Witnessing the media comments on both doctors and the healthcare system in Australia, I feel to share a recent personal experience of Western medicine in action, which was nothing short of exceptional.
I had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism a few years ago but had felt that my body was becoming devitalised in spite of the medication, a synthetic type of thyroxine prescribed routinely for this condition in Australia. I was losing weight rapidly, had dark circles under my eyes, my blood pressure and sleep cycle were very erratic and I was, by turns, racy or had little energy to do anything, including activities I absolutely love. My body was clearly indicating something was awry, so I decided to look more deeply into what was happening with my health.
This proved to be a great decision on many, many levels.
I referred myself to a local endocrine specialist to discuss and address the possible causes for the change in my health. The doctor I met with listened attentively and respectfully to what I shared about my symptoms and treatment to date, asking clarifying questions and making notes throughout. In itself, this respect for me as a patient who knew my body, was very confirming. His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing. I had a clear sense that this doctor knew how to exercise true patient care.
What this doctor then shared about his understanding of the endocrine system was profoundly insightful; I had never before heard anyone speak about it in such a deeply honouring manner and I was very moved. He explained that he sees the endocrine system as being exactly the same as the solar system, with all the glands interconnected in an amazingly precise and delicate order. He referred to the thyroid gland as being like the Saturn of the solar system and asked me to consider what effect it might have if Saturn wobbled just a degree or two off of its orbit.
I paused in a moment of reflection, almost shocked by the profound nature of the implications of this. I felt the truth in this analogy, and how aghast I would be if Saturn did ‘wobble.’ Yet, of equal importance is my own thyroid and I had allowed it to wobble so very severely, in total disregard of the effects this would have on the whole body. I was humbled yet, at the same time felt, possibly for the first time ever, how exquisitely intricate and beautifully delicate is our endocrine system. This was the first time I appreciated this endocrine fact and this amazing doctor’s deep appreciation for the human body.
He then proposed an array of blood tests in line with the symptoms I had shared. He also offered possible diagnoses, which the blood tests would or would not confirm. He spoke about the mix of medication and lifestyle changes that would be necessary to address these likely outcomes, including an extended rest period to allow my body to heal in full.
I returned to his surgery two weeks later to discuss the test results. The doctor shared how there had been an extensive number of blood tests carried out – 13 pages in total – which again confirmed to me his commitment to leaving no stone unturned in truly profiling the cause and the effects of this illness in my body. His initial diagnosis was not confirmed and other anomalies in my blood had required both further investigation and consultation with colleagues – a biochemist and a parathyroid specialist – in a neighbouring city.
Once again, I was moved by the natural humility and openness of this man: he was not attached to his initial diagnosis and had moved straight away to consult with colleagues about areas which lay a little outside his immediate area of expertise: again, his aim was to uncover the root cause of my condition and so he was placing patient care at the heart of his treatment.
The root cause turned out to be a parathyroid issue, which had remained undetected until now. Because of this, both my thyroid and my adrenals were severely fatigued. As we scanned the numbers on the pages that represented my blood, we both commented on the extent to which my body had been basically ‘busting a gut’ to keep me healthy and operating all these years that this condition had remained undetected…not only by the medical profession, but by me. Another moment of humility for me and the realisations that my condition was more akin to the nature of the ‘hidden’ twelfth planet, as well as how I had allowed my own bodily awareness to drop to such a degree that I had not noticed this at all until my energy levels dropped severely.
The doctor himself was again open in his sharing that we know relatively little about the parathyroid glands, in fact, very little about our endocrine system per se. This rang true to me and I contacted an esoteric practitioner, who advised me that, in esoteric terms, parathyroid conditions arise when we do not live our delicateness. I knew this to be true of myself – most of my life, prior to connecting with the esoteric teachings of Universal Medicine, had been lived in the push and the drive of academic achievement and success in my career. Delicateness was something I felt, but overrode this, under the belief that it was only something for infants who were self evidently physically vulnerable. But delicateness in a woman of the world? No – not until my body nudged me by sharing that it needed me to return to my delicateness once more. Given the anatomical position of the parathyroids in the throat area, the contemplation of how my words, sounds, speech and singing need henceforth to be delicate was instant and is something I am now connecting with daily.
I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated. And yet, how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?
The doctor also scheduled an extensive hormone regimen for me to follow in support of all three affected glands, as well as advising me that the treatment for the parathyroid will be a process of elimination, starting with medication and followed by surgical procedures if this is required. He again advised rest to support my body through this process.
I left his surgery not just with medication and a treatment plan, but with so many significant revelations.
- I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.
- I connected with my own deep reverence for the endocrine system and an openness to living the energy it needs to operate in true health
- I felt a new humility about my body’s willingness to maintain me in a state of health for such a long time
- I was full of appreciation of Western medicine – its doctors and its pharmacology
- I understood and appreciated how esoteric and western medicine can indeed work together to bring about not only healing for patients, but also to enrich our collective understanding of how our bodies work in terms of their physiology and biochemistry and in terms of the role of our expressed energy has in either harming or healing them.
The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life. Together they are healing me personally and this healing is on offer for all others who choose to utilise the two together in this way.
Dedicated to Serge Benhayon, who has long presented how humanity will be blessed by the union of western medicine and esoteric medicine. It has certainly been demonstrated to be so in this case.
By Coleen
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Such a fantastic analogy the doctor gave you and you can really feel how each and every part or our body has a role to play and you can also see and feel that it doesn’t just stop there, that if we are given such a body then it is our responsibility to make sure we are living in a way that honours and supports for this to be emanating and working to its absolute fullest potential. That is the role we have in the Universe and that we are essential and each one of us has an important role to play. This changes everything.
So far i have always been in the hands of very caring doctors who have done their job well. Who have been knowledgeable of the body and great at explaining what is going on. It can be difficult for us to surrender and let the doctors support us in our healing and despite what our head tells us, this is not because we think we know better than them, but it’s possible that we have simply lost trust in people and have any excuse on the planet to not open up and show our vulnerability.
‘He referred to the thyroid gland as being like the Saturn of the solar system and asked me to consider what effect it might have if Saturn wobbled just a degree or two off of its orbit.’ What an amazing example you have been given by your endocrine specialist, everything is connected, our bodies are just like the universe.
The patient is an equal partner with Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of any illness.
When we embrace western medicine equally to the esoteric we are fully supported and the reflection back can be astounding but that’s because of the changes we have made and have taken place within us.
I was blown away by this endocrinologists philosophy about the endocrine system mirroring our Solar System. What a beautiful take on this delicate bodily system and he was working in a way that I would say is one of a true scientific nature, with a humbleness and willingness to go wherever is needed to find the Truth without an attachment or need for recognition or individuality, but one of working in collaboration. This is an inspiring story, especially for anyone in the medical field.
As I allow myself to appreciate more in my life and appreciate myself also I definitely feel “better” and more confirmed in myself. Appreciation is a great medicine.
I love the analogy to Saturn, it made me smile and brings a real understanding of the importance of the endocrine system which many of us don’t understand until we have an issue with it, and great to understand it even deeper on an energetic level, meaning that we can change many of our choices with that understanding, to always deeply honour our own delicateness.
This is such a great example to true medical care and responsibility in how doctors and patients can work together being open and willing to see what the body offers and understanding both the energetic and physical symptoms that present.
What really stands out for me in this is how open and surrendered you are in the situation you found yourself in, and in that openness, taking responsibility brings in joy and confirms your posture, and then you take a few more steps in appreciation. It is very beautiful to feel that.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful experience. We don’t appreciate what western medicine does enough – and this blog really does show that level of appreciation which offers us the ability to always connect back to the person not the skill.
The support that Western Medicine does continues to marvel many and when we bring in the reasons for the ill and the choices we make we can be offered a far greater inside into how we can support in the preventative stage.
The appreciation for the consultant explaining how everything within the body is reliant on other parts and has its role to play comes through strongly in the writing of this blog. The analogy given was quite touching – thank you for sharing.
What a wonderful analogy of the Endocrine System and the Solar System. I love this as it is so relatable and makes so much sense. There are many many people in the world doing great work within their field and offering their own very clear and straightforward view of their own experience. We would all do well to be open to what everyone has to say, and just learn to be discerning about what is truth and what is not.
Sometimes, it can be the culture that doctors are encouraged to see themselves as superior, and because their treatments are quite often life changing or even saving, that they posses great power beyond all others. And, so it is with great joy that I read about this doctor, who still seems to see himself as a mortal man in line with all others, who although holds great knowledge, experience and wisdom, is still just a part of the bigger whole that makes up a patient’s life.
What I love is how we can’t do everything on our own but our choices are central to everything if we choose to take care and love in how we live then the western medicine can support this. But as I write this what comes to me is why have we called “lifestyle choices” and “complementary medicine” not one and the same part of medicine, they are not separate but interconnected.
What a wonderful whole-istic experience you had. Your blog shares how this approach is so empowering. To not consider the energetic understanding seems like such a reduction of the whole.
There is so much to appreciate about western Medicine. Generally we complain a lot about it and don’t consider the awesome job that nurses, doctors carers surgeons and all who work in this field do for us. Sometimes it is great just to stop and express our appreciation.
Western and esoteric medicine are like two bright stars in the sky reflecting the light of each other to shine a brighter light on the world.
Thank you for sharing this story Coleen. Many people lose trust in Western Medicine because they think it should have all of the answers – but in actual fact, they don’t.
Beautiful to read how supportive your doctor was, asking you to explain your symptoms and how you felt, it is so important to feel included right from the start, because no one knows your body better than yourself.
It’s very beautiful to feel the care you received from your doctor, and what I feel from your sharing is how it is our responsibility to do our part so that the doctors can do their part.
What an amazing way to look at the human body to consider it like solar system and that one part being out even slightly affects all the rest … I feel both the delicateness, the intricacy and the absolute interconnectedness of our body, of the world and indeed the universe. And each one of us has access to this understanding and wisdom and to hear your experience with your doctor opening your eyes to the possibilities of what your body was saying to you is great, and this is how medicine and everything can be, and will increasingly be in future.
I am so appreciating the quality of delicateness and the love and care that naturally comes from expressing it.
It is amazing how intricate, delicate and at the same time strong the systems of our body are. Beautiful to read of the deeply healing combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine, and how you employed the two together.
Coleen it’s so easy to turn against western medicine, yet when we do that we end up turning against what can support us, however, if we equally rely solely on western medicine, we deny the opportunity to truly heal. It’s great to feel how anything is possible when we are open to true healing and combine Esoteric Medicine with Western Medicine.
A beautiful blog to come back to and inspirational in the appreciation it engenders in myself for all those that have been part of my own healing over the years.
It is lovely to consider how all our systems in our body are connected and communicating constantly to each other just like the stars in the sky.
Yes I loved that bit – you can see how a slight disruption affects the whole solar system and how a slight disruption in our bodies could do the same, putting undue pressure on other systems to keep the balance till right order can be restored.
Reading through this blog I can feel the deep honouring the doctor had for his patients. This is precious indeed.
I felt so much joy when reading this blog at the immense beauty present in combining Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine, which will be without doubt the true medicine of the future.
Wow – I want that specialist if I ever need him! What you have described here Coleen is conventional medicine at its best – connection, equality, humility, thoroughness and putting the patient and their body at the heart of it all. This is how I aim to work as a Physiotherapist also within the medical system and it really works.
This is just wonderful Coleen the doctor talking about constellations and your part in the universe, a universal doctor.
A great appreciation and confirmation of how Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine truly work together for health and wellbeing.
That the endocrine system and the complementary way all the glands in our body work in harmony together can be appreciated as an analogy of the balance and grace of the planets in our solar system is just plain gorgeous.
The delicacy and care you speak of can be felt in your writing. How amazing to open yourself to healing in this way with the help of your doctor and esoteric medicine. A beautiful story, so beautifully written.
Absolutely beautiful to feel the depth of care and understanding your doctor expressed.
Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine complement each other really well and when you have a doctor like
yours it is easy to see how our bodies are like the Universe themselves. There is a grandness and magnificence that we don’t normally attribute to our bodies but that is there nonetheless and it is beautiful to be reminded of this.
What a truly AMAZING doctor ✨
What a great sharing of the marriage between these two. A great inspiring piece that show that the harmony is part of the healing process.
Wow – what an amazing doctor you had, I love the analogy of the endocrine system with our solar system – quite magical. And he took you seriously, listening and on carrying out the full array of tests needed, discovered the functional reason for your lack of energy. Good to be reminded about living our natural delicacy. Beautiful to re-read your blog Coleen.
Fascinating blog, I have a deeper appreciation of my endocrine system from your blog and have been inspired by how important our own expression is when we convey our own feelings when we feel unwell, and how helpful our expression can be towards a diagnosis.
It is always gorgeous to read of doctors that have not lost their passion and dedication to their work and to people, and will go to no end to support a patient from a truly holistic perspective and work together with them in addressing what is there to be healed. This is true beauty in practice and hopefully the future of medicine.
What an amazing doctor you attracted into your life. The detail and care you were offered was available for you because you were willing and open to knowing what was going on in your body. I especially loved the way the Doctor likened the inner workings of the body, to the universe, I find that super fantastic. I mean, if all the planets are so closely linked and connected in a cycle and movement that cannot be messed with, why wouldn’t our bodies be a microcosm of that?
The medical profession can get a very bad wrap sometimes, especially in the complementary and alternative health fields, this is a refreshing example of the fact there are equally some amazing practitioners out there, equally dedicated to people and their wellbeing.
This is an example of how profound medicine can be and how enriching it is to be open to what completes its view. In big appreciation for what Conventional medicine brings to our health as well as for the understanding that Complementary medicine offers to it. Very good and needed collaboration!
A beautiful example Coleen of the marriage between Conventional Medicine and Complementary Medicine. Also, gorgeous the way you have appreciated the skill, knowledge and insightfulness of the endocrine specialist and the Universal wisdom and teachings of Serge Benhayon.
A beautiful account of appreciation… there is always much to appreciate in another but it is a choice to see and express it and not allow anything else to come in the way.
A beautifully shared experience Coleen. I am impressed with the support you received and the honouring of yourself as the patient by this Doctor. How important it is that we all know we are worth listening to and the knowledge that we also have of our own bodies respected. It is so lovely to see the connection between the Medical profession and Esoteric Medicine starting to happen at last.
It makes a change to read of the appreciation someone has of their doctor, because all too often we can get in the habit of criticising our health care providers – mainly because they do not meet our pictures we have built up and met our expectations.
There is something truly amazing about a practitioner who brings a sense of more to the job they do, like your example Coleen, a doctor who not only does the medical stuff but can explain it in a simple way which people get, and also bring a depth of wisdom and understanding well beyond his medical training. They call it ‘people skills’ and ‘customer service skills’ but this may just be naturally within us and the way we have been educated encourages us to work and express knowledge in a certain way which blocks the way we would naturally love people with what we do, and not use it as a source of security or recognition.
‘I had allowed my own bodily awareness to drop to such a degree that I had not noticed this at all until my energy levels dropped severely.’ I can relate to this Coleen, for it’s exactly how my own hypothyroid condition emerged. How numbed we must live, to let ourselves get to the point of not being able to get off the sofa before we notice something’s wrong.
What an amazing sharing to dedication and true patient care Coleen. One line stopped me ‘how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?’ … indeed how do we live in our bodies and do we live with them in the way we can? And this reminds me that before I dismiss this, I give it a go, and that is what is so beautiful here in what you share, your medical practitioner was deeply humble, open and willing to know and feel that there is more and to ask for support in understanding that more as questions arose, do we do the same?
So beautiful to read this Coleen and to affirm the deep sensitivity, respect and caring you have experienced. It happens all too often that the slight mishap on behalf of our health system is quickly reported and blown out of proportion yet experiences such as this are completely overlooked. This article holds the esoteric and western medicine as a relationship made in Heaven and perfect in supporting us all to true whole health.
When we meet a Doctor who is open, curious about life and loves their work, we know we are in God’s hands.
Such a beautiful testimony Coleen. Your description of your doctor reminds me how approaching life with awe, wonder and deep respect is so powerful for our health. It’s ironic but being open to what we don’t know seems to result in the wisest decisions we make.
Doctors work with the undeniable truth presented by the human body on a daily basis. When they are open to seeing truth without pursuing a personal agenda great healing is possible for all.
‘… his aim was to uncover the root cause of my condition and so he was placing patient care at the heart of his treatment.’ Beautiful Coleen and what an amazing foundation for you to go deeper with what this particular illness had to say to you. Your sharing about delicateness inspires me to connect more with this quality and acknowledge we as women are able to live delicate in every day life.
What am amazing experience Coleen; to feel a doctor put patients at the centre of their care is how it should be and it shows how medicine can be practised. I love the analogy of the endocrine system being off kilter and the planets, what a fantastic way to see it, and reading it I felt the enormity of who we are and that we are linked to and part of the grander whole around it. Pure magic.
Wows now that’s a powerful reminder, for our thyroid to be likened to Saturn it really puts things into perspective.
A beautiful and may I say, delicate appreciation of your doctor. It’s very lovely to read.
It is incredibly supportive when we meet a doctor or in my case a nurse who is willing to listen and give the space that is needed to support the patient. Recently I took my son who is now 8 years old to see a nurse which the doctor recommended. When he was young he had been admitted to hospital on a couple of occasions with his chest and ever since especially when he’d got a cold relied on salbutamol an inhaler used by asthmatics. Over the past couple of years I noticed the inhaler was rarely used and I wanted to have a chat with her about his usage. She listened thoroughly asking my son questions with a trust in my son and I that we would know what to do as to whether he would need the inhaler or not on the onset of a cold. She also explained that there was no need for him to take the inhaler if he did not need it and to look for signs from my son and his body as to what was going on with his breathing. I was amazed. I had been confirmed what I felt was true and discussing it with the nurse gave me the clarification my son and I needed as a way forward.
“His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.’ This is a key understanding to the medicine of the future, there is much we can do to support and improve our own health, through making simple choices in diet, exercise, how we are in our relationships and how we live generally. There are now many hundreds of people all around the world who, thanks to the inspiration of Universal Medicine, are making those changes and experiencing greater vitality and better health.
Thank you for this reminder to be delicate. This is our true nature as women and yet we can so easily over ride it and don the superwoman cape, forgetting that superwoman, if she is a true woman, is delicate too.
Illness and disease has a beautiful way of offering us a chance to live a more loving and caring way, when we accept this we are supported by so many angles.
It is gorgeous reading the dedication and care offered by the endocrine specialist you saw. I have also recently been blown away by the dedication, care and hard work of health care practitioners ranging from my GP, specialists I was sent to, my short stint in the hospital and the after care arranged by the council. I have also become much more aware of the demands and pressure these people are under, so am not surprised that at times some of them crack. The most important part of the whole experience which I have developed thanks to Serge Benhayon, and which is a thread running in this blog too, is my own care and responsibility in all of this and not just leaving it to the specialists, and I found that was much appreciated.
I love your blog for the fact it takes the small picture of our bodies into the bigger picture of the solar system. What a great marriage of western medicine and personal responsibility. We are incredibly delicate yet we do not appreciate it in ourselves as much as we might appreciate it in another or in the universe. Time for that to change.
‘His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.’ So true, and the more we are able to connect and feel how our body truly is, the easier it is for us to express what we are feeling and how we are able to assist with our own diagnosis.
This doctor sounds pretty amazing I love the fact that he related the endocrine system to the planets in the universe as this is a truth being that all are particles are part of the All. I am sure that there is so much more to not only learn but to also live in accordance to this and like you deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for all they are and all they live and bring to others.
Truly stunning Coleen. The miracles of medicine are amazing, and so are the dedicated doctors who serve like you have shared.
How great that this physician had this philosophy, ‘His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.’
Thanks Coleen, it struck me how we are often not delicate with our body, that we not only don’t listen to it and override it, but treat it roughly and neglect it. This can never work because the body is a precise and delicately balanced amazing wonder – just like a solar system.
Coleen, you have found a gem of a doctor here, one who knows the balance of the body and sees the bigger picture. He is very aware that to function in harmony, all the pieces of the body need to be working together. It’s a bit like a band of musicians, when one violin is off, key the whole orchestra sounds wrong. This doctor has an amazing ability to convert his learned intelligence from text books into a known wisdom of the working of the body.
Wow – an amazing example of medical professionalism, we literally could not or would not survive without the support of doctors helping us understand the damage we are doing to ourselves and our bodies. I loved his analogy about Saturn, it’s so true that one small part of our body being off can affect every other part of us and our lives, that analogy makes it so clear how important balance and order is within ourselves.
It is great to have such support from a doctor, but for us to also take responsibility for our bodies and what is presenting. I am finding that the medical profession and/or practitioners can support in many ways, but ultimately it is up to us to take that responsiblity for our own healing.
What an amazing doctor you had/have and great to be reminded about delicacy as I have moved away from this exquisite feeling and become a little hard of late. When we allow ourselves to be delicate we are in a true honouring of our body.
The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is a way of living with true health.
A great testimony of the marriage between the two medicines but also an appreciation of the writer for humbly writing of her deep appreciation of the support that can be provided to us all when we visit our doctor with an openness to heal and a deeper knowing of how we are currently connecting to our body.
What a great doctor, ‘ his aim was to uncover the root cause of my condition and so he was placing patient care at the heart of his treatment.’ I welcome having doctors like this in our system.
Coleen your multi-dimensional appreciation is very beautiful and shows us the pure magic that lies within our bodies when we choose to connect to our inner knowing, be prepared to take responsibility and be open-minded regarding our options.
I loved coming back to read your blog again Coleen, it really brought home how much Western and complementary medicine can work together. The diagnosis from the medical profession and the beautiful description that your doctor gave you to high light and explain your illness, accompanied by the esoteric understanding of what you needed to do to heal this on a deeper level made complete sense. It was a great reminder of what could happen to any of us when we get caught up in life and work and lose the delicateness that is innately there in all of us.
What I have experienced is that when I don’t care for myself I get doctors that also don’t care. But the more I care for and love myself it allows greater support to come from others and the doctors I have met over the last few years have confirmed these two sides of the conventional medicine aspect of healing with the support from Universal Medicine in developing self-love.
Our body is like our closest most loving friend that constantly is there to support us, and when we are not listening, gently nudges time and time again until we do. What I love about marrying Western and Esoteric medicine is the understanding and responsibility that is gained to truly heal ourselves.
In order to fix the broken part, we need to address the Whole and when we do we see that no part of us truly breaks, it simply falls out of sync with the grand order that governs all parts to be in synergy with the whole that they are a part of.
Thank you Coleen, you give hope for the future combining of the two medical ways ( Western and Esoteric medicine) coming together for the greater good of all.
I love the way your doctor likened the endocrine system to the solar system, and it makes so much sense of how everything is by design inter-connected and works together – within our body and without at all levels, and a possibility that the way we take care of our own inner inter-connectedness affects how we can co-work with the outer in harmony.
This is beautiful Coleen ‘Dedicated to Serge Benhayon, who has long presented how humanity will be blessed by the union of western medicine and esoteric medicine. It has certainly been demonstrated to be so in this case.’ I for one in the past moved away from conventional medicine, made alternative options the ‘higher’ but it did not work. It was conventional medicine that has saved my life many times from asthma attacks. It was from esoteric healing as presented by Serge Benhayon that I came to the underlying energetic cause of the asthma and working with that and medicine, I no longer have life threatening asthma and now medication free. This is another example of the marriage between the two which i deem as TRUE health care! Actually TRUE Medicine.
Thank you Coleen, we may not all have had an urgent or essential need to consult a doctor and work with an illness, but what you have shared in your developing relationship with different approaches to medicine inspires beyond returning to reasonable health to being more sensitive to the delicate balance we can support our bodies to return to as we explore being truly well.
We as patients ask so much of the doctors, especially when it comes to wanting the answers to what’s gone wrong with us and then wanting them to fix it. This doctor you have found Coleen sounds very switched on when it comes to patient care, and it is great to share the appreciation you feel for him.
“I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated.” – In my experience delicateness is not something that we generally allow ourselves to be in our daily lives! I know for myself I can override it with the seemingly greater importance of ‘getting things done’ but what I have found as I connect more with delicateness in the way I live is that it doesn’t necessarily mean I get less done and in fact quite often the opposite…
I have come back to this Coleen and as I am rereading, it strikes me that we either end up in 1 of 2 camps, 1) where we are pro western medicine or 2) some people go too far the other way. What you share here though is such a marriage of the two. Understanding what it is you needed to do for your body medically, but also looking at the body energetically and understanding the meaning of why what has presented has indeed presented, really great.
Reflecting on your blog I find it interesting today because its as if we are looking to be able to have one answer, that somehow Western Medicine has to be the answer to everything. Yet it is clear that this is a huge burden to try and put on something that focuses on helping fix or recover our “broken” body in some way. What is really special though is to appreciate what that does offer but bring in the esoteric and Way of the Livingness as then you end up with the complete picture. Something that is truly supportive to ourselves and all others.
This shows that there are true healers in all professions and simply ‘fixing’ or ‘treating’ a condition does not make you a healer. It is so lovely to see medical doctors willing to be open and be real people, not held aloft as the source of all medical knowledge. This type of interaction signals a paradigm switch away from the paternalistic approach medicine has taken for so long.
We can find true gems everywhere, in every profession and part of society – those that live from their heart and who hold everyone with equal love and care. If we bring up our children to know this as their experience, they would never choose outer recognition at the expense of the truth they have felt within, the truth they have felt and seen reflected in such heart-centred loving people.. This is the way of the future.
‘I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated. And yet, how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express? What a fine tuned instrument is our body, when I read your sharing I can only be in awe and deep appreciating of how our body is designed. And thank you for the question I have copied in, I can struggle sometimes with this quality of delicateness, it makes me aware how I attack my body when I don’t choose to appreciate being delicate.
It is so beautiful and refreshing to hear of a professional operating with integrity and real love. We are so used to hearing about corruption and greed in all areas that it is incredibly inspiring to hear of people like this. Reading this blog I am left with an expansive feeling in my body and connected to the love that is in me also.
I remember reading this blog a while back and appreciating what a good combination esoteric and western medicine is. Just so confirming and, to top that off, to imagine to organs in the body to be as delicately balanced as the solar system commands a great respect.
Coleen one thing that shone through is the fact that life is not to be lived in isolation but through working together and having a real quality of relationship with all, to this end it is no surprise that the amazing work western medicine offers needs the support of esoteric medicine in order to support true change and healing to take place.
When we fully appreciate the practitioner and the medical treatment that is offered, we immediately understand our responsibility in healing. This is love in expression.
Coleen thank-you for this sharing, it sound like your willingness to understand and heal was a beautiful partnering with this doctor’s appreciation and humility for the intricacy and wonderment of the human body. With esoteric healing mixed into the pot, what a supportive package of inter-relationships, that work to inspire and inform true healing.
Thank you for sharing this amazing experience Coleen. There are many medical practitioners that are truly amazing and it is lovely to share these experiences so that we can appreciate them and know that this level of care is possible. This then asks all medical practitioners to meet this same level of care and provides a reflection for those that don’t.
A wonderful example of a true physician working with you as an equal and central contributor of your own health. I am struck by the intimacy of your relationship with your doctor as you worked together to get to the root cause of your condition. He open, enquiring, humble, wise, generous, dedicated to true patient care and you open and willing to learn more about yourself and the endocrine system . Both contributed to your ability to heal yourself.
Kehinde2012 i loved reading the detail you saw in the blog and the fact that there can indeed be a deep connection and intimacy with your doctor, you can work together to not only get to the root cause but then make different choices to heal.
“Given the anatomical position of the parathyroids in the throat area, the contemplation of how my words, sounds, speech and singing need henceforth to be delicate was instant and is something I am now connecting with daily.” This has given me much pause for thought. I have been connecting to the healing power held in a voice that comes from being in connection with the body but I hadn’t considered until now that delicateness is an intrinsic part of that power and needs to be honoured and expressed equally.
A loving and supportive article not just extoling the huge benefits of the marriage of Western and Esoteric Medicine but one that can support others who have doubts about either of the two approaches to have the confidence to engage with them both and reap the potential rewards.
Today, I too, am committed to feeling, speaking and singing from my voice and throat with delicateness, thank you for the inspiration. I really enjoyed reading of your experience and deepening my understanding of the human body in all its beautiful form and natural rhythm of working collectively as one vehicle.
I am very touched by what you describe as “a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness”. Do we give ourselves the time and space to go deeper, explore and fully appreciate what our medical system has to offer?
It is obvious in your story here Coleen that you really gave your doctor a flying head start by being very aware of your body and observant of its signs and symptoms. You therefore went in with full responsibility and in support of your health care professional, by providing a lot of useful information that they would not have otherwise had, which in turn supports you, by increasing the detail and level of care you receive. Self care actually increases the quality of the medical care we end up receiving in this way.
I too have experienced that when I take care of my body and take responsibility for where I find myself in life the support comes. Wanting someone or something to fix me and no support comes, only the opposite.
This is a great sharing of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine working closely together. Together the awareness and understanding you have gained for your body is priceless. It is so important that we get this level of care and we allow ourselves to be open to it all.
Amita I wholeheartedly agree with you, the story is nothing short of a miracle as it represents the future of medicine across the world. Medicine that starts with ourselves but has incredible support for all of society. Showing that the way we are affects everyone else.
‘I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.’ SO lovely to feel that the qualities’ that a person can bring are actually more important that simply having completed medical training and developed the required clinical skills. All must come from the love we are first.
Coleen it’s easy to criticize and judge, blame and attack – something that is unfortunate but the default for many of us in society. When it comes to western medicine we are the same, it’s the doctors fault, the operation, the drugs etc.. etc.. however very few times do we go in and approach the condition with the responsibility of the part we have played to get ourselves here. I certainly didn’t do this in the past. What you share is great as it asks us to consider our place, our choices and hence confirms exactly why Esoteric Medicine is not only complementary to Western Medicine but an essential symbiotic part.
This is a lovely testament of the union of Western and Esoteric Medicine and the ways they work and complement each other for the benefit of all.
The marriage between Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine, when this occurs, is such a divine blessing; your experience of this Coleen shows that it is possible and hugely healing. Your appreciation of this ‘marriage’ and its healing powers, on all levels, is also appreciated.
My experience of both western medical and alternative/complementary health practitioners has been that it is about the genuine quality of the practitioner and how they live from their heart far more that what training or background they have come from.
I love this blog Coleen and am so glad that you have shared your amazing experience. I recently had a family member find an amazing surgeon by following what they felt to be true. I know that true support is out there in the medical field when we need it, we just need to be open to receiving this amazing support.
I love the synchronicity of this very caring doctor talking about the human body with its glands all mirroring the way that stars move and work together in the sky. It brings a sense of completeness to my body and makes me aware that We are all a part of something far bigger.
There are dedicated people in all walks of life and appreciating them is absolutely appropriate and worthy of doing more often
a very beautiful story about someone dedicated, humble, with extraordinary attention to detail, and a true understanding of service… How wonderful that this is still possible in this hurly-burly world.
I absolutely agree Coleen, the marriage between Western and Esoteric Medicine is truly marvellous and deeply appreciated. I’m currently having tests and have also seen an Endocrinologist who was truly a lovely gentle man. His words of medical advice were actually confirmation of the quality of my innate delicateness. And that my test results are quite perfect for me and it is my responsibility to honour the delicateness I am rather than try and do physical things that my frame simply isn’t designed for. So simple and so wise, just like Esoteric Medicine presents. The more I listen and respond to my body in advance, the more I won’t bring on a response from my body to get my attention to the truth of my innate qualities. Delicateness being perhaps one of a few I could appreciate and embrace more deeply, therefore choosing prevention over intervention.
It is lovely to hear how your doctor/consultant presented the fact that “the patient is the one who holds the keys” as this is deeply supportive. When we come from this place we understand completely that life is medicine and that the doctor is there to support and assist us but not the magic fix.
Doctors with caring bedside manners are not as common as they used to be – however, they certainly do exist and are such a blessing when we ‘land’ in their care. This is a beautiful sharing Coleen and one that shows we can marry western medicine with complementary medicine to get a fuller picture and understanding of the outplay – and how important it is that each of us empowers ourselves with what unfolds and working with the specialists, GPs and other health care practitioners including the complementary ones, rather than leaving our lives in the hands of others. We are well worth it!
Our lifestyle factors and how we live, play a huge part in our health, we either contribute to our ill health or our healing, it is time for us to be responsible for our part in our ill conditions. Then we can work with a doctor, combining the esoteric medicine with western medicine, and this is true healing.
What an amazing doctor to go to those lengths to find out what was causing your health issues, and to have him so open and honest about his own field of expertise, by admitting that the medical profession knows very little about the parathyroid gland.
Many doctors say a lot of things are normal, Like having breast lumps or cysts each month before our period, or, as you say, not having a period for months, or having endometriosis or small cysts on the ovaries. Those that have this attitude think like this because they do not understand that we are energy before we are matter and that if we have a lump then we need to look at the energy we are running with that has supported our body to create a lump. If we do not address this then the poison will accumulate in the body and will eventually lead to a more serious illness.
I love the words delicate, vulnerable and fragile, to consider them as strengths we can hold ourselves in, runs counter to the accepted ideology of our societies, yet to be surrendered to these qualities does for me bring us closer to our natural state of being.
This is beautiful Coleen and shows how medicine can be practised with the patient truly at the centre of care. This provides a very clear way forward for medicine.
I used to avoid doctors at all costs thinking what do they really know. And this was because I had wanted them to fix me and all my problems and when they could not I gave up on them. Basically i took no responsibility for the way i was living. However, when I take responsibility for my life suddenly what doctors can offer is immense. By choosing to not take responsibility for our choices we are asking far too much of doctors and so we are seeing massive health care system issues. It is time we started to piece life together and not isolate parts – so then we see something happening as a result of something else and not just a random occurrence, then we will truly be able to work with doctors.
Besides all the amazing qualities you describe in this doctor, Coleen, I felt a true scientific mind, of not knowing all the answers and an awe of the wonder and intricacy of our bodies and of our capacity to honour them for their innate capacity to reflect universal harmony. Knowing what immense conditioning our doctors are required to undertake to become doctors, this experience confirms to me how powerful our innate wisdom is and that it never needs to be abandoned.
To meet a doctor or medical practitioner who meets you, has time for you and is deeply caring is a beautiful thing. There are many in the profession with this level of care and they need to be richly appreciated.
The marriage of Esoteric Medicine and Western Medicine is going to provide such an amazing combination in time when there is more openness to this being the case. What you have described here Coleen is so beautiful, you sought out a medical doctor to look at what was of concern for you, then went deeper, asked the questions of an Esoteric practitioner, to understand the why, why had you body responded in this way, for true healing to occur.
‘The reason my period stopped is because I chose to not deeply connect to, and live from the stillness in my body.’ The concept of connecting deeply to the body and it’s innate stillness is absolutely beautiful and the was back to true health and wellbeing. A deeper level of appreciation for this truth has come to me through reading your blog Gyl.
It must be rare to find a doctor who is still in awe of the workings of the human body despite their busy work lives – what a blessing and an honour.
I too have often not treated my body with the delicateness it so richly deserves. I am now going to take this awareness much deeper, Thank you for sharing how this has all played out for you, Coleen.
It is wonderful to read an example of health care, where the health professional brings all their love and expertise of medicine to the patient as an equal.
Our bodies are so good at restoring balance and harmony that we forget sometimes just how delicate they are.
How many conditions are endured and neglected and misunderstood by both patient and medical profession? Western Medicine does what it does very well from the sources and experience available, but often it is about meeting the right medical practitioner who has a little more intuitive understanding of the way the body works and is able to communicate that to the patient, and pursue the whole problem until some new information presents itself, rather than giving up when there seems to be no answer and remain with what is already known, that opens up new discoveries that benefit everyone. This is true experiential research. However the one element often left out is the energetic root cause of the problem, and feeling its quality of energy brings all together as a whole and gives the patient equal responsibility in their own healing, so this way both Esoteric Medicine and Esoteric Medicine working together can bring us back to the foundations of true medicine long ago.
I love coming back to reading your blog Coleen, I can feel the absolute dedication and commitment the doctor that you saw had towards his profession and his patient. That he was able to explain to you by using the solar system and its different planets as a way for you to relate to your endocrine system makes so much sense, and made me aware of how a slight imbalance can affect the whole system…in this case our body…..such a brilliant analogy, thank you for sharing.
These days we are able choose which professional we want to see, at which hospital, and on which day, and can look up the doctor’s credentials and experience on the internet. Your choice of doctor sounds so lovely Coleen, how supportive he is and he is so passionate and able to explain the details of his speciality in a way you can understand the systems of your body. We then have another choice if we wish to deepen our healing through the combination of Esoteric Medicine with Western Medicine, it all depends on how much we value ourselves in this process.
Placing patient care at the heart of the treatment is something that is extremely important. The way the general system is set up is that the doctors have so many patients to see that they stop seeing the patient as a person and it becomes more a number or issue to get through. We can deeply appreciate what the doctors are there to support us with and to also take full responsibility for our own health to take the pressure off the system.
This is beautiful Coleen and thank you again for sharing this. I have read this a number of times and it gives we amazing hope and inspiration for the future of medicine that is run by people, truly connecting with real people. Only when both health care professionals and ‘patients’ are seen as people first will we have a truly healing system.
I have so much respect for doctors and other health professionals who can connect with the natural order and wisdom that our bodies hold and who work with the whole body and person before them.
I have found deeply heart-connected, humble and inspiring people in every profession and every trade and vocation. Conversely degrees in theology, a priest’s vestments, PhD’s, medical prestige, or spiritual prowess do not guarantee that that person comes with wisdom, kindness, harmlessness, true intelligence and above all Love. It is Love that the world in so desperately in need of, and yet it lies within all of us equally – only awaiting its reawakening.
“The patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.” – This is a truly new marker for how the health system operates, where the responsible patient, meets an informed, transparent doctor to support healing. Rather than irresponsible patients looking to doctors to fix them and be responsible for their health – it is little wonder doctors feel stressed, that are carrying responsibilities that are not theirs.
Having your doctor be so thorough and turning every possible stone is super cool and makes me pondering on other area’s in our life where we can do the same for ourselves. To take that responsibility and see where else in our life we are not turning all the stones but keep going with what we know best and the comfort of this.
A most beautiful sharing, thank you Coleen. How awesome that we live in such a magnificent body.
Delicateness is such a beautiful word and probably one that many women shy away from living in. And yet when we do avoid our own delicateness our bodies are showing us such through the parathyroids how neglectful this is for us. This is a great revelation for me, Colleen, and one I need to really pay much more attention to. Delicateness is an innate quality already living within me and I am now starting to feel and appreciate this.
I love reading your blog Coleen, as your association of the delicate fine balanced nature of the endocrine system to that of the orbiting planets and the Universe really offers the big picture of understanding the context of the function our endocrine system. The endocrine system being able to finely balance hormones to enable all our other body systems to function normally truly is as inspiring and as beautiful as observing the Universe and planets moving in their orbits. It indicates to me that there really is a relationship between the human body and the Universe.
‘Dedicated to Serge Benhayon, who has long presented how humanity will be blessed by the union of western medicine and esoteric medicine.’ And blessed we are when medicine is utilised in its entirety, and not one part without the other.
Living with responsibility, living in the Way of the Livingness and combining Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is what will lead the way when people have given up on anything else helping.
thanks for this awesome sharing Coleen, and beautiful to confirm that the union of an open heart-centred physician and a responsible and responsive patient brings a great foundation to explore and understand how we bring ourselves to the point of ill-health, and in that honesty and willingness can allow the possibility of far deeper healing.
Your appreciation and joy of the interconnectedness of the body and our choices, and the support on offer by many in the medical profession and from an esoteric perspective is clearly felt Coleen. When we come across people whose loving intention is to be of service, but to get themselves out of the way whilst doing this is inspiring and up-lifting. When love and commitment are at the core of our actions, no matter what the field, this is a service to all as the love is felt by all.
Imagine if we were to consider life, ourselves and humanity, in this holistic way of being interdependent and interconnected. Perhaps we would consider more that the quality of our choices and movements have an effect not only on our bodies as a whole but everything in the universe.
Your appreciation of how the endocrine system functions with the glands all interconnecting was a revelation for you and very enlightening to read Coleen. The other thing that stood out was the doctor’s foundation, “His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.” There feels a real respect and balance here for the knowledge of the doctor and the deep knowing from the patient’s body.
The predicament of blaming someone for an illness or disease is bottomless. Neither blaming the doctor, nor family, nor society, nor pollution, nor God nor myself leads to healing. Healing comes along and starts with appreciation.
This is great Coleen, it would be amazing for us all to have this understanding and respect of our bodies, ‘I was humbled yet, at the same time felt, possibly for the first time ever, how exquisitely intricate and beautifully delicate is our endocrine system. This was the first time I appreciated this endocrine fact and this amazing doctor’s deep appreciation for the human body.’
This is a powerful and appreciative piece of writing that goes a long way to diminish the polarisation we have allowed between western and esoteric medicine; the expertise of trained doctors and the expertise of our innate knowing about what our bodies are telling us. Thank you Coleen for sharing your experiences so openly.
When Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine meet, it is not in fact the meeting of two opposing modalities that just happen to complement eachother. They are both born of the same seed, which is to return the human body to its natural state.
I’m on holiday this week and I’ve already met a GP, a coach and a psychologist. All absolutely beautiful people, very dedicated and very loving. What I could feel within me is the appreciation of them and how utterly beautiful it would be if these so needed professionals would work together with people like me and others who understand the energetic part of life. If the two would join and would work lovingly together, the whole world would be so much better off. And all lives and professions would have an increasing level of both purpose as well as responsibility. As there’s a togetherness and a working together with the same dedication, care and purpose.
What a great sharing Coleen, how wonderful to find a doctor who was not invested in himself, but willing to be open and operate in a thorough way, that was both supportive to you, but willing to call on his peers to also assist. Furthermore, you being open to feeling more deeply from an esoteric perspective, where you could go to another level of understanding in how you have lived and taking responsibility for that. Really amazing.
If something works it shouldn’t be knocked and the path you have chosen here with your health Colleen clearly is a winner. Your Doctor sounds amazing which so many of them are and adding an Esoteric Practitioner to the mix as well as taking full responsibility yourself is the perfect combination. So many people these days just want a magic pill to take it all away without changing anything for themselves which may sometimes work in the short term but as we know will never be truly healed until full responsibility is taken and all aspects of the illness addressed.
Love to see someone who has looked for an alternative way of addressing their health, and realised that really it’s about a complementary approach: The East and the West, the mental and physical, the energy and the practical. It’s so rare, as so often the decision is done in reaction, which leads to rejecting all the great, practically miraculous techniques that Western Medicine has developed over the years.
Thank you Colleen, for bringing attention to the parathyroid glands, and the gorgeous delicateness that we can be and express.
I love the appreciation that you share here Coleen. It is so beautiful to meet medical practitioners like this and it shows the potential future of medicine.
What a fabulous Doctor you have experienced Coleen, I believe that when anyone has that level of passion, humbleness and attention to detail then it really gives the patient such support. And the way you took advice from esoteric practitioners to more deeply understand your body and what it needs, to me that felt like the perfect marriage of knowledge and wisdom between the esoteric and western medicines.
“The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life.” For me too, bringing the understanding of Esoteric medicine to the illnesses I experience help to understand them more and to truly heal them.
It’s worth appreciating our doctors and pharmacists for giving their all to the intense study of our bodies. It’s worth appreciating Serge Benhayon for giving his all to studying our energetic bodies in full.
It is remarkable how our bodies nudge us towards a deeper understanding and responsibility of how we are living. I was particularly struck by the fact that you held the belief that delicateness was “only something for infants who were self evidently physically vulnerable. But delicateness in a woman of the world? No.” yet the imbalance of your parathyroid glands was instrumental for you to deepen your awareness and appreciation of living with it in your life.
It can be easy to stereotype western medical practitioners just as much as those from other areas of the world or indeed complementary medicine and therapy. This clearly shows the importance of remaining open and discerning for ourselves in every moment and with all we meet.
Wow this shows how a true partnership between patient and doctor makes a huge difference in our health and I love what you share here about a True Doctor “..openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.” Thank you Coleen
I love reading this blog Coleen, it gives me much hope for the future of medicine.
Coleen, it’s lovely to read about your experience of a true doctor and his openness with you. He reminds me of the old family doctor who was someone who truly cared and was not under pressure of rigid time constraints or having to live up to being an expert.
Western Medicine and Esoteric medicine complement each other beautifully as conventional medicine deals expertly with the symptoms and the physical diagnosis, and Esoteric Medicine supports us to examine the root cause as evidenced by the choices we have made over a long period of time.
It is wonderful reading how you felt inspired and empowered by the very clear and honouring explanations provided by the doctor. What a great combination with the depth of understanding and responsibility that Esoteric Medicine provides.
This is the way forward, a marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is my feeling too, a powerful combination.
The marriage between Universal and contemporary medicine is a match truly made in heaven, where self –responsibility meets wisdom.
I wonder how many of us can relate with having pushed our bodies to achieve at all costs? ‘most of my life, prior to connecting with the esoteric teachings of Universal Medicine, had been lived in the push and the drive of academic achievement and success in my career,’ I know I certainly did. And being delicate with myself is a whole new way of remembering how to be, ‘Delicateness was something I felt, but overrode this, under the belief that it was only something for infants who were self evidently physically vulnerable.’
Deciding to take charge of our own health and well being, without rejecting the amazing support that western medicine provides, not only ensures that you are going into your journey of healing empowered and aware of yourself, but also allows doctors to do their job without the weight of expectation for them to fix everything.
What an amazing Doctor, Coleen, I am really impressed with him, thank you for sharing.
This is an example of what it means to claim our own health back and not just leaving it in the hands of modern medicine to do it for us. Very inspiring, thank you.
I agree Joshua, it is up to us to take responsibility for our lives and health and not just expect a doctor or anyone to fix us. We have to make the steps and can then be supported along the way.
It is heartwarming to hear about the dedicated medical professionals that come out intact after going through the process that they choose so long ago.
Esoteric Medicine and Western Medicine belong together and your account Coleen is the perfect example of how we can work so beautifully with the harmony of the body and all that is available to us in order to truly heal.
I love the way you talk about the endocrine system! I have worked with women and their fertility for years now and I constantly marvel at the wonder and magic that is intricately orchestrated on a monthly basis. Our bodies are seriously amazing!
“I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness” ~ this should be the foundation of everything that is taught in medical school.
A deeply honouring piece of writing Coleen where I could feel your delicateness throughout…
We can find many beautiful moments in life when we are open to receiving them.
“The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life. Together they are healing me personally and this healing is on offer for all others who choose to utilise the two together in this way.” This is a very profound and beautiful Coleen, sharing your journey with your heath and your body’s messages is very supportive to read and understand. How different health and well being can be when we choose to listen to our bodies and look at the esoteric wisdom of it all and this allows a true appreciation for ourselves and our body and our life’s purpose.
I very much look forward to more of your shared understanding here Coleen – the honouring of your delicateness via the parathyroid glands feels to offer such opportunity for healing. How far from true delicateness with ourselves and in our expression do we live as a whole? There is so much for us to learn, or come back to really, in embracing a lived way in life that does truly honour the delicate and amazing beings that we are and these precious bodies that we inhabit.
To meet such a true physician, opens the way for us all to appreciate and understand the fact that, we can all be such – i.e. ‘true physicians’. This is something that occurs by way of the quality in which we live, as is termed our ‘livingness’ – inclusive of being willing to ever-deepen our understanding and philosophical way in life, that we may so meet and honour all those who come across our path.
Thank-you for this awesome account Coleen.
To meet such a practitioner as you’ve described is to meet a true physician – someone who considers ‘the whole’ and not just the part (as Plato spoke of…). I have also met such a man, and felt deeply inspired, met and supported on all levels. The healing I experienced in his care was profound at times – his words, oftentimes by way of a simple parable, held a deep understanding of what was occurring in my body and also in my life which opened many doors for me. Doors to recognising and responding to where I gave myself away in life and did not hold myself in full esteem for all that I am.
First and foremost, it was the quality of being seen, met and respected to the bone that offered so much by way of my own healing. The man I speak of holds what I would call a true ‘fathering energy’ – one where he does not shoulder the burdens of others, but opens his heart to their well-being and care at a deeply beautiful level.
We have so much power to change the relationships we have with people by taking responsibility for our own reactions.
It is so good that you decided to look more deeply into what was going on for you Coleen, because of this you found a doctor that was also willing to look into it more deeply. Interesting isn’t it when we are ready to look at the root cause of our illness the right people are there to support us.
Coleen at the moment complementary and alternative medicine fall into the same basket for many people, yet that is likely why there can be conflicts between types of medicine. Western Medicine and alternative Medicine are in constant battle. Now I’ve come to understand what complementary medicine is, from the modalities of universal medicine in sessions to the why I walk, sleep, eat etc. It is 100% clear that Western Medicine and True Complementary medicine don’t just work together but are essential to our current way of living. I can see that your appreciation of your western medicine practitioner combined with your responsibility in how you live shows this.
Yes, medicine is great at investigating interventions but less effort has been put into investigating what makes a good doctor or how to improve the response of the patient to an intervention.
There is such wisdom in your observations here about living the energy of the organ in this case our delicate nature. It makes sense that the body clears the energy in our body that is not lived in true harmony and balance.
The body is truly an amazing teacher if we stop to listen, appreciate and care for it. And even better when your doctor also holds their patient with the same level of regard.
Yes a great combo: our willingness to listen to what our body tells us along with a medical professional who respects our expertise about our bodies and what is going on.
It sounds like your doctor Colleen was speaking a universal language in his analogy of the solar system which is very complementary to the energetic understanding of your illness.
When we become involved and engaged in our own healing process as you describe so beautifully here, we can take responsibility for our previous choices and allow the opening for true healing to occur.
It is so inspiring to hear this medical professional listen and understand what the patient knows and observes first before sharing what he knows and can contribute with his expertise.
‘I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated…’ It is the latter part of this sentence that really stopped me in my tracks to consider how many of our innate natural characteristics have we structured and re-interpreted as weaknesses? Delicateness is definitely one, also honesty, fragility, vulnerability, working collaboratively… there are many more but the impact of this is a catastrophic stepping away from the very things that knit us together leaving us in the divided, fearful world we live in today. Catastrophic, yes but exquisitely simple to resolve when we choose.
A beautiful account of being open and humble in the medical profession – and how western and Esoteric medicine can work in tandem. I recently gave birth and was surrounded by midwives who were so supportive. My role was to continue to express how I felt, and in doing so, they respected that and worked with me. At no point did I give my power away – it came from my body first – and as a result it was a very simple process.
I love the synergy between you and the doctor you saw. Right from when you wrote about your choice to look more deeply into what was going on in your health you were on the case bringing your level of responsibility to the table, and he for his part was wonderful – what a great example he offered about Saturn for example and the care in finding things out and explaining them so that you could deepen your level of understanding and responsibility. I always find the best form of support is when greater inspiration and empowerment is offered to the person. And the relationship you have written about seems very supportive.
The great thing about Esoteric Medicine is that it is complementary to medicine, and so it is a marriage, as you say, made in heaven.
I love this blog Coleen. It is an example and inspiration of how medical treatment can be focused on the patient, placing them at the centre of care, rather than care revolving around the practitioner. I love the responsibility you take for your own health, again this is inspiring, a blog like this should be required reading for all medical students and specialist trainees.
Using only either Western or Esoteric medicine without the other is possibly the key to why our standards of world health are declining so rapidly.
Yes, western medicine is very powerful when it comes to diagnosis and intervention, but may not put much emphasis on the influence of the doctor and the individual patient on the healing process. Empowering all three aspects may be very helpful.
Unarguably.
There are indeed many people working in the field of medicine who are ‘medi-angels’ as Jenny James put it! We would be lost without them and they have a vital part to play when it comes to taking care of the physical body. What is so beautiful about your blog Coleen is that it highlights the harmonious union of Western Medicine and Universal Medicine which when brought together with an openness and a willingness has the potential to bring about true and deep healing. What an amazing medical system we would have if this approach was embraced world wide.
What has touched me deeply in my second reading of your wonderful blog Coleen is that the initial openness of both you and the doctor offered the opportunity for you to begin to develop a relationship based on honesty and trust, with the only focus the healing of the issues that had been causing your health problems. And I love his analogy of Saturn moving off its axis, and the subsequent result. It certainly painted a most vivid picture of what happens in our bodies when an organ or a gland moves off its “axis”, how other parts of the body have to step up and take over some of the work, so putting them under extra strain. Just one example of how utterly amazing this body of ours is.
The more I learn about the intricate functions of the human body, the more love and respect I have for my body and the importance of balance and harmony with us all. Most of my life I avoided going to the doctors but through Serge Benhayon’s presentations of the Ageless Wisdom, I have also learnt to respect orthodox medicine and seek regular check-ups and follow through with my GPs recommendations.
Our relationship with our body affects all that we do, how we do it and therefore the quality in which we live and how others respond to us. A great reflection of this relationship Coleen.
How beautiful is it to have a strong connection with our body and support from the medical profession who also respects this.
Yes, this is a powerful combo, and also the route out of the health crisis we are in.
Ultimately there are so many doctors who enter into their profession because they truly care about people and their health. We must not let the fact that they are then subject to an institution that then crushes so much of their innocent wonder make us forget that fact.
In great appreciation of those dedicated medical practitioners who work in the most intense situations and who are relied upon by so many. I have met many medi-angels out there.
Yes, there are a lot. When they combine their love for humanity with a love for themselves, they are extraordinary.
The marriage of a great doctor with esoteric medicine has clearly left you feeling empowered with your condition and far from being a debilitating experience it feels like you are experiencing an evolutionary one.
I love the deep honouring and awe for the body that this blog leaves me with. Thank you Coleen for sharing the details that allowed this feeling to unfold.
We need doctors that care deeply but just as much we need patients like you Coleen that care deeply too for their own bodies and well-being and are ready to do what it takes to restore their health, otherwise we are in a losing battle against a tide that will simply overrun us with the sheer numbers of people getting sick today.
A beautiful sharing in deep honour of the body from both yourself and the doctor you were working with – this is the kind of health care that we need. Unfortunately our illness and disease rates are so sky-rocketing that it is hard for doctors and health carers to keep up and deal with the tremendous overwhelm and pressure this places on them.
“…how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?”
This is a great question and something I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate through Serge Benhayon and it makes such a difference to my life.
I am very touched by the respect and time your doctor gave you Coleen. Through your words I can feel his level of integrity, love and care of his patients. What a blessing he is for everyone, patients and colleagues alike.
It is a blessing that you have found such a caring doctor, Coleen, who not only sees the body but more.
The body is so delicate and incredibly sensitive yet it withstands colossal physical abuse on all its systems… and then repairs itself. It is forever striving for homeostasis and with the love of self-care and healing, the vitality that can be felt and lived can be extraordinary.
“I felt the truth in this analogy, and how aghast I would be if Saturn did ‘wobble.’ Yet, of equal importance is my own thyroid and I had allowed it to wobble so very severely, in total disregard of the effects this would have on the whole body.” Changes in our bodies can be so subtle that unless we stay connected to what we are feeling 100% of the time, they can easily go undetected. Over time these symptoms become what we accept as being ‘normal’ to us. But as you are showing Coleen, these subtle changes can have far reaching affects, and the analogy of the ‘Saturn wobble’ is a fantastically clear and loud message for us all. Thankyou.
This is a really beautiful blog to read Coleen, and what an inspiring Doctor you have to support you. To have such clear and open communication between you is a testament to both you and your Doctor, and shows that the union of Western and Esoteric Medicine is a union that should not be ignored.
Our bodies are amazing how they have so many different things working altogether in synchrony. It makes sense then that just one seemingly small part of it out of balance can have a knock on effect on every part of our health and wellbeing.
Huge dedication to people and his profession. I’m very happy to hear of such a cooperative relationship between you and your Doctor. Too often do we hear the horror stories and people being misunderstood or ignored altogether.
The deep respect and consistency of treatment you received from your Western Medicine practitioner is an example to us all how we can be in our everyday lives, it’s the focus of the quality we bring to everything that matters and is felt by all. Of course, the combination of the Esoteric Medicine with this makes the complete picture.
Coleen, its wonderful to read this article and how western medicine and esoteric medicine can work so beautifully together, seeing the whole picture and not leaving out any parts, this is true healing and beautiful to read how the different doctors and specialists worked together and how you understood the root cause of the diagnosis, this feels like the true way for medicine to work, empowering the person with the condition to fully understand what is going in their body and why and then for everyone involved to work together in a harmonious, collaborative way.
Thank you, Coleen. It is important for us to share our positive and inspiring experiences of the medical world, because there are many many deeply caring people in the profession, and if we have not been treated well in hospitals we tend to write medicine off rather than look at our part in how we have attracted this lack of care and honouring.
What would happen if the true root cause of all illness and disease was confirmed to be our choice to separate from love and to live any less than the full potential of love in our lives? People coming to embrace their absolute responsibility for healing of themselves, each other and the whole planet would occur. Such healing and vibrancy can be seen within the student body of Universal Medicine, who are embracing this as more than a fantasy or remote possibility. It is real and tangible and being shared through a chosen quality of life and commitment to life in all corners of the world.
The combination of western medicine with esoteric medicine allows for true healing – I feel so blessed to have the support and understanding of both.
This is an incredible story Coleen. I feel amazed by what has been shared about the endocrine system here and I get the sense that many of us may be living with conditions we don’t even know we have while our bodies do the best they can to keep us going. I feel that we find the practitioners that can assist us to work out what is really going on in our bodies when we reach a point where we are truly ready to heal and it is clear that you are.
I have experienced help from a specialist at an endocrine clinic. It was practical, providing medication for an over-active thyroid and she was interested to hear that I intended to play my part, with the help of practitioners and a nutritionalist, to help my body to re-balance. Within three months the levels were back to normal and she said this was unusual and that whatever I was doing seemed to be working. I had been through a stressful period in my life and knew that I was responsible for my body going out of kilter, so appreciated this wake-up call to be more aware of what my boy was telling me. Marriage between doctors, patients and practitioners is the way forward.
What a beautiful sharing and understanding of the blessing we all have with both the esoteric approach and western medicine as part of our lives .”The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life. Together they are healing me personally and this healing is on offer for all others who choose to utilise the two together in this way.” Connecting to our body and all the wisdom it tells us is a beautiful way to live and heal thank you for sharing this.
Why is it so rare that we praise western medicine and its service to humanity? Could it be the same reason why we so rarely praise God and His service to humanity? Do we need something or someone to accuse for our self-created abuse to our bodies?
Thank you for sharing your journey in dis-covering your endocrine system Coleen I felt deeply touched by your words and inspired to connect more deeply to my own. I have a deep honoring and appreciation of the intricacy of the body and how delicately all is connected and balanced together but all parts in itself are worth consideration and connecting to.
One of the most important points you make Coleen is that your doctor was appreciating the fact that you know your body best and that you are a full partner in this process. Unfortunately many doctors dismiss this fact and tend to think that people who are aware of their own bodies are psychosomatic.
I get the chance to observe the medical system regularly and see how most doctors are stretched beyond their limit and in a state of giving up and automatic prescriptions or diagnoses. The pressure on the medical system makes it so that it is starting to crack in every part of it and to find doctor as you did Coleen becomes more difficult. It is not a lack of passion and resources but often a case of exhaustion and knowing we are lacking answers more and more. This is where the esoteric comes in, as it will not only support the client in healing themselves, and support the doctor in the deepening of the understanding of the body, but it also teaches basic self care and awareness, something both ‘sides’ could do with.
It is so beautiful to read a blog with such appreciation for your experience and such appreciation for and of the medical team that you have worked with. These things need to be expressed and talked about! Thank you Coleen.
I felt the same way Henrietta, I love how Coleen has shared her experience so openly with such appreciation for the support that is available to her.
What an absolutely stunning story and testimony to the beautiful marriage between Western and Esoteric Medicine. What a joy, and so very much appreciated, to hear an account of a truly honouring, humble and deeply caring doctor; such a blessing for you both.
Western Medicine brings so many benefits to millions of people daily, and yet it cannot be the whole answer, otherwise disease and illness rates would not continue to rise. The marriage of Esoteric Medicine and western medicine, brings a wholistic approach that is a game changer.
Hello Coleen and it’s great to see things like this, “I feel to share a recent personal experience of Western medicine in action, which was nothing short of exceptional.” With the pressures involved in that environment from everywhere it would be like a breath of fresh air for them to read something like this. From what I see I don’t think I could work under that type of pressure, so thank you for bringing a different light to what is a not often appreciated place.
I love the fact that you felt the philosophy of the doctor you saw was “that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing”. I have found this recognition together with the profound responsibility it brings to be deeply at the heart of Esoteric Medicine. It is encouraging that there are conventional medicine doctors who embrace that philosophy as well. This level of honouring and empowerment really works and brings about a win win for all parties.
A doctor is a much better doctor when they enjoy their medical subject and their work.
The endocrine system is a very specialist area, and some professionals can become a little narrow minded in a narrow field. Not so with your practitioner, Coleen, he had a lovely understanding of the system and how it interacts and I can feel an awe in the way he described the connection to the body, like a solar system. In truth, there are many western medicine practitioners like this because most people who set out on a medical career have the intention of understanding and working with the physical system. It’s lovely that the magic of the body humbled this doctor to be the messenger to explain it to you.
A fantastic testimony to the bringing together of two aspects of medicine and the revelations and healing that can occur when we do. Beyond this particular powerful example, this has also inspired me to consider the game changing impact of bringing together and union, as opposed to our tendency to separate and work in isolation. This is true for the relationships within our daily lives to our integration within the world.
“. . .the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.” Without a patient’s willingness to take responsibility by listening to their body and observing the choices they are making, a true healing will not occur – at best there may be a cure but, if the same ill-choices are made it may return or morph into another symptom
Coleen, it’s lovely that you express the qualities of this medical practitioner as there are many doctors who truly care and honour the body in such a way. It felt as if you were treated as an equal and able to contribute to the healing process by being willing to look at what was going on and make the necessary changes to facilitate healing. And then adding in the esoteric practitioner brings in further understanding of how you can address the root cause, and as well it brings in the third party – the power of 3.
I agree Sandra, I had a telephone consultation with my doctor yesterday to discuss blood results. She is very supportive and interested to hear how I am working with practitioners and a nutritionalist and is interested in having feedback from what they offer as my body is sensitive to the drugs she can provide. A great blog Coleen.
It seems to me that very few of us choose to be a doctor to simply make money, very few of us intend to do a bad job when we get up, very few of us start out in our career wanting to give up. And deep down very few of us set out to simply exploit others. The way life currently is can often end up twisting our best intentions. Let us not forget to appreciate that deep down so many of us care so deep, so many of us understand we are here to teach, so many of us naturally want to go that extra yard. Rather than seeing the world as lacking and focusing on what is wrong, what would life be like if we started to more cherish our true beauty that lives underneath? From what you share Colleen it seems this would be great medicine for us each.
This is a demonstration of the marriage of western medicine with esoteric medicine as in the quote at the top of this blog page. I love to see the appreciation of a practitioner who is truly connecting with what is required for the client or patient.
It is wonderful to hear of your experience with “modern” medicine. I too have come across some doctors that are truly interested in the whole picture. They understand that the body is an amazing interconnected system, and that their job is to assist the body in healing.
How awesome to be treated by an endocrinologist who puts patients care first, and to be treated with utmost respect and openness, with a willingness to involve your own input re treatment.
Coleen,
I came back to read your article tonight because I was so touched by the tenderness, honesty and humbleness that I felt in your writing when I read it previously. This along with the information that you have delivered make it a most powerful article for any one who is feeling exhausted and drained in their bodies.
Recently, I was sharing with a Dermatologist about how my body had changed when no longer eating dairy or gluten and the reply was that their profession used not to accept that food played little or any part in topical skin conditions that were presented to them, but now had changed their mind, as several patients had stopped dairy and symptoms noticeably changed. The consultant said, now they were giving the advice to patients to explore what happens when they don’t eat dairy.
The whole picture of the body, rather than just its parts is slowly becoming a more normal way of looking at it.
That’s beautiful Coleen, what a great doctor and much to appreciate there about what western medicine truly does have to offer. And I should think it would be lovely to have a patient like you who is open to seeing their part in their illness and taking responsibility for that as well as seeing and accepting the support conventionally available.
“I felt a new humility about my body’s willingness to maintain me in a state of health for such a long time” It is quite incredible how our bodies continue to function when we pay so little attention to how we care for them. When I look back at the quality of my health 10 years ago, after quite a few years of tenderly caring for my body and feeling extremely well as a consequence, I can see that the condition of my health was extremely poor. We seem to all to willingly accept that is it normal to get regular colds, flu, headaches, migraines, period pain, vomiting, diabetes, cancer and so on. What we take as ‘normal’ is not normal at all, just very common place and muddling up the two understandings is very dangerous for our well being. Its normal to feel well, vital and healthy. Anything else is a deviation from the norm and a loud message from our bodies that we are neglecting our health and damaging our health, sometimes beyond repair.
Wow – this really shows what a difference it can make if we understand the body well beyond how to fix it. This doctor seems so inspiring and has an understanding of true healing.
I was particularly struck by the doctor’s willingness to let go of his original diagnosis – this is something we can all learn from. Sometimes I think I know the answer to a problem but I am not always right, but am sometimes not willing to let go of my idea and that can lead to an argument with colleagues. You have gently reminded me that humility and openness are key to helping in any situation.
Taking the time to persist in finding the cause of what your body is telling you is self-care, and honours the fact that you are listening to the body.
The openness, humility and care you were shown by your specialist, the way he was able to communicate with you and listen and trust what you knew about your own body and how your illness is for you personally, would also instill in me a great trust and appreciation – A great basis for working with any illness and disease.
Reading Coleen’s blog it is also quite striking how honest the doctor is about what he does and doesn’t know. That requires a lot of integrity.
What this shows me is the fact that you were taking responsibility for your own health, caring for yourself, you were then being looked after and cared for by your doctor. I can imagine for a doctor to have a patient that walks in with full willingness and care for themselves and wanting to look after themselves then it would actually make the whole process a lot more effective and the pull to make sure you are doing a thorough job would be natural. This is a huge incentive to see how we are living and when we bring in Sacred Esoteric modalities and philosophy then we have absolutely all angles covered.
There is a wealth of care and wisdom to be had when we work with our bodies and a practitioner who is open to the deep knowing that is present.
I recently experienced something completely new for me. A medical professional, a chiropracticor, who referred a client to my practice after having heard positive stories from one of my clients. I don’t even know this man – physically – yet I feel how we’re actually working together on a very deep level to support our clients well-being. So indeed, the marriage of Western and Esoteric Medicine will re-define Medicine. Eventually accepting that both are part of Universal Medicine. Both are ‘just’ jobs that support people to re-connect to our Love and the innate Universal Rhythms we belong to.
I was always scared of Doctors and avoided them as much as possible but with support from Universal Medicine and Esoteric Practitioners with caring for myself lovingly, looking at the deeper reasons to my health concerns I now have no fear and just this week such great support and help from my doctor. I felt I was really listened to, given plenty of time and treated on the basis of me as a person rather than a set of symptoms or diagnosis.
A fantastic sharing Coleen, thank you for the detail you have taken… and how getting to the root cause, the energy that causes our illnesses in the first place, is the key factor in true healing.
I love the analogy with the universe – to me it says that we are just like the universe and knowing that I need to be very delicate and astute in listening to what my body is telling me, what it wants, what it needs to function in the best of ways so that I also can feel that I’m much more and also part of the planet and the stars and their constellation in the universe.
This article is very relevant for me right now so thanks for posting!
Actually if we stop and look at Western Medicine there is so much to appreciate, and I for one have a much healthier relationship with my GP than I have ever had, especially as I now go into the surgery with a different attitude, not only to my own health but by not expecting them to miraculously fix me.
In holding medical practitioners in appreciation we also become more appreciative of ourselves when healing has taken place in this way.
The love, appreciation and wisdom you express here is very remarkable and joyful to hear. With medical conditions rising every moment in the world and our health systems quite out of control, true healing and the merger of western medicine with the esoteric is an amazing blessing and necessity for us all.
There is so much to truly appreciate Coleen, your amazing Doctor with the care and understanding he was willing to give to you, the marriage of Western Medicine and the Esoteric Medicine in action and the benefits that this had in dealing with the physical and the energetic cause of the illness, and also yourself for being responsible enough to put into action how you can support in the healing process for your illness by honouring your delicateness and caring and nurturing of yourself, and not leaving it all up to the the Doctor to ‘fix’ you.
Can we really say after reading this blog that the medical system is letting us down, or is it possible it is doing everything it can do to keep us from the harm of the irresponsibility that we inflict on ourselves? Taking responsibility is what true, holistic medicine is all about and it does not mean consulting more and more alternative therapists looking for the answer in some modality. It is as presented by Universal Medicine, adopting simple, pragmatic lifestyle choices.
Empowering patients in the process of healing rather than as a subject of it is a fundamental change that brings truth to medicine.
This just goes to show how powerful it is for us to express our care and love with each other.
Before I met the Esoteric Healing Modalities, my opinion of Western Medicine was quite low. With the support of the Esoteric Practitioners I have been able to completely revise my appreciation of doctors and what this profession has to offer me. Taking full responsibility for my health has transformed my relationship with my doctor. I now appreciate all their skill, knowledge and love, when we combine this with Esoteric medicine plus our own self care and appreciation, our bodies can only respond positively to all the care and attention.
When we as patients are behaving responsibly, then doctors and treatments become far more effective. Any modality that teaches us how to be responsible as patients is truly complementary medicine.
Thank you Coleen for sharing this amazing experience, of what the marriage of western medicine and esoteric medicine can bring to mankind.
This is a very inspiring read… how the magic of western medicine and esoteric medicine can together equally support each one of us to truly heal, and when we are willing to dig deep and accept our part in what our bodies reveal to us, then we have a foundation to support a new way of living.
One of the strongest points I feel is the respect the doctor held you in Coleen. This is something that is so missing within health, from both sides. Working in health I see daily the lack of respect some patients (and families) have for doctors – they want a fix, a solution, often without taking responsibility, and can be quite damming of the doctors if they don’t get the result they want. On the other hand, some doctors can be arrogant and disrespectful of patients and fellow health workers. However, when both sides accept equal responsibility, and respect and support each other, the magic of true healing can occur… as you so beautifully present here Coleen.
“His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.” Love the responsibility this brings Coleen. Each one of us, deep down, does know why we are in dis-ease or ill, and therefore we each know our way to healing. To have this kind of support is so honouring of another, and if all of medicine followed this philosophy, our healthcare system would be in a totally different state than what it is today.
The union of western medicine and the esoteric universal medicine is true medicine as you have found and show here Coleen, thank you for your inspiring writing. I espcially love the endocrine system and the universal symbolism.
Thank you for sharing this amazing blog Coleen. In your opening line you talked about recent media attention to the healthcare sector. One thing that I often reflect on when the people working within the healthcare system are targeted by media, is that, healthcare workers, including doctors, are subject to the same healthcare system as the one in which they work. Healthcare workers have the same, and in some cases worse, health issues as non-health care workers. We are all in this together, and it is beautiful to read of such a truly harmonious and healing relationship.
‘…he was not attached to his initial diagnosis and had moved straight away to consult with colleagues about areas which lay a little outside his immediate area of expertise’ – This is amazing Coleen, teamwork and the openness to hearing other people’s opinions and suggestions are SUCH important skills/values as a medical professional… Without this there is no way Doctors could treat or diagnose all the conditions we are seeing in society today, and the multi symptomatic man whereby people can have more going on than just one illness.
The ‘and more’ in your title Coleen, was definitely reflected back to you by your specialist – there is a divine order in our bodies, and this was being respected by him.
Our true qualities from within are hugely supportive to those practicing medicine and or working in the care related roles and yet it can be seen that in some cases our education and training actually override or replace these. Instead connection to them could be introduced as an element of any training given so that all are supported further from the professionals and care givers to the patients and individuals concerned.
I rally enjoy the solar system analogy, I get that, when I looked into anatomy and physiology through study I have found this to be the case. The universe is within the body, it is sublime to ponder. Everything is interrelated and balanced astonishingly divinely and when it becomes out of balance disease manifests.
I can relate to numbing my awareness so that I do not bring to my attention how tired my body can feel. I have not been diagnosed as ill and have not been ill with a disease with a name…but I spent years living with a tank half full, exhausted, fatigued, drained and I thought that was normal life….Esoteric Medicine supports healing and vitality, a connection to life and I actually seek the support and counsel of my GP more than I did in the past because I have more care for myself now and I am more aware of what is going on in my body.
Conventional and Complementary / Western and Esoteric Medicine working in unity have no conflict, they are deeply supportive and a necessary part of healing.
Coleen what an amazing testimonial of the work of the medical profession, the deep care, tenderness and insight of your physician. However the real magic is the combination of that care and your responsibility looking at your part in the condition – equally healing and supporting the process. This changes medicine from a fix up to life changing.
Coleen, what a needed sharing. I agree the delicateness is not integrated in our life most of the time and I am about to understand its depth, which it has in my body and to respond on the delicateness I feel in my body.
Coleen I am completely touched by your sharing here. The delicateness in your words is just beautiful.
The care we can have from conventional medicine combined with esoteric medicine comes to us when we care for our bodies because it is felt how much we value ourselves and make our choices. The more we honour ourselves, the more we are in turn honoured. It’s available for all to choose it.
Appreciation and team-work is incredibly important. A marriage of Western and Medicine Medicine is like Heaven on earth in practice. No fireworks, just dedication from two highly qualified fields within Medicine that cannot go without the other. Curing and Healing – both equally needed. So the marriage is actually also offering us the revelation that we’re all equal and that in fact everything that needs to be done is equal. How wonderful and wondrous is that!
The level of care that you are sharing here has such a profound impact. This is the kind of role model doctor it is a joy to hear about.
Coleen this is beautifully written, the insights and humbleness of your Doctor and you taking responsibility for your part led to a true healing. Yes indeed the marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is a powerful way to truly address health problems.
An example of the true definition of healing, dealing with the physical condition and going to the root energetic cause.
The union of western and esoteric medicine will truly deliver what mankind needs.
I love the fact that this specialist was so connected. He could see that our bodies are a direct reflection of the universe. And how could they not be, as we are made of the very same particles.
What a difference it makes when our existing western medical science combines with an understanding that it alone does not have all of the answers but that it can offer so much when applied with an understanding of the power in people to understand and heal with its support.
Experiencing the love of a doctor is a healing in itself.
I love this analogy of the endocrine system being like the solar system! I guess you could say that for the whole body, for the whole body is balanced in a delicate order with all the parts designed to work together and if one part of us ‘wobbles’ then it affects everything else. The system is also incredibly robust and flexible and it seems our bodies can compensate to a point if we mistreat them or allow a part to ‘wobble.’
I had a similar experience recently when I had some minor surgery. The consultant was brilliant, very caring and humble, professional and dedicated to his art. He made me feel very much at ease which allowed me to consider the deeper aspects of what was going on.
Thanks for sharing your experiences Coleen about how you reconnected to living in your delicateness. For most of my life I’ve lived in the push and drive of getting things done, but now my body is speaking more loudly that this way of being, this constant overriding of my natural delicateness and fragility no longer works and is an exhausting way to live. When we surrender to what we so naturally are, there’s an ease and a flow to life that feels beautiful to live each day.
There are indeed many in the health or medical profession who do care for their patients and put that care above everything else and your story Coleen is a great example of this.
It is super important that we marry Conventional medicine with the Esoteric medicine and as your blog indicates this is where the true magic of healing occurs. Thanks for your very inspirational blog. The doctor you went to is now going to get inundated by all those with endocrine issues!!
Thank you Coleen, your blog brought me to appreciate how western medicine and esoteric medicine practitioners can have in common a true dedication to healing, especially if their patients take responsibility in respecting their bodies and learning as much as they can about their illness and how it relates to their lifestyle choices.
Reading this feels so healing in itself. The care and dedication of your practitioner feels like it beautifully unites the science of western medicine with the universal energy of the esoteric and through this flowed treatment and healing on all levels.
So there are forever three parties who need to work together if True healing is to occur. First and foremost, the person him- or herself and the Western and Esoteric Medicine practitioners. Writing this makes me realise that we are to learn to work together. One can not go without the other. Could it be that this is actually what we are to learn here on earth? Working together. And how Precious would it be if we would do this when we’re ill or suffering from a disease? In the period that we much need care and love from others.
I loved reading your story. I could feel how the humility, dedication and care of this man supported and provided the space for you to expand and deepen your healing, and I also felt the gorgeous space for expansion you offered him through your observation and appreciation of him. Both of you supporting and inspiring more of the best in one another. I was thinking what a blessing it was that you had to come across such a wonderful doctor, and at the same time I knew it was not just random, I knew that you played your own part in that naturally by how you are choosing to live life.
I love the appreciation you now have of how esoteric and western medicine can work together. Ultimately, this is the future of medicine. Taking care of our bodies on every level from the physical to the energetic is truly preventative medicine and the only way to deal with root causes to restore health.
We often view the need to have surgery as a failure, BUT surgery can be very healing as it brings us to a point of new beginnings as we understand why we required it, what life was telling us through the need to have the surgery and how we can live life differently going forward. I recently spoke with a gentleman who spoke about breaking his leg. During the six week period where he could not work, he had clarity about an abusive job situation that he was in. Since his leg has healed he hasn’t returned to that job and is working with a different company where he now has a steady flow of work in circumstances that are much better for him. Whilst he didn’t have surgery this situation confirmed to me that illness and disease can also be healing.
There is much to be appreciated here Coleen, in your approach and the medical practitioner that showed so much care and humility. I meet these people every day in my work and continue to be inspired by the dedication so many in the health system show.
‘His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing’ – This is such an interesting approach to medicine and healthcare, and really emphasises the responsibility we have to look after our bodies and make choices that nourish rather than poison them, for we are the only ones in the driver’s seat of our wellbeing.
This Coleen is so fundamentally beneficial for the body and is in our whole ‘The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life. Together they are healing me personally and this healing is on offer for all others who choose to utilise the two together in this way.’ and yes more would benefit if they also chose to use the two together.
What an amazing experience. The awareness and care of this doctor is to be truly appreciated. This is what health care is all about.
Experiences like the relationship you developed or were offered by the endocrinologist tell me that this connection is possible in all patient doctor relationships.
Yes I agree bernadetteglass this could easily become the normal experience in medicine if both clients and practitioners took more responsibility in health care. The fact that Coleen’s story is a remarkable experience worthy of a blog says a lot about the current state of health care.
Our bodies are constantly communicating with us, sending us signs and signals about the quality of our daily choices. The more care we take of ourselves, the easier it is to notice and respond to issues that don’t seem quite right. Taking time to get things checked with the doctor while also looking at how we have been living on a day to day basis, the quality of our diet, exercise, self regard, family life and working relationships brings a new depth, power and responsibility to our health care. Addressing our health issues is no longer the sole responsibility of our doctor, it is a collaboration of personal responsibility and modern medicine. Combining this approach with Esoteric Medicine and its energetic awareness supports us to get to the root of the problem and thereby treat our illnesses on all three levels, our daily living, the physical symptom and the energetic cause.
A true testament to the magic of the marriage of Western and Esoteric Medicine.
When I think about how amazing our bodies are and how many of us just use and abuse them and how the earth is part of the solar system and the Universe and how we abuse the earth, both of which hang in a delicate balance and will let us know when we go too far.
I love it when any professional explains the details of the learning and understanding from their world to me in a way I can understand, especially when it affects me. It can be like in your case Coleen, the endocrine system is very specialised and it’s great the doctor took the time for you to understand how it needs to be very finely balanced to function properly. Or it may be the optician explaining the reasons why we need to care for our eyes, and the details about glaucoma, or the car repair guy who helped me with a peculiar noise from my car on the motorway analysing it last month. It gives us a feeling of respect and being honoured when we all connect to each other in this way.
Another amazing story about the strength in union between western medicine and esoteric medicine. The proof is here in the written word of those experiencing it.
It is only when we are open to going to the depth of what our bodies are sharing with us that true healing can occur.
I absolutely love the analogy of the of solar system and the endocrine system! It makes perfect sense, and really helps describe the delicateness of what are bodies are actually made of. How easily we take it all for granted.
Coleen, who is this endocrinologist you speak of?! I want to see this doctor! It can be an arduous task to find a doctor that does not live on assumption and rush you out the door. What an absolute pleasure for you to be working with someone who honours you and your health. A true testament to you also for caring for yourself enough to want to get to the bottom of it.
The union of western medicine and esoteric medicine will be profound, when western medicine is prepared to admit they don’t have all the answers and that humanity is in desperate need of true support.
“I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated. And yet, how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?” So true Coleen – you have given me much food for thought on the importance of delicateness and appreciation of this quality.
What is inspiring here is that both you and the doctor were prepared to get to the truth of what was happening within your body Coleen. There was a responsibility on both sides to look at their part and a respect for each other to support the unraveling of this truth. Working within the health system, it is rare to see responsibility and respect in both parties equally, however this is clearly what will support western medicine and the worldwide health crisis.
Wow! This blew me away! “What this doctor then shared about his understanding of the endocrine system was profoundly insightful; I had never before heard anyone speak about it in such a deeply honouring manner and I was very moved. He explained that he sees the endocrine system as being exactly the same as the solar system, with all the glands interconnected in an amazingly precise and delicate order. He referred to the thyroid gland as being like the Saturn of the solar system and asked me to consider what effect it might have if Saturn wobbled just a degree or two off of its orbit.” This doctor is an absolute treasure!
A humbling read Coleen… how many of us perceive and honour our bodies as though they are a delicate and intricate part of the universe. This has offered a whole new perspective in the way I view my endocrine system, and my entire body for that matter.
A very humbling read Paula. How amazing that we are a very important and grand part of the universe. And should we learn to treat ourselves with such care we will feel the love and divinity that lay within.
“My body was clearly indicating something was awry, so I decided to look more deeply into what was happening with my health. This proved to be a great decision on many, many levels.” This is the key that opens the door to letting the magic begin.
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing story Coleen. I enjoyed it from start to finish. It so beautifully confirms the magic that can happen when we make the choice to take responsibility for the health of our bodies.
Thank you Coleen, it is so true what you share. I have also found by combining Universal Medicine and Western Medicine that this has brought many benefits to my health. The thing is there no magic bullet, but it takes time and effort to work on my ill conditions but a choice to heal my issues so I can truly feel the benefits!
It’s amazing that some doctors have such an incredible level of understanding for their patients and humanity as a whole.. Without this it would be easy to become exhausted, weighed down and emotional about the magnitude and multitude of choices we make to disregard ourselves – as evidenced by our health. Some doctors do experience this, which is why it’s so important to have role models in this profession and every profession showing that there is another way.
I have learnt so much about the thyroid through this blog Coleen. I am a big advocate for the combination of both western and esoteric medicine. For me we do a disservice to Western medicine if we do not bring an understanding of how our behaviour and choices affect our health. We are only choosing to deal with the symptoms and not the cause. That puts so much pressure on doctors to fix us.
Hello Coleen and it’s great see people simply appreciating people. These days we seem to hold each other to a perfection that is never attainable. We are more then happy to give a compliment but soon after there is always something ‘bad’ to say. It’s like we are not comfortable with leaving something light and appreciative on it’s own without a weight on it. We need to appreciate people and even the smallest gesture can be given the hugest appreciation, after all what are we afraid of?
What a beautiful sharing Coleen. Successful treatment, which means curing and healing the root cause, requires three parties: Western Medicine, Esoteric Medicine and the patient him- or herself. I love to read about your dedication to yourself and willingness to learn and be exposed. Thanks to your appreciation of yourself as well as the amazing doctor and esoteric practitioner, you’re an amazing inspiration for the world. That many may indeed be inspired. I am:-).
Coleen, thank you for sharing this.
Working with the why and how, in conjunction with medical support to treat a condition, feels like common sense to me now. Once upon a time I would have relied on, if not demanded that pills or surgery ‘fix’ the problem so I could ‘get on with it’, without taking myself or the doctor into consideration at all. Quite arrogant on my part to have such an expectation without at least considering personal responsibility.
Recently research shared by the World Health Organisation indicated that most ill health conditions world wide are in fact lifestyle related, so, almost entirely preventable. The proof of that is in my own body now that I have changed the way I live.
We are so used to living ‘on the surface’ with our bodies, not noticing the little signs that tell us something is not quite right until the bigger signs arrive and bring us to a stop. When we don’t notice the supposedly ‘little’ things we also miss out on the richness and magic the body also shares with us constantly.
True patient care as you have described it Coleen is the start of an equal relationship where both patient and specialist working together to get to the root cause combined with esoteric medicine it is the best healing there is and this is definitely to appreciate. And I love how you have described the dedication of your specialist, thank you for sharing.
Yes wow – what a specialist!
Brilliant Coleen – this story needs to be shared, not just amongst medical / health professionals but amongst the general public, inspirationally and educationally, for them to understand the importance of the relationship with their own bodies in regards to their health and wellbeing.
Coleen this is amazing to read. As someone who has had hypothyroidism for over 20 years I am deeply inspired by your blog and will be passing this on to the endocrinologist I see now or any I encounter in the future too. Having massively reduced my medication since marrying western medicine with the esoteric I’ve come to a plateau and feel it’s time to start looking more extensively at my thyroid again with the support of both of these, to go deeper in gaining more understanding of my body and it’s own beautiful solar system. Wow what an analogy your doc gave you there, I love it. I also love what you shared about delicateness and the parathyroid, ‘how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?’ If you felt to write a part 2 on this as you gain more understanding of your own body, I’d be first in line to read it. Thank you for sharing in the precious wisdom of your body, it feels very healing for me too.
When true care for people is put first, we cannot but be touched and deeply confirmed – and thus this is such a key part of medicine.
To leave the doctor’s surgery feeling inspired to not only take deeper care of your body, deeper responsibility for your health, but also with an immense appreciation and awe of the body is incredible.
Coleen I love how the doctor described the precision of the endocrine system’s workings in a way that was accessible by you, the patient. The fact that he listened respectfully to you and then communicated in a way that you could understand was an invitation (and a response to your manner) to support a relationship where the patient is empowered and encouraged to be an equal partner in the healing process.
Coleen, you are an incredible story teller. I was so engaged in your writing and in love with what you were sharing and in awe of your experience, insights and appreciation for this fine GP. Thank you for taking the time to share this.
Some thing has to be said of the way you are living Colleen, to magnetically pull such great health professionals.
Coleen what stands out for me in your blog is the fact that you can see the importance of taking equal responsibility for your health, as you say “all these years that this condition had remained undetected…not only by the medical profession, but by me.” We are the ones that need to take that level of care and responsibility for our bodies, something that we all naturally feel but often overlook, instead focussing on the next thing on our list rather than the quality we are in.
I hade to realize how little I was taking responsibility about my relationship with my doctor. I was blaming them for not spending time and treating me in a superficial way, but had to discover that I was not offering a understanding and interest in the relationship, neither did I make sure that I will not give myself less than connection and working together. No wonder that I made bad experiences with doctors – I brought the energy of disconnection and dishonoring into the relationship here. Since realizing this, I changed my behavior and lo and behold…my experiences changed. Ha!
Coleen – what a journey on the way to health and understanding! For this journey it is necessary to have people on our side that support and work together. To build these relationships with people is a responsibility and in our all benefit.
“I understood and appreciated how esoteric and western medicine can indeed work together to … enrich our collective understanding of how our bodies work in terms of their physiology and biochemistry and in terms of the role of our expressed energy has in either harming or healing them.” – I just can agree. To work together here is enriching all of us in any way.
Such a fine example of the comprehensive nature of combining western and esoteric medicine. The two work so well together and particularly so if you have a doctor as committed to patient care as you experienced Coleen. It really is a marvel that our bodies can be so telling, in truth we get away with nothing, it is all there, our bodies either spin on their axis like the planet or we tip them off balance. It is ultimately our choice isn’t it.
That Saturn comment from the doctor!!! It’s so stunning and immediately brings such a sense of delicacy to the way I consider my body. Before I met Serge Benhayon, I considered my body nothing more than a machine that did things and got me places. Over the years that has changed entirely and I am now developing a relationship with it whereby it is my deliverer of truth.
This is true healing in action, supported physically and energetically to understand what brought this ailment to the body and how to treat it in order to be more of the true you so all of humanity gets a healing. Beautiful.
After reading this blog it would be impossible to deny the divine design of our bodies.
I was unaware we had parathyroid glands. After reading your blog I looked them up and learned about how they delicately balance the level of calcium in our bodies. I connected the way our body works to what you shared about living delicately. ‘How will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?’ Great question Coleen.
Coleen you share is an important reflection for us all, to never have assumptions about any group of people, because they may not be true. Better to walk in life with openness and curiosity, appreciating the wonder of miracles that occur in the every-day and people we meet.
Thank you Coleen. I love the honesty and openness with which you write, sharing your commitment to developing greater awareness of the subtle signs from the body when things are out of balance, rather than waiting for a really big sign to build up. There is a lot for us all to learn from this account.
“I was humbled yet, at the same time felt, possibly for the first time ever, how exquisitely intricate and beautifully delicate is our endocrine system.” The body is an amazing vehicle that withstands an awful lot of abuse from our lack of awareness to care for our body, but there comes a point when it has to let us know what we are doing to it. I love the fact that the endocrine system and the parathyroid gland was able to expose the lack of delicateness in your day, which offered you to go to another level of healing, supported by the medical diagnosis and a loving caring practitioner.
This is a beautiful, and how amazing it is that western medicine and ageless wisdom can work together in harmony to bring true health to our complex body.
I am in constant awe of our Endocrine System. It is so delicate and refined that all it takes is a few molecules issued from one gland to another to alter its entire course of action. It sets our entire body rhythm and underpins all our bodily systems. I abused mine for years by ingesting caffeine, sugar, recreational drugs and alcohol and consequently felt really ill. With the immense healing support of the esoteric health modalities, I have cleaned up my act big time and my Endocrine System can now run unhindered by the immensely damaging chemicals I was poisoning myself with. It is amazing how well we can feel when we finally nurture our bodies instead of trash them. When we take ourselves to the doctors because we don’t feel well, the first line of enquiry should be “how are we treating our body?”.
“how exquisitely intricate and beautifully delicate is our endocrine system.” It is. It’s great to stop and feel, to truly understand its true purpose – being open to how it feels in the body – to be in the wonderment of its natural capacity and evolvement.
Not only are we blessed by western medicine’s services around the world, we are now blessed with awareness and a sense of responsibility so that we can work as active patients getting support on our own way – not being rescued as victims of life.
“I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.” Coleen I think this should be taught in every medical school around the world and hang in every doctors office. This is true medicine and offers true healing.
Delicateness is like a flower, when it is watered and nourished it blooms and is powerful, yet if we shy away from it or ignore it, it wilts and shrivels. Thank you Coleen for sharing your own personal relationship with delicateness and the physical symptoms that have manifested in your body as a result of not having fully honoured this quality.
Love, in whatever form it presents itself, is wonderful.
Beautiful to read your experience Coleen, it highlights that our willingness to connect and take responsibility with our body is appreciated by the Medical community, and allows the doctor/ specialist to be able to do their part in full.
Given the opportunity to support each other, with due respect for the understanding we both bring, is to move forward united. With this foundation a deeper relationship can develop and true support is felt.
Coleen, this article is expressed in a way that appreciates western medicine wholeheartedly. Your personal relay of experiences with your Doctor sounds like what most young Doctors hope they can be for their patients when they are fresh out of medical school. What makes this sharing interesting is the depth you are willing to go to by incorporating esoteric medicine into the equation, I hope that your treatments are fruitful on the many different levels you are embracing healing.
There are many amazing medical practitioners out there, the care and dedication your doctor showed is so very needed and you can feel the impact this level of care has on you as a patient, it invites you to take more care of yourself and honour yourself in the same way.
We cannot escape reflections but we do everything in our power to. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine defined a marker for me that I adhere too, and this marker expands as we are naturally pulled to evolve, and redefine what that marker of truth is for ourselves. But, as you say Coleen we actually have this reflection or truth all the time through others (or nature) if we are living our potential or not.
So beautiful to read Coleen- really appreciating the dedication, thoroughness and openness of your specialist, who puts his patient first, and aims to give you optimal care. From here you can take more responsibility for your own health; having the deeper understanding of what the disease states means energetically in the body.
I loved what you shared about the parathyroid and how it is about expressing our delicateness. I have been like you Coleen, knowing and feeling I am delicate but desperately trying to hide this from the world. Trying to not be who you are is definitely a cause for a planetary wobble! I have been very aware of the way I speak and the quality in my voice in recent years. It feels so lovely to hear another person speak with delicateness and I love the way it feels in my body when I speak this way.
What a deeply touching blog Coleen. Meeting a doctor who is willing to express their deep honouring of the patient and the human body is so powerful and I wished this was the norm for all health practitioners. Instead many are taught to be professional and hide their deep love of the body and people behind knowledge. Imagine if every consultation was like this? We so need reminding of how delicate and exquisitely balanced our bodies are, so we can start to treat them as such rather than something we use and abuse.
To find for ourselves health practitioners who take such care of their patients as the ones you have shared here is inspiring; the healing comes from feeling the level of care they have for us and replicating that for ourselves. It can be exposing. I had a GP who supported me through depression with a care I had never experienced before – no sympathy – just a dedication to nurse me back to my full potential. Even today, whenever I visit her for something just routine, her care always moves me to tears as it can highlight what I am not bringing to myself.
Just reading your blog Coleen has brought me to beginning to truly understand our delicateness. I can feel the impulse to treat myself with the love, delicateness and tenderness we can hold a baby in but rarely ourselves. This is a journey I feel compelled to explore further and looking forward to sharing it with you along the way. Thank you for the love and holding you engage the reader, which feels to inspire them to discover what has clearly changed your life.
I enjoyed the cosmic analogy of our body’s delicate balance. What I received from this was that connecting with delicacy within us, we can practically develop and appreciate a way of being in our daily lives. Taking this connection and appreciation into healing is an enormous step forwards in medicine.
Coleen, I love how your doctor made the analogy with the plants and your organs – sometimes analogies help to really bring the message home. We get to see it from a different perspective and realise that what we are doing is crazy, or how we are with something does not sit right etc. Brilliant!
Your willingness to choose to be open to healing that which was causing your feeling of dis-ease is one of the most powerful medicines that can lead any of us to true and deep healing. One that is available to us all, as our Divine Will is quintessential for us to be at one with our true begin-ness.
Hello Coleen and even you looking a little deeper at what’s going on with your body is a message to us all. So often we leave things go on too long and the symptoms become compounded and finally at the last second we seek support. I think from my point of view for you to seek medical support at the first instance is already a big step, thank you.
Yes agreed Coleen, Serge Benhayon ‘has long presented how humanity will be blessed by the union of western medicine and esoteric medicine.’ And you are a shining testimony of this. The more this is union accepted in our society, the more we will see the way we approach healing today change to from a ‘quick fix’ so we can just get back to what we were doing, to a transformational turn and lasting shift towards the union of body and Soul, whereby we are guided by our awareness to consistently live with a deep sense of well-being.
What you have shared here Coleen shows very clearly how potent healing can be when we combine the understandings of western and esoteric medicine of how the body functions and responds on an physical, physiological, biochemical and energetic level. With this level of understanding offered we are then offered the opportunity to feel empowered to take responsibility for how we are living, for our well-being and vitality and bring awareness to the choices we are making in our lives and to the lifestyles we are choosing.
It is important when we meet health professionals that offer true care, that we share the experience with others in the way that you have. You met an extra-ordinary man serving his patients in an ordinary, down to earth and honest way and appreciated his natural qualities. A blessing for all those treated by him.
Paying attention to our bodies and knowing what it looks like and feels like to be vital, means that we can communicate more clearly with our health professionals and give them a fighting chance of supporting us.
The medico you met with Coleen is a role model for his peers. I once volunteered as a support worker for a support group for people with life-threatening / limiting conditions – quite seriously ill people. Their biggest struggle? Not their conditions – their doctors. Being patronised and not listened to was their #1 complaint. That is not a good state of affairs.
The word ‘reverence’ strikes a very deep chord in me. When we recognise what is at work in our bodies and in the Universe – as One – then reverence is precisely what is there to be felt and experienced.
As with every profession, job and trade there are good, bad and indifferent practitioners. It is the quality of the human being that matters most: technical expertise is the icing on the cake – albeit a very necessary topping when it comes to our health and wellbeing practitioners. What is described here should be the norm.
Thank you Coleen, I have learnt so much from what you have shared and have a new appreciation for the intricate system that is our endocrine system. I did not know there was such a thing as a parathyroid!
Very beautiful sharing Coleen. I am reminded of an occasion where I had to consult a locum GP in my early adulthood and the care and wisdom he shared with me. It was life changing and led me to find other ways of dealing a case of mild depression rather than take anti-depressants long term. For this I am deeply grateful. There is much to appreciate about our modern day medical system.
‘His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing.’ I am in agreement with this statement, and I feel this means the doctor and patient work in partnership with each other. The other mode where the patient comes in asking to be fixed by the doctor, means the doctor has only his medical knowledge and experience to rely on. What the patient brings leads to a deeper level of healing.
The interconnectedness of our bodies is truly fascinating. If one part isn’t working it affects the whole. I love the analogy made by the doctor of the endocrine system being like the solar system, and the idea that if Jupiter wobbled, it would throw out the orbits of all the other planets.
One essential component for true healing: love for people and connection. It is such a blessing to find that in a practitioner although it should be the norm and part of the education leading towards becoming a practitioner of any kind.
The analogy of the endocrine glands and the solar system also indicates the universal principles that govern every single aspect of life, macrocosmic and microcosmic – there is one order, one harmony at play – divine or universal design just the same in cosmos and body.
Realising that there are two kinds of science to the human body and condition – the medical approach practised by western medicine and the energetic understanding as presented by Universal Medicine – and that in truth there is and can be no separation as it all relates to the one body, one human being will finally lead to a holistic approach in medicine and healing we could term medicinal healing.
Knowing the importance of connection and understanding as part of true care, it was heartwarming to hear the relationship your specialist built with you. That he knew, from his years in practice, that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing is clear to me that he was willing to support you and your own knowing of your body. True patient care.
What a brilliant testimony to the unification of medicine and healing as is so much needed in face of the increasing health situation we worldwide have to deal with.
Thank you Coleen, a beautiful example of Western and Esoteric medicine working together and your empowerment throughout the process. I so loved your specialist’s way of describing, and with that description honouring, the human body.
What an incredible experience and for the doctor to connect to the body as the solar system is such a fantastic analogy… To truly appreciate what the body is designed to be and bring awareness to every little sound made, that in itself is taking responsibility for what we are choosing. Our bodies reflect each and every choice we make, so to be able to listen to it is key. Having the western medicine to support and heal is essential, just as much as the Esoteric Medicine is as taught by Serge Benhayon. Both go hand in hand – Such a great example of this, thanks for sharing.
Awesome article Coleen. Very powerful as it is shared so well from your own lived experience. It is revealing how long we can let our bodies run in disharmony for without even realising it. I am learning that a beautiful supportive aspect of our way of living can be to check in with our organs and our body very regularly throughout the day. It is still a work in progress, but with true honesty as the key it can reveal greatly the quality of how we are living.
Coleen this is beautiful. I love when we find specialists and health professionals who truly understand what health is and what their role in the health system is. So too to do I love it when people are empowered in their own health and take responsibility for their own health.
‘I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.’ Beautiful to read this Colleen and the true support it brought you. These qualities are precious for us all in our work and interactions with each other.
When we are met with a true practitioner, it offers the space for us to see the bigger picture of our health, it calls us to be responsible for the part we have played and to not limit our understanding of the illness to be just related to the symptom. Universality is the key to understanding true health and Coleen’s doctor certainly expressed this.
This blog really confirms how utterly complex our amazing bodies are. Most of us have no idea and take it for granted and treat it like a bag of dirt in total disregard. The body is like the finest most expensive machine on the planet, that few fully understand and treat with the love and tenderness it truly deserves. How wonderful to come across such a dedicated Doctor, dedicated to true health and also have an Esoteric practitioner at the ready to give you the energetic reason behind your illness.
Absolutely. Our bodies are so complex with so many layers. We need health professionals who are clear, dedicated and willing to give the space for each client. One solution does not fit everybody as we are all very unique in how we all also use our bodies that end up reflecting our choices.
Thank you for the understanding of the relationship with our delicateness and the lesser known parathyroid gland, and the part they both play in our well-being.
What is revealing here is the obvious care that the writer is taking of themselves, and then this simply being reflected back at them .
Our body is very intricate and delicate, each aspect communicating with the whole. If one aspect is out, meaning not being cared for then it has an impact on the whole body causing an imbalance. Yet we do not live in a way that considers and honours the delicatness of our body, of ourselves and who we are. Self love is the ingredient the body responds most favorably to.
Thank you, Coleen; this is one of the most interesting medical articles I have ever read. To come across a doctor of the quality that you describe here is pure gold and certainly to be treasured. We need a health care system that nurtures doctors and allows them to be open, wise, and not afraid to say what they don’t understand, who put patient care back in the centre of health care. We also need doctors who are willing to know that they do not have all the answers and that a collaboration between western medicine and esoteric medicine is worth investigating.
The health services do an amazing job in looking after us all, even though it has been our irresponsibility towards our health that has got us to the point of illness in the first place. The media only ever seem to offer adverse reporting on the care we get from our health services, yet like you Coleen I have witnessed and received exceptional service from the medical services.
I love your doctor’s analogy of the solar system. If we treated every part of our body with the same care, importance and loving precision as we would if we were aligning the planets or stars so that everyone could look up and see a reflection of divine order and alignment in the skies each night, then our health statistics might be slightly different to how they are today!
Coleen I love it very much what you have shared about your diagnosis process and if I will be getting ill, it inspired me to treat myself as you did and hopefully I will find such a wonderful medical doctor. It was a joy to read how you were treated in such a caring way – it seemed to be a reflection of your willingness to truly heal.
“I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated. And yet, how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?” So true Coleen, how can we live true delicateness if we do not appreciate the body that was designed in that way. Delicateness is in our particles and they express it naturally, we just developed behaviors to override this.
What a glorious insight into the endocrine system and its delicate balance. How lovely to find a doctor who listens and has time and interest to work with you. It is indeed a great result when we can combine esoteric medicine and western medicine.
This is a beautiful true example of how esoteric and western medicine complement each other so well together Coleen. We are vey blessed to feel the future with these experiences, and see how this combination really works. There is a respect here for both systems and practices bringing together an optimum result.
This really shows the importance of not getting attached to the job we do or what that title is, but to rather bring it back to a humble level of equality. It seems this doctor remained open to the body rather than relying on his knowledge and studies. This is very supportive indeed and helps support the patient to be equal to the doctor in the sense that the patient knows their body more than anyone, and is equally responsible for the healing process.
The combination of medicine and esoteric healing will always be the way to maintain us and the vessel we occupy.
The endocrine system never ceases to amaze me with the delicate way it balances the chemicals in our bodies for optimum performance, and to know that the quality it reflects in us is delicateness is a great reminder to let go of our usual hard way of living and include that same quality in our daily life.
It’s so wonderful to hear such positive stories about western medicine and a medical professional, because there are so many great stories like this but people tend to focus on the negatives. Modern medicine working hand in hand with esoteric healing could really go a long way to truly support humanity.
If our doctors can partner with us and bring their unique qualifications to the equation, what is to be our role? Bringing an openness, and a body as well-cared for as can be. This requires a responsibility on our part.
Your report is important Coleen in terms of helping address the possible bias in media reports of doctors. Our medicos can be our equal partners in our health care, imparting their wisdom, experience and skills – as yours so beautifully demonstrated.
It is great to here the stories of doctors that are pretty damn amazing and have an obvious love of the work they do putting the whole patient first, taking great care with them. It is also incredibly refreshing to celebrate and appreciate them as you have here instead of the normal moaning that goes on re gp’s, doctors, the medical profession and healthcare system, especially in the UK. It also highlights how we need to be more proactive with our health, like you share this had been going on in your body for some time but you had completely overlooked it. I have had a similar experience and choose no longer to just let things go by without noticing and addressing them to the best of my ability.
Love the notion that an organ is designed to express a certain quality of energy and that the energy we express through our organs is either healing or harming. There is more to the functionality and purpose of the separate parts and their interplay with the whole being that is of incredible value in supporting and partnering with conventional medicine in understanding and combatting illness.
There is something very beautiful about a doctor (who is a clear expert in their field) saying “I don’t know” or “we know very little about”. It shows a great deal of respect to the person sitting in front of them, but also to themselves because it is honest. I also love the consultative process you described that your doctor went through to look at what is happening in your body. A very beautiful blog Colleen.
‘His avowed philosophy was that the patient is the one who holds the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing’ – I have heard so many stories about patients feeling imposed upon, disregarded and overlooked – this sharing proves that it isn’t always this way. The respect, wisdom and insight this statement shows warms my heart and provides a reflection of how we can all work towards whole health together. Thanks Coleen.
As a trained Naturopath, I see the benefits of everyone working together complementing each other for the good of the patients, rather than opposing each other. The key is that we place connection 1st above all else and then naturally the best treatment for the person will follow.
I love the precision and care you describe in your doctor and you and their willingness to look at all angles. And the analogy of the endocrine system being like the solar system is just beautiful. Your blog and experience shows clearly what true medicine is.
It makes sense that if we are not living in our delicateness, then the body has to compensate in some way for this. If we are naturally delicate by nature, then to live anything other than this will have some affect on us…in this case, it is the delicate balance of the endocrine system, specifically the parathyroid glands.
Another way I feel our hormones and organs work together is much like an orchestra – they all have to play together but all with a different tone and sound and yet all contributing to the harmony of the overall sound.
A beautiful blog about respect, understanding, wisdom, true care and treating the body as a whole.
How beautiful, Coleen, that you visited such a caring, thoughtful medical practitioner of western medicine who treated you so supportedly and respectfully. He was so willing to know all that you were feeling about your body yourself, knowing that the patient is the one who understands and notices far more than they are often given credit for. And he was willing to receive further advice and information from his colleagues and accepted he was not the ‘font of all knowledge’. This is the sort of medical practitioner who could possibly integrate the knowledge of esoteric medicine with his knowledge of western medicine in the future. This is the way for medicine to go in the future.
How amazing that all the qualities we have or are also have their specific place in the body. Delicateness is so necessary to live for us all. We are really harming our body if we don’t express that innate quality within us.
The understanding and details Esoteric Medicine can offer make such a difference in the healing process. It allows us to really understand what choices we made that our body is clearly communicating is not working for it.
Coleen, thank you for opening up the awareness of the significant role the endocrine system provides. This can be well hidden and over ridden until there is a great stop moment in health. With the understanding that all we do and how we are with ourselves has a deep effect on our bodies and it is very worth while appreciating the energetic qualities that are reflected through the divine solar system of our physiology. Just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
The union of western medicine and esoteric medicine certainly is key and is a beautiful thing. One without the other does not offer a complete picture, whether this be from the perspective of western medicine or esoteric medicine. Your sharing here is a classic example of how you have combined the two – both to support your body in the healing, but also to get a far deeper and bigger picture and understanding of the process that your body is undergoing. Your sharing confirms what Serge Benhayon has been sharing for years, that the marriage of western and esoteric medicine indeed holds the key to our healing.
What your doctor’s words show Coleen is we do know so intimately, that the stars and the solar system are not so far away from us at all, its beauty and divine design actually lives, in a microcosmic way, inside us all. Our cells, our fibres, our atoms are our solar system, and the order and way we arrange them to be, ripples out into life and affects our planet and the universe and you and me. Thank you Coleen and your doctor for depicting how we are powerfully part of everything, constantly.
Hello Coleen, as many people have known for years and now many more are seeing clearer, you actually can’t believe what the current media tell you. As you say, “Witnessing the media comments on both doctors and the healthcare system in Australia, I feel to share a recent personal experience of Western medicine in action, which was nothing short of exceptional.” The media use to be a place of real facts and stories and now it has descended into nothing more then tabloid pages. Great to see more and more people are seeing things clearer.
I love hearing about people/professionals who have no agenda other than to serve those who come to them for help or a service. It re-inspires trust in humanity and gives a point of reference for what we all know to be true but don’t often experience.
I love how you have given such a concrete example of things we override that can lead to illness and disease. Currently western medicine does not take into account the need for us to live in a way that is truly honouring of who we are. To explain that in not allowing yourself to be the delicate woman that you are, which led to your condition is a true education for all.
‘The marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is now a deeply appreciated aspect of my life. Together they are healing me personally and this healing is on offer for all others who choose to utilise the two together in this way.’ I have been blown away by how effective nominating the root energetic cause of a medical issue is when combined with western medicine. When I have nominated this for myself, I am still in wonder at the clearing and healing.
These are the elements of true care when the doctor holds the patient as the one who knows most about their own body, has not attachment to his initial diagnosis, consults with others, sees the body and a whole and keeps searching to find the root cause of the illness.
What a respectful and collaborating experience with a doctor who sees the patient as the one holding the keys to both the aetiology of their illness and to their healing. It also puts responsibility where it should be: with the patient.
I too have lived many years wilfully ignoring my delicateness and can feel the truth of it when you ask ‘how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?’ Thank you for sharing and as I start to explore what it is to live with delicacy I can feel this unfolding in my relationship with myself and others.
It is beautiful to read your appreciation of the openness and care of your endocrinologist who clearly saw his role as working in partnership with you to understand what was truly going on and in this was not attached to a particular outcome but to you getting the best result for you.
“I learned what makes a true doctor – openness, humility, true patient care, doing what is needed when it is needed, communication, willingness to put the patient first, collaboration with colleagues, a reverence for, and appreciation of, the human body and a deep respect for what the patient knows about their illness.” What a wonderful story showing the depth of care and support we can offer one another when we remain open, humble, loving and put people first.
I love what you’ve shared here Coleen, and I agree that it’s vital to APPRECIATE western medicine and the doctors, nurses and health professionals who work to support us day in day out, instead of dumping blame or our problems onto them and getting frustrated if they can’t be ‘fixed’ immediately… Sometimes our bodies need a little more love and commitment than just taking medication twice a day.
A snapshot of what lays ahead; true medicine working together. The analogy of the endocrine system to a solar system I found particularly powerful.
Coleen this is an awesome article, and your doctor sounds amazing. I loved the way he describes the endocrine system “…as being exactly the same as the solar system, with all the glands interconnected in an amazingly precise and delicate order.” – I’ve now got a much deeper appreciation for this amazing system in the body.
“I also contemplated how few of us do live in true delicateness, or, indeed, even see this as a quality to be appreciated. ” it’s true Coleen, to live with delicateness is a foreign concept for many of us, especially when we can hold ideas that being delicate requires being soft, gentle, vulnerable and slow – impossible if we are to keep up with the demands of the world…or is it? We can live with delicateness if we are prepared to bring ourselves to the world, rather than reacting to how we feel the world asks us to be.
“aetiology” – thank you Coleen, I had to look it up and have just learnt a new word!
What a beautiful experience Coleen, so much learning, sharing and openess between yourself and your doctor, along with the support of both Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine, enabled a deeper understanding of your symptoms, yourself, and the steps necessary to nurture and care for yourself whilst bringing about true healing.
What an awesome and eye opening way to look at the endocrine system. Amazing. Bringing the energetic understanding to illness makes so much sense and it’s totally true. Delicateness is put on the back burner (that doesn’t work) whilst we try and push through life. I always thought delicateness was associated with lightness and small figures. How mistaken I was though!
Thank you Coleen for allowing us to have an insight into the wonders of the body and medical science. Your words express so clearly how each one of us can appreciate the wonders of the world ‘I understood and appreciated how esoteric and western medicine can indeed work together to bring about not only healing for patients, but also to enrich our collective understanding of how our bodies work in terms of their physiology and biochemistry and in terms of the role of our expressed energy has in either harming or healing them’.
I love this Coleen, you have truly had an amazing experience and what an awesome doctor you saw. I love it when people bring love and care to what they do. It’s so grand to hear about and see. It brings so much more to the profession.
Wow – Coleen, what a sharing – such openness and honesty in the sharing and much that we can all learn from too! This can be deeply inspiring for any of us to delve more deeply into what is going on because on some level we do know what is normal and what is not. Thank you!
Coleen I loved the doctors analogy of the endocrine system being exactly the same as the solar system, I feel like it both condenses and expands my understanding of the endocrine system at the same time.
Lovely to know that they are wonderful physicians out there.
For me it is also about a marriage between western and esoteric medicine. I have with both great experiences and for me one cannot be there without the other. They are both equally needed and they are both equally important.
Coleen you have a natural fluidity and flair to the way in which you write.
Thank you Coleen for all you have shared. The analogy of the solar system and the endocrine system is very powerful and has also reminded me of the delicateness of the body. The analogy offers a deep understanding of the body and in that an opportunity to deepen self care.
So beautiful to feel the way the endocrinologist worked with you Coleen and respected your understanding of your body. He could only do this if he held the same deep care for himself.
When I connect with the miracle of my body, the flesh and blood so to speak, I feel the hologram it is with the whole of the universe. Every cell represents the whole. This brings me absolute surrender.
Colleen, I wept when you described the endocrine system being akin to the solar system! We are all so intricately connected to the universe we are held in and your sharing has touched me deeply.
I think that appreciating our delicateness is not easy for many women and I include myself in this. As you have shared, Coleen, any area of disregard will be revealed by our bodies and then we have choice about what our response will be. There is much for me to ponder here.
If our body is designed to express, and the quality we express is to be in the harmonious way of each gland and organ, it requires our esoteric understanding as well as the physiological and anatomical understanding of them.. in this way our bodies become a reliable guide for our health and wellbeing.
What precious understanding that “in esoteric terms, parathyroid conditions arise when we do not live our delicateness.” The health and harmony of our hormone system is reflected in the delicacy of how we think, speak and move.
The solar system analogy really made sense, if we allow a wobble to continue without addressing it how can we address the next thing that comes up or life in general if we are already on uneasy ground? What reading this also highlighted was as you were sharing, if we don’t understand a part of the body, how much are we in communication and connection with that part of the body? It’s like being in a relationship with someone and being confused as to why there are issues in the relationship, without actually going up to the other and talking to them. Thank you Coleen.
A key statement here Coleen as we see the trend of various illnesses and diseases continuing to increase worldwide in a very alarming way (e.g. obesity and diabetes). Hospitals and doctors surgeries are filled to capacity and being pushed way beyond their capabilities. Taking more responsibility for our health through our daily choices in our living way is the way true forward for health and wellbeing – everything is energy first and foremost and the marrying of esoteric and western medicine is our way forth in the future.
“I understood and appreciated how esoteric and western medicine can indeed work together to bring about not only healing for patients, but also to enrich our collective understanding of how our bodies work in terms of their physiology and biochemistry and in terms of the role of our expressed energy has in either harming or healing them”.
There will be great healing achieved when Western Medicine and Energetic Medicine unite.
Thank you for writing this Coleen and it feels you are being looked after by your doctor with incredible passion and sensitivity, this is a real gift. What you discussed about delicateness really struck a cord and it adds a certain articulation into my movements, it is such a great quality to appreciate and deepen.
I was interested Colleen by how you related the need to deepen the delicateness of your words, speech and singing because you felt into what the parathyroid gland meant for you in the quality of your livingness.
What you are sharing here Coleen, is how all women can avoid any parathyroid issues in the future, by simply feeling and living our delicateness. I love your doctor’s analogy about the endocrine system likened to the constellation of the stars, all interlinked together, with the glands interconnected and in their perfect order until they are overworked, and they lose their balance. Your doctor is able to pass a very deep understanding of the body to all his patients, what a wonderful reflection he is.
The analogy of the out of balance solar system is so spot on and can be applied to the disharmony that so many of our bodily organs and systems can replicate when we live in reaction to life.
When I ignore my own fragility by overriding the ongoing messages my body communicates constantly, I am always shocked when I am brought to a stop by illness or an accident. It is a way much better to keep creating space by not rushing through life to stop and feel what is really going on rather than ignoring it.
To live in the delicateness that we naturally are in all our movements is our future that is on offer now to be lived.
I am struck by your openness and humility Coleen in really listening and committing to understanding what was being offered by your practitioners, such a great lesson in how to stop, feel and take responsibility for how we have been living in disharmony.
A profound sharing Coleen. This really brings it home exactly as it is – the lack of true care and nurturing we have for ourselves from not listening to the wisdom the body. A wisdom that it constantly presents us with, until the momentum of ill-choices is felt by the body refusing to live in such disharmony any longer and stops us in our tracks to truly feel.
Thank You Coleen for sharing your meeting with Western medicine and for it being a positive and good story ! Yes, there definitely are caring people within the system..
I love the analogy seeing the thyroid gland as the Saturn of the solar system and the implications it would have on the rest of the system if Saturn wobbled out of its orbit? Beautiful!
From your wonderful experience working with this doctor to understand and to heal your medical condition Coleen, comes the absolute knowing of how medicine as we know it today will change when it comes together with the wisdom of Esoteric Medicine. This overdue union will then be completed by the accepted responsibility of each person for the care of their body. It will be a “marriage” like no other, having the potential to change the face of healing as we have known it for so long.
“And yet, how will we ever fully understand these glands if we do not live the energy / quality they were designed to express?” A great question and one that can be asked of every area of our body. What is does for me is to give me pause to contemplate the union of western and esoteric medicine. One is not merely an adjunct to the other i.e. one does not simply start where the other ends. They are interconnected. This blog has given me a greater appreciation and understanding of this. Thank you Coleen.
Coleen, thank you for such a detailed and delicate blog sharing how harmonious and healing it is when we bring focus to both Conventional Medicine and Esoteric Medicine.
Something I’ve started to notice recently is how uncomfortable it is to strain my voice. Until recently I had never given thought that the way I speak could be impacting my health and well being but the more in tune I am with what my body is telling me the more I am noticing that even the way I speak (too fast, too loud or with tension/frustration) impacts my body in a significant way.
This blog is such a joy to read as we hear so much negativity talked about doctors and nurses being rushed. From reading your words Coleen, I got no sense of rush or pressure for the doctor to achieve a result, in fact the opposite was true as he took his time and great care to get to the right diagnosis. As I’m writing this comment what strikes me is the disregard we have for our bodies which we then arrogantly ask doctors to fix. What would it be like if we all approached doctors with deeply cared for and nurtured bodies, would doctors then feel more incentive to put the care in when searching for a diagnosis?
To experience a doctor with humility, who does not need to be right, but has the humbleness to consult colleagues is a real blessing as a patient. I could feel in his description of the endocrine system a deep care for you as a patient, how it was important to him that you had a real understanding of what was going on. This is a huge part of health care, the care part being the bit that is so often missed out. Lovely to read of your experience Coleen.
Coleen a beautifully shared account of your experiences. There is so much to appreciate here, but the thing that stood out today was how amazing our bodies are. That we can literally be having planetary shifts occur inside ourselves, which we have shut ourselves down to even noticing or feeling, but that our body continues to function 24/7 working even harder to do its job. Absolutely fascinating – it leaves me wondering – imagine if we had this level of commitment to life?
Thank you Coleen for sharing your personal experience. What a truly amazing approach your doctor has taken with you and no doubt all his patients, in ensuring that everything was explored, even when that went outside of his own sphere of awareness. It is evident that when we combine the knowledge and skills of our orthodox practitioners with the energetic awareness of esoteric healing, we bring together two very exceptional understandings of the human body and thereby afford ourselves the opportunity to care for both our physical and energetic health in unison. Appreciating the energetic quality of how we express ourselves everyday is very powerful, as our bodies have no choice but to tolerate our in-harmonious choices and function as best they can under the stresses we place on ourselves. Re-claiming our inherent delicacy, fragility and tenderness in favour of being hard and stressed is one of the most profound ways to support our health. Our bodies are extremely sensitive and delicate, honouring this fact is an extremely important part of our health care regime. It is just as important as ensuring that we nourish, exercise and rest our selves appropriately so that our bodies can repair and replenish them selves on a regular basis, in order to serve us well throughout our lives.
You offer so much in your blog to consider Coleen when we are diagnosed with an illness. I love how your doctor related your endocrine system to the solar system, I could feel the real responsibility of what it means to let our own system wobble a bit and the implications this has on the body. To then bring a deeper understanding through your esoteric practitioner that your thyroid condition was about delicateness was like the icing on the cake; it gave the complete picture of why you had the illness, so that you were able to look at this area of your life to support your healing along with the doctor’s medication.
Coleen, how truly honouring of yourself this is, addressing the energetic cause of the parathyroid symptoms you have and exploring delicateness in this way. Here is the true healing.
“Given the anatomical position of the parathyroids in the throat area, the contemplation of how my words, sounds, speech and singing need henceforth to be delicate was instant and is something I am now connecting with daily”.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this account of your doctors visit and the care he showed during your consultation. There are many amazing doctors around just like this one unfortunately we only get to hear of the horror stories from others and the dissatisfaction people have with their treatment.
What a truly awesome way to view the endocrine system, bringing awareness to the fact that we are so much more than the physical body and that we do have relationship with the universal order. This correlation makes sense of seeing every part of the body as part of the whole, designed to be working in harmony together.
“He explained that he sees the endocrine system as being exactly the same as the solar system, with all the glands interconnected in an amazingly precise and delicate order. He referred to the thyroid gland as being like the Saturn of the solar system and asked me to consider what effect it might have if Saturn wobbled just a degree or two off of its orbit”.
Yes, Coleen, we really can have the best of both worlds when Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine are delivered with true care and respect for the body and the being inside it. Thank you for sharing your experience – it is great to feel that there are loving and dedicated practitioners out there in the world.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog Coleen, thank you. You often hear it when there are negatives, complaints, and when things go wrong – this is important as to expose the rot yet it is equally important to write and express about when things go well and are supportive for all to be inspired by.
I’ve had recent experiences like this which I am also appreciating. Leading up to and following surgery last year, I’ve really had the chance to work with a number of doctors and specialists and I’ve found that they have been very patient with my questions regarding my treatment and very open to listening to what feels comfortable for me while at the same time offering sound and practical medical support. Coming from a background which basically was a resistance to anything that western medicine offered, this has been hugely healing on many levels for me- and one which has only come about since understanding and appreciating the beautiful and necessary relationship between esoteric and western medicine.
The marriage of Western and Esoteric Medicine is truly the medicine that brings true healing. Thank you Coleen for sharing the details of your experience of this marriage.
“I had allowed my own bodily awareness to drop to such a degree that I had not noticed this at all until my energy levels dropped severely.” It is so important to listen to our body and honour what it tells us. But how often are we taught to push through with ‘no pain no gain’. We have it so wrong. Delicateness – how in the past I would have laughed at the very thought for myself. Learning to become more aware and honour my body and its unfolding messages….
A beautiful blog, thankyou Coleen. And how you constellated your appointment with such a caring doctor. The marriage of Western and Universal Medicine is truly the medicine of the future for everyone.
I love how the doctor put the body system into the context of the universe. This shows that we all have an absolute knowing of our universality!!
A great example of how the client or patient assuming full responsibility brings conventional and esoteric medicine together as they are both important parts of a whole, a whole that is based on responsibility from every part. Thank you for sharing this. Very inspirational.
Thank you Coleen, your sharing is a great testimonial of how we live not respecting our bodies, even though we may tick all the boxes and don’t actively abuse ourselves. It uncovers the deeper level of abuse and how we have disconnected from our true nature, living our delicateness and preciousness, and that this in itself is abuse. As you say it is this ingrained behavior that leads to the unease or disease in our body.
Looking at the endocrine system of the human body as likened to the solar system where everything has its own order and rhythm to be in balance with the all brings a deepening respect and awe of the workings of our body.
Thank you Coleen for giving an insight into how our endocrine system works, it is like the fine tuner of the body, and it deepens my understanding of how filigran and precious our bodies are.
For me this shows how very willing we are to truly care for each other. Thank Coleen.
Coleen, you are right. There is a LOT we can thank our doctors for.
Thanks for sharing Coleen. Doctors who love their profession and have a lot of knowledge about what they do are very amazing, they learn it all to help people! The art of being a true practitioner is to bring a deep love of people to every aspect of what we do, and this magnifies what a health practitioner can bring by 100%.
It is amazing to consider our bodies being representing the precision and constellation of the solar system Coleen, and makes sense to me too, as we are part of the universe we live in. To hear this from a Western medicine practitioner is unheard for me, as in my experience western medicine does limit itself to only the physical visible and measurable results, and to consider the fact that our bodies relate to a grander whole and reflect that in their physiology is something I have never heard a Western medicine practitioner mention before. But in fact it is great that there are practitioners that are open to consider this to be true, as in your case, the practitioner showed to be humble from knowing to be a part of a grander whole and to not own or possess any knowledge on his own.
I loved what you shared about the qualities a true doctor possesses based on having benefited wholly from being treated by one. How gorgeous you can bring your own awareness and self-responsibility to this doctor and together offer yourself and your body a true healing through the powerful combination of both Western and Esoteric Medicines.
Coleen, you have been given a gift from a doctor that truly practises care and absolute devotion to the patient by being completely open to finding the real causes of this condition. However the other part of this is your devotion to your self and your body to pursue truth, hence truth can be addressed and expressed. This is a wonderful example of how we can all use our own power of connection to find the correct practitioner for any of our ills, just by being willing to hold our selves as equals and not subordinates. How different the world would be if just some of us took these opportunities to express and live truth and create ripples of change, especially in the medical field.
The interaction, understanding and sharing from your doctor brings so much healing capacity of the ailment. What a wonderful blend between the esoteric and conventional medicine.
What an amazing and explicit blog Coleen presented in a language that all readers can understand. The reference and anology of the planets in relation to our human body brings a deep humility when one grasps the true connectedness that we all have to the universe. I agree, it seems that our world that we live in at this time is often devoid of delicateness. This awareness of our composition and connection to the planets and the stars is surely a beginning to the transparency and understanding that is required to bring humanity to a point of true health and healing. Thank you.
It’s amazing what the modern medicine can offer, and it is our choice to take responsibility that utilizes it as part of true healing that we want and need.
The correlation between your condition of hypothyroidism and delicateness is a profound one, and the story your Doctor used of Saturn wobbling equally profound, that gets us to consider the way we hold ourselves in life cannot not be felt by every cell of the body, that by order naturally must correspond to such an adjustment, however slight… to then show the body’s absolute delicateness in its divine design. How beautiful.
That Saturn and the solar system analogy is just brilliant. Our body is indeed designed in such beautiful intricacies of the inter-relationships and inter-connectedness. It makes me realise how ignorance really is a reduced awareness by choice, and that is what keeps us in perpetuation of ill choices and their consequences.
Delicateness is a quality that is in connection with ourselves. Being delicate brings us back to ourselves. It is a movement to all that we do not know the outcome of and yet we are willing to surrender to connection. There is nothing soft or held back in being delicate, and there is nothing pushy or rushed either.
Wow Coleen, this is very interesting to read, thank you for sharing. And also love the way your account highlights the fact that love is not in any profession unless it is within the person themselves first. Clearly this lovely doctor brings the love of, and to his medical profession and patients, … with an open heart much can be delivered which is very reassuring.
What a difference it makes having a doctor who you can trust and relate to. We hear so much about doctors being under pressure and even suicidal, and our experience in their hands being not so great. We obviously need doctors like the ones you met, but they won’t just spring up from nowhere. They need support in order for them to be able to offer the support we need and would like to have – perhaps from the day they enter into a medical school.
Not living our delicateness – I can relate to that. In fact before I became aware of the esoteric approach to living I was forever trying to ‘toughen’ up and ‘prove’ myself. My delicateness, and the beauty and strength of it, feels so lovely in my body when I surrender to it.
A great sharing about true patient care, the dedication and humbleness of a medical practitioner and the role patients play as active and responsible participants in the healing process, something that goes beyond and far deeper than a mere cure.
I have avoided western medicine for most of my life in reaction towards it focusing on the superficial symptoms without an understanding of its esoteric root causes, and yet that was an investment in how I wanted the world to be. But when western medicine is once again embraced in my life, I also met with esoteric medicine, and the unified truth of this marriage becomes available. Life is one big whole, and when we appreciate and accept life with understanding, so much more opens up, when we see the body as one big whole, we are living in conjunction with the universe.
Thank you for this informative blog Coleen. It is amazing how much you learned from this illness and how seamlessly a true medical practitioner and the esoteric worked together to assist you to understand deeply your condition and work with the thoughtfully prescribed medicine and treatment.
How you approached your care Coleen is very inspiring. Before Universal Medicine, if I had a disease or illness all I looked for was a quick fix so I could get back to living the same way as before. When we look at the total package of how we have been living, and the energy behind it, then so much more is healed than we can sometimes fathom. Giving us an opportunity to choose differently from then on.
Wow, thank you Coleen for sharing this with us. I have recently come to deeply appreciate the blessing we have been offered here, the opportunity to choose the union of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine, this is truly remarkable but I can see it is taking some time for people to realise and accept this truly amazing blessing that is already available to humanity. Western medicine alone as I have witnessed is not always successful and it is under immense strain currently to resolve our ever growing health issues. So, to me it makes total sense that support is very much needed and Esoteric Medicine does exactly that. This union a blessing indeed, Coleen.
Great blog Coleen, reading your words has brought home the full appreciation of the human body and of humanity at large. It is clear that as with the body we, as a humanity need every part, every unit, every aspect to be fully there, present and functioning well or else we are all out of whack.
The GP sounds amazing – a gift in today’s age of being overworked and overstressed. But I also wanted to take a moment to appreciate you the patient in this too – you know your body and describe what is going on… you stepped up and made the appointment, and you followed willingly when advice was given. To me it’s a two way street, and you have certainly played your part well too.
Having the endocrine system described like a solar constellation is a reminder for me of the great expanse that our bodies are a part of and how the elements that make us physical are equally present throughout the universe, with everything constellated in divine harmony. So when we apply western medicine to our bodies with esoteric medicine, are we not in fact working to re-establish harmony in the universal order of all things?
Inspiring to read of your doctor’s genuine care and approach to treating all of you, not just an organ, and also your willingness to look at your part. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Coleen, connecting to the delicateness within is a work in progress for me, the more I commit to it the more I can accept my true nature as a man.
What really strikes me is how much care and attention you took yourself Coleen in trying to understand your symptoms; so many of us would prefer to bury our heads in the sand than actually face the reality of where our bodies are at. It is a scary thing illness, as we like to only deal with the positive stories in life and think ‘it will never happen to me’. The human condition of this wilful ignorance is quite something when 1 in 2 of us will have cancer, 80% of illness is lifestyle related and yet we refuse to put the two together and take responsibility for our health.
A deeply connective and insightful blog Coleen, thank you. Our bodies are truly amazing and are the first to let us know when we have strayed from our universal rhythm. The revelations you share are ones I have also come to appreciate in my relationship with both Allopathic Medicine and Esoteric Medicine.
It is a beautiful analogy the hormones of the body with the solar system, if more of us connected with the grandness that we embody and live in, we would no doubt take much greater care of our bodies!
I love the equality, respect and holding that each component (patient, Doctor, Esoteric Health) have offered through this process – the complete design. Your openness and awareness has brought a whole dimension to what is possible and to see this come together is gorgeous. This holds many gifts for all involved, including those exposed to and reading your article.
Thank you Coleen for sharing your journey and the connection of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine that you experienced. This is heartening to hear, and will inspire many to continue along these lines of healing and to also listen to our bodies and not dismiss the subtle warnings we receive.
What a wonderful doctor you found to help you in your journey to find the cause of your feeling so exhausted. Such a caring man who was willing to go much more deeply into your issues, and far more willing to use the expertise and knowledge of others in his search for answers to your problems. There are many doctors out there who are dedicated and care for humanity. How great it will be when more of them are also willing to look at the energetic reasons behind much illness and disease.
‘…we do not live our delicateness.’ Yes – this is 100%, without a doubt true. Delicateness is OK for babies – and maybe the frail aged – but for us women of the world? Forget it! Last night I started listening to a presentation by Natalie Benhayon who spoke of the recklessness with which women live. This is certainly the perfect word to describe how I have treated myself during much of my life. Delicateness feels like the antidote to all the rashness and harshness with which we have lived in the past; learning to embrace it and surrender to it is our future.
Victoria, I can relate to the “recklessness with which women live”, making everyone else their priority first and allowing their own self care to be severely compromised, often resulting in illness and disease. I can see how choosing to replace the recklessness with delicateness can offer the true way to release an old, and destructive way of living, with a new way that has the care of our precious body unequivocally our first priority.
“Given the anatomical position of the parathyroids in the throat area, the contemplation of how my words, sounds, speech and singing need henceforth to be delicate was instant and is something I am now connecting with daily.” A really interesting point you make here, Coleen, I have been endeavouring to live in a much more gentle way now, and can feel my delicateness far more now, but we do not always consider the need to be far more delicate and aware in the use of our voice and how we express through it. This is something I will be feeling into more and putting into practice in my daily life.
‘I had allowed my own bodily awareness to drop to such a degree that I had not noticed this at all until my energy levels dropped severely.’ I can relate to this Coleen. It took me until I was not able to get off the couch to act. Granted, the symptoms I was experiencing were disparate and came on gradually and I didn’t realise they all added up to a hypothyroid condition, but the awareness certainly was not there either. Today I am working on developing the connection to my body, which I am discovering reflects EVERYTHING.
Further to the above, is not this planetary misalignment also a great analogy for all of us and the the degree to which we have allowed ourselves, personally and collectively, to get off course? We are out of whack, physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, economically.
Dear Coleen, as someone whose Saturn has also wobbled, I deeply appreciate your sharing of your doctor’s solar system metaphor. Not only is it a beautiful way to conceive of and understand the interrelatedness of the endocrine system, it is sobering to feel how out of alignment I allowed my planets to get. Thank you.
Beautifully said Victoria – the symbolism is gorgeous and profound.
What a lovely doctor you had to support you, it is inspiring as there are often stories of doctors stuffing up and not many of appreciation. It seems that we are quick to comment if it wasn’t great but brush it off at times when it deserves to be shared and spoken about.
I always thought that hypothyroidism is where there is less activity from the thyroid and you gain weight whereas the hyperthyroidism is when the thyroid is over active and you lose a lot of weight.
Such a beautiful sharing, Coleen, yes, the marriage of Western Medicine with the knowledge of Esoteric Medicine is the way to go in the future for the sake of humanity. When we understand the underlying energetic reasons for all the plethora of conditions that present nowadays in people’s bodies, then we will be able to put into place the changes that are necessary in how we live our lives. I so look forward to the day that the medical fraternity is more open to these insights. In the meantime, those who have some understanding can begin to act on making the changes.
A true health practitioner understands that you cannot treat a part of the body without taking into consideration the Whole that it is a part of. Slowly, slowly it seems we are returning to this ancient and ageless wisdom that lives and breathes within us all. Such innate wisdom is accessed through humility and openness and by the genuine impulse to heal and not harm.
We are truly amazing. Inside these bodies of flesh and blood, muscle and bone, lives and breathes the same intelligence that makes the stars and planets move in the solar system we belong to. Reading what you have shared Coleen, I get a profound appreciation of this. It is an exquisite example of what Hermes taught in ancient Greece: “As Above, So Below”. The union of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine is the fusion of Heaven and Earth, the above with the below, the energetic and the temporal, the light with the love. Truly awesome and makes perfect sense.
Isn’t it beautiful when we understand the intricate balance needed within our body to maintain its harmony – and when we see our whole body as a reflection of the solar system – so many of us are currently spinning in the wrong direction!
Coleen, this is such a beautifully and delicately written blog that it had me deeply touched from beginning to end – I have nothing to add except my appreciation.
Actually there is one thing I will add which is the three ingredients in the healing as you so clearly describe here are the Western Medicine Practitioner (doctor), the Esoteric or Universal Medicine Practitioner (energetic aspect) and the Patient (you). All three working in harmony in this way is a joy to behold and offers true healing for all.
I too have a great medical doctor who has a real care and support. It is invaluable when dovetailed with the energetic understanding of what underlies the illness.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with this true doctor, working for the patient in every way possible, with a true appreciation of the human body. It is incredible to see how we can truly heal with an extensive look at what our bodies are telling us and what is the energetic cause. This marriage of western and esoteric medicine is truly healing.
Great blog Coleen and lovely to see the natural “marriage of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine” in action in this way. You have given a very detailed version of an experience that will help and support many who read it, thank you.
This is a beautiful blog Coleen. There are true healers in many professions and it is lovely when we find one in medicine.