264 thoughts on “Healing a catalogue of illnesses through making different choices”

1. When talking to people this seems to be a theme
   ‘Giving up and resigned to a life of suffering.’
   I meet so many people who have given up and withdrawn from life because they don’t feel that they can cope and the only way to cope is to withdraw within themselves. I have always read that humans are pack animals and so I wonder if when we isolate ourselves is this is the start of ill health when we contract away from life and everyone in it?

2. Looking at the family list I imagine there would be some who would agree with the hereditary excuse that those conditions are passed down the generations. So then, how did it skip you? luck? or choices? Our choices don’t get the attention they deserve when it comes to their influence on our health.

3. Julie when I was reading your list of ailments and illnesses, I was blown away by the degree of it impacting the body, there was some serious and painful conditions, your body went through. You posed some interesting questions, was the ‘body trying to tell you something’, absolutely!…

   And then to read about the list of choices you now go to, not only read lovingly for the body, but feels loving.
   What a testimony that we can live from a different place, and it is only a matter of a choice, to take responsibility for our selves or hand it to whoever, it is that simple.

4. Wow that’s some catalogue of illnesses, but many consider that normal these days. To reach a point where you feel more healthy than ever and have no prescription medicines is astounding. Making different lifestyle choices makes a massive difference. Thanks to Universal Medicine therapies I have been similarly blessed.

5. Julie this is so inspiring, for many people once a health condition starts they may believe they have to just ‘live with it’ while what you’re sharing is to ‘listen to it’ and make changes and adjustments to how we care for ourselves. Your list of illnesses shows just how much the body is affected by lack of care as it is by loving care.

   1. Melinda I agree many people just give up and give in to their health conditions and don’t even consider that there is another way. It only requires us to take one step at a time, otherwise we are setting us up to fail, just like dieting and exercising, they never work for ever. One loving step to and for your body is all it takes.

      1. Shushila, I agree with you and every comment written on this blog, life is all about choices and if we listen to our bodies and make choices that assist our bodies to come back to the flow of life then miracles happen all the time. It seems to me we have forgotten just how sensitive our bodies are, perhaps if we all treated our bodies like a Formula One racing car we would all see the difference this would make to our lives.

6. Dear Julie, I found your very clear article this morning and your catalogue of ill conditions represent the ailments people bring to their doctors everyday. And, as a therapist, this is what people bring to my treatment room. This is what fills up doctors’ surgeries and hospital emergency services. You are a testament that good health comes from loving choices and a way of life that everybody can make theirs if they so wish. No expensive, sophisticated medical treatment and or no airy-fairy spiritual cure but a practical approach to loving and being with our body and being. This simple but effective way of living that works is possible to everyone. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine need to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine for huge service to humanity!

   1. The thing is it is so simple and the choices don’t have to be major either. For me giving up gluten and dairy improved my health significantly; it took about three months but the benefits were worth it. Coffee took about four years because it was a gradual process but now I can’t stand the smell of brewed coffee, whereas ever since a young child I loved the smell. Every little change we make will register in the body and then benefits will be felt.

      It does make me wonder how many of those doctors appointments could be avoided if some small changes were implemented into our way of life.

   2. YES! I concur ‘Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine need to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine for huge service to humanity!’ ❤️

7. Your catalogue of ill conditions is astounding – but I suppose also quite ‘normal’ these days. And the turnaround is nothing short of miraculous.The marriage of conventional and Esoteric Medicine is indeed a match made in heaven for the benefit of all.

8. Working in care it’s is extremely rare to come across a client with just one condition. Everyone has multiple conditions these days and even those who don’t, need care. If we don’t listen to one condition the body is asking us to pay attention to, it doesn’t give up, it just keeps trying other ways to get our attention.

9. The list of conditions you cite Julie, all from one family, reveal very clearly how endemic illness and disease have become. The fact that you have busted this trend Julie, healing all of your own conditions just proves that when we commit to ourselves, let go of our issues and become more self-nurturing and accepting our vitality sky rockets and we can connect to who we are in full again.

   1. I agree with you michelle819 I have discovered for myself that by being more committed to taking great care of myself, I have more vitality in my 60’s than I had in say my 30’s. Which shows it’s never too late to make those loving choices.

10. What is so beautiful about getting weller is that I have the appetite for more learning, work and getting even weller; life opens up and/or my ‘sight’ (awareness) improves.

    1. Love this Matilda! Yes to getting weller – both in body and in relationship to life!

11. These days it’s not just one condition that people are dealing with, as you mentioned they often pile up over time. It can feel impossible to change at times under the weight of everything that’s going on but it’s not an overnight job. It’s a very real and very practical step by step process of making different choices. Just as being burdened was step by step.

    1. Great point Leigh. To understand that our decline into ill health is a step by step process of choices means we can accept and appreciate that the restoration of health is the same.

12. Wow Julie this is an incredible turn around to true health. Thank you for sharing.

13. It’s a truly amazing read, it confirms our choices cause illness and our choices heal illness. I also appreciated your dot list of ways you supported yourself, and this is one I’m still working on “Look at things I avoid dealing with i.e speaking up instead of holding back”. I have recently noticed that there are things I am avoiding instead of honouring how I feel and responding. Life is so simple when I can honour myself otherwise it’s a feeling of dragging things out, and this creates pressure on my body.

    1. Melinda I have at last been honest with myself about the times I hold back to keep the peace rather than speak up, if I speak up I know I will get the frosted how dare you go there attitude. This feeling I get from the other person has been a theme throughout my life and one that needs addressing.

14. This is a true miracle Julie.
    This blog also confirms how as a society, we have let our standards drop as to what we consider ‘healthy’.

15. The deep malaise that surrounds people in many towns and cities around the world is in itself a form of sickness. When life is lived without purpose, it resonates in our body, walk and expression. Learning to love and care for ourselves is our first responsibility and sets a standard that heals and inspires others.

16. Your second last paragraph, as a standard we all embrace, would transform our health service – it needs to be on every health promotion billboard in the world.

17. We often don’t feel how bad it is until exposed to other cultures and experience a different kind of normal where people still hold stillness and vibrancy in their bodies.

18. “For me, the improvements to my health have changed my life but I know there is more to come as my commitment and deepening relationship to myself is part of an ongoing process that is forever unfolding” …beautiful Julie. Having a never ending commitment to deepening and evolving, not just for ourselves, gives true purpose for living. Our reflection matters.

19. “As I consider myself typical of many men and women out there in the world, how can it be that we can have all these conditions and still think we are doing ok?” A good point Julie. Years ago our state of health as a nation was better than today. It is stated that after the war, despite rationing in the UK, our health in UK was the best ever. There was no sugar at that time….. Yet nowadays we say we are ‘well’ if we don’t have cancer or a major chronic illness.

20. It’s the body that leads us back to God and it is the body that is in constant communication with us, helping us, guiding us and supporting us back. The body never stops signposting us back, it is constantly pointing the way but we have done an absolutely masterful job at either drowning out what it’s saying or completely ignoring what it’s saying. Doctors in the future will be translating and deciphering what the body is saying so that people can get on track with the way back to God.

21. Every aspect of our health, be it good health or ill health offers us a detailed reflection of some aspect about how we’ve been living. If we were to become avid readers of our bodies reflections then this would make an immeasurable difference to our health.

22. Such an amazing turnaround. I know so many people on a core level are this, ‘Giving up and resigned to a life of suffering,’ and have physical ailments that do make life hard, but when you’re in ‘life is hard’ you don’t get to appreciate the amazing lessons being given to you. This isn’t to belittle serious illness in any way but I know for myself the lessons have been unless I got a serious diagnosis I was so stubborn I wasn’t willing to live another way. Through big illnesses of loved ones I’m learning that no matter what, there is always a beauty, a grandness to connect to that puts everything into a very humble but holding perspective.

23. The hands off approach to our own health has devastating effects on our own health and National Health Services. Taking responsibility, fixing when we can, often self generated health problems whilst also consulting medical practitioners when we can’t, ultimately lessens the drain on overstretched health service resources. We take care of self for everyone, not just ourselves.

    1. It is so important for us to take responsibility for our own health matters and adjust our lifestyle accordingly. Health services are over stretched, not helped by lifestyle diseases that – with a bit of tweaking – can result in major changes. Diabetes has been shown to improve if not disappear with a low carb diet, yet traditional dieticians have remonstrated with this obvious fact, to the point of taking down some doctors who have been helping patients to make such changes! Truth can be a bitter pill to swallow if you’re invested in outdated ways.

       1. And what is the responsibility of government? We have to ask ourselves what is really going on when most western economies actively promote products and lifestyles that seriously damage health and harm people in huge numbers. These are not loving societies, but ones that control and manipulate the ‘health’ agenda to serve the interests of profit.

24. There is so much power in our hands by our choices.

    1. I agree jstewart and in truth power does not exist anywhere else other than in our choices. And all of our choices basically boil down to one choice and that is whether or not what we are choosing to either do, say or think is coming from our conniving spirit or our uniting soul. Choice A or B, there is no C.

       1. So true Alexis which makes life simple in principle though not always so simple to live.

       2. Absolutely because we are all heavily invested in keeping the lie alive because in all honesty if we weren’t then we would be living the truth. It’s us that feeds the lie constantly.

       3. Yes, and it is when we are honest to this truth we then no longer have any excuses, it is just a choice, and cannot blame anyone or anything for our mess.

25. I love that you see your improvements in health and life, not as an end-point that leads to self satisfaction and complacency but an ongoing and deepening of your relationship with self.

    1. Yes I agree. And from the inspiration of what this article shows us, it is like why wouldn’t we continue to explore the amazing wisdom of our bodies?

26. Wow this is amazing Julie, how deeply inspiring, what a turn around. What a miracle! An amazing testament to the work of Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine Team.

27. We can fall for the trap of thinking that a person who has ‘given up on life’ is in a far worse state than someone who is actively involved in a million trillion different projects but I know from my own frantic investment in years of activity that in many ways I was just as given up as someone who was unmotivated and lethargic. I too had given up on the truth of life even though my outer appearance conveyed something different.

    1. Alexis I agree with you many of us fall into this trap that you mention in your comment when actually it is the same illusion just different aspects of it.

       1. And that’s what makes it harder for many to spot that it’s just as much a trap as being lethargic and unmotivated. In exactly the same way I considered myself to be on the right track (and if I’m honest, doing better than others) when I was doing hard physical exercise and eating a vegetarian diet but that belief came crashing down when I realised that my relentless addiction to exercise was no different to a person who drank alcohol daily, we were both using different techniques to reduce our agitation. In many ways my way was worse because I thought that I was being healthy and also had an air of superiority about me that was very judgemental and damning of others.

    2. Such a huge lie – and a trap – that so many of us have fallen into. My addiction to keeping busy was just such a one – with no consideration of the quality I was emanating at the time. Complete emptiness. Waking up to the fact that ‘everything is energy’ and that ‘everything is because of energy’ was a huge wake-up call for me.

    3. I couldn’t agree more Alexis, we are so conditioned to believing what our eyes tell us that we compartmentalise our lives and run with an arrogance that tells us we are doing better than everyone else. Even at my worst I still thought that because I was exercising and not eating meat that I had a handle on life and was ‘doing better’ than others in my family but ultimately, we were all reflecting the same things to each other but in different flavours.

       1. That’s the trick of our spirit Julie we think we are ‘doing better’ that everyone else but we are all eating ice cream just different flavours of it.

28. Reading your amazing blog again what I am feeling is not just the huge burden on our over stretched health system but also the number of people who have given up on having a life that is anything other than painful and depressing and how important it is to share stories like yours so that others can understand that their choices lead to their quality of life and that there is support to make changes when they are ready.

    1. We have settled en mass for complacency and with that comes a certain given up quality. We have totally lost sight of the fact that the power to change things is very much in our hands and always has been.

       1. “So, now I would say pick one simple thing that supports and be consistent and then pick another.” It is a good approach Julie, a step by step process without overwhelming ourselves with too much change at once.

       2. Yeah overhauling our whole lives in one go never works.

    2. I agree Helen, what I have come to realise is that it would have taken a lot to get me to make choices that would have supported some true change. I was constantly searching for ways to improve my health but I lacked the consistency to see things through to the point of improvement. So, now I would say pick one simple thing that supports and be consistent and then pick another.

29. It is so important to document the changes we experience when we make changes to our lifestyle, as you have done Julie. Although personal experience is disregarded currently, in time this will change and these stories will really count to show mankind what is possible.

30. Taking responsibility for our health – as you did – is key. That was quite a catalogue of illnesses you had – and in your family. Making changes in our lifestyle counts for so much. I was amazed when I had surgery a few years ago when asking my consultant about dietary changes she said there was no evidence! Yet I know many students of The Way of the Livingness who have healed from serious disease and whose lives are healthier than ever before, despite ageing…. Why isn’t personal evidence taken into account? Its empirical evidence which I was told counted when I was at school.

31. Are we setting a new marker for illnesses and diseases? There are many things out there that are taking us out, thinning our herd. By being more aware of how we are living and loving ourselves, it is reducing the impact on our body. Could these maladies, simply be clearings we need?

32. Being open to listen to your body has been totally life changing for you, Julie, and there is no way you would change back knowing now how well you can feel.

33. I love your list of choices. Thank you for sharing.

34. Esoteric medicine, how we live and western medicine are a powerful combination for well-being.

35. ‘Could it be that my body was trying to tell me something?’ Once we stop dismissing symptoms as an inconvenience and learn to read why they are there, we can start to see them for the positive communications they are -signposts to what our choices have been so that we can begin to address them and, underneath, the hurts that drive them.

    1. So often we ignore pain and discomfort because of a pressing need to keep going. We seem hellbent on carrying on regardless of how tired we feel or often regardless of the pain we’re in. We’re like robots who have been programmed to keep going no matter what. Some of us even get a kick out of our ability to battle on and ‘go it alone’ or ‘keep going whilst sick’. The fact that we hold sportsman up as heros when they keep playing with broken bones is a prime example. Many of these behaviours can be traced back to beliefs that we hold and it is these beliefs that engineer our bodies to perform in a certain way. Disband a belief and the body has more freedom to move.

36. I agree Doug that this is one powerful case study in itself that is worthy of further investigation and study because it offers our current ailing system much.

37. Interesting here that you say the thing that turned your health and well-being around was your own choices and not some ‘magic’ modality or session or practitioner. It is my experience also that we cannot be rescued by anyone or anything else from our ill health but only supported to make different daily lifestyle choices which are what really change our health and well-being even in the case of an incurable condition.

    1. And knowing that it is our choices that can make the difference is way more empowering than feeling we need someone else to fix us.

38. I am sure that anyone who knew you before when you had all of those ailments and who still knows you now and has witnessed the turn around in your health and well-being that you have created for yourself could not help but be inspired.

    1. This is true, I do have a friend who lived next door for nine years and she often remarks on how different I am compared to back then. These days she has also given up drinking, lost weight due to watching the types of foods she eats and is looking at ways to help herself in different areas of her life.

39. I wonder just how many ailments we have but consider them as normal? One example would be lumps or cysts on breasts … obviously not normal or part of our true wellbeing, definitely not part of our anatomy when you look in medical books, yet many doctors tell women this is completely normal to have! I’m not getting at medical professionals here, but instead seeing just how much we have accepted things that either should not be there or are not okay as okay or normal and this goes far beyond our health to what we have accepted in our society as well as being okay.

40. What you offer here could be considered to be too good to be true. But this is the power that comes from changing our choices, that’s pretty cool.

    1. The more who do this will support the gradual normalisation of it. To me it is no longer normal to dismiss and deny what the body is plainly communicating. After a while and with some practice it becomes very natural to do.

41. The catalogue of illnesses you describe can be seen as ‘silent’ conditions, often accepted, identified with, considered normal and part of everyday. To have the awareness that no health condition is intrinsically who we are and consciously walk a path to clear them one by one, confirms the deep love you have for yourself.

42. Julie, your honesty and transparency inspires and offers us all something to deeply reflect on.

43. Healing can only come through connection with ourselves. As long as we are going walkabout, roaming around here, there and everywhere but ourselves then no true healing can take place. But as soon as we come back to ourselves then true healing is underway, whether we are conscious of it or not.

44. “Could it be that my body was trying to tell me something?” It’s not so much that our bodies are ‘trying’ to tell us something, they actually do tell us everything loud and clear, it’s just that we’re hard of hearing.

45. Having a multitude of symptoms like you describe, Julie has become the accepted normal for many people today. Because a lot of these conditions are chronic, we live with them and as we age, the list grows and grows and the number of pills to take increases simultaneously. The financial costs are evident but the cost of ill health to ourselves is life changing. By changing our choices, we don’t need to follow this route.

    1. Sadly true, as very few people will say they feel vibrant and healthy when you ask how they are. Living with pain and or illness has become the norm. Doctors and nurses are taken aback when asked what medications I am on – in my late sixties – when I reply ‘none’.

    2. It’s true Gill, it has become the norm to have a long list of ailments and in the end that long list of feeling unwell takes its toll and life does become more of a struggle and something that has to be managed. We are told to live with our illnesses and just carry on taking the medication. Where’s the joy in living like that?

46. It’s so simple to make the link between obesity and life-style choices, yet we still host cake sale for charity & have our chocolate go-tos for comfort.

47. I love the relationship we can choose to build with ourselves.
    Not one of judgement and demand but one of patience, understanding and willngness to listen.
    There is a lot to appreciate when we take the time to feel what is truly going on within and
    become aware what is available to us.

48. What a great change in your life, Julie. Your experience clearly exposes that being responsible for the role we play in our health is something worth considering.

49. You certainly are blessed to have chosen to make different choices Julie, and be living a healthy life as a result. It is never too late to change our choices.

50. A classic example that confirms that the first medicine we should be reaching for is the nature and quality of our daily choices, which in turn will deeply support the services of our medical profession a thousand fold.

51. We do have a really important part to play looking after ourselves on a physical, mental and emotional level, as the ad says…’we are worth it’.

52. It is common sense really (but something we don’t always use! 😶) in that of course if we are with our bodies, listening to them and taking care and looking after them it is going to benefit our health and wellbeing. I can relate with what you shared as I used to do loads of different diets and colonics and things in order to be ‘healthy’ but if I have no true connection or honesty with me and my body it just ends up being like a tick list similar to everything else I was doing in my life and that is exactly what happened. My learning, with the support of Universal Medicine has been to learn to truly listen to me and connect with my body building a relationship from within. This is definitely not perfect and never will be as I am always learning with this and trustfully deepening but since living this way it is the first time I have noticed an actual difference in many areas of my life. True health really does come from within … our connection within ✨

53. Different choices lead to different results.

    1. And, it all starts by listening to our body.

54. We are sick en masse. Sick of not expressing the truth, sick of being a ridiculously reduced version of our true selves, sick of living in a constant sea of lies, sick of this ludicrous charade that we live in. And yet. And yet we keep choosing it. Moment by moment it’s what we choose and until we choose something else we won’t be well again. And being ‘well’ is still a watered down version of our true selves. Our true selves are stunning resplendent beings capable of things that currently we can’t even imagine.

55. It is pretty unusual to have healed some very persistent long term conditions that reoccur many times in people’s lives, like low back pain, asthma and chronic fatigue. These diseases usually worsen as we age, so it shows there is more to illness than is recognised, as you describe, there is so much that is dependent on our choices.

56. We have a medical model rooted primarily in giving prescription medication, (although social prescribing is now also now offered). Whilst pharmaceutical drugs have their place, total dependency on them limits our willingness to live in a way that prevents disease from forming in the first place. True healthcare supports people to take ownership of their own health, care for their body and work as equal partners with medical and healthcare professionals.

    1. Most of us are dependent on so many things to get through our day. Caffeine, sugar, recreational drugs, entertainment, alcohol, sex, computer games, relationships, being needed, drama, exercise, work, hiding, there is a vast and endless array of things that we all use to get through our days. And we have a habit of judging other people’s coping mechanisms as well as ranking them but they are all in fact interchangeable and they all exist as substitutes for missing our connection with ourselves. They are glorified temporary gap fillers, nothing more. And when we close the gap between us and ourselves the need for fillers naturally disappears.

       1. We have become dependent using ‘fillers’ to mask the emptiness we feel, not knowing we’re only a step away from experiencing the magic of fullness within.

       2. It’s a real reflection of the depth of the illusion we’re in, that we can feel pitifully empty for a lifetime whilst all the while being full to the brim.

57. True health is listening to the intelligence of the body and bringing purpose to life.

58. In one family, a father and aunt died as a result of diabetes related conditions. Three of the next generational group, in their sixties were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Two of the three who changed their lifestyle, diet and introduced gentle exercise are now classed as being prediabetic. Consider it a blessing when an ill-health diagnosis serves as a wake-up call and compels us reflect on our lives and make more loving choices.

    1. That is awesome that people literally broke the chain here by taking care of themselves, loving themselves more and listening to their body … very cool.

59. Many have proved that despite a family history of a particular disease like diabetes, through self care and loving life-style choices, it is possible to not become diabetic. It’s often too easy for people to attribute genetics, race or other factor as the cause of their disease or illness rather than take responsibility and live in a way more likely to prevent the onset of an illness or disease.

60. “Introduce gentleness and tenderness into my life.” A quality that naturally resides in all of us, men and women alike, and one that restores true harmony to the body when expressed through our movements, integrity and relationships.

61. Regaining our health is just the first step towards truly connecting to the well of wisdom, love and integrity within us. It is the opening chapter, not the grand finale.

62. Where many would have gone under or become victims of ill-health conditions, your intention was to find answers and you did. A powerful testimony of what is possible when we get back into the driving seat and steer a steady and loving course back to true health.

63. If Julie could turn around her life from one loaded down with a laundry list of medical conditions, exhaustion, and pain to one of health, vitality and commitment to serving with purpose, it sure seems that paying attention to what Universal Medicine has to offer in regards to these matters is in order, for all of humanity really. Because considering the situation we are in with these types of scenarios becoming more of the norm than the oddity, and with whole governments being on the verge of medical bankruptcy trying to deal with them, there certainly needs to be something we can all look to in order to approach life and self-care in a different way, as what we are doing now is most certainly not working. I was just feeling the other day such appreciation for how settled my body feels, having so much more energy, rarely getting sick as I used to in the past, and most importantly, feeling such an amazing connection to the Divine source that I come from. Without the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as represented by Serge Benhayon, I don’t feel this would be the case at all, because I was shown a completely different way of relating to myself and others with true responsibility for every movement, which then flows back to my body in such a powerfully healing way when it is done with love at its core.

64. There is much to appreciate when we choose to take responsibility for our health and heal in a world where there is much resistance, arrogance and victim hood. Unless we listen and make that choice to heal we are left at the mercy of the ailments, disease and illness within the body.

    1. The multi-symptomatic man and woman will continue to proliferate our world and the people that reside on it as long as we refuse to accept our part in the dis-ease we are causing it.

65. I too feel incredibly blessed by my quality of health today and I know that the vitality and consistent feeling of wellbeing is a direct result of my engagement with Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Healing modalities. The teachings and presentations have provided me with a proven model of true health that I have been able to re-orientate my living standards to with incredible results.

    1. I feel the blessing too of feeling well-being as a direct result of my engagement with Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Healing modalities. What I also love is the understanding that is brought when I do get sick and what lies underneath the condition which enabled me to get it in the first place.

66. It seems to me we have a major problem with misunderstanding what true health and well-being is. We have, as you have illustrated, so many chronic illnesses that get measured by severity and we make decisions about what constitutes serious health and what we should pay attention to based on its ‘life-threatening- factor.

    1. All the way through my childhood and into adulthood I suffered from constipation, very stiff shoulders and as a young adult I would wake up with a blocked nose every morning. All of these symptoms I dismissed as normal, as things that were inevitable and just had to be put up with as they seemed very minor. I knew that if I went to the doctor they wouldn’t be met with anything other than take laxatives, go to the physio for the shoulders (which I did, but it didn’t work) and for the nose.. well I was never sure. At no point before I began to attend Universal was I fully claimed in feeling that this was not acceptable and that there must have been something about the way I was living that meant these symptoms were playing out. It didn’t take long after I gave up the gluten and dairy, started to self nurture more and learn how to handle tension more, letting go of long held hurts that those other symptoms disappeared.

       1. That is amazing and well worth celebrating. The way we live and what we consume has an effect on our body. It is entirely logical to me, and I am learning that the only people who don’t want to hear that or want to discount it are those who do not want to change their behaviour and therefore mock those who do.

       2. The mocking is very telling, because when it is done it can come laced with resentment, jealousy, hate and more. Not much more needs to be discerned other than the quality (or lack of it) that it comes with to be able to handle it.

67. Could your list of illnesses be, the tip of the iceberg for today’s men and women that is becoming the norm in today’s world?

68. I have had a tendency to really go for negative moaning. It really gets me and those around me down! It’s not like I pretend what is, isn’t, it’s appreciating the lessons I’m learning. Even when these lessons don’t feel fun I’m appreciating the letting go of what isn’t fun so I can come back to being at ease with myself and others. The energy put into keeping up appearances is no longer needed, I can be me, learning all that I didn’t whilst I hid away from the world.

    1. Understanding we are not our issues and moans supports us to detach from them. To release these tendencies allows a new flow of energy into our body and we begin to embrace, not hide from the world.

69. Where many would have gone under or become victims of ill-health conditions, your mission was to find answers and you did. A powerful testimony of what is possible when we get back into the driving seat and steer a steady and loving course back to true health.

70. Simply healing one of these illnesses like sciatica, is nothing short of miraculous, but healing yourself from 16 conditions you had is completely mind blowing. Your choices have changed beyond recognition, proof of what we can do when we focus.

    1. Well said, it is absolutely extra-ordinary and we should, as a society, be asking how she did it and consider if it could support another.

71. It’s astounding to consider how much healing has gone on.

72. Funny how we tend to measure our health in relation to a drop down menu of horrendous illnesses, rather than a multiple list of beneficial qualities such as joy, vitality, clarity and ease of movement to name but a few. Seems to me we are looking in the wrong direction.

    1. That is such a great point. What would our life look and feel like if we did build a greater level of health according to those “beneficial qualities such as joy, vitality, clarity and ease of movement to name but a few”? And what would then be our relationship with the list of horrendous illnesses that are abound, even if we did experience them in our life? Worth considering.

    2. Well observed Rowena. When the drop down menu of ill-health conditions becomes a daily reality and we accept it as our lot, we’ve lost sight of the potential in all of us to feel much more: light, energised, vital and purposeful. Instead of living life with joy, we settle for less, survival and struggle becomes our normal.

73. Julie many will be inspired by what you share knowing it’s never too hopeless or late to start a health programme founded on deep self care. Your experience confirms that there is a healing way to be in life that is self re-generative even as we age and well into our our elder years.

    1. It is never and can never be too late to heal as it is something that each and every one of us has to eventually do. We can put it off for what feels like an eternity but there will come a day when each of us starts the journey back to where we’ve come from.

74. We often take good health for granted or put up with ill-health conditions without question.
    When in optimum health, it’s important to appreciate and keep doing all the things that keep us well. Equally, if illness appears be super attentive and respond in a way that brings understanding and ultimately healing.

    1. The whole of life provides us with a constant opportunity to heal and then once we’ve healed ourselves the way that we live then offers a healing to others. We reflect that which we are and so we are either reflecting an aspect of life that has been healed or an aspect of life that has not. The beautiful thing is that all of us know what it feels like to be whole and complete and so when we receive that reflection from another, it appears as a reminder and not an impossibility.

75. The illnesses you describe Julie are often what people tend to get as their lives progress, and become what is termed medically as co-morbities, that is, illnesses we have not recovered from but make us less healthy as we age. You have turned the trajectory around completely by healing yourself of these types of illnesses, this is totally against the trend of how life is lived by the majority.

76. It is quite extraordinary how our bodies can bounce back when we treat them with tender love and care. This needs to be our first port of call when we feel unwell, to look at where we are not treating our selves with absolute tenderness and address that aspect of self care, before we go trotting off to the doctor expecting them to do it on our behalf.

77. More and more I am getting to understand that the body has an intelligence far greater than that of the mind and every little choice we make towards good health the body will recognise it and respond accordingly.

78. We can either choose to stay with who we already are or choose to be who we are not. Every movement, every thought and everything that we say falls into one of those two categories, there is no third category.

79. We can very easily resolve a great many of our ill conditions by changing our diet and lifestyle. What is harder to address is our attitude towards our selves but a great deal can shift very quickly when we are encouraged to make self-loving choices because we are worth it and always have been.

    1. When I connect to the immutable living fact that we and everything else that exists in life is made from the consciousness of God, the question of whether or not we are ‘worth it’ simply disappears. We are the living consciousness of God and that consciousness never contemplates the topic of self worth as it simply just is. Just is everything and just is God.

    2. You are so right, action is easy. Making a decision to try something new is easy, what is harder to address is the ‘why’ and until we are willing to understand what impulses our movements and our thought patterns I suspect we will not be able to address the outcomes we see in a lasting way. From my experience it is a constant unfolding of awareness, so what once felt like a healthy way of living to me, now feels less healthy and more restricted.

80. Life choices are so powerful, because the choice to walk with what is within us is like rocket fuel for our evolution.

81. I’m sure if we all look at our family histories in detail, there would be a similar catalogue of illnesses we would consider to be genetic and hereditary. But the changes you have made have to disprove this (and you are not the only one) because you have changed nothing other than your choices to feel what is happening and care more for yourself.

82. We are slowly beginning to join up the dots here in relation to our way of life and the quality of our health. On one visit to my Doctor we had this amazing conversation whereby he started with looking at lifestyle habits in relation to my presenting symptoms. Did I drink alcohol, coffee, eat lots of sugar, did I exercise and so on. It was the best conversation I have had with a Doctor, one I felt equally in charge of because I was being offered the space to look at everyday habits being a causative factor and in that ones I have a choice to pursue or not depending on their impact. Real medicine in action.

83. Once we start to embrace and live the fact that everything is something and nothing is nothing then we will start to truly understand life. As opposed to what we’re currently doing, which is to take a stab at the answers.

84. In answer to your last question… properly great. That from the catalogue of debilitating ailments you had, against the current trends, you have got healthier and more vital as you have aged. Super inspiring. Thank you.

85. There is the Darwin award for making terrible choices that allow us to hit the reset button and try this life thing again. But, how many of our choices are just slow suicide; drinking, smoking, overeating and generally living an unhealthy lifestyle? When we begin listening to our body, we choose how we go forward in life, no matter what our age is!

86. That certainly is a catalogue of illnesses and awesome that you were able to change the illnesses into a healthy body thanks to your choices which require a commitment and devotion to yourself. Letting go of what does not support you to live this way and stepping into the light, the limelight even, where you are easily seen and appreciated is a gift not just to yourself individually but to everyone. ,

87. I’m pretty sure that you would not like your life to revert back to how it was, looking at where you were with your health a few years ago. The changes you have made for yourself have been nothing short of a miracle in terms of your health now, it shows how lifestyle related diseases can be reversed.

88. “Giving up and resigned to a life of suffering.” I too had reached this dead end in my life, resigned to a list of illnesses and injuries, feeling dull, flat and listless. Meeting Serge Benhayon was the turning point, the opportunity to realize it was worth loving myself and equipped with some extremely simple self help tools, have also transmuted a range of health issues just by changing my lifestyle habits. Stunning to say the least, extraordinarily effective and extremely self-empowering.

    1. Wow Rowena that’s also incredible to hear. Simple choices big changes. Stunning and empowering. Your photo looks very far from listless! Vibrant, warm and shining. Here’s to simple lifestyle choices.

89. When we consider ourselves healthy because we have the absence of cancer, yet we are carrying a whole host of aliments, chronic conditions and a deep lack of vitality we could say that our definition of health has become very skewered.

    1. Yup. And my observation working in healthcare is that we are accepting chronic states of ill health as normal in younger and younger people.

       1. This is shocking, isn’t it? We put something down as normal because a large majority is experiencing the same. If we keep going on our current trajectory we may get to the point where we say that cancer is normal… this would sound ridiculous wouldn’t it? We are getting so far down the slippery slope of what we consider good health to be we have lost actually, what it means to be in good health.

       2. Agreed Matilda Bathurst. There is a big difference between ‘normal’ and ‘common’. It is a dire indication that our markers of true health have been abandoned when we accept chronic states of ill health as normal rather than truly identifiying them as the widespread states of disease they really are.

    2. True Rachael.
       When folks fill health forms now I notice time and again it’s only the huge ticket items, or the ‘worst’ items that reach the list….’oh and there’s just my arthritis’, ‘oh and there’s just the IBS thing’ and more. The whole scale of unwellness has slid so far we are using it to define wellness against an ever diminishing ‘averaging out’ that makes it seem ‘not That bad’ – but what if we measured against a truly vital life of feeling refreshed, deeply content, whole, and full of love and purpose. Our markers of health and ill health have become greatly skewed in an ever downward sliding scale.

       1. For most of us the marker of a ‘truly vital life of feeling refreshed, deeply content, whole, and full of love and purpose.’ seems way off the radar, including having a healthy body. Although this is a bit of an anomaly to our current way of thinking, even with some ailments we can be vital. I have seen many a person who has life threatening conditions be full of sparkle, joy and vitality. There is a whole different way we can approach our health.

90. I too have healed a catalogue of aliments and illnesses by living the way I do, and thank God that is so.

91. It always amazes me how much we stagger on when our bodies are giving clear signs that the way we are living is seriously hindering our health and well being! And how when we clean up our act and start loving our selves from the inside out, incredibly vital, bright and fresh we feel. Feeling bright and bonny is how we are supposed to feel, it should be our norm not the exception.

92. I was talking to a lady on the check out at a supermarket and she was telling me that she is very ill and she is fed up with solutions that she is being offered she wants to know the root cause of her illness so that she can work from that foundation to bring herself back to health. It was a fascinating conversation to have as she can feel that the medical profession with all they have at their disposal cannot tell her what the root cause is but she knows there must be one.

93. Illness and disease are created by our walking away from God and our healing is our return. Both our outward journey and our return journey are made up of choices. Each individual choice that we make is a step away from or a step back towards God, even though in truth we can never step away from that that we are.

94. Serge Benhayon predicted many years ago, that people would have multiple illnesses and conditions as you have described here. You are a living case study this does not have to be permanent.

    1. And the beauty of it here, is that you have shown how you have done it.

95. “… how can it be that we can have all these conditions and still think we are doing ok?” Maybe its because we have lost the template of what it means to be healthy? I know I had. Meeting Universal Medicine has definitely enabled me to re-orientate my understanding of what healthy is and how to re-establish my own health based on the quality of how I live each day. What a blessing.

96. With the rise in illness & disease today, despite great advances in medical/surgical technology, one has to question what is truly happening? Why are diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, mental illness and obesity on the increase? Everyone is looking for a quick fix and solution. People are becoming more multi-symptomatic now so even the medical profession are becoming more baffled.
    What you share Julie how you have changed your life from being chronically unwell to now feeling vital and committed to life in full is “nothing short of a miracle”. The key- all about choices.
    Very inspirational personal account.

97. “Looking after myself is my way of doing my part and not just expecting others to fix me when things have gotten out of control, or my body is giving me another message.” Many of us find this simple message hard to accept: it is the part we play in looking after ourselves that is the key to true health. Seeking help after an ill-health condition presents is necessary, but last resort. Doing what we can to prevent ill-health through self care and nurturing is always our first priority.

98. What has become the norm we have made it the norm and hence don’t think twice about experiencing conditions such as what Julie has experienced in life. This is because we compare ourselves with one another instead of living the joy and taking responsibility for what is true for us on our path of return.

    1. Have we accepted a sliding scale of what is acceptable? I only have X number of things wrong, and someone else has more so, I am better but, stuck in a groove! Is this what life has become from our choices?

       1. Hear hear. Well said Steve.

99. The way you have dealt with a good number of your previous conditions show that turning to orthodox medicine to resolve them is not a ‘have to’ option, but a preferred one that is sought only after you have taken it on board to deeply nurture your self first.

100. As I read through your ‘catalogue of illnesses’, it got me to thinking on what it must have been like to visit the doctor, knowing you probably only had 15 minutes with them and so the decision would arise as to what you shared first. I realise that you wouldn’t have had all those conditions manifesting at once, but even with one or two the brief appointment really wouldn’t have supported you to share what was going on for you in great depth. And you would not be alone, as it is obvious that we as human beings are becoming multi-symptomatic, presenting our medical professional with several issues at once, along with the question – “what issue comes first?’. With our world-wide situation of rising ill-health, it is certainly imperative that humanity starts to make different choices as to the way we are living, as you have, sooner rather than later.

101. It is quite astonishing that your long list of illnesses have cleared up just from changing your lifestyle habits. What else could we achieve if we made this a foundation in our health care system, we so could simply turn the trends on the rising levels of illness and disease that our currently bankrupting our health systems.

102. I love the power of choice and thank God for it, for we can bury ourselves deeper or lift ourselves up and transform ourselves by the power of choice.

103. Illness and disease, pain and ailments are living reflections of the choices that we have made in our lives. Healing therefore is also a living reflection of choices that we have made in our lives. Absolutely everything in life is something. No-thing can come from nothing. Everything can be traced back to its preceding choices which brings in accountability and responsibility. Two qualities that the soul absolutely loves.

104. Julie, you are an inspiration. Looking at you where you are today I had no idea you had been through the conditions you have listed – there is no resemblance of them in you. I love how you described how we can look at others and compare ourselves to others as to not look at what is happening to ourselves, as to ignore the communications from our body – communications that are tailored specifically for us at each split second. I am in awe of the intelligence, humbleness, patience and precision of our bodies – plus our bodies is with us 24/7, mind blowing.

105. When we start listening to our bodies, we can identify the source of our medical problems and this aids the diagnosis and treatment.

106. There is only one way of life until you discover that there is another way of life. This difference is only made through our choices and how we are with ourselves each and every day.

107. Julie this is an excellent blog, crazy how the world is accepting so much less in the way of their own health, it now has become normal to have some sort of aliment or illness – you are re-writing the book. Thank you Julie, very inspiring.

     1. It is actually a very crazy situation we find ourselves in, where having some ‘sort of ailment or illness’ is considered to be normal. Whatever happened to true health and why are we now accepting a life much lesser than the one which is always available to live? I love the fact that there are people like Julie who have begun to make different and more self-caring choices and the wonderful results that she has experienced are not just available for her, but for all of us, if we make the same, or similar, choices.

108. “Looking after myself is my way of doing my part and not just expecting others to fix me when things have gotten out of control” an essential responsibility that begins from within us and will be an integral part of our health care in the not too distant future.

109. Different choices bring different outcomes. If we want to change then the answer is simple.

     1. So, what causes us to willingly choose something that we know its outcome is not beneficial to our body?

        1. My sense is that it is a lack of self-worth and not treasuring ourselves to the bone. The more we love ourselves the easier it is to make self-loving choices. I know from experience that having self-loathing brings ‘a not caring attitude’ and wanting to choose anything and everything that dulls and numbs the intensity of the feeling.

     2. Very true, all it requires is love for self and everything else is taken care of.

        1. I suppose the question is then…. where do you start to love self, if it is not present?

110. Our choices are everything, they are what we are willing to live and be of the God we truly are, at any one moment.

111. It had been accepted that illnesses like diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes are mainly caused by lifestyle choices, but you have written a case study here of the changes made in your life to now bring you the excellent health and healing from all those the past choices. We can all follow your example and make a similar record of this journey so there will be true data for the future.

112. ‘I may not have a medicine cupboard full of pills and lotions any more but I do have at my disposal a healthier lifestyle, Esoteric Practitioners and the whole of the NHS, for the times when I do need to go to the doctors. Looking after myself is my way of doing my part and not just expecting others to fix me when things have gotten out of control, or my body is giving me another message.’ This paragraph is a beautiful summation of how far it is possible to come in a few short years in terms of health, commitment to life, appreciation, self love and responsibility.

113. It is such a ‘normal’ of today’s present society to just accept one’s state of ill-health, yet that does not have to be the case as you so lucidly share, Julie. Thank you.

114. What’s amazing is that you can’t get much more in your face than an illness and yet we still manage to kid ourselves that it has nothing to do with us. In some ways you have to marvel at our dogged determination to keep ourselves out of the equation, we’re absolute masters at looking the other way. ‘Who me? I don’t think so!”

115. Your tenacity to discover the source of your list of illnesses is motivation for others. But, for how many of the other 7 billion plus people that are multi-symptomatic and treat it as a part of normal life?

116. “… a catalogue of illnesses” I never stopped to question my catalogue of illnesses until meeting Universal Medicine, but through the process of studying Sacred Esoteric Healing, began to fully appreciate just how wayward I had allowed my health to become and just how much can be done to bring it back on track by simply changing the way I live.

117. It’s becoming normal, as in very common, to be suffering with all sorts of illness and disease but thinking we are ok because we have it somewhat under control – that is the symptoms are not as bad as they could be. This actually leaves us living well under par and putting up with a level of energy that is way beneath what we could otherwise be experiencing. Great example you share with us here of how it does not have to be like that.

118. Not making self-loving life style choices earlier in life has ripple effects as we age. Consider elders who reach old age with quality of life severely restricted because they have multiple ill-health conditions. They generally feel unwell, with days consumed firefighting various ill-health conditions: adjusting to declining mobility, sight or hearing, self medicating, attending medical appointments, experiencing and recovering from falls and broken limbs. The choice to self neglect in mid-life or earlier is compounded as we age when other so called ‘age-related’ illnesses kick in on top of existing chronic ill-health conditions. If more of us understood that true wealth is health, we would take better care of our bodies throughout our lives.

119. Julie, you expose a common trend, how many of us accept and live with a catalogue of ill-health conditions and yet consider ourselves fortunate because we don’t have a life threatening condition like cancer, heart disease or diabetes. With every ill-health condition, the body signals to us something is out of balance and warrants our full attention and failing to do so, can lead to ill-health conditions building one after another. The road back to true health is the path you took: self love, appreciation, simple, supportive, practical life-style choices. An inspiring blog that offers to others what can be achieved when we’re ready to change the relationship we have with our bodies.

120. I agree with you, Gill. I used to go for the quick fix, latest diet and exercise but over the last 12 years, I have seen the benefits of being consistent and making small changes that I can cope with but without being a perfectionist. What I have come to realise is that it is an ongoing process and that if I get complacent then old habits try to slip back in again.

     1. As you say Gill and Julie, there is no quick fix. Blessings received from a change in life-style choices unfold overtime and bring lasting change. It’s a process that never ends and deeply appreciating the way we feel in-health fuels the impulse to stay on track.

121. Making a move to choose differently, you illustrate very well what the outcome can be. It is walking power.

122. The difference in the choices we make is like a snail trail that is traceable if we choose to follow it back to its origin with the illnesses we have experienced in our past.

123. Just resolving one medical problem is impressive, but 16 is nothing short of a miracle and one that has to be broadcast far and wide, because your are demonstrating that there is a way to permanently resolve our ills starting we how we choose to live and building outwards from there. Simple, effective and available to all.

     1. Absolutely. One may be considered by the outsider as a good thing or even two, but when we are talking 16 there is surely enough evidence here to suggest that the choices we make really do impact on our health and well being and that it is a model we would all do well to pay heed to.

124. Wow amazing Julie, wow wow wow what changes you have made! this is super inspiring to many many people who read this. Life does not need to be gloomy!

125. ‘Giving up and resigned to a life of suffering…’ Thinking that there is no other option than to ‘suffer in silence’ doesn’t have to be our normal.

     1. Resignation kills. It is common illness for many elders who having given up, put up with a catalogue of ill-health conditions and life is pretty miserable. And yet it is never too late to recover a truer way of living and begin to make self loving choices.

        1. The thing that I find worrying is the number of youngsters and teenagers who are on the road to giving up or have given up on themselves and on life. This should have the whole of society’s alarm bells ringing.

        2. Thank you Michelle, the opposite end of the cycle and equally devastating when young people begin to give up on themselves. And we should be asking why this is.

        3. I suppose there are also adults who give up too… it just might be a little more prevalent in the older and teenage generations at the moment. I wonder how the current teenage population will develop as they grow? If many are given up now, how will it be for them later?

126. What you share here is such a gift to us all because you share how we can be such an intricate part of our own healing. The combination of a responsible way of living and medical support as and when needed is a more balanced way to live and respects the health of our medical practitioners at the same time.

127. ‘I would say I have a whole new level of appreciation for the medical staff and have renewed my original love of medicine and the workings of the human body.’ I was supporting a relative through a procedure last week that required a general anaesthetic. Not really having had much to do with hospitals I was blown away by the level of care taken and how at home everyone made us feel, but also despite its faults, the amazing service the NHS provides.

128. ‘I feel blessed every day for the good heath I have in my life right now.’ A great reminder that appreciation really is key ❤️

     1. I am getting to see the power of appreciation at play in my new job. I am appreciating the team that I am leading, both individually and as a whole. My appreciation of the skills that each one of them brings to the job is very natural, I feel genuinely appreciative of what a solid and committed team I have. And what I can feel is that the appreciation is naturally pulling people up to independently want to do more within their roles as well as to want to work more hours. Appreciation is magical stuff, it really is.

129. Choices are everything. When I make choices that don’t care for my body then life and the world can become a very dark place.

     As someone commented above (Alexis Stewart) ‘Our body is our house from which we look out at the world.’ Our choices effect every inch and millimetre of how we experience life.

     Julie, I can see the impact of each choice that you list that supports you. We take on a lot in life and become warped versions of ourselves, often the opposite of the person we really are. With each choice, you have let go of these warped versions. With each choice, I can see you becoming more vital, and enjoying life more and more as you get to see more of the real Julie.

130. Julie that is some catalogue of health conditions, I saw you a few weeks ago and you looked young full of vitality and fresh as a daisy as the saying goes with no sign of ill health what so ever. So you are the living proof that Universal Medicine workshops, presentations and courses can support people to reclaim their health again and live in a way that is non harming to themselves and other people. Who wouldn’t want to live in this way?

131. It is because of Serge Benhayon that I too now embrace Western Medicine. Without his love and support I would still be trying to ‘go it alone’ thinking I had all the answers to illness and disease.

132. What if we were all taught from a young age, about the choices we make and the effect they have on us? Would this create a future model of health care that largely prevents us from getting ill by listening to our bodies, whereas our current model tries to cure us of our diseases without dealing with our underlying disregard?

133. Making choices for healing is a very necessary process for us all to come to.

134. Julie that really is quite a catalogue of illnesses and ailments but one that I feel is fairly common. Our body is our house from which we look out at the world and so the health of our body has a huge bearing on what we see when we look out. If we’re in pain or discomfort or feeling nauseous then these these will colour our world just as surely as having a body that feels vibrant and alive will.

135. That’s quite a repertoire of ailments you have there! But what I find interesting is that the choices you made are all very simple and achievable for anyone. There’s no mountain to climb or marathon to get through.

136. “I do have at my disposal a healthier lifestyle, Esoteric Practitioners and the whole of the NHS, for the times when I do need to go to the doctors.” The perfect recipe for true health and one that I too greatly appreciate.

137. Appreciation comes to mind for what people around us, especially family that have had serious medical problems that are becoming part of normal life experiences, that you and many others have not had. It is, the choices we make and listening to our bodies and seeking medical assistance early to assist rather than fix and go will one day become the new normal.

     1. Well said Steve, because Fix and go offers no respect to the communication from our body or the professionals, family and friends who are affected by the fix and go mentality.

138. Thank you for sharing the choices you have made that have turned your health and your life around and clearly demonstrate that when we are willing to take responsibility for our lives miracles can happen.

139. Changing on the inside has been crucial to bring about the changes on the outside Julie, and you’ve shown you have made some pretty gigantic changes.

140. That is a long list of ailments. On reflection I am feeling how much do we have ailments yet see them as normal or ‘not that bad’? From experience I know in my past I have brushed things to one side and ignored them in order to get on with my day. Crazy that we do this and that when we do have an ailment, illness or dis-ease do not completely stop and go ‘okay what is my body telling me?’, ‘what have my choices been, how have I lived and how can I support myself now?’ It would be awesome if this became the norm rather than having the long list of ailments and ignoring it! Awesome to hear how much has changed for you .. very cool.

141. Wow, Julie, that sure is a long list of ailments that you lived with, but how inspiring that you have turned your life around by making different choices. So often I hear people say that they don’t have a choice, that something (usually an illness or disease) just happened to them, but as you show so clearly, we always have a choice and when those choices have the welfare of our bodies at heart then miracles can happen.

142. Yes Julie, we do not need to preach or tell another what to do; it is through the quality of our movements with which we live by that truly inspires others.

143. Once we recognise what our body is telling us, no matter how long it takes for us to listen, the world around us opens up a plethora of opportunities that have always been waiting for us.

144. “And that as I change from the inside …..” This is such fundamental key to healing as healing does not occur from ‘fixing’ the symptoms, the outside.

145. Isn’t it amazing what we put up with and think is okay because it hasn’t led to surgery or terminal cancer! It’s a bit like driving your car round with 4 flat tires, exhaust pipe hanging off and an extremely uncomfortable ride but not really addressing the problems because the engine is still working. I love how Universal Medicine supports us to look at the why and how our bodies get wrecked and offers such simple tools to help us restore our health from the inside out so we can motor around again feeling amazing, which is our natural and inherent state of being.

146. The power of our choices can’t be underestimated because the life that we receive is a direct reflection of the choices that we make.

     1. Absolutely and it is as simple as making the first choice to do something differently and then building on that.

        1. Or the choice to keep doing something the same way and to cement it in.

147. Julie the vibrancy and positivity that are you absolutely flows off the page and feels wonderful in my body. Your sharing is an energetic tonic in itself.

148. It is amazing how much the body responds when we start paying attention to it!

     1. I agree Andrew. Our relationship with our bodies becomes a constant back and forth, an ongoing open conversation, a constant refining and ultimately a relationship based on love from both sides.

149. We can certainly make choices that have a significant impact on our health. One way or the other.

150. Your blog truly shows that illness and disease does not fall out of the sky and is not such a random thing as we think. Lifestyle related illness is becoming more talked about in the media, but how far are we really willing to admit this is true and take action on it. Clearly you have, Julie and it has worked.

     1. Absolutely, lifestyle illnesses are right up there as preventable illnesses that we can lessen by the choice of lifestyle we choose to have. Being more aware of our choices and their impact should be basic 101 in health education at home and at school.

        1. Interestingly, I was having a conversation with my GP today and she was saying that generally people don’t want to make the shift in lifestyle needed. When she spoke with a patient about giving up gluten and how this would support the patient’s health, the patient was horrified about not eating bread. We are so desperately wanting to keep our comforts and do not want to consider that it is our comforts that make us ill?

     2. For most of my life I didn’t link most illnesses and diseases to our lifestyle choices. Sure smoking and cancer and diabetes with poor diet but other than that I didn’t think much about the true origins of illness and disease. But now that I can feel and understand from my own body that it is our choices that govern our health, it seems so incredibly basic and obvious and makes me wonder how I didn’t see this before. But then in the next moment I also understand that had I allowed myself to see it before then it would have interfered with my reckless ways of living and that wasn’t something that I was prepared to let happen.

151. This is an incredible story Julie and I know there are so many like you, who have taken responsibility for their inner-connection, their health and their way of living and found that miracles happen.

     1. The miracles that we see happen when we start to make different choices only feel like miracles because we have actively chosen to live lives of absolute drudgery compared to the out of this world everyday splendour that we used to live before we came into a body. We have all lived far, far longer in a way that didn’t need the physical body to house us, as opposed to this much denser existence that relies on the body to transport us around.

152. “As I consider myself typical of many men and women out there in the world, how can it be that we can have all these conditions and still think we are doing ok?” A good question Julie. The new ‘healthy normal’ is now the absence of a major disease like cancer or heart symptoms. That’s not true health and vitality at all!

     1. Yes unfortunately society is continually moving the ‘goal-posts’ as to what being well and healthy is as we keep getting sicker.

153. It blows me away how we have a tendency to heal and recover from serious ailments and sickness but take it completely for granted. It’s only from a true review and appreciation like you’ve done here Julie, that we get a foundation to truly build our life upon.

     1. So true Joseph, but not only do we take it for granted, we often return to the same disregarding way that may have led to the health issue in the first place. By taking the stop moment that our body has offered us with any health issue, we can often come to understand that the life we are living is not supporting us as fully as it could. That’s when the next choice can begin to make a difference.

154. Clocking those moments of judgement towards myself and hence towards others is such a loving thing to do for myself. When I feel loving towards myself, accepting and appreciative of me and what I bring, I find it impossible to harm another with negative and judgemental thoughts, regardless of their behaviour or choices. It really does expose how a relationship and the building of that relationship with self, supports me enormously in life.

     1. I couldn’t agree more Caroline, just yesterday at work I noticed how over interested I was in other peoples business. I had to tell myself several times that it’s none of your business and to appreciate my colleagues for who they are and not the drama they are choosing. The drama is so hooking and never positive, but yet we tend to give it our full attention. Eventually, after enough no’s the intensity of wanting to know calmed right down.

155. I know if I hadn’t have started to make changes to my life, I’d have a bunch of conditions stacked up on top of me already. It’s no wonder aging is considered a dread when the weight of all of our ill choices squashes us. But I, yourself and many others are bucking this trend. It doesn’t have to be that way.

     1. “It’s no wonder aging is considered a dread when the weight of all of our ill choices squashes us.” Lovely image and so true for the more I have made choices and changes in my life that are in harmony with my body so getting older, now in my late 60’s, aging is not something dreadful, in fact my life continues to deepen in joy and love.

156. “Looking after myself is my way of doing my part and not just expecting others to fix me when things have gotten out of control, or my body is giving me another message.” It is only when we take responsibility for our own healthcare, and that includes help, support and advice from others when appropriate, that true healing occurs.

     1. I agree jstewart51, taking care of ourselves brings in more appreciation for the medical staff when we need their assistance.

157. Having known you for many years now, including the time before you changed your approach to life, I can confirm how much lighter you are in yourself and enjoyably engaged in life in a way you were not before. A great joy to see you as you are now.

158. I can identify with many things on your list of woes Julie, and to the fact that, when we pay attention to what our body is so painfully attempting to tell us and make different lifestyle choices based on those messages, the quality of our health can be radically altered beyond recognition. You are most definitely living proof that the teachings of Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom empower people to regain their equilibrium and vitality in an age when illness and disease is spiraling out of control, a living miracle.

159. The former list of your ailments, Julie are quite startling when put together. Yet, this is the norm for so many of us and we say that we are doing fine. To clear all of that is pretty amazing. You show how simple it is to make different choices that are so very powerful in terms of our health.

160. That was one rather large list of symptoms Julie and I am sure you are not alone in this. I wonder how many others live with similar issues and yet tell themselves they are ok because they don’t have a terminal illness?

161. When we are willing to listen to the body’s communication it does not have to go the extreme of e.g. IBS or sciatica before we take notice. With the increasing recognition that so many diseases like cancer and diabetes are affected by our lifestyle you are a amazing reflection of how it is possible to turn your life around given the willingness to make different choices.

162. What does ‘We are doing ok’ mean, really? It smells of complacency/given-up-ness, does it not?

163. “…. as I change from the inside and am willing to let things go, allowing myself to show more of who I truly am, that quality will reflect to other people that they can also live a different life, a more true and healthy way of living. ” And as you continue to say – ” How great is that?!”

164. Taking responsibility for our own health – alongside support from western and esoteric medicine – the way to go. The medicine of the future?

     1. Julie, you are one awesome advert for this!

     2. When we achieve this balance will there still be the crisis we have today with our over-subscribed medical system?

165. “Looking after myself is my way of doing my part and not just expecting others to fix me when things have gotten out of control, or my body is giving me another message.” Our own choices are the essential ingredient in every healthcare program.

166. Appreciating that you have shared this inspirational life changing journey with us Julie. It takes those worsening health conditions in our lives to make us (not everyone) have those ‘stop’ moments and visit the truth of how we actually live all aspects of our lives. A beautiful example that it is so possible to turn our health crisis around once we start to listen and live to the wisdom of the body.

167. When we know we can change how we are just by making different choices, including our health, this is very empowering. I can really relate with what you shared in that I tried every alternative medicine including diets and therapies in order to feel ‘better’ within and about myself. However what I was not doing, which turns out to be a huge ingredient, was being totally honest with myself and how I was feeling. I had grown to deny what I was feeling brushing it under the carpet or just not wanting to go there. When we start to be honest with ourselves there is no more hiding and when there is no more hiding we start to heal (we are willing to look at what is really going on). Now there are no fad diets in my life, no trying every alternative therapy under the sun as Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have helped me to become way more honest and loving with myself. There is no perfect but gosh my life now to how it was is like 2 completely different spectrums. True health lies within.

168. Julie you are a living example that healing ourselves needs also different life style choices. Thank you for not holding back and sharing so honestly your experience with us.

169. Simply said – this is taking responsibility and living a heathy life full of choices that honour what the body is communicating. Living a healthy life is not rocket science and I find myself questioning why do we stop following our own inner wisdom and start to listen to all the advice, reports, advertisements and recommendations that others outside of us dictate?

170. What you have shared here Julie is changing our common perception that once you have a health condition you can’t do anything about it. Your daily choices to self care have produced amazing results with health improvements, and it also confirms that our lack of self care contributes greatly to the development of ill health.

     1. Absolutely Melinda. Doctors ae often asked what can the patient do to support themselves, yet they say nothing. A family relative wasn’t even advised to quit smoking when going through major ill-health issues only a few years ago. If they knew of the amazing reversal of symptoms that so many Universal Medicine students have undergone – such as Julie has expressed here – you would think they would leap to share this information. Yet when I healed amazingly speedily after surgery I was told it was unusual – but to keep doing whatever I was doing – no questions asked as to how and why?!

     2. Yes, we often think that once we have a condition, we can have it for life. How powerful it is to make different choices that actually support the body to heal and to know that this is possible.

171. “How great is that 🙂?” That is very great Julie Matson, you have a body of proof that this way of living actually works.

172. Crikey! Well done you … this is wonderful. I know that for me stress is the absolute killer. It seems to not just exacerbate existing conditions, but almost to create them too. I’ve had a really stressful week and am only now, two days later starting to recover. I think I need to do what you suggest! Great post … thanks.

     1. Stress!! I agree can definitely create conditions or exacerbate them and I feel is one of the things we have got used to or see as normal, in fact I have actually heard people say stress is healthy!! .. when in truth it is not healthy for us in any shape or form. Instead the moment we feel any form of stress it should be a sign for us to listen to our body and change what we are doing (or stop what we are doing and do it differently). It is a signal that something is not right.

        1. Absolutely! I had a tough old week last week and still have a wretched headache. I do think though that I need to stop looking at my iPad last thing before I go to sleep as I don’t think this is helping at all. I did enjoy your post as it really makes sense and think I need to take a leaf out of your book.

        2. When we are stressed our whole body is stressed, which basically means that every single cell in our bodies is under pressure. This fact makes it very clear as to why stress is a key factor in so many ill conditions. But the alarming thing is, most people live with stress as part of their lifestyle but we don’t consider how extreme this is because of how common it’s become.

     2. Thanks for your comments, I know from my own experience that stress and how we deal with it has a huge impact on our health. You’ve hit the nail on the head when you wrote about iPad usage before going to sleep, I find that if I watch anything on my computer before going to sleep, it’s a sure recipe for a bad nights sleep. Then the tone is set for the next day because I am inevitably tired from the get-go.

        1. Absolutely. In fact last night, I was so pooped that I ditched iPad and this morning woke incredibly late (for me) and felt, dare I say it, rather spritely! It works!

        2. The body restores itself while we sleep, but only if we support it to do so. Eliminating stimulants at least an hour before going to bed is recommended as is preparing our bedrooms for sleep with scented candles, dimmed lights and gentle music and our bodies with The Gentle Breath meditation. We literally have to switch on to our deepest most precious self and switch off Ipads and phones.

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