by Anon.
Some time ago I had a diagnosis of a fungal infection on my skin. This started out as a red mark, a rash on one of my breasts, which I initially thought may have been something to do with breast cancer or an early warning sign of it and this really scared me. I went for a check-up and was told it was a ringworm, a common fungal infection, which I could have contracted from touching animals, and then passing it from my fingers or nails onto my skin. The doctor gave me cream to help it clear, which it did.
Then about a month later, I noticed a few red dots around my hips, something that could have potentially been there for over a year, as I have seen them before, but dismissed them. I thought it was just from my skin reacting to the metal of the buttons on the inside of my jeans, as they would come and go, and be in roughly the same place where the inside of the buttons touched my skin. Then these dots got worse and spread all over my hips, up the inside of my ribs, just under where my arms hang down the side of the body, onto my tummy, under and onto my chest, and then parts of my back.
When I noticed how bad this was, I decided to call the doctor to book an appointment, and at the suggestion of my partner, asked if they had an appointment for the same day.
I got an appointment for a few hours later and was told by the doctor it was a common fungal skin infection, and that we all have fungi on our skin and it can affect us at any time. I was given a medicated shower gel to help clear the infection.
Being a student of The Livingness I knew there was a deeper energetic root cause to this, and it was reflecting something about the way I was choosing to live and I wanted to know what it was. I could use the creams to clear up the infection and continue living my life as it was, or I could go deeper into the energy behind the infection, and address the root cause of this, and work on clearing that from my body and my life.
As with everything in life, there is always an energy behind it. Initially I thought it was dampness in my body as I equated a fungal infection to damp, but I wanted to be absolutely clear and sought support from an Esoteric practitioner.
With support, I came to the understanding that energetically a fungal infection is a deep disregard for myself and my body. Basically, I was poisoning myself from the inside out.
We often assume we poison ourselves by the food or drink we consume, but, have we ever considered we can poison ourselves from the inside out by taking on others emotions, indulging in emotions, living in any way that is not in our true light, for me this played out in the choice of deep disregard.
This was a HUGE wake up call for me! Like a WOW!
For me, to disregard simply means to ignore.
Now by no means am I out of this, nor have I cleared the energetic root cause fully from my body, but the combination of the energetic truth and the support of western medicine is allowing me to looking at it from a whole, not in parts. Not just looking at the marks on my skin, and passing it off as an infection, but looking at my part in it, how I have chosen or am choosing to live. Western Medicine looks at the end result, the marks, the rash and deals with that very well; the Esoteric asks me to look at the energetic root cause from the inside out, to look at how I have been living, the choices I make, and the energy I have been choosing that has led to this infection.
I have found it quite confronting to look at the underlying cause of this condition.
Energetically, the hips are where we store ideals and beliefs, so I have been looking at how I use other people’s beliefs or the beliefs I have taken on, pictures that are not true, to dismiss and disregard myself, to fight my truth, ignore my body, ignore my feelings and give my power away to other people. How I look outside myself to others and the world for answers and choose to live my life by other people’s ideals and beliefs, reactions or responses, living in fight or flight, instead of living my absolute truth, solidness and strength, in my power and knowing.
For me, the not listening to myself, to my truth, plays out a bit like a teacher asking a child in the class a question about the child that only she knows the absolute truth to, then turning their back on that child, ignoring her, not listening to what she is saying, even if she is shouting and jumping up and down, as she is so clear and knows the answer, (of course she would, as it’s about her), but the teacher turns their back on the child and looks outward to the whole class for the answer, none of whom truly know because it’s not about them. That’s what I do to myself, to my truth and my body.
Then there are my ribs, which for me is about my light, constantly fighting it, sabotaging it, and the energy I am choosing to live in, there’s more here for me to become aware of and that will unfold in time. I also feel there is a deep sadness here that is to be cleared.
My breasts for me are about not living my fullness as a woman, lack of self-nurturing, not being and living the delicateness, the nurturing tender woman I am first with myself and then with others, sometimes I still go back to that little girl. When I look back, I’ve always tried to out-do or prove myself to others. I also hide my chest, my sexy, gorgeous body, my curves, and myself by dressing in a way that hides all this, to avoid unwanted sexual energy or being looked at. If I were to allow myself to express in full I’d dress in sexy tight clothes, showing off my body and not holding back an ounce of sexiness or hiding my divine curves.
Then there is my tummy and my back, where the rash spread. For me my tummy is to do with my lack of accepting the divine truth that I am a Son of God, and not accepting my light, how amazing I am, the fact I bring so much to the world, and reflect so many amazing qualities, it may also be me fighting my light, fighting the love that I am, and the love that is all around me, from myself and other people. It’s interesting as my tummy has for years been constantly bloated and gassy, nothing I am given helps, so there is more from an energetic perspective to look at here, definitely around not accepting something – for me it feels like love.
As it spread onto my back, over my shoulder blades, I looked at me fighting my own light, my truth again, all the angelic qualities I bring, yet do not live. And also the hardness and protection I live in, the fight or flight mode coming in. It’s an exhausting way to live, constantly changing myself, my energy depending on others responses or reactions, trying to work out how people will be with me, instead of holding myself and the quality of my energy no matter what, living from my tenderness, no matter who I am with or where I am.
This is all new to me, and something that’s going to unfold over time, in its own time, and with that my deepening understanding and learning from it.
But I do know that without the support of the Esoteric I could have simply had a cream from the doctors, which is fine and very much needed, a very self-loving choice to make, but dismissed the opportunity to go much deeper and see the energy that’s playing out behind the infection. But now with my willingness, and openness to go there, and ask for the support, I have an opportunity to really look at, feel and heal the deep level of disregard I live with in many areas of my life.
With deep thanks and appreciation to Esoteric Medicine in combination with Western Medicine that enables me to heal not only the physical aspects of the condition, but also the root cause and my way of living.
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Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
Esoteric Medicine in combination with Western Medicine is the only way to go.
This is what is on offer as a student of The Way of The Livingness, to become more aware of the energy that is passing through us and surrounding us. This allows for a far greater responsibility in the way we live, rather than just seeing life from a surface perspective there is an understanding that there is so much more to life. Life is very rich and it is absolutely fascinating discovering the depth and quality of the richness on offer to everyone.
The oh so many ways we disregard our body not only through food and drink but by thoughts and the way we live. I can really relate to this right now. Not only is it so unloving to disregard ourselves but so unproductive as well, for if we disregard ourselves how can we hold another in regard or be there to truly support another.
“But I do know that without the support of the Esoteric I could have simply had a cream from the doctors, which is fine and very much needed, a very self-loving choice to make, but dismissed the opportunity to go much deeper and see the energy that’s playing out behind the infection. ” I love how Esoteric Medicine supports us to go to the root of an illness. When we get a superficial ‘cure’ there’s every chance it will return, getting underneath the symptoms enables us to heal.
I’ve had between my toes crack horribly in the last few months. Nothing would clear it. I was told it was down to too much sugar. Sure enough, I stopped the sugar and it cleared up. But I did not read it energetically which this blog has reminded me of. Thank you.
Because we are more than just flesh and bone and have a being, understanding how we treat both is important to our health, as is understanding how each affects the other. If I am hard with my body then that can compromise my ability to express the love I am, and if I hold back that love for some reason then my body also feels the consequences.
Thank you Anon for so clearly illustrating through your sharing how “…. we can poison ourselves from the inside out by taking on others emotions, indulging in emotions, living in any way that is not in our true light ….” as to consider this is truly significant in the understanding of what can be the underlying cause of an illness.
Could this be why we need stimulants like coffee because we are exhausted from constantly calibrating ourselves to fit in with other people rather than holding ourselves no matter what is presented?
It is really important to look at the deeper energetic reason of an illness, disease or accident etc as this is when true healing begins.
‘…have we ever considered we can poison ourselves from the inside out by taking on others emotions, indulging in emotions, living in any way that is not in our true light…’ We don’t often associate poisoning ourselves this way, but I can feel for myself just how much doing this affects my body in a negative way.
There is a deeper understanding to all illnesses, so it is a great question to be asking… ‘what does this mean, what else is happening as well as the physical illness?’
Our body is truly amazing and has all the wisdom within, just waiting for us to deeply surrender and connect to our inner heart where truth is found. Our body is indeed a marker of truth. We just need to get ourselves out of the way.
Thank you for writing this blog anonymous there is much in what you say and it makes sense to me that we should look into our part in our illness or dis-ease while also accepting the amazing medicine that is on offer; rather than just going to the doctor and asking to be ‘fixed’.
Staying really open to the many angles of learning on offer in every situation we encounter makes life so rich. The confines of my brain never serve me as well as the awareness of my whole body intelligence.
When we get sick, or have a condition of any kind, a mix of curiousity and taking responsibility opens us up to learning more about life, cause and effect and the impact of our choices. This is super interesting and empowering.
For a long time I have overlooked the brilliance and wisdom of our bodies. And the more I open up to this the more I marvel at the way our bodies communicate with us – consistent, patient, resourceful – they are like the wisest, most loving teacher you could imagine.
Yes our bodies are truly amazing. They give us small messages and when we ignore them the messages get louder, resulting in illness. The body is always trying to heal itself. It’s up to us to listen and act on the information it gives us.
How often do we actually ask ‘what does it mean’ when we get ill or have an accident? Or do we just ask how do I get rid of this without reading what it means?
Not reading what it means only clears away a part of the issue but never the whole thing root n’ all.
Attending Universal Medicine presentations opened me up to viewing illness in this way. As a former nurse it was always about trying to get rid of symptoms. Nothing was learned about their meaning energetically – or looking at the part of the body that was affected.
To ask – what does this sickness mean – this is a great step to take in considering that everything matters, every small behaviour pattern, every nuance of speech, every turn of the body, note all matters and produces the conditions we have with our body.
So much is missed with only a single understanding of health from medicine. It is bringing a truly holistic approach, made possible with an understanding of universal medicine that we can begin to understand the true causes of our ills and heal them on all levels.
The journey you share here Anon is both inspiring and informative to support others to look further than the surface as to why one has a health issue, which can also be applied to any issue we may have.
It’s funny … or not so funny how many things that are a complete imbalance of the body are seen as common or normal ‘I got an appointment for a few hours later and was told by the doctor it was a common fungal skin infection, and that we all have fungi on our skin and it can affect us at any time’ this is the same as lumps in breasts or painful periods all of which are happening because the body is saying something is not right. The thing is when we are told it is ‘common’ or ‘normal’ it is kind of a ticket or get out clause that has been given to carry on as we have been and not investigate the deeper root of the cause or accept something more for ourselves. We definitely need to change this consciousness.
Very true Vicky – it’s the wrong way around when there is an acceptance of an illness or disease because it has become so common that it is now considered normal. It only goes to show that more people are ill not less.
I have noticed lately that I am much more likely to get bloated from things other than food. I am exploring this to see if I can pin point thoughts and/or activities that lead to this.
I have noticed this also Matilda. I used to feel bloated and have other symptoms such as a blocked nose from eating certain foods but now these things happen even without eating those foods. Great to explore what our bodies are showing us.
Taking responsibility for our health, our part in the equation of healing and getting the medical treatment needed is where it’s at, otherwise it feels like the issue may go underground and pop up elsewhere.
We can take it at surface level, and get the help to address that, but we can also go underneath and understand what has led us there, and what we are being shown by our bodies in how we live and how we are, no blame, just a willingness to see and be where we are and to notice what truly supports us.
Very cool to be reminded of the ‘no blame’. When I am critical with myself my curiosity and learning is restricted. Life is super interesting and there is so much on offer for all of us.
What this shares is the absolute connection to how we live in our bodies and the level of vitality we have. How we move, what we think and how we treat our bodies and how such bodies respond is a science that needs way more attention.
Going along with socially accepted by silent rules of ignoring what I feel – pffft! No thanks anymore.
Having this understanding that there is a deeper energetic ill to address has redefined what it means for me to heal from a condition. Previously the physical would be addressed but I wouldn’t feel fully well once ‘healthy’ again. Sometimes after an Esoteric Healing session the physical symptoms get worse! but because the energy is no longer rooted in my body it can be released in a greater amount (and it goes all out!) but I feel amazing afterward.
‘…have we ever considered we can poison ourselves from the inside out by taking on others emotions, indulging in emotions, living in any way that is not in our true light, for me this played out in the choice of deep disregard.’ Now this is what I’m working on currently because I’m just absorbing other people’s issues through sympathy and not seeing karma at work and how it offers correction so harmony can be restored and healing.
Probably the most valuable and sensitive instrument known to man – the human body.
And probably the one we use with the most disdain and least care. In fact I notice that the way I treat my body directly relates to the way I treat everyone and everything else.
We don’t often think of emotional energy as poison that can enter our bodies no different to food or drink but they can definitely be ingested into our bodies and cause all sorts of problems if we allow it.
We miss so much if we just see the symptom, when we look at the root cause we find out so so much more about ourselves.
If we always had a medicine which make the symptoms go away we would never find the answers underneath our ill health – such is our search for new medicine and technology rather than true answers.
Revealing the gift in an ill or disease is our opportunity to clear what is not of us from our body and to learn how it came to be so that we can live less of what we are not.
This blog has expanded understanding about how we can choose to bring a deeper and enriched awareness of the many existing layers we are and how we can support not only our own true healing but also the healing in others. Thank you Anon for sharing your deeply personal experience and wisdom.
We’re often very secretive about our conditions and illnesses. The reasons are many and varied. Shame, embarrassment, guilt, regret, dishonesty, pride, fear, sadness, despondency, despair, panic, frustration, nervousness, anxiety, anger, resentment and bitterness are all emotions that can accompany being unwell and all of these emotions also contribute to ill health. If we were able to change our attitude to being unwell then we would be able to change the way that we feel about being unwell. If we could see illness as a forum for learning, a medium through which we could bring change into our lives, an opportunity to open up and share more with others, a time to become more tender and honouring with ourselves, a time to bring more love into our lives and allow more love out, a time to deepen our relationship with ourselves and others, then through that process we would be able to address the feelings that are associated with being what we currently term as ‘being unwell’. Perhaps in the process we would also change our description of ‘being unwell’ to something like ‘an opportunity to change’.
As a health practitioner, I LOVE skin diseases – now let me explain what I mean about this: When a condition involves the skin, you can see it and you can touch it and you can feel it – it is literally in your face (and often is – pun intended). This means that you can work with something and see how it develops or unfolds in front of you – you know where the condition is and you can see it. You can take pictures and see how the skin changes over time. So, as a practitioner when I go to treat or work with someone with a skin disease I explain how special this is – the body is clearly showing that something is out of balance and that the body is trying to restore balance (homeostasis) and get rid of something that does not belong in it. And so if our focus is simply to get rid of the symptoms on the skin (and not support the body in its arduous task of bringing balance), we risk driving the condition deeper in the body and can turn it into a condition that is more hidden and harder to treat. This is actually an old school naturopathic philosophy that is very much in line with the Ageless Wisdom and its approach to illness and disease and that rings much truth to me. Whilst the condition is on the skin, we can support the body with what it is trying to do, and this will support the true healing which in turn, once balance and homeostasis is achieved, will no longer need to use the skin as its organ for detox and balance – at this point the symptoms can resolve as true healing has happened. How cool is this!?
I love how we can look at illness and disease of any kind and see it as the body doing its best to clear something within that does not belong, something that is not natural. And so it is not about trying to remove symptoms only – to truly address the problem we want the symptoms to go away because of the root condition having been treated and healed. This is the depth we have an opportunity to take with every single condition, illness and disease that we encounter.
Great question “What does it mean to have a fungal infection” we can ask this question of anything – when we ask the question and open to the answer we are on are way to true healing.
Curiosity and a willingness to listen are great attributes – apply this to our relationship with our bodies and we are really onto something!
Absolutely, well said Ariana – we cannot make choice to stay the same, they either are supporting us to heal and let go or to bring more harm in holding on.
True healing empowers us to make deeply loving shifts in the way we live each day, effortlessly. Nothing has empowered this in me to the degree that the Universal Medicine Healing Modalities have done, very real and solid miracles that to this day still astound me.
Spot on Rowena, every illness and condition is an opportunity to change something in our lives that has been waiting to be changed for a while in order to allow us our natural growth and evolution.
‘living from my tenderness’ – this is a great motto and as things are at the moment a great way to live – reflecting something into the world that is an alternative to the hardness, disconnection and cruelty.
What a different relationship we build with illness and our bodies when we recognise our symptoms as a clearing of an ill energy that we have chosen to live, and therefore what an immense blessing it is to be clearing it from our bodies.
When an archer’s bow is left with the bowstring left in tension, it will over time change the shape of the bow. What happens to our body when we live a life of self-imposed force from outside sources that we hold within us? Do we become the strung bow?
When we do choose to look beneath the surface, we discover so much more about our selves than we ever realised was there. The love and beauty that is locked inside is totally awesome. All it takes is a bit of esoteric healing to bring it to the fore, pushing out as it does so all that does not belong to it.
The key ingredients in good health are: a good dose of self-responsibility, heaps of self-respect, a superb Esoteric Practitioner to call upon and a positive relationship with your doctor. Mix well altogether and administer on a regular basis and enjoy the results!
The body is amazing at giving us signs large or small to show us that something is out of balance. For instance, I get a sore toe if I eat too much sugar, it never fails or I would get a headache after eating something too sweet. The key is to heed these warnings and to stop overriding the messages.
Beautiful how our body speaks to us all the time – all we need to do is learn the language and then respond by altering the quality of our inner world to align to our body’s immense intelligence.
Wake up calls, revelations or aha moments can be a very much needed part of our journey; a stop moment or turning point to guide us on our way to return to the love that we are.
Yes. And I know that when I am open and willing to explore these moments, there is a depth to life that is so inspiring and unfathomably deep.
Understanding that emotions and thoughts can be just as toxic, if not more so, than the substances we consume is an eye opener in itself, but then being offered a way to clear these toxins from our bodies with the support of the Esoteric Healing Modalities is even more incredible.
“living in fight or flight, instead of living my absolute truth, solidness and strength, in my power and knowing.” I can relate to this line. It takes time to get to know ourselves and realise we can respond to life instead of feeling what is happening around us is bigger than we are.
I’m very inspired to look at all my ailments and go deeper with asking myself, ok what is my body showing me about how I am living?
It’s such an amazing opportunity once we are aware of what is offered to us to listen more closely isn’t it. Our body holds all of the answers which we seek.
And there is such a difference between feeling something deeply, and emotionally reacting to it.
The body simply has so much to communicate. We just need to stop and listen…. and respond.
After a while of working with the body in this way, it can lead to a greater sensitivity about how reading the messages offered by our body, the deepening our understanding and awareness, and the choice itself of dropping some old hurts/beliefs/strategies, are a form of medicine and can start to shift what is being experienced in the body.
I am finding this to be the case with an issue in my body that needs surgery. While I am waiting for a surgery procedure some time in the future, I am also deepening my connection with my body and healing the non-physical aspects connected with what is being shown up by my body. Astounding how at times you can keep peeling back layers and layers.
Every part of our body represents such a beautiful aspect of our expression. What a huge shift it is to begin to appreciate the depth of this expression and choose to start letting it all out, with such a gorgeous grace and delicacy, such an important part of our health and our well being.
Amazing potential of western medicine and esoteric healing to support us in truly healing our ill ways.
To consider and embrace that we are more than our symptoms offers the opportunity for healing at the root cause, the source of the symptoms.
There is so much to explore within us, in relation to our health, well being and purpose in this world and the Esoteric Healing Modalities are an incredible support that take us straight in to the real action of why we get ill and how we can support our selves through the process.
Truly, the Esoteric Healing Modalities are an incredible support to get to the bottom of any illness or problem. I find that bringing it back to my choices and how I have lived and understanding the illness as a correction for that, takes out the emotion and feeling a victim or poor me. Instead I can gently nurture myself through the health issue, feeling more steady and reassured. Understanding is a huge healing in itself.
Realising that we can poison ourselves with emotions, and even our thoughts was a huge revelation for me, but makes total sense. We all know how wretched we can feel if/when we let our emotions get the better of us, and how clear and bright we are when we don’t let them. Living in a way that supports us to stay steady is a great way to prevent the body from being poisoned by toxic emotions.
When we start to entertain negative thoughts our bodies can very quickly become heavy and thick with the emotion this stimulates. I often used to indulge in thoughts as a form of escape but if I ever catch myself doing this now the initial heaviness feels too horrible to take it any further and I find that by not paying the thought any heed, the energy of it isn’t allowed in.
As human beings we are constantly streaming energy through our bodies. One source of energy supports us immeasurably to move in a way that is in keeping with God and the other source of energy ensures that we stay out of step with God. Our movements then, in turn, dictate that we keep drawing in energy from the same energetic pool and so it goes. Humanity as a whole is out of step with God, hence the turmoil that we can see and feel all around us.
If you’ve got an itch, scratch it. But look beyond the itch and see why it’s there in the first place. Nice work on looking at the root of the issue.
Great way of putting it Nick. We can so easily stop at the satisfaction of scratching it without asking why and yet it is in this which we find the truth.
And scratch it with great care and respect. I have been so critical of myself in the past and it is very amazing to realise that this is a pattern that can be changed and that I can be gentle and honouring with myself.
“As with everything in life, there is always an energy behind it.” When we bring this immutable truth into the equation, our understanding of ill health, medicine and healing takes a quantum shift as we are empowered to embrace our own responsibility in the healing process, starting with the quality of our energetic health first.
Understanding that everything is energetic before anything else makes a lot of sense to me. It makes sense also that we learn to read energy, see it for what it is so that we can live life with much deeper awareness of what’s going on.
In being more aware that everything is energetic I have been supported to explore it by considering my body more. It is only through the body that we can understand energy. It is interesting how I have felt energy coming towards me and energy that is flowing through, energy that is stuck and energy being released. My body has been a marker of all of this and the more aware of energy I become the more appreciative I have become that I can feel it.
‘living from my tenderness, no matter who I am with or where I am.’ This for me is really important, I am a very tender woman but I can go into rushing and being hard if something needs doing quickly, rather than staying with this tenderness no matter what, this is definitely worth working on,
This rings true for me as a man too – I can quickly let go of those things which I do to support myself in this getting caught in the feeling of having to get things done.
The more we express our tenderness, the moments we slip become that much more obvious.
Sometimes we just need to be patient in our development and the answer to what we have been searching for will come, in its own time and pace and when we have let go of our attachment to the outcome.
What does it mean to live a body that constantly communicates with us and yet it’s signals are largely ignored by the vast majority? When we’re in the thick of things, driven by pressures of work and family, we routinely forget self and don’t hear these messages until they can’t be ignored. To adopt a way and pace of life that keeps us connected to our body, creates space that allows us to listen and respond.
Have you ever read the fine print on hazardous products? The simple instructions about avoiding skin contact by wearing gloves? This simple ignored caution caused me to absorb a poison which started a process in my liver to not control the iron in my blood, that caused my skin to react to sunlight and cause painful small blisters and my favourite phrase, skin fragility, where if you scrape your skin the top layer of skin comes off. It is like if a scab comes off, more pain. I was like a vampire for two years avoiding the sun. It took two years to find the root cause and reduce the iron in my body, all from a moment of disregard, for myself.
To be able to gently dig beneath any symptom, big or small, is the power offered by Esoteric Medicine. So often we take something at face value and don’t even consider looking deeper and asking why. I have found that asking why has revealed so much more to me than I ever thought was possible.
Being open to this line of questioning and having a developing relationship with our bodies offers us such clarity and wisdom when we make our choices.
Energetic truths are known by us all – the choice to stay in comfort is one we can all understand and relate to.
The level of communication as the rash spread to different areas of your body is to be truly appreciated as it shows how a number of different aspects of the way of living have affected you.
From some time to now I’m having dermathitis in some areas of my skin. After reading such an open sharing like this I feel ready to look at what’s really going on…it’s all about not living my light in full as a woman and the way my body has to show me the result of my choices. I appreciate its constant communication, the clarity and the willingness to clear all that doesn’t belongs to our natural state of being.
The reading you made about you – like an open book – and what you were experiencing in your body feels very inspiring to me. There is an enormous clarity and a willingness to see the deeper root of this fungal infection. Also a choice to opening up, trust and ask for help when was needed. A truly healing way to approach an illness. Thanks for sharing
Why do we wait for a condition to get worse before we sometimes seek medical advice? The body speaks, but we don’t listen until it shouts.
There are some conditions that give us a hint early of a potential problem, but without understanding, desire to question or check it out, it turns into something much worse. Responding to small signals, is the stage we often miss out.
Great point Ariana – ‘Then we can start to listen to our body before we get sick, which is a whole different way of living.’
Beautiful reflection, thanks Anon. It’s clear that observing the illnesses from that wider approach, allows us to address them from a greater understanding.
and it’s that understanding of how and why life is the way it is that we lack. Not only the reasons behind illness and disease but the reason behind life as a whole. And the reason why we are stumbling around in the dark is because we haven’t brought in the energetic factor. As Serge Benhayon has clearly outlined ‘everything is energy, therefore everything is because of energy’, so to leave out the energetic contribution to everything is to miss out a very vital component and explains very clearly why we’re simply not getting on top of so many aspects of life.
Food and what we eat can easily become the main focus when we are unhappy with ourselves. The mistake is made when we see losing weight as the fix all for everything else in our lives (speaking from experience).
Losing weight, gaining weight, getting bigger boobs, fuller lips, highlights, lowlights, longer eyelashes, firmer buttocks, bigger pecs, defined abs etc., change nothing whatsoever on the inside but I know from my days of dedicated gym workouts that the pursuit of them are in themselves an indication of what’s on the inside.
Our tendency is to want to rid ourselves of an outer problem, for example, weight gain, this is the fix the visible problem route, rather than dig deeper to look at what led to the weight gain in the first place. In a similar way when we stop smoking cigarettes (and this is great) it is only part of the answer, if we don’t also start to clear long held insecurities that led us to start smoking cigarettes.
The more I am prepared to go beyond what is seen on the surface (of our bodies and life) the richer and more inspiring everything is… there is so much more than our human existence and to be open to exploring this, brings a depth and understanding to life that makes so much sense.
It’s an important question to ask ourselves whenever something comes up with our health. “What does it mean for me?” and “what is this telling me about how I am living?” It’s only when we ask these kinds of questions are we open to what we may need to change.
“For me, to disregard simply means to ignore” One day this maybe diagnosed as an illness in its own right, particularly when we realize just how amazing it is to really honour our body by paying attention to the minutest of details and the appreciating the quality of vitality and health that arises when we do.
When we get ill or experience an illness or disease how often do we stop and ask what does it mean?…or do we only see it as an annoyance or problem that needs to be got rid of? Of course we want to get rid of painful or uncomfortable symptoms that is natural but can we go deeper than that to explore the why factor?
I deeply appreciate the combination of the esoteric with conventional medicine and in my experience to date they have made sense of the non-sense. I also feel I am a much more responsible patient for the doctors to treat.
I know from 20 years of clinical experience that it is a completely different experience to treat or support a client who is willing or committed to taking some responsibility for their health and wellbeing.
So true Lucy and this is why I reckon we are struggling as a race to heal illness and disease, we are leaving out one major aspect of healing and that is taking responsibility by at looking at healing from an energetic aspect as well and not just the physical aspect.
When we know how to read the body and look at the underlying causes to our symptoms and see how we have lived, that has caused our illnesses, it’s very empowering.
‘We often assume we poison ourselves by the food or drink we consume, but, have we ever considered…’ this is a profound point to make. Everything we do and thinks affects us and is something which is in and through our body. We choose the quality of this in what we choose to express.
Whenever the balance of the body is compromised by illness, it can come as a surprise and prompt us to appreciate its preciousness and realise how much we take it for granted.
Our bodies are amazing reflections of how we choose to live … if we honour their messages we are able to bring true healing to not only the physical aspect of our lives but also our mental, emotional and spiritual – and in the process be an inspiration to many others.
Yes, Paula, I agree. When we are unwell or have a condition of some sort, there is so much more on offer than the alleviation of symptoms… an opportunity to bring greater depth and understanding to our relationship with our body, others, life, everything.
The energetic cause of illness and dis-ease used to be taught a long time ago and it is something that needs to be brought back into Western Medicine – until we look at the energetic cause there is no true healing.
Wow, what an inspiring way to heal. If we all took this same approach, imagine how much we can learn from our illness, disease and infections. This is a great example of healing on a deeper level and willingness to take responsibility and listen to our body.
Understanding the areas of the body and what they energetically mean is a great support in being able to look past the physical illness and see how and why and where we may have contributed to it, and from there look at what we need to do to heal it from the inside out.
With the deepening level of understanding and care that I have embraced as a result of esoteric medicine, I have also ended up being more responsible and caring on the physical level, so I am more actively seeking out the support of conventional medicine.
Amazing Golnaz, I love how this works and the marriage of conventional medicine and esoteric medicine is what I call true healing.
Who would have thought for a minute that illnesses could show us so much and that if we take the time to dig a little deeper more would be revealed? I love the fact that the body does not just get sick because it feels like it but can show us what needs clearing and why.
Seeing illness and disease as the body’s way of healing is entirely logical and yet I always felt it was a punishment or my body letting me down. Turning it around, I now realise that the body has more love than my head chooses to remember and sometimes a correction is needed to maintain the fine balance of harmony, love and joy in the body.
I also used to have a negative attitude with my body when it got sick and felt like I was being punished. It was like being at war with my body. Giving the body a voice to what it is attempting to clear makes sense now when I look at it from a different perspective.
Credit to you anonymous, for your willingness to go there and look beyond applying surface creams. In my experience many are not ready to dig deeper “to see the energy playing out behind the infection”.
Western medicine and energetic knowledge is a perfect marriage which provides both sides of the equation for our health and wellbeing.
Our body is a resource that we have ignored for so long – and I am finding that within it lays a depth of love and understanding that far surpasses anything that my mind has thus far come up with.
Whist I understand this I realise that I still don’t choose to connect with or acknowledge in full the depth of love and understanding my body has to offer. It only takes a moment to connect with the exquisite stillness within and yet I realise that much of my movement still comes from a drive and a push to get things done that come from the head. Learning to be with my body, the recourse needed to access wisdom and love is an unfolding process but the more I read comments like yours Susan the more I am reminded to settle back into it and simply allow myself to be. Thank you.
As with anything that grows, when given the right conditions it will thrive, whether that’s in nature or within the body. So it’s always important to consider what we are feeding ourselves with both physically and energetically when we have any health problem that has taken a hold.
Consider it a blessing when Soul steps in and presents us with an ill-health condition as a prompt or stop that re-directs our focus inwards.
Taking on other people’s poison is indeed a deep disregard but when in our younger years are we told of this and in fact, we are encouraged to do the opposite and take on others woes – we are told to be sympathetic and have empathy and are looked upon strangely if we do not have those characteristics.
In the same way that fungus growing in the countryside needs specific conditions to grow, so does fungus in the body.
It’s interesting that mushrooms grow best in a compost that contains manure, and then we eat them!
Our body is constantly working hard to protect us from illness and disease but if we work against our body it will show us what is taking place. Our body is amazing at what it does and it is constantly healing without us consciously instructing it to and it just naturally heals. Our body is highly intelligent and it will let us know when we have been living in disregard.
What amazing insights you have gained from reading the messages offered by your body. It would be hugely supportive if, as well receiving the welcome medication for their symptoms, everyone was also assisted to read the messages their body is reflecting in the same way as is described here.
‘…have we ever considered we can poison ourselves from the inside out by taking on others emotions, indulging in emotions, living in any way that is not in our true light…’ Until I came across Universal Medicine I hadn’t been aware of this fact, but to me it makes sense as to why we might get ill. Being stressed, for example, we know it damages our health – so taking on emotions of others seems to follow this line of thinking.
This is something that we really need to educate on as living through and by the emotions is considered absolutely normal. We are simply not aware that when we take on the emotions of others, as well as indulging in our own, we create health issues for ourselves. It would make for interesting research as we begin to learn that specific emotions correspond to specific conditions in the body.
Yes, we do need to really feel what we do to our bodies when we get emotional. Being emotional is often championed as a good thing, but we need to develop awareness of our emotions without taking them on. I know my life has changed fundamentally by taking this approach.
Since being mindful of any reactions I may have had and being open to the awareness of the hurts that lie underneath them, my life has indeed fundamentally changed. Whilst some may say that without emotion there is no value in life, I would say that emotions have drained me – I have indulged in them, I have felt insecure as a consequence and whilst I may have had some highs (not too many of them to be honest) and a number of lows none of it has felt true or steady. In between the highs and lows I have checked out and numbed. Since letting go of my hurts and in saying no to emotions I have said yes to an even steadiness that connects me increasingly with truth with joy. To me, a much more preferable foundation than living by the tenuous instability of emotion.
And we can support others to not poison themselves in this way. Whenever we feel someone indulging or in reaction, we can gently offer an alternative response, that they focus on self and their part in it, rather than attach to an emotion or blame another. Whatever we experience is precious and an opportunity to deepen our understanding of self.
“Basically, I was poisoning myself from the inside out.” A powerful realization that supports us to see that simply the thoughts that we privately entertain about our selves can be pure poison for our bodies.
A timely blog Anon. For five days I have had a painful viral infection that presented on my skin and spread to different parts of my body, affecting my back, chest, shoulders and under and upper arms. Like you, I’m having to go beneath the surface to understand its causes as well as treat it directly with medication. Although the skin eruption appeared to come suddenly, these things rarely do, but are the tip of an iceberg becoming visible so we take notice and offer a precious opportunity to heal and deepen my relationship with self.
I love the example you offer here of how to observe the condition and work with it – to uncover its root cause and to become aware of the choices that have been made or uncover false ideals and beliefs that often we have dismissed or been in denial of.
Embracing our bodies’ sign posting and maximising the opportunity to deepen our understanding of ourselves and life, makes sense. The way we ignore and override our bodies is one aspect of our madness.
Embracing conventional medicine with the esoteric is a perfect combination to support the body. I don’t think twice about going to my doctor or nurse or taking my children to the medical practice these days if something shows up in the body that needs further investigation. They are there to help us and all we have to do is be open to what is offered.
Anon, you gave a great example of the teacher not listening to the child, I can feel how we do this to our bodies – they shout loud and clearly and often we ignore them and override the signals – such as tiredness, bloating, aches and pains. This article is a great reminder to listen to what our bodies are communicating.
Anon, I love your honesty and that you are willing to get to the root cause, this reminds that there is always a reason behind everything and something to learn.
There is always either the consciousness of God or the consciousness of Not God behind every-thing and life is about returning to a time where the consciousness of God is the leading impulse behind everything. And when the consciousness of God is the leading impulse behind everything then every-thing will be impulsed by God.
Why do we accept small things in our bodies that are not normal? We find/make-up reasons to justify the source and move on. I know most men are experts on accepting lots of small and big messages the body sends us! Why do we refuse to look at the causes of these messages constantly given to us, for they are the stepping stones in our evolution!
It feels to me that our eyes are permanently fixed on the horizon. We seem determined to keep moving what we perceive to be ‘forwards’. It takes something pretty major to actually stop us in our tracks but until that happens our wheels keep on mechanically turning until one of our wheels actually falls off.
We would need to face our own pride and ignorance to the fact that we are making choices which are perpetuating a way of living which is not it and therefore making us ill, despite the illusion that we feel it protects us in some way or keeps us comfortable in avoiding true responsibility.
The comfort that we feel is similar to the comfort that we feel when we’ve had a drink, tenuous at best and always in need of a top up.
It is a powerful question to ask our selves when we get sick “what is the meaning of it?” because every illness has a message that when heeded can enable us to expand our awareness and appreciation of the way our bodies constantly reflect the qualities we are choosing to live life with.
Approaching an illness in this way totally changes the standard perspective of what having an illness means – rather than something unfortunate to have happened to one needing to be ‘fixed’ as quickly as possible to being a gift from which one can learn so much about oneself and by doing so empower oneself..
It makes complete sense to me to look at the deeper reasons why we might have a fungal infection in the first place rather than just reaching for the canestan!
Energy first, as we are all energy we have to consider what energy we are aligned to so we can eliminate any ill energy, so what we do with conventional medicine has the best chance to weave its magic so we can truly heal.
There is meaning behind every-thing, how evolutionary would it be for all of us if we were to continually ask the question ‘what does it mean?’.
Wow so many insights from a thorough reading of every aspect of what your symptoms showed you. What an amazing example of embracing every single reflection offered by your body.
A sharing I can totally relate to. This kind of experience totally flips the idea of illness as ‘bad’ on its head for as you came to see symptoms always carry a huge opportunity for healing within.
Yes – rather than looking on at the symptoms with disgust we can observe them as a communication for shifting choices; in this way we can appreciate the healing on offer.
Showing how every single part of our body is an expression of something we are either living or not living. How cool would it be to have our anatomy and physiology classes include this.
Thank you for sharing your healing journey through the fungal infection that spread to so many different areas of your body. Being willing to look at the many areas of disregard is huge and it makes sense because if we are disregarding in one area of our life it is likely that other areas are affected as well.
What a great combination of medicine you have chosen to deal with both the physical and underlying symptoms of your infection. Sounds like you have a winning combination to me.
Combining Western Medicine and Esoteric Healing brings in a whole new level of care.
Anon, what you are sharing in this article makes absolute sense. I love that the esoteric looks deeper and isn’t just about removing the problem – but that there is an interest in learning why this infection is there and there is an understanding of the root cause and how we can change our behaviours and truly heal.
Any moment where I choose abuse over loving the body and placing the relationship with myself first, I poison the body and this can be carried out in different ways. Therefore I place myself in situations that need to be looked at so that I offer myself opportunities to heal the disharmony within my body.
There are times when we ignore what our bodies are telling us, and the body has to shout a bit louder to get our attention. Could be an over-reaction and a bit rash on its part?
I love how you describe disregard….”to ignore”. This has placed a deeper clarity on this word that I want to look at more deeply in my own life. What am I ignoring?
I am always surprised when people are not looking deeper to find out why they are ill. Everything has a root cause and it is our job to look after it because it is our life – our body and therefore no one else can do that for us. I also find it very important to get medical help as most of the time our body need this support – so yes I agree we need every aspect to heal.
Thank you for your depth of honesty Anon- it has helped me become more aware of aspects in my life where I too have been in disregard from the inside out, and now have a better understanding.
I love how the Esoteric approach helps us take a non-judgmental look at how we care for and treat ourselves, which can bring about a huge revelation in the quality of our self care that enables us to establish new levels of self love that debase many an ill condition from the inside out.
“We often assume we poison ourselves by the food or drink we consume”, the problem is, so many of us don’t. We don’t give the food and drink that we consume a second thought. Our thought process stops with the thought ‘I want it, I’ll have it’.
Highlighting the deep disregard so many have for their bodies which is impacting us all with the ever increasing rates of lifestyle related diseases like diabetes and cancer.
Our bodies are the gateway to God, disregard the body, disregard God.
“With support, I came to the understanding that energetically a fungal infection is a deep disregard for myself and my body. Basically, I was poisoning myself from the inside out”. And as possible it is for us to poison ourselves from the inside out, so too is it possible to honour ourselves from the inside out.
Bringing awareness to how we are living is an opportunity to look at the choices we make, to build on the ones that support us, and discard the ones that don’t.
An inspiring blog Anonymous. Being open to more than just treating a physical rash on your body and exploring the energetic truth underneath the symptoms offers a deep and true healing. The two (physical & energetic) go hand in hand together beautifully and offer getting to the root cause of symptoms not just a quick solution and fix..
When we limit something just to the physical we remove the possibility for all the revelations that are offered.
So much insight, information and guidance simply by not dismissing the wisdom offered by our own bodies – and of course every reflection is tailor-made exactly for us. Humanity has been cheating itself by not honouring the depth of awareness we have access to via this powerful connection.
When we combine the Esoteric Medicine approach to healing along with that of Western Medicine, then true healing occurs.
What I got from initially reading this is what a best friend our body, a true vehicle of expression, is. It is constantly showing us things we have ignored or overlooked that we need to pay attention to because it loves us and calls us to be who we truly are.
This is something I have really appreciated about Esoteric Medicine. Your clear out so much with a physical condition that can be energetically read and understood. Often I have healed far more when addressing both the physical AND energetic issue.
Doctors can only take their patients as deeply into energetic healing as they have taken themselves.
What we can learn when we understand the ways in which our bodies heal what we have let in is truly a gift – if we don’t get it first time round, eventually our bodies will show us again.
I love reading the energetic meanings with regards to the illnesses we get. Thank you for sharing.
Anonymous, a skin infection that spreads across our body is worrying and can be painful, but offers a stop moment to take stock of why it occurred. And as you say treatment requires a deep exploration of how we’ve been living as well as taking prescription medication to kill energetic and physical root of the infection. However uncomfortable, this is the body way to clear toxins (emotional and otherwise) and when it happens, we should give thanks. These conditions come to alert us of an inner imbalance.
To take the signs of our body seriously in whatever form they come and reflect upon them and feel into the deeper meaning of them is not only very helpful and brings more understanding but we deepen the relationship with our self and has us understand and love ourself more and more.
Years ago I picked up a fungal toenail infection, ostensibly from an unhygienic pedicure practice. Looking deeper however it was the poison of disregard around detail in my life. Thankyou for sharing about the deeper meaning of fungal infections Anon.
Thank you for years I had a fungal infection on particular toenails which had cleared but recently has made a reappearance and I can feel how I need to explore disregard with relation to the details of how I am living and even how I am with myself.
Wow! I can see how much more information and wisdom you discovered for yourself and your life by bringing the energetic awareness into the picture which would have completely been missed if you just used the cream to clear the condition and left it at that!
It’s always worth looking deeper for the energetic root cause of any symptom, that can’t always be cleared quickly. After all if we’ve taken years to live in a certain way that eventually manifests in a physical symptom, it’s unlikely to disappear overnight.
Thank you Anonymous for sharing. What you show is how Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine work so well together, and one without the other does not always support our true healing. Unless we understand the root cause of any illness however small it may seem our body will keep showing us that something is not true with the way we are living.
I love the opportunities that arise for healing when we are open to addressing the conditions the body shares with us. Yes it is easy to simply deal with the symptom, much more of a challenge to deal with the root cause but being open is really the hardest bit. I have found that once I am open and willing the rest can come quite naturally.
When we are willing to look at the underlying energetic root cause of any condition we offer ourselves understanding in regards to the choices we make. We are also open and willing to see ourselves as more than flesh and bones.
My goodness me Anon, your understanding of what’s behind your fungal infection is astounding and what really struck me is how, when you’ve methodically worked through everything that you have unearthed to deal with, then POW, you’re gonna be one almighty light to be reckoned with!
Without looking at the way in which we are living that has caused the illness or disease then we do not truly heal. The symptoms may disappear but unless we change our way essentially how we are with ourselves then a healing in truth has not occurred. This is taking responsibility for the conditions that show up in the body.
So true Caroline and so often the symptoms just change and come back as something else until that true point of healing is reached.
Our body is our best friend when it offers such clarity on how we choose to live and the changes we can make to truly heal.
I have had this similar thing happen to me, only it was little dots of fungus spread over my body. I realised how I had been absorbing my environment (I lived in a student home where lots of people were partying hard etc) trying to fit energetically in and thus having the dirt literally on my skin. Fitting in energetically I mean I wasn’t doing the partying or the drinking or the late nights, but I was when I spoke with them not claiming that and made myself the same as them. Interestingly enough it was only when I realised that part that the creams did work and could get on top of the fungus.
A wonderful blog, showing so clearly the correlation between what is going on in our body and what is going on in our lives; the two are definitely not separate. Here is where Esoteric Medicine is so very important as it offers the starting point for any healing – the root energetic cause of the condition – and then when combined with the amazing offerings of Western Medicine and our acceptance of the responsibility for how we are living, we have the most powerful prescription for the healing our body is asking for.
This is very inspiring, thank you, Anon, for sharing your process. I really get your analogy of a teacher asking a child a question in a classroom, and I can see how that can be the very attitude I take on when I try to understand what is going on with my body, what the root cause might be underneath what the body is physically presenting, and what I can feel there is how I resist surrendering.
Wow, what a powerful package of healing you have been delivered Anon through what most people would consider was a very annoying condition to experience! I agree, the combination of Esoteric and Western Medicine does offer the whole package of when it comes to understanding and treating the whole person’s health and well-being.
What an incredible journey under your skin you have taken us on Anon and a superb teaching that shows us just how much deeper we can go in the understanding and treatment of our illnesses. I too deeply appreciate the Esoteric Healing Modalities for supporting us to consider the other side to our discomforts and diseases to expose the energy at play behind our conditions, which then support all our orthodox treatments to the hilt.