478 thoughts on “True Physiotherapy – Part Two”

1. Gentleness, caring and self-love can lift up anyone regardless of profession. It’s never the job that we may say we hate that gets us down but actually how we do, how we are with ourselves in our job and elsewhere that is the real draining/stressing factor.

2. Combining physiotherapy with Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises can be hugely supportive for our bodies a much gentler way to reconnect to our bodies than the other types of physiotherapy treatment I have had in the past.

3. Learning to accept with grace my own innate gentleness I have settled much more in my body and no longer find that anxiousness rules my thoughts. When we are at ease with our innate qualities what we bring to others is far more enriched and healing.

4. Kate, this outcome for our patients is probably how most health care professionals work, we need to see them getting better, or fixed. It is a belief we all fall into and it is no wonder we become disillusioned with our positions or our selves become caught in a turmoil and want to leave our jobs or even look outside ourselves for the answers.

   It’s always about us first before it is about the title. Having more degrees does not mean more privileges or entitlements, we still have the feelings we have to deal with. Strip away our credentials and what are we then? No different to a newborn who is born with pure love, we need to be working from there…

5. This is such a beautiful reminder that we are what we are before we become a role.

6. Movement is such an under-rated but valuable tool for healing.

7. Medicine is so laced with this outcome driven approach and it does put enormous pressure on health care staff to deliver something that if we consider the bigger picture of what is occurring energetically, is impossible to deliver.

   1. It feels most healing is outcome driven. True healing can only occur, if the client plays their part in it too.
      I’ve been on the receiving end of not playing my part and it got to a point where I couldn’t wait to see the practitioner to relieve what I was feeling, she was just fixing me. In some respect it was no different to going to seeing a drug dealer for my weekly fix! True healing for me began when I started to take responsibility for my own actions and emotions, it can’t get any plainer than that.

      1. Shushila, I can so relate to your comment, I spent thousands of pounds going to see an osteopath to try to support me with my lower back pain. I would have the treatment, feel fine for 2 days or so then the back pain would be there nagging away like tooth ache. This went on for years with no improvement. Then through sessions with Universal Medicine practitioners I started to look at my responsibility for my own actions; only then did the real healing start to take place, and there is more to heal and let go of as I realise I have been carrying around old sadness and grief in my lower back for life times, not able to deal with the pain associated with the events that took place.

   2. It’s across all walks of life, in Education which I can comment on as that’s my area of work, there is such a drive for attainment and results that the connection with the kids is often missed, and that’s what matters the most. Not to mention the detrimental effect to staff health and wellbeing living in constant drive, push and pressure to meet goals placed on them and the kids, long forgetting the people at the core.

8. Regarding your words on burnout, “I have come to know that this happened because of my ‘looking’ or ‘needing’ an outcome”, I feel the drive for outcomes in any part of life can lead to feeling drained, tired or exhausted, especially if we are repeatedly trying to get to a certain outcome/s. I can certainly see this in my own life, lots to ponder on, thank you Kate.

9. “I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process”. I would say that this is true for all professions.

10. From my observations in the clinic, it is fascinating to see how many physical issues and conditions appear to be caused by the repetitive patterns of how people are moving their bodies on a daily basis. So really considering the quality of these movements and how they may be changed is invaluable, not just from an intellectual basis but through actually experiencing this and experimenting with this ourselves as practitioners as you have done here Kate.

    1. Supporting people in the way they move in their daily life is expanding on the topic of lifestyle choices, and how these impact our health and wellbeing. Considering we are all moving in some way all of the time (including the way we breathe) then this has such importance to the overall wellbeing of our body. I’ve also noticed that moving fluidly, with gentleness and love for my body and being more present with myself as I move reduces stress and anxiety. If I rush, push, or become rough and unaware of my movements it often is part of getting stressed, racy and anxious, and possibly later leading to feeling overwhelm. When I am care-full of my movements and the quality I move in I am more in tune with the natural harmony of my body and feel calm. I am less likely to leave it’s natural homeostasis.

    2. It’s not just the repetition of physical movements that cause us to become unwell it’s also the repetitive movements that we make with our thoughts. So many of us go over the same old things in our minds, we re-live the things that have caused us pain, we go over things that we regret saying and doing, we obsess about certain things/people, we have repetitive thoughts containing self-doubt or self-hatred. Basically we repeat negative thoughts over and over again and this slowly corrodes our health.

11. What a benefit for us all when our health practitioners are open to redefining and recalibrating their practice

    1. Yes I feel one of the best qualities to have as a health practitioner is to always be open to learning and refining their practice and to not get stuck in the arrogant trap of thinking we know it all and that there is nothing new to learn.

12. This really exposes how our world is upside down. The system is set up so that we would leave ourselves behind in a process of mastering skills to play a role.

13. A while ago, I was part of a presentation where the sound was turned off politicians presenting. You could clearly observe the harshness in their movements. This morning I watched an audio without the sound of Serge Benhayon presenting and the movements were completely different, so much so that it brought tears to my eyes. Serge Benhayon moves with such gentleness and the word that comes to me is preciousness, it was exquisite to watch. Moving ourselves with gentleness and clocking in with how our movements are feeling during the day is huge, it’s what supports us to not get exhausted at the end of the day.

14. Gentleness is such a powerful tool when we bring it into everything and every move we make.

15. True authority comes from an openness to be delicate and transparent with whom you are, not by putting on a professional behaviour, which shall communicate trust or confidence. True confidence comes from allowing yourself to be seen in everything you are combined with the skill that you are perfectly equipped and designed to work with.

16. I find it always very sad, when I sense someone putting their professional hat on, because then I only receive cold knowledge and a version of this person. The warmth and connection is missing, which is for me the main requirement to support each other – to make an exchange of true reflection possible.

17. I love the simplicity presented here. It seems counter intuitive to present that gentleness can lead to such powerful transformations in our movements and whole way of being, yet that’s exactly what it is and does. When we move with gentleness we offer space to our bodies and to others. It’s a very different quality to the strain, rush and stress that most of the world moves in these days.

18. Beautiful to expose how we can fall into the identification of what we do, when in truth as you so beautifully reflect it is the quality of who we are first that we take to what we do, and when we do that the quality of everything changes.

19. The remarkable changes you have made to how you are with yourself and how you live Kate must have a big impact on your work and how you are with your patients. This is something we can all sense and appreciate when we meet someone or are treated by someone who does not impose.

    1. So true, our foundation for how we are in our relationships, in work, in every part of life is our Livingness.

20. You are empowering the client to see themselves as a major part of the equation to their own health and wellbeing through living that yourself as the practitioner first.

21. The practitioners way of being in their body really offers their clients an opportunity to feel a practitioner taking responsibility for their body and their way of living and then bringing that to their every moment, work rest and play.

22. It is incredible how transformational it is when we bring focus to the quality in which we are moving, for if we are open to what and how we feel we are shown the quality of energy that is moving us. The power of returning the quality of gentleness to our movements cannot be underestimated as this quality is what opens up space for us to feel and allow a greater quality love to be brought to life.

    1. Agreed Carola. God is accessible through our movements. He’s right there all of the time but most of us have no lived experience of Him because we are moving in such a way that God is obscured from our view. Once we start to move our way back to Him then there comes a point when we realise that He’s been there all the time.

23. So cute, slightly alarming, and a reflection of just how far away we can get from the simple observations in life, when you note above how important it is to remember the physiotherapist in the equation! It seems so obvious, but without the quality of the person treating the patient, how are we to expect the kind of miracles that medicine is increasingly being asked to perform?

24. I have noticed this also as a Physiotherapist that the lighter and more fluid I am in my body and in my movements the more I am able to support my clients with their bodies. This is a much greater level of support than just knowing my anatomy or knowing my facts and figures around injury and physical dysfunction. Yes these are important and necessary to have but there is so much more potential support that we can access and deliver if we connect to a certain quality of movement and being in our bodies and live this as practitioners.

    1. What I have noticed is that I will not recognise tension in another persons body if I have that tension in my body because it is both of our ‘normal’. Whereas if I have an ease in my body then I will recognise when another is not living that ease.

25. I can imagine that when you as a physiotherapist are looking or needing in any way, shape or form for an outcome you will get drained and a burn-out is not far away. Also it feels you will impose your idea of healing on the client which also feels not beneficial for true recovery of the patient. In my experience it all has to do with whether I take the invitation to connect to my body on a deeper level and to become aware of this deep connection and from there I can start to truly heal.

26. Being true to ourselves and bringing our skills to others. Looking at our work in that way feels much more simple and lighter than basing who we are on our job roles and our performance.

27. Living that gentleness more consistently so that it’s with you as a quality as you work, and focusing on how you are, and the person you’re treating, instead of making it all about the final outcome, has to have a positive effect on their health, and yours as the practitioner. A much steadier way to treat people and to be in and with work, that benefits everyone.

    1. Bryony when I read the words ‘final outcome’ there seemed to be something quite false about the concept and the emphasis that most of us put on the ‘final outcome’. It feels to me to be a bit of a red herring, something fixed in what we perceive to be the future but in truth dependant totally on each and every moment leading up to it.

28. Having personally practised on a daily basis many of the connective tissue exercises that Kate mentioned in this blog, I can attest to how profoundly they can show us how gentle or not we have been with ourselves, and have provided a whole new perspective on just how open, fluid, and spacious my body can feel. It provides an incredible benchmark of what is our true norm to be felt in our bodies, and translates into all the other areas of our daily activities as I noticed when practising these body awareness and gentle movements.

29. Not every client is going to appreciate the gentleness and a whole body approach bringing about an awareness to taking responsibility for their condition or ailment yet when a physiotherapist or practitioner is being true to themselves there is nothing greater than what is being offered to the client in that moment. A true practitioner (and this is something I am learning) does not have an agenda, expectation or outcome of any kind.

30. The fragmented life is one I can very much relate to but living like this, with different versions of ourselves for different parts of our lives, is a lot of hard work and effort! When we let go, let down the protection and just be ourselves, the roles have far less of a hold and a grip over us – it’s like we’re so full of ourselves that the roles just aren’t as important. Sure, we might do things in a particular role, but we are not that role: it’s a part of our life but not our identity and the core of who we are, which is always far greater.

31. In the end I reckon it is far better longer term to support someone to have a greater connection with their body then it is to just offer them short term relief.

32. Yes gentleness and tenderness is something that is generally frowned upon in medicine, especially Physiotherapy. There is a big belief out there that if you are very gentle then you are not doing anything! But have we really considered just how delicate and sensitive the human body is? Have we considered that the only reason we don’t like or appreciate the power of gentleness is because we have lost our connection with our bodies and are therefore we are addicted to the push, and shove and painful force that is involved in most forms of body work.

33. “Gradually I became more gentle in my approach to myself and with everything I do, especially in how I am with my patients – how I touch them and treat them.” How lucky are those patients to have someone as aware and caring as you Kate, treating them in such a gentle and loving way.

34. I’ve observed people who do body work all day and I can see it is a highly demanding physical job. So what you share here is to not harden in response to this, but to develop your gentleness and bring this to your sessions shows a different relationship with the body that is loving and nurturing.

35. Our body is so grateful if we let go of drive (pictures, ideals and beliefs). The space this offers allows different, more fluent movements and people around us experience the blessing of this as well.

36. I love how you bring in that actually is everything one and we cannot compartmentalize. There can be no difference to being at home to being at work. There goes the whole concept of work/life balance, that if focussing on time instead of on quality.

37. ‘I am already all I need to be’ is also stated in the Code of Ethics of the Esoteric Practitioners Association code of and it simply takes all the drive, proving and striving away and offers space for the practitioner to be themselves.

    1. ‘I am already all I need to be’ is a very empowering statement. Thank you for pulling this out Monika R and reminding us that it is in the EPA code of ethics. When we are aligned to divinity and allow that energy through us great healing can and does occur.

38. I truly appreciate your honest sharing here. In any profession, through experience, we build our skills and we become more accomplished, and we can be very comfortable in that. It takes humility to remain open to be challenged by something that questions our learned way. And I guess that is the moment when our true intention gets revealed – security, or service.

39. For the physio to be themselves first and then apply their tools, makes complete sense but many of us do not live this in our work and often allow work to take over, yet what is presented here is a truer approach, one where we are us first and always and bring that to our jobs … it changes the paradigm of how we work.

    1. We are all constantly live streaming one of two energetic forms of intelligences. When we are genuinely being our true selves then this goes a long way to pulling in a form of intelligence that will support each and every body to heal. If we are not being our true selves, so if we’ve gone into identification with what we’re doing, if we’ve gone into any kind of emotion or if we’ve bought into an idea or a belief then we’ll be sucking in a form of intelligence that’s more than happy to keep all of us in the dark. And so for any true healing to happen the practitioner/doctor/butcher/librarian/mother/childcare worker must be being their true unadulterated selves. Then to a certain degree we can just stand back and let the intelligence of Life do it’s thing.

40. Bringing gentleness into how I work as a Physiotherapist has definitely added another dimension to my work as clients really feel and appreciate the difference. We can all feel the difference between a merely functional touch and one that carries the quality of tenderness or care.

41. The depth and beauty of the gentle touch changes the world, without a doubt.

    1. Love this profound and very deep statement you have made here Jenny and the beautiful simplicity of it….when we consider how often we touch things or people in a typical day and how the quality we touch in has an impact and a profound effect on everyone and everything more than we possibly allow ourselves to feel.

42. When we step in a role no matter what role we choose, we will never bring who we truly are. When we bring who we are we see, in this case, patients not as patients but as our equal brothers and whatever treatment we give we hold the other and healing can occur on a much deeper level.

    1. I agree, Annelies, identifying with a role we have is imposing on another. But also damaging ourselves, as I have experienced with people losing their job. All of sudden they are ‘nobody/no one’ and find this of course difficult to handle.

43. There is a huge difference between when I understand and learn something conceptually through my brain alone, to when I actually put it into practice. Living a truth means every cell and every aspect of me knows it through and through – the mental knowledge alone pales into insignificance compared to such depth of awareness and absolute knowingness this provides. I am not surprised then that depending on the level of our livingness, other people’s experience of what we offer is also so significantly different.

    1. True, I find when people have learnt something without any lived experience I can find myself drifting off, getting bored, smelling the hypocrisy or simply not understanding what they are saying. Those with lived experience it feels more tangible and solid, it makes more sense even if I may not have consciously lived it yet. I find this very much in Universal Medicine presentations.

44. Being true to ourselves whatever the profession is the key to empowering ourselves, and then we can hold others in their healing process.

45. To work in a way that simply focuses on developing your body in the most gentle way and truly nurturing it first, takes a lot of stress and burden off of practitioners of medical practices and other complementary healing modalities because then there is no longer a need or investment in the patient ‘getting somewhere’ in their treatment, but instead the way you live naturally inspires the patient to do the same for themselves and come to their own healing in a more organic way.

46. Recently I have learnt the true value of valuing myself, and how through that I have been able to connect more deeply with myself, and as a result I am far more gentle with myself and others.

    1. What an awesome transformation. Perhaps this is exactly how every single issue among humanity starts to be resolved.

47. “I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.” This principle is applicable to every single person bar none. Being true to oneself one can then be true in life and to others.

48. I have had treatments from physio’s in the past where the whole session was geared towards the ‘problem’ part of my body. What I now find interesting is how the tension/soreness that I feel physically in my body is always due to a way I am holding my body that is triggered by a way I think I have to be in life, that most erroneously is not the way my body wants to be held. Whilst my body needs physical support at times to release this tension, it will not completely let go until the thought/belief behind it is too addressed. This is the true physio that our world again needs.

    1. Completely agree Leigh, the more honest I am with myself, the further back I can track the cause of the illness or pain to the way I have been feeling or the way I have been moving.

49. Needing an outcome or having a picture of how things should turn out is not allowing the client to follow their own path in their own timing. When i feel myself wanting a result I know I am letting ‘self’ in.

50. I love the way you shared going from simply treating an ailment to treating the patient with the whole of you present and the benefit this brought to your practice and your whole lifestyle….

51. How we live our life in every way lays the foundation for the quality that we then take into work with us and can be a great support for the quality that we are then able to bring to others and the clarity that we have with regards to what is truly needed from us.

52. ” A big part of this transformation was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time. ” This is such a key to healing, for it’s the disconnecting from one’s gentleness, that precipitates the dis-ease, the illness, in the first place.

53. When we are more caring and gentler with ourselves we will always be proportionally more caring and gentler with others.

54. ‘I have developed a deeper understanding to ‘work with’ the patient’s body and its natural ability to heal itself when supported in the true manner by the treatments I can provide.’ This is lovely because it shows the equality of patient and physiotherapist working together for the patient’s health.

55. We tend to separate our life, our movements, with our professions. What if, however, we stand to gain from not doing so; if what you offer is simply what you live and not only what you know? Wouldn’t this be a valuable asset to share with the world?

56. It is so amazing to read about the impact of being gentle with yourself and your approach to your work and clients. So simple, so significant and obviously life changing.

57. I love how you speak of moving in a more fluid gentle way Kate, this is truly the health practitioner living what they present and offering it to others.

    1. The most empowering moments of support I have received in my life have all been when someone has expressed with the absoluteness of what they have already been living.

58. ‘A big part of this transformation was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time.’ This will bring change for all of us in whatever we do as reconnecting to our natural gentleness and eventually stillness brings our true qualities to the fore and exposes or dissolves those things which have been present that are not of this.

59. It is so different and empowering for the client to have a practitioner who doesn’t need to force the body to conform or respond as they think it should. Working with the body and letting it call the shots is the way we need to practice any healing or body therapies.

    1. “Working with the body and letting it call the shots is the way we need to practice any healing or body therapies”, it’s actually the way that we need to live our lives. Although we need to clear our bodies out to begin with otherwise most of us would be eating a lot of sugar and drinking a lot of caffeine because for most of us the over riding messages from the body appear to be pulling us into habits that aren’t actually supportive. It takes a while to settle to a point where we can hear and feel the true impulses from our body and not the knee jerk ones that come from a starting point of disharmony.

60. I am totally blown away with how treating our bodies with real respect, tenderness allows us to release physical conditions, everything is so connected.

61. Taking care of ourselves to the level you describe here Kate is really fundamental to how well we can truly support and inspire another to take care of their own health. How we are never goes unnoticed, even if we are not aware that others are clocking our day to day choices.

62. I love what you are saying here Kate that first it is a way of living and being true to ourselves and then bringing this to the role/roles we do. Taking care of ourselves across the board and living one transparent life. This is the true way forward. And from having sessions with you I can testify they are very unimposing, very loving and truly supportive.

63. It makes so much sense for a healing professional to get to know their own body and themselves first before treating others. I love, Kate, how as you began to get to know yourself more deeply that this self-understanding flowed naturally on to the understanding and care of others. As a patient, one of the most important things is to feel that your practitioner is taking the time to understand you and to treat you as a whole person, not just a knee, or a wrist or a neck. And from this understanding true healing is then offered a strong and trusting foundation.

64. Kate you are an amazing practitioner breaking the mould of what is actually possible.

65. The power in gentleness is huge, It can change everything and it is something we can forever deepen.

66. Reconnecting to our innate tenderness through gentleness in all our movements is a very healing process.

67. This way of supporting patients to connect with themselves is an empowering way for both practitioner and patient and it gives us both the responsibility to express more as ourselves.

68. I had no idea about the gentleness quality that I could be until I was introduced to Serge Benhayon and felt it in the core of my being. So it has been like I have been learning to ride a bike again and the trainers have come off recently and that this quality goes very deep if we so allow ourselves to connect to it.

69. Beautifully expressed, Kate. We all are much more than our profession and when we gently express who we fully are in there, this is more than a job, but a deep service with endless benefits for all.

70. How can someone who is not living in a harmonious, caring, honouring and healthy way, inspire another to build that in their own life? This is one of the discrepancies in life as adults we seem to shut our eyes to, but with the purity of the vision of a child it is more than obvious that such an undertaking is fruitless. It is a blessing to receive treatments from the likes of Kate Greenaway-Twist.

71. True integrity right there. What better way to pass on wisdom and knowledge than through a body living it. A perfects reflection for us all.

72. I love what you share about how our lives can’t be compartmentalised as much as we try to have it this way. Everything is Everything as Serge Benhayon presents and that what we do in one area of our lives has an immediate effect on the other area. Bring me to all that we do not matter what this is and not putting more value on another is one I am consistently looking at. It can so easily sneak in, the nobody is looking syndrome and thinking I can get away with. This happens less and less by the day the more I bring my awareness to a deeper connection to my Soul and if feels super incredible to move, talk, eat, drink and communicate in this way.

73. As health practitioners if we see ourselves as whole within ourselves then we will be able to see everyone that we meet, irrespective of who they are and what their medical condition is in that same wholeness. This then has the potential to change medicine forever because people once again become people and not numbers/medical conditions etc.

74. “…true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.” – this is beautiful and true testament to the healing power of nature: Vis Medicatrix Naturae – in other words nature is the physician of disease…and so our role as therapists is simply to support with no manipulation or imposition, but simply to support the body to return to its natural state, whatever that may be for that person at that moment in time.

75. Bringing ourselves in full to all that we do is really an amazing support to ourselves and to all those around us, as they feel the difference between a putting on a way of being and a genuine beingness.

76. Many people feel the ‘burn out’ in their lives, especially health care professionals, because we take on the burden of looking after others and think it is our responsibility. Once we realise we are the facilitator, the person who is there to support and reflect to another, it changes the whole dynamics. As you have understood and deepened your connection to yourself, and your gentleness Kate, this is what your patients feel. Being true to ourselves first and then bringing our skills as physiotherapists is the future for our profession with absolutely no doubt.

77. To be identified by what we do, it is such a strong pull, it starts at school when we have the careers advice session, and feel the pressure to be defined and definite in our career and life path. It starts earlier though when we get asked what we want to be when we grow up. But it’s important to define it is what we do, not what we “be” and sometimes the two get confused. I’ve met many people who are so ingrained in what they do that they think and want it to be who they are. To use physiotherapy as in this example, it is clear from my experience of having sessions that over the years this has been provided by people with very good intentions, but perhaps less expression of themselves in their work. In other words what I felt I experienced was a person enveloped by their profession into acting in a slightly robotic manner, not in any dastardly or disturbing way, but more a subtle manipulation of the true, more therapeutic version of themselves that resides underneath. A version that was keen to fit in to the model provided in their training. We can say there is nothing wrong in this but it provided me with physiotherapy sessions that were light on care, very functional but not at all inspiring of a deeper level of care or a reflection of how to move in a way that respected my body. What Kate describes here is “gentleness” such a simple word but one that gets to the heart of what we all have within us, and how being more gentle returns us to our truest self and bring out the care for others simply by being in this quality. Most definitely True Physiotherapy.

78. “I have also learned over the last 16 years how important it is to reconnect to the natural gentle quality in me, that is in us all.” It is indeed beautiful to reconnect to this gentleness that we all have within us and to then bring this quality to all that we do. And particularly in your line of work Kate as whoever you are working with will get to feel and be inspired by you and the way you are with them.

79. Thank you for sharing your understanding about burn out from your experience Kate ‘this happened because of my ‘looking’ or ‘needing’ an outcome from a patient’s treatment. I have developed a deeper understanding to ‘work with’ the patient’s body and its natural ability to heal itself when supported in the true manner by the treatments I can provide.’ such a valuable sharing as I am sure many practitioners can experience this.

    1. I think that there are lots of us that can relate to the feeling of burnout that comes from ‘looking’ or needing’ an outcome’ from someone or from many people in our lives. Most of us don’t accept everyone in our lives exactly as they are, we try and mould them and change them into whatever or whoever it is that we perceive they need to be at that particular point in time. Painful for us and painful for the other person. No space, no love no understanding. I’ve spent a long time living from this place and still do drop into it very readily.

80. Kate, what you offer in the way you practice your therapies is already healing for the client as they are fully involved and can take responsibility for their healing process.

81. How beautiful to work on empowering a client/patient so that they can learn about what they are doing that can be contributing to their ailments. This is something to bring to all of medicine and on many levels.

82. I can’t help but feel how empowering this approach to physiotherapy is Kate. It confirms to clients that they have an innate knowing of how their body needs to move and from this can gain insight into exactly what is needed to return to a more harmonious way of being in their body.

83. I am a body work practitioner and I am learning that the more gentle I can be, the more I pick up in someone’s body. Subtle, sensitivity in palpation and treatment aware of details make all the difference to looking at symptoms and deciding treatment. This does not come just because I switch it on at work, I am gentle in all areas of my life, so when it comes to work I do not need to try in anyway, it comes naturally.

84. I can vouch that having sessions with Kate Greenaway is the most gentle and loving experience. I know this is going to sound a bit weird but when I am on the massage table I feel like a little kid getting tucked in by their Mum, it’s the best, warm blankets and a deep rest that feels like it goes to my bones, my body always feels so relaxed and loose after my treatments.

85. Every change you have made in your life as you describe to us comes through so beautifully in your gentle, loving treatment of your clients. Thank you Kate!

86. Great work Kate. I would say that our rates of illness and disease come about because of compartmentalisation of life itself. Having a doctor, nurse or practitioner that truly understands and lives this to their best in full is the only way change is truly going to occur.

87. Like many others I experienced very profound online and life sessions with you Kate.
    You bring the work as physio to such a new level. I noticed that most physios are very willing to learn more in this filed as they are mostly very open people with true care for others.
    It would be great if you could have a workshop with other physios so they will feel this new foundation from where they can also start to work.

88. To be true to ourselves first then use our skills in an unimposing gentle way is a great foundation to be taken to any job role.

89. It is this ‘acting out a role’ you speak of Kate that creates so much tension and hardness in the bodies of our health professionals (and I have treated a few in my clinic!) and this is bad news for the health of our health care professionals and not great for the patients either as if we are honest they can feel the difference in quality between being touched and treated with gentleness as opposed to tension, stress, exhaustion and hardness.

90. Kate this highlights the importance of how we are with ourselves, the way we care and tend for ourselves and our body, impacts directly on how we are with others. Being gentle with ourselves places us on a pathway to enjoying every moment and movement of our own bodies. With so many who do not have this level of enjoyment, or any level, within their body, to meet a physio whose everyday expression is this, would be like finding gold. For they will begin to be able to connect to this within themselves, because its being offered by your living way. Super inspiring.

91. “it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong” – Amazing Kate, and could this method of offering a reflection not be applied to every profession? Do we need to go into work and approach clients/customers guns hot, ready to ‘tackle their problems’ or sell something, when it’s much less exhausting AND supportive to offer whatever we are there to offer without investment?

92. Ah – reading this blog is like receiving a physio treatment myself. It’s left me sensing without doubt that no matter what things people say, no matter what happens today, and no matter the energy that’s at play, all I need to do is focus on the gorgeous gentleness of the way I move. There’s so many temptations to get drawn into complications of the head but your words inspire me Kate to choose the loving quality of my body instead.

93. “I was stepping into a role as a physiotherapist when I went to work, like putting a uniform on, but I was losing ‘Kate’ in all of that.” This must be the case for most people when they go to work. We tend to identify ourselves with what we do and believe that is who we are. But in truth we do not have to do this. Allowing this cloak of identity to drop away is totally liberating. We can simply be ourselves in whatever role we chose to do.

94. It is not possible to be a true practitioner to others when we are not a true practitioner to ourselves first. This should be the exam every practitioner takes before starting work.

    1. Sounds like your talking about responsibility Gill. Something that will be a future subject in all courses no doubt.

95. I too love Kate’s Connective Tissue sessions and programs, as they highlight how to truly move with the body and not against it. So very beautiful to do.

96. Serge Benhayon truly has remodelled what it means to be human and specifically as you say, what it means to be a practitioner.

97. Physiotherapy based on gentle touch feels very different from the usual hard approach, I love the way you work, Kate, and it has inspired me to take more care of how I treat my own body.

98. The human body has an amazing capacity to heal itself, providing we give it the support and the space it needs to begin the process, and through the increasing awareness we have of our body, we learn how to move in order to support it.

99. An interesting point Kate “I wonder how many of us lose ourselves in identifying with the role of being a Dentist, Nurse, Doctor, Cleaner and Mechanic etc”? It’s sure-fire way, by encouraging that identification, to lose sight of one’s true self – the very part of us that can bring so much more to everyone in the role of Dentist, Nurse, Doctor, Cleaner and Mechanic.

100. How we treat ourselves has first and foremost priority, what message are we giving if we treat ourselves else than we would treat others? Your experience Kate, of more gentleness for you equals more gentleness for your patients, is so confirming and inspiring, for anyone to take to their workplace.

101. Thank you Kate, this is what we should know and feel about physiotherapy. Not a mental exercise or only physical practice, but bringing a wholeness to it – like you do. And describe that it is about the physiotherapist level of care and flow in their body – which they then and only then can reflect (as they live it) in their occupation. This is a whole different responsibility.

102. I love how you are not saying you can fix a client but that you are able to support the client to take responsibility for their own healing. No-one can heal/fix another person we can only heal our selves and at times to do this, we need support from another.

103. “Over the last 16 years I have transformed from a person driven by the goals of how things should be”. It is very common for practitioners, no matter how dedicated or caring, to be invested in their patients behaving a certain way and following their professional advice. I just read a large survey of doctors and nurses questioning how they felt about empowered patients. Nearly a quarter of doctors found it annoying and counterproductive! This harks back to the days when people passively did what ‘doctor’ told them. I can understand that doctors care about the outcome for their patients (and can be held liable) but we patients are all responsible for our own choices.

104. ‘Gradually I became more gentle in my approach to myself and with everything I do, especially in how I am with my patients – how I touch them and treat them.’ I t wold be amazing and so supportive for you to teach other practitioners all that you bring Kate – so needed in the medical world.

105. A gentle practitioner who is committed to being honest with themselves, amazing to read and feel the quality of what this offers clients in terms of integrity, care and wisdom. To live in this way is beyond words of huge benefit and cannot be underestimated.

106. ‘I was inspired to give gentleness a go from the constant reflection of gentleness, love and true caring for others from Serge Benhayon, of Universal Medicine.’ A lovely reminder of how powerful our reflection can be. One person choosing gentleness can inspire many others simply through how they move.

107. ‘I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process’ Gorgeous Kate and totally revolutionary as body work so often comes with control and force.

108. Such a beautiful transformation from being goal orientated to being open and fluid and appreciating the unfoldment that happens when we let it.

109. Hear hear Kate, I will vouch for the tenderness that you are as a practitioner as I have watched you transform over the 15 years I have known you. You are now one of the most delicate, gentle women I know. Very inspiring.

110. This outcome driven thing is a huge problem in medicine. The practitioner is already under pressure to produce the desired result and to ‘fix’ the problem even before the client has come into the room, but there is no consideration given to how the patient got into that state in the first place, how they have been living and how much momentum there may be behind the physical problem. This drive to produce a result is behind much of the force and push that ends up occurring in body work, because the practitioner is usually very anxious that they need to come up with the goods without placing any responsibility on the client. These days I see my responsibility as a practitioner is not about producing any outcome but about living my life in such a way that every client receives the same high quality session and focus and attention from me and that the quality of my techniques and touch is very supportive to the body. And the rest of the healing is up to them and how willing they are to look at why they have the problem in the first place. The other thing that governs the healing process is of course how long the problem has been there for and how much momentum is behind in it in terms of how long someone has been living in a certain way to produce the physical dysfunction.

     1. I’d add to that the fact that most clients want to be fixed quickly. Most of us don’t want to be in discomfort for long and we also don’t want to spend a lot of money getting better, oh and there’s also the time factor, perhaps the inconvenience of getting to the appointment and having time off work. All in all we want to be fixed pronto and think that a practitioner is good if he/she that can fix us quickly.

111. Kate, I love what you have shared about different hats we can wear (work, home, practitioner etc) and how in essence the hat is a false role…and life is about realising that we don’t need to wear a hat, that just being ourselves is all that is needed.

112. “I am lighter and more fluid in all my movements and I am able to truly support my patients in their own natural healing process.” When we live in a way that is healing to ourselves, then we naturally bring a healing to others.

     1. And all the trying can cease. It is amazing to start to accept the impact of our choices on others and that it is by reflection that people are inspired.

113. When we start to live the fact that we are already all that we need to be, a lot of our struggles both internally and externally will cease.

114. To have a practitioner who is at ease with themselves and therefore is not needing the patient to achieve some goal for them to feel good about themselves must be such a different experience for the patient, for there is no pressure for them to achieve and perform, just heal in their own time and way.

115. The beauty of being this gentle, loving, caring self is in the offering of this to others, who then have the opportunity take this way into their own day changing the energy, outlook or disposition of the people they connect with.

116. We are all continually connecting with others through out the day, whether they be patients, clients, co-workers, family or just passers-by on the street. These interactions give us plenty of opportunity to observe our relationship with gentleness, love and true caring, within ourselves, and with all others.

     1. Yes. And it is in all these observations that we get to see the opportunities for change, for bringing understanding to some of our ill choices and being inspired by qualities in others – in this case the beauty of gentleness for Kate and her work.

117. It is felt in reading this blog how “the quality I offer patients, how I connect with them, care for and love them as human beings and not see them as “just the next patient” is the foundation to support my patients, no matter what condition they have.” is a game changer in the quality of the session offered to your clients. However I can also feel how this is applicable to most other professions or actually most situations during our day otherwise I have found that when I approach something as ‘just the next…..’ the day becomes a bit of a tick box exercise. Thank you Kate for the invitation to support ourselves with love and care so this is naturally offered to and felt by others.

118. It is so beautiful to feel how the more your lived with a consistency in your life of greater connection to your essence, your approach to work, your clients and your clients body also became more holistic. With this we are offered the opportunity to understand why our bodies are presenting with ailments, through feeling for ourselves true connection to and the natural fluidity of our bodies, which for me empowered me to embrace an active role in my healing process. What an incredibly profound testament to the truth, that we are more that our just body parts, our ailments, or the jobs we do, as the quality in which we live our lives greatly affects our well-being and vitality. Thank you Kate, for all that you bring and present through being who you are and the work you do.

119. “I am lighter and more fluid in all my movements and I am able to truly support my patients in their own natural healing process.” When we eliminate ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’ – our pictures of how life could or should be – and allow life to flow – transformation can occur. And when we move and behave differently – more gently – this of course affects everyone around us.

     1. Such a different feeling in the body from either choosing allowing or shoulds. Stopping for a moment to allow the flow to be connected to on a physical level is incredibly simple and supportive to overall well-being.

120. Your opening paragraph is so awesome Kate; I can’t begin to imagine how much changing your work fuel from drive and stress to total grace has inspired your clients, family, friends and colleagues!

121. When we read people’s bios they are full of information of their achievements but not about the quality of self care and self love in their lives. This in itself is very revealing. When we deepen these qualities in ourselves we realise that these are the qualities we meet others in first, long before what we have learned is brought out to support us.

122. It is all one life and so living a life of deep care and gentleness first is what we bring to all we do in our day and to all our interactions in and out of work, naturally so and with an ease and flow.

123. Just the revelation you share here Kate about learning to be more caring for yourself and gentle with yourself and how much this affects the quality of care you offer to your clients is a game changer for medicine in itself.

124. “I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be – the quality I offer patients, how I connect with them, care for and love them as human beings and not see them as “just the next patient” is the foundation to support my patients, no matter what condition they have.” – this is GOLD, and testament to the beautiful qualities that Kate brings to every session and every person she sees.

125. In order to truly support clients, we need to be willing to look at our own issues and heal them. Developing the connection with oneself and allowing gentleness and tenderness back into the body as Kate has done, is true testament to what results can then be seen with clients. Of course it is for clients to make their own choices too, however, to be reflected and reminded of the innate qualities we all have within is a blessing and a gift that offers us a return to health and wellbeing, in a way that is well worth the journey.

126. once you have received treatment from any healing practitioner, be it a doctor physiotherapist or whatever, who brings the quality of gentleness to their work, your perception of standards and what we should expect in health care changes radically

127. “I have developed a deeper understanding to ‘work with’ the patient’s body and its natural ability to heal itself when supported in the true manner by the treatments I can provide.” Knowing that the body has its own intelligence and working with its wisdom instead of trying to fix the problem, is the way that allows the body to bring true healing. Thank you Kate for the healing you offer through Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.

128. The inspiration you gained from seeing how Serge Benhayon moves and is with people is very lovely, and what’s more lovely still is how you simply felt to give it a go, without any pressure from him or anyone, you just felt to try gentleness for yourself.

129. The appreciation you hold is very touching Kate and a testament to the professional support network you have created for yourself.

130. What a beautiful way of living with the oneness and consistency of this in all we do . Letting go of trying and putting on acts and allowing an openness with our bodies and hence that with everyone else is very special to feel in just being who we are and offering this to others is a real gift.

131. What comes through Kate in this whole subject you write about is this transformation you describe that ” was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time.” I am learning that our quality is everything, from there the magic happens.

132. Wanting or needing an outcome for our clients and patients is indeed a sure fire way to deplete and drain our life force leading to burnout.

133. “these days I am expressing me with the skills I have” – What I love about this Kate is that by living this way you could gather 1000 physiotherapists, teachers, doctors, receptionists or photographers in a room with the same training, cameras, age of pupils etc. and they would all have completely unique ways of expressing these skills! This is what makes humanity amazing.

134. Beautiful testimony Kate to your dedication to following what you knew was true for you, and how this has changed your practice and the impact on your patients.

135. How amazing it will be when we all take responsibility for ourselves in this way and then bring this to our professions in support, not control, of others.

136. For me the word ‘exercise class’ fills me with horror as I have memories of going to exercise classes where I was pushed to ignore my body and keep going. Since then I have attended a gentle exercise class where I was asked to move with my body and to bring focus to how my body felt whilst I was moving. It felt so lovely to move in this way, fully present and honouring of the messages I felt to rest, go more gently or step it up a notch and not only that but my day flowed with ease afterwards.

137. Reading how moving gently allows the body to be more balanced, flexible and strong really supports me to undo all the old beliefs I had about exercise as basically being a force to impose upon the body and make it perform whilst thinking that I was doing it a favour and being good. Connecting to the loveliness of moving with gentleness and honouring of where my body is at does bring forth a strength and flexibility that being hard constricts.

138. If the word ‘should’ comes in to our conversation it is worth looking at how it got there.

139. How we are with ourself and others whilst we’re at home or not at work sets us up for how we then are when we get to work – it can make such a difference to the way we feel at work or in our job role with the foundation that we’ve built before we get there.

     1. I agree – and then of course the cycle completes: how we are at work affects how we are and feel in the rest of our lives.

140. Taking on the responsibility for someone else’s health is a huge burden that is destined to end up in burn-out.

141. Contrary to popular belief, there is more strength in gentleness than there is in the brute force we normally apply to push through life instead of truly living it.

     1. Oh yes to this. I am discovering, on a daily basis, the immense strength of gentleness and how being gentle supports my body to work really well.

142. I am already all that I need – this is what we can take to our daily lives in all aspects of our living and being.

143. Realising that we do not ‘belong’ to the profession or job we choose but to something far greater and universal means that we live this first and bring it to whatever we choose to do.

144. What I have felt from your blog Kate is how important it is to bring our true ‘selves’ to our job. In doing so, we’re all together to break down all the insidious ideals and beliefs that we’ve taken on from school, university, our colleagues, our company etc. What we do is first and foremost about who we are. Yet, the so called modern world is living the reverse. Could it be that all the problems in the world have to do with the fact that product (matter) comes before people? And in choosing so, the majority of people are too scared to open their mouth and hence we’ve built a society based on false security and fear… We’ve all together allowed this and so we’re all together responsible for bringing the change. One by one. Sooner or later.

145. Being treated by a practitioner who holds you with ‘gentleness’ is exquisite. Healing takes place just by being exposed to this way and everything that has been held in just drops away.

146. Our bodies can do enormous healing when we honour them.

     1. When we don’t listen to the body, it gets a bit resentful – we feel agitated, ill at ease, not flowing. When we stop and give ourselves the space to feel what’s going on, it then becomes quite simple to know what’s needed next to get back into the flow.

147. So true Kate… I have found that by moving gently it exposes all the ways that I move that aren’t supportive of my body – the hardness I move in, the harshness in the way I treated myself and my body, all stood out in stark contrast to gentle movement – you can’t help but become aware of how you are in and with your body.

     1. And I love the deepening relationship with my body as I listen in more respectfully to what it tells me… I feel much more aware, alive and fit for life.

148. Universal Medicine brings enormous understanding of our bodies and their immense ability to heal them selves. It never regards illness and disease as a failing, but a powerful clearing and in this empowers the practitioner to support a patient’s process of healing even when it does not match up to our expected norms, allowing the body to work its wisdom as only it knows how to.

149. I deeply appreciate the sessions you offer Kate, the awareness with my body movements has never been so consistent, allowing a flow to be present through me no matter what task or physical position, be it standing, sitting bending etc. I am constantly staying connected with how my body feels and if it is squeezed or restricted in any way that isn’t allowing the movement to be fluid. A bit like being aware if I have constricted in any way that forms a roadblock, detour or hurdle for the movement to maneuver to complete my request. Being aware of this prevents a lot of tension, discomfort and potential pain.

150. ‘I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be..’ this is a very powerful way to be. I can feel in reading it something drop inside of me; a drive I have been feeling – to ‘progress’.

     1. This is an inspiring level of awareness and honesty – when we can read someone’s words, feel a shift in our bodies and realise how we have been living – thank you, Michael.

151. All the Esoteric Modalities presented by Serge Benhayon, “work with’ the patient’s body and its natural ability to heal itself” and by doing so true healing occurs, testified to by the hundreds of personal testaments mine included.

152. It is lovely reading how over the past 16 years your approach to supporting your patients has moved from being goal driven to truly supporting them in their own natural healing process. As someone who has been at the receiving end of numerous different treatments over the years, I can categorically say that there is nothing as profound and as empowering as receiving a treatment that honours me, my body and my healing process in every detail.

153. Physical therapy, or physiological therapy, reminds the body how it is naturally designed to move. Esoteric bodywork takes it a step further and ensures that the energy that moves and flows through the physical body is our true source of energy.

154. The fact that you’ve chosen to be much more you in everything you do as a physiotherapist is a testimony of the love and power you hold. For both yourself as well as for the patients you take care of. This requires an enormous will and unconditional love as the world constantly imposes completely the opposite. Thank you dearly Kate!

     1. I agree Floris it shows just how much Kate cares and that she has made her work about truly supporting others even if it has meant letting go of old ways things have been done (taught). Very inspiring and a great reflection to all of us that we can make any job about true love it just needs to come from an integrity within us.

        1. Hear, hear! It needs indeed to come from an integrity within us. There’s a joy to re-discover inside of us, but it needs our commitment to be honest and slowly build a body that is able to love the integrity and by these choices is able to express true love.

155. Love in one person beckons love in another and as love is the greatest therapeutic remedy that we could possibly have, any therapist that is true love is the best treatment possible.

156. Kate your approach to physiotherapy will one day be embraced by us all, regardless of who we are or what we do for a profession. One way of being, one life, and then that way of life when consistently lived will lead back to the Oneness of life.

157. ‘Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.’ Well said Kate – This applies to all professions.

158. Burnout is very much part of the current practitioners experience yet what you share here about gentleness, connection and needing an outcome, helps every body in every profession. In effect and in fact, they become vital factors towards maintaining an ease and flow to life.

159. ‘In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be’ it is so simple, just to keep re-conencting within, feeling our own body, thinking about nothing but what we are doing in each moment, allowing life to unfold before us, all of what we need is there.

160. Your blog highlights just how the quality of a person has a huge bearing on the outcome or quality of service that is provided.

161. It is a major lesson in the life indeed to let go of how things and people should be, as this is just coming from a picture we have in our heads according to our ideals and beliefs in life.

     1. Life is monumentally glorious but because of our pictures, our ideals and our beliefs we have turned it into a grotesque misrepresentation of its true self.

162. Bringing all that is the true you to all that you do and not living in a compartmentalised way makes all the difference to the quality and integrity in whatever work you do and is a great reflection for all others to feel. I am deeply inspired through the quality and care revealed in the way Kate’s movements in tenderness and gentleness to do the strengthening exercises and connective tissue exercises that Kate suggests and that I have found to be so beneficial.

163. I came from a therapeutic background that involved a lot of what at the time seemed to be gentle prodding, poking and pushing the body to get it into a functional place that both the patient and practitioner were wanting to achieve. When I came across the Universal Medicine Healing Modalities, they made my previous work seem extremely harsh, imposing and ultimately very ineffective. The human body is extremely delicate, sensitive and very wise. When we approach another person’s body in the full appreciation of these living qualities within us, their body opens up like a flower in the sunshine, ready to relinquish all that does not belong inside its precious confines, fully in control of its own healing agenda.

164. Having spent many years as a body worker I was astonished on first encountering the Esoteric Modalities presented by Serge Benhayon because they were so gentle, yet at the same time so effective, and achieved results that I had not previously experienced in all the years as a therapist. The consequence of this was to change my whole way of life.

165. In anything we do when we’re attached to outcomes we restrict ourselves and others and it’s exhausting, no wonder we have so much burn-out in the world – we’ve set it up to be very much outcome based, and not about people and how we can meet them. As Kate so beautifully puts it here ‘In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be’ and that is the key, living connected to us we can appreciate we are exactly where we need to be, and all that is required is there, no pressure or striving, how expansive is that!

166. If I’m not with me, only what’s left is what I do. No wonder we get lost in what we do, due to a world that has none or very little attention and appreciation for who we truly are. The difference we make when we’re truly with ourselves is huge. I love being held in true love. A steady, unconditional, deeply loving love that is forever holding, appreciating and inspiring to be all the Love that I am myself. Imagine this love being brought to every job. Imagine if the energetic quality we come to the workplace is something that is ‘ranked’ just as important as the quality of our skills. Is life about getting things done or about people and connection first and foremost? Let alone, the miracles that happen when we truly love people. Which means it isn’t only more loving, but also leads to better health, more joyful workplaces, less sickness etc. Shall we give it a go?

167. How you connect with patients Kate, is clearly part of the inspiration you offer and allows them to take responsibility for their part in the readjustments that the body is ready to go through.

168. As I practise more gentle movement and embed this day-to-day the times when I am not stand out like a sore thumb!

169. Doctors who smoke giving advice, dentists who eat sweets giving advice, Financial advisors who gamble giving advice, Counsellors who do porn giving advice, lawyers who cheat on their wives giving advice, politicians who lie giving advice….I could keep writing for eternity. Until such time as our leaders and support systems are caring from humanity from a place of their own lived truth then we will forever go around and around in the same circles.

170. I find it interesting how you say that going into the role of your profession was like putting a uniform on. In the past I was working in a business that required a uniform every day and I have to say that it was like putting a shield on, something I could hide behind. I did not have to be me anymore as I was representing something else.

171. ‘I was stepping into a role as a physiotherapist when I went to work, like putting a uniform on, but I was losing ‘Kate’ in all of that.’ Nowhere else apart from Universal Medicine have I been encouraged to look at my life and its consistency – to stay connected with myself no matter what it is I am doing. This has meant that there are far fewer ups and downs in life, and a much more steady equilibrium has been established.

172. When you move in rhythm with your body, you are not working against the flow so it makes sense that your body would not be tired because there is no push, just a natural movement that is left to complete itself.

173. I’ve really enjoyed feeling Universal Medicine practitioners deepen their gentleness and quality over the years, this quality is there throughout the session and supports me to surrender more deeply myself in the session.

174. What would the world look like if just 1% of the 7.5 billion of us expressed the same professionalism and quality service as Kate?

175. I have been to a few Physio’s and Chiropractors over the years that could have used some of your gentleness Kate and the knowing that the body has its own way to heal and often just needs a little gentle encouragement.

176. ‘Gradually I became more gentle in my approach to myself and with everything I do, especially in how I am with my patients – how I touch them and treat them.’ The presence we bring to a client and in the subsequent session is everything. The quality of touch allows for healing on many levels whatever the techniques we use in a treatment. Allowing ourselves an increasing level and consistency of gentleness in the way we are with ourselves and our own bodies ensures a degree of care that supports us in our own healing too.

177. This is really taking the wisdom of the body into account Eduardo. This is very new for many of us. However, Kate is making incredible innovations into a new frontier, it makes sense to ease off and allow a more gentle approach. We’ve done the opposite for far too long and look at the results. Increasing illness and disease.

178. “I still give strength exercises and postural advice and specific connective tissue exercises but in a very different way, as it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body…” – amazing Kate, and also in my profession too [executive recruiting] have found the goal to place a person has changed; yes of course i still need to place people into a job because that’s what i’m employed to do, however the quality of the placement process has taken on an entirely different approach given the (deepening) connection i now have with myself, my gentle and self-loving quality that has extended to how i treat/work with candidates to get them a new job. The quality connection we have with ourselves, is the same connection that can inspire another.

179. Burnout comes from the constant angst of expecting things outside ourselves to be a certain way, of trying to control the world around us. To come back to ourselves, and how we are in our own bodies, and the way we live our lives, brings us back to an inner knowing and integrity that transforms our lives, and the lives of others, naturally so – and there is no more angst and no more burnout.

180. Without imposing our ideals and beliefs, our expectations and outcomes, we allow others to empower themselves with the realisations that come from their body.

181. By honouring a person’s body and its ability to heal itself, we allow another the grace of healing themselves.

182. ‘it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong.’ I love this because the expertise of the physiologist helps us to understand the structure of our bodies and the gentle supportive approach empowers us to feel how our individual body likes to move.

     1. Absolutely – the perfect combination; technical wisdom from the practitioner supporting us to make the steps ourselves. The path to true healing rather than the temporary solution that so many physiotherapists offer us (and we gladly accept)

183. Love what you shared here Kate about taking you to your work and not leaving the essential part out when you go into work mode. It feels very different when you are with someone who is just playing their role but has no personality or them in what they are doing.

184. Beautiful Kate. Knowing you and having seen you as a practitioner, your gentle unimposing way of treating is very empowering and supportive. And your gentleness can be felt simply by observing you move, in a hug or through any interaction with you. Thank you for gracing us with you.

185. It’s easily expressed ‘just be yourself’ in the workplace. These days I am more honest and can tell how I actually often choose to contract and ‘play a role’ instead of being me. Being honest about this is quite a process and a lot of fear is exposed.

186. I have seen friends and colleagues burn themselves out, working long hours putting as much as they can into the job, and totally disregarding themselves and their own needs at the same time. When we strive to achieve and be successful what are we really trying to prove, because when we come from the quality of the way we live, we already have everything.

187. It’s such a testament to your practice that you do not experience “burn-out”… Something that can force other practitioners out of the industry!

188. Humanity keeps falling for the illusion of chasing an image or an end goal, believing that then all the discomfort and tension of life will cease. But again and again we find that there is never a settlement within ourselves. It is wonderful that your way of working is “not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal” but supports people to gain a deeper awareness, understanding, appreciation and connection to their body, a truly empowered foundation for the whole of life.

189. I understand that sense of putting on a work face. In recent years there is little difference between me at work and me not at work in that I am myself. Interestingly I can be much more loving at work than at home and that is where I am working on living the one life.

     1. I can relate to this and am also seeing the absoluteness of the one life. No compartments, no compromises, no half-measures. In or out – there is no middle ground.

190. I know what you mean about the fragmentation of life Kate, like there’s lots of little boxes we jump in and out of with the roles we think we have all day. How can it be acceptable that a practitioner works in their day in one way and lives in their evenings in a different way? I love how Serge Benhayon describes we can live our every day as ‘one life’, meaning that everything we think, do, act upon, every moment and every movement has the same consistency throughout our whole day, no matter where we are or what we are doing. This is what you are describing Kate that your consistency has returned to you connecting to and living your gentleness to the best of your ability through the whole day and night, whatever you are doing. Thank you for the reflection, we can all do this.

191. Even though we know that gentleness is the way to go, we can still find ourselves moving in a way that is not gentle. It takes so much commitment to constantly remind ourselves to choose to move gently. With this in mind it is obvious why there are so many modalities that try to fix rather than to look at the true cause.

192. ‘In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be’ We can spend years studying for the professional qualifications that enable us to pursue our chosen careers but the quality of our being is more important than anything, as Kate shows so clearly here.

193. True healing never imposes it just offers another the space to return to themselves and from there re-discover their own resolutions. The practitioner’s role is not to fix, but to reflect a true quality that we have strayed from, so we can return to the precious and tender beings we innately are.

194. I have experienced your incredible gentleness with treatments by you. We are the clay on a potters wheel and become what we need to be with the help of your hands. We are the ones that are in motion while you remain in your stillness and work your magic.

     1. I love this, muscles really are like clay if we are held and supported to feel safe enough to let go and this is what is on offer in these sessions.

195. I agree, as a physiotherapist treating clients it feels so much more supportive for myself to get rid of pictures how the outcome should be but be truly with the client as it would be your best friend. It is the connection which counts.

     1. As a client, it is the connection that counts. The doctor, dentist, whoever can have all the pieces of paper and certificates on the wall, but if there is no connection then I am out of that door and left feeling like I just wasted a whole lot of money.

196. “In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be…” – ‘i am already all i need to be’ — so simple Kate, and in being more ourselves in connection valuing this awesomeness, we also see another [patient, client, customer, boss, colleague, sibling, partner, child…] in this way too or at least their potential to be this. Such an equalizing effect over any dynamic we might be festering.

197. I don’t currently require any physiotherapy as such but I can feel so much more on offer from your treatments that I almost wished I did!

198. Reading this again I’m struck by the healing quality of gentleness. Not being passive, but being actively gentle in all that we do actually reconnects us to more of what we can truly feel. Gentleness offers space where we can read and feel more of what’s going on around and within us.

199. Aren’t we all brought up that working is about reaching certain goal, target or any form of end result? We are! And in allowing this to run our society we wear ourselves out. What if working is about bringing our skills to the fore in full dedication to bring our lived Wisdom to whatever we’re working with or on? Wouldn’t this change our entire world? Love heals, regardless of the job. Being a carpenter, coach, cleaner, CEO, we all are – equal – practitioners in life. Having a lot to bring and also having a lot to evolve. What we bring is our quality of living first and foremost. In every choice we make.

200. ‘I slowly realised that physiotherapy needed to include the physiotherapist being true to themselves first – not acting out a role’.
     This is true for every profession, yet how many of us are taught this? And encouraged to work in rhythm with our bodies?

     1. When has the rhythm of our bodies been the working shifts junior doctors must work, just because it has always been part of the initiation? It feels like the effort that is required for training for the Olympics but never stops.

201. To connect with another with the knowing that ‘I am already all I need to be’ allows the other to also be all of who they are.

202. Gentleness can be for all of us in any occupation – the way we put papers down on a desk, the way we type on a keyboard, tighten a screw, close a door – everything we do with our hands can be done with a tender touch.

     1. Yes Carmel and each thing we do in our gentleness can be felt by others.

     2. Yes and it’s only when we bring focus to moving and touching with gentleness that we feel the quality of the way our movements have been which is normally harsh and jolty with absolutely no flow whatsoever.

203. It can feel very simple that a big part of this transformation was due to you reconnecting to your natural gentleness, a quality that you had been disconnected from for a long time. A part of me from the past could think..really, is that all? But knowing the power of this reconnection is what we reflect to everyone energetically by how we live constantly throughout the day, whether working or not, is huge. It cuts through the teaching from university that the physiotherapist mends the patient but teaches we are given what we need inside to mend themselves.

204. “In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be ” what stands out here Kate is that its through the quality and care and choices you’ve made that you feel compete in yourself. Very powerful and something that is available to every single person in the world.

205. “I learned also how fragmented I had been living; I was stepping into a role as a physiotherapist when I went to work” This sentence can actually be applied to so many professions Kate and is such an important expose on how we alter ourselves to fit the occasion without truly appreciating how it effectively cuts us up into little pieces. All these facades and identities exhaust us. Learning to live a one constant expression and allow ourselves to be seen for who we are is in fact a major necessity if we are to achieve a robust and vital state of health.

206. “I have developed a deeper understanding to ‘work with’ the patient’s body and its natural ability to heal itself when supported in the true manner ” this is amazing as it honours all we are and the assistance with gentle exercises and how we move is invaluable and is revolutionising physiotherapy to its true meaning and allows healing for us all in our whole life with a gentleness and caring way of moving and being.

207. I really hope this is the way all therapies will be heading in the future, coming from a place of truth and gentleness and delivered by people living life in this manner also.

     1. Yes, offering a reflection that would inspire clients/patients to true change.

208. What would it look like for all medical training to start with being true to one’s self?

209. We are bombarded by images of how thing should be. These images always leave entire parts of the puzzle aside. We have entire important professions educated in these (reductionist) images of us aimed at getting us to function in this world and to generate a specific type of movement which is not truly us.

210. To feel movements from inside instead of just automatically doing them changes the flow and focus of the day so that at the end of the day the body is more vital and less drained and exhausted.

211. Well said Jane – this is pertinent for me right now in my work. I’m slowly finding the support in the quality of my movements to remain with me and not slip into an alternate role.

212. As much as we can learn from the outside the essential things all come from within as they are already part of our beingness. Learning the inner ‘skills’ is rather an awakening and unfoldment of what has been hidden or asleep; that is the esoteric factor.

213. In truth we cannot compartmentalise our life because regardless of where we are or what we are doing our self and the way we live is with us. So a life of disregard or self loving care is what goes with us into our work, relationships and all we do. If we want to support others with true healing, caring, or support in a loving gentle manner, we can only do this if we are living it in our own day to day life, with ourselves first and foremost.

     1. And what you share Rosemary really highlights how dreadfully limiting so many therapies and therapists are. As the loveless yoga teacher that I was for many years I can say that nothing of value comes from lovelessness, despite our desperate desire that it does.

214. We might think we can take on different roles and behave differently from setting to setting but the reality is that it is all one life and whatever we get up to in the assumed closeted privacy of our own space comes with us, wherever we go. As you say, we cannot all of a sudden switch on gentleness like putting on a coat or a smile. We either practise and apply it in our daily life and it comes with us wherever we go or we don’t; and whether it is a lived practice or not shows, no matter how many certificates, diplomas and degrees we might have.

215. I have also found the one life teaching to be transformational in my life – to not compartmentalise and to bring the same quality and value to everything I do.

     1. I just noticed there is a mental in compartmentalise – no surprise it is not compartheartalise, as the heart includes all.

        1. Humour and true intelligence as one. Love it.

216. In learning that true physiotherapy is actually a person living their life and bringing all of themselves to the profession is a wonderful insight in to the way that life works for us all, and the fact that anyone can then come to see you and be supported to recover is very beautiful because the treatment goes so much deeper with your inspired way of life.

217. The effort to be efficient does not mean going hard, yet many of us do it, we work with a force that drives everything and when we take care to be gentle space opens up and we get more done with less exhaustion.

218. The quality of care and tenderness brought into the treatment room by every esoteric health practitioner I have seen has radically changed my relationship with my body, restoring a deep appreciation of just how sensitive, delicate and wise it is. Consequently I have been inspired to make huge changes to my lifestyle, diet and self esteem that has resulted in a complete turn around in the quality of my health. When we live the true principles of health from the inside out, we provide genuine inspiration for another to follow suit.

219. ‘Over the last 16 years I have transformed from a person driven by the goals of how things should be, how a patient should move or feel after a treatment, to a person far more at ease in myself, with a body that is far less tense.’ When we really reflect and ponder on this statement what you are sharing here Kate is utterly profound. From experience, I know what it is like to be deeply insecure but to put on a veneer that says everything is ok, even though my shoulders were constantly tight and painful (and other symptoms besides). Although my body was telling me very loudly that all was not well, I allowed my head to override all of this with pictures, ideals and beliefs thinking that as long as it looked good on the outside it didn’t matter what was going on inside as I thought no one could see it! Well, it has taken a lot of commitment to go there and turn things around, but the fact that it can be done is a testament to the teachings of the Way of The Livingness and all that they represent.

220. Awesome post Kate — ” I slowly realised that physiotherapy needed to include the physiotherapist being true to themselves first – not acting out a role” – how true about the roles [masks] we do play in whatever job we do… dropping the mask means dropping the performance which just makes it/us so much more accessible to people because it’s the naturalness that’s trusted and really appreciated.

221. I appreciate your explanation of how you found by deepening the level of gentleness and your connection with yourself, self care and self love the level of service you offered in your work also deepened. Our skills and knowledge in our profession is invaluable, but that ought to be just the starting point. . I am increasingly understanding how the quality of our work as well as our ability to be sensitive to how best to serve the person in front of us regardless of what industry we are in, is fundamentally linked to the way we live, the thoughts we entertain and the care we take of ourselves.

222. A member of my family is a physiotherapist and although very good at what she does and has always helped me recover from any sports injury quickly and effectively I could always feel a tension in my body before any assessment or treatment. She even told me that things ‘might feel a little strange’ which generally meant ‘this is going to be painful’. Reading about practicing as a physio in this way Kate I can feel an acceptance and openness in my body to receive the healing offered and for my body to work with it.

223. Uniforms are practical, but I can feel how laced they are with ideals, beliefs and stereotypes. But the biggie is we buy into this, even unknowingly. Let’s start with school children and explain the true support of what wearing a school uniform means, and give them the opportunity to stay connected to their loveliness first and foremost rather than trying to fit in with the pack, the school ethos and the curriculum.

224. I am already everything one’s to be is something I have not fully embodied, so how wonderful to read and the truth of it in you and your writing. How different would my life and health be once I stopped trying, trying to achieve and be more because I am still carrying the belief I am deficient in some way. I would stop when I know what I am doing is complete, no longer invested in getting a certain ‘positive’ outcome. I wouldn’t use force to get something finished and I wouldn’t get exhausted!

225. Identifying with what we do definitely takes it’s toll on our bodies, as in the need for recognition we approach what we do with clients already seeking an outcome or solution to fix them, whereas when we are being true with oursleves we have a greater level of understanding for what is going for the other person and that the only thing we need to do is to support them in order for them to support themselves, to be responsible for their own bodies and that is true healing.

226. There is so much respect in the way you write, Kate. Respect for yourself, your patients, the process of healing and coming into relationship with ourselves… very inspiring to read, thank you.

227. I feel so inspired to really embrace the quality of gentleness and tenderness, I know I need to develop these in my everyday interactions but somehow the focus slips down the list of focus and I am just doing, and this reduces everything I do to having no true quality.

228. I first had to familiarise myself with the word gentle as it had not been a general part of my vocabulary – all I was focussed on was the drive, the trying and the push. Over the years I am now noticing that I am embodying the word – it is beginning to become part of my way of living – and I am now enjoying expanding my vocabulary and embracing my tenderness and delicacy. These words and actions until recently were something that was reserved for a baby – or maybe an inanimate object but never used when describing myself. As I get used to this new feeling I am enjoying and accepting the difference in my life and celebrating the change.

229. Doing physiotherapy as well, I am very conscious of the power of touch Kate. But I never used to appreciate or understand there are 2 energies we can choose, either a pranic energy where we can impose or push ourselves with or onto our patients, or a fiery energy where we can hold our patients with gentleness and love, in connection with our Soul. There is a profound difference with the 2 energies and I can feel the immensity of your choices as you describe the changes you have made for yourself and your patients.

230. Universal Medicine therapies are unlike any other I have had, in how they encourage and inspire me to want to take better care of my health – this includes seeking medical support when required.

     1. That is very true. Universal Medicine therapies are complementary to conventional medicine meaning they truly complement each other and are indeed a great union as the quote at the top of this page states. They are also very empowering and give us the tools to look after ourselves and be responsible for our health.

     2. I agree Abby, Universal Medicine therapies are a great support on their own but they also encourage any client to follow up any medical check up or procedure when needed.

231. There is much in your blog that we can take into our life Kate. When we are busy and under pressure it can be easier to dismiss the person we are with, whether they are a patient, a client, or a customer at the check-out. When we dismiss someone we don’t bring our fullness, appreciation, understanding, and our normal caring ways, and this can be felt.

232. Very cool Kate. A joy to read your expression of a physiotherapist here. I had the picture that physio is to get people better, it hurts, it involves a tough person bending you in all sorts of ways. But what you share here is just beautiful and makes so much sense to support the quality of movement in the body first.

233. Movements expose a lot concerning our personality and moods. As such physiotherapy done in a gentle and true way can support to harmonize the body, also concerning one’s moods and bring it into a deeper balance.

     1. This is pretty cool to consider… that we can affect how we think and feel (our moods) by the way we move and hold ourselves. It makes sense to me. I know when I choose to have a spring in my step everything feels lighter…

234. I, and I am sure many hundreds of others are more than delighted Kate that you were “inspired to give gentleness a go”. Having attended sessions with you I can attest to that exquisite gentleness and the subsequent feeling of being honoured for who I am; a whole being not just a body part or two. This builds a space where I am able to surrender to the healing that is on offer. This to me is a true healing session.

235. Being me – it sounds like the simplest thing in the world, and in truth it is. It’s just that by the time we get to adulthood, or even our teens, we’ve well and truly buried our natural ‘being me-ness’ underneath loads of drama, emotion, complication, identification, ideals and beliefs, protection and so on. It takes great honesty and dedication to remove these extraneous layers and return to the original us. Congratulations Kate on your own return, it is certainly felt in the beautiful sessions I’ve had with you.

236. A great model of bringing a healing way of life to the practice of physiotherapy. What a health system we could have if this were the model for healthcare professionals in their training.

237. So true Jane… it is not just what we do that counts in life – it is how we are, the quality we bring in what we do, that truly counts.

     1. No role or uniform changes who we naturally are inside.

238. “I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.”
     Beautifully said Kate… being true to ourselves first is paramount, and it is that quality we bring with us in all that we ‘do’ that truly supports and inspires others

239. “I have experienced burn-out in the past, much the same as many other physios in the profession, and in my learning I have come to know that this happened because of my ‘looking’ or ‘needing’ an outcome from a patient’s treatment.” – Kate this is hugely revealing for any therapist in any profession! We cannot put an expectation or imposition on a client’s outcome, even if it is so called ‘positive’ or negative – for this means we set ourselves up on a roller coaster which is exhausting. It is about allowing what is there to unfold in its own time and to celebrate the person no matter what the progress is, and allow for ‘no-visible-or-measurable-progress’ too if that is what the body needs at that given moment in time.

240. Driven by the goals of the way things ‘should be’ sooner or later leave us feeling that we are living other people’s lives that keep us on the roller coaster of emotions. Making the choices to observe and bring the qualities of connection to ourselves leaves more room to appreciate ourselves and this in return can naturally have a ripple effect on others that brings the power of understanding, not of imposition.

241. I was inspired to give gentleness a go from the constant reflection of gentleness, love and true caring for others from Serge Benhayon, of Universal Medicine. Yes, Serge is a huge reflection and shows the way for us all in how to be with yourself so lovingly that then is held with everyone equally.

242. I hold a lot of tension in my body. I have found walking a great support with this

243. I like what you share here Kate, especially the part about being burnt out by the desire to get an outcome for your clients, I am feeling very tired at the moment and I can relate to feeling like I have to get somewhere, rather than being true to myself and my way and giving others space to be where they are at.

     1. Gosh, there is a huge sense of release in this, Vanessa… letting go of my need for an outcome and having understanding and respect for this moment and where I and others are at.

244. Gentleness is not to be dismissed, I know myself when I am gentle the world becomes more open towards me and life flows. The world is way too hard. Being gentle with ourselves, each other is the way for for true evolution.

245. It was such a delight to read part 1 and part 2 of your sharing Kate Greenaway! I love the fact that we can’t switch ON and OFF ourselves from different roles in life and staying ON all the time has a power in itself.

246. I am fascinated to more and more learn and understand what it means to support someone in their natural healing process. Most alternative modalities consider themselves doing that and use the same words but there are huge differences in what is actually meant by this and the science behind it. Before we don´t truly understand the science we will not be able to practise it, no matter how much we believe we would do so. One essential aspect is the knowing that everyone has everything they are and need already, nothing is missing as such, but it might be hindered or inactive and here comes the practitioner into the picture. The practitioner’s task is offering the client an opportunity to release and activate by one´s own choice, not to add anything.

     1. Beautifully put Alex. The true role of the practitioner is not to fix but to remind the ‘patient’ that they are already amazing and deeply resourceful. This knowing cannot be achieved through study alone, they are qualities that emerge when we choose to embody and live this truth our selves. The truly successful practitioner is not the one with the long list of modalities and knowledge under their belt, it is the one who connects to and lives from their core essence, a wise, tender and beholding quality that allows another the grace to return to their own.

247. “I slowly realised that physiotherapy needed to include the physiotherapist being true to themselves first – not acting out a role. ” This is great, being true to ourselves and not just putting on a role in front of our client, as this becomes exhausting and there is no truth in what we share; even though our intentions are good, our foundation is false.

     1. Letting go of the role is what really enables us to truly connect with the client.

248. Kate it is great what you share here, as so many of us get caught in being the role of our profession and forget about us. You are to say it is one life, we first need to start with the gentleness, love and care with our selves and then bring that to everything, to our profession and our clients.

249. Most of us don’t appreciate our bodies nor treat them with the gentleness and tenderness, respect and honour they deserve. Starting with a focus on gentleness and bringing that quality to our movements allows for a deepening of appreciation, more respect and a sense of honouring also. It is not an instruction from the brain but rather an allowing from the body, a letting go of the hardness so that the gentleness can be felt.

250. Feeling how gentle you have become and the changes you have made makes an immense change in your life primarily. When we acknowledge this change in the whole body, with everything, like how we touch everything gently or speak with the same quality in our voices, we bring that consistency to everything we are and everything we do in work too.

251. I love the whole of your blog Kate but reading the first paragraph this morning I can feel more deeply that when we bring a deeper quality of gentleness and care into our own bodies this is what is reflected to others first, no matter what our work is.

252. It’s a whole new ball game when the person with the injury connects to their body and can feel when to move, and to what extent – it brings a whole new aspect of the person healing themselves with the movements provided by the practitioner, instead of a injured person wanting or expecting to be fixed.

     1. Julie I agree its not that our body is failing us but we then get to see how our body is showing us what is and what is not true and supportive in our life. Only we can heal this but we can get great support to do so, relying on that support alone, in my experience, has never worked.

253. The power of living in connection with who we are in every aspect of our lives cannot be underestimated. There is much to be appreciated here as the more we deepen this, the more we are able to reflect to others that there is a different way to live simply by ‘being’ all that we are. So without even trying we will bring that quality to everything we do, as in your case Kate, to your inspiring practice of Physiotherapy.

254. “I still give strength exercises and postural advice and specific connective tissue exercises but in a very different way, as it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong.” – isn’t it beautiful to realise that we are in fact naturally balanced! And that any condition of the body that requires medical support is actually a call for being with ourselves in a different way. From a loving perspective, rather than from a critical perspective. How different would life be if our physio’s, doctors, nurses etc. would be considered as a support to come back to our natural gentleness. No one can live our life for us, we’re all making loving choices and non-loving choices. And our body communicates if there’s any correction needed. How amazing is it that we’ve got physio’s like Kate to support us by allowing is to make our own choices and can inspire us by their lived experience of their body.

255. “A big part of this transformation was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time.” The most critical medicine of all, returning to an innate tenderness that has been buried by our chosen way of life. This alone empowers us to make substantial changes in the way we regard and care for our selves. As a practitioner we are empowered to present to our patients a true platform of all encompassing health one that can be felt, seen and experienced alongside the healing modality, a quality that backs up the therapy to the hilt.

256. I love this appreciation of honouring ‘me’ in all that we do. In my experience, this ‘me’ has been negated by so many and I have even felt wrong for considering myself and my needs before any others. What I find today, thanks to the grace of Serge Benhayon, is that this ‘me’ is actually very lovely and when I am connected to myself, others can connect with me too. There is an almost tangible difference in all my relationships when I am being me that somehow allows others to be themselves too. This is very healing.

257. Kate, this is beautiful; ‘I have transformed from a person driven by the goals of how things should be, how a patient should move or feel after a treatment, to a person far more at ease in myself, with a body that is far less tense.’ I am feeling this more and more too, I have become aware of how much tension and anxiety I have been in in the past, my body is now starting to let go and open up as I start to move and live more gently, I feel much more at ease with myself and others.

     1. Rebecca and Kate I can relate to this as well, the more gentleness I have started to bring into my personal life, I have began to see more flow in all parts of my life. There is so much more ease and the anxiety and tension is very nominal as it begins to fade away.

258. What I have observed, felt and learnt from Kate Greenaway is the importance of living our talk, the ability to perform an exercise or movement and to experience that what is being shared is something that is embodied by her. This embodiment allows us access to the same gentleness in movement she has developed, to feel the same gorgeous fluidity. Its remarkable and particularly so when we consider this is not confined to one person but is available to us all in the way we move and how we affect others too. It is a reflection and what is most beautiful is that reflections on so many aspects of living are given from everyone to allow us to go deeper in how we care for ourselves and share our qualities.

259. Thank you Kate. I have visited you for a few physiotherapy sessions and I’ve found them to be very helpful. Reading this blog I can deeply appreciate the level of care you bring to your clients.

260. Being gentle in movement and being gentle with ourselves in every way takes a commitment, but it is one worth taking. The results are fundamentally life changing both for the physical body, our health and wellbeing. Bringing gentleness to our lives whilst simple has profound effect.

261. It is such an significant point you make, Kate, that what distinguishes Esoteric Practitioners with the same training as you and who have been inspired by the reflection of Serge Benhayon, do not compartmentalise their lives, unlike practically all other practitioners. This brings a depth of integrity and care that is unsurpassed.

262. When we are connected to us and move in that grace and loving choice, not only does our whole body benefit, but everything we do gets blessed by the love we are moving and being in. Who wouldn’t want that to receive that?

263. ‘So these days I am expressing me with the skills I have in physiotherapy and in the esoteric healing modalities’. Reading this I can really give myself permission to be myself in all that I do rather than try to take on a role of good worker, friend, partner etc. Even though I already have done this to an extent there is so much more allowing of myself in my expressions with others. Reading this I feel confirmed in surrendering to who I am in each moment in my day.

264. What Kate describes here, how she lives and how she is with herself that brings her own natural and present quality to her patients is exactly what I feel every one of us always wants to find, (wants to feel) when we go to any practitioner for help…. and yet it is still so rare in this world.

     We can all be like this and actually do carry a responsibility to live and so be able to bring our true quality out for all others, as we are all practitioners in this world; we are practitioners every time we meet another person because this is an opportunity to share the true quality that is in us all.

     I have found nothing more inspiring and healing than the art of being who we truly are.

265. I was reading True Physiotherapy Part 1 and the True Physiotherapy Part 2 and it is brilliant to feel how you have developed and grown since writing Part 1 Kate. There is so much more acceptance and openness of yourself and appreciation of how much the changes have made a difference to you and also to your treatments. Your development supports us all to feel this in our lives too.

266. I love feeling the appreciation of yourself in who you are, what you bring and where you have evolved to in your relationship with yourself. I find this very inspiring because this change is something we all have the potential to make and in truth is a change we all need to one day make if we are to truly live well, joy-full and healthy loving lives.

267. The point you make about living in a way that is not compartmentalised makes absolute sense to me now Kate. If we are true to ourselves then we can stop acting out our various roles, be it for our profession, with family as the wife, daughter, father etc or with friends. it is simpler and definitely more enjoyable to just be who we are in every situation.

268. “I slowly realised that physiotherapy needed to include the physiotherapist being true to themselves first.” We can apply this to all industries and roles at home too. Applying this way of living thanks to how I live from the principles of Universal Medicine has supported me to have a greater clarity and response to my clients and tasks I perform. I am able to resolve and complete tasks quicker and my work flows.

269. How many of us have taken on the identities of that which we do in life, rather than what we ARE in life.

270. Love the note at the end, and can feel the support you have got over the years, including from Serge Benhayon and all that he has presented. We don’t work in isolation, and all of that means is what holds you to support the many you have treated, and the quality in which that care has been presented. Gorgeous.

     1. Yes, I too read the end notes and felt how gorgeous they are and, when we allow ourselves to be supported by others, what we bring through is so much more powerful.

271. In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be. This is such a beautiful place to be within yourself to have that settledness within, and then allowing your naturally gorgeous self to express the love it is.

272. This is a great sharing on burn-out Kate: “I have experienced burn-out in the past, much the same as many other physios in the profession, and in my learning I have come to know that this happened because of my ‘looking’ or ‘needing’ an outcome from a patient’s treatment.” When we look at it like this it makes sense that we get burnt out by expectations and needs outside of ourselves because we cannot change other people, they are the only person who can change themselves. We can offer support but not more than that. So to be able to be that support and not get burnt out by our work is to be fulfilled in ourselves so we don’t have that need and know our limits and qualities.

273. In whatever it is that we ‘do’, whatever service we offer… I agree in full Kate – the quality of connection is the most important thing, and that is determined by the quality of our being first and foremost. The true physician leaves no stone of his or her own life unturned in terms of their own healing, that they may truly be there to connect with others in the equality and collaboration you describe.

274. We sometimes may hold pictures of how certain job roles must be performed due to how they are already, the professional training for the job etc. however this shows just how we can review this from the quality we bring to our way of living and bring this into the role we fill at work. This tests and may break some pre-existing constructs but all for the better.

275. There is much here that can be applied to all our lives and jobs. When we bring gentleness into our lives it can’t but affect everything we do.

276. Becoming more gentle in everything we do seems to be the key to unlocking the doors we haven’t seen inside for ages.

277. We need to care and love ourselves before we can truly care for and love our jobs. I now love what I do and that’s not because what I am doing has changed its because the way I am doing it has.

278. “I still give strength exercises and postural advice and specific connective tissue exercises but in a very different way, as it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong. ” this shows to me true complementary healthcare, the physical and the energetic working together, each equally valid and needed.

279. Gentleness needs to be a core part of any curriculum. It needs to be a stable teaching within any modality training. The transformational affect it has for the cause of healing is profound.

280. I love Kate, how you deconstruct the ideal of being a practitioner or therapist for a person and as such would stand higher than him or know more than him. i love how you make it about connection and equalness first.

281. My ability to be gentle is in direct proportion to my emotional state – if I am frustrated or cross for any reason, I bang and crash about with the washing up and am less careful in handing things – that’s when things get broken. If I am totally with myself, even though it may be cold, everything flows more simply and I can be more gentle with everything. Serge Benhayon has taught us about Conscious Presence, having our mind focused on what our body is doing and feeling, and that leads to far less exhaustion, which means we need less sugary foods and are less racy as a result. It all works together to make a whole.

282. This is such a simple yet great point you are making here Kate. And whether we are in the health profession or not, when we truly care for ourselves we are in a far better position to truly care and support others with whatever might be there for them to deal with. If then all medical professionals were to apply this very simple method then perhaps the quality of our care would improve, as would the systems we have in place to support our medical professionals to do their job need to change so we do not have so many well meaning health care professionals burnt out by a system that does not support them to deliver the depth of such care.

283. Kate your words here ‘I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be – the quality I offer patients, how I connect with them, care for and love them as human beings and not see them as “just the next patient” is the foundation to support my patients, no matter what condition they have.’ We often do not appreciate exactly what we bring, and each of us brings it in a different flavour, when we make it about people first, we are no longer making it about self, because we already know we are all we need to be.

284. Gorgeous Kate – it’s inspiring to read of your journey to not compartmentalising your life in relation to you at work. This is something I am currently very aware of and working to bring the same quality to work as I experience on my morning walk – onelife.

285. It is a huge shift to move from a very dominant therapeutic approach that invests heavily in the patient being fixed by the practitioner, to one that focuses on a quality that is lived by the practitioner that creates space for patients to do their own healing. Having personally experienced the two approaches, the latter produces the most miraculous results that the former cannot even imagine.

286. This blog exposes how rigidity in all forms in our life and how that can play out. It is reflected in everything to do with our life and thus affects every element’s outcome. To expand the scope of what we bring is to expand the scope of who we are and how that plays out in life. All we need to do is to drop off what is not us and bring what is there to ‘life’.

287. I notice the impact gentleness has on my life, how I too have developed my own gentleness in how I move, where before I would push through to get things done, and use drive to complete a workout and many other tasks. It is interesting to observe how as gentleness becomes the choice the obviousness of not being gentle becomes more stark, and I got to feel how this was not acceptable for me anymore to be rough in how I live, and that it impacted strongly on my body.

288. It is such a big trick (and a possible cause of burnout) to assume we have to be a certain way at work and put on a persona or profession like a heavy coat when really all we have to do is be ourselves at work whatever we do.

     1. Indeed, and on top of that we tend to not even live true to ourselves when we are off duty, a lot of people have a facade that they work hard on maintaining also in their private life. No wonder we eventually burn out.

289. ‘Isn’t there something I can say, or a book that I can read? A course of pills I can go on or a lecture I can hear? Isn’t there something I can simply do to make this world ok and take away the pain?’. This seems to be our eternal, internal question and search. But what you show us so gorgeously Kate is that the true ‘answer’ actually lives in every movement that we make. It’s this quality that comes out in everything that we do, it’s this source that is powerful and true. So let us bring care to our whole way we are not just individual moments or situations in our day.

290. These are wise words and something that I am becoming familiar with in my work as a Remedial Massage Therapist…”I still give strength exercises and postural advice and specific connective tissue exercises but in a very different way, as it is not solely focused to achieve a fixed goal, but seen as a means to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong.” Very much about reconnection, healing, movement and the quality, alongside looking at functional outcomes. I love the detail in this work and the postural balance and awareness that can develop.

291. I love what you bring in about consideration of the body as a whole – when just one aspect is working out of alignment or rhythm with the body, everything else is equally going to be misaligned and out of sync and needs addressing and this is simply the physical without considering the everyday choices and energetic aspects of the person and their life.

292. It is inspirational to feel how your fluidity and lightness of movement in your own development affects your patients Kate. It makes such sense, as you feel less tense, there is less tension in the room and the patients are supported on their own healing journey. We can all develop our connection with our own gentleness wherever we are and whatever we do, bringing it into the home and workplace.

293. I love the fact that you are not trying to reach a goal with your patients but offering them an opportunity to appreciate their body and move in a way that is gentle and that allows them to stay connected to themselves and recognise the behaviours and movements that can be the start of why they have the injury or problem in the first place. I recognise this in myself when I don’t carry my body, and my shoulders roll in more than usual i look at where an old behaviour has crept in causing pain in my back.

294. Having been at the receiving end of many treatments – complementary and mainstream, I really value ones modelled on the Universal Medicine teachings which as well as deeply taking care of the client, also empower the individual in facing their issues in life.

     In all professions frequently the professional is the one with the know-how, they take over the situation, offer their service, product or expertise, they are the hero who saves the day for you, you pay your money and go home. Yet what is special with the model inspired by Serge Benhayon is that the professional is not there to save anyone. You support the client and inspire them by the way you live to save themselves.

     Worth asking is the practitioner’s way of living providing a great example that can inspire and support the client in deepening their awareness, responsibility and relationship with their own life, and ultimately turning their own life around? A true mark of a great practitioner is not one that is hailed as a hero, but when the client reconnects to realises that they are never a victim and always the true hero in their own life.

295. The honestly in this blog is fantastic and is something that we don’t experience enough of in life. This level of honestry leads to trust being built between the practitioner and the client..

296. Well thank you for this gem. Practitioners of every modality should consider how they are with themselves as having an effect on how they are with their patients. “our lives cannot be compartmentalised, for it is all one life, so for me being more gentle in everything I did needed to be in all areas of my life”

297. ‘A big part of this transformation was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time.’ Beautiful Kate. I can so relate to this. It has been awesome for me to discover that along with the innate gentleness is an innate delicacy. Something I grow in appreciation of daily.

298. This is beautiful Kate. I notice people are always searching for thorough and caring professionals.

299. Kate this is so simple and beautiful to read how you have developed over the years. And after being able to listen to a presentation you were giving just 3 (three) days ago I can attest to how loving and joy-full the way you share with people has become. A true testament to what is available when we connect to our divine essence as you have, so when you present this is felt as a lived wisdom.

300. Thank you Kate, it’s so great that you are not holding back in showing health workers that there is another way.

301. Once we experience gentleness, we quickly realise where we are not gentle. That awareness and experience has really made me realise this point.

302. Thank you Kate for your care and support . I know I have learnt a lot from you about my body since I started to have Physiotherapy treatments with you a few years ago. A lovely gentle practice.

303. Imagine if we were all true to ourselves first, in whatever profession/role we hold – how things would change.

     1. Exactly – and perhaps it is time to realise that we cannot ever truly ‘fix’ another and it is indeed very imposing of us to think we can. However we can most certainly offer support and guidance to facilitate their healing through whatever means we are proficient in and offer exceptional quality of care by remaining in connection with ourselves.

        1. Well said Liane and how empowering for any person to know that they are in full charge of their own healing.

        2. It is great distinction here of what exactly is our part and our responsibility which we can make sure is delivered to the best of our ability. Knowing that our part is not to fix but to “offer support and guidance to facilitate their healing through whatever means we are proficient in and offer exceptional quality of care by remaining in connection with ourselves”, clearly reflects how it is not just our skills but also every details in how we live that is contributing to us being able to best support another.

304. “In living more connected to myself and supporting my body with self-care and self-love, I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be ” Kate this was also one of the biggest things that I came to understand for myself as well. It was like with that connection to myself and a real deepening of love there was nothing that I needed to be.

305. Compartmentalising life is exhausting. I can say this from first hand experience of being a chameleon/shape-shifter who is able to change myself into whatever situation I’m in. In learning to appreciate myself for who I am and live life more as one life, my energy levels have gone up. When I feel exhausted I know it because I’ve been trying to change myself to fit what’s going on around me rather than honouring myself and staying with me no matter what.

306. It is beautiful to feel how in connecting to your own gentleness you are reflecting a different way to be to your patients and removing any need for them to ‘get it’ thus giving them the space to connect to their own innate healing abilities.

307. As practitioners of life, we are on duty 24/7.

     1. I love what you say here Kehinde. This makes us aware of our responsibility in life to be all that we are and not hold back who we are, no matter what our role.

     2. And as we live this consistently-so, there is no duty, only the power and joy of the innermost being, the Livingness, being expressed in full.

308. I find it (still) difficult to fully accept bringing ‘Floris’ into my workplace where I do coaching. I sense the expectations that organisations (people) have in the way I work. Claiming myself in full without hesitating to bring the multidimensional me to the workplace is work in progress. However, I can feel the growing authority in me simply by choosing more and more to express from me, rather than ‘behave’ how others want me to behave.

309. I love this. This can apply to any job. We can treat everyone as equal human beings and bring care and love to our jobs. This is transformational to any work environment.

     1. Yes, I agree Rebecca: and thus we stop living our life in ‘compartments and bring equal love, care and respect to every moment to ourselves, others, home, work, commuting, expression, movement – every angle taken into consideration as part of the whole.

        1. We are made from Love and are therefore we are designed to live as the constantness of love that we are.

     2. I agree, any job. Not compartmentalising and supporting ourselves, knowing that this, in turn, supports another is foundational for change.

310. What you are sharing Kate, is all about the energy we are in and when I was doing healing and massage before Universal Medicine I was taking on the energy from my clients and feeling the pain they were in, in my body and this could last for days, so this was not good. Universal Medicine Therapies have changed all of that so the energy I am in is truly healing and imposes nothing on my clients or myself, so it is up to each individual to simply allow the client to hold the level of healing that was introduced to them.

311. Incredible sharing Kate. I work in Dentistry and, similar to what you have described, the way I approach the profession now is completely different to how I approached it when I first studied it at the university and then worked in the profession. I have changed myself too over the past years, inspired by the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and this is reflecting in my approach to dentistry. Bringing gentleness and understanding to my own life and to the way I approach other areas of my life, including treating patients in dentistry.

312. What a beautiful confirmation relating how each person has their own path to healing by engaging and taking responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. As health practitioners we call walk alongside and collaborate with people not adding our own expectations to the mix of dis-ease but offering support and expertise when asked for.

313. When we are not true to ourselves, identifying with what we do, we lack in quality and impose our ideas on to another. The gentleness applied in your work is not a trick, it is you living this quality 24/7 to the best of your abilities.

314. We all need to look at what we do for a living in the way that you do Kate and it does start by being more gentle in everything we do.

315. Kate you are definitely a physio I would love to go to, as how you describe the way how you are working feels so inviting and I love how deeply you are connecting with yourself and the patient in front of you. You are with yourself and therefore you are with everyone else – for me that is how a true relationship with a patient should be.

316. A known example of compartmentalizing our lives is when it comes to the week and weekend. During the week we tend to act and be one way, this may be working, taking care of children and a household or studying, and then it’s nearly like flicking a switch and we are another way when it comes to Friday and the weekend. I have found this extremely exhausting to the body, to swap and change and not stay with myself with what ever I’m doing. No wonder our bodies then don’t move in the fluidity they naturally are.

317. I love this Kate, how in fact when we are ourselves first and bring that quality into all we do, bring us there, that’s when the true profession is practiced, where-ever it is. We bring us there and our roles are an avenue for us to express. Thank you for a deeply beautiful sharing.

318. Relearning to move in gentleness has hugely supported my body awareness, my health, my relationships and my quality of thoughts and choices. I have noticed profound changes in how I relate to people and myself. Expressing in gentleness is healing for us all.

319. With the way society is geared in today’s world and with the ensuing expectations and demands it places on us, we can easily conform to the roles and prescriptive behaviours you speak of Kate – and unfortunately this is all at the expense of our unique selves. Great blog.

320. What a much needed approach for the medical industry. Support yourself first, then bring to others all that you live. Makes a lot of sense.

321. A very wise piece of writing, and a great question to ask, how many of us lose ourselves in the identity of what we do for a job, because we are not what we do, so what are we doing to ourselves in the pretence that we are this or that.

322. This is a beautiful blog Kate . . . your exquisite gentleness that I have experienced you develop over the last decade is testimony to all you are sharing here. Your tenderness and lightness of touch as a practitioner is a healing in itself.

323. ‘I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.’ This can apply in any profession, that the way we are with ourselves and the honouring of another person’s ability to heal themselves takes us out of the ‘fixer’ role and allows the session to be very much a combined process with both client and therapist, or boss and employee working together and supporting each other.

324. Yep how many of us step out of the door to go to work and instead of being us and who we truly are .. consistently so in all we do, we become the role of administrator, dentist, plumber, youth worker, teacher, doctor etc. This is something I am still learning.

325. This is an all encompassing or spherical approach as it includes how the practitioner is in relationship to themselves, how the practitioners life is (it’s not an on/off switch just for the clinic room), how the client is in a wholistic way, and addressing the whole body and incorporating the whole life of the client in terms of the issue. This is very different to seeing the practitioner role as a part to play, and seeing the clients issue as a part to fix.

326. The more we be who we naturally are first, then bring that to all we do, we offer true support and healing.

327. This piece of gold – “Also that our lives cannot be compartmentalised, for it is all one life, so for me being more gentle in everything I did needed to be in all areas of my life ” – is a game-changer. To know that all of life is one-life, and that you cannot (even through we try so hard!) to separate and compartmentalise it, is a strong foundation in which to live your life, because for one, you get less tired from switching on and switching off and to bring something that is true and in full, it has be to lived all the time.

328. Once we start to implement true gentleness in our lives, i.e. in words, thoughts and action, and get to feel the effect of it, any kind of drive and push will stand out like a sore thumb.

     1. Great point Eva, true gentleness in words, thoughts and actions. The realisation of thoughts not being gentle was something that made me want to explore gentleness more thoroughly.

329. I used to underestimate the quality of the practitioner, but it makes perfect sense now. When I have been to see a dentist, for example, the way I have felt afterwards has varied enormously depending on which practitioner I had. Living a consistent quality throughout the day whether working or at rest, the quality is the same in every moment. This is being true to ourselves, the same quality whatever we are doing.

330. I love that about Esoteric Medicine, that it is about our inner connection first before we apply any technique and skills, this way the quality the skill is applied with changes dramatically and makes such huge difference.

331. “…”…This approach helps them to connect to themselves and their bodies and often allows them to gain insights into their behaviours and movements that caused their problem or injury in the first place…” This would no doubt facilitate a complete healing to any musculoskeletal problem.

332. Not being ourselves in the job we do, but just sticking to the role – this is actually what many choose to do. “I am expressing me with the skills I have in physiotherapy and in the esoteric healing modalities” – I love this. That feels like a true definition of what work is – expressing ourselves through movement in service to others.

333. “… it wasn’t something I could just switch on…” – we can switch on doing but not being or quality. Although we can bring activity to some aspects of our life and not to other parts, we always bring quality and beingness to the whole of life, it is with us with every move, we cannot leave it behind thus the importance of making our quality one that serves all areas equally.

334. Thank you Kate for this wonderful article. Your dedication to being true to yourself feels super foundational to life in general and it indeed is super super important because by not being true to yourself and how you are in yourself the work that is done is more focused on the physical and less on the actual quality and state of being of the client. I know this for myself too in my own work, and it happens because we are avoiding being exposed for not being true to ourselves and others.

335. Carrying the same level of care and love in all areas of our life, of bringing true quality to all that we do, this is ‘one life’ It seems that as we bring focus to this as we naturally go about our day this way of being becomes more normal. It is an ever deepening process and one that gives us vitality and purpose and lightness of being.

336. This is beautiful Kate – “Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process.” The more we bring of our true selves the truer we will make our professions.

337. Knowing as a practitioner that the client also has their part in their recovery and healing, takes away the practitioner’s need of an outcome (spending energy on it and eventually getting burnt out). And so the practitioner understands they can’t control the patient’s choices and therefore has to allow the outcome to be what it will be, knowing they have done their all in providing the supportive and gentle the sessions.

338. Appreciating that we are already all we need to be takes away the need to have an outcome and thus allows us to not impose on our clients/patients/customers etc. This is the true approach to work whatever it is that we are delivering and can be felt by all.

339. Universal Medicine has re-introduced true gentleness back into medicine and this fact alone will transform medicine of the future. It makes complete sense that how we are in our own bodies as practitioners will influence and affect our clients.

340. ‘I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first…’ This is a principle that applies to us all, not matter what profession or background we are in. If we are true to ourselves first then we can be true to all others thereafter, in work and out.

341. Being true to ourselves is everything but we can easily fall into the identification of what we do. Being a parent and raising three children with my husband I have lost myself many times in seeking the identification with the role as a mother but I know that to truly love my children (and all children) it is paramount I am true to myself first.

342. It is interesting that we actually ‘waste ourselves’ and burn out when we work for an outcome or a result, even when we achieve it, it feels empty. What really fills us up with joy and contentment is what you describe here, when we learn how to be with ourselves in a tender and loving way with everything that we do and it really does not matter what that is as we start to enjoy our own movements and the grace, beauty and yumminess to be in such a body.

     1. There is simplicity in being with and moving from our bodies rather than our heads, when we focus on goals and achievements we start to bring in complication.

343. It doesn’t matter which job or role we play, when we accept ourselves every job is amazing. The more I value myself the less pressure I put on my job or work output to achieve what I believe is a valuable/acceptable place to be (certain wage, position, company etc.)

344. The wisdom you have shared here Kate brings the understanding that our foundation in all we do is knowing, loving and living the truth we are first and then bringing all of us to whatever skills we have to support and hold others as they choose healing for themselves. It is so simple and yet so profound. Thank you.

345. ‘I slowly realised that physiotherapy needed to include the physiotherapist being true to themselves first – not acting out a role.’ Kate this is such an important point to make. We can’t truly support another unless we support ourselves first, no matter what profession we are in. We don’t just take on the words of the role models we have, but we clock their quality. A true role model comes in a body that is free of tension and hardening – one that is surrendered and open.

346. Giving power to the patient – that’s a new thing that not many practitioners do that, usually we give our power away to practioners thinking or wanting them to fix us, or they think they can cure us, when really it’s about all of us working together equally and saying okay what can we bring to the table here, so to speak to address and support healing here.

347. Related, and worth reading is this insightful blog by Dr Eunice Minford ‘Dr: Do two little letters define you?’
     http://thesoulfuldoctor.co.uk/blog/dr-do-two-little-letters-define-you/

348. Kate I’m sure that a lot of people similarly feel/have felt consumed by the identification of their title, ‘an academic’, ‘a doctor’, ‘a manager’ etc., so it’s awesome what you’ve shared about letting this go and bringing everything back to purpose. Every profession is important and contributes to the whole, and it’s not about one person doing it all but us all enriching life as a team.

349. Imagine the difference it would make if this way of relating to clients was included in the training of doctors, nurses and all healthcare practitioners.

350. For all of us, it’s about being true to ourselves and not defined by what we do.

351. Kate, reading this I can feel how important moving in the quality of gentleness is and how I can keep deepening this; ‘to support the patient to appreciate their body and how moving gently opens their body to be more naturally balanced, flexible and strong’,

352. Kate I love this part “I have also learned over the last 16 years how important it is to reconnect to the natural gentle quality in me, that is in us all.” It’s not that we have to try and be gentle, it’s that we naturally are and naturally are already so much that we simply need to reconnect to.

353. It’s amazing to know that the way that you are approaching physiotherapy is such a complete package, looking at the whole and not just a part.

354. Thank you Kate for the reminder that gentleness is a great bridge to love.

355. I realize how often I used physiotherpy and exercise to control the symptoms of my clients instead to meet them as equal beings without an agenda needing to help them or having any expectation of an outcome.

356. I only made this experience lately truly feeling my clients not only as clients but as friends and equal beings knowing their bodies themselves and to empower this in them.

357. I love what you have shared here Kate about bringing yourself to the work not the title. I have often not realised how we do this so naturally when we are not caught up in the ideals and beliefs of the role we offer and the expectations we put on ourselves to perform.

358. “…I have learned that true physiotherapy is when a person, trained in physiotherapy is being true to themselves first and then use their physiotherapy skills in an unimposing gentle way to support a person’s natural healing process…” A great awareness and understanding of what being a practitioner means, that can also be applied to the many professions.

359. Great point you make Kate that so many professionals are living from their roles, and feel they need to “fix” their patients, and because all the attention is on others first, they end up getting exhausted and this longterm leads to burnout and disease. I can honestly say that as I nurse I personally experienced this.
     However, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have learnt the importance of selfcare first and the power of living with gentleness.

360. I love the power that can be felt in the gentle connective tissue exercises you offer that support the person to connect to their bodies and from there gain insights into their behaviours and movements that led to their ailment. This is a deeply unimposing, empowering and truly gorgeous way to work and support a person to heal.

361. Again, from reading part 1 and now part 2 I have a greater sense and full respect of love, or emphasised better here in this blog, being completely understanding and gentle in my body and it’s movements.

362. Trying only brings complication and needs, surrendering and allowing our true selves out and moving and expressing in that love, is The Way, and our bodies know how to move in a way that is in flow with a homeostatic way of being.

363. The gentleness, deep care, love and support for people that this article is written in is healing in itself. And so as you have presented Kate, this is how you live in all aspects of your life and as such it cannot but be in your physiotherapy sessions which is extraordinary.

364. I too have been an appreciative recipient of Kate’s gentle but power-full touch. In the past few years during a couple of painful incidents where even a Neurosurgeon could not help alleviate the pain in my lower back region it was Kate’s inner connection with the wisdom of the universe that assisted in my understanding of the role of the Connective Tissue within the body and the fact that the body does have the intelligence and the wisdom to bring a level of healing to itself.

365. I can understand how many of us, including myself have been caught up in the idea of the roles we play being who we are, attaching our identity to them…we can lose ourselves in this choice…it is important to bring how we are in full, to everything we choose and not compartmentalise ourselves.

366. The responsibility as a physician, physiotherapist or practitioner to live a high quality and bring this to sessions or work is super important, as a big part of the job description is being a role model for how other people can heal their bodies and not just ‘fix’ an injury/illness but live truly vital lives.

367. What you’ve shared here Kate is powerful and key to understanding how it is as practitioners we can truly meet a client. This cannot be done through a theoretical approach so cannot be ‘taught’ in that sense. What you’ve said… “I have come to appreciate that I am already all I need to be – the quality I offer patients, how I connect with them, care for and love them as human beings and not see them as “just the next patient” is the foundation to support my patients, no matter what condition they have” is the key.

368. Treat yourself first in and out of clinic and then treat your patients. This would turn most of the ‘treatment’ world on it’s head I am assuming they are shown everything to do with treating the patient or client but given nothing about how they are, how they need to take a true deep care of themselves first as this then flows out to everything they do. Again I am assuming they are shown how to be at ‘work’ and this being the only time they treat or the only time they need take care of but what about all the other time? This approach brings in your whole life which then supports you to treat the whole person. To gain or to have more understanding and to be able to support people in a deeper way you would first need to go there yourself or another way to say it would be if you live true to yourself in every moment then this will be there at your finger tips in every moment. No need to clock on or clock off, you will be truly treating all the time. It brings a deeper level of care and support to yourself that then flows out to everything else naturally.

369. Great blog Kate. I woke up this morning and was pondering on how normal it has become for people to compartmentalise life when in it is in fact all one. Then, the first blog I read this morning is yours. We can enjoy work more and more by bringing more of who we are into it. We don’t need to put on a facade at work or in social outtings. Why not just simply be ourselves wherever we are?

370. I was very moved by what you share with us Kate and felt the future of healthcare being delivered on a plate to us all, thank you.

371. The word quality is used a lot in all kinds of services, quality standards, quality assessment etc etc but it never touches on the energetic quality of the practitioner’s presence and way of being, first with himself and thus naturally with everyone else. Gentleness is such a quality we can develop or actually rediscover for ourselves, with our body, in our movements and even the way we think; a quality that is natural to everyone equally as can be seen in every child.

372. I love it Kate, you are such inspirations for me. It is exposing to feel how we have lived in segments, like getting ready for work without being loving to ourselves first. The harmony and ‘one life’ can only be lived from a way living every moment in the day in the same way, without perfection, but with the intention of this. Only then can we truly serve others.

373. Beautiful Kate – love how you have learnt to be true to yourself as opposed to identifying with your occupation and what you do, which is so common in our society.

374. Working is not solely a task, a job to be done. It should and can fulfill ourselves ‘just’ by being ourselves and doing what we love doing – bringing our love into the job, knowing that we are making the difference by choosing how we are with ourselves. I love how Kate so beautifully shared how her love and care make such a difference. I wholeheartedly agree. I love being treated by people who are loving themselves deeply!

     1. We can feel it when people treat us with love and care. We can feel everything really. Choosing to be gentle and loving towards ourselves and others makes life a joy no matter if we are at work, shopping or spending time with a close friend. Every choice and move we make is really felt by us all.

375. It is so important that we do not lose ourselves in the title and pictures we have about the work we do or basically anything in life, as then we lose the connection to ourself and act in a way that is not in line with our deep inner knowing and caring.

376. Gentleness. It sounds so simple, too good to be true. We tend to think ‘sure I can be gentle if I want’. But give it a try, just for a day and you start to see there is a wayward part of us that fights what our body loves, that rushes through life without a thought for the trouble and strife it might cause. Your words and your story Kate, inspire me to remember the incredible simple healing power our body has if we just stop sabotaging ourselves and give it space to return to its natural stillness and grace.

     1. You are exactly right, Joseph. It Does take a bit of practice…

377. Thank you Kate, this gives a clear idea of what is involved for a practitioner to be able to initiate a healing impulse for another. If we have not healed ourselves, and in that restored a harmonious flow and way of living, then there is nothing of true healing impulse that can be offered to another. This applies to every one of us in everything we do.

     1. It is absolutely life changing to feel a true healing impulse from a practitioner. The body trusts this feeling and then can surrender to what is being offered as it is a reflection of the essence we all are innately with-in.

        1. Great point Sandra, it is the body that recognises this healing impulse in another, and exposes in that moment whether in fact we seek true healing or not. Our inclination towards that impulse, or away from it and towards something of a more ‘relieving’ nature says it all.

378. I can see how much of a weight it takes off both you and the patient when you work with the body rather than being attached to a picture of how you think things should go and try to force the body into that picture – no matter how ‘good’ the picture may be it will be dis-harmonious for both practitioner and patient if it is imposed rather than coming from the body naturally itself.

379. When we move from one space to the next, whether that’s in our workplace, home or out in public, is evolution the thread that weaves through our way of living?

380. Yes, it is all one life and everything is everything, and so everything matters, so it makes absolute sense Kate, that we bring gentleness into every area of our lives and just as importantly with ourselves.

381. It is wonderful to stop the trying and as you say we are already everything we need to be.

382. I can very much relate to leaving ‘me’ at home when I used to put on a uniform for work as a nurse. It’s like I had signed a contract that said I will leave myself, my self-awareness at home and solely focus on the needs of others. Luckily these days are over since discovering that care for myself is actually the foundation of being able to care for others.

383. I am deeply touched in how this article introduces physiotherapy as being about caring for the people we interact with to such a degree that everything that is offered is in support of them and what they need. What is deeply touching is that this approach to life can be brought to most of the jobs and activities we do. Bringing a purpose to our life, with nothing but the love and care for people being the catalyst behind this purpose.

384. I have had many sessions with you Kate and each one of them can be described as being bathed in love as my body gently reconfigures back to its natural state.
     You reflect a dedication to integrity and quality not only for medical and health practitioners, but for all – a reflection that inspires us not to leave the gorgeousness of who we are in order to fulfill a role. All that and so so much more is what we receive in a session with a practitioner who has made it about energetic integrity first and foremost in all that they do.

385. I too have come to understand that “our lives cannot be compartmentalised, for it is all one life”; I am the same person at home, at work, with friends, in fact wherever I go. But this is not how the majority of humanity live as we slip into different personas for different situations, changing ’hats’ as we change roles; very chameleon like and very exhausting. To remain the same person no matter what we are doing makes life so much simpler.

386. What you express here Kate is surely true for anyone in any profession, trade, technical role, job anywhere – it’s who we are that matters, and the quality in which we chose to live – nay, walk, every step of the way.

387. “A big part of this transformation was due to me reconnecting to my natural gentleness, a quality within me that I had been disconnected from for a long time.” How amazing would it be if learning to reconnect to this gentleness that we all have, became an integral part of the training as a Physiotherapist? Not only would it transform this much needed practice but it would also potentially inspire the receivers of it to take more true care of themselves.

388. What stood out for me reading this is that the client heals his or herself and that the practitioner is there as a support but never to impose a goal. To be able to do this the practitioner needs to be full in themselves and not needing any results back.

389. Thank you Kate a beautiful and honest exploration of your deepening relationship with yourself and your patients.

390. It is so important we do not impose one other – you see it start from a very young age, it’s horrible and feels awful. Something I am learning to not do anymore.

391. It is so true that when we go to our jobs we can go into a role or act out a picture we have of what it means to us to be, for example a shop assistant or a hairdresser, in fact any profession. We seem to get loaded with things like, how we should act in order to be professional, what we should wear that would create that image we want to achieve, what is expected of us from others, do we fit the picture of that profession or are we falling short, judging ourselves against how others play out their pictures. In fact all kinds of things can get in the way of us just being our naturally gentle selves.

392. Haven’t we all been or are driven by goals and outcomes, needing things to be a certain way.

     1. I certainly have – and it’s all been based on an image of the job/role/project/outcome.

393. Kate – this is amazing. How many of us lose our gentleness and joy and spunk and generally who we are when we step into our work roles? What if it is possible to bring all this awesomeness to our jobs and just be who we are everywhere…. #inspired

394. “So these days I am expressing me with the skills I have”. To live life in everything one does with this approach is true healing no matter who one is.

395. To live and work without any expectation is purposeful and wise.

396. Kate, this is a gorgeous blog to read and very inspiring – the quality of the gentleness and flow in your own body harmony and awareness is felt throughout this writing.

397. I find that this sense of being myself true in all ‘walks’ of life – pun not intended. When I am presenting a training course, there is a much greater connection with those attending when I allow myself to be me – and me in my fullness – than if I do not. If this sense of being me is not present, I find that people have nothing real to ‘get hold of’ and relate to.

398. Having received sessions with you Kate has been extremely supportive – your constant encouragement, care, joy and love has always been a fundamental part of your treatments. Thank you for sharing, im sure there will be lots more to come as people especially other physios would deeply benefit to hear from you.

399. Kate, it is beautiful to read about how we are all naturally gentle, i can feel that the pain in my legs comes from not moving in this quality of gentleness consistently.

400. “Also that our lives cannot be compartmentalised, for it is all one life, so for me being more gentle in everything I did needed to be in all areas of my life – it wasn’t something I could just switch on when I was treating patients.” How we live in all areas of our life affects every other part, something I never realised before attending Serge Benhayon’s presentations. But it makes so much sense. We are not robots – but unique human beings. If we are upset we take this into work – ditto if happy – and everyone around can feel it. Love your gentleness – with you – and your patients. Living one-life…..

401. The art of physiotherapy practiced in this way offers a therapy to the whole body at the same time as reflecting a way of living and moving gently with yourself in everything that you do.

402. Although my consistency still needs a lot of work I now know what it means to be gentle and you are so right we can bring this gentleness to all that we do, which makes whatever we do amazing. Someone like you Kate has so much more to offer her patients with the knowing that there is no off switch, we are all that we are all of the time and that is what we bring to our clients whatever we do.

403. “Over the last 16 years I have transformed from a person driven by the goals of how things should be, how a patient should move or feel after a treatment, to a person far more at ease in myself, with a body that is far less tense.” this is the real medicine, this is what society is craving for and something I have in my life thanks to Universal Medicine, yet that is only the start for this is something the entire world can have and will have one day.

404. You are doing a great job Kate, as with your approach to physiotherapy you not only provide your clients with advice and support to improve their functioning but too you inspire them to be open for the more subtle aspects of life in connecting with the body on a much deeper level than many people are used to live with in our nowadays societies.

405. Gentleness is our support to being true and honest to ourselves and this is a very needed quality to bring to our day and to everyone we meet. With gentleness we feel ourselves and others, we are saying that feeling is the way we will go through life in. When we are willing to feel we are much less conditioned to drive or push ourselves in life.

406. I know Kate’s work and gentle care continues to support me with my deepening awareness to my body and how I move. There is a huge amount of prevention support offered which is gold, reducing the need for repair and recovery treatments.

407. Yes we have a responsibility to bring ourselves to our work and not identify with our title, position or profession as then we lose who we are and end up exhausted and burnt out from trying to live up to an ideal.

     1. I can very much relate to this Rachel, being identified by what we do then sets us up to be constantly needing recognition and attention. I’ve been letting go of this for some time now and recently a colleague shared with me that they are inspired by how I am the same with everyone, from the CEO to a Manager to the Cleaner to a Supervisor or Admin person. This showed me how much of an impact we can make when we let go of identification. It then allows others to drop theirs as well.

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