By Roberta Himing, Student of Life, Australia
The final check for the visual function of the new lenses following cataract surgery was complete and the journey home once again on the public transport system, gave me the opportunity to reflect upon this latest little medical adventure of mine. So much to marvel at as I thought about the surgery associated with the cataractous lenses. Dr. Anne Malatt, an ophthamologist, had gently indicated a few months earlier it could be time to consider the removal of the thickening cataracts from my eyes.
What was it that was being revealed to me? What lay behind the fact of experiencing ‘blurred’ vision or even the fact of having had to wear prescription eye glasses since a teenager? Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?
There had only been a few events in this life that I had knowingly recoiled from in fear, trepidation or disbelief, wanting desperately for the things that I saw or was aware of to be different, though I had had a difficulty in accepting the horror of the newsworthy events of the world, subjecting myself to feeling the pain and supposed injustice personally.
At that time, I did not have the understanding that the energy of all expression flows through us constantly, notwithstanding whether these energies were seen to be immoral or benevolent, leaving me contemplating whether we had at some point a choice in allowing these unloving energies to take hold. The constant thoughts and the enquiring mind also saw me wondering whether we all had indeed had a part to play in some way through our past choices and behaviours on our world and the current state of play we are all experiencing.
Some may see this cataract removal surgery as commonplace. Not uncommon at all, however, how many of us would choose to take the time to look within a little more carefully to gauge what it really means energetically? Surely, it’s not a part of the Divine Plan for all those with numerous candles on their cake to line up as on an assembly line at a certain age to correct the supposed ravages of what some may see as Time. One could marvel at the numbers being in the hundreds of thousands of such surgeries.
Could it be that there is a deeper understanding behind this condition? I am slowly learning to leave the ‘catacombs of the mind’ and connect with me, listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life. Did I really listen to my body when I pushed through doggedly to complete the ‘to do’ lists? Was I endeavouring to justify or prove that I was at least loveable at some level, as someone who could always be relied upon to say ‘yes’ even if it was detrimental to my physical and delicate womanly body? There had been so many instances of the ‘doing’ of physical tasks just to be noticed, acknowledged, recognised and ultimately accepted as worthy of existence. Where was this woman in livingness – where had I been? Had I been lost in a consciousness of a certain indoctrination, blindly following the ideals and belief systems of a wayward humanity?
As grace would have it, there did eventually come a time when, crumpled physically and emotionally, I knew there had to be another way, and falsely I sought that other way in the spiritual ramblings and the seduction of the New Age movement for a time until it was shown clearly that this was not a way of Truth. It seems that I was well entrenched in the mind where gathered information had been downloaded from another source outside of myself, resulting in persistent foggy choices still being made while endeavouring to search those recesses for the answers. Thank God, and with deep appreciation I finally listened to my inner heart, that place of connection with Soul within. There lies another continuing story of seeing with clarity that the Truth that I had been seeking possibly in so many thousands of lives was held within all along. Oooh! The games that are played in the guano embellished caverns of the mind, however out of the guano is also the potential for a deeper beauty to unfold.
Wow! What a revelation embraced in that moment. My own perception as a knowing was offered not only from within on this specific occasion, but only days later a deepened wisdom of understanding the truth also from a very wise young woman, Natalie Benhayon, confirming and adding to my words shared in regards to my interpretation of the relevance of this eye condition. Was it possible that in my many lives there had been a build-up, a thickening/pollution that was blocking my true sight – the inner signs of what we feel and sense intuitively, perhaps even to the point of ‘not wanting to see’ and perhaps ‘harbouring pictures of how one would prefer life to be’.
So much to ponder on…
My travelling time on the light rail was nearing the end, where I was to a-light, but I recalled and felt to share a moment bathing in the Magic of God. Looking back, it was after 5.00 o’clock late afternoon. The day was winding down with the fiery light of the sun at about 51 degrees settling in the western sky. High humidity following the hot day saw the storm clouds already having moved easterly out to the ocean horizon. I was resting quietly following surgery that morning to remove the cataract from my right eye and the insertion of a new lens. Deep appreciation was coursing through as an awareness not only of the skill of the surgeon and the caring team but the opportunity of being given another chance to look at life more clearly and from a different perspective with a greater sense of seeing beyond the obvious temporal view.
I felt the impulse to step outside onto the balcony of our high-rise apartment and it had to be answered. What appeared to me to be an offering, perhaps a blessing, was delivered in the form of what one could call a natural phenomenon, a gift from God from His heavenly presence. I will endeavour to describe in simple language what I saw with these human eyes, albeit with the right eye covered at that time with a perforated plastic shield.
The sea was dark and still. A magnificent single voluminous dark cumulo-nimbus cloud in all its shades of dark hues hung like a dirigible just there in all its glory at about 2,000 feet above the almost smooth ocean surface. It seemed so near one could see the heavy rain leaving this cloud, but as the rain fell closer to the water it was apparent that the density of the rainfall was becoming lighter until at about 500 feet it was visible as a dissipating mist effectively leaving a treasure, a jewel of a huge elliptical shaped rainbow the size of a very large lake on the surface of the now still sea. What a gift – how divine.
I see with more clarity now the games of the human spirit and it seems there is no end to the ingenuity or the insidious desires that these forces inflict on the unsuspecting masses. Have we all not only been lied to, but have we in fact been responsible for the demand or development of the lies due to not being ready to accept responsibility or transparency of the Truth? What is it that I did not really want to see but instead chose to cover the Truth with a film to dull the sight?
Could there be such a thing as a science to explain the dynamic forces that seem to control all that we choose to see and possibly could there even be a science to explain why I have chosen to dwell in the consciousness of ‘comfort’? Is it possible that ‘cataracts’ are a result of being in resistance to what is clearly seen and felt? Does the surgical procedure of the removal of the cataracts from my eyes offer a remarkable clearing and healing opportunity, not just on a physical level, but an opportunity to heal old ways of seeing life and people that have not been true and whole.
As I sit at my computer writing this blog with a new lens in each eye I am astounded at this gift of newly gained in-sight – having received the offering of the possible truth behind my sojourn of “Cataracts and the Catacombs of the Mind”.
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Roberta I understand about viewing life from reaction, as this is what I struggled with all my life too.
Our senses are more than the physical purpose, they can feel the truth of what is actually going on. And when we fight against the truth, well the senses certainly communicate this to us. For me and from a young age this was the ears.
When we see life from the physical point, everything is a chaotic playground and yet, when we see life for what it is and the energies at play, our senses feel energy as well as the physicality of what is actually going on. We need to be open to it…
I have come back to this blog because there is so much here to comment on
What you have shared with humanity is massive. I had a family member who had cataracts and because they were a certain age they thought it was all part of getting old. But Roberta you are suggesting something much deeper and worth considering.
“Was it possible that in my many lives there had been a build-up, a thickening/pollution that was blocking my true sight – the inner signs of what we feel and sense intuitively, perhaps even to the point of ‘not wanting to see’ and perhaps ‘harbouring pictures of how one would prefer life to be’.”
This makes complete sense to me because my family member didn’t want to see, didn’t want to fully engage in life and so checked out and died an alcoholic they just couldn’t cope with life any more. But it feels to me that there is something else going on here at a much deeper level than we are wanting to be aware of because what child at the age of say five when they first go to school tells the teacher that when they grow up they want to be an alcoholic?
Nobody wants to grow up being an alcoholic, surely – but we do have a lot of means at our disposal to numb and check out from what we perceive is too much, unbearable even.
Mary this is a powerful comment about how humanity can be impacted. But they need to see it for more than just life and it does require us to be engaged with it, instead of being separate from it. When we absorb life there are so many of us that have chosen to separate ourselves from life, because we could not cope. When the simplicity is to observe and not absorb it.
When we get caught up in life we can be impacted by it in the feeling of being overwhelmed. I had an experience of this recently when a friend called as they were totally overwhelmed by a situation and needed some support to understand how this has happened.
Is it possible that when we admit to being overwhelmed and want to unpick the root cause of it the overwhelm is dissolved and no longer has a hold on our bodies? How often is there someone to talk to? And how often do we turn to food drink, or drugs to suppress the overwhelm we feel as a way of coping with it?
Gone are the days when it was possible to go and chat with a wise elder that could support you to not get so caught up in life but as you say Shushila observe life not absorb it. To absorb it is poisonous to our bodies.
Roberta this is a most delightful blog to read and to discuss because we have not been told about the wayward spirit it is not referred to in such terms in the Roman Catholic faith. I seem to remember it is referred to as something of benevolence and now we find it is anything but. And this makes complete sense to me that there is a spirit within us that has all the ingenuity or the insidious desire and it keeps us unsuspecting because of our lack of knowledge about it. We have been so lied to it is beyond belief the lies we have willingly swallowed.
“I am slowly learning to leave the ‘catacombs of the mind’ and connect with me, listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life.” I am with you on that Roberta, I am constantly learning from my body and the wisdom and truth it holds, even though at times my mind, which is part of the body, holds the body suspiciously or as less!
‘Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?’ This is a great question to ask and something we could all ponder on and learn from I am sure.
The part about pushing on to complete those ‘to do lists’… It’s obvious that a lifetime of smoking can lead to lung conditions, or with alcohol comes with liver conditions. But what if more attention was given to exploring the negative impact on the long term of ‘to do lists’?
“Could it be that there is a deeper understanding behind this condition?” Absolutely, as there is always an energetic reason for our physical conditions, as I am exploring too. ” I am slowly learning to leave the ‘catacombs of the mind’ and connect with me, listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life.” Knowing what I do now its no surprise that what we choose will have an effect upon us at some point – be it sooner or later.
Thank you for shining light on the energetic meaning of cataracts. Eyes problems are very common today- not wanting to see and accept the truth of creation. Unless we are willing to accept that everything has an energetic component to it that needs to be read and understood first, truth will not be revealed.
Seeing can often be about only seeing what we believe or have experience from before and yet maybe this is only part of the whole scene of life?
Love the clarity you bring to the healing on offer here Roberta … and the fact that every surgery is an offering of clearing and healing if we so choose.
I’ve never had any surgery in my life (yet) but having accounts such as these replaces the fear which I’ve often seen in others, with an understanding that it supports in healing not just the physical ailments but on an energetic level as well.
I would agree that we accept lies because we are not embracing the responsibility to see the truth. It makes a lot of sense and if you look at the world today it reflect how we are still comfortable to half see what’s really going on.
‘Not uncommon at all, however, how many of us would choose to take the time to look within a little more carefully to gauge what it really means energetically? ‘ In an age where most are seeking a quick fix, we spend little time reflecting on any ill that befalls us wanting to get back to how we were without appreciating the ill as a stop that is offering up a moment of learning and evolution.
“Surely, it’s not a part of the Divine Plan for all those with numerous candles on their cake to line up as on an assembly line at a certain age to correct the supposed ravages of what some may see as Time.” A great point Roberta – so how do we choose to live? Macular degeneration (usually found in the aging population) is another case in point.
“Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?” A great question, when so many older people are needing to have cataract surgery. I am finding myself in reaction daily at present – with so much ridiculousness occurring in the world. However at least I am now clocking I do that – a first step.
I love the magic in life when we are willing to look beyond the condition, not discount, but ask why and what has led to the condition that I now have. Doing this I feel is revolutionary for our healthcare systems as it asks us to be equally responsible in the next step we take not to have the same thing happen again.
The cataract surgery is symbolic of clearing the catacombs of the mind some more of what doesn’t serve any longer and in truth, has not ever served us other than maintain a state of numbed comfort and acquiescence with the way things are.
This further highlights to me just how much our perception can distort and what we see and subsequently what we don’t see to the point that we are projecting what we see rather than receiving what is there to be observed.
attending a Walking Therapy session Group with Serge Benhayon this morning reminded me of your blog Roberta. From feeling something strongly in my body in the walking exercises has revealed another ‘level of seeing’ with more clarity and the effects that energy has on our bodies all of the time.
Pretty much every aspect of life is offering us some form of reflection that we can observe and reflect on to help us deepen our awareness and relationship with ourselves and with the whole of life. This blog is a great example of the depth of insights and wisdom there is for us when we choose to go there.
So true how in humanity we have created the lies so we don’t see the responsibility we have when presented with the truth.
The quality of our sight is one thing but our perception or view on life can skew our reality even more.
We fashion our five physical senses so that we see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear and overall get confirmed in our pictures, ideals and beliefs in a never-ending circle of relative numbness with the odd bits of distraction and elation thrown in.
“I am slowly learning to leave the ‘catacombs of the mind’ and connect with me, listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life”. Do we ever really and truly look deeply and with presence into our own eyes and marvel at their beauty and what lies within?
Having looked up dirigible in the dictionary I find it is another word for airship….now I can ‘see’ more clearly your vision of that view from the balcony. I love that you saw an iridescent rainbow, ‘ a treasure, a jewel of a huge elliptical shaped rainbow the size of a very large lake on the surface of the now still sea.What a gift- how Divine” So often in my life a rainbow has appeared as if to give glorious confirmation of a situation, a feeling, thought or idea. Thank you for a great read this morning. Will we hear more from you?
Physiologically we may have full vision, but does this mean we still see everything? And the same could be said in reverse – if we have lost some degree of vision physically does it mean we still cannot see all that there truly is to be seen?
It is interesting how we can react to what we see and how our eyes can then reflect that reaction in various ways such as cataracts, styes, near vision glasses or far vision glasses etc. I have worn glasses since I was in my early teens but never once then considered it was because of how sensitive I was and how I might have been not liking the things I was seeing or feeling around me. Today I still struggle with vision and I know it is time for me to be more honest and realise that a part of me may not have really been wanting to see the world for how it actually is. In realising this, perhaps I will be ready to change this soon, and who knows what would happen with my eyes in their reflection of my willingness to see again all there is to see with no holes barred.
When I was younger I was a very keen photographer. Then, on a few holidays, I discovered the power and joy of leaving my camera at home and committing to really, really looking at the what I was looking at.
That is a beautiful point Otto, my camera jammed on holiday in Nepal many years ago. The best ‘photos’ I have from that trip were the ones I still have within my being that were images registered by my deeper observations, being fully present with all around me, without camera.
Before that I was clicking away, so called ‘capturing the moment’ without truly being present in it. You can feel the emptiness in many of those actual photos whereas the richness of what and who I observed and felt and connected to, without the intermediary of the camera, is still with me.
Apparently, I have 20/20 vision, yet there is so much that I do not see. Explain that?! The point being that true vision is much more than just corneas, optical nerves and brains (with apologies to biologists, doctors and optometrists for my extremely ignorant and reductive representation of optical science)
There is a deeper understanding behind every one of these conditions. I am slowly learning to understand life knowing that the physical manifestation in our bodies is after an energetic outplay ie a stance or a posture in life that lives us far from the delicate and sensitive beings we naturally are. I’m with you on this one Roberta ‘listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life’
You have brought deep appreciation to a condition that many experience, have corrected when operated on and then return to life as it was before the operation. When illness occurs it always bring an offering of new understanding – thank you Roberta for sharing what is possible for each of us in these instances if we choose to go there.
I love the questions and the pondering shared in this blog. We don’t do this enough in life. Amazing extent of richness and insights when we do.
There is truth to see when we finally open our eyes and take the veils from our sight, veils of our own making because of our choice to enjoy the life of creation.
This blog shows again how Western Medicine is able to support us in our healing process back to soul. It is from our own choice to choose the way back to soul and when on that path everything in life is there to support you.
Being open to really see what is happening in life is a choice and a measure of how much we are governed by our ideals and beliefs and unresolved emotional issues.
I am realising lately just how much I have been (and still am) unwilling to see as it really is in life. This filtering is so much a normal part of my normal way that it doesn’t even reach my conscious awareness. The rose-coloured glasses so to speak take care of everything and mostly keep things as I want them to be. Yet this means I do not get to feel, understand and respond to life or be part of what’s needed to break down all we do not want to see.
In some ways we can all be living behind a veil of perception, only seeing life through the distortion of our beliefs and ideals and previous hurts.
Yes, we are masters in the creation of our own suffering. But if we are that powerful, we are also able to reverse this simply by making the choice to return to Soul after which life will be in full support to help us on our way back home.
Roberta you have a most beautiful way to express, everything is held equally in lightheartedness and seriousness, no judgement, just an invitation to look deeper.
It is very interesting to understand life from an energetic point of view and that everything occurs based on a choice of quality of energy that is constantly flowing through us all the time.
We give money to charity and pity the vision impaired when all the time we skim over life not wanting to see what we actually receive. Rushing around is like trying to press the fast forward button on the movie of life but fails to stop us sensing everything – wowee what a waste of time
With all this rushing around to see more, we wind up seeing so much less.
You make a great point Roberta when you mentioned the increase in people needing to wear glasses. Twice in my life, my eyes have corrected themselves but as I age they have gotten progressively worse.
This insighfull sumising question is one that we can perhaps equally pose to other senses ‘Could there be such a thing as a science to explain the dynamic forces that seem to control all that we choose to see (hear) and possibly could there even be a science to explain why I have chosen to dwell in the consciousness of ‘comfort’?’….
Something like surgery can offer our body a fresh start, but also on a larger scale in how we live our life, work and so forth; finding a new rhythm.
I so love your writing, Roberta. And I love what you have uncovered here; the lived and felt fact that “our body never lies” (thank you, Serge Benhayon) and that we never stop learning, reading and understanding life.
When I read this Gabriele, I was like ‘life can never be boring!!’ – yet ‘I’m bored’ is a phrase we hear so often. This would suggest that the declared boredom is from having shut off from the body (learning, reading and understanding life) and therefore our inner relationship with ourselves.
We do not consider the impact the way we look out to the world and perceive life to have on our bodies – could the reactions, the lack of acceptance, the disbelief, the injustice, the anger and resentment, the manipulation and control all have an impact on the body and the eyes in the end?
Absolutely, and in turn all of this then contributes to all we have perceived in the world as it is projected outward.
What a real and honest insight into our sight and what we want and don’t want to see but see all along. A great sharing and pondering on our sight our awareness and how we have lived for lifetimes blinded to the truth of it all and the choices we are offered to change this.
Isn’t it curious that as soon as something becomes ‘common’ we imagine we can just ignore it as just one of those things that happens once in a while and get going as before. Yet if it isn’t common we are more likely to stop and feel the impact of what we are actually faced with.
This is an alarming fact since our illness and disease is escalating dramatically and we are settling for a lower and lower basic health as our ‘normal’. Hence we can go through life imagining we don’t need to pay attention because it is not uncommon. But we could choose instead to have the beauty of the wonder and expansion offered in this blog in every and any aspect of life.
I love the clarity and depth that you have brought to a common ailment as we age. With your insight you have indeed offered us all a greater understanding of our bodily ills – nothing happens by chance or coincidence – we are the end result of how we have lived – and with greater understanding we can bring to the world the fact that ageing does not have to be a process of diminishing faculties – that we are still able to embrace life fully and bring our all to the world with great beauty and grace as you have done Roberta.
I love what you offer in your blog Roberta, that we can be blinded for many lives by choosing not to see the lies and deceit that are offered to us on a daily basis and in doing so we pollute and poison our own body. This to me makes sense as to why so many people have eye issues because we have turned our back on truth and painted our own picture of what we are comfortably willing to accept.
Yes – this makes total sense. Being open to why I am short sighted myself (I am nearly blind in my left eye) has taken a number of years to unravel, but with increasing awareness and sense of purpose I have a deepening understanding of what my choices have been and why and so it is no coincidence that at this stage of my life an opportunity to correct my vision has arisen as those hurts are being healed..
I too am nearly blind in one eye – my right – and know I became short sighted as a child because I didn’t want to see what was really going on in my family at that time. Learning about energy has enabled me to understand more and more why we have the illnesses we do. I’ve never wanted just to fix symptoms and always knew there was an underlying root cause but until I met Serge Benhayon was never shown how to comprehend this.
Life is so rich when we see beyond the superficial and only human aspects; to allow ourselves to explore what is being offered when physical conditions arise and what a true healing would be rather than a quick fix alleviation of symptoms and then back to our old ways.
Amusing that so there is so much focus on finding the ‘more’ of everything in order to satiate the emptiness many of us feel, but we have so much already. As you say “Life is so rich when we see beyond the superficial and only human aspects”. And this blog is a great example of the possibility of deeply engaging with every aspect of it.
‘So much to ponder on…..’ indeed, in order to clear the catacombs of the mind of the mire we tend to be stuck in to such a degree that it even compromises our body over time. We can either thoroughly ponder (thinking with and from the body) or our body does it for us.
It is so easy for our perception and view of life to become clouded by the ideals and beliefs we live by in life. So it feels great to embrace what medicine has to offer in removing the barriers to seeing life clearly.
I love the depth of the questions asked. This way of reflecting could be applied to every aspect of life. We don’t do that nearly enough. If we did, life would be so much richer.
How wonderful, that when your physical eyes received the healing, you connected more with your in-sight 🙂
“Could it be that there is a deeper understanding behind this condition? I am slowly learning to leave the ‘catacombs of the mind’ and connect with me, listening now more to my body as it clearly lets me know of the disregard of many of my previous choices in life.” Every condition in life has a root cause, but this is rarely treated, suppressing symptoms and ‘fixing’ them being the preferred state of medicine. However Serge Benhayon offers us a different way with Universal Medicine – also in tandem with the conventional approach. The best of both worlds.
OMG Roberta – How exquisitely beautiful is this description of the experience from your balcony. A blessing and confirmation of the stripping away of energetic layers of limited vision, from eyes previously governed by aeons of lies and illusion, to reveal the Grace, Magnificence and Magic of God through ‘new eyes’ offering a deeper understanding and awareness of Truth.
“The sea was dark and still. A magnificent single voluminous dark cumulo-nimbus cloud in all its shades of dark hues hung like a dirigible just there in all its glory at about 2,000 feet above the almost smooth ocean surface. It seemed so near one could see the heavy rain leaving this cloud, but as the rain fell closer to the water it was apparent that the density of the rainfall was becoming lighter until at about 500 feet it was visible as a dissipating mist effectively leaving a treasure, a jewel of a huge elliptical shaped rainbow the size of a very large lake on the surface of the now still sea. What a gift – how divine”
Every physical illness or event that happens to us, offers us an opportunity to reflect deeper on its meaning and how this has lead to it in the first place.
Yes every issue we are faced with is there for us to connect to and deepen our awareness and expression of our amazingness. Roberta offers a great example of how we could relate to all such instances. The more we allow the unraveling, the less the issues will keep repeating.
In re-developing more awareness I am seeing things that I did not want to see previously. The world is currently in a very ugly and evil mess and the clean-up always begins with ourselves first – living with energetic integrity, responsibility and accountability is the game-changer..
Yes, the buck stops with everyone of us and the more we open our eyes to what is going on and become very honest, the more will, over time, change.
Could reacting to life have a significant impact on our body much more than we care to realise and admit? Reacting is normal – at times we are all moving in reaction in some shape or form yet could reacting to life be a cause of illness and disease including problems with the eyes? Could as we get older react more to life blaming the next generation unless we deal with reaction when it shows up in our lives? There is much to be said about reaction and the unwillingness to be responsible for our lives.
I wonder if we ever find out what the causes of initial and recurring cataracts are.
We have to say yes to the healing offered to truly heal and release the root of the condition we find ourselves with and in doing so we are offered the opportunity to start again without the energetic manifestation and with the learning of the healing process – we are offered so much through our bodies that we do not fully yet appreciate.
So true Michael. On the whole we prefer to not take responsibility for our ill health – and then want a quick fix – which even if it were possible – how can that happen overnight when symptoms may have taken years to build inside the body and eventually manifest. We do not truly appreciate the magnificence of our bodies and how our lifestyle choices can affect our lives.
A brilliant sharing of the deeper reflections of our sight and life and the magic of God in the moments and miracles we see. So much to ponder on and reveal in the myriads of lies deceptions and myths of life that hold us blind to what is really on offer and going on until we truly choose to see it all layer by layer revealing life itself and what it is all about and the true purpose we are here for.
We spent so much time seeing rather than feeling the depth of what is on offer.
To have awareness of the Universal rhythms and cycles and choosing to return to living in alignment with them is the foundation for a far grander vision with the inner eyes of the heart being all seeing and all knowing.
What we see or not is the result of what we want to see or not
Thank you Roberta for exploring the view about eyesight from an energetic perspective that makes sense to me. Since attending events with Serge Benhayon it has certainly exposed where it is more comfortable through familiarity of beliefs carried through generations, to see things as we want them to be rather than how they actually are
“Was it possible that in my many lives there had been a build-up, a thickening/pollution that was blocking my true sight – the inner signs of what we feel and sense intuitively, perhaps even to the point of ‘not wanting to see’ and perhaps ‘harbouring pictures of how one would prefer life to be”’.
It´s like playing hide and seek with truth – we cannot but know and seek truth but know every trick in the book to conceal it with lies to keep us from getting to it. There obviously is a science or even ‘art’ form to the game we play, the only question is, for how long do we use it to bury the truth in the catacombs and when do we start to use it to emerge out of the ‘guano’ (mud of self-chosen unawareness).
The question of how capable or willing we are to see truth needs to be asked at any moment as there are layers upon layers of ‘lies’ or illusions we have bought into and hold onto that keep us from truly seeing – this is part of the path of return or restoring full awareness. And as always the body never lies but is honestly serving that process of discarding.
If I can ask myself the question of how willing I am to see the truth and do this with great understanding, I get to explore the layers of illusion and lies that I have adopted to cope with life, that actually fog over the richness that is life when we are open to learning.
We spend so much of our life stuck in the caves of our mind when all we need to do is walk out to the light and the sensitivity of our body.
‘…resistance to what is clearly seen and felt…’ – we only need to make ourselves aware that we can only ever react and or resist to something that is already perceived and felt, but usually we then are caught in the reaction to the fact and thereby forget to go back to the cause, learn from it about ourselves and our relationship with life, admitting to the at times unpleasant (mildly said) reality that we have made our existence ‘by choice’, ie. how we have contributed to it. It is our willingness to see things for what they are in relation to what they should be based on the universal and divine order and nature that governs the whole sphere of life – it is in this tension that we can learn to re-align to truth or may choose to hold on to the hurt, reaction, identification, protection and blindness.
I find apathy, giving up and concerning myself with my own safety and comfort are very effective in reducing my awareness of what I react to. It is only when my eye sight began failing that I took it seriously that there was a lot I was reacting to in life and not wanting to see, especially with those close to me.
My eyesight became poor when I was very young – not wanting to ‘see’ what was going on in family. But I accept it was my choice, not wanting to feel the truth of what was there. Learning to see and discerning truth is a learning process for me still. Back to my body……..
Nothing is nothing and everything is everything… even what may appear as the smallest of details and most insignificant things are important in life, and when we bring them all together we see how lovingly and constantly we are always supported.
Our bodies offer us so much in healing.
What an awareness to bring to our understanding of why our eyes need support in seeing. So I wonder, if I need reading glasses, is it supporting me to develop the discipline to look closer at the details of life and if I need glasses when I’m driving, does it infer that I need support to see the bigger picture and my place within it alongside everyone else? Beautiful ponderings to bring to an activity that is so common place we don’t really stop to question it.
Yes, I notice that at times my eyesight fluctuates. Sometimes my vision is much more acute than at other times.
I simply love those moments when it feels like all of nature and God himself is speaking to me and the world stops for a moment for me to deeply drink in and appreciate the moment of divinity.
These are the moments where the sheer beauty of nature brings me out of the caves of my mind to connect with the majesty of the all.
‘Have we all not only been lied to, but have we in fact been responsible for the demand or development of the lies due to not being ready to accept responsibility or transparency of the Truth?’ Yes as your whole blog reveals is that we don’t want to see what is before our own eyes but try to twist or make our own version of what we see and where we are a part of, everyone equally so.
I have worn prescription glasses since I was eight – before that life was a blur and in school I had to sit really close to the blackboard until somebody twigged what the problem was. Some children get glasses when they are very young, less than a year old. It makes a difference when you can see, but there is more to feel and that sense is often dulled by being at boarding school where you have to behave and there is little freedom to be yourself.
“Let the eyes see what the heart has already felt” Serge Benhayon
http://www.unimedliving.com/science/living-science-a-fresh-approach-to-life/seeing-is-believing-or-is-it.html
Thank you Roberta, there are great links to other related articles under the ‘Read More’ button – including this powerful quote above from Serge Benhayon
So unmistakable when we are delivered glorious symbolism from God such as the jewel of an elliptical rainbow like a lake on the sea – beautiful.
Beautiful choice of words, CATARACTS and CATACOMBS both of which conjure up the feeling of being lost and blind, kinda how humanity feels in general at the moment.
Wow Roberta – a big STOP moment in the second paragraph – a previously unconsidered awareness regarding eyesight problems and my body has let me know very clearly that there is much to ponder upon before continuing to read the remainder of your blog!
“Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?”
I think this is a big STOP moment for all of us/humanity Stephanie ‘Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?’
” responsibility or transparency of the Truth? What is it that I did not really want to see but instead chose to cover the Truth with a film to dull the sight?” This is a powerful sharing of our sight and how we use it to not see the truth that is presented and reacted to, instead of receiving what there is to be felt and the responsibility of this, and the sharing that this is beautiful as it is never too late to change.
Modern medicine is fantastic for what it can do to repair our bodies! We can now replace or mend almost everything in our bodies that are either broken or just worn out. The brain is still on the list to conquer, but, it is the part that can hit the reset button and continue to choose the same lifestyle that we wore bodies out in the first place!
How much wiser to address the propensity for the lifestyle that led to illness, disease or the breakdown of our body, ahead of or alongside the medical help we are seeking. Our reset button would then instead of looping back into the same old groove, now have a chance of supporting the opportunity for change, healing and expansion we are being offered.
It is quite paradoxical really that we have advanced our medical procedures to such an extent that we have made quite complex or risky operations so commonplace and successful, yet have not advanced our selves in the realm of truly understanding why we needed the surgery and treatment in the first place.
I agree and yet it makes perfect sense once we realise that the intelligence which drives the technological advances is also responsible for creating the ills. Lack of honesty and deeply stubborn pride keep us pursuing solutions when we are not allowing ourselves to work with the full picture in the knowing that if we do we will be exposed.
An important point is highlighted here – when something becomes commonplace we stop asking why it has become so when this is exactly what we need to be doing.
I love what I have learned from the way Esoteric Healing and the Ageless Wisdom starts from the point that we are love, divine and perfect already, and anything that does not reflect that is a departure from that true essence. Looking at life from that angle, then regardless of how commonplace something gets, if it does not reflect the stupendousness that is our true nature, it is a strong indication that we need to stop and ask why.
Absolutely – and discussing around every meal table and with those we meet – or is entertainment of more seeming importance to us now?
I wonder how many of us that wear glasses wouldn’t have to if we were willing to look truthfully at what is going on in life. I started to need glasses when I kind of gave up on life and was drinking a lot of alcohol, which probably is not great for the eye sight either if the truth be known.
One of many beautiful blogs detailing an experience of searching in life and at some point realising the ‘home-coming’ is within us, that it is in connection with our inner most that we access the sense and purpose in life. Thank you, Roberta.
‘Catacombs of the mind’ having seen the catacombs in Rome years ago I am reminded of pockets of dead issues from our past that still haunt us today, things we haven’t dealt with or let go of, that prevent us from seeing life as it truly is.
Meeting Universal Medicine was such a powerful turning point for me in addressing a range of health conditions by being empowered to get to the root cause of them within me, all of which have had some unresolved emotional issue at their core. The more we are prepared to look within, the greater the opportunity we afford our selves to truly heal, evolve and return to our full glory. To me this is the central purpose of all our medicine.
All illness and disease has an energetic root cause; so often we don’t want to go there, we don’t want to reflect on the way we have lived that has contributed to our demise. Roberta is showing us here how beautiful, revelatory, and liberating the process can be. This is true medicine and true healing.
A brilliant example of treating the whole Roberta from the delicate mechanics & physicality of the eye to the exploration and understanding of choices new and old that cloud the power and depth of our inner-sight.
A common cold is given its name because it’s exactly that – common – but there is always a preciseness to the timing and lead up to getting a cold, and this is an opportunity for us to look at what’s being communicated by our physical body and health, e.g. have we been exhausting ourselves?
And it isn’t hard. As you say Susie could it be that having a cold is simply a result of ‘exhausting ourselves’? The bit we resist is being honest with ourselves because in that we have to take responsibility for the situations we find ourselves in… a minor illness, a divisive society, disharmonious relationships…
Dig deeper and there is so much to see in life and about life, that sticking to the surface we can easily miss if we choose to.
So true Rachel – as we allow ourselves to see more so too will we be shown more.
Oh how we love to skate and skim over everything. Collectively we all like to keep things super light, we have an aversion to going deeper with pretty much everything. We have set our society up, so as to avoid anything that could possibly take us into ourselves. We are so heavily invested in recreation, distraction, numbing, zoning out, we simply refuse to go deeper, lest we unearth something that we don’t want to find. But in avoiding the potential pain that sits within us, we are also avoiding the absolute gold that lies there too. And the gold is unlimited, whereas the pain is a pin prick in comparison.
I love what you share, Alexis, ‘But in avoiding the potential pain that sits within us, we are also avoiding the absolute gold that lies there too.’ The pin prick of pain is well worth feeling and discarding to reach the unlimited gold that is all ours to connect to.
Having worn glasses since I was 11 I know that I have long been in reaction to what I see and have been told that I am developing cataracts so it is great to read of how you were willing to go beneath the seeming ‘normality’ of needing this surgery because it has become commonplace in older people and take responsibility for the choices you have made that have led to this point. There need be no inevitability to surgery if we are willing to heal the hurts that have led to our reactions and shutting down what is there to be seen.
Thank you Roberta for a great sharing, so much being offered to you for clear insight and sight, I feel for me I have clouded over much of my sight so as not to see and feel the ugliness all around me, and by so doing I also closed off the offerings that were available to help clear so much of the past beliefs that were dulling my insight. I am asking myself what is it that i am not wanting to see?
How often do we avert our eyes because we don’t know how to handle what we see in the world? I deeply appreciate all that Universal Medicine has shown me in how to stay connected to myself, observe the world around me, to connect to a steady, clear energy within me and not absorb the troubles that abound.
A great depth and understanding is gained when we feel deeper into our healing journey within our bodies.
In this case the eyes and learning to understand how we are to use them ,Thanks Roberta for sharing your journey of healing and coming to an understanding through this process . Also we have to appreciate how far we have come in surgery to assist to clear the way.
This makes so much sense. We have so many facets to us even if we just limit it to our experiences and relationship with life on a strictly temporal day to day basis. And then there is the energetic, multidimensional aspect which brings in a whole load of other factors that we can consider.
It is a great blessing when any of us chooses to share the insights along the way, because “with that they inspire, and show that there is another way” and greater possibilities for those who are ready to see.
Thank you Roberta for this fantastic blog and the insight you have given me into what happens to our eyes when we make a choice to not see all that is there to be seen. It makes perfect sense that our eyes get affected through the way we see and experience life.
Thank you – it such a testimony to conventional and esoteric medicine when the two work hand in hand together. And especially when it is in regard to condition that is accepted as being ‘just one of the things that happen’. The body is amazing at showing us what needs healing and imagine if all illness and disease was approached in this way; the medical professionals may then feel less demand and expectations put upon them ‘to fix’ everyone. And how empowering and responsible it is for the individual too 🙂
“It seems that I was well entrenched in the mind where gathered information had been downloaded from another source outside of myself, resulting in persistent foggy choices still being made while endeavouring to search those recesses for the answers. ” – Roberta, I found this sentence to be a profound one because it explains on an energetic level how when we are looking for answers from others outside of us that do not have as their source a connection to soul it inevitably results in a circulation of astral energy (from our spirit, not our souls) that can really tend to keep us feeling unclear or unsure (hence the foggy choices) of ourselves. This shows how the astral forces keep us away from the truth that is so easy to access if we align with our inner heart. The times that I have made decisions that strongly felt like they came from my body resulted in a much simpler, clear, and supportive outcome in my life, without complication.
Thank you for sharing your insights on what is behind the development of cataracts. I have had to ponder the same things as my eye sight has deteriorated in the last couple of years. It feels like an essential part of the healing to nominate what the underlying cause is.
This way of looking at the physical issues of our body, and in fact every aspect of life, and letting it prompt an expansion of understanding, awareness and healing is one of the wonderful gifts of inspiration I have gained from Universal Medicine.
It sounds preposterous to say – until you experience it and realise you can experience it at any time – that we are surrounded by love and can let that love in and be part of it at any time. There are no emotions or thoughts associated with it, just a confirmation who we truly are in the form of a feeling.
How much are we willing to see in life? The eyes like any part of the body can be affected by this choice – for it is a choice we make. No different to wearing glasses or losing our hearing – which can be another sign that we may be resisting seeing or hearing the truth or the full truth. I have worn glasses since a young age and I wonder how much of this is from me being as sensitive as I am and reacting to what I see rather than allowing myself to see what is there to be seen and knowing that I have the capacity to handle it.
Acceptance of truth does mean acceptance of more responsibility – could this be why we struggle to embrace Truth completely for we think that the responsibility that comes with it binds us rather than liberates us?
So much is offered to us in every moments reflection, if we choose not to receive this we must use a force to do so, and this is not in harmony with our true nature and will therefore, over time, manifest a physical illness.
Why are we so good at making a rod for our own back when in every moment we have the opportunity to be more.
I love the pondering offered here. It is so enriching to pick up and consider it further. A great example of how we could choose to observe and reflect on any and all areas of our life.
I really like this Richard and feel the truth in your words. However in my experience, especially when I am with kids, whilst they naturally feel hurt by injustice they are quite often looking out at how they have been affected by others’ lack of integrity and love, rarely do they look inward and objectively see where they have caused that same hurt to others through their own lack of consideration. This is where as an adult I have to step in to support them to feel and to see what is going on for them that they would cause such hurt to another and register it as such.
This is the future of our medicine, a way that honours the body’s need for physical support coupled with the ability to feel the root cause behind the behaviours, attitudes and beliefs that we govern our selves by, both good and bad, that compromises our well being and results in the need for medical intervention.
Beautifully said Rowena – it is the marriage of the Esoteric and Conventional Medicine that is our best support all around!
Every ‘stop’ moment can be a moment well used to reflect on the life we live and how we can embrace others, love, relationships, joy and opportunities presented to us more.
I often am in resistance to what is being clearly being seen and felt and I find your sharings with us all inspiring to up my commitment to seeing and feeling everything.
Having a willingness to see that there maybe more to understand about the removal of cataracts, or any other operation for that matter, really is a step towards ones own true healing, as there is always more at play than simply the physical pain or discomfort that has led to the problem occurring in the first place.
Absolutely Sandra, I’ve found the pain is never just from the physical or the surgery, it will always have an energetic component and sense.
How accurate is the statement we never appreciate what we have and take it for granted until it is gone? Cataract replacement surgery allows us an opportunity to see life and assess how we were living or chose to treat it as a pit stop and carry on.
So true and then we can often sit and wallow in the hurt. What has been offered here is the lesson learnt and the new beginnings that are already in motion.
Our medicine advances at an incredible rate, enabling us to tackle more and more diseases and malfunctions of the body. Where we seemed to be lacking is in looking under the bonnet a bit more, to examine the beliefs, ideals, images and self worth issues we are running our bodies on. Thank you Roberta for showing us the real value to looking deeper within and understanding what your choices have been that have resulted in the need for surgery. Powerful healing indeed.
Most of us avoid looking more deeply into what life is about and in that avoidance our relationship with life stays rather stagnant. However when we start to actively engage with life, life kicks into gear and then we’re up and running and we realise that we were always in a two way relationship with life and its stagnation was simply mirroring our own lack of involvement.
It is easy to dismiss physical ailments as being due to the ‘ravages of time’ or simply old age, but when we consider that our bodies are a reflection of every single choice we have ever made, we cannot ignore that our choices are what lead to our good health and ill health.
Yes, those ailments are not pre-destined. When we change how we live those ailments can be much less disruptive or may not happen at all.
What a rich gift of reflection and insights. I love how deep you take the concept of ‘seeing’, and how beautifully you show its relationship with acceptance and responsibility.
Sometimes our choices take quite a few years to manifest in the body with a serious illness, but that does not mean that the body isn’t speaking with us, there are always immediate messages, but they may be so subtle it is easy to choose to ignore them. In fact we know before we choose.
This blog raises a great question – do we ourselves settle for having polluted thoughts, or only accept clarity as a standard?
When we have an operation of any kind it is our responsibility to look at the deeper energetic aspects of why we needed it in the first place and learn to change our ways so as it doesn’t just reoccur in an never changing cycle.
Could cataracts be the mind’s permanent way of obscuring from us what it doesn’t want us to see, so it can put up its feet up and rest while it replays old memories?
Every day so many people go through cataract surgery but to deeply reflect from this through the body is gold as Life is so much more than what our eyes can see.
I’ve been pondering lately the thought: so many just want to wake up and the world is beautiful. We know it could be this beautiful but it is not. So in the process of wanting to shut out what is not good, there is a disconnection with committing with Life and in this reaction we are left behind in the universal movement of evolution, our own choice to. The truth is in wanting to remain in this comfort of non-Truth life seemingly rewards us, the relative ease in recognition and the temporal gifts, but the constant tension of missing ourselves is constant and our body will loudly complain.
In one way we do our selves a disservice by making operations like this routine procedures, in and out of hospital before we know it, never a moment taken to stop and ponder on the real ‘why’ and ‘how’ has this occurred. What an incredible journey of self examination you have shared with us Roberta, one that shows us that there is so much more to uncover, identify and heal within us along side the part of our bodies in need of help.
I was speaking to an eye surgeon recently and he was explaining how in America, laser correction for short sightedness was pretty common. As with all things medical, in the main, we just want the issues to be corrected so that we can carry on living as we have lived without asking ourselves if that livingness has contributed to the conditions we suffer from. To have examples like Roberta’s here, of asking those questions, of sharing her pondering, of sharing her experiences and of her learning is of huge service because for anyone ready to open up to those deeper levels of life blogs such as these can ignite inspiration and encouragement to ask the same, to grow and to learn.
I love the way you capture a very common attitude with that phrase Gill “taking away the offending part” it’s actually amusing in its ridiculousness now that I know in my own body we cannot isolate anything from the whole.
I realise through your sharing here Roberta that there’s a possibility I don’t keep myself abreast of the news reports because I don’t deep down want to see the actual state of the world AKA a way to avoid the responsibility that is there to be taken on behalf of us all. Thank you
Many of us would happily pay a specialist to tell where we are going wrong and what to focus on to ensure we grow progress and enrich our life. Yet there is no specialist more precise to our personal unfolding than our own Soul and what is reflected via the particles of our own body. It would be very wise to commit to an attentive and honouring interraction with our body so that we can start to make the most of our relationship with this very precious ally.
Our bodies are indeed our greatest allies and yet have no investment whatsoever in our health.
Inspiring Roberta! If only we all looked at our conventional and allied health medicine treatments from an energetic point of view as well would we feel an expansion in the body and thus the mind.
I can see I will need to come back and read this article a few times. We can clearly restrict what our eyes receive either consciously or unconsciously.
The metaphor ‘catacombs of the mind’ is very accurate, as being trapped in our heads can absolutely feel like a prison. It’s amazing what you’ve shared about how you changed this.
Just simply sitting in the awe of the fact that articles like this exist and that this kind of conversation is happening.
Im totally with you in that Otto, and absolutely marvelling at the depth of understanding of what I too have just read.
Not something that can be said of 99.9% of the content that exists on the internet or social media. We have this astonishing tool that opens up the possibility of universal communication and yet what do we use it for….?
How many people get surgery and then just enjoy the fix-it of the process without taking it to the deep reflections that you have Roberta? And then one can ask the same of us all because way, way, way before our bodies need surgery we are given plenty of stop moments and warnings.
“blindly following the ideals” – this has been much of my life and there is still so much to see as to how blind these alignments can make me.
‘Have we all not only been lied to, but have we in fact been responsible for the demand or development of the lies due to not being ready to accept responsibility or transparency of the Truth?’ We can get so caught up in feeling like victims of life but rarely do we ask ourselves how we have held the whole thing up as it is. The truth is we all know the truth about love (we wouldn’t be so hurt if we didn’t) and yet we negate this inner knowing to fit in and not rock the boat. We have placed our own comfort at the expense of truth. It doesn’t take much to shine a light on the lies, simply a sense of who we are in the authority of all that brings without investments in outcomes or in needing to be liked.
Yes in this way we maximise the healing and growth that is being offered to us by our bodies.
I love the reference here to catacombs of the mind for to me this describes very well how we can be lost in our loveless minds for a long time without the connection with our soul and that this will produce a very different life than when we are with our soul.
Have we gotten to the point with all the amazing things modern medicine can fix and repair, to treat our bodies like any other machine and replace bits we have worn out from abuse or neglect and never question the cause? The main culprit usually is, the person that greets you in the mirror every morning!
I love knowing that every ailment has its beginning with energy first, because when we can accept our part in its creation, there is a learning and an acceptance of our responsibility to learn and grow, if this is what we choose or we can just remain blind and say it was the sun, the water the microwave etc.
Life and its ailments are like bungy jumping! We may have had people encouraging us to jump, but it is always our choice to take the last step.
Humanity is seemingly oblivious to the fact that energy is what sets every-thing in motion and is currently thrashing around in the tail end of events. And thrash around we will until we start to take the energetic factor of every-thing into account.
The way you described the balcony view brings incredible vision and sight from the words on the page to me as the reader of your words… 20/20 vision is indeed at your finger-tips Roberta. Exquisite description of the sight of the ‘gift from God from His heavenly presence’.
There are several things that I am learning to do in my ever expanding relationship with my body: pay attention to my body’s messages both good and bad with a keen ear and then read between the lines as to why and what my body is clearing out for me. When I take it back to bare bones so to speak, right at the core is a stubborn choice to ignore and disregard the truth in some form or manner and the more accurately I can pinpoint the exact nature of the denial, the deeper the healing goes.
‘Could it be that there is a deeper understanding behind this condition?’ Could it be that there is a deeper understanding behind all conditions and it is up to us to read how we have been living that has caused our ailments to manifest?
I have had poor eyesight since the day I was born this lifetime, being very sort sighted in my right eye and somewhat short sighted in my left eye. Life was a blur until I was 8 when I was tested and given glasses. (That’s my excuse for why I don’t remember faces – everyone was a blur when I was small and my brain’s facial recognition function didn’t develop properly). Poor sight can also refer to poor senses because until recently I was not aware of my ability to sense people through energy. Light is on the electromagnetic spectrum so light is energy, but I am talking about finer vibrations that we cannot see but can feel in our bodies.
This sharing is so fitting because the mind absolutely obscures how we see and perceive the world – like a cataract it blocks out reality.
“Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?” we think of many things that could cause our eyes to deteriorate or have a different vision, but when do we ever consider the way we view life as affecting our eyes?
It’s common to see surgery as a ‘fix-it’ option to illness and disease when how we live both before and particularly afterwards is truly what determines the state of our body going forwards. A classic example is getting a liver transplant for alcohol related liver problems; it’s our choices after which bring the body back to vitality or replace the poison.
The clarity that comes when we remove the filters in our mind of what we have chosen to see is like seeing the world as the child we all started this life as.
I’m surprised most of us walking this planet don’t have, or are developing cataracts by the way we are all walking around not truly seeing what is going on around us or only seeing what we want to see with the important stuff conveniently blurring into the background.
It’s a good point this kevmchardy and a springboard for deep appreciation of our bodies for what they do tolerate and cope with.
Nothing that presents in our body just happens to us… this has been a huge lesson in my life and one that has supported more responsibility and understanding of how I have lived shows in my body. There are so many ailments that we could look back on with more awareness which would take a load of the already overburdened medical system.
When our elders write of their experiences and share their wisdom, I learn so much, thank you Roberta for sharing your wisdom around your eyes. I feel like they are love letters to humanity. Oh and you are such a natural exquisite storyteller.
It is wise counsel to ponder on what lies behind our ills, because if we only treat the symptoms without addressing the true underlying cause, how we are choosing to live, the messages will just keep on coming back through our bodies in the form of illness and disease.
Sounds like you received a real treat on your balcony – a gift from the Heavens.
The eyes are very symbolic of what we are willing to see and or recieve in vision and if we do react to this then it will affect our vision. I too have worn glasses since I was a teenager, but never really stopped to look at what exactly I was reacting to – there is so much in the world that we know innately is not how is ‘should’ be and yet we are not from this world so everything we feel that is not how it ‘should’ is really because where we come from all this that we see would not be. But then again why react to it – why not just accept what is so out of place and accept that we have a mess to clean up? Maybe there in lies part of the answer in allowing myself to see the full truth and know my part in it too.
Everything is everything and nothing is nothing. So there is a meaning to everything that happens to us, even a cataract operation! Thank you Roberta for reminding us to keep being open to what the body and the universe are constantly communicating to us.
“Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?”, such a great question Roberta and I would say that most of us are in an almost permanent state of reaction, even when we think we’re relaxed. And the reason that I say that is because looking back at the times in my life when I used to think that I was relaxed, it was often after I had exercised or whilst I was smoking, or whilst I was over eating in front of the telly but in all of these instances, I was in reaction to something, otherwise I wouldn’t have sought the relief that I did, through the activities that I’ve just named.
‘an opportunity to heal old ways of seeing life and people that have not been true and whole.’ It is great when we can have opportunities like this to review our thought processes and to allow greater observation
Thank you so much Roberta, I received quite a healing reading your blog, I could relate to the not wanting to see life as it is, and also felt the blessing of the rainbow you described. Life is truly about constant new beginnings, no matter where we find ourselves the hand of God is always reaching out offering us another chance to heal ourselves and return to the majesty of the soul.
Beautifully shared Melinda – life is full of opportunities to heal and return to the majesty of the soul.
Being willing to see the games of the human spirit calls for us to first honestly look at our own games and comforts. I love what you offer Roberta, that a thickening/pollution blocks true sight – “the inner signs of what we feel and sense intuitively, perhaps even to the point of ‘not wanting to see’ and perhaps ‘harbouring pictures of how one would prefer life to be”. I love it because it shows that when we are willing to name those pictures, to want to see truth, the thinning and cleaning away begins – and THIS posture of clarity is then what instead gets taken into future lives to build on.
This line just jumped out at me this morning ‘Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?’ and I am sure for a good reason. We have this perception that once your eyes go then that’s it but twice in my life, I have had times where my eyes have corrected themselves to the point of not needing glasses and then going back to needing them again. And when you think of how many people need glasses these days, it does get you pondering on how are people dealing with life.
I love this title – showing the depths of cold, damp and deadness we can sink to when we let our minds – our lower minds – run the show
We are extremely blessed with conventional medicine performing operations today that would have been unheard of in the past and not that long ago but while medicine and surgery have come a long way and have become the norm what about the gift the condition is bringing up in the body for us to look at? Seeing energy first and then the physicality is busting the irresponsibility with which I have been living to see the truth of what I am being offered with so that I can acknowledge and appreciate another way of living.
20 million cataract surgeries were performed in 2017 worldwide. That’s a lot of people that have had their true sight returned.
That is very true.
This is a great point to look deeper but even once we look and understand more deeply there can still be a lot to clear from the past and even for other purposes, so cataracts may persist for a while yet.
It is totally insane that we still go through life not looking more deeply at why we get such ailments\illness and disease and how most of us put it down to genes or bad luck. When we look at life honestly and how we live it, it really isn’t that hard to trace (with a little help sometimes) why we end up where we are or what is showing us where we have strayed from our true path.
I find it so interesting how the conditions in the body literally symbolise the choices we have made i.e. not see (be aware) through the eyes, lack of self nurturing – breast cancer, not letting love in or out – heart disease and so on. Our bodies are so amazing at communicating to us what is needed if we would but honestly listen to them.
Most people are missing this energetic factor in their equation. Therefore it is very inspiring what you offer in your awesome blog Roberta – it is an invitation to open up to the fact that energy works through us!
What I can feel is how seeing might be about receiving/accepting and its confirmation, and how we ourselves interfere with this very basic simple posture.
Roberta, you are indeed a student of life.
So many of us react to a medical diagnosis by contracting and hardening and yet it is often an unbridled opportunity for surrender and expansion.
Agreed Alexis, a totally new way to approach life when we embrace or at least take note of what we are being shown through our bodies.
If we didn’t automatically categorise everything into ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but instead saw everything as a God given opportunity to evolve then life would be a very different experience for us all.
There is much we can consider with regards to how our physical body can show us how we’ve been living life energetically speaking.
I would argue that the vast majority of the population would give a dozen different reasons for why you developed cataracts, but so very few would consider and/or be open to what you have found. But I’m in that very small minority. What I got from this is the great responsibility I have to live my life in a particular way that serves and supports me best.
Great to appreciate that there is so much more than just physical healing – that there can be on offer a new way of seeing and receiving in this case.
I have been thinking about similar things recently, the way I interact with people and how i see them. My whole life I held the idea that I am a nice person and always saw the good in people. But as I sit here and reflect on this idea – I question how true this really is. Do I really see the beauty in people, or is it just an ideal of what this “beauty” is? Perhaps my idea of what this means actually muddles up the true sight and the true beauty that lies within each and every single one of us. Perhaps, this ideal that I hold is there just as a form of protection because if I see the beauty on a superficial level, I can excuse any foul behaviour – however, if I connect to the true beauty of a human being and see them behaving out of character, would I really allow this behaviour or would I address it, because it is painful to see another divine being acting so ungodly?
Taking into account the energetic factor behind any illness or disease really does bring a much deeper level of understanding and healing to the fore. Without it we are left wondering why.
Joshua if we were to ‘take into account the energetic factor’ behind life itself imagine the ‘deeper level of understanding and healing’ that would be brought ‘to the fore’. Energy precedes matter, therefore looking behind an event, situation, occurrence or relationship etc at the energy that set it in motion would support us all immeasurably in our level of understanding and the more that we are able to understand something, the more choice we are able to exercise in regards to whether or not we want that thing to re-occur or not. So much of the chaos that we see around us, is as a result of our self-imposed ignorance and reluctance to look deeper.
Imagine if I chose to consider the truth that ‘energy precedes matter’ in every aspect/movement in my life. My inspiration for the day Alexis.
Yes, I agree Joshua, we can learn so much about ourselves from an illness or disease – a gift to deeply appreciate but on the other hand we can be left pondering on why it was there in the first place but most don’t really care so long as they can go back to how they were living.
‘There had only been a few events in this life that I had knowingly recoiled from in fear, trepidation or disbelief’ The things that horrify me are when I learn about what humans are prepared to inflict on animals – that’s bad enough, but what they are prepared to do to their fellow humans. There is such evil in the world and often we feel helpless because corruption, murder, slavery etc are operated on such a huge scale. Deliberately manufactured revolutions that lead to long term wars and keep a country unstable for years, all in the name of profiteering and control. It may be centuries before people are sensitive enough to realise how we are all connected and that harming any one of us is harming all of us, but it will happen eventually.
Yes, I too found myself horrified by the way people behave with each other and I am sure there are more layers to discover, but I realise I actually need to start accepting it and choosing to be the change I want to see in the world. If not me then who right?
I went on the same fruitless excursion looking for a meaning to life, knowing that there was more, all of which was a distraction and deviation from the truth. I love how you share that you knew what was true and that with the support of Natalie Benhayon you were able to take your understanding deeper.
It will be a great day when we as a race of people don’t need these signs or reminders to seek the truth for we will be living truth, brought up on truth and never hiding from the truth with whatever we use to formulate what is not truth and that which keeps us from truth will then be part of the truth.
From what you have so wisely shared Roberta, it is beginning to make so much sense that when we make the choice to not see what is right in front of us and all around us over a long period of time, that our eyes will be affected in some way. And cataracts of course are one of these ways where slowly our vision begins to cloud over, diminishing our sight. So, making the choice to allow ourselves to truly see all that is being presented to us, even if it is not comfortable, will ensure our eyes can work the way they have been beautifully designed to do, so we can see the world and all that it is offering with absolute clarity.
It is a gift beyond words to see life clearly, to really take a look at what is going on. It would be amazing if everyone having one of those cataract operations took the opportunity to look deeper, to take the time to reflect on life, and choose to take the blinkers off and see the truth for a change.
Most of humanity has something or another going on with their health. If we all chose to be as inquisitive about what is being shown to us by our own bodies, not only would we not have such a struggling health system, but we could also be so much more empowered and wise through the greater awareness and understanding such insights offer.
This is so true Golnaz.
How many of those illnesses, were caused by our own choices and that we knew the possible side effects it could cause to our bodies?
No surgery is commonplace and without significance. It supports us to reflect on and appreciate the miracles of modern medicine as blessings. Before undergoing planned major dental procedure a wise friend and dentist shared her counsel with me. She reflected on the importance of what was about to happen, emphasized the need to appreciate foundations I had put into place that made the procedure possible. We saw the procedure as a deep clearing one that would prepare the body for its next cycle. She offered guidance on how to prepare the body before the procedure, by eating light food and gently exercising and to avoid having the procedure the day before flying off on holiday. Post procedure ushers in a period of repose, tenderly allowing the body to heal. This loving counsel confirmed the deeply loving way I am to relate to my body, dental procedure and life.
I love the advice offered Kehinde. It would be super supportive if this was included as part of those preparatory chats that are provided for informing you about your impending surgery or procedure.
Deeply moving when truth is revealed and we see clearly as if for the first time or when something we’ve always known energetically, though not fully trusted is finally confirmed.
Thank you, Roberta, for writing this, it gives so much to ponder on especially Natalie’s words of ‘not wanting to see’ and perhaps ‘harbouring pictures of how one would prefer life to be’.
When we take our senses for granted, are we applying the filters of life we have excepted?
Everything offers us an opportunity to go deeper into the body and feel what is true. You have exposed the antics of the mind and the extensive caverns that exist for us all to sift through and challenge. God’s language is so simple yet offers more than words can describe. A beautiful confirmation of the responsibility you have taken in your enquiries around the patterns and behaviours that have influenced the way you have been living. Thank you Roberta.
‘A beautiful confirmation of the responsibility you have taken in your enquiries around the patterns and behaviours that have influenced the way you have been living.’ Beautifully expressed Christine and a responsibility that awaits us all on our return.
It’s true we like to dump our health issues on Time as this provides a convenient excuse to avoid looking too deeply at why our bodies get sick or fail to work properly. The Universal Medicine Healing Modalities empower us to dig out the root causes behind our ills and understand that they are not a result of time or age, but our own self inflicted reactions, limitations and disregarding choices.
Plato, the great philosopher once wrote that “…in every man there is an eye of the soul, which…is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.” And even today we are still learning the wisdom of his words.
A great quote Shami. The physical eye does not see clearly, it is forever clouded by how we are: our ideals and beliefs, get in the way. To see truth we must by-pass the physical eye altogether and connect to soul.
This is a beautiful quote. I have never heard it said like this before but yes I feel I haven’t quite fathomed the depth of what it means given I am not truly connected to my soul yet, but I do get a sense of the preciousness of it.
It is said, ‘the eyes are the window to the soul’ and for the one connected to their soul, all can be seen, revealed and reflected to another, so that they may connect to the soul within too… beautiful.
A wonderful pondering article on the deeper reasons behind our physical conditions. Much healing has definitely taken place here, for its supportive of not just yourself but everyone that reads this article.
There is the wonderful quote from Serge Benhayon that in the earlier blog ‘We see what we want to see’ is referenced: “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon). As you say when we are in reaction we’re filtering what we chose to see.
I love how you refer to your surgery as a ‘clearing and healing opportunity’. This is rarely spoke in the world of medicine but even in common complementary circles, where everything medicine is avoided. There is no avoiding anything in true healing and medicine and surgery is very much a part of what we can access to support.
There is no-thing that can not be used to support us in our healing. Life is an opportunity to heal.
Looking back now at my many years of being a benevolent ‘nice’ person, I can see the hidden evil in what I did. In some ways it would have been less damaging for me to have spent those years being outwardly abusive, because at least the people that I abused would have known that they were being abused. Whereas when I wielded my benevolent sword on others, most remained unaware of my silent attack. Basically if the energy that impulses something does not originate from love then it will harm.
I agree Alexis, we just don’t know how much harm we do with ‘nice’ and therefore defend it. Yet under the cover of ‘nice’ terrible things have happened. It is time to be willing to see the rot, for only then can we do something about it.
“I did not have the understanding that the energy of all expression flows through us constantly, notwithstanding whether these energies were seen to be immoral or benevolent”, it’s taken me a long time to understand that benevolence and immorality are two flavours of the same energy. That energy being the pranic consciousness. This explains why we can’t seem to ever clear up so many of the world’s problems, because we’re using the same energy to try and sort the problems out, as created the problems in the first place. It’s like trying to clean a dirty wall with a dirty sponge, you can’t possibly hope to clear something up, by using the same energy as that with which you’re trying to clear. And yet this is what we are all desperately trying to do.
I love the questioning, inner conversation and insights shared in this blog. A wonderfully inspiring reminder of how we could be similarly inquisitive about whatever we are facing, observing what is being reflected and keep deepening our understanding.
I am trying out new multifocal contact lenses and I have realized that on days where there were things I didn’t want to see and feel my eyes are much dryer and the contacts are painful in my eyes. And yet on days where I am open to receive everything there is (and not want to have the world my way) there are no problems at all with the contacts and I am still able to read in the evening.
Great question ‘Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?’
Cataracts are very common these days but who makes the space to consider what they are about and how come they have them ? Any health condition is an opportunity to discover more about ourselves and a chance to change old ways for new. Thank you for sharing your experience with cataracts. It makes perfect sense to me and inspires me to look further at my own reasons for not seeing so well as I might and how much I overlook because I want to avoid the responsibility that is being presented.
A beautiful blog Roberta and much you have shared I can relate to! I have just had laser eye surgery myself, not to change a cataract problem but to correct my short sight. I am aware that I have lived life with rose tinted glasses, filtering out all that I did not want to see and not wanting to cope with the rawness of feeling the word as it really is. I am aware that I also have chosen to not read life, to not look at life clearly and simply accept it for what it is. This is now changing, which is why I was ready for the surgery. It is astounding what modern medicine can do and with the support of the esoteric, knowing underneath what is the root cause means much can change, much can heal and re-empowerment is the consequence.
Amazing insights you share here Roberta and there is so much to be gained from looking deeper into why things happen rather than just going for the solution or the fix to the medical problem.
The two should always be hand in hand – the medical assistance, but equally the opportunity to look at things more deeply… the energy behind what is happening.
Seeing and looking and receiving, our eyes see what our brains want them to see. When I take my glasses off I can feel more than I can see, it is very interesting to observe the difference.
A beautiful sharing on truly opening ones eyes and the responsibility and insight this brings. The magical constellations of God and the gift from claiming ones sight and understanding and the surgical procedures possible. Inspirational and lots to ponder on for oneself.
That’s inspiring Doug, having worn glasses from a very young age because I didn’t want to ‘ see’ what was going on in my close family.
“I see with more clarity now the games of the human spirit and it seems there is no end to the ingenuity or the insidious desires that these forces inflict on the unsuspecting masses.” Great to express and share this – a fabulous blog – thankyou Roberta
Roberta, I so love this blog. I have been pondering similar questions as I consider getting laser eye surgery to correct the short-sightedness I came in with. From birth, my left eye has been almost blind and I encountered a surgeon recently who confirmed (despite my belief to the contrary), that this is something that can be corrected. I have been left asking what as a woman I have been blind to, what I haven’t wanted to see in the world, what I haven’t wanted to accept about it or about myself. Whilst I don’t have complete clarity on this yet, I know that by simply being sincere in wanting the answers I will be ready to embrace life with full sight and awareness once again when I have them.
It is something that we will all be looking at in the future, the energetic or deeper reason we get illness and disease or conditions such as cataracts. With this understanding we won’t have to keep circling the sun making the same mistakes time after time.
Yes and I feel that when we do this we will actually start to address the real causes and therefore the rise in illness and disease.
It’s fascinating to read your understanding of having cataracts and approach to the surgery – thank you for sharing Roberta.
It is wonderful to read the science behind our eyes and our perception. We have the ability to receive life through our eyes if we are willing to accept all we see rather than project.
“the opportunity of being given another chance to look at life more clearly and from a different perspective with a greater sense of seeing beyond the obvious temporal view.” Thank you for this in-sight into reading a deeper meaning of cataracts.
The sadness which I now embrace that can come up in me sometimes is not from seeing and accepting we have been lied to but the fact that I along with the masses demanded the lie… I chose not to listen, speak up or move in a way that was true to me and everyone so I alongside many, many others contributed to the lies – it is very simple. In each moment I either align and connect to God or I choose the opposing force, an energy that does not serve but actually diminishes who we truly are.
The greatest lies told, are the ones we convinced our self that they are true. And, our eyes verify the lie!
Thank you for sharing your Magic of God moment that reflected your new found willingness to see the Truth.
It is a constant unfolding to see and accept what can come through another… a constant unfolding of the love there is for me.
Very inspiring blog Roberta calling me to contemplate and look closely within myself at that which I may be choosing not to see in my self, my life and relationships.
What a wonderful sharing. I am further inspired to see all there is to see and feel; to not shut down to the horrors of the world but be the one who sees all there is to see so that we can be guided back to the love that is beneath all the darkness – like the rainbow beneath the giant cloud.
Well said Karin, count me in. If there are more of us willing to see the truth of what there is to see then we will be less reactive and take things less personally.
‘As I sit at my computer writing this blog with a new lens in each eye I am astounded at this gift of newly gained in-sight.’ An amazing healing Roberta showing that when we are ready all is so beautifully revealed.
Roberta I so enjoyed reading your blog – there is so much to realize isn’t there! When we are willing to really see and read the energy around us. It must have been amazing to see that rainbow on the ocean and feel its import. It feels like you have shed lifetimes with those cataracts. Thankyou for sharing this.
“Had I been lost in a consciousness of a certain indoctrination, blindly following the ideals and belief systems of a wayward humanity?” A superb question that applies to all of us regardless of our physical ailments and one that when pondered on alongside our standard medical treatments enables us to connect to the deeper reasons behind our ills. And thus we are given very tangible ways to renounce the mindsets that keep us blind to our divine power and ultimate responsibility.
Beautiful sharing Roberta that there is more to an illness that meets the eye than the physical symptoms.
I love the Magic of God moment offered for you here Roberta. The dark cloud symbolic of all that had come to mask your vision, the rainbow symbolic of what is possible with reawakened vision.
‘Had I been viewing life in reaction rather than response?’ what a great question and I would say that for most of us the answer is ‘reaction’ but the tricky part is that most of us don’t realise that we’re in reaction. Something happens to us, often when we’re young and we react to that circumstance and basically stay in reaction for the rest of our lives. Our reactionary state sets up a very jaundiced way of looking out at the world but because it’s ‘normal’ to us we don’t question it.
Roberta I love your description ‘student of life’. The more we engage with Life, the more Life engages with us until we realise that Life and us are one and the same. We are in a constant relationship with Life, we are lovingly bound within its living tapestry.
Roberta what your sharing highlights to me is how, when it comes to understanding life, most of us are only ever ‘skimming the surface’. In fact many of us are not even prepared to go as deeply as ‘skimming the surface’, we actively avoid understanding life on any level other than using it as a way to avoid looking at it in any depth at all. Temporary avoidance is the best that we can do as permanently putting off is not an option.
When we focus on the physical outer world too much we give a big pressure to our eyes.
many of us walk with glasses because without we do not see well. So how come so many people are not seeing well?
What is the message to us individual and as a whole?
On the moment we just make the inner decisions to see more we will see more.
That can be unpleasant but powerful at the same time.
Roberta, this is so beautiful to feel and hear your understanding of what it is to truly see, and how we’ve allowed ourselves to be blinded in what we see because it doesn’t fit a picture we have … and then to be offered the gift to see again and to understand that seeing and the healing offered in it, that is amazing and to be cherished, and thank you for sharing it with us.
Illness is not a compounding of grievous mistakes but an opportunity to lift off another layer that stands between you and living in the fiery light of your Soul. It’s time we saw it for what it truly is.
Yes, once we perceive illness as the consequence of past choices and “an opportunity to lift off another layer that stands between you and living in the fiery light of your Soul” then true healing will occur.
Indeed ‘once we perceive ‘everything’ as a consequence of past choices because that’s all any of us are standing on really, is the temporary landing pad of every choice that we’ve made up until that very point. But that point is constantly being renewed as we are constantly making choices. And for those of us whose circumstances never seem to change then this is simply a reflection of the fact that we keep making the same choices. Life is like an impartial spectator, it’s there to offer us an unbiased reflection.
When willing to look what is our part in a physical condition, like you did Roberta, the healing that occurs can be complete. Whereas I witnessed with a close friend how her brand new lens got clobbered within 6 months because nothing had changed for her in the way she looked at life, the world and herself. Conditions don’t just come with age, it is always our body communicating something to us.
Yes, we are offered remarkable opportunities to heal and grow, whether we accept the opportunities and make the most of them is entirely up to us, but if we ignore them and go on as before, as your friend did Monika, the condition can often return in a more severe form.
So true, Rosemary, we get the opportunities, but can choose to ignore them. And sometimes people come up with reasons like being too old to change, and this may sound valuable I have seen people that society considers old (80) make the choice to heal and grow.
So true Monika, one is never too old and it is never too late to make change and to see/feel things differently.
The realisations on offer when we are dealing with physical healing brings deep healing from long held beliefs, ideals and brings clarity and awareness if embraced.
How precious, delicate and powerful are our eyes? And what you’ve shared Roberta is awesome to ponder on. Our body doesn’t hold back in revealing our choices and every detail is communicated through our body in how we respond and receive life.
Roberta, you are right to address the common belief that physical problems simply come with age. There is always a message in them about the way we have been living.
When we consider the energetic part of our illnesses we can heal so much more than when we just have the issue fixed.
Yes Lieke, when we have an illness/disease ‘fixed’ so to speak the underlying issue remains unresolved and if left in the unresolved state will most often re-emerge either in the same illness/disease or in another form as the body continues to call to us to become aware of the actual underlying causes and make the necessary changes.
There is much more to us than meets the eye (pun intended) and what if limiting our perception to just the physical reality of what we can see and thus cutting off the bigger picture at play is also an illness that has to be cleared through our eyes at some point?
We rely on our sight and what we see right in front of us, often ignoring what is going on energetically underneath that. What a great opportunity you now have – and have offered to us all – to review your relationship with your sight, and your willingness to ‘see’ and feel what is beyond and behind what is visually presented to us.
When we use our sight to verify what we feel are we, not Superman, seeing that which is hidden, naturally?
I love that you have not just seen your cataract removal as an operation to repair your eyes but an opportunity to truly open your eyes and see what you have not wanted to see for many lives. This is an amazing healing and one I can feel you have lovingly embraced.
Could our eye health be down to how we receive and accept life or reject it and want/demand for what we see to be different? Two years ago I legally had to wear glasses as my eyes where -1.50, last week I had them checked and both were -0.25. I put this down to accepting more of life over these two years and being more willing to see and accept the energies at play throughout life.
This is so interesting Leigh and I agree, I feel the health of our eyes is related to how we choose to receive and respond to life, and also how we choose to care and love our body. The condition and health of every part of our body are like a record of how we have chosen to live. The size, shape, and condition of each part of our body is a form of communication and expression.
Taking responsibility for my choices has helped bring in more acceptance of conditions and my body shape. It cuts out blaming myself or the world.
That is something you hardly ever hear: eyesight getting better. I agree being willing to see literally everything in the world and to see energy first before the physical will contribute greatly to the health of our eyes.
If we could see energy before we could see anything else, then we would see that love is the foundation for life but our human mind finds this hard to believe because our eyes see so much appalling suffering in the world that it seems inconceivable that there could be more love than anything else. And it’s an example of the huge difference between feeling and seeing, which is why most people would react strongly to the fact that love exists under atrocities but nonetheless it’s true to say that love is never not there, it’s just that we’ve chosen to cover it up with that which is not love.
How beautifully written. Seeing energy first allows us to see indeed that love is our foundation and also when another energy is at play and love can’t be seen or felt. Opening up to both brings more reality in our world, which also supports us to stand up for things that are not true.
The power of esoteric and western medicines combined for all to read and feel – great sharing.