come part and parcel with any actual medicine you may receive, as self responsibility is a medicine in its own right.
Absolutely Sarah ” self responsibility is a medicine in its own right.” spot on. A GP, told me once that most people did not want advice on diet, lifestyle and exercise they only wanted the pills. He was very disheartened as he told me as he was an enthusiastic young doctor. Many of us want change but do not seem to want to change our self.
That Doctor had something true to offer; the only problem was he was invested in patients listening. My advice to him would have been “don’t worry, just keep doing what you’re doing and deepen the quality you deliver it in each time.” If one in a hundred people take in what he is saying and begin to make slight changes in their life, then that’s amazing and still makes a huge difference.
Great advice Sarah, very wise and so true. We cannot afford to be invested in anyone getting anything. All we ever need to do is deepen our connection with our self and the rest takes care of itself.
Absolutely, if the world knew and lived by this truth it would truly be a very different world indeed.
So true sarahraynebaldwin as the world really only reflects how we are as a whole.
Indeed and thus the truth is that we have the power to change the world, as we all have the power to change ourselves.
Yes sarahaynebaldwin and that can be as simply as changing our posture.
Spot on Kathleen
And the next piece to add to the mix of self-understanding + specialist knowledge and advice is esoteric understanding of illness and disease, which provides insight into the root causes. Only then will we have a truly holistic approach to our health.
Beautifully said Stefanie – if we are here dedicated in this life for a purpose and the purpose for one is to be able to support another with their body and health problems, how frustrating is it to be locked in to a way of thinking and living that constantly causes tension with that which you are there to do. Add to that the tension created by the fact that all others are living in a way that is irresponsible and so the the end result is a complete disharmony between all parties. Simply shifted if we each take responsibility.
So true Lee. As I am also working for doctors in my profession, I realize how many of them develop a behavior to “take” all of the responsibility not taken by the patient him or herself to then go into the trap of wanting recognition for doing it, not honoring themselves nor the other one, becoming arrogant, disconnected and frustrated and so on. This is not a healthy basis for providing health. And as you stated, taking responsibility in a true way is the way. I have a friend (here in Germany) who was working as a freelance midwife to support women with giving birth at home or at a birthplace. She finished to do that, because she couldn’t handle the fact, that most women did not choose to really claim their power, authority and responsibility to give birth with all the after effects to the process of childbirth and the disconnection to themselves and to their babies afterwards. But this is already an after effect of the health care system, where doctors (I guess after the second world war) started to question the authority of women to give birth to becoming themselves indispensable to the process. They proclaimed them laying on their backs, what is the most unsuitable position to give birth… So claiming our power and knowledge for our own bodies and wealth back and taking the responsibility and authority will change our lives, relationships with doctors and health care systems.
As far as I can tell this is the only way to prevent our health care systems going bankrupt, if that’s even possible at this stage, and if not, it is the only way forward…
Yes true Laura, we may already be past the rescuing stage for many of our health systems but we can do so much to support ourselves everyday by observing the effects of our choices on our bodies. When we claim responsibility for our health we can actually gain much more from our health systems. Its a two way partnership, with the emphasis of responsibility and power sitting with the patient not the doctor. The more we wake up to that fact the sooner we will be able to turn things around.
This is true Laura and the enormous changes in health and vitality that those who have made this wisdom into a liveness are experiencing shows it is not wishful thinking but actually is very possible and very effective.
Great point Laura – from the World’s perspective the current system has no long term future… so what is the alternative? Universal Medicine has been offering this kind of hand in hand support where we all learn and take more self responsibility. A new approach that is much needed (and pretty obvious).
Universal Medicine offers a true and lasting alternative to complement the current medical system. Over the last 10 years the number of hip replacements in the US has doubled, with people younger and younger needing the surgery. What on earth is going on when we see statistics like this? Time to consider a different way.
This is a great point Heather and something I have noticed also amongst my clients, young women are now having hip replacements and this is being seen as normal and just part of life. Often these women are not even giving themselves the time to recover and heal properly before they head back into the way they are living.
Building on aminatumi’s comment below about women leaping straight back into the way they’ve been living following hip replacements, I have seen this too – even in people who have had cancer. Ignoring what has happened can’t be a good thing. The sooner we all come to understand we are the cause of our illness and disease, the better. Pretending disease is something random or genetic is burying the truth. Illness and disease are corrections to the way we have been living.
I agree Victoria, educating the world with these simple facts are very important and they bring to us all the ability to choose another way of living, even if it takes a few years to make changes.
Well said Simon, Universal Medicine is the way forward because it empowers people to take responsibility for their own lives and well being. The medical system is crying out for help and the answer is here but the question is are people really ready and willing to look at the way they live their lives and so take responsibility for themselves? Some sure, but from what I can see not all are ready quite yet!
This is very true Laura, our health care services are close to collapse and the demand on them is ever increasing, there is so much illness and disease suffered by so many. I can feel how the NHS are now looking into preventative health care and are offering health checks, I had one when I turned 40, there were a lot of lifestyle questions and it was to help me consider my diet, exercise etc..so that I can make choices to live in a healthier way to possibly prevent a severe medical condition later on.
I agree Rebeccawingrave, the NHS does do health checks at the local doctors surgery and from my experience we don’t have to wait until they ask us if we want to come, but we can initiate the appointment ourselves. I have done this regularly along with paying to have Bupa health check to have an overall check on everything as a birthday present to myself.
That’s a great development. I’m not sure we have this yet in Australia. I personally encourage all women aged 40+ years to get their hormone levels assessed as this can reveal more subtle conditions that can often be missed. This feels like a responsible thing to do, simply as a matter of course.
Yes Laura, the expectation of a cure or a fix puts an enormous pressure on our health system and the people who work in it.
Much of what is presented to them/us (I am a nurse) is entirely preventable should one make a loving choice to make some simple lifestyle changes.
The answer to solving the problems of our health system is indeed that simple, but we seem to shy away from taking responsibility for what we do and how we are living. A big step forward would be to really observe and listen to our bodies as they give us the answers to anything concerning our health and well-being if only we listen to them.
I agree Laura but I am not sure that that the world is really ready to look at this yet – that we all equal and that we are much more responsible for our ailments than we think. That we can look at how we live our lives with much more honesty (and love) and take responsibility for how we engage/reaction/show love etc… History shows us that we often wait until there is a BIG CRISIS before we change (and often only for a short time) so I feel a health care crisis coming on before anything is actioned.
Sarah I agree, history does show change happens when there is a crisis, a point where people cannot deny comfort cannot be sustained. I have to say historically this has been true of myself but underlying it all there is a grace we can return to no matter what.
The world may not be ready Sarah but we can show the way through blogs like this and the conversations that follow. It does seem like we are heading for a health crisis if we are not already having one.
That’s so true Sarah, but the sad fact is that we are already in a health care crisis, how bad does it have to get?
It is true Sarah, we as a humanity rarely act, always instead reacting, it is one of the traits that belies the intelligence we actually all have. We see this in the natural disasters that afflict us and in the health stats that we don’t want to look at, waiting until we are not at breaking point but actually broken, and the crazy thing is that the changes we need to make to offset this would actually rewards us with true wellbeing, optimal health and great feelings of energy.
Many may not yet be ready to let go of the cycle of self-abuse and then turning to the medical world for a fix but every single person has the ability to make this choice. This way of relating to our bodies and being self responsible has not been lived by many and therefore is not in the conscious mind of many. The more people live this the more reflection there is and the more people will be at least offered a conscious choice.
Anyway, there is only one way – to present what is possible by living example. And then it is for everyone to see and make their choices. It was never different. Time is not the factor; truth and responsibility are.
Amen sister! That’s the truth and what an amazing way forward it is, who wouldn’t want to be more connected to themselves closer to family and more familiar with your body, I know I do.
Very true Sarahraynebaldwin, the alternative is a very lonely and unsettled place to be.
Yes, I have been in that place and before I was introduced to the teachings of Universal Medicine I thought that was the only place that existed.
Sarah I know exactly what you are talking about. I used to hold on because I didn’t want to queue as I had too much to do – now waiting for the toilet is a blessing and I make sure that I don’t hold on either. But what I have really started to do is just enjoy that time with myself, instead of thinking what needs to be done next and surrendering to my stillness within.
Yes, it’s simple changes that make a huge impact on your health and well being. Interestingly enough, before I studied as a student of The Way Of The Livingness, I was so owned by a way of thinking that I did not and could not see what even needed adjusting and how much impact these changes would have on my overall health and well being.
Yes Laura. The extraordinary rise in preventable disease is burdening the health systems – it is predicted that the treatment of diabetes will consume all the NHS resources in time if current trends continue.
We keep hearing stats like this in Australia too. This alarming state of affairs indicates change is needed now – but as others have suggested here, that probably won’t happen until a major crisis occurs. The thing is, our health and health care systems are already at breaking point… I’m sure sections of governments are quietly panicking but for the most part, this awareness has passed us by. Or, we’re doing our best to ignore what’s going on.
the painful irony in this Anne and Victoria is that the major crisis is already occurring. We continue to talk about it as if it is something of the future to avoid having to admit that today’s science and medical world simply do not have the answer and a big change in the way we are living is unavoidable. We are desperately trying to postpone the inevitable and in that are choosing to not see that the day is already upon us.
I agree Laura. Our health systems are under enormous stress and we as a society and as humanity as a whole need to be taking personal responsibility for our own health.
Yes, health care begins with self-care.
This is such a great slogan Victoria ; )
Laura that is how sad it has become, that the NHS has got to a point where it is nearly if not bankrupt. We have to stop and look at our part in all of this. What is presented in this blog is fantastic – if we were to take Responsibility to nurture and look after ourselves and honoured what the body was telling us then I’m sure that would have a huge impact on the health system. As you say it looks like it maybe going in the direction anyway – that it is our last resort. Question is why wait?
Yes Laura, without us taking responsibility for our health, the NHS and other health systems around the world will become a distant memory of a luxury that we once had.
Laura, a very astute observation. Being in the denial of our crumbling systems and telling ourselves that we can keep operating the way we always have will achieve nothing. The only way forward is for us to take responsibility for our own health and as Rowena says, work with the doctor not give our power away to them.
Well said Laura, this is the only way to prevent our health system to collapse. The ancient wisdom as presented by Universal Medicine and the way we live is the key for longevity and harmony of living.
“Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.” Such a beautiful prospect, Lee, and one, as I’m sure you know, is already being lived by the students of The Way of The Livingness. How awesome will it be for all of us when all take such loving responsibility for own own health and for our bodies? And yes, how beautiful to share one’s understanding of one’s body in complete equality with the medical practitioner.
It is great you are opening up the conversation about how we expect our GP’s to fix us Lee. We have created this mountainous business that is close to bankruptcy because we as a society are not willing to take responsibility for our own wellbeing. I know before Universal Medicine I took very little care of my body and sought relief where ever I could find it for the pain I was suffering, instead of stopping and asking myself why I really had the pain. On the occasions when I did, I didn’t really want to know the answer because that would mean I would have to change my lifestyle and start taking responsibility for why my body was feeling the way it was. Do we wait until the system is bankrupt or do we start making strides towards our own healing, and begin to heal a system that is already over burdened.
Responsibility and the bigger picture of what is going on with our health in the world is much needed. A great honest blog calling for deep care, responsibility and love for our selves, our bodies and how we live. Thank you Lee.
There is certainly a large construct of what we hold a Doctor to be, we expect our Doctors to be in some ways superhuman, in fact I can rarely remember ever connecting on a personal level with any Doctor I have seen, they may occasionally ask me about myself, very occasionally, but I felt as if there was a wall up that stops any connection to who they were as a person. From writing this I now see my responsibility in attending the Doctor, is to be more aware of the being that is attending to me and staying open with them, this might not be in words, simply in being completely present and willing to engage.
“To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.” If we all understood the importance of this and the impact it has on others then we would really understand the importance of responsibility. Every move we make impacts on or supports the healing of another. This is huge and something to ponder on.
I love your description of the healing and evolving family unit – a group responsibility for all the family and its constituent parts in whatever way it’s needed in that moment. And taking individual responsibility for our own bodies to a consultation with a doctor means that you have already set the foundation for your healing by adding your own willingness and commitment to it regardless of whatever the medical prognosis is.
Thank you Lee for a great blog. Pondering on your blog and responsibility it occurred to me that we are not brought up to be responsible. It would be easy to blame the patient who goes into the doctor’s surgery being irresponsible towards their own health, but this will not offer a true healing till we understand why we are living such irresponsibility. The key is to understanding that our actions impact on the all, that each of our choices have a direct impact on others. This is a big pill to swallow but one that needs to be understood for us to start to change this pattern of irresponsibility.
So true Fiona, How we live in every moment is medicine, if we get unwell, look at the foods, emotions etc. It’s taking responsibility in everything we do.
Not enough emphasis is given to the medicine that is the way we live our daily life. We’ve often reduced medicine just to something that comes in a bottle! Serge Benhayon has been the greatest support to me in developing how I live to truly support wellbeing in every way.
We so very often assume that someone who has been through medical training and has a plaque on the wall knows more about ourselves than we do. Yet this requires us to completely discount the fact that we spend more time with us than anyone else! Yes, doctors are awesome at knowing the functions of a body and diagnosing illnesses and their services are vital, especially right now, but to assume that they are like a mechanic and are there to fix us when we have driven our bodies too hard, is respecting neither ourselves nor them.
Yes – we all need to re empower our inner expert and re develop our abilities to read and accept the signs and indications our bodies offer us long before we ever become sick. That alone would save the Health system billions!
Imagine if that were the case? GPs might be facing cuts not from being overworked, but due to a lack of work!
Aaahhh..but what if there were a next evolutionary point of them to move onto once we had all accepted that level of responsibility: what would that new medicine look like? Now that feels worthy of contemplation!
It would free up medicine to actually be more of a support to our lives instead of the constant firefighting that they are having to do now. Medicine cannot get ahead of what is being thrown at it right now. If we accepted that responsibility for ourselves doctors would be able to start working on supporting us in a way that allowed us to be more of who we are.
Well said Naren. It really shows how we can give our power away. I love what Lee shared about how much emphasis has been placed on education. A GP may have spent years studying the human body, but I have spent many more years living in my own body. I can use the knowledge of a GP but not at the expense of my own knowing.
Exactly. And that allows for us to go to the GP knowing our bodies already. This in turn allows for a doctor to have even more information than they would usually, and therefore provide a more accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Working together with both knowledges – ourselves of our own bodies, and the doctor with the medical knowledge. There is no handing over of responsibility, but a working together.
Working together towards health. Making it about sharing and relationship, appreciating each other’s part in the equation.
So true Naren. It is so common for people to give their power away to the doctor because he is educated in the human body. But our everyday life is an education in our own bodies. Yes, we spend every moment of every day with ourselves. If anyone is going to know the reason for our bodies breaking down, we will!
Awesome article Lee, just this afternoon I attended a meeting at our local doctors surgery where we discussed the immediate problem with the shortage of doctors in the UK, what you are showing us here is that if we take greater responsibility for our health and wellbeing we could all be helping a system that is falling apart and in desperate need of true change – a change that can only be brought on by us all taking big steps towards self responsibility.
Huge changes in the medical system (and society) are possible if each and every person was their own medicine. It is a strange phenomena that many people have come to a point where they do not have the self responsibility for taking care of their health. Who suffers at the end of the day? The medical system may collapse but in the meantime there could be a lifetime spent in an ailing body. In saying that, the medical system is there to support us when we are ill, but we have the higher proportion of the responsibility.
I fully agree but along with taking responsibility to keep ourselves healthy and make loving choices there is also a lot the government could be doing. The food that is currently available and advertised for is designed to keep people coming back for more with all kind of additives and (sometimes ridiculous amounts of) sugar in just about anything. It is hard for adults and even more so for for children to resist the kind of food that is offered everywhere they go.
The government could do more but it is still our choice at the end of the day. It is my body I live in and I am the one responsible. The government wouldn’t need to do anything if everyone stopped eating sugar.
Lee you have brought attention to an essential problem playing out majorly all over the world, that despite knowing what is good for us, we do not choose it. It is clear that the whole conditioned way of living, that is passed down from generation to generation, needs to be healed – starting with ourselves. Simply appreciating how lovely I can feel in my body and how I deserve to feel this way every hour of every day of my life, is a huge change and challenge to what is considered to be a normal way of living. Taking the bad with the good keeps the old consciousness going and becomes so comfortable that it is no surprise when bad becomes worse.
Spot on Simon we do deserve to feel ourselves in every moment – appreciating what we become aware of, how this expands us or not – all things, all aspects matter and this is exactly how we need to start living. Knowing ourselves deeply inside and out.
Beautifully written, Lee. I hadn’t thought about the equality in service of all the professions in that way. How empowering to see every human being as a potential contributor to our health, not only our doctors.
“Although there will always be a need for General Practitioners and medical specialists, it becomes apparent that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner”…”. Who else’s true responsibility is it really, but our own for the way we choose to live, for if we are honest with ourselves we know the huge effect that has on our health. And if necessary taking responsibility for our health may include having to be willing to make changes in the way we are living, and with the support of Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine we can achieve this.
Actually Lee, I was pondering for a while of a brochure with the title: ‘My responsibility as a patient’. This is no joke and I am not kidding, as in the cases when I am ill and need to see my GP, I am really shocked a bit to see how the other patients hold themselves and give all the power to the illness and in the same way to the doctor to cure them. I still say ‘nobody can know better what is going on in you than yourself – as you have placed it in your body in the first place’. Yes if we close our eyes from this awareness and self-responsibility, then of course we assume it another can know better. Of course in some cases we will need the advice of a good practitioner or as you said with a bit of training of our families and friends to help us see what we do not want.
Brilliant article Lee exposing how the belief, that one’s intelligence makes one above another, does not truly serve us as a society. It is often the case that we sit ourselves under the ‘intelligence’ of another and as such give away our capacity of knowing and expressing what we feel. When visiting a GP with this belief we offer only a part of ourselves and as such this part is only what is being treated. I agree that there is such a great importance for GP’s in our society as the support that is offered plays an integral part in our healing and maintaining well-being. Yet it is the quality of the body that we bring to our GP’s that determines how much healing is possible, as they are not the ones responsible for the state that our bodies are in. I love how you say we are all our own inner GP. As ‘understanding that we are responsible for all that the body is’ is the first step to understanding that no-one knows our bodies like we ourselves do and as such to developing a loving relationship with our bodies. And when we embrace this in our lives and within our families we can bring awareness to the way we are choosing to live and as such the way we choose to heal with the true support that we then know and feel is needed.
So true, Carola: whether it be the dentist, the doctor, the teacher – we have a bad habit of giving away our power to the educated and trained professional. Why would we do that when we are the only ones living with ourselves ( or our children) 24/7 ? We put one intelligence on a pedestal and completely override another form of innate intelligence, present in all. Why would we do that to ourselves? Crazy stuff….
Beautifully said Carola, and so true that we can tend to only offer up the part of us we feel needs attention rather than considering the whole that is carrying it and why.
Great stuff Lee you have raised some really good points here, the more of us that can live responsibly, taking a major role in our own well-being instead of being irresponsible and leaving our health to the mercy of a failing health system, the more people will be inspired to do the same.
This is a great article, if we took responsibility for our choices and looked at what we eat, how we relate to ourselves and each other in all we do ‘All the pressure could be relieved if we all started to look at how we move ourselves around the planet’ we would then, not have so many worn out and rundown GP.
Taking more care with my body has supported me to really feel when there is something not right that actually requires medical attention, as happened earlier this year. Through the relationship I have built with my GP through maintaining regular health checks and her seeing the result of the level of responsibility I have taken with myself, my GP pulled out all the stops to explore every avenue that was required until we got to the bottom of it. Pre Serge Benhayon’s presentations, I would have been anxious and scared of what the findings might be and would have put off the visit indefinitely.
A great blog Lee. I used to avoid visiting GP’s so that I would not have to take any prescription drugs. Since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon this has completely changed and inspired me to take a far greater level of responsibility for my body and its care. Now, I am in regularly every year to the GP for my annual check up.
Her comment is always along the lines of “how great it would be if every patient took more care of themselves like this – your readings are amazing”.
What I am observing is that lot of people think they can just do what they want with their body, basically treating it just as a means for pleasure – smoking, drinking, eating and exhausting it – when it breaks down they think they can go to the doctor and get it fixed and they often demand that. This kind of irresponsibility puts a tremendous load onto our medical system and us as a society, which cannot be sustained, so the way forward that you are suggesting in your blog Lee, truly is the only way to the future.
What you are effectively communicating here Lee, is that there is a way to live our life, that is like medicine for the body, it is based on self-care and self-nurturing, honouring the body to the bone and treating it such. A body that is treated in this way is bound to be stronger and when it breaks down has a lot more capacity to heal.
I found that developing a greater self and body awareness and slowly but surely making different more loving choices (lifestyle,personal) to what I was previously making, I am healthier now than I was in my forties. This is due to what I have loved learning and embracing through Universal Medicine. Self accountability, self responsibility, self awareness, these are the greatest gifts we could ever give ourselves, though really, they are something we always had but somehow lost. They cost little and support us back a hundred fold. To get to know oneself so intimately so that when you take yourself to the GP or any other health practitioner you have a clear understanding of what you need to work with together seems like common sense to me. Abandoning our responsibility for ourselves and seeking a quick fix so we can carry on the same, is a massive pressure on a doctor and not their responsibility either.
This exposes how medicine is our relationships. We don’t consider that the quality of our relationships is an illness which is just as serious as cancer if it is not supporting us to be all of who we truly are. Yet how often do we hold back, contract, hold judgements, critiques, issues, hurts and anything and everything that is not of Love in our relationships nearly all of the time, only to hold us back personally and to our own great detriment? It feels like bringing more love, care and intimacy to all our interactions in the way will go a long way to supporting us all to heal our ills long before they become the serious medical conditions that we need the health system for
No wonder we get ill if we are meant to live loving and caring. If we hold back the love that is innately inside all of us, if we don’t connect with each other and deepen our relationships with everyone we put so much strain in our body and all its organs it has to get sick. We are designed to live in harmony and brotherhood and our bodies don’t accept anything less.
Absolutely Monika. This should be taught at schools as one of the first and foremost lessons we learn – Never hold back our Love and intimacy with All
Great point Joshua that our relationships can enhance our health and vitality and purpose in life or make us very ill depending on the quality we allow these relationships to be.
It’s just as sick to have struggles and tensions in relationships as it is to have a wart on our skin. It’s just that we cannot see it in the same way, but it is still an ill.
It is true that we place far more emphasis on things we can visually see with our eyes but there is so much going on energetically which is equally real and relevant to the physical.
Absolutely andrewmooney26, and it would not only benefit the quality of our lives to see life more this way, but also the whole of Humanity and our relationships with everyone.
Beautifully said Joshua, the relationship with ourself and with others is the true marker for our health. Anything less than harmony is an illness.
Our relationships with doctors have changed hugely. These days there are very few who have known us all our lives and the various illnesses that they have supported us through. As the landscape of healthcare changes further due to the insurmountable rates of disease, it calls to us to take more responsibility for our own health and well-being.
This is very true Jinya. I remember as a child we had a family doctor who we went to for many years, and who visited our house when needed. We built a relationship with him. He was almost part of the family! This is simply not the case any more. In my adult life I don’t think I have ever seen the same doctor twice. There is no room for relationship building. Yes, ultimately it is up to us to take responsibility for our own health, and therefore not lean on the doctors so much. It’s a shame that the personal touch has been lost.
Times have certainly changed Rebecca. Our family doctor was also like a member of the family. I still remember him clearly as he used to chain smoke as he attended to you! Lovely man but smoking was not considered a health hazard then!
Jinya this is so very true the ‘landscape of the healthcare’ is ever changing and with people moving constantly it is very hard to start and build a relationship of longevity – something I myself put much weight on through out the years. Being the regular at the local coffee shop etc gets you special (perceived) treatment. The fact is relationship is built on quality and this can be felt and connected to in an instant – open and clear and we will get the support and in this way support another to feel what is possible when we commit back to our connection.
Very true Lee. What is it about these days that although we have so many forms of communicating and connecting, we have less communities. Doctors were very much a part of that as were the postman, the butcher and the policman etc. There is something bigger going on where relationships are in flux and they don’t mean the same things they used to.
This exposes how most of us go around wanting a quick fix when we are unwell and the obvious choice is the local GP. I have found the last couple of times I felt unwell the GP i saw had no idea what was happening, there was nothing of concern in my bloods or other tests. This seems to be a common occurrence for others I have spoken to as well.
How true Lee, working together with your GP would be building an amazing relationship, and a learning for both. I do this with my gastroenterologist specialist that I have to see regularly, I share with him what works for me ie, what foods I have removed from my diet that have supported me in my healing, I suggest to him to see if changing the diet would support his other patients also. When I first started seeing him, it was all about just taking the medication, that’s it, the medicine is all you need. It had nothing to do with food, the illness was just something that happened. I continually challenged him on this, and he is seeing the results in me, that changing your lifestyle does make a difference, and he is able to pass this on to his other patients, he is opening up to it and we have great chats when I see him, we are working together.
This is amazing Natalie and a great marker for all of us that experience and get the opportunity to connect with medical professionals of all status and responsibility. The more we can express clearly from our position of health what is making the difference – the more they can connect to the fact that medicine is based on the whole body not the tablet, cream or operation. You are leading the way in allowing another to see and feel that life’s choices make a difference.
Brilliant article Lee, it really is as simple as bringing responsibility to the simple, everyday parts of life – “The foods and drinks we consume, the way we handle our emotions, accept and appreciate ourselves, the way we walk etc. all have an amazing imprint for all to feel and see.”
Exactly Hannah bringing responsibility to all facets of life is key.
Well written Lee, the state of our health all comes down to the choices we make.
Completely Joe there is no denying or changing this fact.
Thank you Lee. It makes total sense that we need to take full responsibility for our own health, and therefore will only need the GP for support when required. This is the way that I have been living for many years. I hardly ever go to the GP as it is not needed, but when I do, all the medical practitioners are often surprised at my attitude and how open I am to working WITH them to heal the issue at hand. It is actually joyful! A far cry from a visit to the doctor due to failing health because of poor choices and irresponsibility. What a weight GPs are expected to carry. It’s time to lighten their load.
Even those who take charge of their own health, like Universal Medicine students, they still regularly go to their GP, only now the visits are much more valuable as they are able to put reliably into practice what their GP recommends.
So true Christoph, what I learned with Universal Medicine is how I can utterly enjoy the visit to my GP, it is meeting a specialist that I discuss my body with. I listen to what is suggested, ask my questions, maybe do some research myself and then feel into it what I need to do, and sometimes a second opinion is helpful.
Absolutely Christoph – my GP is an essential part of my well-being team.
This is beautiful Carola and what a refreshing way to support you through life, a well being team supporting you to live truly.
Christoph that is true, we go from a point of not going with ‘a fix me mode’, but more how can I prevent a condition from happening from symptoms that might be felt. We go with a sense of responsibility – what can we do to change the way we live to support our health.
Absolutely Christoph. It is since Universal Medicine that I have willingly gone to the doctors as I appreciate what they can do to support me but I now know this is not the answer as I have to take responsibility and look at my choices that led to the condition. I now see illness and disease as a blessing and an opportunity to stop and make these changes.
Our medicine in life is all about responsibility. So that is well said Lee. We can not go to the GP and just ask for a fix: ‘I have a sick body (on behalf of my choices) can you fix it for me?’ (without concerning our own insight of why we have become sick in the first place). This is a lot of the mentality in our current medical system. So what you bring in here is relevant and super important, if we first take responsibility for our irresponsibiity and possible effects this has had on our body – we can go to our GP and ask for support – this is way more humble and no longer abusing or expecting the other person (GP) to give you the solution. It is very empowering, this is what our medical visits should look like. Empowering us to live healthy and fit!
It’s a powerful combination, a well trained medical professional and a patient empowered and committed to understanding their own responsibility and choices.
Very powerful indeed Joel. If we also realised that ill-health is an absolute blessing as it addresses a way of living that is not true, we would also see the incredible opportunity that we are presented with anytime we do require the support of a GP to understand how our choices are impacting our body.
This is a nice addition Vicky, not fight off illness but embracing it for the support that is offers the body and the way it can help us refine our way of living.
Thank you for highlighting this, Vicky. A disease is by no means the punishment so many people speak of. It is the body’s way of clearing the energy it can’t cope with and communicating it wants to be treated different. Our way of living and the choices we made weren’t supporting the body so it is time to make different choices.
That is a powerful combination and great healing is possible through that.
Just being cheeky here but we could have signs up at medical practices; “If you are not willing to take responsibility for your ill health please do not enter”. This would be so challenging, especially for medical professionals who are equally not willing to take responsibility for their ill health. Shows how out of control irresponsibility is, even though we do know what to do and what we should be doing we don’t.
This made me smile Laura B – would there be anyone left in the hospital or Doctors surgery?
We could also pay doctors for every day we are healthy, then see where we focus our efforts 🙂
We are all our own general practitioner and we are all general practitioners of life as we experience life. How then have we managed to get into the situation where we believe that we have to go to a certain person for a certain fixture when we have the experience of the whole that created the part? Giving ourselves the space to claim that power is huge not only for ourselves but as you say Lee, takes the pressure of the medical systems attempting to take on this load that is not truly meant for them to take on.
Very well said Leigh. We often go to the doctors thinking that the GP is the most experienced and knowledgable person about our body, but could it actually be us? We are the ones who live with ourselves every day, know our own vices and make the choice to either love or disregard our body – so surely we are the real experts!
One wonders whether GPs are becoming tired of trying to ‘fix’ people who come to their surgeries, people who don’t take responsibility for their choices and then expect a pill or a potion to sort them out. After all, it appears that many GPs are overwhelmed with patients and are feeling that they don’t have all the answers any more. What you are talking about Lee, is the Way of the Livingness, a way of life that accepts that we have a responsibility for our own wellbeing, through diet, exercise, sleep patterns, how we treat and care for ourselves and our families. How different life could be if we supported our GPs by taking responsibility for ourselves first, after all, they say that Life is the best Medicine, maybe it’s time to prescribe ourselves a big dose of that!
Well said, it all starts with taking responsibility which then leads to the honesty of admitting what does and does not working in regards our well-being and physical, mental and emotional health.
The healing modalities taught by Serge Benhayon, in conjunction with Western Medicine, are most definitely a most powerful combination to address the appalling rise in illness and disease. Fundamental to this change, as you express Lee, is for each of us individually to take responsibility for our own health, otherwise no matter how powerful that combination is it cannot have any effect.
Love this Lee. ‘All the pressure could be relieved if we all started to look at how we move ourselves around the planet’ – this is very true; if we begun to take responsibility for our own health, and relied less so on the GP or medical system to ‘save us’ from our own ill choices, the world would look very different. An important part of your blog is how you describe us all supporting one another – everyone is a family doctor, because everyone is family! This could change everything; the growth in illness and disease, our relationships to one another and so forth. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful point Susie – ‘An important part of your blog is how you describe us all supporting one another – everyone is a family doctor, because everyone is family!’ I agree. As when we accept responsibility for the well-being of our bodies and the way we live we will then relieve the pressure imposed on our GPs to fix it all for us. With this we bring a body that is open and willing to heal and as such also support our GPs to be able to work with the true purpose that they are intended to.
Absolute Gold Susie ‘everyone is a family doctor, because everyone is family!’. The day when this is lived by all will come.
Lee, this is a great question, ‘Is the family doctor any more important than the person who checks us through at the supermarket?’ I can feel how in society we rank jobs and identify people by their job, being a doctor is seen as very respectable and trustworthy, whereas working in a supermarket would not have the same standing in society, I feel that this would be seen as less respectable, when in truth we are all equal and it is not what we do that defines us.
I agree this is a great question and one, I know I did in the past, feel we answer based on someone’s education. We give our power away to those who have studied and are more ‘educated’ than another, when in truth we are all equal and have come from, and have, an equal knowing.
Love your future picture Lee, where patients claim what they know and patients and practitioners live their equality. We are on one eye level, if we open our eyes and are willing to see, feel, connect and take our responsibility – which anyway no one can take for us. The responsibility we have for us and our body is no burden but a joy and grace. I see that in your future picture of patients and practitioners working together in the purpose of health and evolving.
Sandra this is music to my ears, “The responsibility we have for us and our body is no burden but a joy and grace.” This can only be shared like this by someone who does choose to be responsible 🙂
So true Sandra ‘The responsibility we have for us and our body is no burden but a joy and grace.’
Most of us have lived just the way you have described Doug. Our current way of living our lives is like the Tower of Babel and using medical services as the mortar… and we know how unsuccessful that was! We must all take full responsibility for our own health and how it is a reflection of how we live.
As long as we continue to live and ignore what our body tries to communicate to us and we use medical services just to patch us up so we can continue living our disregarding ways… both will collapse. We are now presenting to medical staff the multi-symptomatic person that has caused antibiotics to be the panacea. This has caused us to now have infections caused by viruses that are immune to antibiotics. We are the only one that has a choice to change this spiral of ill health by re-connecting back to ourselves.
The way forward for our medical care and our approach to seeing the Doctor has to be, I have a medical issue, this is my role in it, what support can you offer while I look at ways to improve the lifestyle choices I have made that led this ill health to arise. Medication may be supportive in the treatment of this condition, but as much as is possible I am going to see if I can reduce or remove my symptoms through personal choices. Our bodies are wonderfully responsive, just stopping and feeling our bodies is a step in the right direction in terms of reducing tension in the body, it is obvious we can’t carry on in this way with the increasing burden on healthcare. Only self responsibility is going to work and education on the ways each individual can do this is the future of health in our world.
What you present here is so needed in modern society, that we take the responsibility for our own health. Seeing that there is more to all the illness and disease that is governing us, the healthcare system is getting overwhelmed. We are the only ones that can change that, it is time for true responsibility.
Thank you Lee. I would love to see what you are describing here occurring in medical centres and hospitals all over the world. We need to stop thinking that doctors can just supply us with a magic pill and then all will be well. It will not be. The way that we are living is affecting our health enormously and we have to take responsibility for this. Our body does know what is going on and when we honour it we have a powerful awareness to bring to our GP, surgeon, physician etc., which will support them to get to the heart of the problem. We indeed have entered into a new era where greater collaboration is needed, and not just between health professional and patients.
Indeed this is true Elizabeth. Every area of life is showing that we need to be more open, more honest, more responsible and commit to closely collaborate with one another for the benefit of the all. The fact that we are seeing this so evidently with health professionals and patients, is a perfect wake up call that we need to wake up and live our part. Without it the quality of life including our health will continue to plummet.
Well said Elizabeth. It is with our awareness that we can guide our GPs to be able to support us to heal, as best they can. The more we connect to our bodies the more we know and understand what is going on with ourselves through our bodies and so the more we can then offer our GPs. Our poor state of health and well-being as a society clearly indicates that something needs to change. We need to accept responsibility for how we are living. Our well-being as a society is about us all being able to play our part in full and come together with the equal purpose to heal, grow and develop with vitality.
This is very true Eliazabeth. I liken it to someone writing their own story and then taking the book to their doctor and asking the doctor to know what the story is all about without them getting to read the whole book. Our bodies are our stories, what we live and feel in it is what we need to share with our doctors and not just expect that they can magically read us without us giving the whole picture. The belief that another knows our body greater than we do is one of the biggest of irresponsibilities.
This is true it is not just about the doctor prescribing something. I have had doctors and nurses talk to me a few times about how the patient is the biggest part of the healing because of their choices. It is refreshing to have these conversations with medical professions and feel how they know the importance and that there are limitations to all they offer.
Agreed Elizabeth – greater collaboration is needed across many borders, within industry, countries and the world as one. It starts with our own commitment to responsibility.
I would love to see that too Elizabeth. Imagine all the support there would be if each and every one of us would start to take responsibility and we let our body guide the way.
What becomes even more important to recognise in my everyday is how I am moving me in the world. As Serge Benhayon has presented we live in an ocean of energy every movement of me within that ocean has a ripple effect on everyone else in it. This has opened me up to a whole new level of responsibility – every movement matters.
Agreed Lee, every moment does matter and I love that you have drawn my attention to this even more.
Lee, I love this wise analogy of living in in an Ocean of energy. It is a great reminder of how the way we live affects absolutely every one of us and there is no getting away from this fact. Whatever the quality we are in moment-to-moment just magnifies and ripples out and touches absolutely everyone. Thus, a pause to check if we are actually healing or harming is taking responsible for our behaviour and attitudes to a completely different level.
So true Lee and it’s a huge responsibility that not many are ready for yet. How we move affects everything, our bodies, our families, our work colleagues, our neighbours, the people we stand next to on the bus, walk past in the street, it’s endless. I have met people whose walk leaves such a graceful wake behind them, like a light summer breeze that lifts your heart. I know people whose movements go before them, creating a beautiful spacious bubble of warmth that embraces you well before they arrive in the room. It is such an inspiration to feel and the more I focus on nurturing my body, the more I become aware of the importance of movement. So it becomes an ever deepening study of how to move in grace, how to create that summer breeze and make those spacious bubbles for myself and others to enjoy, benefit from and be inspired by.
Lovely Rowena. Imagine everybody staying present all the time connecting, sharing and supporting each other every second of the day. That would be heavenly.
Good reminder Lee – every movement counts because we share the same space and have the choice to either pollute or grace it.
Yes every movement does matter Lee and all of the movements we make in a day add up to what we call life. This includes our posture and how we speak. So our health is directly linked to the quality of these movements. So could the greatest key to understanding and curing illness and disease be in this simple?
Your point about education Lee is super as it’s so often a trap door we fall into — “Has there been too much emphasis placed on education and, in that, an assumed status of the person above others?” – this also stretches to a particular expert in one area or a Consultant. Not discounting a person’s professional expertise as being important, this sense and held behaviour of superiority or inferiority will only abate when there is connection to one’s body and building a sense of true worth or value from something that is loved. The fact that we have such disparity and unequalness shows then the lack of love. Love = equalness.
Doctors need our support too. They are increasingly burdened by the growing rates of illness and disease and having all the responsibility placed on them. They can prescribe medication and medical advice but if the patient is unwilling to follow through with simple things such as taking their medication, walking and changing diet, what more can they do. No one is the guilty party here, this is a systemic issue of overall irresponsibility. Till we understand that we are all one and that our actions impact on the all, this current way of life will continue.
Great point that there is a lot of discussion around the declining health of the population but not so much about the declining health of our health professionals. How can someone truly give us meaningful complete advice on the root cause of our health when they may be in a similar boat of ill health themselves?
Great to mention the need for support for our Drs and also nurses too, Laura B. What andrewmooney26 says below is also very relevant, the health of our health professionals is declining at a rapid rate also. I know of patients who have said they are not likely to take the advice of someone who doesn’t look well, is stressed or overweight or a drinker/smoker themselves.
If we put GPs as somehow superior to us, then that is a great way of handing over responsibility for our health and not looking at what we need to change ourself, in our own way of life. As you say Lee we do definitely need doctors and their expertise, but we need to do our bit too.
So true Fiona, to just go to the doctor and say, fix me, is not enough, we do need to do our part and the more willing we are to take care of ourselves the greater health is possible.
Yes that really does highlight the handing over of our responsibility – a responsibility that can only lie with ourselves.
I can’t help but think of the massive amount of additional resource that would be added if 7 billion people started to take more responsibility for their health! Even 10 mins per week x 7 billion adds up to alot of extra support for the ailing medical system.
I love that you bring these figures to the fore Simon – we don’t realise the magnitude of the problems we face due to the seeming borders that keep us viewing globally all that is happening on this one planet. I totally agree that an incredible shift would be felt if this was the case.
Handing over our health to someone else, is disempowering and automatically puts the GP into a position of seeming power. But the greatest and true power rests with each person – we live inside our own body. Imagine having an inbuilt mechanic in our cars that could tell us exactly what was going on and could make adjustments before needing to go to an external mechanic?
Awesome post Lee, love the way you distill truth from ordinary or daily occurrences/experiences such as visiting the Doctor – “We have essentially made the role of the GP the first line of support – we take along our ailing bodies and ask for help” – sadly the case in many. Our first line support is listening to our body and its communication…and utilising a medical professional being wholly appreciative of their medical expertise to support what’s going on in our own body – that we know. The fact that we do so often make the GP our first line of support highlights how distracted or disconnected many of us are in regards our body, or how it feels. Being disconnected allows for compromise or abuse to happen. Connection closes this gap and brings attention – towards empowered love.
I LOVE this Zofia, so simple and true. We’ve lost the connection and relationship with our bodies and hence have put all of the focus on an expert ‘out there’ to tell us what’s going on, when they can’t have the full answer as they’re not with us 24/7 and so doesn’t this put us in the driver’s seat? A classic way for us to convince ourselves that we don’t know why we’ve become ill when the clue is in how we live and the way that we treat our bodies. As a woman with a physical health problem I can see that all of the above is so true, in my experience.
Absolutely Zofia our connection to ourselves means that we get to feel ‘at close quarters’ what we need to bring deep care and love back to the body. It makes me wonder then if the abuse is a choice, deliberately so in order to not have to take this level of care and love, read responsibility in every moment for ourselves.
I agree Zofia, the ‘first line of support’ has to be ourselves. Of course for many men in particular going to the Doctor is a last resort, but that is without a first line being put in. Perhaps we need more education at a young age, we certainly need more encouragement that it is healthy and natural to care deeply for our health. We also need to encourage an inquisitiveness whereby we all wish to look at the details, the minutiae of the body, and question constantly what we feel is going on. That awareness could be a great antidote to the overburdened health care system that simply cannot cope with the ailments being presented.
I really enjoyed reading this, Lee and loved the bigger picture you presented of a world where people bring truly open and responsible, self-caring bodies to a doctor, allowing for greater healing than the quick fix approach which simply endorses a perpetuation of illness in all its various forms. Indeed, we are here to heal each other.
It is true Peta, not only does this make life easier for both candidates, it is a true way to be with ourselves and doctors, as responsibility is a huge factor we cannot hide away from.
This blog is calling us all to be truly honest about about our personal health, the health of others, and our healthcare system. Until there is honesty and self-responsibility the current healthcare system will continue its slippery slide.
I agree Paula, we can’t keep leaving our ailments for the GP to fix and not take responsibility for the way we live our lives, that is causing our dis-ease in the first place. Including GPs – as they too may need to address their own health and lifestyle choices to reflect true health, and not just advocate it from knowledge.
You present here Lee a model for true heath and healthcare…”..we all have our own inner “General Practitioner” and that within family groups of the future we will all be able to support each other with true healing modalities, family discussions that will evolve and grow each other, true counselling with each other with issues that come up to be revealed, worked on and let go of.” This will also take enormous pressure off the current system and allow Western Medicine to work alongside and with this model of health.
How would the world be, and humanity as a whole, if children were taught self-responsibility from very young? We would have generations coming through who know how to truly self-care and to take responsibility for the choices they make. This would include how they care for their body and the responsibility of looking after their physical, mental and emotional health.
Lee, you offer us the needed prescription of how we can engage with our GPs – they’re there to support us and our bodies with their medical knowhow, yet if we begin to get honest with ourselves and see how we play a part in how we live with where we get to with our bodies and approach our doctors in this way, we can have a meeting, or a coming together where we both bring our parts, rather than our current paradigm where we land with our doctors expecting them to fix us so we can continue living as we’ve always done, without any real consideration of our part and how we’ve lived.
“One knows their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health. Together the body benefits and becomes more harmonious as a result.” This is so far away from how most people think that no wonder doctors feel both burdened and isolated. The doctor/patient relationship becomes one of parent/child, and neither party comes out of an exchange with a feeling that they are respected and listened to, and often with a certain degree of frustration. I am fortunate I now have a doctor who listens and accepts I have something to bring to the surgery, a knowledge of my own body, a respect for their skills, and an ability to research other support for my symptoms for myself and offer them for discussion. With consultants I find that much more difficult, and am aware that I still hold them “higher” than me, and consequently feel a resistance from them when I mention what I have researched, so I still have lots to work with here to clear my fear of authority, as it is the quality of energy I present these things with that enables them to be dismissive of them.
We do have our very own “General Practitioner” within us Lee I agree, only I think mine had passed out from all the toxins I had so willing ingested. Meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine encouraged me to not only detox myself but to nurse my General Practitioner back to life. Now we are great pals and the times that I feel in need of some advice from my external GP, my inner GP comes with me and it makes for such a different experience. No longer am I looking for the quick fix or a magic pill, but a deeper understanding and appreciation of my body’s processes and where or why my body is asking for some support. This is most definitely a successful partnership and the most efficient use of these precious resources. Our health systems are a real treasure and taking full responsibility for our health is the best way to cherish them.
Lovely Rowena – this made me smile ‘Meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine encouraged me to not only detox myself but to nurse my General Practitioner back to life.’ It’s so true Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have shown us how to come back to life.
” One knows their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health. Together the body benefits and becomes more harmonious as a result.” This is a beautifully expressed description of the synergy that is possible between us and our doctor.
Taking true care of ourselves our bodies and our health is fundamentally our own responsibility. This is something I have learned over time in my life and making life about love in every way is what is the true blessing Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have reflected to me as a way of living that embodies this beautifully in every aspect of life.
Universal Medicine along with conventional medicine brings the whole to the support for our bodies our health and our well being for humanity. It allows for the true responsibility we all hold to be lived and taken. Thank you Lee for this great article and bringing the doctor’s responsibility back to our selves also to work together in the way we live.
Love the way you have described going to the Doctor, and potentially holding back because we feel we are lesser, or less authoritative when it comes to knowing about our health. This creates many divisions in society. In society we have many important roles and services; like doctors, electricians, cleaners, pilots etc etc, and how different would it be if we valued people FIRST, and then appreciated the essential service that we provide for each other. There would certainly be a lot more purpose in our expressions with each other, and there would be a LOT more connection and fun when travelling through the world and exchanging services.
So true Harry, the person has to come first – not that they are more because they have learned a certain skill or way – but because they learned that skill to support people first as well not so that they can build their own secure castle safe in the world – this makes no sense when living like this is affecting everyone’s health and well being.
The burden we place on the medical system is so clear. And also thank you for highlighting how we have these ‘contracts’ in our thinking like “we are lesser than the doctor because they are more skilled in the area of medicine’, more skilled they are it’s true, but we must never give our power away from how much we know ourselves and begin to take responsibility for how we live in every way, because it all contributes to our state of health and then comes back to the medical system again.
Although yes we are all equal I would definitely go to a doctor for medicine with an illness rather than someone who works at a supermarket! 😆 But I agree that it is not about giving our power away to another person or expecting another person (GP) to ‘fix’ what is wrong; we need to take responsibility for our lives and how we have lived which has caused the illness in the first place. A massive part of the jigsaw that is missing from health and well-being and medicine (us taking responsibility) and something that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are bringing much needed awareness and attention too.
Beautiful Lee. How supportive it would be to have healing in our homes, and then we go to the GP when we are sick, but take responsibility in how we live. I really loved this idea!
By giving our power away to our GP we are relinquishing all responsibility – it is easy to say “I need someone else to fix me’. I love what you share Lee, that we are responsible for the way we live every day and that this supports out health. That not living in a loving and responsible way is the cause of all illness and disease. Our GP and our family groups are there to support us when need be, but they can’t be expected to fix a broken body, a body that we chose to damage and neglect.
Great points that you make Lee about GP status and the lack of equality in so many current interactions at the surgery and how if we were willing to take more responsibility for how we look after our bodies this would naturally make for more equality in our interactions with the medical profession. Truly a blueprint for the future which cannot come soon enough for our over burdened health systems.
Like someone very wise said recently, we are all just ants in the ant farm and it doesn’t matter which level in the tank we reside on or how we go about our day – we’re all the same… all equal. But yes how we are choosing to currently live in the tank is not supporting true health and we need to start addressing the way in which we are living together and moving about our day because medical stats clearly show that the cost of our ill choices is our rising ill health…. for which we are responsible.
Recently I went to see a doctor for a general health check and part of this process was a blood test. The doctor was so impressed with my blood test results he asked me what I was doing to have such good test results. I told him that I live in a way that puts my body first and I listen to it and care for it as much as I can without perfection. He indicated that he might start caring for himself a bit more as well! So we both got a healing in this encounter even though I was the patient! This is how it could be with all of us all the time as Lee has stated in this blog.
That is really lovely to hear how the doctor was impressed with your blood test results and felt to ask you what you are doing instead of dismissing it. Not only that, he felt inspired to start looking after himself more.
It has also been my experience that Universal Medicine has always shared its modalities far and wide for general use. There has been a notable absence of any attempt to hold back knowledge or wisdom for a select few or to give more power to the practitioner than the client. This is in stark contrast to most of conventional and complementary health practices and organisations and should be noted well.
I love this Andrew – this exposes the system and the way it is constructed to constantly stay above the masses – deemed self importance creates barriers to equalise and therefore any chance of true support from all angles.
Lee, whist you make specific reference to the GP in this article I can feel the responsibility involved in providing any service to another. The way we care for ourselves reflects in every aspect of our work and is magnified clearly in our health practitioners. Basic responsibility is truly about connecting with the truth that we are first Divine. If we chose to be aware of this, were all reminded of this in our family, education and work settings, what level of regard and care would be possible and would our health system indeed be on the brink of collapse?
With the pressure mounting on our medical system much does need to change. There is so much to be gained by Humanity by claiming more responsibility for the level of health we are experiencing and the lifestyles we are living. I loved your comment Lee – ‘The understanding that we are responsible for all that the body is – that every ailment and dis-ease is a result of our choosing – can be communicated’. This opens up so many opportunities for discussion, connection and support. There is so much in this blog being offered – a future inspiring humanity to be energetically responsible, claim and honour their bodies and fostering of true connection.
A wonderful view of how we can work in partnership with the doctor when we have an ailment that needs extra attention. Thank you Lee. Firstly to take responsibility for how we look after ourselves, how we live from day to day, and nurture ourselves. And great that we are learning modalities that will help support us in this. I love the idea of knowing that we are equal, the doctor and me, him/her with their extra expertise, and us knowing our own bodies in depth, what a beautiful way that medicine could go in the future, for us to work together as a team. This could take so much pressure off the medical system.
Excellent blog Lee, it bought back childhood memories of our family doctor doing house visits with a small black bag with not much more than a stethoscope. I love the Idea of families taking more responsibility for their own health and living in a way that does not cause illness, this way has the potential for taking the pressure off our overloaded medical system.
Universal Medicine have supported many with their own ‘black bag and stethoscope’ through the sacred esoteric healing modalities. This commitment to our bodies will be the catalyst for change.
Very inspiring article Lee. Universal Medicine provides us with more than enough knowledge to take responsibility for the condition of our own body and the way we live in it. When we truly take care of ourselves and know where our body is at, we can claim back our rightful place of being our own health expert alongside any professional. Taking responsibility for ourselves keeps us from leaving everything entirely up to doctors whenever we need medical advice and instead make decisions together from a healthy body and as the equal human beings that we are.
‘What a support this would ultimately be for the current long-suffering medical systems. Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it.’
Great article about how it now is for the General Practitioners who serve the public today, especially in the UK where there are many reports of having to wait over a week for an appointment, so patients go to A&E instead, and that affects A&E waiting times to the extent that the headline ‘NHS in crisis’ is common. My parents (now passed) were born before 1910, and if you went to the doctor in those days you had to pay, so people took more responsibility for their own health and most families had their own remedies for various conditions – and I dare say some were misdiagnosed at home and should have seen a doctor, but were too poor, and I wouldn’t like to return to those days, but that element of responsibility, and an understanding of how good the body can feel, when certain foods or activities are avoided, is largely missing in society today. Thank heavens for Serge Benhayon who through Universal Medicine is showing us the way back to true health.
When you put it like this Lee, it’s like it’s all of our job to be General Practitioners of responsibility in life. I love that this is a ‘practice’, it shows with our health and our bodies we can always be experimenting and learning.
Joseph Barker one of the most amazing things is taking charge of our bodies, seeing what supports and does not without judgement.
Lee Green, this is a superbly written article. There is much for the reader to contemplate and I had to go back and read it again, as I could feel the sincerity that you had written it in; it’s like you’re making a call to all of us to wake up. There is something seriously wrong as our health systems are buckling under the strain.
Lee, this is a fabulous call for self-responsibility for our own health, and a way forward for healing within our family groups, that will take a great deal of pressure off the current medical/health system.
I am currently seeing several doctors who are specialists in their particular areas of medicine. At the initial appointment with one of them I stated that I was the expert of my body due to the relationship that I have with myself and the deep care and nurturing that is part of my natural way, and that he was the expert of his area of medicine. To my surprise he totally agreed with me and stated that he wished more of his patients would take care of themselves to the extent that I do as he can offer his medical expertise, support and extensive knowledge (my words) but that if people choose to take responsibility for their health then their chances at good health improves greatly. I can feel in our continuing appointments and conversations with the doctors I see regularly, the pressure that is put on doctors by patients to have all the answers and to ‘fix’ people of their health problems without any responsibility on the patients side.
I remember when I was young I used to often give my power away to the GP thinking that they knew better than me. I am very sensitive and when I was young I felt so many things go on in my body; slight changes, or aches and pains, or odd little symptoms, and generally the GP couldn’t tell me exactly what was going on. I often felt frustrated after the appointment feeling that the GP might not have fully understood me or had given all the help I needed. Now I know that what was missing was that I was just wanted a quick fix from someone else and was not really listening to what my body was trying to tell me. After all, all my body was trying to do was communicate to me that I was wasn’t connected love that I am, or living in my fullness.
If we are to be honest our health systems are in serious strife. Often there is a 2 week (sometimes more) wait to see the GP, which means that those who need to see a doctor quickly end up in already overwhelming busy emergency departments. Some GPs also have closed their books to new patients because they are so busy. GPs and practice nurses spend most of their time ‘managing’ people with a complex array of chronic diseases and they are getting more complex. The crazy and sad thing about this is that it doesn’t have to be this way at all, but it will continue down this trajectory until we either hit the wall financially or we as a community start to realise the important part we play in our own health.
To take a body to the doctor that has been lovingly cared for, but at this moment in time needs the help of Western Medicine, would be such a great leap into self responsibility, something that is sorely lacking in today’s health care. The doctors today are over worked and often overwhelmed by the multi-symptomatic patient that is presenting themselves, a patient that has not taken a great deal of responsibility for their own care and is there for the doctor to fix them. The health system is struggling under the load of illnesses and diseases, many of which could be prevented if self care and self responsibility was taught to children from a young age. We have all the inner wisdom we need, packaged in a body that continually communicates to us; we just have learn to listen and to take responsibility.
We are our own practitioners and know our bodies inside out more than anyone else in this world. To hand this over to another is to deny the inner wisdom we are and know.
What you are sharing on Lee is medicine of the future, one in which we recognise and take responsibility for the part we play. We do however have a long way to go.
Love this article Lee. This is a very very common occurrence in how we have negated responsibility towards our own health and given our power away to a supposedly ‘more qualified’ person to know our body more than we do.
One could add that this ‘lazy’ approach to our own bodies is the literal foundation for how the world truly is.
Yes Lee, negligent and given up in honouring ourselves and our bodies.
I agree Lee. Responsibility is the greatest medicine. It can be a hard pill to swallow, but when we do, it allows us to heal so much that has been the cause of the illness and disease rates at large. As a friend said to me the other day – we are the big whigs. We have to go out there and get on with it, share with the world by reflection what we know is true.
So true Jinya, love it – ‘Responsibility is the greatest medicine’. Accepting responsibility is saying ‘yes’ to Love and to exposing that which keeps us from living All that we are designed to truly live.
“with education, we place more status on the person – wrongly assuming that they are better than us because they know more about this particular subject or that.” Such a huge line Lee, in all its simplicity it rocked a very old ideal that I still held that the GP has more status because of his or her education. The funny thing is, I am studying dentistry and don’t feel I am more than other people yet there is still that little ‘GP’ is even a higher status than a dentist. So silly and I love how you have exposed that here because it feels much more lovely to feel we are all equal – because we are.
Thanks for reminding us of the responsibility we have for our own health, and of the complementary union that is possible between conventional medicine and the Esoteric modalities.
A great combination – our own inner GP and the outer GP. Not one having to carry the load for another.
The balance of equal responsibility, care and love.
I love this sentence:
“we are responsible for all that the body is – that every ailment and dis-ease is a result of our choosing – can be communicated. The foods and drinks we consume, the way we handle our emotions, accept and appreciate ourselves, the way we walk etc. all have an amazing imprint for all to feel and see.”
True, every single thing I do or think gets communicated and has impact on others. We either offers something that adds, makes our world more loving or not. The choice and responsibility of each of us.
I love what you have shared here that we all have our own inner “General Practitioner”. I have often walked into my GP’s feeling that the answers would come from her knowledge of medicine, never taking into consideration that I was walking around in a body which was constantly communicating what medicines I needed with the way I cared for myself.
I have done the same many times in my life – almost like it’s a ‘right to get fixed’ and ‘if you can’t why not!’
This is completely the opposite of what is needed and really shows that whilst the DRs have a responsibility too the original impulse for them to become a DR in the first place – to care and support people – is potentially very different to what they had felt. Writing scripts for demanding ailments isn’t that much fun I am sure…
We do live in a society where the GP and/or the one wearing the white coat has seemingly more knowledge and intelligence than we do. But this does not make sense as there is absolutely no equality in that. Our body carries the highest form of intelligence and has such a wisdom that there is no one outside of ourselves that knows our body better than we do. We just have to make the choice to listen to it.
This is absolutely amazing Lee. I have become aware of the responsibility for my own health in recent years, but I can feel that this is no longer cutting the mustard. Offering true healing to others is where it is at. The local GP is a valuable and much needed support. It is equally important to support ourselves and the people in our lives to heal. The modalities offered by Universal Medicine are incredibly nurturing and supportive for both the person providing and the person receiving the treatment. This approach supports our GPs and other medical professionals too, as we arrive on their doorstep with a responsible attitude and a commitment to living in a loving way which can only lead to healing.
“One of the key factors in life that may skew our own views of the GP is that, with education, we place more status on the person – wrongly assuming that they are better than us because they know more about this particular subject or that.”
Great to expose that because of this there is inequality in the relations we have with doctors. More or less education on a topic doesn’t make any of us of more importance. If we each take our role and act on that by being responsible for what is needed we become power couples. This can be in a GP – patient relationship and equally so in relationships in other areas like salesmen – client or executive – PA.
Lee,
Thank you dearly for writting this article. To place in each of our hands responsibility for our health and our bodies, gives back to all the power to change our lives, if we feel that how we are living is no longer working for us.
The freedom this brings is great, for to place the ability to be fixed into the hands of our doctors leaves us feeling powerless with where we have come to in our lives. This then places even more strain on our health system, and a stress, a give up and a lack of responsibility in humanity.
What a great way to approach our health and our GP, not handing over responsibility for someone else to ‘fix’ but to take responsibility for our bodies and the way we live and working together ‘with’ the doctor for any extra support that may be needed. For me, I’ve found that in taking this approach, I’ve begun to develop a lovely relationship with my GP, which is creating an opportunity for us both to work together with any issues that may present, with neither or us giving our power away, but each working in appreciating of our skills and knowing of the body.
The idea of family groups and friends helping to heal each other with the foundation of self-responsibility, using healing modalities to support each other before there is a need to go to a GP is inspiring. Why don’t we start doing this now? In fact I am sure there are some that do.
Thanks to the presentations by Serge Benhayon and the healing modalities of Universal Medicine, I have come to listen to and understand my body as a barometer of life and the choices I make in it. I’ve not only deepened my relationship with myself but also been able to make changes to the way I live that support my body to keep healthy.. but just as importantly, to keep communicating to me. I’ve found that when I do need to consult my GP, and present what I’ve learned so far, there is an equal learning from what we both bring and share in that consultation.
How lovely to read your blog Lee – it feels very timely with the alarming stories that we hear about our Health Services all around the world. How much more empowering if we become partners in our health care and take a responsible role in our own healing.
It feels as though things are beginning to shift – at present I have a bad back and I was sent a booklet by the Physiotherapist which is encourages patients to be proactive in their recovery and not dependent on their GP to fix the problem unless it is serious.
Lee, you make some great points through this blog. It is time that a focus is brought back to the individual to take responsibility for the way we live because if we don’t, we will be in one big mess. When I read statistics on illness, it is staggering just what is happening. We have a tendency to see a statistic and if we are not the one with the illness, we think that It doesn’t apply to us, but we are part of the statistic even if we are not the one. As the rate of illness increases, it is in fact coming closer and closer to us. What was one in 20 is now one in 6, it is like the illness is tracking us down. We may not be the one, but we are the other 5 people who don’t have it, so how can we not be part of every statistic. This brings me back to my initial comment about being responsible and making really care-full choices for if we don’t, we will eventually become the one.
Brilliant observation Matthew – the fact that we tend to as a people say – ‘it’s over there’ belies and exposes how much arrogance we sit with. It won’t happen to us and if it does then how unlucky am I ? It is this belief system that we run with and continue to distract ourselves away form the facts that is illness and disease are growing exponentially.
What a beautiful description of our purpose here on planet Earth: “To start to heal how we have been living so that we may support and aid in the healing of another and another and so on, is the fundamental reason for us being here together on one planet.” I agree with you, we are here to live the divinity and love that we innately are and reflect that to others so they can live and reflect that to others too.
What a gorgeous blog, Lee! I love you bring up our responsibility with the current medical system being overcharged and on its way to a breakdown. If we keep throwing our health problems over the fence, like we have been doing and deny the wisdom we have inside about our own bodies, we will face a medical system bankruptcy.
I used to think it was the doctor’s job to find out and tell me what was wrong with my body, and sort it out for me, putting a doctor above oneself as the expert on one’s own body – definitely. Not knowing what true vitality looked and felt like, I settled for far less as my being ‘well’. Feeling exhausted was normal and accepted, because everyone else was too. Thanks to Universal Medicine, I have been able to bring in a bit of honesty and see the senseless attitude I had adopted myself.
Thank you Lee, this blog offers us the opportunity to consider that we should be as involved in own healing as the health professionals we seek for assistance. Also that true medicine asks us to consider in what ways have we been living that have contributed towards our ailments and issues.
What the medical system needs more than anything is the support of those it is there to support. Our medical system is failing, not because of the lack of trying by our doctors and nurses, but because of society’s blatant refusal to see its part in the quality of its own health. We do not treat ourselves kindly by any standard, and yet we have the audacity to demand that our medical system be there intact when we fall, and fall hard, as we do.
I remember as a child because my father was a GP and worked long hours, if I was not feeling very well my mother would say don’t bother your father when he comes home he will be tired, so I used to wait until I was really ill and then it would take twice as long to get better than if I had spoken up and listened to what my body was telling me. I know many people of my generation and older do not like to bother the doctor unless they are very ill, but this is not a loving or supportive thing to do and is in disregard of our body and what we need to do to heal.
You make some interesting points about visiting our GPs Leigh, and how easy it is to expect them to fix us so that we can carry on with our lives without taking responsibility for how we live, that is causing the illness or disease in the first place. The more I am aware of my own body and what is happening to it, the more I am able to express what I know is true for me, the less I have to rely on the health service. They do an amazing job but they are under constant pressure to come up with solutions to our health that with a bit more awareness and responsibility we could support the doctors and nurses in bringing about our own healing.
I can see the great divide between taking full responsibility for the bodies that we have, and handing over the care and remedy of ailments to a professional, as if they do not have the same predicament happening in their body as well. With always someone to give our power away to, how do we learn the consequences of our choices, and the fact that we are beings inside a human frame with a huge responsibility.
I absolutely love and appreciate what you are sharing here Lee. Taking care of our own individual health rather than giving our power away to medical practitioners is a very responsible thing to do, given how in debt the medical systems around the world are in. Yes I agree, doctors are absolutely necessary, but we need to understand that ill health comes from our choices and we are the ones in control of that. Your blog also reminds me of the time when no doctors existed and it was the role of the women in the village who understood herbs to attend to the sick, passing on the benefit of their lived wisdom and experience. Heralding in the new way is in essence revisiting what we have done before and is a return to individual responsibility and community care within the community.
Supporting one another, in ‘family groups’ as you say Lee is a massive opportunity for us to develop ways of living healthily. With the strain on the healthcare systems around the world we need to take greater responsibility for our health. We need teachings such as those from Universal Medicine that encourage the understanding that we know have an innate wisdom regarding our body’s function. Families of course don’t have to mean blood relatives, but as we are all undeniably made of the same stuff, it can be anyone that is willing to look at the body as the holder of all our wisdom, and thus able to support each other to look at issues that arise and move towards greater health, without being so reliant on medical care.
Agree Stephen – our ‘family group’ can be everyone around us who is willing and choosing to live love.
Every home should have their own GP, not in the sense of being medically trained, however in the sense of being able to support all those in the family unit and the wider local community. We all have the capacity to support one another, shouldn’t this be utilized in combination with conventional medicine?
“Imagine taking ourselves to the GP knowing that ‘the way’ we live allows us to feel and present a body that is not ‘functioned’ out, but rather a loving body that is showing signs of illness and requires Western Medicine to support it”.
Yes Lee just imagine presenting a loving body; the result of loving choices; to a Doctor who lovingly cares for himself and his patients, equally so.
I like the concept of the ‘Inner GP’. For us to take responsibility for our general health will take enormous pressure off the local medical services. So many diseases are lifestyle related, whether it be from what we’ve consumed or how we’ve been living, and a stack of pills isn’t going to solve the problem we created ourselves.
“How interesting is it then, that when we know truly what is and what is not good for our bodies and our health, we continue to live in a way that does not support a true state of health?” Such a great question Lee. We do know deep inside what feels right for us – slogans such as ‘naughty but nice’ spring to mind. Regardless of how much we try to justify our habits we do know – and subsequently want to blame others outside of ourselves for our predicament. What if we were all to become more self-responsible – as many Universal Medicine students are doing – reversing the trend towards illness and dis-ease.
Lee what you have presented here raises so much to consider. Taking responsibility for our bodies and then approaching addressing any issues that present in the body with this same responsibility is a huge shift from what I have observed in my family and in my role as a nurse. Although huge, it is the way forward, as it returns true authority of our body and choices back to us, which will take the pressure off our GPs feeling they need to always “fix us” to only needing to support us and we do the rest!
From Universal Medicine it has been taught that before an illness or disease occurs, an energy has made it occur. The Esoteric modalities address these energies. It seems so obvious when put as you have so clearly shown here Lee, but I am just realising how much I have placed healing to only occur from a GP or in a session, rather than seeing that it can be done at home and within family and friends. Why lump the weight of our own healing (which comes from us in the first place) onto another, be it a GP or someone who practices the Esoteric Healing modalities for a living, when each of us can already heal and are naturally able to do so?
This is awesone Lee. Just so spot on how we so easily can give our power away to the one with more credentials or study, or letters behind the name. lt’s a biggy that we can easily fall for, buy into, sell out to. What you are suggesting here is about bringing back true responsibilty to both the doctor and the patient. Yes it makes sense. And l believe with that empowering move our health will naturally improve and we won’t need to make so many visits.
Lee you raise important issues here. Your suggestion that we care for our body and don’t expect the GP to assist it to function (due to lack of self-care), but instead bring a well cared for body to the GP when there is something that requires medical attention is self-evident but not commonly considered in my experience. Taking responsibility for our health, as we are our own experts in what makes the body operate smoothly (or not), is a great way to develop an equal partnership with the medical professionals.
Lee you have hit the nail on the head with regards to how we put the GPs on a pedestal due to the knowledge of medicine they have acquired, and I remember growing up we always put on our Sunday best to go to church, visit the bank manager and for visits to the GP. When I was younger I thought it was being respectful and was the thing to do, but now I can see that it was a ideal and belief passed on from my parents and their parents, of holding others as more important than themselves.
Superb article Lee, thank you. Your concluding paragraph delivers us the true resolution to our current crisis in all our health systems. “There is a responsibility brought into the surgery and, as that is felt, the relationship between patient and the family doctor naturally returns to an equal footing. One knows their body intimately, inside and out, the other has the knowledge, skills and medicine to support the body back to physical health.”
I once used to take a worn out, badly neglected body to the doctor and expected him or her to wave a magic wand and make it all better for me, but I never took responsibility for the fact that my illness was a consequence of how I was living. There was not one iota of equality or responsibility in the situation. Meeting Universal Medicine was the key I had been looking for that enabled me to fully resume my responsibility for my body and my health.
A visit to the doctor today is so very different, walking in to the surgery with a body that is cherished and nurtured, all I am asking for is support to help it clear an ailment and to see if my body requires a more specific form of nourishment or nurture. My relationship has become equal with my doctor and I can now see just how much of a burden it is to place an expectation on another person’s shoulders, to fix me up when I don’t bother looking after myself up in the first place. Our expectations of our health care systems and all those who work in the profession needs to be questioned, how arrogant is it to disregard our bodies and expect someone else to magic away our ills.
Also imagine if the family GP himself or herself gave the advice with the added conviction of a lived experience of health, how inspiring would it be to have an example of someone taking responsibility for their own personal health. By taking care of being responsible for our own health and showing how natural, wise and supportive it is in every way, we inspire one another to do so too.
I love what you are saying Lee. The whole society would benefit enormously if each of us chose to take responsibility for our own health. Not only would it reduce the reliance on the overburdened health system, but it would be enormously empowering for each of us since we would stop buying into the belief that we are not fit to know what is going on with the area of life we have the most intimate relationship with – our own body! And this is just the beginning of us trusting our own inner wisdom.
Herald in the new way indeed! Loved to read this awesome blog today and be reminded that we are our own inner GP, that we can trust our own counsel, and yes we all need support when we become ill or sick, but this does not mean that we hand over our bodies to the medical profession and say, please fix me, which is how we give our power away. Taking responsibility is saying, I created this place I find myself in, and by the same measure I can create something different by changing my lifestyle and making different choices. The future is an equal partnership between the GP and the patient, and we can live that now.
You raise so much in this great sharing with us Lee. Your first question “How many of us feel equal to the doctor when we sit talking about our own bodies?” As a teenager (in the 70’s) going through many bodily processes there was a complete awkwardness and even though a female doctor she gave me a real hard time and so I clearly held back from expressing all that I went to see her for. Yes this visit left its mark for future visits. Each time coming away feeling ‘why did I bother’. Over the years this has certainly improved. The gift of expressing and to not hold back with the understanding that I know my body so well now. My approach to seeing the doctor as an equal has so turned around the initial ‘I’m not going back there attitude’, into a visit for support and just like chatting to a friend. The more open I am, the more insights the doctor has to help support me on my journey.
I agree Lee, if we started to take more care of ourselves and treated our body with responsibility and not leaving anything to chance we all would be in much better health and our medical systems wouldn’t be stretched beyond their capacities and capabilities. We all have a part to play in every area of our life, not taking responsibility in what area this might be means we are adding overwhelm to the world, as what we decide not to do, though it is our part to do, we leave this to be dealt with by others and in the end by all.
The responsibility for our health has always been laid at our own feet. We have for too long treated our bodies like rental cars, ridden hard and put away wet. We need as you have said Lee to take responsibility for how we live in our body and allow western medicine to support us when it is required.
So often we wait until our body gives us a serious ‘stop’, like a heart attack or a broken bone, before we choose to make changes to the way we are living. Serge Benhayon presents a way of living that inspires us all to be our own practitioner of life and take responsibility for our own well-being. In this way the GP and the medical profession is able to focus on supporting us when there is an illness and disease, confident that the patient is playing their part in the healing process.
Lee I love the point you raise about the healing modalities bringing the responsibility for our health back to our homes. This is crucial for a healthy and vital society and the bankruptcy of most countries health systems is showing us the clear opposite. Medicine is there to keep us healthy and not to fix the bodies functionality when we have stretched it to such an extent that it has been broken. As Serge Benhayon says “Life is Medicine”.
That’s a massive topic as there is so much identification with our roles in life. I experience this a lot going to the doctor in the full authority of knowing my body and communicating what I feel is going on. Very often the medical professional tries to shut me off and clearly is not interested in what I have to say, but I also experience when I share the changes that occurred that some start to listen. Feeling equal is key here and it starts with us living in the authority of knowing our bodies.
Yes Rachel, allowing ourselves to feel equal is absolutely key and it does start “with us living in the authority of knowing our bodies”. I find if I go to the Doctor a little unsure of myself or looking for a “fix” or “solution” it is a totally different experience to when I go and share with the authority of my lived experience, i.e. sharing what I’ve noticed in my body, what I know works and what doesn’t. My Doctor is incredibly responsive and supportive when I approach an appointment in this way, and actually thanks me for coming in!
Great call Lee about balancing health care with being supported by a practitioner and self responsibility – I enjoyed your new term – “functioned out” and how we can be so focussed on function we forget to look after ourselves. The deep understanding in what you share is that the health status of our world will not change for the better unless the use of the medical system changes and achieves the harmony you are calling for.
The GP, our family doctor would get a completely different role if we as humanity would take our responsibility for the health of our body and being. The modalities presented and taught by Universal Medicine are indeed to be used in our families, to support ourselves in taking command over the health of our physical bodies that will serves us all in our return where we come from, a fiery life in connection with God and with the understanding that we have an important role to play and that therefore we have to take care for the bodies we live in to be able to be in full service to the best of our abilities. The role of the GP would then be appreciated for what he/she brings to society, will be part to the whole and will be equally important as the people that will come for his or her support.
I remember cringing when I would watch elderly members of my family almost bow down to anyone they would feel more superior to them. I see how this adds to illness and disease because when we do this we are not taking the initiative to make loving changes in our life for our selves and instead waiting for someone else to say it or do it for us.
I put both my hands up though that I’ve also noticed how much I change when I’m with a Doctor. I don’t have an issue with seeking medical attention and just visited my Doctor this week, but there is a definite in-equality that I place between us, and something I’m working on. As you say Lee its not necessarily the Doctor that puts them selves as higher, as much as society has celebrated different careers more than others, so from the onset people are being told ‘you are different from Joe Blogs, now you need to act like this or that’.
Instead could it be that it comes back to deeply respecting ourselves and each other and the divine qualities that we all have to offer humanity regardless of the roles or titles we may have in order to be of service? And if it is, then we are just going to our fellow brothers and sisters who can support us.
Awesome Lee, so much jumped out as making so much sense. Often in families the counselor or family doctor is the one that hears more of what is really going on for someone, and what is upsetting them, more than the family actually share with each other. This in itself is illness and disease, communicating and opening up with certain people with this title but not opening up with those with that title. It’s very interesting what you’ve shared Lee, and much for us to look at deeper.
That’s an interesting point you make Aimee, that holding back from open communication, changing how we are from one person to another, can be at the root of illness and disease.
Lee Green your love of us all is felt as I read your article that asks us all to take more responsibility for our health and well being and bring more attention to how we are being with the general practitioner when we need to see one.
No one knows our body more than we do, but we have given the authority to our vessels of light away, in dimming our light, we make it as if truth that we do not know or have the responsibility of this authority. Having a patient walk into a doctor’s office holding the knowing of his or her body, what a healing that is to both the doctor and the patient. The greatest healing is to live the truth of who we are. The support of Esoteric and Conventional medicine are to assist us to live this truth.
‘The greatest healing is to live the truth of who we are.’ Lovely reminder thank you Adele.
It’s a great point that you raise here – we all have bodies, why are we not taught how to look after them and truly nurture them, what is given in schools is outdated and really only gives lip service – it is more like a tick box activity.
I agree nicolesjardin not only is what is taught in schools a tick box activity but it often supports different industries promoting their products.The wheat, sugar and dairy industries in my time. When I was at school a long time ago now we were given milk to drink. Milk that had been sitting in the sun for a couple of hours and it was compulsory to drink it!
Hi Kathleen, this is something I have heard from many people across Australia, my kids got in trouble in school in nutrition because they challenged what was being taught, and it was annoying the teacher.
Thank you Lee, this is a most important subject to bring to light. What I have found with my relationships with doctors and dentists is that when I understand that I have just as much (and sometimes more) wisdom about my body, and I share that by revealing how and why I have such an ailment or dental problem, the awareness of the practitioner expands. I also feel that they also treat me as an equal and are quite open to me trusting my body and what I can discern is appropriate treatment. I see this as part of my service to humanity to, with truth and love, express my body’s wisdom to practitioners of all modalities.
Lee – for us to take responsibility for how we are living, and ultimately what body we are taking to the doctor is the foundation of our health. Western Medicine does wonders to support us if we are sick, but Universal Medicine has been the only organisation that has proposed the question of ‘why’ – and to truly consider this, that our sickness is a result of our choices and even a way to heal a dis-ease in our body, is a way to look at medicine that many have not wanted to see.
Way to go, Lee! How doctors are “educated” would need to change also as many feel that they do have all the answers and often can be very defensive when a patient suggests something that they feel to be true. But the choice to live in a different way does need to start with us and others can also then feel the the lovingness (maybe not a word!) and respect we have for our bodies.
Yes Lee, I agree. The time is definitely right for us all to change our approach to healthcare and take responsibility for the blow out in the increase in the rise of illness and disease. It hasn’t just mysteriously happened and no amount of research as it is currently structured is going to find the ‘cures’. I imagine that many GPs are struggling with the burden of expectation by patients for them to have answers. It’s staggering the way we are so quick to blame genetics, bad luck, old age etc for our problems. There is so much more going on here than what most people are willing to admit and the whole topic needs to be brought out into the open for more discussion.
This is the most inspiring blog on health and our part in our healing that I have read! How different and empowered would we feel to take more responsibility for our part in a visit to our GP? No more overworked Doctors expected to perform miracles, but to have a Patient who understands their part in their ill health and one willing to do their part to heal themselves in tandem with the Doctor. A wonderful sharing , thank you Lee.
Totally agree Roslyn, this is a very empowering way to build relationships in all areas of our lives, taking responsibility for our part and not expecting another to do it for us or carry us, but support and appreciate each other’s wisdom in equality.
Even though I have an open relationship with my GP and present myself confidently, I still look to him for his knowledge, necessary as that is at times without feeling completely equal. Great call Lee Green, especially in the possibility that we all have our own inner practitioner, which is the whole point of ‘Universal Medicine’! ‘Physician heal thyself’ is an apt adjunct here and with the support of the Esoteric Modalities as presented by Serge Benhayon and the Ancient Wisdom, we have all the tools needed to support our living way for true health and wellbeing.
Beautiful Lee and very very True. I can certainly say for myself that the way I go now to the doctor is very different than in the past. Pretty obvious as I’m taking much better care of myself. And yes, how lovely would it be if it becomes normal to support each other all the way. In family homes, but also at work, at school, at uni, etc. We are all the same, we are all here to learn. We teach and we learn – often from the same person! How beautiful is that.
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About the importance of taking care of ourselves and starting to feel that a doctor isn’t more important than we are ourselves. That we are to work together!
A beautiful article Lee. You have painted a picture of the future here. Our current paradigm of medicine isn’t truly working. We will need to move towards the model you describe here Lee, where the doctor holds the patient as equal in their knowledge of their own body to themselves with their qualification, and the patient approaches medical appointments from the perspective of being fully responsible for their body and choices.
This is true healing right here Kate! I can just imagine how this would take so much pressure off our medical system and doctors, because everyone would be taking responsibility for the part they play with the authority of what they know from their bodies.
I agree Kate and Aimee. Yes what a powerful combination for healing – equality, responsibility and authority.
Great article on the responsibility we all have when it comes to our health and the true relationship we can have with our GP, one that is of equals working together to support us to live in the most healthy way possible.
It seems to me that part of the reason we give our power away to our GPs and put them up on some pedestal of wisdom and knowledge, is due to our beliefs about education and intelligence. Currently in the world today, we consider that the more information someone can remember and repeat back, the more knowledge someone has amassed, the more qualifications they have, the more years they have completed at university, than the more intelligent they must be. But this is not the full truth of intelligence.
True intelligence comes from the body, from inside us not from outside of us, and comes from the way we live every day through obsevation, awareness, confirmation, experience. There is a way of living that allows us to re-connect to an ageless wisdom which we all know innately. We know far more about our own bodies then we realise. Imagine if we connected to this wisdom and brought that to a GP who was also living in a way that allowed them to access this wisdom as well. Well that would be a very different picture from what we have today in medicine.
Love this Andrew, we can’t put people on”pedestals of wisdom and knowledge” because then we see our selves short of our true power and the quality that we are naturally inside. One who has great knowledge must also practise great humility; otherwise they will become part of what we have today, a measure of people who are more intelligent than others based on abilities.
The ability to amass and regurgitate information is not even close to the wisdom we gain from observing and honouring our bodies. We may choose to go to an expert for advice and support and often that is a very wise move, however nothing comes close to the innate wisdom and awareness which cannot be switched off, it can only be ignored. And at the end of the day it is our own self who is responsible for our own choices and our own health.
It would be great to have GPs who are “living in a way that allowed them to access this wisdom as well” and who have developed a deep relationship with such inner wisdom as well as amassing the great amount of information they do have about the subject. Then their support to the patient would be inspiring beyond the words, because the patient can feel and appreciate that the GP has a deeper understanding and relationship than the words convey, in relation to what they are prescribing. I have had such experience with Serge Benhayon who lives in a way that is immensely inspiring, so he never has to tell you what to do, the inspiration is enough for me to be observe and choose to adopt a way to support myself.
“Imagine if we connected to this wisdom and brought that to a GP who was also living in a way that allowed them to access this wisdom as well.” This would certainly bring a level of honesty to health, allow people to look more deeply as to the cause of their illness/dis-ease, and offer the possibility of true healing.