by Jenny Ellis, Esoteric Practitioner, Brisbane
As someone who grew up without the influence of organised religion and in a largely atheist household, I had no meaningful experiences I would ever have called religious. I did however have a great deal of experience with what I might have once called healing, being involved in and passionate about health and fitness most of my younger life and studying natural medicine for several years. To link the words religion and healing at the time however, could not have been more absurd in my view, and so to come to a point today where I now link healing and religion inextricably reflects a significant shift in my understanding.
When we think of healing, I dare say for most the word has lost its real meaning in everyday life and would be considered synonymous with the current dictionary offerings of: alleviating, palliating, easing, helping, softening, lessening, mitigating, attenuating, allaying and so on.
Historically in many cultures religion and healing have actually shared a close relationship. Shamans and priests held the power to ‘heal’ the sick through restoring the relationship of the individual with the unseen dimensions. A disturbance in this relationship was seen, and still is, amongst some religious enthusiasts as a valid cause of illness.
This understanding, particularly in the face of our adoption of evidence-based medicine, has for many taken a radical turn away from these historic origins.
Today an apparent relationship between religion and healing would appear to exist primarily amongst those who remain religious enthusiasts or within cultures where this relationship with the unseen dimensions remain an intrinsic part of daily life.
What does it mean to heal?
So what does it mean to ‘heal’ really? And what is the relationship we have with this in everyday life?
What does it actually mean to be ‘religious’?
And what then is the real relationship between the meanings of these two words?
The true meaning of the word healing appears to be of Germanic origins. From the German heilen and Dutch helen which in translation means ‘to make whole’. From these come the old English word heilen: which is ‘to cure, save, make whole, sound and well’.
This begs a further question then as to what does it actually mean to ‘make whole’? Is that merely the alleviation of symptoms and discomforts, as our current thesaurus synonyms would suggest, as well as what the majority of our current health-care system is geared towards? Or is there more to us than meets the eye, so to speak, and are we in fact not capturing what it means to ‘be whole’ in our current paradigms?
What is true religion?
And then what is true religion? From its history, we know it is a word derived from the Latin word ‘religio’, which means to ‘re-read, re-trace, re-consider diligently the connection or relationship with God’. However, there is no question that our current understanding and use of that word has strayed far from these origins.
From this meaning, it appears a distinctly personal relationship is referred to and not one necessarily fostered by or belonging to an institution, an organised religious movement, a building or a designated individual. It is, by this inference, a personal relationship that refers to that which re-unites us with our essence, or in other words, reunites us with the divinity we are.
There is a very apparent parallel to be understood when it comes to healing.
The entire movement of ‘holistic medicine’ over the past 30 years has rested on the fact there is more to us than a physical body. Naturopathy and Chinese Medicine in particular are two prime examples. They rest their tenets and approach on the body being influenced by not just a myriad of external influences but also by emotions, mental activity and what is loosely referred to as ‘stress’. There is no question these are valid observations, as most of us would acknowledge these things in life can affect our sense of wellbeing and vitality and life is made up of all these.
What does it mean to make ‘whole’?
These approaches however, while perhaps taking into consideration a greater acknowledgement of a ‘whole’, would still appear to be leaving us way short of the mark, if in fact we are also in some way to re-unite with a divine aspect within, in order to ‘make us whole’, as true healing requires.
To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us. No wow factor, no hail-Mary’s necessary, simply a restoration of a completeness that would have us feel utterly and completely normal, albeit a new-normal you might say, for in this ‘whole’ state we would also be fully aware of the fact of our divine essence, as well as our physicality, emotionality and our mental aspects.
The connection between healing and religion in that sense becomes very clear but there is an even more decided reason for these words to be so intrinsically linked.
What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.
What is the ‘healing principle’?
The ‘healing principle’ within the body is something wondrous and constant – just watch the miraculous healing unfold when our skin is broken, something occurring on a micro-level we observe and for the most part, take for granted every day.
This ever-present healing aspect is captured at a physical level by the concept of homeostasis: the body’s unceasing movement towards healing itself, rebalancing. It is us and our moment-by-moment choices that create the obstacles to this natural and unceasing movement towards healing.
We have a world constantly searching for meaning in life with a growing sense of urgency. We have every possible institution and industry on earth to support seeking this way or that – we have many billions of people involved in organised religion and religious movements, subscribing to various systems of belief, paths of spiritualism and schools of philosophy – and yet unrest, disharmony and dis-ease are increasingly prevalent the world over.
It follows that if religion, in its truest sense, is synonymous with true healing, then what humanity is historically and presently engaging in on the whole cannot be true religion and our efforts to heal cannot be true healing either. The two cannot exist in isolation to one another, regardless of what we call it, when one is truly healing, one must be in true religion at the same time.
Separation from Essence = dis-ease
The ultimate relationship between religion and healing is reflected in one word: essence. If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united. From this perspective, it’s then easy to understand how that disconnect or discord would underlie all dis-ease and disharmony within the body.
And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.
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Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
I am sure that many of us do not like to contemplate the fact that we are living in a way that is not whole, that there is an enormous and grand part of ourselves that we are in denial of, but if we were to honestly ask ourselves about why life plays out in the way that it does, with illness, disease, crime, corruption and a whole lot more, not just by looking out and blaming the rest of society, but by asking honestly how we as individuals contribute to all of the above and why, then it is very clear that we are living in a way that is fragmented and thus sullied then the whole is something that we actively search for and in this search, with genuine intention, we encounter true healing, whether we recognise it as such or not.
‘If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united. From this perspective, it’s then easy to understand how that disconnect or discord would underlie all dis-ease and disharmony within the body.’ This is such s simple philosophy, and some may say too simple, but once we are open to it it makes an awful lot of sense.
Jenny, how our bodies heal is absolutely spectacular, at that micro level, unseen by the naked eye. But if we ponder on the moment of how it heals, it is no different to servicing a car to keep it going lovingly. Neglect it and it will let you down.
The body can be fixed or patched together with surgery or medicine to a certain point, it also requires the beholder of the body to be part of the healing too, in other words to be responsible and maintain it too.
To truly heal begins with a true relationship with the body and when we have this relationship with the body, we form a connection, a connection that is beautiful to be with. And when we are connected, we see healing from a different perspective and accept it for what it is and then we play our part in it.
‘and so to come to a point today where I now link healing and religion inextricably reflects a significant shift in my understanding.’ This is key, in that we don’t just take it for face value of what someone has said or go with knowledge we have been told but instead it comes from within and with our own understanding.
Jenny I really feel this needs to go into a book, it’s such a stunning piece of writing and explores so clearly the truth about the foundation of a truly vital, healthy, and joyous life – something we all deserve to be aware of. Your words about “to make whole” really resonated with me, and how with religion it’s something we simply return to by restoring our connection to our divine selves. There is something about the word “wholeness” that is so very beautiful, it’s something that is already complete, untainted, unbroken, and is in its full integrity. And that is who we are in our essence.
Melinda, this “wholeness” is not only important but feels an integral part of our being living in separation. So it’s a no wonder we are at unease with ourselves when we are parted. It kind of feels like that jigsaw puzzle missing a piece, it isn’t complete until that missing piece is found and when we put it together and it can then be compete. Then it looks and feels different, no different to where we are in life.
“If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united. From this perspective, it’s then easy to understand how that disconnect or discord would underlie all dis-ease and disharmony within the body.” Wow , what an amazing summary of your article. Beautifully expressed, thankyou.
“What does it mean to make ‘whole’?” – this is a great question that exposes the fact of how we have been compensating the obvious un-whole-ness that we sense. And when we understand that the word ‘religion’ in truth means to re-connect, re-bound, it just reveals the true nature of the grandness that we are and how we have been avoiding that, and how the true healing is in the reverse of this obvious bastardisation that we have allowed to be manufactured eons ago.
If we don’t consider if the meaning of a word has been changed we are at the mercy of those who are clever with words. Not having considered myself clever with words I was less than discerning for much of my life. It is time to be wise and not take words at face value.
It is a great point Jenny makes here about the exposure of the word religion and its true meaning. It takes me back a long, long time ago where I am at one with the word and my connection to God long before any institutionalised religion was formed to come full circle to welcome and embrace once again its true meaning and living in connection to God, everyone and everything on this plane of life.
“If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united. From this perspective, it’s then easy to understand how that disconnect or discord would underlie all dis-ease and disharmony within the body.” I agree wholeheartedly from my own experience of returning to my essence. What I would add to the conversation is that our disconnect to and discord with our essence doesn’t just affect the body, it actually affects the whole of society – the way we are with each other and with life in general. True healing and religion are not just for an individuals wellbeing, but to restore wholeness to communities.
Religion in its truest sense will always be synonymous with true healing.
Yes this gives a ‘whole’ new meaning to the term ‘holistic medicine’.
I also would not have normally put religion and healing together but I can see how they are intimately linked after reading this blog and how in a way they cannot be separated.
Then origin of healing … to make whole… how true this is now as to what is needed for humanity … and this is precisely what Universal Medicine offers.
This is very beautiful. After reading this it’s just impossible to imagine how one can be without the other. Many years ago ‘healing’ for me was almost synonymous with curing or improving. It did have a whiff of something beyond the physical about that word, but that is where I dumped anything that I could not quite understand or explain, but that is exactly where the truth of us in essence unites these two words – healing and religion – and explains the unexplainable.
“it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion,” Beautiful. To reconnect to our essence of who we are is healing and in healing the separation from who we are we find our reconnection to our essence.
We all know innately inside us somehow that the choices we make are hugely powerful – and that if we truly want things to change then they will. It’s this internal knowing of our godliness and living in accordance to this, that is religion to me
Yes, we do indeed all know, we just give our power away to the belief that change is hard or that change is scary. But we have walked away from embracing who we are and what we bring and the outplay of that is there in the statistics for illness and disease – that is the scariest bit to me.
To truly heal is to become whole in body, mind, and Soul and yes, “so it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion” there can be no other way.
True religion ‘ a personal relationship that refers to that which re-unites us with our essence, or in other words, reunites us with the divinity we are.’ When I read these words I understand the importance of living my essence and returning to being who I truly am, because without it I live in disharmony which opens the door to illness and disease.
The more we connect to the divineness within ourselves the road to healing is offered in abundance.
A fabulous article and what really stood out for me today was the word ‘Restoration’, they way it was written and the way it felt, I felt inspired, supported in my return to who I am in essence. To restore ourselves offers the truth that we do not need to look for solutions and fixes, we instead allow ourselves to surrender to a return, what is already known.’
Yes.. restoration makes me think of meticulously restoring a precious work of art to its original glory. The same is true of our bodies and ourselves: we are already glorious, but sometimes we get lost in the world and forget that, and need to do some meticulous and loving work on ourselves to feel and emanate that beauty again.
Restoring the whole is a matter of reconnection back to the inner heart as disconnection from self and others is the modern dis-ease.
“And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” In the past I would never have associated these two words, but having a true and deep understanding of the meaning of each one thanks to Serge Benhayon, the above statement now makes complete sense to me.
‘So what does it mean to ‘heal’ really? And what is the relationship we have with this in everyday life?’ Great question. Emphasising the word ‘really’ I would hand on heart signpost anyone to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for they are the true deal when it comes to living, understanding and teaching about this ✨
So true, Vicky. Nowhere else have I come across any organisation that takes every single aspect of a person and supports them to heal energetically, emotionally and physically.
Returning to truth, to God, to Love, to knowing you are divine. Whatever we want to call it, the fact is, this is one journey we are all on whether we choose to accept it or not. It works better when it’s embraced!
This simple truth that we are Divine in our essence – just by accepting this truth makes absolute sense of everything in life and beyond. The fact that we have been denying this truth all along, the fact that illness and disease keep increasing as we think we are ‘advancing’, the fact that our body constantly works to keep us alive and bring back homeostasis when it is off, and accepting that we are Divine in our essence and start having a relationship with that part, that is religion.
Your blog demonstrates how there is an immutable relationship between healing, religion, philosophy, medicine, science and the human body, which further suggests that the way we live has a lot to do with the All – that is everything is related to everything, from thoughts, to actions, to behaviours and movement.
My feeling upon reading this is that we still need to claim the truth of the word Religion, and in this claiming lay a path for humanity to walk upon to return to the true nature of our being.
Running the body ragged and then expecting it to deliver top results is arrogant and irresponsible. Common sense tells us that the way we treat the body will determine how well it will be and how well it will perform for us.
We are all part of the whole, so to run our bodies in separate parts does not make sense and a path for dis-ease and disharmony.
How wonderful to read such a simple and beautiful discourse on the true nature of religion… reading it is like watching a flower open.
I know when I disconnect from the divine essence, there is tension and an un-ease. It is the best radar I could ever hope for.
No wonder there is so much illness and disease in the world when the religions of the day seem to breed separation from our essence and each other, true religion and true healing cannot be separated and yet most of us don’t connect the two and so have no hope of true wellness.
Yes, we have come to accept tension as normal but not realised it is a warning sign that we have separated from ourselves and our essence. The tension is saying “yoohoo, where are you going? You forgot yourself – come back!!!”
What I’ve come to understand and appreciate is that a true religion is one where i have built a deep and true connection with myself and in that with God and with everyone. Growing up i was told religion was about giving myself up to some greater thing outside of me, something ‘make believe’. The difference is felt so clearly in my body today that I can stand here knowing what true religion is.
“Separation from Essence = dis-ease ” This is the key to all healing. It is the missing piece of the puzzle for medicine. It is the part we have chosen to leave out.
The origins of the word healing are beautiful – ‘to make whole’ – and highlight just how non ‘weirdo’ the word actually is. Through having a relationship to things that brings us back to ourselves, refresh or mend the body and our rejuvenation rituals, we are having a relationship to healing.
It really does make sense if to heal is to “make whole”, for how can a body be whole with out connection with its inner most core? It cannot and it is here that we find we are true religion, for the moment we connect to our core, we feel everyone else’s.
When I connect to my essence (my inner heart) my body responds instantly, it is like it is given the space to restore homeostasis and harmony. It is when this happens that I have a sense of our bodies’ innate and vast wisdom.
If we see and treat the human body as something that is divine and belongs to God, then health and vitality naturally follow. For why would we treat the body as a dumping ground for excess food, excess emotion, alcohol or drugs if we can feel that the body is naturally divine. To connect to our divine essence is something that we can choose to do and it feels so beautiful. But sometimes we choose to dull ourselves down. If we do this, then we stay in our familiar state of ill health, depression and dis-ease.
It’s brilliant how you break down that our illnesses and diseases are much more than physical complaints, but they are a result of how we live, move, walk and talk over a certain period of time, and as a result a real healing needs to encompass not just the physical aspect but the whole life aspect.
The spiritual aspect of our being in health has been ignored in general by Western Medicine and is a reflection of increasing levels of illness and disease in the world. Hence it is essential for it to be included in one’s healthcare for true healing to occur.
Well said, could the ever rising rates of illness and disease be contributed to by the fact that western medicine practitioners are only addressing one level of of our health and well-being?
Nothing happens in isolation, everything is inter-connected. Hence in medicine the whole person needs to be addressed and not just the symptom for true healing to occur.
Living from our essence which means living from the inside out, rather than living from the outside in, gives us an opportunity to truly heal.
“What does it actually mean to be ‘religious’?” this is a great question, I used to think it meant going to church – today I understand it’s very different to that and is simply my connection to me.
“the body’s unceasing movement towards healing itself, rebalancing. It is us and our moment-by-moment choices that create the obstacles to this natural and unceasing movement towards healing….” This reveals the tension the body is faced with as, it works through the process of homeostasis, to restore harmony, balance and equilibrium, but if and when we don’t listen, we humans tend to develop patterns that override and work against this natural movement.
I love this word ‘religio’ with its meaning of re-turning to consider one’s relationship with God. As this implies an already known relationship, one that simply wants to be re-visited, or turned towards.
I love the truth you bring here, simple and as others have shared, to the point. Religion and healing are intrinsically linked when we talk about true religion and true healing which is ‘What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body.’ and restoring and re-connecting to our divine essence along with our moment by moment choices is the key. And Universal Medicine is the true leading light in the world with regards to this.
It’s a valid point that many approaches claim to consider the whole, but as you ask; What does it mean to make ‘whole’?” My experience to make whole is to bring all all of who we are, the divinity we are as well as the walking, talking, breathing anatomy and physiology – whose state of being is left poorer when the essence is dismissed or left out of the equation.
It is our clear purpose to first reunite with our wholeness, our essence and then the natural expansion of this being our reuniting with all others to live in brotherhood; true healing and a religious life lived.
Most so-called holistic healing modalities often are only whole defined by a certain range of all the aspects that make life what it is, ie. basically they don´t include every aspect of life. As much as such modalities may be able to contribute to a cure or healing they obviously cannot offer the whole and hence the healing will be incomplete unless the client is completing it for themselves as they are not necessarily dependent on what is offered but can at every moment come back to the whole that they always have been.
“This ever-present healing aspect is captured at a physical level by the concept of homeostasis: the body’s unceasing movement towards healing itself, rebalancing. It is us and our moment-by-moment choices that create the obstacles to this natural and unceasing movement towards healing.” Gosh we are magnificent. Powerful beyond our imaginings and yet insisting on painting it small and reducing the truly remarkable to the mundane that we just take for granted.
If I cannot feel the divinity within me I do not feel as warm and as vital as I know I can. Our connection to our divine essence is paramount to our overall health. Without it the body just feels cold and mechanical and merely functional.
I had never considered religion to be an intrinsic part of healing and for me it opens up a vast science that I would never have considered before. We have compartmentalised Science Religion and Philosophy and kept them very separate from each other but when we put them all together and bring in the Ageless Wisdom we will see that they cannot be separated because they all connect back to God.
When we understand that healing is all about returning to the oneness we have separated from we realize that the healing process is a religious way of living – we heal by reunifying with the whole.
Beautifully and simply expressed Alexander, reflecting the simplicity of the choice to become whole again.
And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words. So very true and clearly and simply expressed.
“…. it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” Never were truer words said.
‘we have many billions of people involved in organised religion and religious movements, subscribing to various systems of belief, paths of spiritualism and schools of philosophy – and yet unrest, disharmony and dis-ease are increasingly prevalent the world over.’ So true Jenny, we must take a deeper and much more honest look at our everyday lives and observe what we contribute to.
Jenny I love how you have described healing – ” to make whole once again that which has always been intended to be whole.” These days we mix up healing and curing and unfortunately look for curing the illness/tension/discomfort rather than going deeper and seeing what the root cause of the discomfort is. It is only through dealing with the root cause that we can heal.
De-mystifying two profound words, religion and healing, and bringing them into our everyday, thank you, Jenny.
The true meaning of healing offered here… as in ‘to make whole, sound and well’… is so all encompassing of us as human beings – could this be our new/true motto in healthcare?!
“To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us.” What a beautifully simple yet profound sentence this is. And how lovely would it be if we taught this to our children from a young age, that they have this divine connection to themselves and that they should live their lives knowing that it was always there, and always a part of them that could absolutley depend on to guide them through life and its ups and downs.
Having just come through the Christmas period it is obvious that Christmas is no longer about religion for many. Instead of embracing the stillness that is available through honouring our connection to God, it seems that people go all out to do the opposite. There is absolutely no healing in this!
It is very interesting how much control over the meaning of words the modern day thesaurus and dictionary have, and how much they are turned to for the definitions of words, when perhaps the real meaning of a word can be found in our relationship with the activities the word relates to – such as healing – and to there discover what feels true, and that is where we find the true meaning of words and hence, what the activity that they pertain to is actually for.
It is interesting to explore how/why we have come to accept such a compromised definition of healing and that we settle for the absence of life-threatening disease as being well. It is also very powerful to read the true definitions of words and let them be felt as the meanings that have been missing for a long time and yet somehow always known.
Without being able to explain it there has always been the sense of healing and religion being intimately connected. With meeting Universal Medicine I got to experience and understand the absolute truth of that interconnectedness and thus received the confirmation of my own inherent knowing that requires no explanation or evidence.
When we look at cultures around the world and the way we lived only 1 or 2 hundred years ago we cannot truly say we have made much progress. With the welcoming of western medicine we seem to have forgotten the basic principles of who we are, nature and what healing truly is about. I am a big fan of western medicine but what if we had made that the complementary therapies while holding on to that which we for centuries have known to be true?
And the beauty of this truth is that we can initiate at any moment our own re-connection to our essence and support of our health, well-being and healing.
“…It is us and our moment-by-moment choices that create the obstacles to this natural and unceasing movement towards healing.” Our body is always working towards a state of harmony. If we lived in a way that was completely honouring of this we would not experience illness and disease. We are the creators of our own ills.
“it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function” This is magical and says it all , True healing with the quality of religion and medicine as one in our wholeness and being ness.
The relationship between healing and religion is probably something that is overlooked and hardly considered these days… It is probably in itself, a worthwhile study to reflect upon how deepening the relationship with ourselves (returning to, reconnecting to an innermost stillness within) has an equal and opposite exchange of letting go and resolving old hurts. This would certainly constitute a healing process.
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I love the connection you draw here between healing and religion. It makes a lot of sense and shows how everything in life is part of the whole and that we cannot live our lives in parts as we then dismiss the whole. Only treating the body, or sole parts of it, when we are in disease or illness can fix us but will never truly heal what has brought the problem in the first place. We need to understand our part in the whole to let go of what is not aligned to the rhythms of the universe.
It’s absurd isn’t it, how we have separated these two words and concepts, whereas healing and religion in truth are one and the same – to make whole once again that which has always been intended to be whole.
Beautiful and simply said: “to make whole once again that which has always been intended to be whole.”
Not only making whole again… the bringing together of qualities, meaning of words and apparently different aspects of life (in this case, religion and healing) offers us the realisation of the interconnectedness of everything and that all is one. I love the simplicity this fact sets for life.
We are already whole hence healing is just allowing us to re-connect with that fact.
During my lifetime I sought out a lot of healing from all manner of people practising modalities that promised a cure or a relief of pain to some degree, but all of them fell short and made no difference what so ever. But now having been listening to Serge Benhayon for the last 11 years, it has become evident to me that no true healing ever took place before, at the best the experiences felt comforting. I know this because the root cause of the illness and dis-ease was never talked about or taken into consideration. There was no responsibility or accountability on my part, all I wanted was to be fixed and no one was asking my part in it all.
Jenny I agree with you when you say
“What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.”
From my own experience I can say that I have re balanced my body to such a degree that I do not suffer from depression any more. I became far more responsible about myself and healed the issues that were causing me to withdraw from life, in the withdrawal I lost all vitality and didn’t care about anything which included me. I gave up and gave in for a while and this had a very damaging effect on my body. I now realise that we all have a responsibility to look after our bodies and not to abuse them, if we do abuse them they break down, as after all they are not a machine but a living organism.
I love this Jenny, bringing the true meaning of Healing and Religion back for us all to feel and know.
Without addressing the root cause of any issue a true healing cannot occur. So in today’s world with our preoccupation with cure and relief I cannot but feel that how we define the word healing is not to its truest potential.
Great point Suse – so we are mis-defining ‘healing’ (as we do with many words) and making it become a lesser form of true healing, accepting symptom relief as an alternative. This is not a cool choice.
To be whole is to be holy, in the truest sense of the word.
” it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words” This is the most beautiful understanding of true healing and our living way and our divine essence that makes sense lovingly bringing the reality to who we really are and the amazingness of this .
As with anything, unless the underlying problem that is causing the symptom is fully dealt with, then the symptom will never be truly healed.
There are many ideals and belief around sustaining health and wellbeing, but without connection to our own body and being we lack the wisdom to sustain wellbeing.
We can not have sustained and continuing health without connection, very simple, maybe too simple……..
I totally agree and see all disease as the body sending out specific signals in what areas of living reconnection is required. There is no money or pharmaceuticals to be made and mass produced by owning a corner of the “Health Market” in this model of health.
It may take a bit of getting used to, this answer regarding health and disease, before it can be studiously discussed among health peers let alone accepted as a possible answer to the rise in our illness and disease rates.
Awesome blog Jenny
To appreciate that our very way of living, our very religion is our great healing is world changing as it brings a level of care, love and responsibility to every aspect of life.
Thank you Jenny for your thought provoking sharing. I agree that when we “Restore our connection and relationship to it and we will also restore the bodies capacity to rebalance and heal”.
Returning to the whole essence of who we are that has always been there for us to reconnect with is just the same process as the healing of wounds you mention Jenny. Everything in the Universe is positive, already exists, to know and live, this process is only disturbed and becomes negative when we stray away from ourselves and fall into abusive ways in thought, emotions, movements and life style.
Yes everything is offered to us to expand and grow, but we fight this and as a result, there is dis-ease. But on the other hand, we will continue to be offered to re-connect to who we truly are, and we always have the choice to say yet so this.
Wise words Joan. It is us who are the makers of all our illness and misery. If we choose to connect back to our natural state of wholeness we are at one with the universe and there is none of the separation that causes all of our woes. This is the answer to true healing.
‘it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.’
I never looked at it this way and I love this combination and explanation.
To make whole and be whole means to reconnect with that inner sense of being of our essence and live from that.
‘Separation from Essence = dis-ease’
This brings a whole new meaning to the word disease and the variety of characteristics that are part of it. Any movement I make in rush or hardness, any argument or reaction would be a disease as these things only come up when I am not connected to my Essence.
Yes exactly Monika, that is the level of understanding we will eventually have to come to if we are to truly turn around the level of illness and disease. We think to do that requires enormous complexity of understanding all the forces at play to result in the breadth and depth of what we suffer, but in fact it is ridiculously simple… with so much of what’s needed being taken care of by engaging our essence and restoring that ‘wholeness’.
What I love about Universal Medicine is that it starts with the foundation that we are already complete and whole in our essence and that it is about returning to living from that essence, discarding whatever we’ve taken on or are living that isn’t in line with that, rather than saying that there is something missing in us that we need to attain from another or strive to be so to speak…
Yes I love that too Fiona, and it was a far cry from everything l’d learnt in nearly 9 years of study in natural medicine. It is a fundamental paradigm shift that essentially determines whether your path is a healing one, or one where managing and ‘remedying’ our ailments is the result.
I agree Fiona, I love this fundamentally different way of looking at our lives and ourselves. This views comes from the wholeness from within that is still there compared to having to come from outside and fix everything before being able to connect to yourself again.
To me this is crucial. We are not relying on our ‘brokenness’ to try to get us back ‘home’ – but the awareness that our essence is never truly broken and we are discarding what is not truly us. Well said Fiona.
I agree… the gift of this teaching arrests the desperately seeking something outside of us to fix our incompleteness and brings us to the acceptance and appreciation of the fact that everything we need is within us already.
Thank you Jennifer, before reading this blog my understanding of the absolute interconnectedness of religion and healing was not so clear. I do now have a deep understanding of the importance of also including the divine factor our essence, and it is true without the knowing of being grand life is not complete, there always feels to be something missing and it is: our essence.
‘‘To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us.‘
Admitting there is more to life than just the physical, that we are all muliti-dimensional beings and without reconnecting to divinity we aren’t complete makes so much sense.
Yes doesn’t it Monika, after having worked from that premise for so many years now, and having lived from it for more, I find it hard to comprehend how we can deny something that is so glaringly obvious to me now.
It (religion ) is, by this inference, a personal relationship that refers to that which re-unites us with our essence, or in other words, reunites us with the divinity we are. This is a beautiful understanding of religion thank you for sharing Jenny.
I always love it when the true meaning of words are offered. It restores trust inside me and my whole body expands and sinks in itself. This happened with your description of true religion:
‘a personal relationship that refers to that which re-unites us with our essence, or in other words, reunites us with the divinity we are.’
The more willing, aware and re-connecting to our essence we live our day the more obvious disharmony is felt either with-in or around us. This is a very powerful awareness so we can discern what is next, true, honouring and supportive for all. A true prevention for dis-ease.
Our body’s natural ability to heal itself is truly amazing and these words show how little we understand the true extent of that ‘ the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function’.
True healing and religion are as interconnected as science, religion and philosophy are, one cannot be without the other.
Jennifer this is so powerful and makes enormous sense. For me on a personal level when I was practising Sacred Movement daily, which reconnects women to their essence, I noticed a new and profound vitality and strength of body, a clarity of mind, and absence of emotion. I was stunned at how quickly this came about and how my body also responded. My experience is a perfect example to me of what you have shared about true healing and true religion and their link. The more I reconnected to my essence and lived from that place with the support of Sacred Movement, the more strength and wellness I felt in my whole body and being.
How can a piece of writing reach the level of goodness of this kind?!?
Beautifully expressed!!
There’s something very ancient about this – surely we had healing-priests or priest-doctors back in the day who could work with the practicalities of the body and help us reunite with our essence. Universal Medicine-trained practitioners who work directly with the functional aspects of the body come close to this.
Yes that’s exactly what there were Victoria. In history these were referred to as Shamans… and were highly respected healers within their communities who combined medicine of the day with an understanding of the fact of the Soul as well as what we might refer to as ‘unseen forces’. Today that word has been taken up by the Spiritual New Age in identifying one who works with these unseen forces. It no longer commands the respect it once did as it no longer represents one with such an encompassing and truly holistic approach.
It’s so true. When we are in connection to our essence we experience ease, and when we not not connected to our essence we experience dis-ease. This is as plain as the noses on our faces! There really is no mystery as to where illness and disease comes from.
Healing is a normal word really that has been made mystical. To me healing is just the discarding of what doesn’t belong in the body.
As I heal myself from the ingrained patterns, beliefs and ideals I have taken on, I can feel spaciousness in my body and this space is filling up with a sense that there is more. I feel as though I have for the last 60 years led a blinkered life. Taking off the blinkers by healing the hurts that have led to the ideals and beliefs has been totally transforming. For me it’s like being on the top of a hill on a sunny warm day and being able to see for miles all around me and the freedom this gives me in my body is beyond words to describe.
Connecting to the warm flow of divine energy running through the body is like coming home. It feels unifying and healing. Without this we are simply relying on a sticking plaster to hold it all together.
Our connection within ourselves and how we listen and relate to our body makes a whole lot of difference to how we heal.
Exactly Jenny, in fact it makes the difference between whether we heal or not in my experience. If we avoid connecting to our essence, there is no healing possible.
So so true what you say here, Jennifer: ‘If we avoid connecting to our essence, there is no healing possible.’ The symptoms may disappear but the whole of us in all its aspects cannot be ‘accessed and do its magic’ so no true healing.
Yes agreed, the true meaning of the word healing is ‘to make whole’. What l’ve come to learn through Universal Medicine teachings and my own application of these is that ‘to make whole’ means to re-establish the connection and relationship with our essence. It is the separation from that, that leaves us feeling not – ‘whole’ so to speak.
The body’s ability to heal itself is amazing to witness and even more so when we take into account its constant messages to us about how we are living and the effect our lifestyle is having upon it. Our willingness to listen is crucial if we are to heal ourselves.
Healing is very much about developing and deepening the relationship with ourselves, and from your blog, I now can see how healing is very closely related to ‘religion’ – It’s unfortunate and dreadful how twisted this word has become in this era, that provides aversion to the truth of healing and union with oneself, with their innermost essence.
So true Johanne, my previous association with the word religion certainly put me well off track. The truth of it and of healing, have been grossly misrepresented.
Our essence is pure divinity and this is deeply beautiful to know and it makes sense that separation from this causes illness and disease that would otherwise allow a true connection flow and harmony in our lives. A wonderful sharing that simply makes sense of everything.
“It is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.” Beautifully expressed Jenny.
I love reading about the essence and how we can live with it and its healing effect upon the body and spirit of a person, bringing everything back to a sense of resolution and completion, where there is love and understanding. These are the qualities of the soul that our essence holds as they are one and the same. Amazing to consider that with all our suffering and misery on earth, there is so much beauty and glory living inside each person.
Yes Shami, and that is what the future holds for us… when we decide we’ve had enough of our current way and choices.
It is interesting how we are fighting our body’s natural movement towards balance and harmony by our daily choices which are not self caring.
We live away from our essence thinking it is our essence because we do not know better until we connect with our body and truly feel what is true and what is not true. In this process of deepening the relationship with ourselves we move back towards what is essence.
It is when we disconnect from the unity and harmony we come from, that the illness appears. When we restore this unity within, we can heal the disharmony in our life and our body becomes the catalyzer of this round trip.
Our true nature is divine. In fact we are all equal Sons of God in physical bodies, and our true essence is the qualities of God – love, truth, joy, stillness and harmony. Anything less than that is us in disease.
Healing is not about making a symptom go away, but to remove the impediments that stop us from being all that we are, so that we are free once more to express our true essence.
Is this in every way connected to Religion? You bet it is.
Well said Golnaz… spot on and such a far cry from our current paradigm when it comes to health-care.
Exactly Rebecca, that’s it in a nutshell… ‘True religion in effect is all about healing…. It is it’s very nature”
Great exploration of the meaning of healing Jenny. If we need to make ourselves whole to heal, it highlights that we have separated into functioning into parts to begin with. And there in lies the problem; we lose our natural harmony, order and interdependence of our organs and body systems.
Even the title of this blog offers the reader so much. A truly religious person will work on healing their relationships with others as well as connecting to the divine within in order to heal themselves. True religion in effect is all about healing. It cannot but do this. It is its very nature.
‘We have a world constantly searching for meaning in life with a growing sense of urgency.’ So true Jenny. More modalities, organised religions and medical advancements appear, yet our situation gets more and more dire. We need to take the steps back to locate where and what we separated from and re-consider the the truth of our foundations.
‘True religion and true healing’ I love it and it makes sense of everything in our lives when truly connected to from our innermost. Deep beauty and sacred within restored and lived for us all in the oneness we all are.
There’s something deeply confirming about the word restoration. Held within it is the understanding that we are already everything and our healing is simply restoring us to this absolute Glory.
Beautifully said Lucy, the word says everything doesn’t it… arresting that lifelong pattern we have as women of constantly trying to improve ourselves. And not just that, everything in our approach to healing both medically and otherwise is geared towards fixing something broken. We never work to restore something already intact… just not lived. A completely different ball-game and one very needed if we are to reverse the current trends in illness and disease.
Living life from the ‘whole’ without separating different aspects of our lives has been a revelation and truth inspired by the teachings of Serge Benhayon that I had not considered previously. And it makes total sense – we cannot possibly live separate lives/ways in the same body and expect a truly well and vital body and sense of being. Deepening the relationship we have with Religion (our innermost connection) is medicine in itself and inspires greater responsibility and love to honour and nurture our physical body as a divine vehicle.
It is without a shadow of a doubt that healing stems from my connection to God and it is through this connection to God I find the support and confidence needed to heal.
One must also find out what causes illness. Is it God, is it a random occurrence, is it ourselves? Religion has used healing in spreading religion. Jesus healed the sick; this I believe is what initially brought people to believe that he was the son of God. Eastern religions believe that the mind (how we think) and the body are connected. Our minds reflect our bodies (karma and causality). When we are blessed with illness, it is not our bodies that we must initially restore, it is our minds that we must ponder. Do we have evil in our minds? This is where I believe that the power of healing comes from our minds.
Yes interesting heaventruth, what l’ve discovered though is that what’s filling my mind is determined by what’s filling my body, not the other way around. Eat crappy food, and my thoughts are soon after following suit, get something done that needs doing, and my mind feels positive, receptive and ready for what’s next. There’s a classic Charlie Brown cartoon I love that illustrates this perfectly I think… essentially it’s message is… slump your posture, drag your feet and look decidedly glum and your thoughts will soon start becoming depressive. Put your shoulders back, head up, a spring in your step, and you will soon start feeling more positive and joyful about life.
I had noticed years ago that positive affirmations didn’t work for more than the short time I could sustain the thoughts in my head.. then l’d revert to whatever attitude I was disliking before. But the whole thing felt like an effort to change from the mind. Through understanding the connection with my body and it’s affect on the mind (through Universal Medicine teachings), l’ve been able to completely change what’s filling my head without trying.
Jennifer,
You make a good point, but your mind determines if to eat crappy food or not; your mind determines if you slump your shoulder or not. Because God has given us our reasoning skills, we can control our thoughts or instincts that emerge in our minds. Sometimes it takes much restraint and strength to calm our minds and ponder each occurrence, so that the negative thoughts do not take over. Positive affirmation does not work without constraint, commitment and help from God.
The true reality of religion and healing as one as life is medicine and we are an integral part of the all.This is so beautiful to feel and know and brings the real understanding of the true responsibility we hold also.
The connection of healing and religion is so eloquently proposed, such that the pondering of this relationship offers new insights into a life that walks each day in both.
‘This ever-present healing aspect is captured at a physical level by the concept of homeostasis: the body’s unceasing movement towards healing itself, rebalancing. It is us and our moment-by-moment choices that create the obstacles to this natural and unceasing movement towards healing.’ The body’s natural movement to heal itself is occurring all the time.
Yes it’s quite something to ponder how industrious and intelligent the body is at orchestrating a constant movement towards healing. We have to actively get in the way to prevent this from occurring… which l’m sure is a great reflection for all of us to ponder. You could say our evolution is guaranteed, it is only us who delays it with our unloving and abusive choices.
‘What does it actually mean to ‘make whole’’ and more importantly are we willing to see that we are whole already? And that there is nothing outside of ourselves that can make us ‘whole’, is it only the connection within ourselves that activates and initiates this absolute and true wellbeing. Similarly what is Mental Wellness? I read this the other day and could feel the power in what was being asked as we can so easily (or maybe not so easily!) discuss mental health and mental ill health but what is mental wellness? As you share all, healing, religion, the body our intricately linked. The mind is not something on its own it is part of the body which is part of a being which is part of the all.
Very true Shirley-Ann, and that is the first step in true healing… to ‘restore the whole’. Universal Medicine Therapies all have this as their starting point, understanding that no healing is possible without first engaging the deepest part of us, which in itself initiates healing from within.
I had for many years lived with non descript ailments that amounted to no vitality and a total lack of well-being. During this time I visited many medical and alternate and complimentary practitioners. It wasn’t till I started attending presentation by Universal Medicine when the return to my essence and my own connection to life, including divinity was introduced that I my overall well-being and vitality started to return and restore to levels beyond what I could remember for at least 20years.
Yes there are many stories just like yours and mine Sandra, students of Universal Medicine, and I hear them daily now in clients too. We are reversing the trend that is now so commonplace nobody is even questioning it.
What is becoming very apparent to me is the well-being, vitality and youth-fullness in many of the ladies I know and see who are also students of Universal Medicine. Women well into their sixties that are living life with purpose, joy and full time employment. Talk about re-versing trends these women are role models for all of us now.
Yes Sandra, I know women in their 60’s and 70’s in fact still fully engaged and working, with no talk of retiring to a lifestyle of leisure. Their bodies and minds are in great shape and their awareness of what’s going on in the world very acute. They know they contribute something valuable, and so do their employers… it is a very different picture to the usual end of working life sense that it’s all over, nothing more to contribute, but buy a caravan and travel around Australia and that’s what you’re good for once work is done.
If Healing means to make whole let us not just focus on one part of the being, body or symptom but treat the whole person.
Yes it’s impossible to reduce the body to ‘parts’ if you understand that healing involves ‘making whole’ again. Our reductionist form of approach in medicine today will definitely be required to expand it’s horizons to a spherical view of the body and being we are in our entirety.
I love this simple statement… Healing is to name to make whole sound and well.
Returning to the true meaning of words and the interconnectedness of everything, brings us back into the driving seat in our lives and the opportunity we have to be responsible for our own healing and wellbeing.
So true Matilda, there is ultimately no avoiding the responsibility we have for our own healing and wellbeing. Our current systems will eventually collapse under a burden of demand due to the irresponsibility we currently live our lives with and it’s repercussions. Understanding the true meaning of words supports us hugely to return to a more responsible way in life.
And embodying this through our actions is a great marker to appreciate where we were before this all start and where we are now.
Very true Natalliya, marking progress out of our own mess is very important otherwise it is near impossible to appreciate along the way. And without appreciation, it can feel a bit of a tiresome journey back.
How you have brought religion and true healing together makes so much sense. Treating the body as a whole, the sum total of its individual parts, is something else makes sense as each part is connected in some way to all other parts; no part works in separation to the others. This to me reflects the truth of religion where each and every one of us are also connected in our essence, with everything we do affecting everyone else. This natural connection is continually offering the possibility of a divine wholeness to humanity.
Healing and religion are very much part of each other, allowing us to return to who we really are.Thank you for such a beautiful sharing of our true relationship with religion that is very real and a marker for us all.
The root of our pain lies in our separation to our true and divine self – our Soul. Until we reconcile the part (our spirit) that ‘walked away’ with the whole it walked away from, we will continue to feel the tension such a divide creates in our body.
Yes, coming back to our Soul is coming back to oneness. This is healing for ourselves and also for humanity.
Healing in truth to me is about a restoration of the whole of us, a re-connection with our essence and naturally letting go of that which is not in line with this. If we start with the knowing or confirmation that we are already complete and that healing is about restoring what is already there to flourish it gives a very different approach to one where we see ourselves as needing to obtain something from outside of us or to transcendentally connect with something…
Yes. And the simplicity of opening the medicine cabinet that is our own bodies and willingly and carefully observing and responding to the wisdom and insight it offers.
Beautiful Matilda… and the more honest we are when opening the medicine cabinet to examine it’s contents and communications, the more responsive the body is to our attention.
I grew up in a sect which viewed health as a measure of one’s holiness and faith. Medicine was considered false religion, and turning to a doctor was considered an act of heretical faithlessness. It’s interesting to read a view that in some strange way corresponds and at the same time differs radically.
Wow that’s pretty amazing Who Is Not Important… so if you got sick, was that a sign that you had sinned so to speak? And was the remedy then to become more devout?
Most certainly. Illness was a sign of a lack of faith. The remedy always started with anointing. The church was fine with using alternative medicine, though. If you could get it at a health food store, you could use it because you’re just using God’s creation, not altering. The effectiveness of most of that was questionable. Fortunately, I never really got sick. I do know of people who died as a result, though.
Yes that makes sense… to the philosophy they followed. How do you feel about all that now?
Something very beautiful occurred in me when I read about the homeostasis of our bodies. How our bodies are always moving to re align, re balance and reconnect back to its natural essence. To me I get the sense of something very magical happening, that our bodies know so much if we would just allow them to reconnect back to that essence that makes us who we are and not fight the very thing that would complete us.
The need ‘to make whole’ in the process of healing implies that we have separated into many parts or aspects that in separation do not reflect the natural harmony and order of our whole true being. Therefore healing is a return to this wholeness that we naturally are.
An awareness, from my own perspective has been deeply healing. I used to feel complete and very much in my head, dragging my body around, this is no longer the care, Universal Healing Modalities have been very supportive in enabling this connection to develop and when we feel more whole or whole, you really do want to care for yourself more and are aware of how the whole of your body is doing, it makes sense.
A beautiful sharing Jenny religion reuniting us with the divinity we naturally are through healing makes so much sense and it is very lovely to hold and feel this so knowingly from within.
“…If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united….” Yes, and from this discordance, one can see the energetic start of the how and why ‘dis-eases’ begin.
Very beautiful Jenny. Everything is intrinsically connected.
I see this connection and relationship between religion as in ‘rebinding’ and healing, to make ‘whole’, it is essential we look at the deeper reasons for the lack of wholeness and connection many of us suffer in humanity, we can live full and elevate ourselves from a life of function.
‘…and yet unrest, disharmony and dis-ease are increasingly prevalent the world over.’ the paragraph that this ends says so much and should be enough for the billions of people purporting to have found answers to stop and re-question the situations that we are in.
So true Michael, statistics ought to be enough for us to sit up and take notice, but it seems we need something more immediate and personal before we start to pay attention to the current trends. Such is the way when life becomes insular and individual, we don’t register those not in our circle of friends or family and only really get a taste of ‘reality’ when it happens very close to home.
Upon reading Jenny’s article becomes obvious that I most definitely want to go to a healer that has this sort of relationship with religion and with God and with themselves
Our connection to God supports our healing as we are given the marker of our grandness and nothing less is felt.
A true relationship with healing is like all relationships, it evolves constantly. Ultimately a healing brings us more awareness, joy, truth, harmony, love, and stillness. We can never get to a point and think ‘that’s it’ because as we heal, we receive more communication from our soul and the intelligence of the Universe. Healing is, therefore, a blessing, a gift from God that can be welcomed with open arms.
Separation from Essence = dis-ease. This makes so much sense because if our essence is love, and love is the very thing that keeps us healthy and connected to the all, without it, surely something has to give.
It’s interesting how the meanings of words can alter from their origins over time and over distance. The origin of healing from “to make whole” and then “to cure, save, to make whole, sound and well” are both quite different and there is much that can be read into both meaning. Interpretations…It strikes me that there is immense power in how words are used or we give them that power or give away ours to the reinterpretation of the meaning of a word. Looking at these meanings one might think that if I have a disease or an illness I am not whole, I am less than whole or if I am sick I am not a whole person. This in itself places a great deal of judgment on ourselves if we do in fact become sick. You can see where curses come from such as if I am sick then I must have been cursed or even judged by God as being evil. There is a whole downward spiral here on the meanings of these quite magnificent words because the truth is we are always whole and never judged by God. Thank you Jenny for raising this for further pondering, and no doubt further discussion.
Meanings of words are changed over many lifetimes and with transcriptions to other languages so the understanding of words today can be very different form the original meaning without us realising it. You return us back to the true meanings of the words religion and healing which makes perfect sense from what I had previously been taught and thought and this sits very comfortably in my body.
If true religion is living the love that we are, then of course religion is healing.
Yes Rebecca, what makes no sense really is that we do not know this to be the case unless it is so decidedly pointed out. Such is the consequence of letting go the true meaning of words and allowing them to mean something that in fact they don’t.
The true meaning of religion seems to be very far away with what we currently are told religion is. It shows how we have changed and manipulated a word that was all about connection to mean separation.
Exactly HM and not only what we’re told religion is, what religion has been demonstrated to be for many hundreds of years. We have to go much further back in history to find religious life in the purity it ought to be, not owned by anyone and not dictated by those in power. Our great teachers in history lived it and taught from what they lived, no book or bible, no rules or power to those who did so, just the understanding and knowing of truth and the wisdom that comes from a true connection with one’s innermost.
“What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function” This paragraph is magnificent, such true religion here.
“so to come to a point today where I now link healing and religion inextricably reflects a significant shift in my understanding.” So it has been for me since listening to the teachings of Universal Medicine.
Wise words that underpin health and wellbeing … “Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function…”
Inextricably linking healing and religion achieves the outcome that they are both striving for and never do and is true medicine.
To reconsider the true meaning of religion as a process whereby we retrace and make whole that part of our beings that have separated from our original whole makes a whole lot of sense to me.
Religions as we know them have strayed far away from the true meaning of the word which denotes an activity rather than the other way around – a term that gets bolstered with tenets and principles, ideals and beliefs that come after the living fact and the chasm between the two posits.
The dis-ease and unsettlement we have from living so far away from our true and natural essence causes havoc in the physical body. And the body is always teaching us this, if we listen.
Very true Jenny, we have so many signs and symptoms that we need to unravel in the healing process. And this includes in every aspect of our lives usually, not just with our physical health and well-being. Living without this connection to our essence affects every interaction, situation, relationship and situation we are involved in.
Time to move away from heady analytical theories and move back into the philosophy of our bodies.
True religion, true science, nature and our divinity are all part of and from God and true healing comes from here also . A very real account of the responsibility of words and the essence of us all and our choices with this.
One word that has also been bastardised is slavery. Slavery is anything that keeps us from our Soul and thus from also healing.
Once the true meaning of words are embraced it is clear that religion and healing are inextricably linked. As we return to our union with our essence (God, Love, Divinity – pick the word that takes you deeper into wonder) all the choices that we have made in contra to this are revealed and the impact of them on our bodies able to be released.
Very true Matilda, those words are all aspects of healing and religion, and once we re-establish a connection with them, everything that does not belong, can clear from the body. This turns on it’s head what healing is too… in that this process may in fact involve getting sicker if we are already ill or manifesting something new that is part of the clearing of what no longer belongs in the body.
Understanding that a connection to the universal whole offers a totally divine experience of humanity is very worth being willing to explore. Without this we have more of the same that is being lived and repeated over and over with deepening ill-heath and harm before and all around us. When I asked is there another way the awareness started to open up and understandings started to come in and then responsibility on my part needed to be chosen. Appreciating and accepting the true meaning and inter-connectedness of religion and healing is part of the whole.
‘ No wow factor, no hail-Mary’s necessary, simply a restoration of a completeness that would have us feel utterly and completely normal, albeit a new-normal you might say, for in this ‘whole’ state we would also be fully aware of the fact of our divine essence, as well as our physicality, emotionality and our mental aspects.’
Beautifully and said and makes total sense , thank you Jenny.
The only link I knew of between healing and religion when I was growing up was that of faith healing. It seemed a bit ‘out there’ to me, as I saw images of people dramatically falling back and being miraculously cured. I suppose I was open to the idea as I had heard of miracles being done in the bible. What I can see now that I have been offering and receiving Esoteric healing modalities, is that no one heals but yourself. Where religion comes in is that the relationship we have with our soul and therefore with God, is what supports that healing, as the only purpose of healing is to return to our godliness.
Yes Fiona, the purpose of healing is to restore our ‘wholeness’ which means to restore the fact of the Soul and God and our inevitable relationship with both. To understand this as something integral to the process of healing, and that the Soul and God are not separate beings or entities outside of us that we worship or hold ourselves as lesser ‘mere mortals’ in relationship to, is a huge paradigm shift.
I would never have considered that to truly heal would involve religion.. true religion, yet it has been totally proven to me by the resolve of many health problems for me from bringing The Way Of The Livingness into my life, restoring my connection to God and with this my body healing.
In a world where illness and disease is off the charts and still rising when we have so many doctors and medical know how than ever we have got to question whether there has been something missing in how we have approached the way we live. Perhaps we are indeed living less than we ought to.
Our propensity to turn a blind eye to the reality of the impact of the way we choose to live is catching up with us and the sooner we turn to face the facts, the sooner we can halt the escalation of the problems.
Joshua this is a great point – could illness or any kind of disharmony be a signal that we are not living our true potential?
As my religion is the way in which I live (The Way of the Livingness) with myself and with everything and everyone then every choice I make either supports, confirms or heals my body or I live in disregard and abuse it therefore it is impossible to separate religion and healing.
Spot on Caroline… it is impossible to separate the words, they are one and the same in effect.
Religion is very healing for all, so no wonder we have constructed organised religion as it stands today.
Yes a crazy irony it seems Jane, we look every which way but inwards. Examining that more closely however I have also realised that when we don’t in fact look inwards as out first gesture in seeking truth, it is because we are not in fact seeking truth in that moment, but a solution and hence relief to a discomfort we find ourselves with. The words ‘seek and ye shall find’ come to mind… if we are truly looking, it is all there to be found.
“The ‘healing principle’ within the body is something wondrous and constant. ” Indeed it is Jenny. It is literally miraculous how the body can and does rebalance itself, given the right support and conditions to do so, when it is injured or sick. And the same happens in nature all the time, constantly working towards finding its natural balance.
Jenny if the true meaning of the word healing means ‘to make whole’, then I feel we have lost our way, because of my experience of life at 61 years of age. Whenever I have gone to say the doctors, I have been given something to relieve the pain, or ease the discomfort. Never has there been any suggestion from the doctors that we should look at the ‘whole’ of what is occurring and this is not the fault of the doctors in the least, as they only seem to have 5 minutes per patient and there is no time to discuss anything. So I would say that there is something missing, we have lost the meaning of healing and have instead accepted a lesser version of ‘ to make whole’ and are now reaping the ill effects of this in our society.
It is evident from your article Jenny that religion and healing are intrinsically linked. You made it very clear and simple why and how, thank you, excellent blog.
The current problem we face is words have lost their true meaning and have been twisted over time. This is no accident, as words in their true meaning hold a quality that connects us back to our inner most knowing. I like that you have first taken the time to break down the false perception of the words Religion and Healing in a detailed manner. It only makes sense that healing is more than physical and that true religion is simply a connection to the whole that we come from
It feels like a proposition of the ages to consider what true religion is, and what true healing is and ponder their relationships. It offers the world a pause to see and feel there is much more going on than our daily experiences.
I just love the perspective of healing equaling or meaning making whole… This brings us full circle back to the ancient philosophers and healers telling us not to separate the mind and the body, that everything must be looked at and everything must be treated.
This blog has given a great understanding of what true healing actually means… Life, our relationship and interaction with it really can be either harming or healing.
It is tricky how the true meaning of words can change over time, because we then can lose the true meaning and understanding how something was originally expressed. Healing is a word that is not often used in hospices because of the misinterpretation and when someone speaks of healing, it can be assumed they are talking about the person getting better. But there be can be true energetic changes to someone who is terminally ill that are healing changes even when their illness is still terminal.
Yes great point Gill that is a perfect illustration of the loss of truth in a word. We don’t even use it now in its true meaning when it does apply because it will be re-interpreted based on what we’ve come to know it. Exactly the same can be said for ‘religion’ too. The word is not used, even when it actually applies in truth, because we have so much attached to ‘religion’ that is not true, few would understand its applied meaning.
Absolutely Gill. True healing is so much more and so much deeper than someone simply recovering from an illness and can take place at any stage, regardless of how sick someone may be.
How easily we have fallen for organised religion, the rituals the pomp and glory in some cases the belief in the scriptures and the ideals that are espoused. It is awesome to come back to basics and let religion be the re-connecting that that word once held as a description of what was actually happening….to actually reconnect to the Laws of the Universe, to allow ourselves to feel the light that is us and to allow love to be our expression.
Very true Elaine, there is a tension we live with that in my experience is not relieved until we re-connect in this way. Much as we try to make organised religion the answer to our woes (for those who do), it does not ever relieve that deep inner tension. Only true religion does that, which is only ever a deeply personal re-connection, never can it be through something or someone outside of us.
True religion and true healing and amazing real connection and relationship of what we are all here for. A beautifully presented article of the truths of what life is all about.
This is beautiful piece of writing. Interesting to read this and explore our relationships with the words religion and healing. Religion I would not have connected with myself and the word religion in my youth, although now I reflect I understand that there were moments of connection and clarity that I now would relate to as religious. And healing, well I had not so considered it, it was something that people did, I had heard of it with energy, I was suspicious and putting plasters on and scab dropping off etc, but not something I would have connected with me. Now I see that to heal what we feel are our hurts through healing, enables a deeper connection and clarity with an inner stillness that is a religious connection knowing. I have no doubt in what I have experienced from my body and I know I am coming back to a feeling of wholeness.
Yes exactly Samantha, we are always in relationship with ourselves in some way. When we begin to restore the relationship with our inner-most part, the essence of who we are, we are being religious, unavoidably so. That is something that amuses me particularly given my distinctly atheist upbringing, that once we begin to restore that relationship in ourselves, true religion is unavoidable, it is just happening irrespective of whether we subscribe to the word or not. A bit like reincarnation, it is happening no matter whether we believe in it or not.
I am constantly blown away by nature and its intricate intelligence, true religion is nature, the science and healing of life.
Yes understanding the connection and relationship with nature, life, us and healing is in recognising the common principle throughout… the pulse of God and our relationship with the divine within and the divine all around us.
To consider the true meaning of the word ‘religion’ …”‘religio’, which means to ‘re-read, re-trace, re-consider diligently the connection or relationship with God’….” it is incredible how distorted and corrupted this word ‘religion’ has become in our modern attitude to it. Today, this very word engages and incites many negative reactions and tensions – which is quite an irony to its original healing and wholesome meaning.
When we twist or misinterpret words and accept a certain meaning at a head level, so much is lost for us and the path back to who we truly are, made that much longer and harder because we then don’t have our wise and all knowing senses in the body to tell us otherwise.
Very true Julie, we have only ourselves to account for in that case, since it is we who accept the misinterpreted words and incorporate them into our lives as though they are the truth. Part of healing is restoring true meaning to them, as only then can we claim them as what it is that is occurring.
So much can be misunderstood when we do not know the true meanings of words.
I agree Rosie and it is one of the ways that we artfully avoid taking responsibility for the way we live. If we muddy the meaning of words (‘love’ for example) we do not have to live its true quality.
I think we play dumb and misunderstand way too often when really we do actually know and feel what is really going on, all of the time.
When put like this religion and healing go hand in hand. In our wholeness (healing) we can can live our connection to God (religion) and then walk on earth the Sons of God we are.
We may not know how to become whole again but we recognise when we feel whole again. Therefore there is a way back to something that not just can be restored but serves as a compass if only we give in to the pull of the wholeness that forever awaits and calls the part to rejoin. This is true on a physiological as well as on a spiritual level.
Thank you Jenny – After reading your blog it now seems so obvious how religion and healing are so much the same thing. A ‘re-turn to’ love in both actions of the word, which is medicinal to the body.
Religion is a word that we run a mile away from, but this is because of all the false definitions and connotations around it. When we come back to its true meaning of re-linking and re-connecting back to the very divinity that lives within us and around us, it becomes something to natural to us and something we seek and ache for rather than run away from.
How beautiful that ‘healing’ means to make whole again!
It’s amazing how you rolled it down accordingly. We’ve got a whole lot of organized religions, beliefs and spiritual movements lately but man is experiencing more anarchy and unrest than ever. Why? Because we’ve lost our balance and understanding of what real love for our neighbour entails. Personal encounter of this healing is what WE really need; for nothing changes a man like a personal encounter. Thank you for this Eye-opener…
Exactly Sirjpblog, we do have a lot of organised religions and more atrocities in their name to mankind than we could ever truly account for. Bringing it back to ourselves and healing (making ourselves whole) however is the only way we will ever change anything… one by one!
When I am in connection with my essence I can literally feel the energy of fire running through my body. This makes me feel vital and alive. I can feel how this energy is truly healing and brings my whole body together in alignment. True religion and health and healing are inextricably linked.
Whenever I have found myself unwell, I can look back and see it’s because I’ve been sucked into individuality – thinking life is all about me. As soon as I am able to return to a place where there is an appreciation for everything that exists and a feeling of space, my health soon returns. I feel my life, up until now has been a process of learning to keep returning to way of living that holds the world as a whole. To know this is what Religion is, is deeply beautiful and equalising – for it’s just up to us how much healing we are willing to allow. Thank you Jenny.
I had an unquenchable thirst to know God, and insatiable hunger to know the reason for our existence that overwhelmed me when I was young… it was too much … so I sedated my self with hours of daily meditation and much more, until I met someone who embodied the truth that we all are, that lives in all our bodies and that is just waiting for the fire to be lit.
Without knowing the whole how can we know how ill we actually are? Without knowing the whole how can we heal in order to become whole again? Without true religion there is no true reference for health and healing. Without healing we will not be able to restore our relationship with the divine whole (religion). To live religiously is healing, to heal is to establish a religious way of living.
Beautifully said Alex…
Beautifully revealed, I couldn´t agree more – that´s what I always have known healing/religion to be but it was only through Universal Medicine that I got to be fully aware of what I have held deep inside but didn´t know how to bring to light.
The more I sit with this proposition the more I realise we have really ‘put the cart before the horse’ here. If our energetic alignment to the source of all life is damaged in anyway, how can our physical bodies remain healthy? When we are shown how to gently and steadily re-connect, we can build the bridge again between our inner divinity and our physical well-being and so give our bodies the most dynamic and effective medicine with which to heal.
There feels like a massive difference between the intention to make whole and the efforts made to cure. We try to cure things by fixing them from the outside, removing the pain or the problem. To make whole is something we do by understanding what is missing and then re-introducing that into our lives so that we may be the more complete version of who we naturally are.
If it wasn’t for true wisdom we as a race would be in a lot more trouble, it seems we are so easily lead away from truth and most of us swallow hook, line and sinker what we are led to believe. The loss of the true meanings of words is just another tool to keep us away from the truth and being whole again.
This blog is great the way it exposes how the current reductionist approach of modern science and medicine is very limiting, in that it never considers who we are at an essence level (divinely connected to God) and thus is merely working to get rid of bodily symptoms of disease, rather than seeing the human body as more than physical and more than just a bunch of individual unrelated parts.
It would be good to know how and if healing and religion relate. Whether there is any connection at all or whether they are intimately intertwined. A lot would depend on how religion is defined.
The truth is that… “…it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion…” This has the potential to transform the world and the way we live in it.
If we’re not feeling whole, complete, ourselves, and living that everyday then that is the dis-ease.. the lack of harmony in not living and expressing who we truly are that then plays out in our body.
It is so beautiful how you combine these two natural parts of the whole, the fact that this would be seen as unusual in our modern day simply shows how far we have travelled from the ageless wisdom that has been presented for thousands of years.
I love the way the story unfolds and the questions deepen here Jenny to get to the bottom of what true healing is energetically. Actually coming to the root cause of illness, and re-connecting to our essence returning to the true religious origin we are from makes everything much more simple than the superficial sticking plaster approach and of course very much more effective.
Interesting that we have made these words very separate when in truth they are part of the same thing.
Great revelatory blog – it makes perfect sense that when we live in discord with our true divinity that disharmony will be present within our body and our body will make this known to us in the form of illness and disease. It also goes to show that the way forward is to re-connect.
‘If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united.’ Many of us don’t even realise we have an ‘essence’ and many of the organised religions certainly don’t teach us about it. In the Catholic religion the word ‘divinity’ is applied only to God, the Virgin Mary and the saints – not to us ordinary ‘mortals’ which is a complete bastardisation of the truth of who we all are.
This made me want to talk about our essence more.
Yes, the part that religion talks about and that may have a big influence on our health.
It’s important to note that re-forging a connection with God does not mean one will be free of all physically defined illness’. Simply that there is a contentment and acceptance with what is clearing.
Thank you so much for this blog post. You’ve beautifully woven into words what I feel and know at an instinctual level, but have not, as yet, been able to express. Thank you!
Awesome blog on how religion and healing are eternally one – ‘The two cannot exist in isolation to one another, regardless of what we call it, when one is truly healing, one must be in true religion at the same time.’
Yes Jenny, when we look back at human history we can see, that healing and religion used to be linked intimately. When you look at the stories of figures like Jesus and the Buddha, didn’t they offer people healing through the way that they lived? It seems no coincidence to me that these two elements of religion and healing have been divorced ever since. Your words help me see that when I accept and embrace my own divinity I return to living an ancient way that is full of joy. Living my sass, my spunk and pizazz to the max knowing we are all one, what a healing way to be.
When we truly surrender our body and feel into the words ‘healing’ and ‘religion’ in their truest sense we can feel within that they are inextricably intertwined one with the other in a way that brings a knowing of clarity in the body and an at oneness with the divine.
‘…a restoration of completeness’ that is our absolutely natural way to be – there is much inspiration and consideration in this article; a brilliant support for us as we explore our purpose in life. Thank you, Jenny.
Yes Matilda, it does offer an answer also to what is our ‘purpose in life’, and not necessarily only that we are here to restore a connection and relationship with the Soul and divinity, however that’s the most sensible answer l’ve come across in a while and our continuing denial of it goes a long way towards understanding the state of illness, disease, unrest, war, violence, substance abuse, corruption etc. we are facing in the world today.
I like the original definition of healing that is to ‘make whole’. Everything about the way we live, consider the body and treat it these days is segregated and divided into parts. Modern medicine has learnt to treat specific parts of the body very well but is struggling with comorbidities that are so common these days. It’s almost like we are being forced to see the obvious fact that everything is inter-related and cannot be treated in parts. The way we live is also segregated, thinking the way we are in one situation plays no bearing on the next, yet we do it all in the same body. There is so much more to us than just the physical and it is very much a part of what restores true healing and wholeness to the human being.
This is a great point to highlight Fiona – we have almost mastered focusing on ‘improving’ one part to show we are ‘progressing’ when in fact we are using it as a reason to remain ignorant to the whole and the ills that are set outside of our selective focus.
“To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us. No wow factor, no hail-Mary’s necessary, simply a restoration of a completeness that would have us feel utterly and completely normal, albeit a new-normal you might say, for in this ‘whole’ state we would also be fully aware of the fact of our divine essence, as well as our physicality, emotionality and our mental aspects.” – To be re-connected with our divinity does not mean we disconnect from the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects, for divinity holds each of these within. Hence it is the final over-arching ‘banner’ so to speak that can be our beacon should we choose to come back to that that we are actually originally from.
Wow, Jenny, I love how you have broken this down into simple terms that make so much sense. I too have a background of Natural Medicine, and within that there is always a search for the whole approach. But in all that, though there is an exploration of the physical, mental and spiritiual aspects, that is where it stays – never at any point does it actually broach the true essence, the soul and our connection and relationship with God, for it only ever stops at the relationship with the spirit, seeing this as the end point, hence selling us all short of the bigger picture. For me this was a huge revelation. But what I love about what you have presented here, is the fact that we actually do not feel complete and settled within ourselves without re-establishing the age-old link and connection we have with our innate divinity, and hence the first stage of dis-ease is the moment there is a first step of disconnect from that divine essence itself.
I love that there is no shying away from talking about God and our relationship with Him and that this helps me cut through our mis-use of so many words and make my own investigations based on what I know in my essence.
I love your title. It is not possible to truly heal without having a relationship with healing. Nothing happens without our commitment and willingness to be there for ourselves.
Without our connection to God we cannot live the wholeness we are.
I was always aware that religion referred to a way of life, and it is great that The Way of The Livingness encompasses every aspect of life: Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Physicality, and Religion itself. This is no select group of people, it is All of Us.
The very fact we are chasing our tails seems to suggest that we are not open to true healing. In my experience it takes a deep correction for us to feel the devastation we are in to then acknowledge it, become humbled, seek the healing and ask the bigger questions. Not great that we have to get to that point to seek it, but it appears that the only time we reach out for truth is when we are at our lowest ebb – when our health breaks down, or we have an accident or our relationships break down.
My body loved this blog. I have not considered the connection between these two words very often but can completely see, and have experienced for myself, the result of being connected to my essence and the deep healing it brings.
So simply and powerful explained “And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.”
Healing being to ‘make whole’ brings a totally different understanding of what is to receive healing or to be healed. So, the healing of humanity – now there’s a thought.
Yes Michael and for me it also exposes that any treatment or modality or medicine that does not consider the whole and restore one’s whole-ness falls short of delivering a true healing and at best may only provide a temporary relief from illness.
I love the fact that the original meaning of healing is to ‘make whole.’ This makes complete sense to me as when we are ill or unwell we are separated from our essence and therefore in parts, and this leads to all sorts of behaviours and consequences for our health and our bodies. So to build a reconnection with this essence to me gets to the root cause of the problem, rather than just dealing with the symptoms.
Yes I do too. The whole is where we originated from and this is a simple support to return to this.
The lack of the personal connection with God, which is true religion, is definitely the missing piece in the present approach to health care a consequence of which is ever increasing rise in illness, disease and societal abuse.
Interesting that historically the art and science of healing had a ‘foot in both camps’, the religious and the scientific. Times past we would have gone to see the ‘holy’ person of our tribe to cure our ills. Today we head off to the scientific first and may or may not consider the religious aspect too. Personally when I address my alignment first, the root of the dis-ease is much more readily exposed.
‘it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.’ and there are many many people who can attest to this from applying the teachings of Serge Benhayon to their lives.
It totally makes sense that, ‘to re-unite with a divine aspect within’ is what ‘make(s) us whole’, as true healing requires.’ Anything short of this allows what is not divine, what is an ill to fester and cause disease. Take away medication and medicine for a few days and we will see this clearly.
Illness and disease will continue to spiral until we decide to arrest the false momentum in ourselves first – momentum is underpinned by the ill notion that disease and illness haphazardly happen, and that it’s all about fixing the ailment or issue and getting on with it. Until we start considering life and all that comes in life from the perspective of the Whole of Life we will be caught in its fragments – illness and disease the constant reminder that this is not the way to be.
Well said Katerina, turning around the current trend of escalating illness and disease has to begin with ourselves. There is nothing at all haphazard about what we suffer, it is all a perfect reflection of the way in which we have turned away from a true relationship with divinity… which is first felt and connected to within ourselves.
I know that once I restored my inner alignment to God, my health issues began to correct themselves because I was finally able to feel and see that my body and I are worth taking immense care of.
This is something I was more tangibly aware of yesterday Rowena during and Esoteric Yoga session. That when we connect, align and surrender to truth and love within our body it changes, there is a flow, an openness, a warmth which consistently lived I can see would lead to true health and wellbeing.
This is such a great sharing Jenny, thank you for deepening the connection to re-connecting to wholeness and the delights of our essence, which are there waiting to be lived in full when the mind lets go of trying to separate our being from our livingness.
Until I Healed my hurts from what Religion is not and came to embrace and understand the truth of Religion I could not have fathomed that Religion and Healing go hand in hand. Yet today this makes sense. It highlights why words really are more powerful than anything if we take them at face value and don’t look at the energetic quality and root truth of words by energy first.
Yes very true DN, there is great power in words… to heal, or to take us very far off track. Of course we have to want to go off-track, otherwise the bastardised meaning will not wash and it’s falsity is easily felt.
There seems to be a large intuitive aspect to healing, i.e. there could be a truth that may only in the future be grasped by science. What would you call a truth that is currently not grasped by science in full?
Divine Truth
and Energetic Truth
“And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” Such a great truth. As a child I was not brought up to associate healing and religion together. Nor did I associate the two when being a full-time complementary therapist. Now I appreciate that without the combination it is no wonder there is the present state out-of-control of illness in its myriad forms as the combination is true medicine.
Nor I Jstwerart51, healing had no real meaning for most of my life, just a term used interchangeable with ‘cure’ really. Even though I studied Natural Medicine for 4 years, I still had no sense of what the word meant beyond dealing with ailments to make someone feel better.
And religion meant going to church, following doctrines, singing hymns and such things. Completely at odds with the true meaning of the words and neither offering any pull towards something that ‘made me whole’.
Yes I totally agree Jennifer, and when I was a complementary therapist prior to meeting Universal Medicine something always felt to be missing, that something was not quite ‘right’. Now I understand why, it was the religion.
Yes but if you’d said that to me 17 years ago I would have thought you were some sort of religious nutcase… even now I would not say it freely to clients or those enquiring about what I do. There is so much assumed once the word is used that without a preface of true meaning, it would be reinterpreted just as I would once have done.
And doesn’t that go to show powerful and harmful the mis-interpretation of the true meaning of words is?
Absolutely so jstewart51
When we live in alignment to our truth it is truly powerful in what our body can bring.
The link between these two words in there truest sense is the way forward, and it has really been no coincidence that firstly their true meanings have been lost and secondly that they have been separated into different camps set against each other.
The words ‘Healing’ and ‘Religion’ have been used in a way that disempowers people, we have lost the meaning of both as an everyday thing for all of us. It is therefore so good that their true meaning is now being exposed as is our love-less way of living.
Yes indeed – it is time the bastardisation of words are being well and truly exposed.
There is so much that your blog teaches us – and one of the simplest things it shows us is how powerful the truth of words is and how desperately we need to return to that truth; and this is not just ‘religion’ and ‘healing’ but the whole plethora of other words that we have bastardised away from the evolutionary pull that they offer us.
Beautiful way to express it Otto… that we have bastardised words ‘away from the evolutionary pull that they offer us.” And therein lies the answer to why we have allowed it to be this way… and not until we’re ready to take responsibility, will we readily accept the return back to truth in words.
“….it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion…” there is enough in this one sentence to study for a lifetime.
The innate wisdom of the body is something to deeply appreciate.
Whatever consciousness we grow up with – whether it be religion, sport, health, etc… they all come with set ideals and beliefs, pictures we take on of how we and or life should be, and they set us up for disappointment – people disappoint us, we get injured or sick, etc… and the pictures crumble. Life would be very different if we were to grow up connected with our essence, knowing who we truly are and honouring this.
Yes I agree and a choice to develop this re-connection with our essence offers the change of tide that we all yearn for.
Just coming to terms with the word ‘religion’ and its true meaning was in itself a massive healing, enabling me to release a great deal of tension that I have carried for years in my body. Re-building our relationship with this word and activity is an extremely effective medicine.
I agree the word healing has lost its true meaning – I know a lot of people who choose this type of treatment would see healing as a way to fix an ailment or a condition.
And would ask others to do that ‘healing’ for them.
Yes very true Eva & Christoph, that is how far we’ve come from the responsibility it is to truly heal. We cannot hand it over to a practitioner and ask them to fix our conditions and complaints, that is not healing.
‘And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.’ yes I agree and The Way Of The Livingness as lived and presented by Serge Benhayon is this.
I have an entirely new understanding now of this very lovely name ‘Helen’ – the true meaning of the word healing with its origins in the Dutch helen which in translation means ‘to make whole’.
There are many forms of alternative, complementary and ritual healing and it is for us to discern which of the plethora is true. Western Medicine has its place, no question, but there is a great deal of money in pharmaceuticals making us a little wary and untrusting on occasions. In the end it is down to us and what we feel in our bodies, and our self care goes a long way towards helping any external healing process.
Wonderful blog asking us to truly consider how disconnection from our essence creates discord within us that leads to ill actions and ill health.
True religion resides in the inner heart of man.
Like this Alexis, simplicity rules.
When I learn more about historic or ancient cultures I really like the sound of them and in many ways would prefer them to now – society is choosing to not be aware of so much wisdom that was embraced and lived so much more in some of these older cultures.
What you are sharing here is that all that we have in the world is not diversity but the result of the same cause – the separation from our essence – simple repeated over and over again in a different outfit.
“When we think of healing, I dare say for most the word has lost its real meaning in everyday life and would be considered synonymous with the current dictionary offerings of: alleviating, palliating, easing, helping, softening, lessening, mitigating, attenuating, allaying and so on” – and also Jenny, when i mentioned to someone i was on a [Universal Medicine] healing retreat , they immediately asked if i was ok, thinking i was sick or ill needing healing. The truth is, is that i was indeed in need of healing because of feeling the absence of ease/harmony in my body and life creating tension… and any sort of minor tension from a tooth ache, headache, back ache, argument with a partner, exhaustion and so on… is testament to the fact that every single one of us on earth needs healing, that healing is a universal requirement not only for those who are terminally ill. When we change our perception and thoughts on the word “healing” we realise just how ill we actually are.
Yes great point Zofia, if we changed the criteria for healing to be ‘ill-at-ease’ then many more would acknowledge the need for ‘healing’, and hence the need to ‘make whole again’.
When we compartmentalise our selves, we lose touch with the whole. Seeing our selves as just physical bodies denies not only our emotional and mental wellbeing, but completely ignores the most awesome part, the divinity that lives within us. Unite the divine with the physical and the other two aspects naturally align and we begin feel and experience the power of true restoration.
The ‘dis-ease’ of disconnection seems to underpin many of our modern day ailments in today’s society. Maybe ‘dis-connection’ (to love, to our body) is actually the number one disease / ailment?
You have brought healing and religion together in a way that makes complete sense. If we start from essence (Religion) and are not living from this essence, which is whole and complete, then we simply have dis-ease in its many forms from psychological, emotional issues such as anxiety, stress, depression to physical symptoms such as asthma, migraine etc etc, because we are not living ‘whole’ but as parts which causes disharmony.
It’s amazing that so much is revealed from simply going back to the true meaning of words…
The process of evolution seems tightly linked with understanding that the human essence is divine, and the acceptance and living of that in everyday life is evolution.
Yes Heather, a far cry from evolution being about the next iphone 7 or advance in medicine. We’ve sidestepped what evolution actually means and the responsibility we each have to live the divine aspect we are. That’s not working so well… one might say!
Our bodies are truly amazing in their ability to continually heal in every moment, and they are constantly sending us messages about what they need, and how we are treating them and from that information we can choose how we live from each moment on.
Oftentimes we can think that in order to ‘be whole’ we need to gather or discover something outside of us – that we are incomplete or missing something, but what I’ve come to realise through the presentations of Universal Medicine is that healing is more a discarding and unfolding process of letting go of the things that we hold onto or believe in that keep us away from embracing all that we already are…
If we follow truth far enough it will always lead us Home.
I love how this blog explains each part bringing it to the whole.
It is stunning how much the body can heal, truly stunning.
Taking a moment to consider the miracle of how our skin heals after it is broken is a window into the awe and wonder of our bodies’ constant restoration from all the ills we impose on them… then I start to get an insight into the natural pull (return to) God that is our normal.
I love this appreciation of the body and its innate balance and harmony. It feels like a confirmation that we are held and supported by a very grand ‘intelligence’ as we journey through our lives. Perhaps biology lessons in the future will embrace and celebrate this healing essence and our relationship with this intelligence too.
I love this blog. There is so much depth and awareness here it feels like taking a beautiful warm bath! The truth here feels amazing.
“And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words” – beautiful Jenny, because without true connection, there is only destitution, despair and separation through which evil dwells. Healing our connection is healing our religion.
We have a tendency today to see science (and hence science based medicine) as being devoid of divinity, but in actual fact it is just one aspect of the God that when fully appreciated, makes it very obvious that medicine devoid of a religious awareness is only a partial science.
You have beautifully nailed it. If we are not in true religion we are in separation, and in separation, healing is always on offer to bring one back to the whole.
Yes spot on Jane, and we only need re-awaken one in truth (healing or religion) for they are one and the same in their affect. You might say that healing requires a re-connection back to the whole through the body, whereas religion requires a re-connection back to the ‘being’, our ‘other worldiness’, which is the part we disregard and deny in becoming ‘un-whole’ in the first place.
It makes sense that if the starting point is a ‘whole body well-being’ with natural vitality and joy, (as in what small children so openly live) then any thing less than this is not whole body well-being. It is time to include how the return to well-being is discussed and approached and call alleviating symptoms for what they are – simply that. There is no benefit to humanity by glossing over the truth – that alleviating is not healing and the sooner we address this truth the sooner we may be willing to address the really of what is going on with our health and well-being.
This makes so much sense – most people keep searching their whole lives to become more, better etc. – or, are in reality on a search to become whole?
This is a great blog that makes you think about and consider why is it that we have access to top medical research, technology and highly specialised people yet still the rise in dis-eases … and why is it that there is separation of medical, and religion / philosophy when they are inexcusably and clearly linked.
The truth is we don’t need to pause to wonder what is going on, we all know because true religion is who we all are and we are choosing not to be all that we are. Also there’s too much at stake to pause and ponder, we might actually have to come clean and own up to being responsible for the debacle that we currently call ‘life’ and we’re not ready to do that just yet. Maybe in a few hundred more lifetimes.
What’s clear from your article Jenny is that healing isn’t understood by us as a society, and we either would never see or hear about it or perceive it as some alternative thing – but our bodies and relationships are crying out for healing- a true understanding of how the body works and is always coordinating itself for healing.
Yes great point Jane & Harryjwhite, what is also clear is that for as long as we don’t actually seek true healing, the meaning of the word will remain a hazy and reinterpreted version of the truth it actually offers.
Its current use is a precise reflection of our current relationship with the truth (or not) of healing.
After watching nurses and doctors in a hospital recently, especially with the ever changing patients and beds, I can see that there is great room for change, in the way medical staff look after themselves and also the patients – my feeling is that many of the illnesses being treated could have been avoided by people making different lifestyle choices and the more we can encourage people to take responsibility for their own health and not just leave it to the doctor, the less stress there will be on our medical resources.
Hospitals, like schools, are a reflection of the what we can see is not working in society. In either place, the words responsibility are the calling card for the possibility for change.
“Separation from Essence = dis-ease” and with this definition we are actually as humanity not doing as well as we are thinking because many people are in separation to their essence and thus many more people are having dis-ease than we are now counting.
That is a significant observation Lieke. With the escalation of the illness and disease our medical system has to deal with, it is high time we wised up to the fact that the issue starts way back with people living in separation from their essence.
Yes as you point out this reflection would show many more people than we consider to be in dis-ease right now – a perfect reflection of the number we are going to get if we do not change the current trend of people chasing and living in a way that is very far from their true essence.
Isn’t that a great way to approach for preventative medicine, teaching people to love themselves, deeply care for themselves from the moment they are born or when separation is ‘diagnosed’ later to then already start to step in and not just when it is coming out very obviously through the many forms of illness and disease we see today.
It takes a few reads of your sharing Jenny to fully realise how far we have separated from the truth of who we are and the real meaning of the words religion and healing and the interchanging that you describe. We can’t have one without the other makes total sense!
True Religion and True Healing both come back to Love, Truth and Harmony. This rather exposes any religion that preaches separation, guilt, sin, war, judgement etc etc – where is the love, truth and harmony in that?
Good question, and where are we coming from when we follow them?
When I hear the words evidence based medicine I want to ask what is the evidence base for the evidence base itself? What does it take into account and what is allowed as evidence? Does it take into account what it cannot prove, or what it does not know? What assumptions is it based upon and is it investigating its own foundations to see if they are sound? We might perhaps learn from our own history here and remember that the world is not flat at all. To remain open to the existence of God and other dimensions of being is to me, absolutely key.
I would never have had these two words as one and the same and equally interchangeable but when we return to their true meanings, it exposes how much we have strayed from the original meaning of words over time. We cannot work as a whole when we have parts of the body that are not in harmony, everything needs to come from truth for healing and religion.
Spot on Gill – I too would not originally placed the words healing and religion together, but in fact, it makes total sense and how Jenny has expressed this makes it easy to follow – it is the final key that brings it all together.
This article is so very important if we are to move out of this period in our history of great illness and disease for how many of us can from true healing and true religion say that we have gone full circle and are whole again.
Jenny this is beautiful and shows the real truth of all that is at play with the true meaning of religion and healing together as one united way of living in connection with our divinity , our very essence. Anything else is a divergence away from who we truly are and hence our health and harmony and the magical flow from within. No wonder we are living in a world so rife with illness disease and disharmony and suffering with all the different versions of religion we partake in away from our truth. “And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.”
“…Separation from Essence = dis-ease…” This makes good fences as separation from Essence is a separation from Love within the body and the consequence of this no doubt would flow onto impacting on the choices we make and eventually cause physiological disturbance on a cellular level.
I love this …”The ultimate relationship between religion and healing is reflected in one word: essence…” the package and volume that this one word holds reveals just how important words are in their true meaning, and in what they communicate when we use them correctly. The choice of words is important. This also shows us how degraded and dismissed the true meaning of words have become over time.
It makes sense that in order to return to wholeness, we need to reconnect with every part of us – and that includes, if not starts, with the divine aspect of ourselves that so many of us dismiss, override or ignore. Until we make that reconnection, we’re always going to be in dis-ease – in the tension of being less than who we are. This is as profound as missing a body part, perhaps more so.
I was not aware that the root meaning of the word to heal meant “to make whole”. So with the original meaning of the word religion meaning to ‘re-read, retrace, reconsider diligently the connection or relationship with God,’ it makes perfect sense that the combination of the two words lived by there truest meaning have to go hand in hand for a true healing to occur. Thank-you Jenny I love how you have made this so obvious.
Religion and healing when lived are intertwined with each other. It is super simple, and the fact we think these are separate from each other shows how far we have come from true religion.
What you write here just feels so absolutely true and simple; and pondering humanity’s divorce – between healing and religion – explains so much. By embracing these words, by living them, talking about them, walking them, we can shift the momentum back to truth.
Even the most forgiving and cursory glance at the state of the world’s health, well-being, harmony and vitality leaves us in no doubt that neither of the current forms of religion or healing are serving humanity. Your brilliant blog offers some very profound answers to this massive WHY.
Yes well said Otto, it is that simple, ‘neither of the current forms of religion or healing are serving humanity.’ The fact that we don’t go to the true answer is very telling however… there is a lot to be faced when it comes to halting the express train we have set in motion for so long. Well worth the effort of course despite the illusion we create that it is easier to continue on our way!
I had never heard this etymology of healing – makes everything make so much sense – makes everything whole.
Jenny I used to be adverse to the word religion as it had a whole host of meaning that did not gel well with me, but when we see religion as the truth of what you’ve shared there is no doubt it is with us and all around us every day and is simply our choice to be in connection with ourselves and in that be truly religious.
Yes so simple isn’t is DN… we get so disillusioned with all of what gets imposed on us as ‘religion’ that we are repelled. I was the same and stayed a million miles from any organised religion for most of my life. Today it couldn’t feel more normal and natural, and has nothing to do with anyone or anything outside of me. In that sense I could almost easily say l’m ‘not religious’ but only in the sense that most use that word.
Healing is not just about mending broken bones, but our whole body, physically, psychologically, mentally, so that every part of us can work in harmony with every other part.
This is such a gorgeously simple way to build a relationship with religion; when we have those moments where we feel absolute joy, magic, connection and wholeness (such as the ‘amazing’ moments we often remember from our childhood), make THAT your everyday.
So much is said here in how we take for granted how the body is constantly healing on a micro level to return to natural form of homeostasis. Instead of looking on the outside for remedies, fixes etc we need to re-connect and look within. You have explained it perfectly and so articulately here ‘the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.’ This is not rocket science but Ageless Wisdom, truth, that every single person has access to when we choose to re-connect to and live it.
‘Separation from Essence = dis-ease’ yes Jenny, this has been a profoundly true experience for me. As I continually build a deepening connection with my divine essence, how I live, how I am in life, committing to life, how I care for myself, my relationships and relationship with God have all changed.. and I have had long term illnesses and health conditions heal completely. As the connection builds the dis–ease within reduces.
If we were to consider the Latin meaning of the word religion as described by Jenny here and apply it to what has occurred with child abuse in the catholic church, then undoubtedly we have strayed far from the meaning of a word that should contain a lot of love and care. If we make the relationship to religion personal, then we are far closer to healing the body than could ever occur through relying on institutions to guide our way.
Yes Stephen and shows exactly what can happen when the words love, healing and religion become intellectualised. The church would pride itself on basing it’s operations on ‘love and care’ and yet those atrocities can and have readily occurred. The living of those words is not true for each member of the institution and hence nobody is calling it out (from within) and nobody knows how to ‘deal with it’ in an effective and healing (truly restorative) way.
“We have a world constantly searching for meaning in life with a growing sense of urgency”- This is so true, and what we’re seeing in food sales, entertainment, celebrity consumerism, spiritual new age therapies and self-help trends is that we’re looking to many different avenues for ‘help’. But what if we started by looking at our relationships, our family, what choices we’re making every day, how we are with ourselves?
The explosion of these false hopes, shows how desperate we all are and that, ultimately, we do absolutely know the what we are currently living is not it – if we weren’t feeling that so acutely, then why would we so rampantly pursue all these distractions.
Yes also interesting that we turn every which way but inwards… where we will actually find what we’re looking for. You’re spot on Otto, it does show how desperate we all are and what we’re living isn’t it… but it’s not until we truly want the answer that we’ll find it. It’s there to be found… loud and clear.
” If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united.” This just sums it up and says it all for our current state of health.
Living in separation is hurting and harming us more than we realise. It goes against our natural makeup and it is working against everything the particles in our bodies are designed to do, so no wonder we are experiencing high rates of dis-ease due to our high rates of living in separation from our essence, from each other and from God.
Illness and disease are the call back to true healing and therefore true religion.
There is nothing on earth more healing than reconnecting to God.
Beautifully shared Nicola – this is worth remembering and living in every moment.
Yes, and here is a wonderful reminder all about God: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-god.html
“As someone who grew up without the influence of organised religion” – I used to think that about myself too as our family did not practice any religion, but I have come to realise that the influence and ideals and beliefs of organised religion are so pervasive in our society that everyone is affected even and especially so if it has them rejecting true religion.
I agree, having grown up without the influence of organised religion I was still very influenced by it, particularly feeling the heavy weight of guilt and shame seemingly for no reason.
What has been quite interesting is to discover just how much I was influenced without realising that I was influenced because it appeared we did not follow any religion.
The more we re-build our relationship with our divine nature, the more obvious it becomes that illness and disease fundamentally arise when this relationship is disturbed. Our well-being naturally incorporates our connection to God just as much as the quality of our physical, emotional and mental health does. When our connection is strong, it innately nurtures and nourishes these other aspects and makes us whole human beings. It makes no sense to neglect or ignore it in our explorations into health, medicine and illness.
Your journey exploring the connection between true religion and true healing makes so much sense Jenny… how can there be any form of true healing if there is no true connection with ourselves and others.
How you have presented the word religion here Jenny, makes the word religion feel totally unimposing – which is a complete contrast to the bastardised version of the word religion we have today. And in this unimposing form it makes total sense that religion and true healing go hand-in-hand… there cannot be one without the other.
This is wonderful to read, that religion and healing are united and that if we are not in relationship with our essence, our divinity, we would naturally feel a dis-ease. It is no wonder that not living from one’s essence creates a disease and healing this requires us to be re-united with our essence and live from it once again.
Yes I would agree that True religion and True healing go hand in hand and from my own experience of a serious disease I felt a few months ago how the much deeper meaning and reason for the diseae was a calling to return to myself – to my true essence and live in a way that honours the knowing of this divinity. Without healing the issues being presented then religion would not be present and with no return to myself to see the issues no healing could happen. Thank you, what is shared all makes simple sense 🙂
I absolutely love the idea of making myself whole again after eons of time spent falling well short of it. True healing and true religion are the way back to the whole.
Me too Kev, and The Way Of The Livingness is doing just that for me.
Thank you for connecting the dots Jenny 😉
‘To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us.’ – Beautifully explained Jenny – all we need to do is to allow ourselves to be who we truly are, our origin, and the rest will take care of itself.
Yes sounds very simple doesn’t it… it’s unravelling the massive complication we’ve woven in avoiding this simple path of return that requires so much time and dedication.
Is it possible that we have separated the meaning and linkage of these two words so that we live a lesser quality of life here on earth plagued with our issues and our hurts? When the physical body is in pain we generally seek healing of it, but if we are in deep unrest with how life is or are creating issues, dramas and tensions, we generally do not apply the same form of healing to these aliments. Could we be indulging in making life complex and issue-full instead of simple, joyous and harmonious?
We certainly could be! Wonderful to bring the simplicity of healing, of re-connecting with our essence to clear the mental disharmony we have created by making life complicated.
The micro level of the body is very miraculous, how could you deny God when you look at any one part through the microscope.. I just see the universe at play.
You raise so beautifully Jenny the concept that holistic healing can involve retracing or reconnecting to what is already intact. So instead of a linear process of improving one’s health suddenly becomes a path of returning and restoring what is essentially intact and whole within us.
“The ‘healing principle’ within the body is something wondrous and constant”. Beautifully said Jenny. The body is forever striving to maintain a balance in order for it to keep everything working while we continue with our lives, mostly totally unaware of what is going on inside us to enable this to happen. Our bodies are indeed truly miraculous.
There is an awesome appreciation of the true power of words in this blog, something we have strayed from to our detriment.
Jenny I know from the wisdom of my body that what you have shared is the truth. True healing does indeed lead to true religion and true religion does indeed lead to true healing.
“To make whole, means to restore something that is fundamentally complete, intact, everything it was in its origins. And if we are from divinity, then this implies that to be ‘complete’ or ‘whole’ means also to be re-united with that part of us.” This is such an important point. It is the awareness that is lacking in modern medicine, and even in some holistic therapies. Our divinity is part of who we are, and is where we are from. If it is left out we are not dealing with the whole.
Wow I love that the word “healing” actually means “to make whole”, this makes so much sense as we all know to truly and “wholly” recover from an illness we need to address every area of our lives and what contributed to creating the illness, rather than just the illness itself – it’s a whole-encompassing way of life.
Interesting that this healing is to return to the whole that we have left behind based on our choices.
I really love that – it makes it so simple, we just need to make different choices.
Jenny my understanding of religion growing up was that of the christian church, its the only religion that I “knew” yet it never made sense to me. What did however is the magic all around me, from nature to the way I would wake up feeling “yummy”. Fast forward to UM and my new relationship with religion and everything makes sense. Thank you for sharing.
True religion and true healing are so well defined here, I really love that they are inextricably linked, I wouldn’t have associated them as being one and the same, so great blog.
To begin to truly and holy heal – pun intended ha-ha, both the physical body and the unseen etheric body, one must be willing to reconnect, otherwise things may appear to be healed but it is not always true, I liken it to this; when I was young my mother would ask me to deep clean my room, after I was finished, she would come in to check how I had gone and it always looked amazing, she would congratulate me. Then later as she walked around the house she would find all the unwanted things from my room had simply been moved and hidden around the main house. So the reality was, I hadn’t really cleaned my room, just moved the problems else where. This is what we do when we do not have a religious relationship with healing, from the outside everything may appear to be great but those hidden items come back to bite us later, just as my mother would bite me when she found out what I had been up to!
So true Sarah, great example! A bit like taking each symptom and dealing with it using some sort of remedy, under the illusion that this means you are well again, symptom free. But the energy causing those symptoms is still there, only now unseen. When it turns up somewhere else, just like the unwanted things from your room (hilarious and ingenious… wish l’d thought of that!), it is harder to recognise (in this case) as coming from the original condition. Hence the complication of multiple chronic ill-health conditions that have exploded in the western population this last decade or two.
Spot on! I am so glad you understood what I was saying…there is no physical proven link but the truth is we all know when we have not truly addressed an issue. Another great example of this is when you have an issue with someone, a friend, employee, family member and then that person moves away, the issue does not move with them, you end up attracting another person in your life that evokes a similar issue and so you are given the opportunity to heal it once more.
Yes and in keeping with what happens at a healing level, when we think we leave someone (we had an issue with) ‘behind’, to then find ourselves triggered in a different scenario but into the same issue, it’s also laced with all of what we’ve not resolved before as well. Hence our reactions are then out of proportion to the situation at hand.
A true religion may simply be a religion that embraces everything that is true and has a way to discern between truth and untruth. It could then be very supportive in healing as well.
I love that The Way of The Livingness is presented as a religion, it feels like it is enabling us to change the old programming of established religions and bringing a truth to life that enables us to live as one humanity, with no separation.
Me too Carmel, what other religion allows you to live from your own connection to God, and listen to your own heart and not have to follow doctrines that are imposed and sometimes forced onto us.This in itself causes separation and a bastardisation of the true meaning of religion.
Fascinating Jenny, yes because everything is inter-connected, then separation of what is naturally meant to be together will always cause dis-ease or create tension.
Our refusal to understand ourselves as more than functional machines ‘doing’ life is our greatest source of dissatisfaction and disease.
Yes Victoria, perfectly illustrated by the word dis-ease. There is clearly a tension when we are not in connection with our essence and living at one with that connection.
Perfect that the conversation has come round to the ultimate relationship between religion and healing being the essence. In fact every aspect of life when peeled back to its deepest layer becomes intimately linked with our connection to and expression of our essence.
This confirms that both true healing and true religion comes from within and starts with us and cannot be imposed upon us from outside of us.
So true Christine, we can receive many bandaids for our ailments but the wounds will never truely heal unless we chose to heal ourselves through true religion and true healing.
I wouldn’t have linked true healing and true religion together until recently and the way you describe it Jenny feels they are virtually interchangeable in their true meaning. It exposes how far we have gone from the common used sense of these words in our present vocabulary. But I love what you say “through religion we heal and through healing we find religion” in their truest sense.
Yes, especially when religion is that which is true.
I agree Gill – in those words the true relationship between religion and healing is felt.
I agree Gill, it is a surprising link but one I can vouch for personally. I never anticipated the enormous shift in the quality of my health that has arisen in my journey of re-building my relationship with my divine essence. And now I could never consider tackling any health issue without examing the quality of this relationship first.
I am left to ponder how our lives would be if we chose to work in harmony with this innate essence, rather than ‘take advantage’ of this healing nature. If our bodies are designed to heal, perhaps we are designed to work intelligently with them, rather than to abuse them.
It makes sense that the word religion would mean and involve us returning to our true nature, essence and Soul, and anything going against this would be the opposite of true healing, which ultimately would result in dis-ease.
Thank you Jenny for simplifying what true religion and true healing means and involves.
It is incredible how our body works, it is constantly working away, healing and bringing balance to our entire bodily systems. We can either assist this healing process or work against it and overload our body with dis-ease. How we choose to live is our religion, much like everything else, it is either healing or harming, to me, true religion is definitely healing.
… it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” So very well said Jenny, it just makes so much sense.
“Our misinterpretation of words is at the root of keeping us in ignorance of the truths of life.”. This is very true Doug and I have recently begun to wonder whether the misinterpretation is deliberate so as to keep humanity from knowing who they truly are and the life that is possible to live? I would say without a doubt that the answer is yes.
Thank you Jenny, you clarify beautifully what is healing and what the words healing and religion mean. You can’t have one without the other!
When there has so often been a relationship between religion and healing why has this been lost – perhaps it’s because so often we have not been living true religion but simply following an organisation which does not hold a complete truth and rather significantly keeps people away from it.
Jenny you have made very clear the link between healing and religion. That feeling of wholeness is definitely about my connection to God.
‘If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united.’ This makes so much sense of the state our world and health as humanity is today. If we are not connected to our divinity, to God, we become what is not divine such as poor health, war, abuse.. all the ills of the world.
‘To make whole’ – I love this definition of healing. Restoring ourselves or others through the avenues of healing, medicine etc. isn’t about band-aiding, fixing, patching up or sealing wounds (although this may be necessary on a practical note!), but actually looking at the bigger picture of how to restore vitality throughout the whole body.
“When we think of healing, I dare say for most the word has lost its real meaning in everyday life and would be considered synonymous with the current dictionary offerings of: alleviating, palliating, easing, helping, softening, lessening, mitigating, attenuating, allaying and so on.” same here it was certainly something that I saw as a fix, as the same as going to the doctor, but I never fully appreciated that healing was really about changing the root cause, shifting the underlying cause for the condition instead of fixing or suppressing the end result.
Yes DN, that’s a common misconception these days with such a fast-paced society we live in, our priority it to ‘get back in the saddle’ as soon as possible. The idea of a root-cause and of ‘making ourselves whole’ again has been overlooked for our ability to restore functionality, in effect.
A beautifully written article and one to be shared widely with others. People defend to the hilt their own brand of ‘religion’ with much passion, but lack understanding of the whole. Jenny presents true meaning of religion and healing and it makes much sense. What we see is a proliferation of organised and other religions groups alongside of a world that is dis-harmonious, torn part by war, slavery, bigotry, abuse and overwhelmed with illness and disease. Something has gone wrong, and traditional religious institutions do not have answers and have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. What is presented here offers new understanding: religion is the personal relationship we have with our essence which is divine. To live with this understanding brings harmony to the body and restores balance which so many people seek, but eludes them.
The body is constantly healing by adjusting levels of what is required. There are hormones, blood sugar levels and endless things that require attention. We even park it, in the garage every night for a service, that we call a bed! And, this is all done religiously every moment of every day!
Caring for our bodies alone will never truly resolve our health issues. Uniting the care of our bodies with the care of our inner alignment to God makes us whole again and brings about deep and lasting healing. It is the future of our medicine.
Our bodies do have the amazing ability to heal themselves, so why shouldn’t we look more seriously at ways that can greatly assist this through true religion and true healing.
That’s a great way to look at this kevmchardy – that religion and healing are tools for our bodies to do what they naturally do.
Yes Kevin & Rosanna, l’d go one step further actually and say not only are they tools for our bodies to do what they naturally do, but they ARE the body doing what it naturally does. It isn’t so much that we have to restore a true connection with God for healing to take place, we just have to get out of the way what it is that interferes with that connection, then the restoration is a natural and instantaneous occurrence and healing is synonymous.
Beautifully said Jenny. When we get in the way, we interrupt what is divinely natural.
I hadn’t considered it like this before Jenny, but it makes sense. I think getting the ideas of organised religion out of the way first, leaves us open to the possibility of there being a true religion, one that’s free of the hypocrisy, fear and nonsensicalness and one that is about our connection with ourselves and others, all others, equally…makes sense.
When we reconnect to the essence of who we truly are, we are bringing wholeness to the body which allows the body to heal, it is the separation to the whole that brings on all the problems we see in the world; this dis-connection brings on dis-ease that the body in its rebalancing is trying to heal.
There are so many incredible gems here – all exquisite in the loving simplicity and clarity offered, to choose for ourselves that we are all and have all available to us to live incredibly vital and joy-full lives. This morning’s gem that popped out to me is: “What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.”
For me one big contribution to my understanding of ‘healing’ is the fact of there being two types of energy that we can align to, Prana and Fire, and that everything we do is either harming or healing. For me that meant if I ‘thought’ I was healing someone, chances were that I was aligning to the pranic energy, being up myself so to speak with an arrogance that was in truth, harming. It is all a huge twist around to our ‘normal’ way of being, or what we have come to accept as normal although in truth is it not natural, just what we have been led to believe by the pranic consciousness. Soul Fire is what we can choose to align with and that is our original, natural state.
A while ago if I thought about what “making whole” could have meant, it would have been around that there is something to improve or fix or that I was not whole in the first place. But what I have been learning and growing to understand is that we are all already whole, we are born this way, everything is fully intact and ready to express in the world, regardless of what our physical body presents. Which means there is nothing to improve upon. This is where our ideals and beliefs kick in and say “but I have plenty to improve upon”. This is where a loving relationship with ourselves comes in, as the more tender and loving we are with ourselves, the more we let go of these beliefs and simply connect to our wondrous whole, which was already and always there.
Yes Jennifer it’s a tricky one to get our heads around… and in fact is impossible to get if it’s only through our heads that we try to understand. Experiencing what ‘whole’ means cannot be an intellectual exercise, it has to be one that is felt as a ‘whole of body and being’ thing, in other words, from that ‘wholeness’ we can know what it means. You are spot on that we do know this from when we are born and although we might not remember what it feels like (being so long since it was ’embodied’), when we re-experience it, it is an unmistakably significant (and normal) state of being.
Love how you’ve stripped these words back Jenny and presented how deeply connected they are, giving us the opportunity for a deeper understanding of dis-ease and well-being.
Connecting to our essence is the source of all true healing. How can healing come from outside of us? It doesn’t make sense. Connecting to our essence is to connect to God. It is the same thing. So healing and religion are inextricably linked and are one and the same.
Goodness the description of “making whole” is so far away from the concept of “fixing the symptom” and regaining “function” which has become our hugely reduced modern day ideal of health and well-being.
Yes Golnaz spot on, we do accept something very sub-standard for ourselves when it comes to our health and well-being, just as we accept something seriously sub-standard when it comes to who we are and our multi-dimensional nature. We cannot separate the two in truth.
We cannot have true healing if there is no true religion. For me these two simple sentences say it all… “it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function.”
Long story short and simple understanding how our healing and religion unite in truth in essence.
What is shared here makes so much sense. If we reconnect to ourselves in truth we have access to true healing. I know from experience that when I am open to healing I have to be open to myself first – I can’t do this unless I re-connect. Simple really.
When I was into New Age spiritual stuff, I learned many different methods of ‘healing’ but none truly addressed the whole person or allowed the client themselves to be the healer. With the Universal Medicine therapies, the responsibility for the therapist is in terms of how they live and the healing itself is the client’s choice. We do not ‘heal’ anybody, only ourselves.
I love that definition of healing, and it’s not one I’ve come across before either. It makes so much sense if you consider that our greatest ill is separating from our Soul, hence our ultimate healing would be to make ourselves whole with the Soul once again.
Thank you Jenny for this beautiful article, I was really surprised to read how the true meaning of the word healing appears to be of Germanic origins, in the Netherlands the word helen, is not very much used anymore, in fact the word healing is very popular mostly linked with spiritual healing. I feel after reading your beautiful article, that makes absolute sense to me, we should re claim this word again as in ‘to make whole’. (There is also the word heelmeester which means a master of healing and was the word used for a physician but I also found it in the meaning of the barber.)
That’s very interesting Annelies, I didn’t come across the word ‘heelmeester’, I imagine the use of it has been lost as we’ve lost any true connection to what healing is and therefore what a ‘master of healing’ might be.
And what is interesting too is that we also have a proverb that goes like this; ‘zachte heelmeesters maken stinkende wonden’ which literally means ‘soft healers make stinking wounds’ and figuratively means something along the line ‘desperate situations call for desperate remedies’. How interesting is our language and how we are (mis)using the words.
Wow yes… it is like acknowledging that healing applied that is not truly healing, causes a worse problem… which is absolutely true when understanding healing at an energetic level. If something doesn’t support the release of ill-energy, then it is adding to it. There is no such thing as neutral ground.
True form of religion is healing and the false version is harming as we have witnessed throughout history and currently.
The body is so amazing with its unceasing movement towards healing itself and rebalancing. The understanding you describe here Jenny about how we do this with our moment-by-moment choices reveals how we have the power within us to do this rather than relying solely on external support, like medication. It is the most natural thing to do to constantly recalibrate via the body.
This makes so much sense Jenny, beautifully written. To bring harmony back to the whole through our innate and true essence is surely going to have a positive impact on everyone and everything around us. It is quite literally life changing.
We lose so much when we focus on the relief of symptoms rather than holistic healing which is inextricably linked to the divinity within us that is always there to be re-connected to when we open up to it. Thank you Jenny for offering the spherical nature of true healing and religion that we have lost sight of with the current obsession with evidence-based medicine.
Restoring my true relationship with the word, meaning and activity of religion has been a major step forward in my healing journey, a process that has supported my body, heart and soul to move forward in life with vitality and grace. I know now that this is crucial step in our return to restoring vibrant health in our societies and one that western medicine will have to at some point embrace, so that it can continue to advance the amazing services it offers us all.
“If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united.” I love this sentence because it offers us divinity as a way of understanding our body and our illnesses. When we separate from who we truly are, and from our essence and our divine aspect, the body has to re-balance itself, to get it back its natural homeostasis, this makes total sense to me.
“Separation from Essence = dis-ease” I would not have understood the importance of what you share here until I had built a relationship and livingness from my essence, today when I don’t feel that connection and flow I know something is not how it should be. It’s amazing therefore how different my relationship is with illness and disease today as this really does take illness back to the root cause.
As we all know a lot of words throughout the ages have lost their true meanings so it is a great thing to do to peel back the covers on words to get back to their true meanings. To understand what true healing is and what religion really is, is true evolution.
I agree Kevin – a lot of us have been avoiding certain words, such as religion, because all we could feel was the harmful bastardisation of the word.
Thank you Jenny for shining a light on these words and the true relationship between them in your blog – another example of how we have lost true meaning in our use of language today and of how reconnecting to this in the way we live can reveal so much.
To consider we are the ones who create the obstacles to healing is very revealing, yet at the same time very powerful in simplicity if we are willing to accept this truth and the responsibility.
It seems to me that this is the connection, or re-connection that humanity needs to choose, to return to whole well-being as it truly is.
When I cut my finger/thumb accidentally, I am fascinated watching the body heal itself. It reminds me of what you write here Jenny, that our body does have an incredible propensity to heal itself. And that is really just part of it. There is also a responsibility to heal the ‘whole’ and not just the physical.
I never would have put religion and healing in the same bag, but reading your fascinating blog this morning, and through adhering to some of the principles of the Ageless Wisdom, I can see that they are intrinsically linked in their true meaning.
Since re-connecting back to my essence, and developing a relationship to it, I know I feel more whole and solid, and in this, the need to harm my body through overeating, pushing it, being in too much drive etc… has lessened a great deal.
Healing for many is a solution or fix. In the sporting world they work to find ways to heal more quickly with a myriad of techniques. Perhaps the healing is to consider why something has happened and address it at its origin.
It makes so much sense that to be whole we must re-unite all the parts… for each of us individually as well as humanity – to re-unite humanity as a whole.
I love that Paula. We are in our essence all One and so it is our natural impulse to reunite.
Love this line Jenny…”… it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” And it is a great reminder of how interconnected life truly is.
Great article Jenny. Restoring our connection or relationship within ourselves certainly brings a harmony within the body that is felt deeply at a cellular level. This harmony is medicine to the body, its physiology and all its systems.
What a great article and one of the best reads I’ve had in ages. It’s great to peel things back like this to get a true sense of words and their meanings. As time goes on, as is with other things we seem to allow the movement of words away from their intended or true meaning. At some point many things would not have had a word meaning, they would have just been felt and this article has certainly changed the way I look at healing.
If you aren’t aware of seeing this relationship or can’t feel it does that mean that it doesn’t exist? You may say yes while at the same time I would consider the possibility of it being so. Why? In our history there are a number of points highlighted where the group think was that something didn’t exist or wasn’t fact, like the world not being round. The thought of the day said the world was flat and that was the group consciousness and it took one man to change that view for the rest of us. You may think this isn’t related but what is being presented is that because the mere fact that you don’t have a sense for something doesn’t mean it’s not there especially when there are others pointing towards this fact. The article magically presents this relationship that brings us more aware, we only need surrender to what is already here to see deeper into it.
A great blog that has the power to change commonly accepted paradigms and methodology.
The two – healing and religion are inextricably linked. For how can we truly heal if we do not reconnect back to the truth of who we are, that is, to the divinity we come from and are made of? And as we reconnect back to our true origins, we cannot but heal the wounds we otherwise inevitably carry, in the underlying longing to whole – that is to be with Our Father- once again.
“If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are.” And here we have it Jenny these couple of lines just sum up where all dis-ease comes from.
I like how you bring us to the word essence holding the connection between healing and religion. It makes absolute sense to me.
How you have presented the relationship between healing and religion makes total sense. And as you say – there has actually been a connection with them in the past, but what is presented here is that actually they go hand in hand and it comes back to the true meaning of the words.
This beautifully reveals how we cannot live our lives in fragmented parts and view our health as something separated from the rest of us that will get a fix from outside of us. Living in a fragmented state means we are already in dis-ease for we have disconnected from the wholeness we are are. The physical ailments then follow.
And how revealing that religion in truth is always at the centre – not something on the fringes we can dabble in here and there, but the very foundation upon which true healing occurs.
A beautiful blog Jenny that totally makes sense.
It is true that to live religiously is healing to the whole being, when we are connected to our essence every moment is full of spaciousness and the wonder of the universe.
In light of the utter disconnection most live in and think is normal, I love the concept of restoring completeness… reuniting parts of ourselves to be one and through that connection, move through life with our essence leading the way, embracing both the divinity and healing as part of the synchronicity of being truly whole.
Thank you for starting the conversation on these two hugely misunderstood areas of human life. Of course when all the layers are peeled back it all comes to separation from our essence. Our wellness or our sickness whether physical, mental or spiritual always ends up with that. Are we running with the energy of fire? Are our choices impulsed from our Soul? Are we living as the Sons of God that is our true essence? Are we aligning to the order of the Universe we are a part of? If not, sooner or later it will show in one or more aspects of our life.
I was brought up in the Catholic Religion and in the stories of Jesus that I heard he was always healing the sick, so Jesus and the word Healing were synonymous to me. Sadly though, although Jesus said to his disciples ‘You can do this and more’ it was never taught to us at school. It is only now that I have come to learn that you don’t have to be anybody special, we can all ‘heal’ and, as you say, our bodies are healing themselves all the time and we take it for granted.
The first move away from our essence, be that an utterance, lack of expression or a thought, marks the start of dis-ease.
Healing has always been associated as being a separate thing to living, and something alternative. And thanks to Universal Medicine and The Ageless Wisdom the fact that healing is an essential part of life has been re-introduced – and in fact a healing lifestyle is the best form of healing.
To me, healing means; To heed a learning in such a way that one expands the nature of who they are, and need not experience the same ills from which they have learnt.
‘If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united’ – Through re-connecting to our essence, our body and who we truly are we heal.
A few years ago I would, on listening to the words healing and religion together have thought them a bit voodoo! I certainly don’t think so now. As you have explained their meanings in their truest sense it seems an impossibly to split them… they are inexorably linked as we are to them.
I found myself agreeing with all of this as this relationship between Religion and Healing has been my lived experience. True healing has occured in my life every time I return to and restore the connection with my essence. Bringing my body and being together rather than separate.
It is clear that current thinking on what healing is falls very short of what it means in truth. When we connect to true healing we can’t leave religion out of it because when we understand what true religion means we know that everything stems from one source that we can choose to align to or not. When we choose the latter, of course our bodies, naturally configured to work with this alignment, will show illness and disease trying to eject the poison we have put in it as it works towards being harmonious and in line with its natural emanation.
It is true Jenny that our current, widely taught and accepted paradigm of what it means to ‘be whole’ is out of kilter (blatantly so as the current rates risings of illness and disease show us. The shift that is needed is captured in bringing true religion and healing together.
“It follows that if religion, in its truest sense, is synonymous with true healing, then what humanity is historically and presently engaging in on the whole cannot be true religion and our efforts to heal cannot be true healing either.” If this is the case, that we have lost the true understanding of the relationship between religion and healing, it makes me wonder how much else we have misinterpretted overtime, to be now living in our lives that is way of the truth of it’s original meaning.
It’s so true that we have every system in place to support people in ‘seeking’ the answers, but very little that ‘confirms’ the fact that we are already incredible, and that feeling vital is about re-igniting a spark within.
Awesome reclaiming of the relationship between true healing and religion which exposes the current dis-ease in society where so many are disconnected from their essence with all the disharmony that ensues.
The definitions of words such as healing and religion have been bastardised over time – and it time to return to their true meanings. The way we are living now demonstrates how far we have strayed from our true essence.
Thank you Jenny for such a clear, authoritative and illuminating article. What a change in the approach to medical treatment there will be when this understanding is generally accepted and understood.
Beautifully said – “And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.”
“And so, it is through religion we heal and through healing we find religion, in the truest meaning of these words.” Jenny I think it’s great to explore the words of healing and religion to not only understand the truth of them but to explore and see how they are linked together. Lots to reflect on including the fact that anything but true religion is already dis-ease.
Great sharing and article Jenny, thank you. I studied Naturopathy and whilst there was so much taught which is helpful to support the body and being to come back to living more harmoniously it was still based on returning to a level of function so yes we were taught to go deeper and take more responsibility than say to simply take a pill but as you say there was and is so much missing – the Soul, our essence for without that life really is bland and mundane. However hard I have tried to get through life if it does not include being with my essence I feel a constant tension, which I used to and still at times get frustrated by but gradually am embracing this tension more and more because it is calling me to be more of who I truly am not letting me settle for less. I have found that when we combine western medicine, with complementary medicine and couple it with The Way of The Livingness then we have a complete package which can truly support and assist people to not only be living in a vital state but to be living in a joyful and vibrant state.
I completely and fundamentally agree Jenny Ellis. Studying Universal Medicine has restored this vital link between true healing and true religion and consequently the current quality of my health has never been so robust in all my life. Any attempt to achieve one without the other is leaving us bereft of the vital ingredient, the return to essence through re-alignment and the honouring of this essence through the quality of our living.
True healing and true religion cannot exist without each other just as religion cannot exist on its own without philosophy and science as on some level all of these things are aspects of the one source anyway.
Often when I see myself as just a human being is when life gets mundane, exhausting and dissatisfying. This is in effect the start of illness and disease which can be healed by knowing we are divine and there is so much more to us than just ticking the ‘doing life’ box.
Is our current relationship with modern medicine, to make better? So, could it be through our life choices we have broken ourselves and say thank God for the assistance in fixing what we willfully broke, this is also our limit for religious affirmation? We need to feel the truth in cycle you have described ‘through religion we heal, and through healing, we find religion’ before we can move forward.,
Thank you Jenny. An inspiring article to read. True healing is available to all as we return within to re-connect with the truth of who we are in our Essence and live from this way, as reflected by Serge Benhayon – there would be a massive change in the statistics of illness and disease throughout the World.
“What I have discovered in working with Universal Medicine Therapies and applying the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, is that it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body”.
Healing is one of the many words we have mis-used especially with the advent of the spiritual new age, where the word was used indiscriminately without first understanding its true principles.
Beautiful Jenny. When I am still and say and feel the word ‘essence’ I know it ignites a spark within me that reconnects me to Divinity.
We cannot truly heal without a connection to God but it is not in the asking of God to take away the illness/disease but through supporting us to connect to our essence within and therefore helping us to see more clearly the ill-choices we are making. It is in the surrender to God we are empowered to make choices that aid our healing and assist wellbeing.
This is beautiful Jenny. How can we heal ourselves if we don’t even understand the true meaning of the word. To open up a conversation in this way is profound as is linking together religion and healing as one and the same. “it is the divine essence that IS the very life-giving principle responsible for instigating healing within the body. Restore our connection and relationship to it, and we will also restore the body’s enormous capacity to rebalance and heal, thus supporting and sustaining our vitality and function”.
It becomes more clear after reading your blog Jenny, that disease in people is from a disconnection from the whole, the whole that is also our essence and therefore religion, science and philosophy, the three fold that when reunited will bring us back to where we come from and belong to. In fact this is the healing of our being, the restoration of the connection to the whole we once walked away from.
Beautifully said, Nico.
This is a very key point – that it is our moment-by-moment choices that affect our body’s ability to maintain harmony (homeostasis). If these choices are made from love, then balance is restored/upheld. If those choices are not from love, then they will have a disharmonious affect on the body and this creates a dis-ease within us and illness will prevail. This makes perfect sense. Where we went so wayward as a species is when we carved up science, religion and philosophy so that we created fragments of the whole that are not in communication with the whole that they are a part of. And by acting in opposition to the integrity of this ‘whole’ means that each part then suffers further fracture in the sense that it has now separated itself from the source of wisdom it/we need to truly thrive and therefore must call on an external force to sustain itself. We could call this process ‘Humanity’s Great Amputation From Divinity – the birth of illusion’.
Love it Liane… ‘Humanity’s Great Amputation from Divinity – the birth of illusion’ which is also humanity’s slide into chronic ill-health, discontent and unrest.
Wow Jenny your way of describing the true relationship of healing make so much sense to me and I am wondering why this is not a common knowing! “If the human essence is in fact divinity, then any disconnection from or discordance with that essence, is basically us not living or being what or who we truly are, complete and united.” I am sure if this would be a common knowing our illness and disease rate would look differently.
Jenny I really appreciate this blog – it is so wonderful to read this understanding that many of us have gained through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and how simple and true it makes both subjects – the simplicity is divine and it has me hoping you might take this further into the way we view death and disease so you can ‘turn that on its head too!’
l’ll consider that Debra… there is definitely more to debunk when it comes to the way we view illness and disease, and I guess in that sense ultimately death, particularly from an illness as opposed to ‘old age’.
A few years ago all I could feel about myself was fragmentation, and all I know is I have to move towards a feeling of wholeness. This is the beginning of healing for me. Although there has been many detours and experiments into what is not true healing, ultimately the body knows what is true and has not given up in finding this truth. Therefore, it feels true that religion/healing, our connection to the divine, is an innate part of us, and we are returning to this naturalness within us.
Yes Adele, it does make sense once you understand the true meaning of those words, particularly what it means to heal and not just eradicate symptoms. Without that, we are left at the mercy of system that is almost entirely geared towards anything but ‘restoring the whole’. As a complementary health practitioner for many years before coming across Universal Medicine, there was nothing in my education or application till then that supported me to feel more whole, and for the complete resolution of a range of ailments I suffered until then.
An expert explanation of the healing qualities of being in religion, when we make our religion a connection to our divinity. We are from the stars, religion is an understanding of this and that healing we have disconnected from will allow us to return from whence we came.
“Separation from Essence = dis-ease” This equation is correct and such a simple explanation for dis-ease in the body that it s almost too simple. Take anxiety for example. Why wouldn’t we be anxious when we are operating only from the thoughts that are being fed to us. It is like driving a car sitting on the roof! Connect to our Essence is like getting off the roof of the car back into the natural position to drive a car.
I loved reading abou the origins of the words healing and religion. Particularly the ‘making whole’ aspect of healing. It’s so much more that putting Humpty together again, in order to truly heal we must address the choice we made to separate from our divine origin. Universal Medicine has provided me with the support I needed to begin to address dis-ease. Conventional medicine continues to be a huge support as the Universal Medicine therapies are completely complementary to medicine.
Our history as you show Jenny is full of examples of how these words have been completely bastardised. Organised Religion as we are used to it must be one of the greatest mass murderers of all-time. But all of this has been there to obscure the underlying truth – that we are part of one unified whole in this world. Religion is our path of returning to this truth and healing is our way.
This makes me realise how important it is for us to understand and appreciate true meaning of words. No wonder our life is compartmentalized into sections and there seems to be much complication and no congruency – and that in itself is a dis-ease.
Indeed Fumiyo, the compartmentalizing and the complications that this brings keeps us already busy for ages and in that we have comfortably forgotten the true meaning of words, as these true meanings will help us to restore that natural connection that will rebalance and heal all the illness and disease people are suffering from.
I agree Fumiyo – without living the true meaning of words, there is a quality of richness and depth that is missing and thus disconnected from our essence. Separation is the known way, with its complications, that as you say is dis-ease in itself.
Healing is not necessarily curative either, which may not be so easily accepted. When there is a reconnection with ones essence and this is being lived, all that has not been aligned to that harmony can surface to clear. I have experienced truly great healing occur in someone close to me, which resulted in him passing over. The dis-ease is in the separation from our essence.
This is very true and worth considering.
Beautiful linking of the two Jenny, and how far we’ve come from true healing and true religion, for the first is to make whole and the second is to rebind back to who we truly are, they are linked for how we can fully heal if we do not accept we are from God.
Healing has become synonymous with feeling better, being functional or relying on someone other than ourselves to fix us. When you consider that we are already divine and whole then there is nothing to fix but rather something that is not of the divine that is impeding the wellbeing, health and natural flow of the body. Removing that imposition at its root cause, its energetic origin clears the body to heal itself and to return to its divine order. To live religiously – in a way that is about bringing back our connection to God and our essence in full – is true healing and great medicine for the whole being.
Great point we tend to think we need healing to get fixed rather than it simply being about a return to who we innately are. And so as you say healing is about ‘removing that imposition at its root cause’. When we see ourselves as love first then anything lesser than this level of love is already illness and disease and this is where we need to aim, for sake of a better world, to return to.
Yes James, we have to completely change the marker we call ‘healthy’ and therefore ‘whole’, we cannot start out seeing ourselves as broken or defective in some way as the only solution to that state is to find something to ‘fix it’. Hence the complicated system of medicine and alternatives that we have attempting to fix everything humanity suffers due to our respective disconnect from that Love.
Well said Jenny, we have drifted so far from love many of us accept just a fragment of love as everything. But when we use love as our marker then anything that is not love stands out. Thus returning to this point of disconnection, our first step away from love is where we need to go to not simply fixing the outer symptoms.
Yes James, it’s a complete paradigm shift for us to consider disease to begin with the first step away from the ‘wholeness’, but it makes perfect sense and our language even supports it. Wholeness comes from ‘holiness’, and disease is made up of dis-ease. We lose our ‘ease’ the moment we separate from our essence and from that point the body is in disharmony and on it’s way to the development of some sort of illness.
It shows that we all know our essence and know what love is yet conveniently have mostly chosen to ignore and even deny it, even though as you say our language backs it up. The question is what do we want to settle for?
Yes exactly James, we do know, just sometimes choose to think we don’t, until we’re ready to admit we really do. Generally only when some sort of calamity occurs… then we are more willing to get honest about what we know and what our choices have been.
And it is sad that often a calamity is needed when all along we are constantly given the choice to be and live the love we know. However, we do often need to be shaken out of something to clearly see it. The question is how willing are we to be on the front foot and find every cob web until there is pretty much only love left?!
Yes very rarely I would say to your question James… I certainly wasn’t prepared to look deeper in the right places until I was desperate for a change.
How desperate do we have to become to truly want to change the way we are living. I know for myself initially it comes from wanting things to be different and slowly it becomes about embracing the love that I am so I can share it with everyone. Yet the moment I try to make life what I want and demand it to be then suddenly the fight and struggle kicks back in. So I have found change only really holds when we focus on the love that we are and not simply trying to improve or better our lives.
Yes great distinction James, if we just try to make life better it doesn’t stick, or we swap one thing for another but don’t address the underlying impetus. An important starting point however is that things are not right and that we are struggling, sometimes even acknowledging that is halfway there.
Very true Jenny we can only begin to start to heal and address what is going on for ourselves when we 1st acknowledge and nominate what has happened, where we have been and where we are – not in a self bashing way but an honest appraisal as after all we are not bad or evil just may have been making unloving choices based on hurts and reactions. I know for myself otherwise it can be all too easy to jump to the answer or a solution which means I do not truly get the healing that was on offer and the door is left open for it or something similar to happen again.
This is life explained so clearly, and sums up the two perspectives we can see ourselves from.