448 thoughts on “The Body Doesn’t Lie – Being Diagnosed with Osteoporosis”

1. What this blog reminded me of is the days I would work to the edge and even by exercising six times a week and sometimes even twice a day, it was ludicrous. So it’s a no wonder my body said no more, as it had been speaking the truth and it basically wasn’t lying. I finally had no choice but to rebuild my relationship with it again.

   It is far by being perfect but that self care is from a different level to what it used to be. It is more tender, loving and much more considerate to the body first, before the mind.

2. It’s a great point Doug and it points to how we have normalised abuse under the guise of doing good for our bodies. It actually doesn’t make sense at all when we examine it like this.

3. “The first thing it produced was a great dose of humility, for it placed me where I was energetically, instead of where my mind thought I was.” The body always offers the truth, which in turn offers us the opportunity for honesty. I can relate to the pride of thinking I’m going along better than I am, or not wanting to look at what’s staring me in the face as communicated by the body. The body is like a loving parent, it continually offers the truth so that through honesty we can become more responsible with ourselves and others.

   1. Melinda I’ve loved what you have expressed, ‘the body is like a loving parent’. And when I ponder on this it not only makes absolute sense but it feels absolute sense.

4. Inmaculada, as we change how we live, we will be affecting the physical body. We are learning through osteoporosis how we have push and disregarded our bodies in the past but what a blessing to know we can change this by living with less judgement on ourselves and living more lovingly. As I feel this, I get a beautiful glow of warmth up my spine.

5. The body doesn’t lie and here you are living the truth of where you have come to. The tenderness with which you write is a marker for the body in telling the truth. Thank you.

6. Inmaculada feels very inspiring seeing a woman like you capable to look at with honesty all the arising feelings after receiving such a diagnosis. Sometimes it takes courage and humbleness to go to your body’s truth. I appreciate your healing process for it shows a very different approach to an illness or a disease with no need of regret or play the victim. Thanks for sharing

7. It is incredible that the body does not lie and that every bit of it shows how we have lived, how we have treated ourselves (and others), and what we have thought. It’s like a gigantic register and can only sustain itself for so long before what we have poisoned it with, has to come out in the form of illness and disease. It’s quite amazing how the exact illness we get, is exactly the register of the behaviour or choices we have gone into. Illness and disease clearly doesn’t fall out of the sky like we thought it did and it is certainly not the random event that we like to think.

8. Could it be that abusing our body and the resulting illness that is created by the way we have lived, is that a lot of time the cure is a bitter pill we must swallow?

9. We are forever humbled by the honesty of the body which is a marker of how we have been living. We can take this as a punishment or as an opportunity to deepen.

10. Reading this makes me want to get my bone density tested, which for some reason I have been putting off.

11. There is a lot of power in humility.

12. The ideals and beliefs that we can be so attached to can have an extremely detrimental impact on the body to the point illness and disease is created in the body. We have to learn to discern what is an ideal or belief and that which is true for our body and to do this the development of the connection to our body is paramount.

13. So true – the body never lies. And it’s very inspiring to feel how you have restored a sense of responsibility and empowerment when you came to understand the energetic side of osteoporosis, and became more open to what the body had to show. It totally makes sense when we make friends with our own body, illness and disease are no longer an enemy that we have to fight against.

14. If we consider that osteoporosis is a weakening and a thinning of the bones – a corrosion – it makes sense to look at how we are living: what thoughts are we allowing and what movements are we making that allow our bones to be weakened and crushed? And would we allow this in the first place if we truly valued and knew our worth, through just being who we are, not through anything that we can do?

    1. Thank you Bryony, that offers deeper insight into how we can be part of the healing process as well. If we consider our bones to be our foundations and our framework from which we build our life, and that the thoughts, movements, choices of what we consume and how we drive our body all affect this foundation and framework, then it makes total sense that we are the architects of our outcomes.

15. If the body does not lie why do we not listen more attentively to its communications? Perhaps we do not want to admit that we created its disharmony in the first place by making ill choices.

16. “THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage, which can make it look like I’m being ever more careful with myself, whilst I may be hiding a deep lack of acceptance and cherishing of my own self…” Yes agree, …. We ‘think’ and this only comes from our head. We ‘feel’ and this comes from our body – the union between our body + head… and Soul. The Universal Medicine therapies of Esoteric Yoga, Chakra-puncture, Connective Tissue Therapy and Esoteric Massage I have found, offer a sound foundation for developing truth and honesty with ourselves.

17. I love this honest appraisal of your relationship to your body Inmaculada ‘I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it.’ I know exactly this, and that when I let myself feel the divine being that can express through this body I know that to deepen the love and respect I have of my body is to allow more and more expression of it.

    1. That sentence is very powerful isn’t it – and I know it calls me to a deeper honesty of how I have treated my body to date.

18. ‘…wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body…’ If I heed this fact then life is so simple, I have my greatest resource with me 24/7 and just have to let go of my habit to complicate.

19. Before meeting Serge Benhayon I didn’t even know you could have a conversational relationship with the body but you can. It’s not like a pencil or hammer we can use then discard but a living thing that does give feedback to how it is worked with and lived in.

20. What a saying… Our body being tyrannised by the decisions of our mind… let’s face it… The world is being ravaged by the decisions of our minds collectively.

21. ” I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” We can do all the right things and tick all the right boxes in our approach to healing but if our heart is not in it and we we do not come from love- true love – then no healing, of any true nature, can take place.

22. It’s interesting isn’t it, how we think we are not affected by one of our habits or behaviours… getting away with something, but then at some point in our life, our body displays the ‘wears and tears’ of this ‘something’, that only then do we stop, question and realise, what this habit, behaviour or choice was actually doing to our body. The human spirit can be so arrogant and self righteous sometimes can’t it…

    1. Yes it can and each time this happens to me I realise that I always knew it wasn’t right for me but I was arrogant in my behaviour and treatment of the body thinking I could ‘get away with it’. The only person we fool is ourselves but everyone misses out.

23. How can the body lie when it is so obedient to its job? So humbly, it digests our food, it pumps blood through our veins, oxygen through our lungs and so many other processes which we are not even aware of. And so many of us can claim that we are not aware of our organs, we see them in pictures in textbooks, we know they exist but are unable to feel them inside our own body. How disconnected are we?

    1. It’s true Viktoria, we are very disconnected from our bodies, and from understanding the exquisite intelligence it operates by. We seek books and information on the internet about what health is and impose that into our bodies, without listening to what the body is communicating. That fact that our mind does this shows how little intelligence it has compared to the body and the many amazing processes it performs everyday.

       1. When focusing on our thoughts and in figuring out what to say, how to solve a problem and so on we are fooled to not know what is going on within our own bodies. How can illness and disease be a surprise? For it does not occur over night, much serious illness is gradual, it builds over time and the only reason we’re unable to feel it for ourselves is because we live in our heads.

       2. That is very true Viktoria and a very wise observation, and it highlights how caring and supportive to our health whole body awareness is, and how damaging systems like education can be that focus solely on the mind and disconnect us from our bodies.

       3. Perhaps, there’s a reason those systems are in place – to keep us away from this awareness. Nothing is a coincidence and we must be aware of what’s going on in our surroundings.

24. The body is the best friend that we always wanted-that is the one that would and could never lie to us.

    1. The best friend that is always there, patiently waiting, without judgement or resentment, for us to listen and honour ourselves as it does.

    2. The more we learn to accept the truth the more we can respond to the truth that our body offers.

    3. Your best friend time and time again no matter how often you ignore it!

    4. Very spot on, we’re constantly searching for recognition from everywhere else instead of paying attention to the confirmation we feel within.

25. When what is considered to be healthy comes from outside of you it will always end up being revealed as unhealthy. Our bodies are so delicately attuned to what is needed at any moment, for our age, stage of cycle, way we have been living etc. No one size fit all health or fitness plan can ever match that.

26. The body does not lie but often we refuse to listen until it is impossible to ignore the glaring signs of dis-ease and un-wellness presented to us.

27. Our body is designed to bring us back to harmony when something is out of harmony it will do all it can to clear and discard what does not belong.

28. Beautifully and wisely said. The body is naturally obedient to the divine order of the universe, the pulse of oneness. It is only us, more precisely our spirit that willfully resists being impulsed by the divine union of our Soul and body.

29. It is so true that our body is an instrument however what we do not discern, ponder or question enough is what is our body being an instrument for? Our body is designed to embody love impulsed by our Soul and to live less than this quality we are imbuing the body and moving with the quality of lovelessness. The blessing is that our body will always reflect the truth of the quality of energy impulsing its movements for as you shared so wisely – ‘wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.’

30. It appears that we live in separation between our body and mind, which is how we are able to over-rule the body’s messages and dismiss such insight and awareness that the body offers.

31. Our body doesn’t lie and accepting the truth of what is going on is a beautiful healing and way forward to make changes and embrace all we are shown to support us to heal and live in another way.

32. The body does not lie but the being inside it does. Hence why the body is known esoterically as the ‘marker for all truth’ because there will come a time where the dishonesty that is being lived (a wayward way of living that does not support or truly nourish us) accumulates in the bones, tissues and organs of the human form that uses absolute honesty to inform us of our errant ways. It does this by allowing that which is disharmonious to the universal order we belong to and that our bodies are attuned to, to rise to the surface and be seen for the dis-ease that it is.

    1. So beautifully expressed Liane and explains exactly how our dis-honest way of being with ourselves takes us through to the end point of dis-ease.

33. Our body is the greatest truth barometer, yet it’s interesting that human behaviour tends not to take notice and listen until we have a diagnosis, a reaction or something change with it.

    1. This makes sense why we tend to trash our body and ignore its messages because we are run by an energy that does not want us to listen to our body and embrace truth. 

34. This deepening of our relationship with and ability to listen to our bodies is a process and choice that we can make now, and in every moment. We don’t need to wait until we’ve got time or space to connect, listen to and honour it – it is always communicating with us.
    We can respond to its messages as we go about our day, by choosing the quality of how we do all that we do.

35. How we are raised to value or not value particular attributes or qualities makes an enormous impact to us, all of our behaviours and even our physiology. You’ve raised a great example which is being raised to value academic results and the impact this had on you.

36. How often do we feel betrayed by our bodies because they are sick, when the real fact of the matter is that it is the other way around. We are the betrayers of a body that seeks to work in harmony as the finely tuned organism that it is, by insisting that it ingests products it cannot digest and either hammer it into the ground with sports and keep fit, or else let it waste away on the sofa watching TV.

37. It’s true we can never deceive our body and equally it will never lie to us.

38. Words of pure gold… “…wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body…” Our bodies are so very wise and very much worth listening to.

39. The body does not lie and the mind does not like to take responsibility for our ill choices that the body cops .

    1. How true this is. And our minds will find whatever way they can to justify those ill choices to avoid taking that responsibility, until such time that they are stopped.

40. When our mind is taken over by a belief it renders the body as a machine and disregards its feelings. It is only used to fulfil a destination no matter how the process is.

41. The body absolutely doesn’t lie and what is amazing is how artful we can be – how much energy we can put into – not listening to what it has to say.

42. ‘The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.’ How many of us has fallen for this, to favour the mind over the body, we have built a whole society around this and still we try to persist this way of living instead of seeing the detrimental affects this has on the human body, denying it is our vehicle of expression for the divine essence we come from.

43. It seems to me that when presented the fact that “the body doesn’t lie” that most people would challenge the truth they have been presented with, for it they choose to accept it then life as they are living would need to change. Maybe this is because it would then expose the love-less choices they have been making and that they have chosen to be deaf to the calls of their body that their choices are actually harming them.

44. What a beautiful understanding to come to from your body that is the stem of all wisdom and that only through the honouring of this and ourselves with deep self-care, love and intimacy can we truly nurture ourselves and heal our body.

45. Thank you Inmaculada for a great sharing. You expose so much here of how we hold ourselves to ransom, how we treat our bodies, expecting them to perform and how if they do not, we consider they’ve failed, but what you speak to here is a deep relationship with the body, one not based on performance and function but one based on listening to, honouring and deeply respecting our bodies and what they say to us. For they do not lie, they offer us the truth always.

46. The trouble with osteoporosis is that we can’t see it so unless we break a bone, we don’t know we have it. Because I had a hyperactive thyroid at one time, the endocrinologist suggested I might be prone to have osteoporosis and sent me for a DEXXA scan. He was right. I have had it checked again recently and it has got worse, so I am working with gentle exercises to help it.

47. “which led me to enquire honestly about the relationship I had with my body….” How often do we actually do this? – take stock of our relationship with our body… It seems that we are only brought to honesty by illness or disease… be it a common cold, flu or more serious health issue. The potential of improved health, vitality or relationships is very possible if we asked this question to ourselves more regularly.

48. It’s beautiful to read how you’ve been establishing a new quality of relationship with your body and appreciating the wisdom that is there and that we can re-tune back in with.

49. Without the gift of the body with its innate absolute honesty we would be lost big time. It is mostly the body that keeps us on track even when we don´t know and or especially when we like to ignore that we are off track.

    1. I absolutely agree, Alexander. Having lived in absenteeism from my body at various times in my life it is clear that it is then, when disconnected, that I am most lost.

50. We can get angry when we discover we are ill and often we blame the body for letting us down. I love what you write about how you explored what the illness shared, your relationship with your body and how you have been evolving and learning from it.

51. When we realise that our body is so honest – that it doesn’t lie – it exposes that there is a part of us, a part of our psyche, that is dishonest in relationship with ourselves.

52. “It took me a long time to realise that THE BODY DOESN’T LIE…” Yes, and I would say this is the same for most of us, as we dont want to have to admit that we have negelcted our bodies at the expense of listening to our minds. Any illness is in fact a direct result of where we havent paid due care and attention to the constant messages that our body sends us.

53. There are so many ways in which we can override our body, so many kinds of excuses. I have found that when I have discarded one excuse, it can be easily replace with a more sophisticated one that makes me still think I can ignore how my body feels and push through even though the body never lies.

54. ‘I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.’ This is a huge statement, very humbling and also very true. It has made me sit up today knowing that I am giving my body extra work because of what I have chosen to consume and that, in itself, is not truly loving. My body is dealing with it but at what expense to my, and by extension, others overall health and well being? I am inspired to go for a walk and reconnect to a deeper level of love.

55. ‘The body is the marker of all truth’ I first heard this from Serge Benhayon and then I start to appreciate how much the body really does communicate to us. Every choice we make results in the quality of our body. What I love about the teachings and modalities of Universal Medicine is that you get to feel that underneath all that there is our essence and no matter what we try to do this essence is our divine state of being which is totally harmonious.

56. ‘I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love. The fact is that I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it. This means that I had demanded too much of it, that I had at times abandoned it.’ – I really get what you are sharing here and even though I have mades some profound choices in looking after myself and body we can never settle for that to be done. That you have made the choice and you are completed. We a live, living organism full of particles and cells all responding, so it is super important that we don’t settle for a way of being or choices when the next moment is offering a whole other level of depth we can go to.

57. I like this Doug. No drama but an honest review and realisation of how the mind tyrannises our body when we live with mental awareness only (ignoring our bodies).

58. The body never lies, but we can become artful at ignoring, dismissing or excusing the signs and symptoms it flags up. We then feign surprise or self-pity when we get sick. This is not a mark of intelligence.

59. “My bones are regaining mass bit by bit. I don’t know how well they will evolve in the future. What I do know, however, is that my relationship with osteoporosis is a living experience from which I am learning.” Very inspiring to know that you are learning from your experience and that there is an openness within you which allows you to accept your health as it is and supports you to keep deepening your understanding of your condition.

60. It is quite amazing how many diets and ways of caring for ourselves that are out there today that are supposed to keep us fit and healthy and that sound good to the mind but don’t mention anything about listening to the body where the real truth of what we individually need will be revealed with the help of a bit of the old self-love.

61. It’s interesting how we can become far more honest when we have an illness, like saying ‘no’, or not putting up with things like we may have in the past and raise our standards of living, If we started off with this honest approach in life, and to let our standards of honesty slip, makes me wonder what our general state of health would look like?

62. Our bodies are designed to guide us to live the truth of who we are, hence why it only reflects to us the truth at all times of the impact of the choices we are making. Listen and we come to know what it is to truly heal and live with greater connection to who we are.

63. “My first reaction when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis was disbelief and anger. Anger at having believed that all the time that I had dedicated to apparently taking care of myself was supposed to be a guarantee to avoid illness.”

    We are sold a lie and then when that lie is exposed, the true extent of the rot we have swallowed is revealed. This is never a pleasant moment, but it is a truly awakening one.

64. No matter what the situation, the body doesn’t lie. Every hangover tells us not to drink alcohol. Lung disease tells us not to smoke. Super sore muscles tell us not to over exercise.

65. As much as we may try to ignore our bodies when something changes, it actually takes more energy to ignore it than to address it and take steps to deal with why the change or problem has happened. Any health problem will more than likely eventually turn into something more complex if not addressed at a physical, mental and energetic level.

66. “I had to assume that my body was a stranger to me, that I needed to get to know…” this is a great place to start in reestablishing and developing a relationship with ourselves without utilising the ‘autopilot’ behaviours, patterns, ideals or beliefs. .

67. If we look after ourselves and still fall sick with an illness or a cold it is definitely easier to identify why at this time we aren’t well. A few weeks ago I got an intense cold which started off as headaches, blocked sinuses and a sense of confusion, and for me I wasn’t necessarily neglecting my body but was getting very stressed by exams, hence how the tension started.

68. It’s amazing what our bodies tell us. Even though we may have turned our lives around and are living in a true and loving way our bodies still need to clear the residue of the past and will do so through health conditions or illness. It keeps us humble and invites us to take a good look at the choices we have made.

69. Inmaculada, thank you for sharing your experience. It is so true that our body doesn’t lie and your honesty in sharing your relationship with your body prior to your diagnosis is very common in our society, where we care for it just enough to allow us to do what we want to do instead of deeply caring for it with absolute appreciation and love. ‘…healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing.’ Our body is amazing at healing when we support it 100% and your blog inspires us to support our body in a deeply loving way.

70. It’s so crazy that we live in a body that we become a stranger to. Most of us treat our bodies with disdain and neglect compared to how we treat our mind. Yet the two are not separate and harm to the body means harm to the mind and quality of our thoughts, which leads to harmful behaviours.

71. At school we learn the basics of how to read, abc. But to me what I’m wondering is shouldn’t we truly be shown the way to read and understand what our body reflects? If we did we’d surely realise we’re never ever without a friend.

72. I have for so long considered myself to be strong and have pushed my body to the limit, and have ignored warnings my body has given me, osteoporosis being one of them, because I initially started doing exercise to develop bone strength but gradually my commitment declined. I can’t feel the osteoporosis, I don’t have any broken bones, but recently I had another scan and it has worsened over the last four years. We cannot afford to ignore our greatest buddy and support system, our body. I hurt my back recently and that gave me a scare, I have found myself feeling very vulnerable. Appreciating how delicate our bodies are will help us to stop abusing them.

    1. It’s interesting that even when we know we need to take more care, we still find reasons and ways not to. Many times! We are masters at sabotaging our own bodies and our connection to them, because we know how powerful we are when we’re listening and aligned to their truth, and don’t want the resononsility of that.

73. “From the moment I decided what I wanted to do with my body, and left no room for feeling and listening to what my body actually needed, what was supposed to be “healthy” stands as an external imposition, based on ideals and beliefs, and therefore becomes unhealthy.”
    Our bodies are blessed with the most miraculous physiological systems that are constantly responding and communicating with us, if we choose to live in a way that is dominated by our heads, we will override the vital pointers that constantly look to sustain our homeostasis and support our health & wellbeing.

74. Osteoporosis is actually very common for many of us as we age. But we have to be careful not to be frightened and scared into taking supplements or medications as taking anything out of fear will not support us in a true way. By all means it is important to take medications and supplements as they are needed, but to do this in a way that is embraced and fully supporting oneself is what is paramount so that we maximise what is on offer to support our healing.

75. Yes well said, Inmaculada, if our bodies are used as an instrument to perform or live up to an ideal, the long term effects will be devastating. Thank goodness for the body’s ability to clear and heal through the process of illness and disease.

76. What does it mean to take care of my health and who decides what is true for me? We run, workout in the gym, row, cycle, play sport, eat five fruit and vegetables every day but does this mean we are healthy and what happens when we have listened and abided by this way of being to find we end up having osteoporosis or some other disease or illness. Could listening to what is claimed or researched outside of us actually be damaging and harmful to our body and health? At the end of the day surely the most reliable and honest resource is our connection to the body which knows exactly what is needed to support the body and take care of our health and wellbeing.

77. I too have severe osteoporosis and used to see my body as a work horse and had little regard for what I did to it unless I became ill or was not able to do the physical work I wanted to do, either because of pain or injury. We are doing our body a huge dis-service and creating all sorts of issues and illnesses if we don’t look after and lovingly care for our body.

    1. This is so common Alison, that many people see their body like a work horse, and when it is sore or aching we tend to ignore it and push our body to work even though it may be screaming with pain. We are simply not taught to listen to our body from a young age and as we grow up we see that it is normal to use and abuse our body because we see this reflection throughout our society. But thanks to Serge Benhayon’s incredible teachings and presentations, more and more people around the world are learning to deeply honour and listen to our body and starting to build a loving relationship with ourselves and our body. This is rare in our current society but one day I feel this will be the norm where we cherish, love and fully understand the power of listening to our body.

       1. I agree ChanLy it is rare to look after and respect the body it was certainly something that was never taught or reflected to me growing up, quite the opposite in fact. It will take a while to change the abuse we put our body through, not just treating it as a work horse but through alcohol, drug and sport to name but a few. With sport we are able to push the body to extremes, and it is accepted as the norm and revered by many, but there will come a time as you say when we will start to recognise that true power is in honouring and listening to the body.

78. True Inmaculada the body is the clearest mirror we have if we are willing to deal with what our mirror is telling us.

79. Great sharing Inmaculada, it is very true that the body does not lie, and the more we are able to connect and listen to our body the more we naturally know what supports it, and it is never too late to start changing our choices.

    1. Indeed Sally when we change focus from the head to the entirety of our bodies, we are met with a dialogue that has our health and wellbeing at its core purpose, a pure friendship like no other.

80. ‘I did what I thought was taking care of my health by doing road cycling and running half-marathons. Also in the name of health I dedicated many years of my life to learn and practise different kinds of nutrition. The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.’ Thank you for sharing this Inmaculado. An outstanding and important example/study of how we are led astray by our mind and we stop listening to our body.

81. Thank God for our body and its communications with us – without this we would be truly lost heading down paths with no means of correction or return. Hence no matter what illness or disease, it is a blessing for us all, for it offers us a moment to stop and change direction and return to truth again.

    1. Yes, “thank God for our body and its communication with us…” and other people too, as every-body we have an interaction with, be it conversation, a simple walking past, has a way of communicating something too – a reflection, a noticing, a feeling, that also can inspire, give insight & awareness into our own state of health.

82. Diagnosis of any illness can be a shock on one hand and yet a deep knowing on the other hand – deep down we know what is happening yet a part of us chooses to turn a blind eye to this. And so the shock really is the shock of realizing how much we have fooled ourselves. I too have experienced this (not with osteoporosis) but with other health issues – and know it can take a while to digest.

    1. Very true Henrietta, and especially with lifestyle related illnesses the ‘shock’ isn’t necessarily that our choices have precipitated into an illness, but actually the fact that we thought we were invincible and fooled ourselves into thinking we could ‘get away with’ disregarding choices for so long.

83. What a gift we have with us every moment of every breath, the body doesn’t lie. Learning to listen to the truth can be challenging but it is the only way to evolve out of our age old patterns of disregarding towards expressing more and more our innate and divine nature.

84. “The first thing it produced was a great dose of humility, for it placed me where I was energetically, instead of where my mind thought I was.” This is beautiful, Inmaculada, as it illustrates the power of coming home to the truth of what our bodies are reflecting to us. We need not veer away from the body as our greatest and most honest friend.

    1. This part you’ve highlighted Janet, is so honest and it shows how we can trick ourselves in thinking we are healthy and well but our body can be telling us something completely different. When our body presents the truth, and we are not willing to hear it, we can feel a sense of sadness and anger, and may even feel our body is letting us down when we have an illness or disease. But when we understand our body doesn’t lie, and we start to listen to it, it is indeed our most honest friend. It is always calling us back to being more loving, caring and nurturing no matter what it is communicating to us.

85. Awesome sharing Inmaculada – this shows that our health is in our hands, and our choices, but perhaps the choices are not that supportive when they come as dictates from our society or our heads that say “this is what makes you healthy”…for true well being and vitality are in relation to our relationship with our body and our capacity to connect with what it truly needs, to deeply care for it and cherish it as the vehicle that we use 24/7.

86. When we have been following all the ‘rules’ with exercise and eating and then find out that we still have a condition such as osteoporosis, we can certainly feel very fooled! This can be a difficult time in accepting that what we thought was supporting us is perhaps not as it seems. There is so much more to the illnesses and conditions that we develop, and the more our understanding of ourselves and the condition grows then the more we are offered an opportunity for true healing.

87. This is so true – “wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.” The more we open up to being deeply sensitive and aware of our body’s subtle messages, the greater our wisdom and knowing of the truth in everyday life.

88. “Whenever the doctors talked about the state my body was in, I felt like it was foreign to me” – This is actually very relatable, as there are times when we bash our body or neglect it so far that it no longer feels like our own but instead the exhausted result of the behaviours we’d allowed to come through.

89. We think the truth is harsh but it’s so loving. The harshness only comes from our persistence with living lies we know aren’t true inside. The contrast is extreme.

90. “I chose not to be a victim. I had to assume that my body was a stranger to me, that I needed to get to know.” Inspiring Inmaculada. What a wonderful approach to any illness this would be, as unless we address the core reasons for why we get sick in the first place (usually because we have ignored our bodies) then we dont fundamentally change anything.

91. Thank you, Inmaculada. It has also taken me some time to appreciate that “wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body”. I did not want to accept that my mind is nothing other than a memory bank, and that to access the true intelligence of the soul is by going deep within myself.

92. This sounds so familiar. To push the body, think we’re invincible and ticking the care box and then when something happens we get angry and don’t understand why. I’ve been pretty healthy and solid in my body all my life and I can take it for granted. Being pregnant I’ve only just started to get a few cramps and aches based on low magnesium levels and I did go into the ‘but I’m healthy’ bin. When in fact there is a surrender needed in me to understand that care and nurturing is constant and should not be taken for granted. And that it is about always listening to the body.

93. Thank you Inmaculada. This blog is very inspiring. I know that when we have a serious diagnosis we can become very careful about what we eat and how we live in order to get our health back again, but the healing does not go very deep if we do it as an exercise purely from the head and don’t start to respect, love and deeply nurture ourselves. This is where the true healing begins..

94. Profound to read these words and feel the absolutely simplicity in them…”I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” how could it be any other way, we use them like they are disposable and do not consider as deeply as we could the Love factor and how our bodies and so our beings could be flourishing.

95. This is so true, Inmaculada – “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” The body communicates directly to us every breath and movement that goes against our true nature, which is love.

96. I appreciate your honesty Inmaculada we do seem to view our bodies as a mere instrument to get us from A to B and we are able to completely dismiss any signals from our bodies that tell us it is under duress.

97. “From the moment I decided what I wanted to do with my body this left no room for feeling and listening to what my body actually needed”. It really shuts the door on hearing what the body has to say, when we only listen to our mind and what we want to achieve. The mind can make us so driven and neglectful of the body, like joy riders driving recklessly in a car they will abandon.

98. The body does not lie the problem is we often misinterpret what the body is telling us to suit what we want to hear.

    1. So true marylouisemyers it means we think the body does not have all the answers as we refuse to see that it does.

99. Yes. And that these ‘ills’ are great points of learning and inspiration when we do not play the victim, blame and/or irresponsibility game.

100. Being honest about how well we do or do not know our bodies, accepting, embracing and being humble about this, gives us a steady start to get to know this amazing, responsive, intelligent ‘vehicle’ we move around in and how remarkable its guidance and support can be.

101. The body never lies…..so the relationship we have with it when we are willing to listen, is very powerful.

102. As your title demonstrates, the body doesn’t lie. It’s surprising then that so many of us get shocked by diagnoses that we feel don’t make sense to us. We haven’t been taught to deeply honour or value what our body can show us. We push on, in disregard, cos ‘that’s what everyone does.’ We can even be mocked for not drinking or refusing certain sweet treats – if we go against the general trend. Currently the mass obesity epidemic demonstrates just how far we have turned away from listening to our amazing bodies.

103. The body is very honest and it loves to communicate, every move is a communication; it’s up to us to surrender and understand.

104. This article really does offer a moment to ponder on the reality that in the world “many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.” In fact, the ill-health of the world is sky-rocketing. We may have more medical advancements than ever before but are getting sicker and sicker. So, is it time to begin to accept the fact that “the body doesn’t lie” but the mind, which so much importance is placed on, does – all the time? I know which one I choose to listen to these days – it’s the one which doesn’t lie.

     1. The more I listen to my body the more balance, flow and common sense there seems to be in life. My mind in isolation from my body tends to get me very tied up in knots.

105. Learning with my body is an on-going process which I deeply appreciate. I am receiving more messages with this appreciation and every one of my choices impact upon my next choice. It is a very precious learning. In it I can feel a deepening preciousness with myself no matter what happens.

106. The body does not lie, so there is no getting away from the fact of the energetic diagnosis. But this empowers us Inmaculada to make the changes, and start to care for ourselves like never before. The body says yes, yes, yes please.

107. Our body really is so honest – once we recognise its responsiveness, it becomes harder and harder to ignore, over ride or dismiss its responses to what we put into it and how we do or don’t look after it.

108. I love the idea of loving ourselves to the bone, it reveals how our self care and self love is an ever refining or deepening process.

109. “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love. The fact is that I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it. This means that I had demanded too much of it, that I had at times abandoned it.”
     What a great realisation and a big wake up call for all us who read this blog.
     Our bodies are to be deeply respected, cared for and loved, anything less can not be acceptable.

110. When we can develop a marker in our bodies for what harmony and stillness feel like we then have a reference point for our choices. For example, I overate yesterday. As a consequence, my sleep was disturbed and when I checked in with my body this morning it was harder to feel a connection with it. This is forcing me to look at the choices I made yesterday and to consider if the payoff of the indulgence was worth it!

111. Indeed the body does not lie, it is straight forward, doesn’t beat around the bush, patient, always in communication and very accurate in what it is telling us. And so we think we must do whatever we can to drown out its voice by the way we live, for if we were to clearly hear it, we would not be able to deny our responsibility.

112. The body does not lie but it does respond to Love. We can shower ourselves with Love Inmaculada: loving movements, loving thoughts, loving ourselves 24/7. The body really does love it.

113. I think it’s great to review and re-evaluate the values that we hold and whether they really feel true to us or if there is more for us to consider and perhaps embrace…

114. That my ‘body doesn’t lie’ was an understanding I didn’t come to until I was 55 and with a body that had suffered much from years of disregard through a myriad of un-loving choices. And it was Serge Benhayon who began to present about the wisdom and the preciousness of our bodies that woke me up to the reality that I could not go on treating it as I had in the past and keep on expecting to keep on going the way it always had done. That presentation was the biggest and the best stop moment ever, one that definitely changed my life and my relationship with this amazing body of mine.

     1. What Serge Benhayon has shared with us about the preciousness and intelligence of our bodies has inspired me to turn around what has been a very dismissive and abusive relationship with my body to one of building respect and reverence.

115. The silver lining of receiving a diagnosis, is that it can initiate the establishment of a deeper relationship we can have with our body. This adjustment sets a new beginning and foundation of self care and self-love towards our body, ourselves and ultimately the relationship we have with others and life.

116. Inmaculada, you have exposed the beliefs we all have around pushing ourselves through a lifetime of extreme physical exercise and focus on nutrition as building strong bones – a strong body. There is a wisdom offered that is with us all the time, whispering in our ear and communicating the choices we can make that will support a healthy life and this voice comes straight from the body. Living our ‘Fullness’ consist of so much more than academic achievements, the push involved in over exercising, running marathons, cycling and when we allow ourselves to be guided by the body it is so simple..

117. ‘I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.’ And this requires a loving relationship with my precious body letting go the disregard I have chosen too to live. Sometimes I catch myself in a moment where I want to push through for a good cause. For me it is about making another choice in those moments, to honour my body and to not go in this old pattern of neglecting my body.

118. Serge Benhayon says, “the body never lies” and it is borne out by your account of osteoporosis and the insights you have gained. I wonder how hard an impact running was on your body, pounding the pavement and thinking it was good for you?

119. We went very wrong when we started to put education and ‘intelligence’ before our true health and wellbeing. I love that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are turning the tide with this and making it about whole body intelligence once again.

120. The deep levels of disregards we all carry with different elements of our lives show sooner or later and what you have shared here is the way in which we can learn from these opportunities and make more loving choices or choose to ignore and be left with more challenging life changes.

121. At times it may be difficult to accept that our ‘body does not lie’, though with the honestly and embracing of this truth there is immense healing that can take place on many levels of our expression.

122. “I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it” A beautiful sharing that is so inspiring to feel and know the relationship to loving ourselves our wisdom and the health of our body offering us the opportunity to take the power in our own hands by our honouring our living way.

123. When we can start to change our old “beating ourselves up’ patterns and begin to love ourselves more and drop the judgements we have, it is the greatest thing energetically we can do to overcome the osteoporosis. Love ourselves literally to the bone!

124. ‘I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.’ And if I don’t listen, my body doesn’t stop communicating and this is what I am coming to understand to be true love, support, commitment and unwavering patience.

     1. Yes this a heartfelt true love… in that the body never stops communicating our move away from our natural harmony, and shows that it is possible to re-turn to it.

125. “I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.” . . . this makes perfect sense for if we do not have that intimate, sensitive and loving listening we miss the wisdom and can easily override the crucial messages the body is sending us. And this is all detrimental to our health, inner harmony and wellbeing.

126. We have arrived at a point where there is almost an arrogance in the way we treat our body to the detriment of our connection to our soul. I recall also feeling that sense of being ‘betrayed by my body’ when the only betrayal was my complete disregard.

127. A real sharing of the way we are taught to look after our bodies that is not true and can be seen as harsh when compared to lovingly listening to all it is telling us.The honesty from illness and disease and the true caring for ourselves, cherishing and nurturing all we are, makes all the difference to our lives that is never too late to start.

128. Valuing our body and listening to its communication is often something we don’t do. We can be arrogant and think we know better, can push through and even expect the body to keep up with ridiculous demands and bad fuel. Then when an illness comes along to correct what has been done we can get resentful. Or we can do what Inmaculada has done and embrace what is on offer.

     1. To value our body is one of the greatest gifts we provide ourselves, someone once told me this however I never truly appreciated it until recently.

129. Yes Shirley-Ann, and even if we cannot fully turn things around or ‘recover’ the body fully, we can still deeply heal on many levels and put a full stop to the wayward disregarding ways of being.

130. What we think is good for ourselves without listening and feeling into what our bodies are continuously speaking loud and clear to us is a trap many of us have fallen for. As the title says “The Body Doesn’t Lie” and yet we so often dismiss it and override what we feel because it doesn’t fit the picture of the ideals and beliefs that we have conformed to. The intelligence of the body is a wonderful barometer of how we need to care for ourselves of what supports us and what is harming to us and all we have to do is truly listen to it and take heed.

131. It is very empowering not to be victims of our ailments rather see them as a call to deepen our relationship with the body– with love, care and respect for every magical part.

     1. It is empowering and the relationship we have with our body is extremely valuable.

     2. Victoria indeed it totally changes how we are with ourselves now and in the future. When we are sick and not sick. The part we play and the fact that we have been not living very loving for a long time.

132. The humility in your writing is deeply beautiful Inmaculada. Dropping the arrogance of the intellect can be challenging when we have let it rule the roost for many many lifetimes. Huge respect and appreciation for going for it.

133. “….my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.” A perfect description of what so many of us don’t want to hear. For in hearing it we realise that it is up to us to take responsibility for everything in our lives, very much including our bodies.

134. It is interesting how we can feel betrayed by our bodies when in reality it is us who have often over riden or neglected what the body needs to be cherished and honoured.

     1. Yes, it also offers such a moment of opportunity … to be honest with ourselves and dig deeper in self love

135. “When I asked him about osteoporosis, he told me that energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing” – what an absolute blessing to have this energetic read Inmaculada.

     1. Agreed Zofia having both the physical diagnosis with the route cause reading is so key in truly healing.

136. Whatever we are confronted with in life choosing not to be a victim of circumstance is a very wise and loving way approach to get through it.

137. Who is it that has the reins when we are “being tyrannized by the demands and wishes of my mind”, could it be our wayward-ways have persisted, because of our ‘wayward-spirit’ who brings in controlling thoughts that discount us from the fact that the “THE BODY DOESN’T LIE,” until one day we will all realise this truth and deepen our Love within our body.

138. Great sharing Inmaculada, to deepen our connection and ability to care deeply for ourselves is a great reminder of how much more there is to connect to within our body, and at the same time honouring its fragility.

139. So many of us mistakenly believe that our minds know best when it comes to looking after ourselves when in actual fact the mind actually deceives us, because it leaves no room for us to listen to our bodies until we have a stop moment usually via an illness or disease which to me is our bodies way of getting our attention.

     1. Yes Mary, when we have ignored our bodies for long enough there will often be an illness, disease or accident to bring us to a stop, thereby giving us the opportunity to finally listen to what the body has been trying to communicate to us, often for many years.

140. Having an initial shock of a diagnosis of ill health, after this does come such an opportunity to deepen the relationship we have with our body, with self-care, with self-love, and with love. Seeing that our body is our doorway to our Soul, we ultimately and can very naturally, deepen our relationship with our Soul / with love / with God.

     1. True Johanna, the body is our doorway to our Soul, an instrument to connect to God’s will.

141. How honest would we be if we listened to the body and let it make all the moves.

142. Thank you Inmaculada , what you have shared is amazing in the fact that it takes full responsibility back to ourselves and the spherical bigger picture of life as matter and all because of energy. Something that can be missed at times by modern medicine as wonderful and helpful as it is, there is always a solution being looked for instead of the understanding that you share in relation to how one lives.

143. It is so true that the body never lies, it is actually constantly communicating with us, ever giving us opportunities to heal, and amazingly even after years of the disregard if we then choose to take steps to be more attentive to our bodies needs our bodies will lovingly do their best to bring our organs and tissues back to harmony and health.

144. Interesting here how you switched from the obvious abusive lifestyle behaviours of not enough sleep etc to more so called ‘healthy’ behaviours like exercise and yet your body still felt under pressure and unwell because in both cases the lifestyle choices were coming from information outside of you rather than from truly connecting with and listening to your body and making adjustments from the inside out.

145. At the end of every minute there’s a quality, at the end of every day there’s a quality, after all the dramas subside and memories fade, at the end of every life there’s a quality. And while our physical body dies we will absolutely return, to the very same quality and begin again. So does it not make sense to make every day about deepening how we live?

146. I agree, wisdom from those who live that wisdom has a huge impact, as does an article like this, I get the sense of deep learning and openness to what is presented in life and a willingness to make your body your best friend and something worth caring for – this is monumental concerning our health and wellbeing, a powerful to reflection to ponder.

147. I have had a couple of conversations lately, where it has been noted that people they knew with dementia were extremely intelligent. This made me consider what the connection is and this blog reinforces what I had come to. As the writer shares, with a strong focus on the ‘intelligence’ generally valued in society, “the body was a mere instrument to this end, and it could be subjected to sleepless days and nights if needed, sustaining itself with the help of coffee like my father did or, as I used to do, living off my nervous system”. It is when the mind is given full priority at the expense of being present and respectful of the body that harm occurs to our health.

     1. Yes it makes perfect sense that our behaviours driven from the mind at the expense of the body will eventually lead to dis- ease in some form. There cannot in truth be intelligence if the body is not equally respected. Yet the body and mind when working together is an awesome duo.

        1. Also the mind allows, or chooses the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that permeate every cell of our body, either bringing harmony or disharmony to the body, so developing a relationship with both is of equal importance, and when working together as you say Victoria, are an awesome duo.

        2. I find when I look after the body the mind naturally follows. So is it our movements (both physical and energetic) that actually lead to the quality of the thoughts that flow through us?

148. One of the points to consider that we may be perfectly organised in our life and even have a good figure but still be in deep disregard.

149. I agree with you it is very humbling to know the body never lies, I didn’t want my body for most of my life because of the pain and illness it had but now this has completely changed and I appreciate everything it shows me as it guides me in deepening living a loving life.

150. A beautiful sharing and very inspiring for the body does not lie and the importance of our love and caring for it listening to the messages and guides it gives us . Pure magic yet disregarded so often. “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” a great refection .

151. We are made of love and our bodies respond in love.

152. This is so true and something that sticks in the throat of many of us….”THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage, which can make it look like I’m being ever more careful with myself, whilst I may be hiding a deep lack of acceptance and cherishing of my own self.” Do we want to be honest that our bodies reflect every choice we have made? Is it worth exploring with out a doubt – YES.

153. Because we have allowed a great divide to happen between religion and science, we have reduced the body to a mere machine that at best can only function, rather than revere it as a temple through which we can express a much higher truth.

154. Yes our body does not lie and also it is not just about caring for it so it can keep going. I have been feeling very exhausted lately and not until it was said to me by an esoteric practitioner that my vitality was not great I really started to be honest with myself. What I noticed was that every time when I was tired I would go for some nuts or something alike so I would feel a bit better and could function – but it would not solve my exhaustion. I am now learning to respond differently and instead of eating I really stop, do not push through and be with myself lovingly so to understand what makes me so tired in the first place and avoid going into overwhelm. I go for a walk or do some exercises and this feels totally different. So yes our body does not lie and this is a true blessing as it offers us to choose another way.

155. We have been following the wrong things for so long it can be a shock when we are brought back to the truth of the matter in this way however what an amazing thing that our body can not only do this but also offer us the opportunity to heal the situation and in understanding it learn to not repeat the choices which have been harmful in the first instance.

     1. That is very true, Michael.

156. We can all live in ways which are both dishonouring and harmful to our bodies. Our choice to live in such a way sets illness and disease in motion, as illness and disease are the accumulation of our disharmonious choices, lived many times over. Could illness and disease therefore be seen in a more favourable light, if we understand that one of their roles is to reflect back to us choices that we are making that are not in keeping with our natural way?

157. The body doesn’t lie! How amazing is this. It means we have a best friend on whom we can trust. It’s totally worth building a relationship with our body like we would with a best friend.

158. Our bones are such an incredibly responsive part of our bodies that show us quite literally how nothing in life is set in stone. We can, if we choose, deeply alter the course of our lives when we embrace the love we are and begin to live in accordance with this immutable truth.

159. “THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage” – This is important as we shouldn’t get frustrated with or ‘shoot the messenger’, i.e. become angry that our body has failed us, but instead appreciate that it DOES show us a reflection of our choices while our mind/thoughts have actually justified a certain way of living that may have been slowly damaging our body and health.

160. Exactly anything is possible and everything is possible its just our choice that the sooner we start to build love the less un-love we have to let go of.

161. The body sure is intelligent and I think what is needed in society is for us to really listen to what our body is communicating with us. As an example, when we drink alcohol we know what our body is telling us but many choose to ignore it and keep on doing this bad habit. Same with many other physical ailments, we don’t really listen but I think eventually we have to because it costs way too much both money-wise and for us as humans to ignore the greatest physician which is our very own body.

162. “energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing. These were things I could work on myself as well as taking the advice of the medical doctors to treat my condition…” Having the awareness and understanding the energetic cause of a dis-ease of the body in combination with conventional medicine takes the opportunity for deep healing to another level.

163. Whilst it can be seen as an unwanted friend, our bodies truly do always have our backs – they are like those friends who never hold back, never sugar coat or beat around the bush but just tell you it like it is. When you abuse and push and drive, your body will let you know sooner or later.

164. Isn´t it almost non imaginable- we treat our bodies for decades in a way, we would never treat a newborn, for example, but it still recovers after so many years. It shows how divine our vehicle innately is and that it is so much grander than any driven, harmful energy. The moment we stop feeding the body with destructive energy, everything blossoms- as it eventually can align to where its particles are made of- the universe.

165. Sickness makes us humble, if we allow so. It shows very tangible, that we cannot rob our body endlessly. Beautiful how you took the chance and connect whatever Western Medicine is recommending with the therapies of Universal Medicine. Only then an all encompassing true healing can occur.

166. ‘energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing.’ This is a lesson for many of us who have been living in a way that dis-honours our bodies, true, deep self care is not just having a nice bath every now and then, it involves us appreciating ourselves in full, never criticising, always moving with tenderness and loving who we are 24/7.

     1. The more depth that I bring to my self-care, the more I am able to understand and feel the level of disregard that I lived with. In fact the word ‘disregard’ no longer feels applicable, as it does not actually convey the level of harm that I did to myself. Let’s not mince words here, what I did to my body was out and out wanton abuse.

167. Coming to terms with where we really are at versus what our mind might suggest or deny or bury is truly a very sobering moment. It can be made much easier to accept where we are at when we can be honest with ourselves.

168. “The fact is that I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it” This is the one to watch, we can become complacent about our bodies, take risks with it, if it isn’t shouting at us we assume all is well. This has to change and the way is to deeply nurture and care for ourselves everyday, and not just when we become ill.

169. In the end our body will always ensure that we are honest and that we understand the way in which we can truly learn from our way of living.

170. My body had to scream at me too, Inmaculada before I listened, but great that we are listening now. Getting this message out to others that we can connect and listen to the body’s messages on a daily basis is great service to everyone. The head is such a fibber.

171. ‘I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love’ if we really felt what we were doing to our bodies then we would know that it wasn’t in the name of care or love for the body and our being.

172. “I have been inspired to develop an ever-deepening and loving relationship with myself and my body so that I can hear and heed its messages.” We absolutely need your reflection of this Inmacculada it will inspire many more. Thank you for valuing yourself as you do, and deepening that.

173. “From the moment I decided what I wanted to do with my body, and left no room for feeling and listening to what my body actually needed, what was supposed to be “healthy” stands as an external imposition, based on ideals and beliefs, and therefore becomes unhealthy.” It is such a false belief that mind over matter is the solution to problems.

174. Our bodies are amazingly adaptable! We have spare parts; kidneys, lungs eyes and ears. It can reconfigure itself with less. Accidents or self-abuse can leave us with less, but the body adapts. So, what can we do when we take care of ourselves and naturally wear out everything at the same time?

175. “My first reaction when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis was disbelief and anger…” When we receive a diagnosis, the confronting thing is how it highlights the consequences of what type of relationship we have had with our body.

176. It is a big shift in our understanding of medicine and life to stop seeing the body as something subordinate or secondary to the mind and that it is just there to carry the mind around from A to B. What if the body and its particles actually held the key to connection with an intelligence that is far grander and wiser to the mind and can actually support our health and wellbeing?

177. I am in constant awe of how easily our bodies can come back from major illness when given the correct care, nurture and love. It proves time and again how Love is our truest medicine.

178. “My bones are regaining mass bit by bit…….. What I do know, however, is that my relationship with osteoporosis is a living experience from which I am learning.” Choosing to learn from any illness gives us a true opportunity to deeply heal. Our bodies tell us what’s really going on for us.

179. If I have a cold or flu or injure myself in some small way I consider these as messages from my body and listen to the wisdom of the body.

     1. This has become very clear to me too kehinde2012, that everything can be known from the body.

     2. Indeed its not if we get sick that really counts but if we listen to, read and reflect on what the body is showing us. Then we get to heal whatever it may be.

180. In conversation with women recently, I observed how all of them placed mental intelligence and academic achievement as markers of success for their children. Body intelligence was not even mentioned.

     1. Reading your comment kehinde2012 I see how crucial it is to have built into our way of raising children the understanding that keeps them feeling from their bodies, something they do so naturally. It will take a system overhaul, but is absolutely necessary if we are going to have any change in the way our young grow up – to be the adults that bring in the children, that grow up – to be the adults that bring in the children….

     2. Wow yes and this is the societal pressure we can succumb to. For this to change we need to value what is truly sustaining for our bodies above any mental pursuit or so called ‘success’.

        1. True Victoria, pressure to conform, extinguishes the light within and connection to what is true.

181. This is a great example of taking the advice which is widely available to stay fit and healthy and yet still end up with a health condition. Then when we dig a little deeper, we can find disregard even with the best intentions.

182. How many of us are ruled by our minds at the expense of our bodies? Do we really think our bodies like pounding the pavement and other so-called fitness regimes, true care of oneself comes from feeling what is needed first.

     1. Yes when we introduce feeling and are honest about what we feel, our choices can change significantly. It is amazing how we tell ourselves, or have a picture of what it is ‘good’ for us and in doing so override the body’s screaming. The body can be equally disregarded when over doing.

183. Yes, the body’s natural fuel tank is the energy of love…

184. What you show us here is how the path of dis-ease begins … that it is a separation or disconnection between body and mind, such that our strong-headed pursuits over-rule the body… “The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind. From the moment I decided what I wanted to do with my body, and left no room for feeling and listening to what my body actually needed…”

185. Beautiful sharing Inmaculada. This morning you remind me that we have such a tendency for settling for getting by when we could be going deep.

186. I second that Inmaculada,..’my relationship with osteoporosis is a living experience from which I am learning.’
     The learning is endlessly bringing new experiences when we connect back to the body, we hadn’t realised how depleted the body felt because it happens so insidiously.

187. Funny how we think pounding the roads and putting our bodies through grueling exercise is considered ‘looking after it’.

188. It’s totally insane what some of us consider to be in the name of health, like this cross fit craze that pushes the boundaries of what the body can do. We are given this one body which is so amazing in that it can do incredible feats and heal itself most of the time so why are we not all so much more gentle, tender and loving and treat it with the upmost respect?

189. I hear more and more people talk about the healing power of illness and how often what might be considered a devastating diagnosis is actually an amazing opportunity to heal long term patterns and dysfunctional relationships with life.

190. Our physical body is an amazing marker of truth – there is very little if anything that we can ‘get away with’, and why would we want to? After all, it is our greatest tool, a tool for connection with the Soul, with the divine, and so it is about caring for it deeply and then being open to all its messages of what is needed next.

     1. This ‘getting away with’ things is one of the most insidious patterns and set ups that we perpetuate in life… a notion that there is someone or something we need to hoodwink about what we are up to and then if we are not ‘caught’ all is well. This is nonsense because we cop the consequences of all our ill choices.

191. Inmaculada, how amazing is it to have this understanding: “energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing. ” – with this understanding it allows us to take things to the next level and hence bring deep healing on all levels.

192. We can never deceive the body as it only responds to love – how true. Regardless of whether we are pushing, begging or demanding the body will only respond when we speak with love.

193. It is very strong and clear from this article that our minds in isolation have no regard or care for our bodies – there is an arrogance there that abuses anything that is considered of less value. So a diagnosis like yours Inmaculada is a blessing of an opportunity to build a relationship with humility (as you so beautifully wrote) which brings us back into equality with one another… definitely the way ahead.

194. Thank you Inmaculada for the honesty that lies in your blog. Although I don’t have this condition, your experience inspires me to go deeper in the relationship I have with my body, revising the way I take care of it, being more aware of the quality of attention I offer to myself instead of just the practical things. The real care embraces everything with love.

195. It is true the body does not lie, but we do. We convince ourselves that we can act a certain way with our bodies and they will be ok with the treatment, and yet then act surprised when something comes up as ill health. The body is unbelievably forgiving if we stop and consider our choices.

196. There are so many layers and dimensions to self care, nurturing and self love – it is more than just have a bath or dressing up nicely. It is about a rhythm that supports us, from how and when we sleep and eat and exercise, how we look after our body and the quality in which we live. It is our relationships and expression, it is the way we walk and our relationship to being all of who we are and the power of that. It can be easy to fall into functionality when in truth self care is so much more than that.

197. This is such a huge trap when we distrust ourselves and make the choice to go into victim mode, as soon as we do that, it seems to me we have given up and given our power away to the spirit to have its way with us and we become the lesser human-being.

198. Having also been diagnosed with Osteoporosis a year ago I can totally relate to this process that you are going through. The realisation that it was my own disregard that contribute to this was a bit of a shocker to me but such an amazing moment to take stock of how much I play myself and put myself down in my head. I suddenly became aware of a voice that was constantly saying that I was getting everything wrong, needed to be doing more, and this general feeling that I was a problem. Even though those feelings and that voice can sneak back in at time, I appreciate how much more accepting I am of myself a year down the line, and that with my body as a marker this self love will continue to deepen.

     1. I read a beautiful quote earlier today that your comment has reminded me of. ‘Accept, appreciate, expand, repeat’. What I love about this, is the cycle it invites us to stay with, practise, explore and observe the impact of.

199. The body being held hostage by the mind’s wants and needs, even the deluded thinking of what I’m doing is healthy without consultation with the body, cannot but lead to actual bodily harm. The body doesn’t lie and what a wonderful marker to have to bring us back to humbly asking it what it needs. I know I don’t deeply respect my body but reading this inspires me to take note of each detail, welcoming its voice and no longer keeping it silenced.

200. “The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.” Oh Gosh! The level of which we can do this is shocking to say to least, particularly when we come face to face with just how fragile and finely tuned our bodies are.

201. True healing comes from a humbleness and honesty combined with being open to the tools on offer from conventional medicine as well as the esoteric modalities so that what needs to be cleared can be cleared in order for us simply to allow more of the light that we are to shine brighter and brighter.

202. Hello Inmaculada, and thank you for sharing your experience so openly and honestly. I love how you have described that you suddenly felt let down by your body and yet this was after disregarding it – this is a common scenario for us all! It is crazy to realise how we can abuse our body and have such huge expectations on it, and yet not want to put the effort, the time and the love to care for the body and have a loving relationship with it – this alone exposed the arrogance that we can hold. But illness and disease is certainly a humbling experience, as is aging and all the ways that our body can tell us what we have been trying to ignore, which in the end really is a healing.

203. I would say currently pretty much most of the world use the body as a mere instrument to carry out daily functions instead of knowing we are vehicles of expression and living in a way that cherishes, respects and nurtures the body aligning to the divine light we are all from.

     1. There was a time when we needed take care of our cars for they were an important part of our life, no less than our feet. Both required being looked after. Cars today are very reliable and autonomous that typically only require fuel. To prove this point, do you know how to open the hood of your car? Yes, it is inside of the car somewhere but then the safety catch under the hood? Cars today have computers that monitor everything and light up warning indicators when faults happen. Our body has always had an organic warning system that is smarter than anything we have tried to create. So, why do ignore the messages from our bodies?

204. When we live under the pressure of anothers expectations, the untold detrimental effects on the body can be life long if not taken true care of.

205. Thank you for your wonderfully honest sharing Inmaculada. It is definitely a great example of the difference there can be in the quality of the way we care for ourselves. Are we caring for ourselves in a very temporal, I need to be fit, no pain no gain kind of way, or are we connecting to our body, listening to its messages with the knowing that “our body never lies”?

206. The body certainly doesn’t lie. Any illness or disease that we develop has an energetic reason behind it and a clear message about the way we have been living and the choices we have made. This is too much for some of us to embrace.

207. God love our bodies because through them comes the love of God.

208. I feel this is a timely note for us all if we so choose to, to observe our own lives and see what mirages the mind might be throwing up that is hiding the truth of our bodies.

     1. Well said Sarah, and so it is that in the reflections of others we also get offered an opportunity to heal.

209. So true that through the way we live, we can open ourselves up to be more responsive to what our body communicates to us, or do the opposite. Stress, rushing and drive are three key ways that we ‘silence’ the body, even though it doesn’t actually stop things like exhaustion but is simply a way we try to ignore it!

210. There are some long term medical conditions like osteoporosis that we are told by the medical profession that they will worsen as we get older and we will never improve. It will be interesting to observe and measure these physical changes to record whether they reduce as we make changes to the way we live.

211. When we truly stop and listen to our bodies, so many of our current ways of looking after our health will radically change. When treated with absolute respect, our body can achieve amazing things. The real care lies in attentive listening and refined responses to all it communicates with us.

212. ‘It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate..’ I agree, Inmaculada with all the health trends abound, we are not seeing a decline in illness and disease. It’s time we looked at the honesty of the body and how to truly care for it in the way you have and to make it our norm.

213. This is a very beautiful blog thank you. Incredible really that sometimes we do not consider our relationship with our bodies until we get a big ‘stop’ moment like a serious illness or disease. But it seems the message in your story here is that we do not have to wait for the big stop and we can start doing it now every day which may in fact prevent some forms of illness and disease.

214. Our mind can tell us all manner of things but it is the body that knows and shows us what is really going on.

     1. Absolutely and will keep communicating with us until we get the message.

215. As much as we don’t want to admit what the body is telling us and we will ignore many signs until it is loud and clear that something is really not ok. We can’t ignore the fact that the body doesn’t lie. How much are we prepared to get honest and truly look at what has caused the dis-harmony and ill-ness in the body?

216. What an opportunity, our ‘normal’ will remain our ‘normal’ till we are offered a moment of pause, a stop or a reflection there is another way. How we respond will determine if we go round the cycle again to await another pause louder stop or consistent reflection to choose again. Whichever way we choose we have the enormous gift of knowing it is always our choice.

     1. I love how we get to set a new normal and that if we do listen to our bodies we are given the full and complete truth. Nothing to hide, nothing not there, everything delivered in full from our bodies all the time. What we do with that though is as always up to us.

        1. Yes, so true David, it is all there, in full the moment we say yes. I am so used to having to discern if it is the whole truth or if there is more I must remember that my body doesn’t play that retarding game.

217. Listening to our body should be shared with us from when we are young, and maybe then illness and disease would take a back seat to the loveless way we have been living.

     1. I agree that supporting us when we are young that listening to our bodies should be one of our core subjects.

        1. Spot on Steve, learning to listen to our bodies is so important that even the adults could go back to pre-school so that the young also get a deeper understanding of how to live not only at school but also at home!

218. ‘I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.’ Learning to listen to the body is a skill that supports in life in so many more ways than I thought possible. As I listen more to my body, I find out there is more to be communicated in the subtlest of ways.

219. It is interesting this point here Inmaculada that you make about the expectations and pressure of your family and how you allowed them to be a dominating factor in your life and yet, besides all of that, you have still been able to recover a sense of who you are, your sweetness and your delicacy. This shows how no matter the family we have there is always the possibility to change how we live, that we do not need to be forever dominated by external factors and can in fact live true to ourselves, even if it takes a physical condition to inspire this, the opportunity is still and will always be there because ultimately that is what our bodies want – for there to be harmony within our person.

220. We do have a tendency to go into the why me when faced with an illness, we can compare ourselves to others who seemingly get away with ‘murder’ and here we are struggling with a disease that has seemingly come out of nowhere. Choosing not to be a victim is very positive and listening to your body and developing a relationship with it is the start of a love affair with yourself which can last forever.

221. It’s such a shame that we are not taught from day one the true way to look after and love ourselves so we no longer have to face disease to show us that the way we are living is not the way.

222. It’s fascinating how we believe or tell ourselves that we have a certain relationship with our bodies, only to find out things aren’t as great as we think they are.

223. Yes the body offers us messages but we can lose the art of listening. Not only does the body show us its messages by illness and disease, it also can bring healing if we respect and care for our bodies.

224. and through that honestly our bodies will guide us home.

225. It’s super inspiring to read how people heal from debilitating illnesses by having a deeper commitment to their body. I know myself how clear I feel in the mind today compared to the torture-ish constant demoralising chipping away of any form of admiration I had towards myself. If we act from the mind without the body, we will inevitably be sick. Life is about building that intimate relationship with your body. As Inmaculada claims “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” AND “I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body”. Let the mind be an instrument of the body not separate to it.

226. I had imagined I was getting away with how I was caring for myself, don’t get me wrong I was doing all the seemingly right things and it all looked good, but there was definitely not the full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing that Serge Benhayon describes to you Inmaculada. The body at some stage had to alert me to what has been going on and I had to be honest about the degree of disregard for myself as a woman, my placing myself as less than my divine nature, and in that, withholding the love, nourishment and cherishing that our bodies readily respond to.

227. Your blog shows us that our body teaches us a great deal about honesty.

     1. Indeed Doug, our body shows us everything, and it’s our choice if we listen to our body or not.

228. A good day is seen as any where no difficulty or illness arises. A truly great day is when you feel the mess and refine how you live.

229. “Even though it seems absurd, I felt betrayed by my body” I’ve had this feeling too Inmaculada, I remember it distinctly. There was an expectation that my body should not break down, yet what I was actually incensed at, was the fact that my own choices had got me to that place and I had not been prepared to take responsibility for the way I had treated myself – nor had I been wanting to know that I couldn’t in fact get away with it. I now know thanks to the teachings by Serge Benhayon, that my body is the marker of truth, it never lies and will always show us the truth of our choices.

     1. Yes, the self-fury is what we avoid and spew out at everyone else for not being able to fix our self-disregard and self-disrespect. The distraction techniques are well honed. What Serge Benhayon has also introduced though is the love we can build with our bodies and ourselves so that when we are ready to look at how we have been with ourselves, we bring understanding that doesn’t go down the self beat up with boxing gloves route, but simply understands the movements we have taken to get to that end point. The gift from heaven is that we live in cycles to be able to have another go the next day and the next and the next! It truly is a divine plan.

230. There are many things that champion an ‘intelligence’ or way of being in life that is in deep dis-regard of our body but our body itself is innately wise and intelligent, intelligent in a truly harmonious way.

231. How many times I have heard my body make noise with something that it is telling me that is not in line with my innate harmony is more than I care to admit. Our bodies are well ahead of the game and are actually communicating all of the time. To listen and honour them is the what I am starting to realise is key for a full, vital and rich life.

232. I remember once being at a permaculture event and seeing their basil plant absolutely flourishing and my mind flicked back to my basil plant at home that was a few stalks with a few leaves off it and the message was not lost on me. You can take enough care of something to keep it alive and of us, or you can deeply care for something and it can flourish. Reading this today, it is the same of the human body.

233. It is great insight to know that the body doesn’t lie and that any illness or disease we get is down to the way we live and is not random or bad luck, therefore we can take responsibility for what is taking place.

234. The danger with Osteoporosis is that we can have a diagnosis but still not feel anything until we break a bone. The diagnosis is a warning and we tend to ignore lots of warnings and then wonder what happened to us when we get a true stop moment.

     1. Carmel that’s a great point, do we stop and make a change at the warning stage or wait until things get even more critical? As a society, it’s often the latter.

235. If it wasn’t for the body, showing us in raw honesty, where we are at, we would be so lost with no way of coming back to truth. The body doesn’t lie. Thank heavens for that!

236. It is very true that we can’t fool the body and even though we might be doing healthy things. If we are not holding our body with love by loving thoughts about ourselves and accepting ourselves it can still cause illness in the body and that is something we need to learn. How we are with ourselves in our thinking and movements does also have an effect on our body.

237. Inmaculada, thank you for sharing your experience and learning with such openness and honesty. What you are sharing makes me realise how important it is to self nurture and self care and not to put everything and everyone else first. Thank you.

238. “my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind” What a great way to describe the absolute disregard the mind has over the body before we are aware that it is the body we need to listen to, and NOT the mind.

     1. We can be very ingrained and stubborn over championing the mind but it is a beautiful excuse to avoid connecting to the body and what is needed to be felt.

239. We can trick ourselves from our minds but our bodies always know and show us the truth of who we are and how we live – there is no hiding in this and it’s a gift to have our very own truth-meter

240. As we know that the body doesn´t lie we have come up with strategies to ignore, dismiss, numb, destroy, denigrate … it, so that we can pretend to not recognise the truth being communicated by the body, but luckily the body cannot shut up and always has the final word; at some point we cannot avoid to listen any longer.

     1. When the body gives us the end is nigh, we are not a video game that can just hit reset. There is never any joy in saying I told you so.

     2. Yes and all that time it is giving us signals in our favour to truly help us rather than be a burden, as we may at times interpret it to be..

241. ‘each illness has a deep root that transcends the merely physiological reality.’ Our bodies are amazing teachers about so much more than function. The way we move is the gateway to Heaven and universal wisdom.

     1. Understanding that illness is not random and goes well beyond the physical is a key aspect for us to consider, for me its been life changing.

242. “It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.” Yes, I agree Inmaculada, it really doesn’t make sense, unless those ways of caring are actually not true for the body and its needs. Maybe it’s time to stop and discern exactly what all these ways are offering and whether they are missing the point, that is, that our body is incredibly wise and is forever sharing its wisdom with us. It is up to us to stop, listen and learn.

243. Shows how much we can live in our heads and not even be aware of how our body is actually doing.

244. The body is a barometer of our lived ill-choices, initially bringing minor things to be aware of (e.g. sore areas, indigestion, coughs and colds). Ignoring these signals is the arrogance of thinking the body is less than the mind and it does not matter how we care for it. This is the pre-cursor for illness and disease developing that bring us to a stop to re-assess the way of living.

245. Sometimes, though probably not in this case, an ailment can have a long term momentum, especially when we get older, leaving traces in the body that will remain even once we deal with the cause of the ailment.

246. I know I can’t say this but I wish I knew what I know now when I was younger and had the same honesty and respect for myself as I am learning to have now.

     1. This is a true wish. We all deserve to know how precious we are and being treated in a tender and loving way, always.

247. Beautifully said Inmaculada and very true, the body is our mirror ‘It is the clearest mirror I have to look at myself.’

248. I love the deeper understanding that Serge Benhayon gave you about osteoporosis – ” he told me that energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing.” Healing the root cause of an illness as well as working alongside conventional medicine is a wonderful way to deal with any illness/disease.

249. The body is an incredible indicator of what we have lived and chosen…only we spend most of our time ignoring what it is communicating, until we have a big stop moment or an illness that cannot be ignored any longer. When we begin to read the body and its communications, I have found there is a more at ease feeling when facing and dealing with ailments and problems.

250. Why is it that we use our bodies as a battering ram to get through life somehow? As an example I have heard from friends how at university they would use coffee and alcohol to stay up until late in the night to finish their essays and projects. This way of living then gets taken out into the workplace where they then rely on such stimulants to keep them going through the day. By leading such stressful lives and living on stimulants to get by is bound to have an adverse effect on our bodies; it make complete sense. Unfortunately we don’t tend to listen until we get sick.

251. ‘I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.’ – this is so true, but often we arrogantly try to get away with things and at the end of the day we have only cheated ourselves.

252. “It took me a long time to realise that THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage” A huge statement Inmaculada that clearly exposes how we can kid our selves about the state of our health, yet our bodies will always reflect the truth of the real effect of our choices.

253. When you accept that the body doesn’t lie, the door is open for a new self caring way of living.

254. I like the idea of getting to know our body, not assuming we know anything about it and therefore not missing a single one of its often subtle messages.

255. Imagine ignoring your boss at work – you wouldn’t last long. Yet we persist on making up our own agenda when all the time the body is telling us what to do. It’s our boss and only ever makes choices and cuts based on our own interests – that’s the truth.

256. ‘The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.’ This reminds me of the wisdom taught that we must first end the war within ourselves before looking to resolve anything on the outside. Great you are listening to your body more 💕

257. How we come to that point of humility to then change our self destructive and harming ways is different for all of us. This though absolutely struck a cord “The fact is that I had only taken just enough care of it [the body] for it to be useful to me” I could not avoid looking at where this stance has made itself felt in my own relationship with my body.

258. There can be a great discrepancy between where our mind thinks we are at health wise and what our body is actually showing us. Many of us do not listen to our body’s messages until it screams at us with a serious illness.

259. The realness and honesty of the body is shocking to the image possessed mind, exposing the imaginary self-created reality that is in ignorance of anything that doesn´t fit the picture. While the mind tends to strangle hold the body, the body sets free the mind.

260. There are many aspects of life and how we are living that we don’t see and processes in our body that we don’t feel until something breaks. All of life is a reflection and our bodies are reflecting back to us the results of all our choices.

261. The level of support that the body offers is quite profound, as are the games the mind plays on us as a distraction. But this only reflects where we are, certainly I can run with something in my mind if I am not connected in my body. It is as if they are not on the same page, and this is the learning I am developing – to surrender to what the mind and body can present in union.

262. It is also much smarter than us in my experience.

263. If your bones are regrowing, then you are doing extremely well, especially if they are regrowing not just in response to medication but naturally in response to your change in lifestyle. The latter would be a very interesting case study.

264. To be diagnosed with a chronic health condition like diabetes, is not necessarily a life-long sentence. I know of someone who lived with type 2 diabetes, but committed to explore what he ate and refine his diet and combined this with regular gentle exercise. His blood sugar level has dropped and now falls under the category of pre-diabetic. His story is the reverse of your’s Gill, but both confirm the power of the body to heal itself when we enter into relationship with it. How we respond to ill-health conditions is the determining factor.

265. Receiving a diagnosis is on one hand confronting, but what you have shown is how it is also an opportunity to adjust the way we are living – to make adjustments in the way we take care of ourselves, to deepen self love, which ultimately is deepening the relationship, intimacy and communion we have with our body and ourselves. From these adjustments, our body will always respond where it can, as it loves us back more than we actually realise.

     1. Jo, I love the comment you have made here ‘our body will always respond where it can, as it loves us back more than we actually realise.’ We often see the body as our enemy, as something that prevents us from doing what we want to do. However it is our greatest ally as it communicates to us with regards to our choices and like a responsible parent metes out consequences for them, but also like a parent the love is there and it responds in kind to the love we show it. I have been amazed at the adjustments my body has made when I have been willing to look at behaviours, ideals, beliefs and movements – the healing that has come back and the pace of that healing has been remarkable.

266. Thank you Inmaculada for your honest and open sharing of your experience. It’s an intense and humbling experience to realise that what we thought was a normal and in fact a healthy way of life has actually contributed to the disregard of the body. We aren’t taught to value, cherish and hold ourselves preciously, nor do we see the body as intelligent, just as this thing we push around that that mind develops knowledge of in terms of how to manage it, so it’s a big learning curve for us all to listen to the body and allow it to be its own health expert.

267. Being honest and admitting that we have been playing a victim is challenging but when we do we have the opportunity to not be the victim and take responsibility for our life and our choices. It’s actually really empowering.

268. Absolutely this is the true way out of our current health crisis rather than throwing more money at our health services we need to understand how we can support ourselves by listening to our bodies and not carrying on regardless until forced to stop by illness.

269. It is amazing how often we impose on our bodies and ‘do a deal’ with them – I will do x, y or z to ‘be healthy’ and you will not let me down by getting sick. The arrogance of this is breathtaking but was my attitude for many years. It is inspiring how you chose not to be a victim but had the humbleness to get to lovingly know your body and what would support it.

270. It’s interesting how many of us think that we are being healthy by pushing our bodies to the limit. But as you have shown here, this does not work.

     1. Indeed, I always wondered why my sports teacher got sick (cancer) and died, when I was told sports and marathons were what kept you healthy. It’s clear we have to look at the whole picture.

        1. Wow, this must have been quite puzzling for you David – witnessing the declining health of someone who was supposed to be a role model of fitness and health. This must have made you question a great deal bout what is actually true.

     2. Yes, vigorous exercise is encouraged. That could be helpful but I wonder if it always is and how much the vigour is needed to deal with the effects of other behaviours?

     3. Yes, as important as it is to maintain a healthy body, the way we go about exercise is about ‘sweat’, ‘guts’ and ‘pushing’ the body to the limit. Starting exercise with awareness and connection to our body, this factor in at the start makes a huge difference to the quality of exercise and connection we have with ourselves.

271. “It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.” Evidence of the fact that we are missing a key ingredient in our health care regimes, listening to what our bodies want.

     1. Yes, and the other point is that so many of those various ways of apparently caring for our bodies are not actually caring at all – extreme diets, exercise and sports for example. Not only are we not generally listening to the body, often we don’t know what it’s trying to communicate to us until it’s very loud – and even then, do we listen to and act upon those messages, enough to change our behaviour?

272. Once we appreciate that the state of our body is the result of our lifestyle it is hence so true that “It is the clearest mirror I have to look at myself” and when we honour the reflection we enhance and enrich our life.

273. Most of us walking the planet use the body as a tool like any other tool to use in what ever fashion we like but more and more of us are learning the hard way that the body doesn’t lie and is becoming quicker at showing us the errors of our ways through the growth of illness and disease like no other time.

     1. And although we think we are choosing how we use this tool, our body, actually we are being played with and allow forces in to mistreat the body so it is no longer a vehicle of expression of the truth we are from.

274. At school we learn about magnetic pull but the bit we skip is that our body will always cause us to return to truth – it’s just a matter of how long we delay. It’s elementary.

     1. Now that would be an amazing Science lesson on magnetic pull, and that vibration is our every moment.

275. “..that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage, which can make it look like I’m being ever more careful with myself, whilst I may be hiding a deep lack of acceptance and cherishing of my own self.” – This was a very revealing and healing statement for me to read, as it exposed a pattern of mine to downplay just how much I have neglected my body and pushed it in ways that went beyond where it wanted to go, sacrificing true vitality for mere function. Thank you for your deep honesty and humility here Inmaculada.

276. “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” It is crazy how long it can take us to realise and accept this yet when we do it makes such common sense.

277. We think we are looking after our bodies when we follow all sorts of exercise and eating regimes, but without incorporating the bodies’s own wisdom we only operate on a small portion of the information that is available.

278. ‘My first reaction when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis was disbelief and anger. Anger at having believed that all the time that I had dedicated to apparently taking care of myself was supposed to be a guarantee to avoid illness’. There can be a huge gap between how we think we are living and how we are living in truth. It can be a shocker to realise we haven’t been doing as well as we thought or even doing much worse than we thought. As you say, Inmaculada, the body doesn’t lie and thank goodness for this, otherwise, we’d never be able to correct our waywardness.

279. Intelligence is an expression of disregard when it is loveless no matter how intelligent, convincing and impeccable it comes along.

280. “I chose not to be a victim. I had to assume that my body was a stranger to me, that I needed to get to know.”
     There is a beautiful and deep humbleness about your approach to your diagnosis Inmaculada and this is something that we could all learn from.

281. Being a victim of our illness and disease keeps us in it and compounds it even further. We can struggle taking responsibility for the choices we have made but once we can lovingly see it for what it is then decide to make another choice, we can feel how empowering this really is.

282. Thank goodness that the body can’t lie because if it could we would all be up you know where without a paddle!

283. I love how the body shows us the truth of where we are actually at. We can croon all we like about how much we know and how healthy we are, but at the end of the day the body tells us the truth. We need to be humble enough to listen to it and accept what it is showing us.

284. “When I asked him about osteoporosis, he told me that energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing” – what a super helpful reading to receive Inmaculada, in the understanding of our past condition, the present is revealed and thus the future known.

285. It’s amazing how we think hard exercise is good for us – I used to play squash and I used to be busy all the time with this committee or that committee… now I am learning that self care is more about being tender with ourselves and doing gentle exercise.

286. “I chose not to be a victim.” Massive choice! How easily are we encouraged to slip into this mentality and look for something or someone else to blame, rather that sitting in the huge discomfort of seeing and feeling all those choices we have made that have led to such a diagnosis?

287. I find it interesting what we are prepared to do in the name of health. Could it be that we place the need for recognition and attention in the form of intense exercise such as marathons or any type of exercise for that matter which is in ignorance of the body first and is the real reason as to why we exercise? Could it be that exercise through what I am suggesting here is a way of achieving this recognition thinking we are doing good, but in truth we are harming and abusing our body?

288. I have been on this journey of letting go the impositions the mind has on the body for a long time. However, as you say, when we choose not to be a victim and take responsibility for our own health, letting our bodies decide what is good for them, we begin a relationship with our bodies and ourselves that is respectful, honouring and loving that then can bring a new quality to our relationship with others.

289. As others have shared here you share some sobering points of which we could all take note. What stood out for me reading your blog for the second time was this ‘It took me a long time to realise that THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage’ and how on the whole I would say just how much we have given power away to our minds allowing this to ‘take the lead’ rather than building the relationship with our whole being and body which is what is needed.

290. Your deep honesty Inmaculada is a wonderful inspiration for others. Most of us are using the mind to dominate the body – therefore your words are very much needed to change this not so useful habit.

291. We cannot truly deceive our bodies for they only respond to Love … that captures so clearly the truth our bodies always present us and no matter what story our minds may spin if we check in with our bodies they show us the truth or the lie … thank God for our bodies and their persistent, consistent showing of truth.

292. ‘The common denominator of this path has been my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind.’ How many of us live with a body that is in fact ‘traumatised’ by the onslaught and tyranny we impose on it? I can feel for myself this is true and yet a large part of me wants to avoid the deep honesty I need to go to, to accept my choices and the truth.

293. “What I do know, however, is that my relationship with osteoporosis is a living experience from which I am learning” – This is beautiful Inmaculada and what really matters, not that we achieve a ‘perfect picture’ of what life should look like but actually learn and grow from what we are presented.

294. Really inspiring how you’ve chosen to be more aware of your body and honouring of what you sense, as you say little by little deepening your relationship with you, doing what truly feels supportive rather than being bound by ideals or beliefs.

295. We see our bodies as a ‘nuisance’ and use our minds to override their messages, which is foolish, because we are depriving ourselves of an amazing source of wisdom.

     1. It’s so true Carmel, as I read your comment I could feel how irritated I have felt by my body and have wanted it to do more than it’s capable of, and not understanding (if not blaming it for) the symptoms it has. There can be such an arrogance to the mind and all its knowledge and intellect, but such a humility to the body and its steady, consistent way of sharing the truth and wisdom it has.

296. What we are taught is healthy living and good for the body turns out not to be true. I am on a similar route as you Inmaculada and we can discover a connection to the body that then teaches us the way forwards.

297. It is interesting to read how for many years we can have a relationship with our body and yet still not be connected to it. Our relationships can have us believe that we are doing the best for the body and our health and all the while treating it in a disregarding manner, without a second thought.

     1. I think that is a great point – how we can do what we think is best or ideal but in that if we’re not listening to our body we can be overriding what it is actually calling for…

298. “It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.” This is so true and by the proliferation of illness reflects that the present approach is not working and that there is something missing. That missing something is acknowledging “that each illness has a deep root that transcends the merely physiological reality” and to then to address that cause.

299. A very beautiful supportive sharing on your experiences with your body and the care and love one thought one was giving it when in reality not listening to all it was telling us. You show It is never to late to develop a new relationship with our bodies and this is a real inspiration and understanding of the quality and love we are innately made of .

     1. It’s very true Tricia, and learning to not hold mistakes against ourselves but to stay open to learning, and embrace what’s being offered as we reconnect to our body and all of its communications.

300. When we identify with an ill-health condition and wear it as a badge, it becomes a weight around our necks. A chronic health condition doesn’t define us, when can instead choose to connect to our true essence, pure love and beyond the reach of disease.

301. “I chose not to be a victim.” The way to true healing is developing a new and loving relationship with our body and re-assessing the way we live.

302. No matter what is presented to me unless it is aligned with my body and where I am at, then it is of no use and in fact abusive to my body and well-being. We have to put a stop to listening to that which is outside of ourselves and begin to connect and listen to inside, to our body.

303. Such a deeply honest, real and tender blog. Thank you Inmaculada.

304. To become humble and accept the lesson offered is truly inspiring. I totally understand about denial as I have done a lot of it myself! To accept an illness as a blessing for the stepping stone it creates to a more loving way of living, not becoming a victim to it, is a reflection humanity really needs. Thank you Inmaculada.

305. Have you ever seen a marathon runner or anyone that runs because it is healthy, but, does their face reflect that they enjoy it?

     1. So true Steve, it’s ‘amazing’ how much we say is healthy when our bodies are in ‘agony’.

     2. Good point, You can see clearly in your example just how much the head over rules such an obedient body…

306. This is a great sharing Inmaculada. It is true the body never lies but it is a great shame that we often leave listening to it so long that it reaches the point of dire straits, and the damage is well and truly already done! I for one always seemed to have had to learn the hard way; these days I am more willing to listen sooner rather than later.

307. “THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, that only our mind is capable of creating a mirage, which can make it look like I’m being ever more careful with myself, whilst I may be hiding a deep lack of acceptance and cherishing of my own self…” Yes, the body body is ever so honest, which this exposes the question, just how honest and obedient are we to the signals the body tells us?

308. A very illuminating article Inmaculada that clearly exposes the arrogance we have towards our bodies as we see them merely as a means to an end, rather than deeply wise, delicate and finely tuned bodies that enable us to live our lives. What an immense turn around for you to humbly accept that your body was not in the space you thought it should be after all you had imposed on it. I love how Serge Benhayon brings us back to basics, so we can start building a true relationship with our flesh and bones with a whole new level of appreciation, deep care and awareness.

309. It’s so beautiful that you have been supported to see the part that you can play to support your own body ‘ to love yourself to the bone’ and then work with your doctor regarding medical treatment. The perfect partnership and one where responsibility is accepted, without every thing being handed over the the doctor to ‘fix me’.

310. Not many people would ask themselves a profound question off the back of a diagnosis like yours. Quite a feat in itself.

311. ‘…each illness has a deep root that transcends the merely physiological reality….’ – that´s the missing key in our current medical system to complement the great advances modern medicine offers us today.

     1. This is so true and if, or rather when, this ‘key’ is acknowledged there will be a revolution in medicine and healing.

312. It’s beautiful to read how you have come to such a point in your life that you have been able to slow down, if not reverse to an extent your osteoporosis by simply learning to love and nurture yourself more deeply. How amazing are our bodies that they can support us to heal when given the opportunity and true care that they require and so deserve.

     1. The combination of Esoteric Medicine and Western Medicine is very supportive, to receive the best medical care and also understand the reading of the condition and how to address that in our lives is an amazing blessing.

313. You offer real keys in your report of how to be with oneself in a process of illness and healing. It is about relationships – relationship with self and not self-condemnation or guilt, relationship with the illness or symptoms the body shows and not being identified with or by the illness, relationship with life as in attitude, mind-set and behaviour. That´s the path of healing.

     1. Alex, your three keys super important and foundational to healing. There’s a huge difference between having a relationship with the illness and not being defined by it.

314. Thank you Inmaculada, so many gems in your blog. One of them: ‘I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.’ A wise man once shared with me that all we have to do is take super good care of our body for it is the gateway back to heaven.

     1. So simple.. that all we have to do is take deep care of our bodies, and thereafter, we have access to everything we need. The sadness we feel when we don’t listen to our bodies is the bigger sadness of what we cut ourselves off from: God, and multidimensional wisdom, that is always there to support and hold us, waiting for us to open up to it.

     2. This is a really beautiful conversation, I had not considered the care of our body this way before, thank you Monika and Bryony.

315. It is funny (or not) when we think that the body has ‘betrayed’ us when we are in fact the betrayer for not listening to the body!

     1. Well said Vicky, we often blame others when the truth of ill-health is closer to home. Health seems to be the one thing that most people have delegated to some unknown party to take care of.

     2. We are educated to not be educated by our own body. Even doctors smoke and drink alcohol, something our body communicates loudly that hurts us, and their training to be medical professionals asks them to disregard their body to learn what they must.

316. The body does not lie but I can say I have never wanted to be honest and have been very hard on my body by being hard on myself. I was confronted with the diagnosis of severe osteoporosis last year and I am building a loving relationship with my body, to be aware of my patterns of misusing my body in favour of my mind to get something done. And not that long ago I broke my wrist and developed a frozen shoulder, my body is asking me to deepen my relationship with the delicate and precious nature of being a woman and to let go of any hardness and identification with things outside myself.

317. A fantastic sharing, thank you, and i particularly love the truth of what you share… “we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love…”

318. “The body was a mere instrument to this end” how many of us approach our bodies in this way, we have different pursuits, aims and desires and yet in nearly all of our cases we end up leaving the body to the very end, something that is not considered as important until it breaks down.

319. The sad truth is most of us wait until we’re diagnosed with a chronic health condition before we stop, truly assess how we’re living and commit to making self-loving life style choices. May this blog inspire us all to not wait but start listening to our bodies and changing our relationship with it now. If we stop taking it for granted we can relate to it as the sacred vessel it is and treat with honour, respect and reverence.

320. I know the feeling of shock, disbelief and anger that was felt on diagnosis. I too felt the very same feelings when I discovered that my body was heading towards osteoporosis. What has been born though out of my diagnoses has been a deep commitment to exercise, nourishment, supplementation, and love for myself, a love that deepens daily. This diagnosis ended up being a point of change in my life.

321. There is a beautiful sense of surrender in this article. That which only true felt and understood wisdom brings to one, a sense that deeply humbles one and allows for a true way to move forward in ones life, whilst living with an illness.

322. Beautiful sharing Inmaculada and one we can all learn from and be inspired by. It’s a shock to be told we have a chronic health condition, especially when we believe we’ve been doing all the right things. The sense of betrayal you felt, I’ve witnessed in other people. The difference in your story is your transition from the depths of despair and hurt, to humility and honesty. Not every one goes there, but you did and now with a different and loving relationship with your body, are reaping the rewards.

323. Our body is great at bringing humility to the wayward arrogance of our spirit. We pride ourselves for being able to impose what our mind decides with little regard of others, nature and even our own bodies. We are by and large too obsessed with individuality to even start to contemplate on the impact we have on the whole of the Universe or how come we are earthbound. Thank God for the reflections that our bodies offer us, although most of us carry on ignoring even that. Without such clearing and reflections from our bodies, nature and the weather, we would be in so much more mess than we are currently finding ourselves in.

324. This is a beautiful sharing that really makes us aware that our body cannot lie. It is only we who can ignore the signals it is constantly communicating to us about the way we live. Unfortunately for most of us, we only listen when the signals get louder and louder and result in the fever pitch scream of illness and disease. However, through the grace of this process our stubbornness begins to break down and a beautiful humbleness appears to steer us safely home. Back to the body, back to ourselves, back to God.

325. It is very humbling to read your sharing as I can feel how arrogantly I have been riding on the body’s innate ability and willingness to keep it going, taking it for granted, almost testing how much abuse it would endure.

326. Having the report that states osteoporosis came as a shock to me, however over time this has turned around. What has changed for me is the honouring and care I now offer myself in every way I am willing to be honest about. The honesty has certainly been accelerated by knowing in such a clear way that my body matters far more than my mind thinks.

327. I too lived for a very long time with “my body being tyrannised by the demands and wishes of my mind”, and of course my body inevitably suffered. I have come to understand, through my own life experiences, that we have been fed such a lie as to what true intelligence is, as it is the body that contains the wisdom not the mind. Heeding the messages of my body is something I didn’t do for a very long time, with some painful lessons ensuing, but I have also learned that it is never too late to begin to listen and change the way I am living.

328. This line really stuck out for me: “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body” – this is a great point because we think we’re getting away with stuff, we can look ok, and on the whole feel ok but we can’t see what’s going on inside our bodies and so we ignore that the way we are living could be causing inner damage.

     1. True, we tend to consider ourselves a victim of our circumstances rather than the architect of our lives. Yet taking responsibility and being honest about what we’ve done is part of choosing to never do it again.

329. Lovely sharing thank you. So often the 1st thing we do is to fight what we have been told rather than accept it, and as you say ‘our body does not lie’ so then when we ask ok so what am I being shown and surrender to what is on offer like you have done then we can use it as a blessing rather than a struggle. I have never been great at being ill but now more and more see it as an opportunity for my body to say ok James take a moment to stop and look at the way you have been living – lets work together and not fight! And when I do it responds massively and when I don’t I just feel exhausted!!!

330. We often blame the body for letting us down, but in fact, it is us that let the body down. It works tirelessly to support us and gives us constant messages, and yet we dismiss its communication; until that is when we get a potentially serious illness.

331. “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love..” When we take ‘just enough care’ for ourselves — but without love – things may not change much. Love is the missing ingredient in many areas of life.

332. ‘It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.’ Without connection, it is hard to see the wood for the trees! As you share here when we come from the mind we are going to miss out on what our bodies are telling us they need.

333. ” I have learned also that wisdom is truly wisdom if it stems from the body, and that this is only possible when there is an intimate, sensitive and loving listening to it.” So true Inmaculada. We may think we are caring for our body – and our bones – by doing all the exercise and running/ walking aka good ‘weight-bearing exercise’ in order to up our bone density – but where is the loving in that? As you share, your bone density is improving with the love you are now treating yourself with. An empowering post.

334. Thank you Inmaculada for this humble and powerful blog exposing the ills of not taking true care of our body. I am inspired to re-assess the relationship with myself and have more awareness to respond to deepening the respect and nurturing that is now being called for from my body.
     “energetically osteoporosis is related to long term deep disregard and that healing requires full regard for myself with deep self-worth, care and nurturing.”

335. Inmaculada I had a very similar experience to you, where it took the truth of my body being very unwell for me to realise that the beliefs that I had held around what was healthy and what was not was actually a pack of lies. The whole fitness industry is based on those lies and schools feed our kids exactly the same lies from a very young age. It’s going to take quite a considerable amount of time as well as a considerable amount of illness before we are able to see the truth of our ways.

336. I also felt ‘betrayed’ by my body when I kept having miscarriages, just because my body didn’t perform in the way I wanted it. Later I realized that it was actually the other way around: I was the one betraying my body by not being tender and caring with it at all. I pushed and was hard on it all the time and not willing to listen to any of the signals. Just like you wrote, the body responds to love and it flourishes on it.

337. Osteoporosis being linked with self regard is an amazing connection to make. And it feels inspiring too because there are steps that every woman can make to include self regard in one’s life.

338. I’m really touched by the reference to humility here – I know I have arrogantly gone about life doing what is important to me (self), and simply using the body as a tool without the honour and respect of my self, my body and then naturally others that this life deserves. Do I wait for the ‘stop moment’ or do I take inspiration from a blog like this one?

     1. Do we honour the body as a temple through which to connect to and express the divinity we are – OR – do we use the body as a vehicle to indulge in temporal excesses and thus ‘joyride’ through life at break neck speed until we are eventually brought to a stop?

339. When we come solely from our mind we can express an arrogance; when we come from our body and mind there’s a humbleness, a genuine and honest reflection of where we are at.

340. “I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love.” A beautiful and simple message that should be at the heart of education.

341. Wow Inmaculada, thank you for sharing so openly about your condition and what you have learnt. Your willingness to listen to your body is inspiring and everything you’ve shared, I can deeply relate to. Our bodies are amazing in every way, when we stop to appreciate it and listen to its messages, it will guide us through life with absolute truth and honesty.

342. The key it seems is for us to admit that it was us who started disease by allowing an untrue energy in. Knowing we don’t naturally want to abuse ourselves we can choose to change how we live. But nothing will alter until we see the kick our spirit gets from irresponsibility.

343. This is a beautiful reminder that although we may think we are caring for our bodies there is always a deeper level of care we can go to.

     1. So true Carmel and sometimes we can be kidding ourselves that we are looking after our body but our body never lies when we stop to really listen.

     2. There sure is Carmel, something I do at times struggle with is how much love is on offer for us to live, it is like ok I’ve got there and then it feels like I am starting again. Which shows for me how much of an end goal and picture I had about how life could or should be. Rather what is is showing me is we are far more than human beings and there is no limit to the amount of love we can connect to and live when we simply continue to let ourselves be moved with love. It is then only us which gets in the way or slows the amount of love we allow through down, no one else.

344. “The first thing it produced was a great dose of humility, for it placed me where I was energetically, instead of where my mind thought I was”. Inmaculada this line is so real for me as well, as it was only when my body revealed to me my heart condition, that I was able to fully realize the energetic implication instead of my head interpretation of the whole event. As you say a dose of humility, the body does not lie which has lead me back to honouring myself and my body.

345. There are so many women that suffer from osteoporosis who will be deeply inspired by what you have written, I would love to hear more about your journey as it unfolds.

346. “I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it” – It’s so common to focus on being functional as opposed to truly fit for life, fresh and vital. Even exercise, losing weight or staying active can be part of functioning, or trying to look a certain way for other people, rather than for our wellbeing.

347. Thank you Inmaculada! The clarity and simplicity with which you have taken responsibility for the vehicle you (and most of us) have used for self gain is absolutely inspiring. I’ll be sharing this blog and would love to see it in local medical clinics! I was particularly struck by this paragraph ‘ I have learned that we cannot deceive our body, for it only responds to love. The fact is that I had only taken just enough care of it for it to be useful to me, but I had not deeply respected it. This means that I had demanded too much of it, that I had at times abandoned it.’

348. Great article Inmaculada on a topic that is more common than most realise. Ill health is a big leveler but it’s been awesome the way you have been able to work your way through the emotions and arrive back to a deeper relationship with your body. I also have been diagnosed with osteoporosis and your article has inspired me to go that step further in terms of my relationship with my body. Thank you.

349. “It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate.” This sentence alone should make us stop and deeply consider what is going on with the healthcare industry and what we think is a healthy way to live. Something must be missing if it’s not working, right? ‘Our body responds to love’ is a very simple way to work with one of the key ingredients in our health that is very much missing these days.

350. “It is paradoxical to witness how many different ways of caring for our bodies are offered to us nowadays and at the same time we see how illnesses proliferate. This is sentence alone should make us stop and deeply consider what is going on with the healthcare industry and what we think is a healthy way to live. Something must be missing if its not working right? ‘Our body responds to love’ is a very simple way to work with one of the key ingredients in our health that is very much missing these days.

351. Love your honesty here about how you’ve been living. Realising that all of our past choices that we thought were healthy, were in fact deeply dismissive of our body, can be confronting, but with that, there’s always a choice: to be a victim, or to be empowered to go deeper, and to change our relationship with our body from seeing it as a tool to do what we want, to being guided by it in all that we do.

     1. There is a sentence in the blog that talks about how confronting the exposure of how we have been living can be.. but then confronting to who or what… that part of ourselves (our mind) that has invested all those years in what we have been doing. The rest of the sentence then went onto the inspiration offered, the care for oneself that can be learnt, the connection that is available. Wise words to live from….

352. Beautifully shared and raised such an important point. We can be fooled by the mind into thinking we are doing well, but the body does not lie and it is about us being deeply honest with ourselves about this.

     1. This is a great point, we can think everything is amazing and yet our body can show us the exact opposite, and without that honesty there can be a discordance and what we think and what we say does not always match what is going on with our body.

353. ‘I had to assume that my body was a stranger to me, that I needed to get to know.Little by little, without pushing myself or despairing, I’m establishing a new relationship with it, and with myself, as a result ‘ I love this as it expresses the delicateness, love and openness in which you approached this new relationship. A love of affair like no other 🙂

354. I know this feeling of being betrayed by the body Inmaculada, but am now humbled by the fact that my body has actually been the one that has taken care of me most, ceaselessly communicating what it could not deal with. It was I who betrayed and abandoned my body, not the other way around.

355. I love your example of healing as it not only shows an openness to your body and what it is showing you, it also has not reaction and judgement of yourself in it. Whilst you have experienced this in the process you have let go of it and I feel that is a very very important and often undervalued part of healing.

356. Yes the mind can say we are well when we are achieving our set pictures and goals but it is not fully honest with how we are feeling. Many of us are feeling tired a lot of the time needing coffee to get through the day or use a lot of nervous energy or stress to do so. If we take sugar, caffeine, alcohol and stress away we would need to be more honest with how we are truly feeling and question our mind and its goals.

357. Thank you for sharing so openly Inmaculada, it’s humbling to read and consider where I am also at with my body. I can relate to the sadness you spoke of when you felt how your body was. I’ve always since a little girl, even when I was first hard with my body, been very sad if my body got hurt. The sadness, when I see the effects my choices and mind has had on my body, is because I see the lack of love and holding of my body. The support from Serge Benhayon of the root cause of any illness and disease energetically is incredibly supportive as you’re able to heal on so many levels and layers apart from just the physical.

358. It’s amazing reading stories like this where people don’t go into the victim or the warrior battling disease but instead being humble and open to learning from the situation.

     1. It is inspiring isn’t Leigh and not many people would approach illness and disease the way Inmaculada has. So, it is amazing to be able to read and share this blog because it is so common to fall into victimhood and blame when we experience situations like this.

359. I’m struck by your humility and the lack of self-judgment you’re in. It’s an unpleasant irony once we discover that our slavish long-term adherence to externalised so-called intelligence about health and generic ways of living turns out to reveal our major disregard for the truth of our own body’s needs and messages.

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