522 thoughts on “Quality of life or quality in life?”

1. Reading that quote at the end about function and harmony reminded me of looking after potted plants. I mostly do function when I look after my plants, I water them, make sure they are in the right amount of sun and every now and then – if I remember – I add some fertiliser. Pure function. I remember attending an event when they had a permaculture stand and the plants there looked like they were thriving. And I realised we can make it about function and getting by, or we can bring a different quality or way of being to it and actually thrive – and harmony for me makes our humanity thrive when we are all working as one.

2. When we are more aware of the quality with which we live life, this alters the quality of our life.

3. Its really great to question this difference between ‘quality of life’ and ‘quality in life’. So much emphasis is put on the ‘quality of life’ but this totally negates the quality in which we do what we do. So by making the quality in which we do things our main focus, our ‘quality of life’ would improve immeasurably simply by virtue of that fact.

4. To even consider there’s such thing as ‘quality in life’ brings up a sense of responsibility many of us are trying to escape from – that there is something for every one of us that we are here to bring. Quality of life is very important, but it’s the logistics, and what goes in and out of that that makes it even more richer is our quality in life.

5. And then what really makes sense is that the only way to have true quality in life is to know who we truly are… Because otherwise we are trying to have quality in the illusion

6. Great question ‘What if our quality in life is equal to or more important than our quality of life?’ as it brings it back to responsibility and the responsibility we all have. As I have observed and also lived, many times do we want things better in life than we have, yet rather than looking at the first point (us) and within we look at everything outside of ourselves. Making it about the quality we bring and live, as I am learning, is imperative.

7. ‘What if our quality in life is equal to or more important than our quality of life?’ One little word and a world of difference. The choice we have to play a part in the quality we bring into our lives and everything we do, rather than an expectation (sense of entitlement) about what life should deliver us. This is one of those questions that if we actually stop to consider opens up a whole lot of brilliant exploration.

8. When our focus is on our quality we naturally see the positives, the parts that are our strengths and there is less space for what we perceive to be our weak points.

9. This is so logical it is hard not to consider this hasn’t been our normal understanding “our quality of life is based on what has been first been lived as our quality in life.”

10. There comes a time where the way we live our lives no longer suits us, we no longer want to be smothered in all of the dilemmas and ills we have cast upon ourselves. In those moments, no “betterment” is enough, but only true love and integrity. In those moments, we begin to make steps towards our essence and a true way of life.

11. Living in harmony with our body and with our divine essence is to know who you are.

12. Such a good question Jane. We all have heard of quality instead of quantity and some people prefer to reverse it. This question brings it to the nitty gritty of what is really quality and how long does it really last for. If we’re not connected then there is not true quality.

13. The truth can sound so simple, like stating the obvious – but the fact that we ignore it so much is a huge testament to quality and how if not chosen wisely, energy will keep you busy investing in lies.

14. I remember there was a time when words like ‘divine spark’ and ‘inner essence’ all seemed a bit vague, and I did not really understand what they were relating to with regards to my everyday practical life. I mean, how does having a divine spark fit in or even help with the pressures and demands of a crying baby? But after some time of living with these words and of exploring their meaning in all sorts of everyday situations, I have come to know myself more, and to recognise that there is something eternally true about the core of who I am, and if this is the divine spark so be it – but this is me. And I can see this eternal core in other people too, even if they cannot see it themselves, which makes life full of a quality that is forever learning and exploring and deepening and growing – all and throughout the most basic and repetitive daily tasks.

15. The difference between body function, and body harmony… The word seems so simple any of the difference is so profound.

16. Our quality of life holds a greater value than any material possessions we may have, if we are not looking after our physical body our quality of life is affected and we often find ourselves living with stress that only seems to get worse so we buy something to make us feel better, yet in truth if we only concentrated on the quality of our choices life would hold a greater quality for us.

17. We make life so complicated and seemingly hard when it’s actually as easy as abc. Allow, breathe and connect to the quality of God and Love. That’s it!

    1. I agree Joseph – it just take the opportunity to glimpse this simplicity for it to offer the chance to realign and live from the connection to all that we are within.

18. It seems to me that when we bring harmony to the body the functions of the body sort themselves out. Whatever has been disharmonious shows up and we have a chance to deal with it.

19. When hurts and issues come up – we have a choice of quality as to how we will be – staying connected and with your movements enables all that stuff to easily clear.

20. My feeling is that as with most things relating to health, we as a society have downgraded the meaning of ‘quality of life’. It now seems to mean – still being able to do the main things that matter to a person, like being able to a weekly shop or go out for a coffee, regardless of how miserable you may feel for the rest of the time. Quality for me is way more than what you can do, it’s about the joy and contentment you feel in life and within yourself. I have seen this in a few people now, right to their death.

    1. That is so true, we tend to reduce it to the moments and that is why those moments – such as the cup of tea, the glass of wine, the slice of cake or the chocolate matter so much and are so hard to give up.

21. We will do anything on this earth rather than honestly confront the quality in which we live – for this exposes the willfull selfish disregarding way our spirit chooses abuse our body.

22. In speaking with elderly people they mostly all want quality rather than quantity. What goes wrong then when this does not happen, especially at End-of-Life. This is definitely worth pondering on.

23. Rather than it being a bind or restriction I actually feel it’s deeply enriching to consider the quality that we bring to life; like you describe here it brings our true connection to whatever it is that we’re doing or engaging with.

24. Our quality in life, living from inside out, is what determines our quality of life.

25. What kind of well being is it when you are actually thirsty for breaks in life from life ?

26. How amazing the world would be if we were all to live in a way that considers our divine quality first.

27. “…when we live a life disconnected to our divine quality we have a life where we are searching for quality from outside of us” What if it is our responsibility to bring and contribute a quality to wherever we go instead of needing or demanding it from the outside. It is a constant “on” instead of “off”, which then seeks a fuel from the outside, that makes us “on” , as it is not activated in us first.

    1. It is our demand and sense of entitlement that life owes us something that is so off the mark and ultimately arrogant. There is something very amazing about stepping up to the very natural responsibility we have to choose the quality with which we approach life and realise the ripple effects of our activity on the world around us.

       1. The more you are hurt in and of life, the more you feel you be entitled to get back something or treated in a special way. The moment you realise that everything that happens is there for you to grow and learn, the more you will see the love in everything that ever happened to you.

28. Quality of life is more dependent on outer circumstances- quality in life I choose and express. It is my responsibility and I am setting standards, no matter what the outside is up to.

    1. And that is the beauty of it Stefanie Henn-Hecke, it is our responsibility totally and nothing from the outside can affect the inside, as long as we stay committed and responsible, but the inside can definitely affect the outside.

    2. Love how you make that distinction Stefanie, truly appreciating the power we each have in the quality that we choose to bring to life.

29. The quality in life is the foundation to the quality of life.

30. The words ‘quality in life’ offer us the beauty of responsibility… being the masters of our engagement with and reference for life and all that it offers.

31. If we looked at our quality of life in depth we would see that there is a fundamental lack of care and regard running riot in our society. This is not difficult to see, but something that seems to be avoided nonetheless.

32. This blog has peaked my aware on the statements we use everyday that dictate and limit our expression of all that we are. Making choices when faced with a statement ‘Quality of Life’ invites care and consideration of the choices we make and how we would like to live life. The statement ‘Quality in life’ invites an expansive way of being in life that offers no restrictions – our choices are not restricted to some of the ‘physical’ or ‘functional’ restrictions that may otherwise apply. ‘Quality in Life’ is living from the inside out and available to everyone, no restrictions and so much to be celebrated.

33. It is like we did not consider that our wellbeing also comes from being well within and only looked at our how our external lives and events are in terms of being positive or negative.

    1. Very true – a missing ingredient indeed. Let’s look at what is within before we look at what needs to change on the outside.

    2. That is so true jennym, our success in life is often gauged on what we have accumulated and what we have to show in the outer world, whereas our true wealth lies in our inner wellbeing, and this is often overlooked or even unrecognised in many.

34. This makes so much sense and it feels simple and true. Many of us may have already tried the other way of seeking the quality of life with the quality in life, ultimately it is very exhausting and does not work long term.

35. I love this invitation to look deeper into what we actually mean when we talk about quality. Most of my life I have considered quality to be something that is measured according to externally defined parameters, yet more I am observing that quality is actually something felt, and far too often something that ticks all the boxes is not what it seems when I let myself feel deeper and honour my ability to tell the difference.

    1. good point Golnaz, quality is often measured by wealth and social status. The quality that is spoken of here is one that comes from an inner sense of joy, wellbeing, vitality, love and harmony.

36. Our bodies are very good at function but we often feel that the harmony is what is truly missing. When we choose to marry the two we have the vitality that the body is naturally able to offer.

37. When we make each moment about a certain quality then we end up living a life that is full of quality. The quality of life then reflects the quality in each moment of life.

38. Quality in life or quality of life might seemingly be very similar, but when you break them down they are like the difference between chalk and cheese or the land and ocean.

39. This makes total sense. If we take care of the quality that we move in then every moment in our body can be lovely. We can take good care of our ‘quality in life’.

40. This blog is also one to consider in aged care and how far we will take treatment of the terminally ill. Sometimes the last period in life is so consumed by medical treatment that all quality is lost.

    1. That is a very good point Carolien! Quality is what remains when you die and reincarnate. We should much more take focus on how we accompany someone who is passing over, as this period is crucial. And to add: How much do we actually try to get elder, sick people out of our sight, so that we don´t need to see and care about, what consequences our living causes. If we don´t support each other and feel the responsibility in all ways, no matter what age, pulling each other up, we will stay in the loop for disregard and unloving choices.

41. I love coming back to this blog as to me it is the ‘to be or not to be’ question. Will we “be” and live life from quality or will we ‘not be’ and be propelled forth by our hurts, desires and needs leaving us with little more than survival.

42. Surviving or thriving? Getting by or flying? Why do we so often settle for the former?

43. The approach to living life ‘from the inside out’ as Jane has suggested here really turns things on their head when it comes to all those ‘self-help’ books out their on the market (many of which I had investigated) because they all seem to promote a ‘betterment’ of people’s lives and come from a focus of ‘how to get this or that in one’s life, rather than simply coming from the knowing that we are all much more than a physical body, so how can anything in the physical reality alone ever truly bring us contentment or harmony in our bodies?

44. When I think about “quality of life” what comes to me is how to better my life- material possessions, holidays, a bigger home, new car etc. However, “quality in life” asks me to search and connect within- listen to my body, become more honest and responsible in my choices.

45. We are being fooled or better we are fooling ourselves that life only gets better when we have a better house, better car, better living circumstances, better access to family and friends and so on, even though when being honest none of this truly matters when we don’t feel good in ourselves.

46. I totally believed in the past that the body was only there to function, missing out on its delicacy and ability to feel what is really happening in life.

47. It is very interesting to observe someone who lives with ‘quality in life’, and someone who lives a ‘quality of life’. SImply by their movements it is possible to feel the difference, as living with quality in life there is no imposition on anyone or anything around them, whereas the opposite is true when living a quality of life, even though it may not be in that persons conscious awareness.

48. Like a pauper who suddenly wins the lottery, it seems it’s hard for us to accept quality when we have only known emptiness for so long. Overcome the change and awkward transition and there’s a bank of joy to be enjoyed.

49. Our fixation with quantity prevents us from deepening our quality, which directly affects our relationship with God.

50. I’m not sure many people have stopped to consider that living in a way that is not in harmony with our bodies is a direct cause of illness and disease. How many times do we override our bodies and go for what we think we should do? All of this adds up – and thus the quality we have is diminished by our own choices.

51. Yes Jane when we seek outside of ourselves we dis-connect to the pure and all encompassing beings that we are. We are in effect saying we are not enough. To return and bring our focus within and the quality of this connection with the understanding that we are everything and much more than we will ever need to be.

52. Life changes immeasurably when we come to know that we are a “divine spark of light” and that “This spark of light is our true essence, from which comes our true quality.” To know this to be true and to always hold this, allows us to remain connected to our essence, all of who we are. And living in this connection is what naturally brings the quality that supports us in life.

53. My quality in life changes the instant I make a choice to move gently, speak lovingly, choose to listen to my body, or simply accept life as it is. I start to glow. It is worth every ounce of awareness and every ounce of commitment to feel the change of energy in my body and my life.

54. When we are young we think our bodies are going to last forever so we don’t take into account that how well we care for ourselves today will reflect in our overall quality of life . . .. right throughout our life. As a woman over 60 who did not always take great care of myself I know that it is also never too late to start.

55. Jane I love this and have been exploring this since being introduced to Serge Benhayon 14yrs ago and with out a shadow of a doubt the quality in the way we live has an immediate effect on how we feel and connect in life. When I am not connected to my essence within, my Soul I can feel how much of a disturbance this really is and remind myself to come back. The level of tension and stress immediately settles and is released.

56. Observing the latter parts of life for many of our elderly, perhaps in a care home, perhaps bedridden, perhaps not knowing who they are, the question has to be asked, is being alive at any cost really worth it?

57. Our quality in life can either be in drive and nervous tension or in presence with the moment. The first creates more tension and ill ease in the body and mind and the latter allows us to respond more to life rather than react.

58. What is the point in having a life that looks amazing but that doesn’t have the depth of commitment, care, quality, integrity and high standards that we deserve to live every single day. Commitment, quality and having high standards should be part of our every-day health care. For example we know if we don’t give our day our full commitment we don’t feel complete at the end of the day and we can’t settle and that massively affects the way we sleep. It shows us that we can’t separate the quality we choose to live our life in and our health – it’s actually impossible.

59. Do a simple task, then do it again and you will find it’s possible to go deeper with the quality. A small thing can be done in a million ways – so if we find our life is lacking quality then it’s clear what needs to change – go deeper with the moves that we make.

60. Life lived in this way would most certainly be very very different than what we see around us.

61. It is awesome you are sharing this Jane, not many people in our society are aware of what you are exposing. It is important to understand how we choose to Iive as in our quality in life can affect our quality of life. To me this is so clear but it hasn’t always been clear for me until recent years. It is thanks to blogs like yours, and thanks to the teachings and presentations by Serge Benhayon that I started to truly understand life, who we are and how incredible amazing we all are.

62. I have no doubt that the world we live in would be a very different place if we chose to live a ‘quality in life’ as the way we live would be paramount rather than what we do to have a ‘quality of life’.

63. A beautiful sharing and topic of conversation that would bring the reality of life and our true living quality as our way of living and simply being the love and beauty we are with the appreciation and joy this brings to our lives and everyone truly.

64. Improvements to our quality of life happen quite naturally and by themselves, when we focus on the quality we are in and bring to each moment in life.

    1. So true…

65. “Quality of life or quality in life?” An interesting invitation to look at the difference between the two. Quality of life speaks of the life we have set up for ourselves, whereas quality in life suggests a deeper experience where we can focus on how we are living life. The two are very different.

66. Quality of life is important to us. We know when we are simply existing as opposed to living our life in full. The problem is that we have made quality of life about what we can do, rather than the quality of our being. If we make this the central point first, as I have seen people with serious illnesses do, then we can still have amazing quality of life.

67. our move and expression.

68. Whatever life throws at us we can choose to remain steady instead of jumping into reaction. If we make the event more important than our quality we can lose ourselves. If we focus on our quality in any given situation we are more able to handle life.

    1. ‘If we make the event more important than our quality we can lose ourselves’ I have been in that situation so many times, putting something or someone before the honouring of myself and the quality that I have chosen to live in. It always ends in disaster….that is lack of true love and complications.

69. There is a HUGE conversation to be had about the different between good function, and true quality. It’s a conversation every individual on the planet needs to have with themselves, and it would be nice to think that was supported by our education or health system, but they tend to stop at function. I honestly believe the conversation will happen, whether we choose that voluntarily, or it is forced on us by a health crisis or on society by a health system crisis.

70. Reconnect with the innermost and live from this quality and we have quality of life.

71. We have elevated function to be the marker of health when it leaves us well short of the grace of living a known quality in life, every moment and in everything we do.

72. Watching the quality of life deteriorate for the elderly is demoralising beyond words. Finishing your life not knowing who you are, and living in a bed watching TV for hours a day. Could this be a fate worse than death?
    What is happening in our world if this is the way many elderly people end up.

    1. I have been volunteering in an elder care home and the staff are so pushed for time that although they care very well for residents’ personal needs, there is not always time to care for their individual psychological or social needs. A large TV, DVDs and familiar songs and music are all used when they are short staffed and the residents could just sit there, which is not great, so volunteers are always welcome as they can interact with individuals or entertain the whole group with singing, reading or some other activity. It is very different from the community type of care where elders are with their families and surrounded by family life.

73. “I wonder how different the world would be if we were to all choose to live our quality in life?” A lot more still I would think.

74. Quality in life anyday of the week, what a staggering change for our overall society when we embrace the quality in life that we can all have.

75. Sounds very simple to me – the energetic quality that we choose to live with in life will determine our quality of life that we end up with.

76. To restore a quality in life is to re-connect to the stillness, sacredness and grace within that then is lived from the inside out in our movement and expression.

77. I am changing over my life style to be in the quality of life rather than the quantity of life. And I have noticed how everything is becoming simpler as I move through my day. And I feel very stable within myself which feels solid and grounded and opposed to being in a rush not completing tasks, and feeling that at times everything is too much and I need a break.

78. I needed to stop and consider this comment for a moment and then went, ‘Yes of course’ and then, ‘This is madness’! The thing is that quality of life is something we champion and believe we have a right to.

79. The ‘quality of life’ seems to suggest or encourage a belief about the comforts and material aspects of life… what life can offer us… whereas ‘quality in life’ invites me to consider my responsibility, purpose and how I can serve and support a bigger picture than my own nest.

    1. Matilda, I think you’ve nailed it with what you share, the fact is when we have a quality in life it’s not about the instant feeling of how comfortable and better am I, but rather something much bigger and much more real.

80. It’s actually the greatest gift that we have the power to choose the quality we live and move in. It means we do not have to accept what life throws at us and react to it. We can observe and then choose how we want to move. In this way we do not take stuff on, and have complete command of how we feel. It is a powerful tool for life.

81. “….in living our quality in life, we would be learning to live a life from inside out ….” Very true, rather than living from what the world is offering us from the outside and taking that in.

82. At a recent event I was at there was a debate on abortion. It was emotional and heated as these discussions can bring up a lot for us. Among the crowd were a number who were advocating pro-life, however if we are advocating pro life we need to be advocating for quality of that life. Not to, to me, is simply not responsible.

    1. Great point Michelle, the key factor being that there is a purpose to life that is much higher than to be alive or not. There is too often focus on being alive and not the quality of living.

       1. Yes – once again this exposes how the consciousness of function over quality is so very deeply embedded in our psyche. It feels all wrong to force a woman into having a child if she doesn’t have the resources, the health or simply the will to do so. It is neither supportive of the woman or the incoming child. In turn, in general terms, if a woman is forced to go through with an unwanted pregnancy it is going to have a knock-on effect on the rest of society in many ways.

83. A true sense of wellbeing is missing in most people’s lives. Many, having sold their souls for material comfort lose their sparkle, aliveness and vitality, proof they’re truly living, not simply going through the motions or surviving.

84. Absolutely Doug, indulgence and comfort are often caught up in this when quality in life is absent.

85. We have made life very much about goals and ticking boxes and with that we negate the wisdom deep within that we know how to move and to be, locking us into an automated way of life instead of allowing the flow and rhythm of the universe, that we are part of, guide us.

86. It would seem we have reduced a sense of quality of life down to a sense of satisfaction and whether our needs are being met. This seems a reduction in terms of our whole being and its own natural state of harmony and order.

    1. Well expressed Jenny. This makes sense to me.

87. I have seen a number of cases of terminal illness where the person clearly had a very poor quality of life but their quality in life was actually very high. It seems unlikely but there is actually no inherent contradiction – a major illness need not lead to stress or depression.

88. This is a very important distinction you make here Jane, and it shows our life long dilemma where we are focused on what we get but neglect what we bring. It is this inner essence you are speaking of that knows and makes the difference in life, as without it we are lost and desperately hold onto any marker of truth that is possibly surrounding us.

    1. I love your comment Esther for we do indeed focus much more on what we can get, what we want and fulfilling the images we have attached to than on what we can bring and how we can bring it in full.

89. We rate speed as strength. If you think we are ‘getting somewhere’ then that makes some sort of sense. But the reality is we are not – just going round in circles. So what is it we end up with? The quality we travel around with. So let us become kings of quality not alacrity.

    1. Yes, very well explained and very sobering and humbling, we are not going anywhere and thus are not here to strive for more and better but are offered to live more harmoniously and lovingly with each other. That is true quality and the speed doesn’t not matter.

    2. great point Joseph, we tend to look at where we are going, thinking that the answers and the better life lies ahead of us, but not realising that our quality in the very moment, every moment is what determines what lies ahead.

90. …and this quality in life can be taken anywhere and into anything including our work. It strikes me that quality of life is for self, and that quality in life is for everyone. Everyone can feel the quality that we are in.

91. When we live knowing who we are we realise we are already everything we don’t need to try or strive we are love and we just know it, when we lose this connection everything goes wrong and we are lost in illusion and are subject to the forces around us. Stay strong and connected and life flows as we allow the magic to simply unravel.

92. “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” Absolutely Jane a beautiful understanding of our quality and how we live and what we perceive is the importance of life and its true purpose with our health and well being.

93. Body function is like a flat-lining of life, the joy is absent, it is like a part of us is dead and no matter what we do, what external distraction or tool we look for, it is not there. However, when we go inwards and connect to a grandness that we are, we then have access to a great richness of life.

94. I have been realising that it comes down to absolutely everything that I do and the quality I do it in that matters not picking and choosing when I want to have quality and then not.

95. We are much more than mere flesh and bone and we all can feel that we have a depth that we often ignore and deny, rather than honouring and nurturing this aspect of our being.

96. Recently I have been more aware of how frequently I go into drive to get things done rather than bringing my awareness to the quality it is being done in.

    1. That is a great process, especially when we notice how much more we can get done when we do it in quality rather than drive and how much better the quality of our work is in that case.

97. Much to consider here in how we are living our lives and where our focus is: do we focus on what’s outside of us, creating a life that ticks the boxes and makes us feel good that way, or look within, listen to what we really want and need, and live from there?

98. “Body function and body harmony – It is for all of us to learn this major difference.” Serge Benhayon. (Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations: A New Study for Mankind, Unimed Publishing 2011)

    These simple but profound words of wisdom would be the most wonderful introduction to any course, seminar, lesson or such like for anything that is health or science related. It would surely change the approach to how we treat and what we understand about both of these subjects.

99. And I also find that my quality of sleep depends on the quality in my day.

100. Our quality of life is very much connected to our quality from within and the absoluteness that requires a dedication and love and surpasses everything we can possibly search for looking on the outside.

101. Why wait until we are sick to actually consider what our quality is in life anyway? Would it not be more worthwhile, healthy and supportive of our body to constantly evaluate what the quality is in our movements and how we go about our day, and make alterations to introduce a higher level of care?

102. This blog and many of the comments below it have stayed with me every since and so it is such a pleasure to re-read what has inspired a change in the way I approach everything. I cannot reduce it to what I say, do, or even think, because I am aware of my quality in all of those spaces now more than ever and the ripple effect – well it brings a warmth that is definitely quality of life.

103. It’s great Jane how you have made the distinction between Quality OF life and Quality IN life, Thank you for sharing this pondering.

104. We have to broaden our measurement of many things to include quality – we cannot settle for simply function and a picture void of any lived quality.

105. What we see in the outside is never as important as what we feel within. How we work and move is directed by the quality inside of us.

106. The quality of life is no different than when we were growing up, and on birthdays your height was marked on the wall to record your growth. Both are scales of where we came from and how far we have come from who we used to be. Is this what we have settled for rather than true evolution?

107. Quality in life brings a feeling of harmony that is us regardless of what is happening on the outside. We can have full cognisance of what is going on but we do not react and allow emotions to get in and have their way with us. This level of quality in life I see modelled in varying degrees around me and am working on it myself so that I can hold myself and others in the love that we are without getting involved in unnecessary complications.

108. A beautiful and informative understanding of the importance of our quality in life in every moment and how this allows a different responsible way of living for all from our choices and the integrity of our livingness.

109. It’s great to come back to this and see how it’s the quality in life first before we have a quality of life. Time to shift away from tick lists to quality and then we naturally get things ticked off.

110. I feel this is a timely blog for me. Something I need to not just consider, but truly live.

111. ‘Quality of life or quality in life?’ it’s great to have the distinction of the two so clearly laid out in this blog. It give the opportunity to reflect on this in our lives and consider how we can bring quality in life to ourselves.

112. I talk to people about quality of life all the time and there is even a disconnect from that. The sense that our life has quality for some has almost been completely removed. Life has become something that is completely based on function. Actually quality of life becomes about our functional capacity in life, which is what we can and can’t do. What then happens if we can no longer care for ourselves and do the basics, such as shower or toilet ourselves or brush our teeth for example. We can deem that we have no quality of life left or that others around us may say the same thing. But while we are alive in our body, we will always have access to a quality in life, that is completely independent on our functional capacity. I have seen this, not often however. But I wonder about, as a result of this, what is possible when we are needing to allow intimate care and support from others.

113. It is an illness to consider ourselves just as human. We can all feel there is something far grander we are from than just Earth and when we are living in disconnection to that it is always going to create a dis-ease within us.

     1. Well said Joshua – I had never quite considered it in these terms but expressing it like this makes it so simply clear.

114. I have just come back from a country where the quality of life is everything, and it was interesting to feel that and to know that there is so much more to life and that we are missing out on so much. So much so that we dull ourselves down to not feel what we know, at some level we are missing out on and it is very sad to feel that we are behaving like this. It’s like we are saying we don’t care when really we care very deeply.

115. What if the “quality of life” is all about the energy we choose and then move, walk and eat in that energy to feel the true “connection to our divine quality?”

116. There is so much more we can offer the world if we take care of the quality in which we live. More depth, more purpose, more love, more meaning. Life isn’t about purely getting by. We can bring so much more in each and every moment.

117. There was a news story yesterday that 40% of cancer deaths are preventable with lifestyle changes. Who’s fault is the other 60%? Could it be the advertising people that entice us to eat, drink and do things that are not beneficial to our bodies? Or, is it just that irresponsible person that looks back at us every morning in the mirror?

     1. We are travelling down life’s motorway ignoring the electronic message signs and the billboards warning us of the bridge out ahead, thinking it can’t be that bad.

     2. A clear reflection of the level to which we are willing to be honest and take responsibility – one day the headline will read we are responsible for all illness and disease through our choices but what will it take before we will be totally honest and return to our full knowing?

118. A great understanding and appreciation of the true and loving quality in life we live and how this makes all the difference seeing our quality first and the responsibility of this we have.

119. It is like bringing the quality in life by the connection to our inner essence and live it in and via our body versus quality of life that provides us a certain wellbeing, something for ourselves. Just by really pondering on the difference between ‘in’ or ‘of’ it feels like the first is an inside out movement with a deep connection for all to experience including myself and the other is an outside in movement primarily focused on me. Subtle but big difference!

120. I have started to bring my awareness to the quality of my movements and wow how this changes everything.

     1. That is awesome Natalie, I can see that not many people are aware of our amazing ability to live life in quality and see the magic unfold. We get too caught up in getting our quality of life in place and tend to forget our quality in life.

121. Even when I am unwell, if I have been working on my quality in life then I find I feel less sick because it is like my body is held by the past momentum of loving choices.

     1. I have found this too, I am unwell but I feel well because there is a greater understanding of why I am experiencing the physical healing. As I continue to sow seeds of quality my body responds with clear and loving communication.

        1. I agree – it is the greater understanding that lifts me up and out of the otherwise confinement of just the physical illness, which can become all consuming, as we feel helpless or a victim etc, depending on the severity of the illness. Having understanding for how the way I live impacts my health, I am able to see beyond the illness

122. Having quality in life certainly bring appreciation to the detail and moments within the day, which, are in fact priceless and enriching in many ways for our body.

123. This is such a great Blog Jane to read I feel that we have got this the wrong way round we care more about the quality of life than the quality in life and there is a huge difference between the two.

124. A common practice in diagnostics of pain level is on a scale of 1 to 10. Do we live our life the same way of what we allow and just accept where we are on the scale of what we consider is good enough? It becomes the half full or empty analogy and just accepts it as our, ‘this is as good as it gets’! “Body function and body harmony” will never require a measure for it is something that is lived.

125. You have to be in it to win it, so the advertising tries to entice you to play the Lottery. But it is true in life, that if we are, not in it, we are going nowhere.

126. Does this mean to live your best life you must be religious?

127. Quality of life is often described as how someone can do things and function, or how long people live, while this offers a quality what is function without joy, vitality or settlement in life…living with dis-ease and lack of self worth is as much of an issue as whether our legs are both working, but we constantly discount the value of this in every day life.

128. I wonder if Quality in Life covers more the mental health aspects or expands on the mental health aspects of Quality of Life? This could mean that there is a level of health greater than the best level of health assumed by Quality of Life (absence of any illness or disease). An interesting idea.

129. Bringing focus to our quality in life offers us an extraordinary opportunity to build self -awareness and appreciation which in turn pours magic and beauty back into the ordinariness of our lives.

     1. This is what we miss out on when we just focus on quality of life and leave out our awareness and attention to our quality in life. There is magic and beauty to tap into when we live from our essence, move with our divine quality and express with love.

130. Using our body in a functional way or being deeply connected with our body in a harmonious way – that seem to be the two tastes. One we know oh so well, the functional part, and one we still have to discover. Strange that we have overlooked a way of living which is so close, so intimate and so healing.

     1. And that is very joyful, adding an extra dimension to health.

131. Serge Banhayon has reflected to us that there is a huge difference between body function and body harmony. It is a totally different relationship when we settle for function – to just exist and get on with it and hope the body keeps up with our choices. OR – we can have a relationship with the body where it communicates with us and we respond, living in a way where the quality of how we live is constantly felt into – where we can continue to deepen what it is our body needs to more honestly communicate to us.

132. Beautiful awareness being brought through by asking us to consider quality in life rather than just quality of life. For me hearing quality in life brings through my own responsibility and freedom to choose what quality do I want to choose in any given moment regardless of what is going on outside of myself. I am never a victim or powerless.

133. My previous definition of ‘quality of life’ would have been being able to do what you want or even that there was something about life that was worth living. Now quality has a very different meaning to me. Quality is the energetic imprint I carry around with me and leave wherever I go. Quality in life means leaving an imprint that is harmless and offers healing to those who feel it.

134. Quality of life is a value of something on a linear scale. Where quality in life is the essence of the whole that can’t be measured but can be felt!

135. “in living our quality in life, we would be learning to live a life from inside out – from this, we would take afar greater care of our physical body and how we lived our lives in ever way.” Our quality in life reflects the quality of life we live and can be inspiring to another. Whereas quality of life on its own is about always trying to better oneself, or situation and comparing our lives with another which will always leave us seeking more.

136. This highlights for me just how we can come to perceive quality so differently depending on our perspective.

137. When we give focus to ‘Quality’ it changes everything in the way and ‘how’ we go about living life.

138. The quality of our life doesn’t depend on our achievements or how many boxes we’ve ticked but what quality we have actually contributed to society.

139. Quality in life brings true purpose and meaning to it.

140. There are so many measures of our perception of our quality of life and so few about what qualities we need to live consistently in life to contribute to sustainable wellbeing. Whilst healthy lifestyles are indeed an important aspect of sustainable wellbeing, so to is the quality of connection we live in terms of living who we truly are.

141. There is a big difference between living a life of functioning well and living a life that is harmonious on every level.

     1. I agree Jane that we can play the comparison game and convince ourselves that we are ok and improve function to a level where we are very physically comfortable and secure but deep down if we are honest we can feel the tension of living a life that is not harmonious. Ironically this tension makes us focus even more on function and improving it.

142. I would far rather live a short life in the fullness of my true self, than a longer one void of this richness

143. The difference between those two words ‘quality’ and ‘quantity’ used in this way seems huge, and yet paradoxically when one aligns to quality the quantity in terms of volume of love and truth also rises.

144. I talk with people all the time in my work about quality of life. Its often reduced to things that are functional. “I have quality of life if I can talk to family and friends, care for myself, wipe my bottom etc” The sad thing about this is that it is therefore deemed that if I don’t have any of the above for some reason then there is no quality in my life, which is not true. Working as a nurse, I have cared for people who have very intimate physical needs and they still have a quality in life. They are in life boots and all and even though they may have a major physical incapacity it does not affect who they are.

145. I love this invitation to go beyond a pat phrase ‘quality of life’ and explore what we really understand by this and the deeper aspect of our responsibility, coming to the quality we choose to live in life… a brilliant opportunity to deepen our understanding of life and the parts we play.

146. Everything is the result of the quality we choose in life, i.e. the quality that makes life what it is going to be from the first moment we choose and bring that quality to ourselves to the very end of all the movements that follow. We are literally the masters of our lives and hence are 100% responsible for the life we are having.

147. I ate too much tonight, my quality of life is definitely not so hot right now :-0 A lesson I keep needing to learn.

148. Focusing on our quality of life we can live the love that we are. Often however I have translated this into being a complete pushover, scared of being real and saying it as it is for fear of not being ‘loving’. Yes our quality of movement needs to be loving, and so does the quality of our voice, but this does not mean giving ourselves away or not standing strong. Love can be firm and our movements can be quick. We can’t use the excuse of living in a loving quality to hold back our true expression.

149. In the words of modern day philosopher Serge Benhayon: (6)

     “Body function and body harmony –

     It is for all of us to learn this major difference.”

     – Love it! It comes back to the body and how it feels, is the body full in its function first and foremost, ie is there the presence of harmony as the foundational stepping stone before it moves into function? This is where the answers lie.

150. Quality of life seems to be the focus in our current world in terms of setting yourself up in a way that supports you and makes you comfortable. And in essence there is nothing wrong with this! However, if we leave it at that we are missing out on the full picture and essentially selling ourselves short and not giving oursleves the quality in our life that truly feeds us. As an example we could have set ourselves up in a lovely house and have a partner and children and a dog and a 4WD car…but what quality of relationship do we live with – are we truly living in harmony with the other, connected and open and transparent with all that happens in life, or do we simply come home to a shell of a relationship and a tick box approach to life and allowing things to ‘look good’ and ‘appear good’ from the outside. This takes a lot to ponder on and to actually admit if it is not totally fulfilling – for how can you admit that something does not feel right when it looks the part and everyone else says it looks the part? Your body and your heart knows the truth, and this is what is being presented in this blog – what are we in essence settling for when there is so much more to life? And in settling for something lesser, are we not then contributing to a deeper unrest in the world? Much more to ponder on with the realizations of the ripple effects that abound…

     1. So here is the inspiration to consider our responsibility and the part we can play in affecting change… moving from superficial ‘looking good’ and fitting the pictures, to bringing a quality to the way we live that deepens and builds our relationships with ourselves, each other and life – with honesty, openness, humility and an endless willingness to learn and grow.

     2. Yes the problem is that quality of life has become about things on the outside of us… possessions and security and fitting in with what the world says is a successful life but we all know that people can ‘have it all’ in this respect and still be miserable so as you both are presenting here so well there must be something more to true quality of life than we have been led to believe.

151. ‘our quality of life is based on what has been first been lived as our quality in life.’ Well said Jane, and our consistency with our lived quality is what nurtures and grow us.

152. Wow, what if we explored ‘body harmony’ as a concept in medicine, and introduced this as a new part of healthcare in the discussions between clinician and patient. An illness is a sign of body dis-harmony, but also an opportunity to reflect and introduce harmony back into the relationship.

     1. This adds a whole new aspect to the subject of primary care… understanding that beyond the absence of disease, even beyond feeling well, there is a way of life that supports body harmony, which suggests to me an understanding of how our body works as a whole and how we can support it.

153. Quality of life is currently defined as absence of disease. No disease = full quality of life, regardless of how we feel and live (unless it turns into mental illness and then get counted again). That seems as if a large part of our well-being is not considered to be more or less worthwhile to live.

     1. This is very true Christoph, yet the ‘absence of disease’ falls far short of the level of true health and vitality we have access to when we live life in connection with our true self and not one that is based merely on survival, function and ‘getting by’. Thus the quality of our life is determined by how much or how little of our true and authentic selves we apply to the equation.

154. Self worth? What does it mean people might ask. Well, it refers to the way you see yourself and this is a fact that most of the time most people see themself as someone that nobody likes, even I do sometimes. Why? Oh, cause’ there are people who judges you and laughs at you for something you’ve done that embarrassed yourself. I wanted to bring up this topic because it just so happened to me today.

     I was watching a livestream on Instagram and I got guested to be apart of the live but I was too shy to show my face so I told the host that I can’t and that I think I’m way too ugly. Even tho he said that its fine and said that I’m so sweet it didn’t really make me feel better. Why? The comment section was making a big fuss about how I requested to be guested but not show my face and about how I sound and stuff.

     After the livestream I wanna kill myself so bad. You, the person who’s reading this may think, seriously? It’s such a minor stuff. But to people like us it’s crazily something that we want to avoid hearing, seeing or reading. I hate how I look, my face is like covered in acne, even if I do show my face some people may also say “ewwww look at that face”. I wanted to be in that host’s Livestream case’ he is someone I look up to.

     It’s impossible to please everyone in the world, so why not just please those people who would appreciate you for whatever you did? Most importantly, you have to love yourself, never bring yourself down just cause’ someone said something negative about you.

     ALWAYS! Remember that no matter what happens, even if the whole world is not pleased with you, there is always that one person who does and it’s you.

     You may take in whatever negative comments you have been given, but never let it bring you down. You are priceless! You are unique! You can’t find someone like yourself in the whole universe! Even twins, they definitely have something different in them.

     Take as much time as you want to get over a situation, we are all human beings, we take time to accept whatever thing that happens to us.

     I just want to let every single one of you out there to know that you are loved by at least 1 person and that person has to be yourself and if it’s not, believe me I would. Cause’ you are special in every way. Never let other people bring you down!

     Please share this with someone who needs help in knowing their self worth. Hundreds of people die each day due to suicide, why? There’s a million reasons, I won’t start them cause’ for real there’s alot.

     But I sincerely hope this post would help save some lives.

155. Before I came to listen to Universal Medicine presentations I was completely unaware of having any sort of quality in my interactions. I would try to complete my to do list and that was that. Once I became aware of energy and how it affects not only ourselves but everyone around us, this brought a whole new level of responsibility to my life.

156. Disconnection is a huge issue in society, form our body and our energetic being, we discount what both offer us in every day life and yet seek to understand or bury why we feel unsatisfied in life.

157. Why indeed do we have such a need for escape and relief in our lives if we are living connected to our innermost essence?

158. So many of us hate maths in school but imagine if we were taught the truth – that one moment plus another one adds up to our richness of life. If we truly want to build ‘security’ ‘stability’ or a ‘nest egg’ in this world there is only one true way – make every moment full of Love. Thank you Jane.

159. A very real and simple sharing on the true quality in life from within us we can live and the difference this can make to us all . Deeply beautiful .

160. “Body function and body harmony – It is for all of us to learn this major difference.” This is a great quote by Serge Benhayon and it really sums up what is shared here about the quality of life and the quality we can live in life of our multidimensional being.

161. By living in connection to this true quality that is innate within us all, and expressing everything that we do from there, we are offering so many opportunities to all those we come into contact with to see and feel that there can be a different way to live.

162. Bringing our true quality to life in how we live has the power to transform all that is not of true quality.

163. The concept (and later understanding) that there is a quality of us, that it is something to be held dear, and something to have space made for, is one that the Way of the Livingness and Serge Benhayon introduced to my life. Now the way I see myself, the way I care for myself, the understanding I have regarding the footprint I leave for others is completely transformed.

     1. Yes, there is a vast upside to being healthy where we can be more and more healthy.

164. To understand ‘quality’ asks us to go back to the very essence – what is it that we are living? By understanding this we get to feel what is true, vitalising quality, and what is making us ill.

     1. This makes sense Rosanna – in bringing quality in life we first need to connect to that true quality that is within us to bring this into life in our expression and movement.

165. Recognising our own quality comes with being in connection with our body, and we then bring this with us in everything we do. It is this quality that makes living life so. much more enriching

     1. I love this. This simplicity of being in connection with our bodies meaning we bring the qualities we are in everything we do… a transformation from carrying the baggage of our past to carrying our natural qualities out and about in the world.

166. The difference that living life in a more true quality from really looking at the less than true quality we’ve been living in until that point of realisation… was the turning point that changed my whole understanding of life, what life is all about, and myself in life. Without understanding quality, understanding life and oneself is never truly understood.

167. Being a spark of divine light first and before being the flesh and bones of a human, is something that is well understood on these pages. And it is clear to see the benefit of seeing life in this way because it brings a sense of wholeness, of belonging, and the potential for greatness in life for no other reason than simply being who you are. Perhaps this is the greatest form of medicine along side conventional medicine… understanding the divinity inside us all.

168. Living life by the quality innate within us transforms our world and the world of all those around us.

169. Yes. I get this. The quality I choose to be in life, guarantees the quality of life… super simple and inspiring.

170. Changing the ‘of’ to ‘in’ introduces responsibility and the choices we make. We can get away with some kind of entitlement in the ‘of’, like that is how things ‘should’ be, but in the ‘in’ we are invited to play our part.

     1. I agree Matilda, it does present an opportunity to take responsibility as you say for our part in life rather than purely being at the whim of everything outside of ourselves.

     2. Well said Matilda – it is interesting how our concept of something which is good in life such as quality needs to be understood in this way. Make me wonder where else we may be taking something of truth and living it as something it is not…

     3. Even the word ‘quality’ brings the inference of more than or better, than what? If, we are living in our fullness does this not transcend quality?

171. “We are more than physical flesh as we are first and foremost a spark of divine light”. When I read this, it confirms my feeling that to define quality of life functionally, and define it as being able to play the pokies or bingo once a week is an insult to who we are really are. Having nursed dying people, you get to feel what quality in life is about. It is not about the distractions and hobbies, it is the quality of love and connection to this divine light.

     1. So true Fiona… the dying process very much exposes the quality we have lived in life.

172. “Quality of life” is a phrase that I come across so frequently and across so many platforms of expression. To just simply change it to “Quality in life” induces a powerful pause of my movements and immediately invites me to reconnect. Thank you Jane for this reflection.

173. That medicinenet.com definition of ‘quality of life’ is interesting – “The patient’s ability to enjoy normal life activities.” it really depends on what one takes as being normal in regards to what we’re expected to enjoy as ‘normal activity’. ‘Quality of life’ is a rather moveable feast if that is what we are going by.

     1. And what do we base or set our standards on? What is normal? I know for me I used to accept being able to simply get through the day as being normal but what about the joy, the sense of actually bringing my all to life? If we start with the basis that we are all love 1st and foremost than that sets the standard and benchmark for the quality of life we can choose to live by bringing this quality into our life.

174. When we build a quality in life we naturally have a quality of life, it is not based on material possessions but from the wealth of knowing who we are and living this at every moment.

175. It is considered a humane act to put down an animal when their quality of life becomes non-existent! We shoot horses if they break a leg because it is not a recoverable injury. Family pets can now have their lives extended by some of the same drugs that assist us to do the same thing. Whose choice is this extension of life, it’s not the pet? I am not suggesting we cull ourselves. Albeit Switzerland having assisted suicide clinics when individuals decide there is no longer any quality life left. This subject will always be a polarising subject. All of nature has life cycles, why do we continue to try to extend and improve this life, at the cost of quality?

176. Yes building from the inside out; Love and inner-connection are crucial ingredients of those foundations in my experience.

177. It seems timely we check our quality assurance, that it is originating from the connection to our inner essence, our divine quality. There would then be nothing lacking. Thank you Jane.

178. If the focus was on quality in life, quality of life would take care of itself.

179. Building our quality in life over time changes our focus from the push, drive and striving for quality of life, yet in building our quality in life quality of life naturally follows.

180. For so many people to select the misery button and live in ignorance of joy in connection to God is a modern day tragedy.

181. It is our quality in life that leads us back to God, there’s no way back without making life about quality in every moment because God IS a quality and we need to live that quality in order to feel that our bodies are enhoused within God’s body.

182. Great article Jane if we were to live life connected to and honoring of our divine nature, then our quality in life and of life is guaranteed

183. ❤🙌🙏

184. “What’s the difference between our quality of life and our quality in life?” – a question that in society today few people ask and one as many have shared that I’ve not fully considered. Yet no doubt this will be the question everyone asks in a few years. This blog is therefore ahead of its time yet exactly whats needed.

185. As a researcher trying to improve patient’s quality of life, this is a really interesting concept!

186. “Whilst we each have a physical body, we are far grander than we realise and there is much more to us than our body.” This has been a fundamental understanding about myself (of us all) that has changed the way I relate to myself and others on every aspect of care, health and well-being.

187. Quality is everything – it reveals the extent and truth behind the way we live life. There is no escaping quality’s “eyes” and gaze.

188. Since quality of life is an outcome or output there must be an input. From what I’ve seen that input is the quality in which I walk with every day.

189. I feel if we concentrated on “quality in life”, the “quality of life” will be taken care of, or our idea of it may even change because we may not need the distractions it brings in order for us to feel good, we may feel great simply just being.

     1. Yes much will change when we get that ‘quality in life’ is the true defining factor in ‘quality of life’. I can sense how the excessive drive for personal wealth, possessions and distraction will be history and hard work will be an expression of our commitment to life and love of people.

190. I am starting to get a sense that the “quality of life” is not just dependent on us and our choices but also on those around us, as in the care we receive when we are unwell or perhaps dying. But our “quality in life” is totally our responsibility, the consequences of all our choices, especially the depth of our connection to ourselves. Therefore, we can choose to make a different choice in each moment which will then make a difference to our “quality in life” or we can choose to stay exactly where we are. This knowing is certainly opening up a deep and previously untapped wisdom within me, so thank you Jane for offering the key.

     1. I agree, Ingrid, and for me it is the invitation to embrace the blessing of responsibility; the fact that we do design how our lives unfold by the choices we make in every moment… how much care do we take of what we eat, the thoughts we allow to run through our heads, how we move and exercise, speak, drive, breathe…?

191. There is so much more to us than function yet we seem to have quite an obsession with it. For example, we insist that kids should be able to read and write even before their brains have developed the pathways to achieve these tasks, all the while ignoring the qualities they bring. When we focus on nurturing the qualities within a child, the functions will automatically follow, even if they take a bit longer to appear. The child will never lose his or her innate qualities, but function is always vulnerable to disruption, disease and damage. Why put all our eggs in the wrong basket?

192. Knowing what I know now I would say we have definitely mixed up the meaning of quality of life and the quality in life. I feel that we need to look deeper into the rate of illness and disease that surrounds us and why we as a race of human-beings are getting sicker in spite of all the modern day advances in Medicine. If we took all that away we would truly get to see that we have chosen a quality of life which isn’t working, over a quality in life, which means coming back to the essence of who we truly are and living from there.

193. If we can live life connected to our inner essence all else will take care of itself but the trouble is although deep down we all know about this connection, we are taught, coerced or tricked into a life oblivious to this connection. This must change as our quality of life is slipping further and further down an ever changing scale.

194. With the foundation to our lives and understanding that we need to be doing something that makes us worth while and valued, then there is no confirmation that it is about us being all of who we are and how amazing we truly are. The focus is on the output. Without our essence being celebrated and confirmed, then we will always be lacking the quality as in the first place it was dismissed.

195. I absolutely love what Jane has presented in this blog regarding how if we lose that connection to our inner essence we then go searching for it on the outside and think that we can fill that emptiness with all the physical material possessions, hobbies, degrees, sports, and other entertainment, but that is destined to be an endless and impossible pursuit. The funny thing (or not so funny actually) is that we think we are gaining some kind of reprieve or security in going for all the material goodies in life (the great job, partner, house, car, vacation, etc.) but none of these things can stop us from feeling that gap between the falsity of these pursuits and our inner essence that is there waiting to be reconnected to.

196. “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” In my experience, hand on heart I can honestly say yes it is. The immense and unpredicted improvement in my quality of health has only come about since I began to make quality in life more important that quality of life. A subtle difference that becomes much clearer as the results of taking care of my inner quality and delicate body begin to take effect and then keep on deepening.

197. When we make decisions and choices that don’t support ourselves, consequences come. We don’t like to feel what we chose, so start to get angry and blame others. So we end up with an inequality and judgement where there could be Love. Time to reconsider what we choose in our life.

     1. So true Joseph – learning just how extensive judgment can be but always starts with self-judgement on a false concept of ‘right and wrong’.

198. We all seem to be far too focused on controlling our external world in the hope that our internal one will start to feel more settled and content. But this never works, not for long anyway as we can see by the constant drive for gaining more and more. If we paid more attention to living our quality in life I bet most of what is considered critical would be seen as not so important after all.

199. The best way I can describe the quality in my life is how much I feel Harmony within all my body. Knowing that my movements are a commitment to feeling more of the love I know I am or a confirmation of the love that I already feel.

200. Our quality in life = our quality of life.

201. Great to question what we have come to accept as a level of quality and go deeper as to what is truly there – quality of life alone caps us from realising and living with a true quality in life, conversely this realisation allows us the choice to bring quality in life to the fore and then allow true quality of life to manifest.

202. As I have explored what quality in life means I have come to understand that there are always deeper layers to get to. How I am living now I would say has much more quality to it than 10 years ago and yet I keep discovering that there is always more to go!

     1. Moving beyond the linear consciousness that keeps us constricted in our view of life has been utterly liberating. Knowing there is no end point to reach but that we keep coming back around to the same point to allow an expansion or deepening has meant, for me at least, there is less pressure to get somewhere as we are simply going around in circles! This means that more focus can put on the quality as we go around rather than simply getting to B from A as quickly as possible.

203. ‘We are more than physical flesh as we are first and foremost a spark of divine light.’ Beautiful reminder that we are energy first and not just that but that at our essence we are the energy of God.

204. I love the invitation for us to reflect on the fact that we are far more than the greatest comfort, happiness, affluence and security we have for a long time been considering as a quality life.

205. Years ago I had a conversation with a friend who stated over ten different unfavourable things that had happened to her that week and at the time it got me questioning how is it that one person can step out of their front door of a morning and their day can flow, and to the naked eye look quite unremarkable and uneventful. And yet another person can have a drama-filled existence. This blog has answered those questions for me.

206. The quality of life is a picture of a destination. Quality in life is enjoying the journey of life as we evolve.

207. This is really beautiful – our quality in life is what forms our quality of life. I’ve sought quality of life through everything outside of myself – work, partners, friends, hobbies etc. but the quality of them also refer back to the relationship I have with myself and how honouring I am of myself.

208. Yes it is as simple as that focus on the quality in life and let go of the attachment to quality of life, but just allow that to flow in the movements, as that is taken care off.

209. Jane love this blog, “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” this feels worth exploring, I have started and my life and health has being changing so much…

     1. I agree Amita, this is definitely something that is worth exploring. Once we have taken that first step with a willingness to be open to something different, we to start to see that there are endless possibilites with regard to the quality that we bring to everything that we do which can and does have a profound impact on our own bodies as well as on those around us.

210. Connecting to and actually embracing my inner essence and letting this be all that it is has is a forever deepening relationship. I can see how I have avoided going deeper as I want to avoid the intimacy of how extraordinarily precious this is. Lately I have been I can feel a willingness and pull to go deeper and it feels amazing.

211. “The degree of satisfaction an individual has regarding a particular style of life.” I find the definition of quality of life by the Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health leaves so much ‘hanging in the air’ – it is quite meaningless as who is to say one person’s degree of satisfaction is the same as another’s – for example I may be far more ‘satisfied’ by far less ‘quality’ than the next person, and vice versa. When we don’t have a true, consistent benchmark then any grade of quality can be accepted or expected.

212. Reading this makes me think about the difference between just seeking security in life (whatever picture that is for us) or do we seek to be true to who we are in our innermost, our essence, in all our expressions (without perfection)…

213. A brilliant sharing on the true quality we are in life, our divine connection with our soul.With out this we are always searching and looking for what we are missing ourselves in everything and every moment and movement we make. Our connection to our own quality allows our quality of life to be taken care of. So simple and so true.

214. If we all lived quality in life we would be reflecting that we are divine first and foremost. Then the game would be up of us acting and living like we are merely physical beings and the greatest quality of life we can hope for is function.

     1. Well said Fiona. By forgetting we are divine, a good life becomes about functional things. Yet when we know we are divine, chopping the vegies, cleaning the toilet, walking in the mall…they are all moments to express our divinity. And when we link each moment, we walk as divine beings and voilá, we have heaven being lived on Earth.

215. Jane, reading this I can feel how as a society we have accepted function and getting through the day, rather than living from our essence and knowing we are a divine spark of light, reading this changes everything, it feels important to remember this daily; ‘We are more than physical flesh as we are first and foremost a spark of divine light.’

     1. I agree Rebecca, that is something so worth re-connecting with and reminding ourselves of as we go about our day. Function is important but never more so than the quality in which we are functioning.

216. We focus so much on the physcial attributes of health such as our body and surroundings, but do not make much of an effort to focus on our internal quality of health, our quality in life. When we do focus on the quality of our inner thoughts and feelings, many of our physical ills naturally correct them selves as the source of the ill is gently and lovingly addressed in the process.

217. We can have all the riches in the world though without the connection to the gold within us we will always feel incomplete. What a treasure to explore.

     1. Victoria great words of wisdom shared “without the connection to the gold within us we will always feel incomplete.”

     2. It’s incomplete as we are walking around carrying the gold and therefore we know that there is gold, only we can’t seem to find it and the pain of that is huge.

        1. Knowing we have a choice, that we drop the lead or pain we are carrying at any moment, and allow the gold to express, to walk it, brings it into the full light of day.

        2. What a simple choice we can at any moment make.

218. It makes sense why our society seem to place so much focus on quality of life because so many people choose to leave out living divine quality in life. It is clear that the quality of life are like fillers, they exist to fill the gap and void we can feel from not living the divine quality in life.

219. When quality in life is lived the quality of life gets taken care of naturally. Though when we disconnect from the inner quality and begin to search for it outside of ourselves it never fulfils; as we are the quality we are looking for.

     1. I like this. The simplicity of the quality we choose to live in life guaranteeing the quality of life. There is the beauty of responsibility and the dissolution of blame.

220. The reality is that we are all after good function rather than true love, truth, harmony these qualities require us to forgo ‘good’ and rather travel paths much more uncomfortable and shedding ways that are not true, this requires much more of us than simply improving the functionality of living.

221. I know there is a huge difference in the way that I can be in the day with any task that I am completing. For example I love hanging up the laundry! …when I am with myself and focused and enjoying the texture of the fabrics and handling the wet clothes with gentleness and joy – how could you not enjoy this. But I hate hanging up the laundry too…when I am rushed and anxious and thinking about other things – this is when I resent the laundry and I resent myself and its just a chore or a task to tick off as done. On a practical level the laundry is done and hence I have the quality of life that a person deserves in terms of having clean clothes etc. But when I am with myself as described, I take things far more deeper as I am giving myself Quality in life, and this brings it alive for me and gives it far more meaning and far more purpose! Now I just need to remember this and put it into practice more 🙂

     1. I love this example Henrietta as I have often noted my laundry is a great marker for where I am in my life, if it is neglected and over flowing with unclean clothes I know exactly where I am at! I often marvel at my loathing of doing the laundry and the way I carrying on you would think I actually had to clean the clothes rather than simply putting them in a machine! I also love hanging out the washing when the sun is out, being in england this is a rare and wonderful time of the year. I love how we are surrounded by simple every day things that are there to remind us that life can be all about the quality or all about the doing/function without the quality life really is so much drudgery compared to the real beauty that exists in the drudgery of day to day activities if undertaken with real presence and connection to the flow of the universe!

     2. I love the example of this you have shared here Henrietta. It makes it so easy to feel practically how this can play out in the many things we do and the ways we move in life.

222. Quality of Life has the great benefit that it allows numbers and dollars to apply to something people want (being healthy and alive) but it does have limitations – for example people value being just about alive quite highly while Quality of Life considers it not very different from death. Then there are the issues that Jane mentions.

223. “Through living and breathing this quality, we are a living quality in life, and the ripple effect of this is that it emanates throughout our life – so that our quality of life is based on what has been first been lived as our quality in life.” The very fact that we first focus on our quality in how we live and in life makes the quality of live guaranteed, I love how by looking first within we naturally take care of the outside.

224. Thank you Jane, our true quality is divine in essence and is naturally accessed and deeply felt when we live from our true nature.

225. Wow Jane, thank you for this awesome blog. I notice the moment I started living with more quality in life, connecting to my essence, my quality of life naturally improved. I recognise that our society seems to focus on the quality of life and almost leave out the quality in life and we seem to make our quality in life less important. Isn’t this the ‘wrong’ way round? To me, our quality in life is deeply important, as it sets the foundation for our life to evolve and when we fully embrace our divine quality that is in us all to be lived, I find naturally our quality of life is taken care of.

226. The more I choose to make loving, honouring and respectful choices for myself and what I feel then I really do get to feel the quality in how I go about life and how this has an enormous impact with those around me and beyond. The responsibility becomes a joy.

     1. Yes, and the quality happens and can happen in any circumstances.

227. Why would we not want a gorgeous quality to live life in? It’s strange that it is not the norm to take care to ensure this. We have stepped so far away from true love that we have to re-learn it.

228. One simple aspect of quality in life is what time do we go to bed – do we push ourselves to stay up late and finish projects? A good night’s sleep is crucial to our wellbeing.

     1. The basics are still the best to begin with! And no matter how great we are at juggling life and all it deals to us, we all need to have the solid foundations that come from these basics! Great reminder Carmel! Love it!

     2. Agree Carmel, the honouring of our basic needs really sets the foundation of quality we then live with each day.

229. A fundamental difference explained here Jane, the difference between our quality of life and our quality in life. It is the next step to deepen the quality we build in our own lives and by natural exchange those relationships with everyone else.

230. Imagine considering moving the focus from improving the quality of our lives to bringing more tenderness to our quality in life and seeing what happens.

231. “..we are living our quality in life – living from inside out” – so beautifully and so simply put Jane. Living from the quality we hold deep within ourselves and that quality being one that is self-loving, caring, nurturing, honouring works to change absolutely everything.

232. God is a quality of movement. Not God is a quality of movement. The question therefore is how are we choosing to move?

233. The true quality of any one thing comes from the collective quality of the movements that went into making it. Either it was made in a way that moved with God or it wasn’t. Simple.

234. 5 minutes spent in the true qualtiy of who we are has a value that is immeasurable compared to any other amount of time that has the opposite or no quality in it.

235. What would statistics look like if the WHO and other organisations researched the quality in life versus the quality of life? Would it maybe expose that even if we tick the box of a ‘good life’ this is no guarantee for a life lived in connection to the grandness and divinity we are?

236. A quality of life is dependent on circumstances whereas a quality in life can be achieved no matter what the circumstances are.

     1. This is so true Carolien. We can live with quality in life no matter where we are or what our circumstances are. It shows how accessible it is to live this quality in every moment of our life if we so choose.

237. It seems most of us are totally obsessed with our quality of life whether it be now or how we will fear in later years but we are missing the point, if our focus was on the quality in life the rest would naturally fall into place.

238. Putting quality in life first enables us to always appreciate the value of our relationships, with our selves and with one another. Nothing can top an honest, respectful and loving connection with each other.

239. Imagine this conversation going on in aged care facilities around the world… Bring it on 🙂

240. From what I am understanding here in your blog Jane is that we can spend endless money, time, funds trying to improve standards in our lives but this will only be ‘rearranging the furniture’ and will not address the underlying dis-ease that humanity is living with by being separated or disconnected from their divine nature and way of living that naturally flows from this connection with divinity.

     1. It is getting to re-acquaint ourselves with our divine nature that changes our relationship with life, and therefore the way we live – a way of living that “naturally flows from this connection with divinity.”

241. In my experience ‘quality of life’ without ‘quality in life’ is another short-term fix that keeps me in the pursuit of more and more. When I reconnect with ‘quality in life’, this pursuit loses its momentum and I find myself more and more settled.

     1. I agree Richard. Quality of life can just feel like comfort without the quality in life.

242. This shows that living quality in life is living in connection to all that we truly are and then through this expression and emanation of quality our life becoming of the same quality.

243. I definitely feel it’s a conversation worth having Jane, when I went to my annual training day at the hospital I asked lots of question about the state of the nation’s health and world health. We cannot get away from the fact illness and disease is on the increase; this is beyond all doubt and the expected rise in dementia over the next 25 years is quite frightening and this is just one disease that is costing the NHS millions; if we then add all the other illnesses and diseases together we have a very sick world population. And the answer seems to be in earlier diagnosis, better drugs and treatments. But no one seems to be asking the question why are we getting so ill?

244. The quality in life, I feel is encouraging a self-responsibility, that we have to put the quality in from the way we move, what we eat, to how we interact with others. The quality of life feels to me like ‘a taking’ what we can get from outside of us.

245. ‘Whilst we each have a physical body, we are far grander than we realise and there is much more to us than our body.’ And in connecting to this grandness found residing within us we experience true quality of our nature and can express this in life.

246. Jane such a profound sharing, expressed with divine simplicity. A seemingly straight forward question, the ramifications of which are so far reaching that it’s actually not possible to consider all the changes that would take place if everyone switched from improving their quality of life to improving their quality in life.

     1. We have only begun to make changes in our quality in our business and the difference it has made is huge.

247. Quality in life is how much Love we can bring.

248. Who doesn’t know of the marks on the wall, door or someplace with your height, name and year, of your marking of growth? We start the early years of our life, being measured. All through our life, we are measured and compared to everything with everyone else! Quality in life is something that is felt and lived that can be shared with everyone, for love is endless and never runs out!

     1. How true Steve – the measurement is relentless from the very start.

249. ““Body function and body harmony – It is for all of us to learn this major difference.” this is a great quote by Serge, it reminds me that the way we see life today is based on how we are told to see life yet there is so much more than meets the eye.

250. It is a subtle distinction that quite literally is worlds apart. Quality in life is a living expression of our integrity, love and wisdom. When we really choose to apply this to our normal everyday existence then our quality of life changes, at times quite dramatically, and our subsequent understanding, appreciation and commitment to life is forever altered.

251. Maybe it is because of the lack of quality in life that we then seek for more quality of life and thereby falling for all the tempting offers that promise to fill what we miss inside. Quality in life is in us and with us in every moment hence nothing is missed or needs to be pursued.

     1. Great question Alexander: “Maybe it is because of the lack of quality in life that we then seek for more quality of life”. I feel that was my pitfall too, the lack of quality I had in my life, as was seeking for more quality of life. But now I know what is true, is to build the quality in life with my movements.

252. We are in full control over our quality in life through how we move.

253. My focus was always on trying to get well to change my life but nothing changed. Serge Benhayon and the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom opened my eyes to a different way.. a way that focuses on building my inner quality and from doing this my quality of life has changed in so many ways.

254. Building the quality in life, how we feel on the inside, supports our quality of life, how we feel on the outside.

255. Jane, a great way of exposing the fallacy in having or going after ‘quality of life’ from a pure bodily functional (albeit worthwhile) perspective. Looking at the type of quality we live in really is the highlighter pen that marks the level of quality we experience in life. Living The Way of The Livingness, connected to the truth of the Soul as a lived quality for me has meant a life of true quality and enjoyment even when my body experiences illness or disease or requires an operation for example. I can feel within me a strength and a body where metaphorically speaking the lights are most definitely on at home and i’m most definitely fully there/present.

256. Could we also be saying the word quality has in the main lost its meaning? True quality is not something done to us or or thought about, in connection with ourselves it naturally flows through us and into every movement.

     1. Great distinction to make Jane, a quality standard is external to us and cannot be felt, true quality is embodied within the human being.

257. Quality of life is the pursuit of the external and material, quality in life is something we bring to life and emanates from within ourselves.

     1. I like how you shared the simplicity of the 2, it is so easy to get caught in the pursuit of the external and material.

258. Jane this is absolutely a conversation worth having. And not only does “Body function and body harmony –
     It is for all of us to learn this major difference” ask us to examine this in relationship to the body per se, but also in how we go about our day – are we simply going about the motions of function or are we in the flow that comes from our true essence?

259. I used to spend a lot of time attempting to get my body to function properly, an endless pursuit that never actually achieved anything. However, when I turned my attention to my inner quality and the quality of my day-to-day choices, my body naturally began to restore its harmony and then the function aspect just quietly followed suit.

     1. How beautiful is that, letting go and just allowing, connecting to a deeper quality that is more supportive and healing.

260. Sometimes I feel that all of these things are just done as tick box exercises and I feel ‘quality of life’ maybe one too. In that people might have the best intentions when setting out these measures, markers or models but I feel we have to be extremely honest and ask ourselves is this really getting to the bottom and root cause of all that is needed. We can put so much in place and so many bandaids or plasters on but nothing really changes .. in fact many would argue it is getting worse. The only true truth I have found is with what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present, teach and live … now that is true quality of life and many many people (including myself) from living these teachings are starting to have a better quality of life than ever before .. and this is just the beginning ✨

261. It might just be that quality in life is the foundation for quality of life; quality of life is otherwise solely measured against outer phenomena, as in possessions, location, pastimes, free time and what we do and don’t know.

262. “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” – sounds like a call for a new model of living our lives. A way of living that has its foundations firmly in the principle that ‘everything is energy’. It is happening now, and it is called The Way of the Livingness – http://www.unimedliving.com/the-way-of-the-livingness Where quality in life is a key focus.

263. Jane I come back to your blog and love the ‘quality in life’, its such a reminder that our choices in every moment, the quality we are living is what really is important in life. Without that – is it truly living?

264. We are all too content to settle for optimum body function, or even in many cases just basic bodily function – but what if, even if we have reduced physical function we could connect to something else, a quality and harmony in our body that rises above the function?

265. Once we deal with quality of life issues then Jane is quite right that there is a whole further level that has not yet been expressed in monetary terms but it exists.

266. ‘We are more than physical flesh as we are first and foremost a spark of divine light. This spark of light is our true essence, from which comes our true quality.’ and this serves as a great reminder, as this has been widely forgotten by society and humanity at large.

267. Quality of life is often associated with the material possessions that we have. It has nothing to do with the quality in which we live, how we feel, or how we treat others. If we were to take a good look at the quality we live in and the results of this what would we find? It is pointless possessing a great house and having big holidays if we are not in joy within them. The quality we live with and in is everything.

268. This is such a great article Jane, pure gold in fact if we could all just stop looking outside ourselves for the answers we already possess inside.

269. Brilliant questions asked in this article that simple invite me to ponder on the choices I make… the first and most important one being am I connected to my inner essence or choosing to ignore this opportunity and carry on blindly seeking outside of me?

270. At times we may wonder who actually is making the choices that produce the quality of life we end up with. The result often doesn´t match what we consciously want, intend or can make sense of. Obviously what we wish for and the quality we choose to live in don´t match when the result is not what we looked for. It always comes back to the quality IN life, so when will we start to make it our priority?

271. “When we live a life in connection to our divine quality, we realise we are already everything”. We are and the more we embrace this fact, the more we come to feel an inner completeness and steadiness that requires very little to sustain it. Divinity is a self-fulfilling energy.

272. This is such a great article exposing that we have a quality of life that we seem always trying to make ‘better’. But the rates of illness and disease show us surely that making life ‘better’ isn’t working. What if we were to give quality ‘in’ life a go, after all we as a society have nothing to lose and yet everything to gain.

     1. We can do both – they can work with each other but one can have a great quality in life when quite sick and vice versa.

273. Body function and body harmony feel very different. It can still function with drive and force, but harmony has a beautiful flow with every movement.

274. If we were tasked to look after an object or item 1700 x 400 cm in size every day, it’s unlikely that we’d find this a particularly difficult task. Even if it was an animal, we could easily look after it even if we were only given a short space of time per day with the animal. But when it comes to our own body the task is supposedly ‘impossible’, and we have hundreds of excuses as to why our body is not how we’d like it to be. But what if we committed to ourselves just as much as we might commit to any other project, and were open to learning, developing and initiating new ways of doing this?

     1. A gorgeous ‘what if’ question that inspires me to consider what life looks like when I take responsibility for and loving care of my body as the very thing that supports me to express, walk, love, work and be with people in life.

275. There needs to be a measure for ‘quality IN life’ yet the most significant and educational marker of this has been through my observations of others who I know to make quality the primary factor. There are many living and reflecting this health and vitality, thanks to Serge Benhayon and his presentations on true health and well-being.

276. There is so much comparison that comes with the quality of life, bigger house, faster car, better job or holiday. When we look at the quality we are in life the opposite occurs, we inspire one another and the ripple effect is huge.

277. This is such a great question, we look at things in the medical world with a set of standards but that does not at present include our quality of being, how we move, how we speak, how we eat, how tender we are. These things when paid attention to make such a difference to our relationships but also within our bodies as there is less tension caused by stress when we take care of the quality we are in.

278. “we are living our quality in life – living from inside out”…this is quite different to our current lifestyles which are much more based on the outside in…turns it on its head actually. Asking us to look at our quality of life within us and then live that to the outside.

279. This is most definitely ‘a conversation worth having’ …. thank you Jane

280. Absolutely a gem Jane, do we have a measure that can be quantified for our quality in life?

281. How we live, how we move, the thoughts we allow in all dictates our quality in life. The more responsibility we take with this the greater the quality IN life we present to the world. This inspires everyone. Love it Jane

282. “living quality in life,…” These few words brings awareness to simply ‘be you’ in life rather than being on autopilot ‘doing’ life.

283. When we look at quality of life the focus is from the outside, whereas quality in life comes from within, our connection to the divine spark of love that lives within everyone, of or in, are two little words that represent two different worlds and ways of living.

284. What a great blog and thank you for illustrating the difference between the two ways of looking and living ‘quality’ so simply. I can see there is a different way to move on offer for me which will have a different ripple effect on those around me.

285. We can choose to make life just about us or a select few or we can choose to make the quality we live about all of us – and so self isn’t left out but held no more or less than everyone else and the part we play in the bigger picture.

     1. There is a brilliant point of inspiration in your comment, Fiona, about true equality. Thank you.

286. When we focus on the quality in which we move and do things in, an opening is created within us that allows more and more love to be lived and expressed.

287. There is a beautiful quote by Serge Benhayon that captures the relationship of our quality in life and the health we will experience: “The more we live from our true essence, the more loving and harmonising is the effect it has on our physiology.” Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, p 604

288. When I feel that quality in me, the connection to something deep and wide, it impacts everything from the way I’m feeling about myself, how I interact with the people around me, how I move through the day. That quality is unquestionably the key to our entire way of being.

289. Great blog Jane. Building our quality in life through simple caring choices, does just this in bringing that quality to life, every step taken, everything we touch, etc gets that quality lived.. and reflected back to us. Indeed how would our world be if we brought our quality in life to every day?

290. How can we even presume to have the quality of life we wanna have without bringing the appropriate quality in and to life? The shift in awareness and action to bring forth quality of life as something that comes from and feeds back to our inner being before it manifests as something outside of us and that the inner quality defines the quality of the outer and not vice versa is a turning point in our relationship with life and self.

     1. Beautifully said Alex – ‘that the inner quality defines the quality of the outer and not vice versa is a turning point in our relationship with life and self’. Living from the inside to out not the outside to in.

291. It’s fair to say that quality in life definitely leads to quality of life.

292. ‘I wonder how different the world would be if we were to all choose to live our quality in life?’ – It would be unrecognisable – we seem to think this is utopia but truth is it all comes down to choice, our choice.

293. “Whilst we each have a physical body, we are far grander than we realise and there is much more to us than our body.” So true Jane, much grander that our current way of living really acknowledges. This grandness, when met within us, completely transforms our understanding of health and well being so much so that when really understood, means that we have to live in a completely different way.

294. Most of us were not educated in a way that explained all of who we are and fortunately for us Serge Benhayon is here to present the Truth, as have many world Teachers throughout the centuries. Few have truly listened but now the world is becoming such a mess that more people are willing to listen.

295. Quality in life is what we sow, quality of life is what we reap.

     1. Quality is comments like these!! Love it. 💪💪💪

     2. What a divine contribution. That is going on my mirror to call me back from getting the two confused!

     3. Do I sense a quote book coming on? haha. Beautiful words Alexander.

        1. We may write one together, Michael 😉

296. Quality of life is a result, quality in life is a way. The latter is absolutely in our hands, the former only to a limited extent.

     1. What I love about this is that you are showing how quality in life is an ever evolution – there is no destination – it is a constant expansion. Whereas a life lived under the banner of “quality of life” is so limited and stagnant. Aim for the holiday, get the holiday, done. (except that the body will feel no stillness or completion, so we just crave another holiday to try to relieve that tension)

297. Learning to live life from the inside out is a great way to live, not from the reactions of life but from the responses of the body.

298. You certainly know when you are not choosing to move and do things in a quality that is true because there is no clarity or space around what you are doing and definitely not as enjoyable, which would then dictate quality of life as the lesser measure.

299. How are you in your life ? Not what are you doing with your life. It is so easy to fall into the function of living than actually living the quality of love in all we do.

     1. A great question for anybody.
        This is a wonderful eye opening, heart full blog.

300. Great article Jane which really shows that our quality IN life really is what will determine our true quality OF life for if we only focus on the physical comforts and security of life and our physical function and health we will still fall short of feeling fulfilled and vital and joyful in our daily lives which is what we all want at the end of the day.

     1. Spot on Andrew – are we looking to the outside to define our quality of life, or do we define it ourselves by the quality we choose.

301. In truth quality of life and quality in life should be the same quality in the sense that what we deem a life of high quality is a life where that quality is lived in life. The separation of the two terms into two seemingly differing qualities in that one can have a quality of life from what they do or have but are not living a high quality in life one would assume with that would match their “quality of life” allows us to think we have a quality life when we actually do not.

     1. Jane and Joshua. You have distilled it down to the one simple separation, a separation that we all feel and are all moving in reaction to. Only once we stop and reconnect to ourselves, to our quality in life, will our quality of life ever truly evolve.

302. Having experienced both the pursuit of ‘quality of life’ and the truth of ‘quality in life’ I find that the former is a self-perpetuating process that never truly fulfils, whereas the latter is fulfilment itself, and brings that fullness to all endeavours. We may get some thrills from the chase, but I found the pursuit exhausting and find the fullness a truly wholesome and harmonious way to be.

303. Amusing and ironic that we can have different qualities of quality! Another example of how we water down the true meaning of words and settle for greatly reduced expression and experience of life.

304. With the dramatic rise in illness and disease the overall quality of life seems to be taking a big dive even though people seem to be striving harder to make things better than ever before. Enter ‘quality in life’ and then perhaps we can see a way out of this mess we are in and everyone can benefit not just the privileged few.

     1. Quality in life. As well as a question, it also is the answer.

     2. Important point kevmchardy. Yes, there is no discrimination at play here. No special people, no privileged groups. The same applies to us all – our quality in life becomes our quality of life. It’s up to us to accept responsibility for our lives and bring quality into them.

305. I do wonder if life has been considered like this before, when you look around very few are being aware of the quality of how they are living there life. I certainly didn’t until I did the workshops and presentations of Universal Medicine and now appreciate this. Our bodies and movement is everything.

     1. Like you Natalie, this concept just wasn’t even in my consciousness – the notion of what quality I was living in. It was all about what I was getting out of life and what life was feeding me. Universal Medicine has turned it all on its head and totally re-calibrated how I approach life and me in that life.

306. “Quality of life” is what we are sold by holiday makers, car manufacturers, house sellers, tech giants…pretty much every commercial industry…and, here’s the rub, it’s what we are asking for, what we are aspiring to, what we are buying….and, another rub, it’s what we talk about, share and promote – just take a look on social media and a gigantic proportion of posts are all about showing off our quality of life. This is a brilliant article and a stark exposure of how many of us are living.

     1. Quality of life is always a picture of something outside of us. Quality in life is living the fullness of who we all are.

     2. Yes I agree there is so much focus on having or doing it all and such a false belief out there that if only we get that next possession, holiday, qualification, relationship, job etc we will finally be satisfied and content. But this is an endless fruitless search for happiness or so called better quality of life (no wonder these industries are so lucrative!) as we never achieve the lasting joy and vitality and love of life we are longing for unless we look at our own connection within in terms of how much of the real us are we connected to and how much of this do we live in every day life.

     3. Great point Otto, and so very true. Our quality of life has become a competition, along with everyday comparison… whereas quality in life is all about how we choose to live that is inclusive of everyone.

     4. This is such a strong point. It starts with exactly this kind of comment and we need to be that attentive to what we are putting out there in the way we connect and communicate with people. I’ll never forget a trip I took to Spain about fifteen years ago and I went out for dinner with a friend who was living there. There were lots of people there, none of whom I knew. We had a great evening, lots of connections and I remember when I woke up the next day, I realised that I had no idea what any of the people I had met that evening did as their job, and none of them knew what I did. To me that was so unusual, in that so often when you meet people we immediately ask questions like that – which starts the comparison. Whereas with these people, we had spent a whole evening together and just communicated and connected as equals with none of that lifestyle comparison going on. It made a big impression on me – which only goes to show how unusual it is.

     5. very true Otto and the price we pay for that quality of life is in fact a lesser or non existent quality in life. Ofcourse we feel this but like a drug addict instead of choosing more quality we dig in deeper in the pursuit of quality of life.

        1. The comparison with drug usage and addiction is very pertinent. Drugs do two things – they deepen the hole and then provide momentary relief from the pain of feeling the hole….once that pain relief has subsided the user is left feeling even greater pain because the hole is deeper, hence more drugs, please. And this is exactly the same as the pursuit of quality of life…the highs can provide momentary ‘relief’ from the pains of the lows, but once that relief has passed the lows are even lower, hence more holidays (for example) please. On top of this, the ‘relief’ is only ever illusional because, as has been said, we all actually and innately know.

        2. Exactly and in the end we are so ‘hooked’ that there are no more pauses and even multiple ‘drugs’ are needed to get the same result, and so we watch TV while we work on the computer for example and do all we can to avoid a moment of confrontation with how we feel, or better said the quality of life that we are lacking.

307. Brilliant article. It seems to me that ‘quality of life’ is all about self and ‘quality in life’ is all about service.

     1. Absolutely – quality in life takes everyone and everything into consideration, the whole.

308. ” in living our quality in life, ”
     I have never seen it this way before living the true and full quality of who I am in life , then that true quality would be given life.

309. I love how you express quality in life as the connection with our inner essence. We don’t normally consider this when we are thinking about our happiness or career path or care plans. But what a rich territory to explore. To know that our essence shines bright and the more we honour that, the more we bring quality IN life.

     1. I agree HM. We have become so accustomed to looking at quality of life according to our surrounding that perhaps our perception of what constitutes quality is askew. True quality is energetic and resides within us, expressing this in life is quality in life which can then result in true quality of life.

310. “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” This is such a great question Jane. When you put it like this it makes so much sense, that our quality of life is very much dependant on the quality with which we are/have been in life.

311. The answers to the world’s issues, right here in this article. Clearly laid out for all to see. I am quite serious here, I think the world would change incredibly if we started to focus of our quality in life and brought our divine essence to all that we do.

312. I agree, that pursuit makes a lot of sense but could be subtly missing the point – striving to fulfil an idea rather than noticing the perfection that is right at home and which, when expressed, makes a high quality of life much more likely without that being the focus.

313. The definition I have seen most often in science for quality of life is simply taking a year lived in complete health as an ideal, giving it the number 1 or 100% and then to deduct percentages for ailments and put a dollar value on such a year lived in perfect health. This makes quality of life mathematically tractable and it can then be included in statistical analyses.

     1. Why do we as humans need to analyse everything to a number and a value? We blend expensive oils to make perfumes, but smelling a flower that is growing costs nothing! The quality of life has become a dollar sign, where quality in life is how we live every day and not what is costs.

314. It’s amazing the extent to which our quality of life can change when we choose to live with more connection to our divine essence.

315. We are so focused on a measureable way of defining quality of life, that we have made it all about physical markers and tick boxes, pictures of what looks like it would deliver a ‘good’ and healthy life. But beyond those physical things, there also needs to be a consideration of the quality in the way we live – if we are always anxious or frustrated etc., then it doesn’t matter the physicality of life around us – we need to focus on the quality of our inner environment with as much care.

316. I love the difference you have made here about quality in life and quality of life. Bringing our divine quality to everything that we do would most definitely change our quality of life. Talking about quality in life is also very empowering as it asks us to bring the quality that we want life to be.

317. Isn’t that interesting, all those different listed definitions, projected outcomes and meanings of ‘quality of life’ – all the more key to bring it back to the one common denominator; Quality IN Life.

318. We have become experts at living as though this quality is not there, to the extent that we honestly believe it doesn’t exist. But the stunning thing is, it only takes us to slow down, connect to our breath and our body to realise we’ve been seriously duped. As you show here Jane, any time any where we can bring quality into our day.

319. What a great question Jane, just turning that quality of life into an in life question changes everything. We really do just focus on function rather than the depths of Multi Dimensionality.

320. There appears to be a further distinction to make here of which quality of life we are to choose, one of comfort and ease, or one of love and truth.

321. The difference you describe here is simple yet so profound. We cannot expect true quality of life without taking care of the quality with which we live.

322. “Quality of life or quality in life?” Understanding this question alone requires us to take a long pause and really connect to what is being offered. I know people who have been diagnosed with cancer and as a consequence, chose the latter and addressed their quality in life. Their level of vitality and health now is far greater than their precancer days and visibly evident. When we put quality in life first, we are enabled to deeply transform our health issues beyond all expectation.

323. As we let go of the control from within we can feel the expansiveness and the quality that we can bring to life and that this offers the body greater settlement and greater space for harmony and love.

324. When disconnected to myself I can find some people so annoying and unattractive, whereas when in deep connection to myself, and of course taking care of myself, I can see that same person with understanding and just let them be.

325. Addressing the quality of life is the first step. Ultimately we have to consider the quality with which we approach life, which not only results in the quality of life we are in but also how we choose to relate to, respond to and experience it.

326. When we consider what is our quality in life, as others have shared, we get to really look at how we are living, what we are doing that is loving and supportive or not. And with that change our life!

327. The conversation is the first stage to making a change.

328. It’s also really interesting what you’ve shared Jane about the measures of ‘quality of life’ that the medical profession use when considerations the best treatments for patients. Meeting those criteria is amazing, but it’s so important for all of us to find ways and utilise our support networks (which could be people/relationships, being active, maintaining a connection to nature etc) to take this above and beyond so that we can truly love our life.

329. Perhaps what quality we bring and are IN life is what then leads to our quality OF life.. As in, life reflects back to us what we reflect to it and choose to see.

330. ‘I wonder how different the world would be if we were to all choose to live our quality in life?’ Very different Jane. We would cease to be stuck going round and round endlessly repeating the same errant behaviours century after century, fighting the same war but with updated upgraded weapons! And we would evolve back to our original God -given estate.

331. The quality in which we hold ourselves definitely dictates the choices we make that are either complimentary and loving or the opposite.

332. ‘Energetically this is a primary cause of illness and disease, as we are living away from our true self.’ This is huge, because until I came across the teachings of Serge Benhayon I had never considered that we got sick when we disconnected from our true essence… I had the idea that illness was more random, not the fact that we create it over time through repeated ill patterns of emotion or behaviour.

333. So true that when we reconnect to our inner essence then the quality that we move through life is reflected in our quality of life.

334. Great points Jane thank you for sharing and exposing the difference. There is a massive difference between the 2 and the more we deepen our quality in life the more our quality of life will naturally improve without even trying. It also means we will honour ourselves far more listening to our inner being rather than trying to live up to a set of ideals or pictures about how we think or want life to be.

335. I know when I have been moving through life connected to my true quality. I feel so lovely that I don’t want to eat anything that will ruin the feeling. Very different from being disconnected and feeling awful so reaching for food that I think will make me feel better. A stark difference.

336. I like the reflection this blog offers to the reader about the difference between quality of life and quality in life. Whilst the first one is focused in the external the other one embraces both, the surface and the content. The first one is needed, but without the second one is definitely empty of us. Great to remember the part we play in the quality of our life and how we can deepen and deepen the relationship we have with it from ours with ourselves.

337. A powerful distinction to make Jane which again beautifully brings back the element of joyful responsibility we have to live from our inner quality in life rather than just seeking the comforts which can elude to a ‘quality of life’.

338. So much to ponder on here Jane as you have offered us a wonderful opportunity to take an honest look at the quality of how we live our lives. It makes so much sense to me that if we stay in connection to our essence, to all that we innately are and move in this way, that our quality in life will begin to naturally flow on to the quality of our life. So, in the end the quality of our life is totally our responsibility in very moment.

339. When we really put our focus on quality, our entire relationship with our health and well being changes, as does our relationship with many things that we consider deliver us quality in this life. What I have learned to cherish has radically changed when I started to put the quality of my inner environment and body first. Gone are the expensive bottles of wine, chocolate, coffee and cakes and in their place has grown a rich relationship with natural foods and drinks that nourish the quality of my health and self respect.

     1. Rowena great point, what is our focus, what is important to us and in our lives. It’s taken a while for me to shift but quality is now something I am building a stronger relationship with daily. As a result so many things have changed from the foods you talk about to the space I allow for myself each day and the connection with others.

340. In essence, do we choose a life that is mostly about coping or do we choose a life that is about expansion and … joy?

341. Beautifully explained and brilliant article Jane, ‘Quality’ does makes all the difference, for we are either being in function or in connection.

342. A great distinction here, quality in life, and how it’s from the inside out, not the outside in.

343. For me this brings it back to responsibility in how we are living as ultimately it is down to us and what we choose in each and every moment.

     1. Yes, and the purpose behind our choices.

344. A couple of months ago I hated my job. I was exhausted from running around in stress and reacting to every little thing. I was disconnected from my essence and couldn’t remember how this feels. Two months later and I am in love with my job – the same job. Why? Because I am in love with me. I have love within me which I take to work, and I move with this all day. It feels divine. Why would I not want to move or not want to work if I can carry this quality within me. The difference is that I made a renewed commitment to taking great care of myself. By coming right back to the signals from my body regarding what and when to eat, how much rest I need, and honouring myself by remaining connected to myself in my movement, I have started to feel my true quality once again, and taking this to work feels so amazing. Anything that I do is now touched by this quality and has so much more value than if I had done it in a rush or twice as fast. The difference in such a short time is astounding.

     1. I agree, Rebecca, your example is astounding and confirms what the effect is on everything in our life when we deeply care for ourselves.

     2. Thanks Jane. The blog is in the making 😉

345. By choosing to pay more attention to how our body is feeling in any given moment, we become more aware of the the impact of how we’re moving, talking, walking on our bodies and overall quality of being, and from there, other areas like the quality of our relationships and our work. We start to notice what feels good, and what doesn’t, and repeat what feels good, and drop what doesn’t. Our body is consistently and constantly reflecting back to us whether we are aligning to our natural innate qualities and living from there, or not.

346. I recently heard quality of life discussed in terms of the level of ‘fulfillment’ that one experiences in their life – amazing that the way we live can support us to connect to all we need within us to achieve this truly.

347. When we dismiss the connection we can so easily have with ourselves – our divinity – we need something else and we found it in making life all about ‘quality of life’ by outside parameters. Even though all along inside us is the magic, the inner essence, that when connected to will give us all the quality in life and of life we know is truly possible.

348. It is true that when we are looking to fill up that emptiness inside, we are more likely to buy things to make us feel better but at the end of the day the feeling comes back, and the object no longer has the appeal it once had.

349. Throughout my life I have had a materially comfortable life. I owned a house outright (no mortgage) when I was 19. Many could say I have had a quality of life that many have not. But without that connection to my essence the quality in this materially rich life was misery. Today in connection on a regular basis I can say that I now have a life of true quality and it’s providing a standard I can return to should that connection wobble.

     1. Brilliant honesty and absolutely agree with you from my own similar and lived experience.

350. Love the differentiation of ‘quality in life’ and ‘quality of life’. The quality of our relationship with life is a far more fundamental indicator of well-being than the ticking the boxes of what is externally considered as a good quality life.

351. It seems to me that life would be very different if we were to use body harmony as our marker of truth rather than body function. And if we were to work with the body’s harmony rather than depend upon its remarkable ability to correct our ill choices, we might find ourselves living with greater vitality and wellbeing.

352. It’s true Jane, to get all round health we must consider not just the practical choices of what our bodies need and do not need around with regard to supporting our quality of life, but also our quality in life. And it’s our quality in life that guides us to make those practical choices.

353. You raise some great points here Jane, thank you. When we talk about quality it can come with grand ideas and pictures about how that should look or feel but what I’ve learnt or been reminded of by Serge Benhayon is how our physical body actually gives us a true marker for feeling the quality in the way we’re living and if it is in tune with our inner-most essence or not – so rather than having a picture of what quality should look like I go with the sense of how to do things from my body.

354. Jane, you have summarised very clearly the standard medical definition of ‘Quality of Life’ and I like the way you ask the questions about our ‘Quality in Life’ because the latter ensures the former. Instead of constantly seeking for things outside of us for fulfillment, we only need to feel within and be aware of the quality we move in everything we do and know that everything in life is affected by the quality of our being.

355. I love your question Jane – ‘I wonder how different the world would be if we were to all choose to live our quality in life?’
     Our world would be very very different because it would be so much more still. There would not be the ceaseless drive to get somewhere, to become better, faster etc etc. To seek quality of life without quality in life is an empty gesture, fuelled by the underlying lack of feeling enough in a world that we have set-up to value accolades and material possessions more than the essence that resides within each of us.
     When we dedicate ourselves to bringing quality in life, we are succumbing to the essence within – and that is the greatest gesture to ourselves that we can make ever make.

     1. Yes, quality of life is only sought when there is a absence of quality in life – and unless we return to the true essence of quality in life for our answer such a search is doomed to fail.

356. “What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?” a great post and line that I have to come back to day-by-day. For me this asks a far deeper question and puts a big ‘stop’ moment ahead of me saying don’t worry about what has been and try and fix it, but stop and approach life in a different way.

357. We can develop quality of life through many different methods and choices, where we live and our activity – but bringing the dimension of quality in life is concerned with how we are in those activities, how we live in that location. We could have a seemingly perfect life in terms of ticking the qualities off – living in the country, eating healthy, exercising, having hobbies etc, and still something may be felt to be missing, the quality in life and our way of living that unifies all those things into one life of true wellbeing.

     1. Yes, Rebecca, most of us are chasing that perfect life and yet those who seemingly have it all, the wealth, the houses, the education, the relationship and the lifestyle can still be very unhappy and feel that there is a missing element. This missing element is that quality in life that no money can buy and no formal education has yet taught.

        1. I agree, the saying money cannot buy happiness also extends to all other physical things – not the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the exercise we do or the where we live, none of these things add up into the right equation to create the perfect life, it is the quality we bring to them that makes the difference

        2. Thanks for sharing this Jane and for illustrating your point so beautifully. So many of us can look at the lifestyle you describe and yearn for it, thinking that a ‘better’ life leads to more contentment but this is not true. Whilst there is nothing wrong in having everything that temporal life can give us, I know that it means nothing if I don’t have a loving relationship with myself or make my life about love first and foremost.

358. “Our quality of life is based on what has been first been lived as our quality in life”. This is a great reminder to surrender to my innate essence and consistently move with this connection through my day.

359. The quality we live in determines the quality of life. Take responsibility for the quality we live in and the quality of life follows suit and is naturally dealt with.

     1. A simple formula to live a life of fullness! So, why do we think we can improve on it and then simply lose ourselves completely?

360. Thank you Jane for writing this piece, and I agree that a discussion is most definitely needed about the difference between function and harmony in the human body, because this will lead to discussions about relationship and purpose, which will open the way for the energetic sciences to be examined and explored.

361. I have definitely found that if I bring quality into my life, then my quality of life improves.

362. Such a great thing to bring up and address for most of us seek a quality of life and in that seeking we can become so removed from having quality in life.

363. It’s a superb question to pose, as so often our focus rests on bodily function rather than inner quality and hence we spend a great deal of time attempting to fix the function all the while ignoring the real enabler in the equation. When we turn our attention to our inner qualities and bringing these to the fore to be embraced, cherished and expressed, our bodily functions seem to naturally follow suit.

364. Quality of life feels like how we describe an attempt to appease someone because of illness or disease that has now limited their fullness of life. Where quality in life, has no boundaries.

365. Indeed Jane we need an other focus in our lives as the old way did not work at all . . . therefore to feel that we are more than our flesh is really worth it to integrate in our daily lives just to see what will happen.

366. Beautiful article Jane. It is interesting that in the temporal examples that you have given re ‘quality of life’ it is clear that we as human beings do see and feel quality to be the paramount thing in a decision. So we know and value quality. The detail that we have forgotten, as you have so well pointed out, is that true quality comes from our essence, and our alignment to that. Our inner hearts are actually overflowing with quality, freely available for all – as we are from ‘quality’ and are made of it.

367. Until we choose to reconnect to our inner essence it is a struggle to attain the things that we deem to be improving our quality of life whilst once we reconnect we have purpose in life and this brings an amazing quality to our life that does not need outside stuff or recognition to validate it.

368. Exquisite article Jane. This article has really supported me in the work that I do, for I am always asking clients about quality of life and to reflect and document this. What I can feel is that in writing about quality of life it becomes a wish list for people that are unachievable. Even if its wiping my own bottom, showering myself, being able to communicated with my family. At some point in time that may change and we may need assistance with all of those things. Most people are not considering what may be needed when they can no longer care for their own basic needs? But even more importantly than that is the Quality in which we are living life and how this transforms our life itself. What I can feel from what you have presented Jane is that when we live our Quality in Life that our Quality of life is taken care of.

369. Quality of life is all about function … Quality in life is about living the innate love and truth we all are, equally so.

370. When I connect to that inner quality of who I am, it is so settling, so all-encompassing that there are no problems, issues or dramas. No highs and lows, nothing to get right, and nothing I need to do to prove myself. It feels like my body is in a perfect state of harmony and contentment, just by me paying attention to it and being with that, while I do things (instead of being wholly engrossed or lost in what I’m doing, at the expense to my body).

371. When we live by quality of life we are seeking outside us for something to make our life feel ‘better’ so in a way we are relying on the outside world … whereas quality in life is solely our responsibility – it is innate within us and only we can be this and bring it to the world for others to be inspired by.

372. So true Jane… it is our quality in life that determines our quality of life.

373. Living from inside out fills us up and touches others in their essence, whereas living trying to fill yourself up with the outside can never bring enough and doesn’t allow for true connections with another.

374. Furthermore – our quality is ‘the energy that maketh thee’. That is, it is the source of energy to which we align that will determine the quality of energy that then moves us. As there are only two sources of energy from which to draw breath from, these movements will either come from all that is love – or – all that opposes this.

     1. The ultimate in simplicity and responsibility.

375. A life perfected in function is no match for a life lived in connection with the fiery spark of our Soul. The former is like a rose with no scent, while the latter is the garden in full bloom.

     1. Thank you for painting this clear distinction, I know what I prefer.

376. Consistency is very much the key for me and quality I have found. I know what quality is and what it looks like in my life very innately but often can not sustain it for long periods of time.

377. ‘What if quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life?’ – A great question Jane, and something I can very much testify to coming from a place where I am experiencing the difference i.e. having a true quality of life thanks to choosing to live quality in life. The moment I choose differently and instead dishonour myself, the quality of life immediately is affected and drops accordingly.

378. If we applied this basic understanding to the way we classed our “standard of living” in economics, most if not all countries would not register all that highly. Perhaps that is too exposing and hence why we opt more for financial measures rather than try indications that expose the true reality of how most of us are choosing to live life.

379. When we focus on our quality in life all of the goals associated with quality of life just drop away and we are able to appreciate that we are responsible for this by the quality in life we live.

380. Such an amazing insight – quality in life – thank you Jane for your sharing and how there is a huge difference of how we can live based on how we are not what we do. There is such a depth of wisdom that we can connect to within our bodies.

381. Quality OF life or IN life. When a seemingly small distinction makes all the difference! Thank you, Jane, for clarifying.

     1. Agree Vibeke I too had a similar response, there is great clarity in the way Jane has explained them both.

382. A great point, Jane. No, we don’t really consider our quality in life – the bit we are responsible for, how we live, do we? I certainly didn’t – until I came across Universal Medicine. And I didn’t even realise that the quality of life was really about upholding of functionality and comfort.

383. To live from our quality completely changes how we move in our life. This is absolutely paramount as it is only through feeling our body and the fact that it can, and actually wants to, move with grace that we will again make graceful movement normal.

384. Awesome delivery here Jane – a very clear distinction of what is quality IN life and what is quality OF life. Much to ponder upon.

385. Yes a conversation worth having. My very first question is why do we now have a race, the human race being born and growing up, possibly never to know how to connect with and live the grand inner essence, their quality, in life? We all know that it exists, as we feel it nudge against many of our decisions, but we hold it down and ignore it for the sake of fitting in with our current society, for being liked and accepted.

386. What if our quality in life is equal to or more important than our quality of life? This seems to make so much sense as the quality in our lives from the choices that we make would definitely reflect out to how our quality of life was.

387. Great blog Jane, I can attest to the changes in my life since meeting Serge Benhayon and re-connecting to my inner essence, my Soul. It certainly has been a shedding process of what I have taken on from the outside world and let the inner essence to set the tone in how I go about my day.

388. Quality IN life goes hand in hand with having a sold commitment to life. Our quality is something we need to consistently be deepening, applying to everything, refining and appreciating; it has a beating pulse and is not something we can ignore because it interrupts our desire to ‘function’ and requires us to pay more attention to everything we do.

389. Yes certainly the quality that we bring to everything we do (which includes all our thoughts and movements) affects our quality of life and it also affect others too.

390. There is a vast difference between quality in life and quality of life and yet this is not often addressed. Thank you Jane for opening this topic and reminding us of that difference.

391. Wow what a difference one word can make! Quality IN life changes e v e r y t h i n g, it’s clear that not one thing can continue untouched when we start to make life about our relationship with our essence, rather than function.

392. It makes sense to me that the quality we live our life in determines the overall quality of our life, and it’s brilliant that you define how quality in or of life begins with us, the way we’re moving, what we’re choosing, every part of how we’re living, and this gives us the overall quality of our life. If I feel empty, tired and given up then the quality of my life isn’t going to be great, but if I’m deeply caring for myself and respecting myself and committing to everything that needs to be done then the quality of my life will be equal to these choices.

393. There is a feeling of expansion when we move with a quality in life, quality of life feels limiting.

394. Jane this is simply amazing in that it shows how easy we can buy into something we think is great “quality of life” and yet miss out on the real truth “quality in life”. I never considered the two to be different because I never considered there a “quality in life”. Subtle but deeply different.

395. Living with quality in life is to live from our innermost truth.

396. I would like to live in a world where the quality in life takes the leading role in all that we do, for if we can get that right everything else will fall into place and quality of life can be left in the history books to remind us how far we have come.

     1. Hear hear Kevin – if we get the quality in life right, everything else will naturally fall into place.

     2. Absolutely. I know when I confirm the kids in my class they go from strength to strength – the ability to apply themselves and learn becomes a much more positive experience and the results just find themselves. If we make life about quality there is commitment, yes, but we don’t have to try.

397. This definitely is a conversation worth having, most of us although innately aware we have an inner essence, choose not to honour it or admit it is there, so need all that the outside has to offer to try to make up for what we miss on the inside.

     1. This is a great point Kevin, I think it also comes down to the pressure we feel to earn money and achieve “success” in that form, whilst often, as a society, we neglect to push individuals to achieve success in terms of knowing who they are and what they want and how best to go about their lives for them!

398. ‘What if our quality in life is equal to or more important than our quality of life?’ A beautifully pertinent question to ask, Jane. When I am settled in my body and feeling still I have a big sense of space and timelessness that is just gorgeous to feel. I can have this feeling on the tube in the middle of London or I can have it in the heart of the countryside with no one around. This can travel with me everywhere I go and be in everything I do so that it is no longer a question of what I do or where I live that has to feed me something back, but that I can feed myself by choosing the quality I live in, imbuing everything I do with that same quality.

399. Superb distinction to make Jane. We seem to have lost that connection to our inner quality and these days place more emphasis on the material quality rather than our inner quality that in truth can never satisfy us. When we retune our attention to our inner quality and start making that the focus of our day, our need for the common distractions become significantly reduced and what often happens is that our health and wellbeing seem to naturally improve.

400. Whilst our quality of life is mainly impacted when we get ill or things are a bit intense, our quality in life can remain untouched by these events because it can be connected to in every situation in life and doesn’t depend on how well our life goes or not.

401. Once the grandness of what we experienced as a child has been sensed in the body as an adult we cannot deny it for it is a marker of truth in everyday life that we can come back to when we find we are in disconnection to ourselves. Connecting to this grandness in our everyday life is what is to be mastered so that we can live in a quality that comes from our soul, the essence of who we are.

402. “quality in life is the way to ensure a true quality of life” A beautiful explanation of cause and effect as when we live in a way that is true to our essence we feel the quality of that way of living every day.

403. “I wonder how different the world would be if we were to all choose to live our quality in life?” The world would look very different indeed. Simplicity would be at its core and we would all take more responsibility for everything we say and do and even think.

404. Great conversation to have Jane; it is true we always talk about the quality of life but never the quality in life, a small change in the wording but a ginormous change in how we view our life. Your blog is confirmation of what happened to me last week, where I had tried to fit too much into my day on several occasions due to a family member being in hospital and I had gone into functioning mode of pushing against time and against my body’s usual rhythm and harmonious state. By the weekend my body was aching and I was feeling unwell and my body was feeling racy and out of rhythm. I took extra care of myself yesterday and I am feeling back in rhythm with myself and no longer feeling ill….to me this was a great example of body function, overriding my natural rhythm to try and fit more into the day than was true for me during that week. If I had carried on pushing my body without recognising what I had done, I feel I would be feeling a lot sicker today.

405. When you put it like this Jane it’s absolutely bizarre that we hope to have a life that is great, while living in a way that’s not. The fact is the energetic quality we choose simply adds up. Thank you!

406. As I have come to understand more and more that “we are far grander than we realise and there is much more to us than our body” the quality of my life has begun to change. No longer do I give my power away to others I feel know more than me, but I give it to the inner knowing that my body is the very wise vehicle that I move through this life and that every message it gives me is one to be acknowledged. And of course it is my response to those messages and the quality of my movements that will then determine the subsequent quality in my life.

407. Quality in life feels so normal and not hard to understand. While wanting the quality of life feels like something we chase after and doesn’t feel natural, but what we have convinced ourselves to do.

     1. Wanting the quality of life feels exhausting, like we are chasing to satisfy something that will never be satisfied. Quality in life feels confirming of who we are.

     2. Great point – one is a surrender inwards as it were, in a humble obedience to the quality we know can only come from within and from there to life itself, whereas to seek and aim for quality of life, has us looking outside of us – over the rainbow that is always momentary.

     3. The constant chasing of a better life is exhausting, but we accept this as normal because this is what most of us are in… its the only model of life we seem to know. Getting to know the quality in life and the inner quality we all hold is only something I tangibly connected to when I attended Serge Benhayon’s presentations. The difference is vast.

408. Wow Wow Wow. So beautifully shared Jane. Our quality in life reveals that responsibility for the quality we live lies with us.

     1. That is a great and empowering point Leonne ~ we are indeed responsible for the quality we live and experience.

     2. Spot on Leonne and thank you for capturing it so simply. It brings the responsibility back to us and only us!

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