“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The number of university subjects today is expanding immensely. I remember a time when there was just Medicine, Biology, Law, Economics, Philosophy, Sports, Psychology, Science, Engineering, Arts and Linguistics – and that was mainly it. Today there are over 400 subjects one can study.
And so I asked myself – “What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?”
I remember when I studied Law, it was quite straightforward – Mondays to Thursdays we had our classes from 8.00 am – 4.00 pm. In the semester breaks we had to write seminar papers. And the rest of the time everyone tried to earn money, live their relationships, go out etc. I had friends studying different subjects like Medicine, Biology, Economics and Business, but never did we truly share other interests. Studying and the rest of our lives were separate from each other. We had either a student-relationship or a friendship, but rarely were the two combined. It felt like my life was broken up into compartments –relationships, studies, workplaces, homes and cafés.
Another thing I remember is that one of the professors teaching Criminal Law was quite a phenomenon. He was older in years, and I loved his lectures – even though law lectures were normally anything but fun to listen to.
What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.
He was not a walking body of law in the sense of knowing and being able to repeat everything someone before him had written or said. He had lived with what he knew from all the court decisions, laws and files he had studied throughout his life and he taught from these experiences.
So today, being a student of ‘The Way of The Livingness’, I look at my fellow students and ask myself at times: what if the ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught at university, just like Law?
There would be one major difference: ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.
And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.
I love:
• The playfulness and the willingness to explore that the students of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ have.
• The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there.
• The lightness of it.
• That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love.
• That it is a constant way of evolving.
• That its base is the wisdom of the body and not only the intelligence of the brain.
That’s why I love being a student of ‘The Way of The Livingness’. I do observe in myself, and sometimes in the student body as well, that we make it about knowledge. That’s how we are raised and taught. I then ask myself: “Do we really have to repeat all the time, trying to improve and prove we are good students?“
Doing this makes the study of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ a subject like all others at university, based on comparison and the battle that comes with talking knowledge.
I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand. And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.
I remember back at university I couldn’t even follow when fellow students were constantly repeating what they had just learned in Civil Law. It was very brainy and I remember getting very tired and losing focus a lot.
But I truly loved it when we were simply contemplating and sharing about what we had experienced and felt with and from what we had just learned, not in a way to become a ‘good lawyer’ one day – more in a way of understanding the coherence and what was shared, what others had explored before – just like the professor I mentioned earlier.
I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life, thankful for having met Serge Benhayon – who is teaching from his livingness, just as my professor of law did – just teaching the overall subject, seeing himself as a forever student. Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.
And by me living my life as a student I might meet others who will ask: “What do you study?”
And I will answer: “The Way of The Livingness!”
And they’d reply: “Tell me about it!” – and from feeling my livingness they too may be inspired to ask: “Wow – where do I register?”
By Christina Hecke, Actress, Berlin, Germany
Further Reading:
The Livingness
The Way of The Livingness – The Light Outside Plato’s Cave
Inspired by Universal Medicine…Just Being Me
Registering to feel what we live started for most Students from being gentle as in the Gentle Breath Meditation and then Esoteric Yoga so we can live in the stillness we have co-created and move in harmony with the other students of life.
For more on the Gentle Breath Meditation go to;
FREE GENTLE BREATH MEDITATION
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=Free+Gentle+Breath+Meditation
It is very humbling to learn from somebody who has lived it and is teaching from that experience. There is no arrogance of the intellectual, know it all, but just a depth of understanding.
When we share from our experiences it has a richness to it that mere theory lacks.
Beautifully said Doug. I find when I focus on an end point in anything, it always feels like a deadline that I have to reach. By accepting there is no end point to anything we do, this really does blast the concept of perfectionism out of the picture, as we know we are always growing and evolving. And further, not only is there no perfection in this learning from the lessons in life that we receive every day, it is done without experiencing those lessons which, as you stated, are a pass or fail mentality.
“We are all students and teachers at the same time.” From new born baby to elder years we are students and teachers for each other as we evolve with the support of the Ageless Wisdom.
The Way of The Livingness has for me been the highlight of my life, and continues to be, for in learning what it is to live with true freedom through a deepening and honouring relationship with my essence, my Soul the love I am within, there is greater awareness of what life is about and what our true purpose here is. Every day there is more to explore and express from our Soul and it is this that allows us to live with true success and the power of who we are.
I Loved to hear Serge Benhayon explain the meaning of a Sutra. It is not something you learn and keep in your head it is to integrate into your life. The way of the livingness is very much about understanding life and learning from it. I used to go through life making my choices from the ideals and beliefs I had adopted. So I was making my choices unconsciously or automatically never questioning the the truth or the validity of the belief that was driving me. I see this a lot in myself and I see it a lot in others. You only really learn when you look at what is driving you and if it is true or not. This brings more responsibility and conscious presence to the choices in life.
I always find it easier to learn when someone is sharing from their own lived experience than when it is just knowledge alone. There is something about living experience that is easy to understand and grasp over just plain text.
Totally agree Lieke it is more than just the words that is understood. Our Soul expresses volumes that communicates universal truth, we can feel and receive this quality, a quality that is absent when the mind expresses knowledge.
I have found the same Lieke, it is much easier to learn something when that has been shared from a lived experience.
“Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. ” it is a religion that incorporates every aspect of life, in our every moment and our every movement knowing that how we live affects all others in the way of our livingness.
How we live affects all others, and it is really important for everyone to know this from day dot.
I spent 6 years studying English in school and I thought I was excellent at it because that was what I got from my test results and school reports – then going to England, I found myself not even knowing how to ask for things in a shop. I knew many words and grammar and all that, but I didn’t know how to express myself and communicate with others. It was devastating to feel like a failure in life after having felt like a winner at school. It’s a real shame the same system is still in place after so many years, producing many knowledgeable but unprepared for life students.
Study has never been so inspiring and unifying for all, The Way of the Livingness bringing us all to a place of immense love and wisdom that resonates deep within our every cell.
“What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?” This is a great question, because it would be everything university is not, there would be no burning the candle at both ends, no cramming, no last minute assignment writing, and we would never hold on to the knowledge as if we owned it.
Exactly Sally, studying The Way of The Livingness at some institution like university would be everything university is not!
When we share from our experience there is a markedly different quality. I remember as a kid having a radar for people that would say one thing and be living a totally different way of being… this hypocritical way of living usually meant I wanted to do the opposite… whereas when it is lived there is a clear message that this way of living leads to a particular quality.
Yes, I always hated hypocrisy, and lies, anything that is not truth.
Students aren’t asked to remember everything and regurgitate, but live it! What a profound difference that is.
Knowing results from us studying something. Yet, the action of studying something may be either a brainy activity or a lived one. We have all experienced a knowledgeable person based on brainy dedication. It can be an overwhelming experience of how much do they know. Yet, the one who has lived and has his/her body also speaking to them, is the one you will never forget.
To inspire another is to evolve another. May we all be a spark of inspiration for others so that we all evolve back to the love we are.
We are here to return to living in full who we truly are, to be love.
To actually connect with divine wisdom within and live life from that rather than regurgitated information from outside of us, does put a very different perspective on life and the choices we make in it.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience” – this statement hit it home for me, this is the difference between a lecture and a presentation. When it’s from a lived experience, everything universal comes through and that is the difference, it can be felt in every cell of my body. When someone is lecturing then intellect filters through and I must admit I too find it very tiring.
The Way of The Livingness is our university, it is for all and there are no benchmarks and I love being the forever student – it has become my Way of Livingness without perfection.
Presenting from a livingness, takes presentations to a whole new level.
There is such a difference when we present something based on what we’ve understood from it and how we may perhaps have applied it, rather than just repeating knowledge. The former is alive and relatable, the later just leaves you cold.
Where do I register for the way of the Livingness? We have already signed up by coming to earth as only by coming here can we live what we have registered for!
Separating knowledge from lived experience makes knowledge no fun at all! It becomes all about the head with no heart in it at all. The Way of The Livingness is different in that it asks one to live a quality that is true and lived with everyone. Whilst there are studies and things to learn it does not offer anyone any true advancing benefit if taught without any heart.
There is a definite choice – do we hold our learning lightly, or is it administered with a stern Judge’s gavel and then we sentence ourselves for our misdemeanour?
How we live can inspire, and that’s something for all of us to live and be, and that’s what I get so clearly from this piece, the joy in sharing what you live, and in embracing a full lived life being yourself.
The best school and learning there is, The Way of The Livingness – school has never been this cool, but it has, when we learn from our heart, body and life as one.
The ending to this article has offered me a moment of deep contemplation. The ease in which one can share themselves and how we live is so simple, that I began to consider that how much I truly love myself (or not), is what lies behind how easy (or not)it is to share my way of life with another.
Awesome sharing.
As you shared about your professor sharing from his Livingness, I began to feel the people in my life who have done the same, and without a doubt, they are the ones that I gained much from.
The Way of The Livingness “it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” And the course of evolution is to live the Way.
Love that there is no pressure of the exam hall, or failing.. simply opportunities to learn and then do we take this one or need the wheel to turn one more time so we can take the next one. An endless supply of opportunities, offered with God’s generosity until we choose to evolve.
Super cool Christina. I agree, it should be mandatory in schools that we get taught The Way of the Livingness. A subject that has no end goal, no rules and no exams. A simple reminder to come back to ourselves and to re-learn that we’re enough. This would change education for good.
The education system certainly needs changing as it stands, so coming back to ourselves and to knowing that we are more than enough, we are magnificent is essential.
Being a student of The Way of the Livingness has transformed my life more than any combination of degrees and postgraduate qualifications ever could. There is no pinnacle to reach and no qualification awarded but I celebrate with every lesson learned as I make my way back to soul.
We are here to return to soul, so celebrating the steps you have taken in returning is a beautiful confirmation Leonne.
‘I remember back at university I couldn’t even follow when fellow students were constantly repeating what they had just learned in Civil Law…’ This is so ‘on the money’ for me and reflects perfectly my experience at school. Whether I did well in a subject had more to do with whether the teacher lived their subject and spoke from the congruence of their body…or not. When something was just presented mentally and without lived experience, I felt lost. Those who teach from their livingness offer something very real in what they share and to me, this is the key to the ‘art’ of teaching – and hence, the joy of being a ‘forever student’.
There is such an equalness knowing we are all students and teachers at the same time, no person has it all that is why group work and working together is so powerful.
I can only truly inspire another through the way I live, my livingness. I have three kids and my role as a parent is to live what is true to me by clearing all that which is not true in every area of my life.
“The Way of The Livingness – Where can I Register?” – within…. in connection to our Inner Heart – there we find that registration is eternally open for everyone equally and always has been.
It makes sense that the lectures were more interesting when they were given from a lived experience, because living is what we can all relate to, living is fundamental to human life and when we share our experiences it makes us all grow and understand a little bit more each time and this perhaps is what is meant by expansion and evolution – to understand more.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” what a gorgeous quote from Serge Benhayon. It is stated right there, honouring the love you are in full, yes that is key and to live that!!
When we share and express from our lived truth, our connection with others is alive and real, as it is the reflection of truth that ignites our inspiration to explore our connection to our truth within. Truth is the language that is spoken from the inner-heart, one that we all know deep down is what represents the quality of our essence. And when we live in connection to this quality we live in connection to who we truly are with whatever we do in life. As such our Soulfulness, The Way of The Livingness is lived.
So true Christina, it is very powerful when someone expresses and moves from their lived experiences rather than reciting knowledge from a book or others. Serge Benhayon is a beautiful example of this; you feel the absoluteness of his Livingness in all his movements, bringing a quality of reflection that many are deeply inspired by.
I’m with you Christina. My favourite times when doing my degree where when we would talk in class about the practical applications and implications of what we were studying (we were all mature students with industry experience). Theory brought to life is a far cry from book-only knowledge, and so it is with life and The Way of The Livingness.
In breaking up our life into compartments we get the illusion of being in control and of being safe because of this control. When we are in the Livingness there is no need for this for we bring ourselves in full to every situation and we allow an expansion of the love that we are.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The Way off The Livingness is my religion.
What I love about The Way of The Livingness is that you register yourself and you register WITH yourself, it’s not down to attending a sermon, or a building or a class, it’s down to how you choose to live and what you choose to stand by and you sign yourself up for that every day – it’s so super simple.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience”, with this you refer to your law lecturer. If we don’t talk/ share/ teach from our lived experience its like a parent saying ‘do as I say’ and not living what they tell you. This is hypocrisy. One man who not only walks his talk but talks his walk is Serge Benhayon. He only presents what he has lived – an inspirational role model.
“And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” this is the big difference of how The Way of The Livingness is, to the education the world provides, One is from a lived experience which gives it the power to change lives the other is an accumulation of knowledge that is then memorised and repeated.
In school I thought I had learning difficulties because I just couldn’t pay attention when things were just repeated from textbooks and had none of the person’s lived experience in them. I have found that since my studies with Universal Medicine, I seem to learn so effortlessly, my writing reading and commitment has improved tenfold since school. I can only hope that one day it is an option for studying, as it supports you to be able to handle doing other study, it could be a good bridging course actually. As to be able to actually come out the other end of a University in one piece these days can be difficult but The Way of The Livingness is a foundation for all things.
Beautiful- to be a humble student of life is a blessing, it takes the pressure of trying to live the rat race and brings it more to connection, love, understanding and evolving.
“Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.” Yes indeed. Serge Benhayon teaches from how he lives, which makes his presentations so amazing. Having spent over twenty years listening to many spiritual presenters, with whom I got disillusioned because they didn’t walk their talk. I have now listened to Serge for ten years – and intend to stay with The Way of The Livingness for the rest of my life. He is the real deal, a world teacher, who will one day be recognised as such.
Whilst reading your blog this morning Christina I was inspired by the following, it brings a joy, normalcy and lightness to the reality of life;
“That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love”.
What you’ve shared here about education is of deep importance to humanity Christina. Have we truly ‘got anywhere’ through the regurgitation of knowledge and the prizing of our ability to accumulate (increasingly more) knowledge – without the foundation of a lived way underpinning it all?
Turning the tide of education, that it actually values and embraces the quality of the being and the quality in which we live, and ‘walk our talk’, is a paradigm shift that has well and truly begun. In my own life, I felt completely dismayed that university did not offer any opportunity for deepening one’s true awareness in life (everything being about ‘regurgitation’). Not until coming to the presentations and teachings of Serge Benhayon, did I actually rejoice that I had found the true education – and indeed forum for all to learn, together – I had always been looking for.
Love every word of this Christina. What you’ve shared here, to me, equates to what it is to truly live: “I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.”
If this were to be accepted globally, we would see a very different world indeed…
I never went to school much and when I did I found it so boring, because it was knowledge yet when someone speaks to me and shares their lived experience, I love it, I can relate and it is real.
Sign me up 🙂
The following words so explain why I find being a student of The Way of The Livingness meaningful and a joy to experience: ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.’ Nothing beats that in my book!
“I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.” This is true for all the Students of The Livingness – a fabulously, lovely lived responsibility.
There is something so different about a person who speaks about life from their experience, and a person who speaks about life from knowledge. What we learn from what we live has the capacity to be truly inspiring to other people.
Thanks Christina, I enjoyed all you shared about knowledge, education, and The Way of The Livingness. Allowing true learning, which involves lots of mistakes, is still something I’m not quite at ease with as for me in the education process there was quite a lot of stress and anxiousness about getting things “wrong” and doing well. It’s a lot of pressure to put on myself to be “right” all the time. The Way of The Livingness really expands so much because not only is it not about knowledge, it’s about a value in ourselves which comes from our being, from the fact that we are all equal Sons of God, and it’s about the quality of energy we choose to live connected to. This gives temporal knowledge its rightful place as part of what’s required in life but not reflective of who we are or our value. Getting things wrong or right, or how much we know is also not the focus because it’s more what we truly live in our whole body every day by connecting to our being first, and the constant expansion of ourselves as multidimensional beings who are in essence love. For me, if I feel I need to rely on what I know then it’s a sign I’m in a false form of security.
It would be wonderful if The Way of The Livingness was presented at school and University and ran alongside all other subjects and was part of all curriculums to open us up to understanding life, and the vastness of the Universe and where we as human beings fit into this. We are great at compartmentalising and making life individual and separate, but this is not how we are meant to live. Everything is connected and we forget this and as you have shown Christina, by the time we get to University everything is narrowed down to a few subjects, and we pigeon hole ourselves into these, and by doing this we miss out on the magic of life that is all around us.
When we compartmentalize all the different pieces of our lives it keeps them all separate, just like jigsaw pieces. But once we put them together and the pieces all fall into alignment with each other, everything has its place, complements each other and makes sense.
Being a student of The Way of The Livingness has totally reimprinted the meaning of the word student. Previously I had linked it with an irresponsible way of life that was separate from the rest of the society whereas now I feel the word conveys a wider sense of how we all have a responsibility to be open to life and the constant learning that is on offer.
We seek to separate so much in life including teaching and learning when they are actually all part of the experience of human life and we all have so much to offer in both areas. It then becomes so much more equal rather than looking up to someone because they have more knowledge or competing with fellow students to be the best in exams. I am constantly inspired by the humility of Serge Benhayon who imparts a depth of wisdom in such a relatable way as a forever student sharing with us so that all have the opportunity to embody and live The Way of The Livingness.
Beautiful Christina, sharing from our body as a lived experience brings an energetic learning for another. Communication between souls is felt and alchemy is made, to me this is true learning.
“The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life …….. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” Beautiful Christina. Having been in my head for most of my life – and definitely not in my body – my body immediately responded to coming to presentations by Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness. Esoteric Yoga sessions have greatly supported me in this – a very practical tool for living – and evolving – as I come to know love and value my true self.
So simple and yet is has been and continues to be so beautifully and supportively profound, “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” It may say “new worldly religious way” but I knew this way from very young, it was already in me and with me. It’s what I had as a foundation or a base to know when I was growing up that I was being sold a dummy on what religion truly was. This isn’t meant to be a critique of others growing up but merely to say I knew this and I wasn’t supported to bring out what I knew. Everything was about suppressing what I was feeling and then this didn’t make sense either. The world continually impacted on top of what I knew and so I hid this part of me and pushed it down. The Way of The Livingness has supported this part back out and now it’s in full view I feel free and no longer impacted by what the world may say. I’m not ignorant or removed from the world, I am very much in it but I just don’t put it on my shoulders.
There is such a huge difference when we speak from what we have lived rather than the knowledge we have accumulated. That what we have lived can be felt, it is almost tangible, while that what we only repeat is hard to grasp and we have to hold onto it in order to contain it.
That’s totally it, when we talk about something we know but haven’t lived it leaves the person we’ve talked to unable to truly grasp it, and it’s absent of the inspiration of a body that knows and lives it, hence making it easy for someone else to also know and live it.
Loved this and what a refreshing way to learn and live. When things become about living in this way then every conversation is a lesson, every relationship and every step is an expansion of the last. It takes life out of a ‘get to the end of the day or week’ mode and makes every point about the moment you are in. So often we are taught to learn so we can be better and then from there it feels like we drive life to ‘this point’ that never comes then we retire and it’s the end. This religion The Way of The Livingness breaks life open and gives us all a choice to live life in every moment. There is no point to drive to, because every point is the point. Life isn’t rights and wrongs, do’s and don’ts, it’s an unfolding path of relationships with each one leading or flowing into the next. You know when you have a conversation with someone and then you walk away or hang up the phone and you think it ends. It doesn’t and in fact it’s only the beginning as you walk that conversation to the next relationship. We are here to expand, not what we know, but how we are, the quality we are and in that there is a never-end, just another expansion, as I said, very refreshing.
Being a student of The Way of The Livingness is great fun and available for all age groups to be part of, and as you share Christina, it is an all encompassing, comprehensive study of life and the most interesting study I have ever undertaken.
Reading this blog this morning brought understanding to something that happened yesterday. Strength comes from being able to appreciate myself and what I offer when I present courses. Essentially, I am presenting myself and content in a way that is real and relatable, otherwise what’s the point.
I am one of many who have registered by conscious choice for this study of The Way of The Livingness and I can feel from deep within that in fact I already was and will be a forever student of it as it is that natural state of being that belongs to who we actually are.
Christina I love what you share here ‘And from feeling my livingness they too may be inspired to ask: “Wow – where do I register?’ This playful line of yours is a beautiful reminder of how powerful our reflection is to others when we live the livingness versus speaking the knowledge that doesn’t inspire or ignite another.
I love what you have written here Christina, it is so inviting, freeing and confirming, thank you;
“the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only”
Thank you Christina for a beautiful blog, where “the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only” This is The Way of The Livingness a religion that teaches us to connect to the wisdom of the body and learn from our choices.
Sure Jill and what I can feel is that The Way of The Livingness is simply living in each and everyone of us, but the level of reawakening to it determines how actively we are living with it.
Beautiful Christina. The Way of The Livingness is a universality of life and our Degree of Initiation is a marker as we evolve back to who we already are and where we truly come from.
We are all forever students learning to re-walk the path we have walked before.
Through The Way of The Livingness I have found a foundation that holds me strong, and through the choices I make I am forever learning there is no right or wrong, only truth and love.
Thank you Christina for sharing your experience, we are the forever student, how amazing is that no exams to pass, no hours of study, just being ourselves, learning from our choices and observations, and the reflections we receive from other students.
thank you Christina… When anyone expresses from their connection with themselves, from the deeper presence, it is always inspiring, because it has the resonance of truth, and this is something that everyone craves to hear and feel
I register every moment, and graduate every moment I choose to live in the truth of simply who I am!
I love what you have shared here Christina. It occurs to me that there are different ways to respond to the questions like:’ ‘How are you and what are you doing? It is so easy to go into auto-pilot, launch into stores of the small ‘I’ and talk of what we’re doing`; projects, work, responsibilities, ‘successes’ etc. Another way, could be to simply to express life as a student of The Way of The Livingness, how we feel in that moment, live and express daily. How would it be to say ‘I’m learning to be more tender and loving with myself and all others’. or ‘I’m keeping life simple, learning to be in the moment’ what-ever the truth is at that moment. In other words, feeling before speaking.
Beautiful Christina a powerful sharing on the lived truth of Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness a way I choose also, why would one not! “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
There is nothing more powerful than knowing something from having lived and embodied it first… it far surpasses anything that can ever be taught from a book. It is so easy to make life about knowledge but true wisdom comes from living life rather than studying it.
Hear, hear Samantha. It is only from one’s livingness and ‘out of the mouths of babes’ does wisdom come.
I used to hate being a student. Never liked the school system, the teachers. I didn’t mind the study, but I totally failed to see a true beauty and brilliance of being a student, and had no humbleness. “Study” was presented as something we had to do to gain knowledge, pass the exam, get a qualification – even though I would be choosing a subject myself for whatever the reason, it never felt like I was doing it for myself. To be a student of the Livingness threw me a bit as it was nothing like what I did before. Having a teacher who presents from his own livingness was something totally new for me – but this really is the only way that can ever be.
Thanks for sharing Fumiyo. My feeling is that many people dislike learning in the school system because the teaching is often kept completely separate from life and true purpose. We cannot live harm and teach love.
‘Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me.’ Christina you have clearly expressed the beauty of the school of the Livingness that is on offer. If Universities were to teach in this way it would feel like Alexandrian Library all over again. I too first approached the presentations as something to learn, but have gradually come to understand that it is a way to be lived, and from that livingness comes the deepest, truest knowing.
Very beautiful Christina. I am very thankful to have registered for the School of the Livingness. I have approached this from a gaining knowledge standpoint for years, however, slowly but surely I am remembering that the only way to truly know is to live truth.
Even if we just focus on one aspect of what this wonderful article writes about, and that is, that it’s actually okay to make mistakes because it’s from the mistakes that we learn, then this alone is so significant that it warrants deeper study recognition and awareness because for so many people, making mistakes is anathema
Thanks Christina – the lightness in which you speak about how education could otherwise be says a lot about you. To me it shows that you have surpassed the thinking of how things are to be taught and you share a new way that everyone would absolutely love. A way where we learn things but do not have the pressure of having to remember everything to then pass a test, but we learn by having fun and being light about it. A true pleasure reading the wisdom you share with us.
My whole life I wouldn’t ever have described myself as religious, quite the opposite, but since understanding about and living ‘The Way of the Livingness’ – “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” Serge Benhayon. I would absolutely describe myself as very religious now.
I’m happily ‘registered’ in the Way of the Livingness since several years ago, and this the best school I’ve ever been in. Because what I learn comes from my own experience, in my own rhythm. The syllabus comes with myself, and in its unfolding there are not failing grades but deep understanding and evolution.
We are all teachers of the livingness… as everyone observes what everyone else is doing all the time. The question is what are we teaching? Is it the normal hum drum, the stress, exhaustion, overwhelm, lack of love and respect that is so common. Or do we live a different way, allowing the vulnerability, the space, the love and divinity shine out to others as a beacon that they can draw inspiration from for themselves?
I consider my position as a parent to be similar to a teacher at a school or university, if I speak to my students/children from a knowledge and or instructive and cold disposition, I am met with problems, the children will usually ignore me or disagree with me. When I speak from a lived experience, when my movements match my actions and I am with love in my voice I am amazed at how they are lining up to listen and how enthusiastic they are about everything I deliver.
When we present from our lived experience it brings a substance to what is being presented. This is what impacts another and not someone speaking from knowledge.
We are more inspired by someone’s lived ways than any words they say.
This is evolutionary Christina – The way of the Livingness. It does not separate or compartmentalize or rank. It is one unified truth lived, studied and embodied. The quality of the teachings is whole to all , the quality of the student reflects in the quality of their lived way.
I love the sound of the lectures you had on law, they sound fully engaging as his teachings came from experiences in life. When we talk from knowledge or from a place of reciting what is heard is flat. When we talk from experiences that are lived what is heard is multidimensional and fascinating.
Being a student of life has shown me that everything has a purpose, that it is not about rights and wrongs but about an opportunity for learning. If I have learnt something to enable me to do it differently next time then that’s enough, it is when we get caught in the repetition of the same mistakes that we feel burdened with life.
‘And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only’ – My observations show that there is much healing that comes from living ‘the way of the livingness’ and that it brings the truth at a very deep level confirming who we truly are ‘Love’, yet many including myself struggle to claim this way. What is it about learned knowledge that many work at losing themselves in it and bathe in the recognition of parroting this learned knowledge? One way brings vitality and joy and the latter exhaustion. I know which I choose.
There is no doubt that if the Way of the Livingness was an integral part of University the wellbeing and health of all students and faculty would be completely transformed. There would be no need for a separate classes on the topic as it would be the foundation of everything, listening first to our bodies before doing and learning at the expense of ourselves.
Lovely to come back to and truly appreciate why I, along with so many others, have signed up.
Earth is the school of life where we are here to learn the lessons that we require to evolve so that eventually we go back to heaven. The Way of the Livingness offers simple and practical tools that we can apply to help us along our path of evolution – true schooling.
Wow. That took me back to the knowledge-fuelled and completely compartmentalised life on my university campus, one of my emptiest experiences ever. Enter The Way of the Livingness and its multi-faceted, all-encompassing nature, about our way of being; a subject that has us being students and teachers at the same time, learning and living, developing and imparting wisdom. A far cry from the cramming, the rote learning, the regurgitating of information and content that I’ve never used and can hardly remember. The Way of the Livingness on the other hand is absolute, ageless and timeless and has yielded me a far more beneficial return.
It is amazing to be a student of The Way of the Livingness as there is no on or off switch, my life is a constant course of understanding myself and what holds me back from who I truly am. It would be amazing to have this in every study, but that is not the reality, but living this way I know studying at University is very different, and an important tool to learn all the skills I can use in my chosen profession. But learning about life and who I am will be the most important, as it is always there.
“The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there”. I used to be so hard on myself and would beat myself up big time when I made a mistake. Being a student of The Way of the Livingness has supported me enormously in coming to an understanding that when I do slip up it is ok and when another makes a mistake it is ok too as they are learning too. Living in this way brings about harmony and supports each other to evolve. Thank you Christina for sharing as I have enjoyed reading your blog and comments.
I agree Caroline The Way of the Livingness supports us to look at life from a whole different perspective, and what I have been observing lately is how the slightest bit of self criticism is so harmful to us – so what you were saying about making mistakes is so apt at the moment.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The Way of The Livingness is my religion now and I’m not afraid to claim and express it although it has taken me some time to let go of the bastardised version that I grew up with. Claiming this feels so freeing in my body that I want to rejoice from the hill tops ‘At last, no more searching, I have found truth to support me on my way home’.
We are never alone when we claim our truth, I feel Caroline, as we are connecting to the innermost feelings of what we innately are – a brotherhood which acts as one as it lets go of the competition and comparison that we find so prevalent in the world today. We can sense that coming together and as we connect to our sixth sense we let go of all preconceived ideas as we surrender to the inevitable return back to who we are – without any doubt or conflict coming from within just a deep sense of connection.
This is so true Susan, that we are never alone and I can never be reminded enough of this truth. I can remember feeling very clearly when I was a young child that there was help all around us which I lost connection with as I got older. To have this connection restored and to feel the support is incredibly amazing.
Yes – I wholeheartedly agree Caroline it is incredibly amazing to restore that connection that is forever waiting patiently until we make the choice to return to that knowing that we are all truly one. In the meantime we have been on a merry go round going nowhere and now at last we can feel a connection to ourselves, to others, to God and the Universe and that this is a forever unfolding and expanding way of life that is both sustainable and vital. I feel truly blessed to be living at this time when there is so much support and love available as we begin to make new choices.
Beautifully and clearly written… and exactly what the world needs to read now.
Thank you, cjames2012 – it is something the world knows but forgot to live. There were days when one could have commented (if there would have been internet before..) “tell me news!” 🙂
“And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only”.
We are asked to simply live it; the love, joy,harmony,stillness and brotherhood.
Why wouldn’t anybody want to sign up?
Sad but true: cause it comes along with responsibility, it takes a discipline to keep on moving, and it needs to accept that there is no beginning and end – no pause, no rest – no checking out. That frightenes those who love their comfort zones.
Being a student of the Way of the Livingness is a very beautiful way of being. It is all about living. It’s not about handing in your homework in time and getting marked and graded and looking like a ‘good’ student. It really exposes how our current education system, or what we think the system need deliver, has got it wrong.
I recently had to sit in an exam for the first time probably in more than 20 years. I didn’t prepare myself specifically, because it was a subject I was very familiar and felt very much a part of what I am already. As it progressed, I could feel I had to engage something that felt very unnatural to me which caused hardening and tightening of my body. It didn’t matter how much I knew about the subject, what the exam was asking for was to adopt a certain posture to be able to go through each question – like a robot. I was very conscious, but I could feel a thick, heavy blanket-like layer coming down and on to me. It was just one exam. Just the same as how it used to be all these years ago. Just imagine having to spend years preparing to get into a ‘good’ school where you could further be trained to get into university by continuously repeating this process and getting totally submerged in so called ‘education’ – it has nothing to do with gaining academic credential, the whole process is about losing yourself completely – like, constantly being pushed into how much you are wiling to give yourself away for what is socially perceived as ‘success’. What I experienced did not feel evolutionary at all.
Being a student of The Way of the Livingness, it is very aptly described when you stated – “the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” This is so very true, learning to live it, feel it and not just talk about it, is key to understanding what it all means.
That is so true raegankcairney that is what made it so lively and simple – you have to live and feel it and not to just talk about it. This talking about it is easy but living it means you have embody it and with that the knowing is completely different – Now it is an inner knowing as your whole body is reflecting it with every move and gesture the body is doing.
That’s it, raegankcairney! That’s the only way to truly embody what we learn – to experience everything in and with ourselves and move on from the “livingness” as it says. That’s the revolution in “education”.
The beauty of The Way of The Livingness is that its practical, real, open to all who are interested in evolving and deepening an awareness of themselves and above all else it is true
I love the simplicity shared here Joe, The Way of The Livingness is amazingly practical and offers everyone a guide to a true way to live.
Christina, your sharing takes me back to my University days where one of the highlights was the discussion that flowed from the lecture, I was very interested in my topic of exercise science and was always keen for this to open up more. That is where we learn about life from others experiences and our ability to express what we feel develops through talking in groups. University has many aspects to it that is constricting, so to me it makes sense that you would be more engaged by a lived experience that a lecturer shares. The future of our education and our access to the wisdom we all hold is surely through making our education system far more experiential, multi-dimensional and all encompassing than is currently the case.
The Way of the Livingness has supported me to grow-up into a sensible practical adult, who is learning and understanding responsibility to levels never taught in school or at home. I feel that now I am becoming a genuinely contributory person in this life, no longer just a bystander who watches it all happen without being a part of what needs to happen in order to transform this life into something greater.
Yes Christina I only can agree that the study of the way of the livingness is wonderful. What is possible to re-discover is breathtaking and it is never ending. Each day there is the possibility to grow. I too ask why we do not have this way of learning at the kindergarten or at school or at the university. Imagine how would we all be and live together if it would be like that!
In the eyes of our today times living we are evolving. But on which purpose? It is mainly on profit, expanding the self by ignoring the rest of the world or to compete with another. That is not in any interest in the way. It is always in relation to the all and the love to the self – therefore for the all as being part of it. A bis 8 billion family thing* Education based on that would change everything!
What I also love and unfolding more to with The Way of The Livingness is the simplicity of it. As Christina was saying memorizing and repeating the knowledge using the structure of your brain or the lower mind can only be done in the structure it is designed to be. Wisdom using your whole body is less complex and you are utilizing all of you to allow what you feel to naturally be there instead of a repeated experience.
This simplicity is something that got me too Rik. I was never good at school as I am one of the pupils who was not good in repeating the knowledge and so I thought that I am not so intelligent. Since I live The Way of the Livingness I could feel more and more the wisdom residing in me and I can assure you that is no learned knowledge at all.
So beautiful what you say Ester – I was not too good either at remembering things at school – I just wanted them to make sense – and then I could understand and open up a relationship with them. As you say the Ageless Wisdom offers us a way to re-engage with our true wisdom that is innately within each and everyone of us – and from there we can feel the truth and the simplicity of a way of life that supports us.
And Susan, the Ageless Wisdom and The Way of The livingness makes so much sense.
Lovely Christina – I’m already registered! There is nothing more deep and all-encompassing then studying and living The Way of The Livingness. One of the most rewarding things is surrendering to allow an answer or the answer to come to you. You do not need to go looking in a text book or search on Google for the information, it is inside you. Live what you know it is a part of you or potentially there to live.
And the beauty of the “Way” added to your life is: the reflection to you when you are walking on a spot, blinded by your own habits and configurations. It is a true loving reflection that’s not wanting, demanding, pulling or manipulating.
Reading the comments I realise that it is so simple, it is registering with ourselves by honestly accepting the truth of ALL that we are and where we come from. It takes a commitment to ourselves and the whole of humanity to register with what we already feel and know but have chosen to deny or forget — the Divine Love that is our very inner essence.
I am thrilled there are no tests to take! Just a way of truly living, an observing and knowing that I am returning to all I know but have chosen to forget.
The only test is your own life, judykarenyoung!. You are the marker of whether you’ve evolved and expanded yourself or not. The only thing that is testing you is you own honesty: are you truly moving forwards?
Living a true life and expressing this in every aspect of daily life, we cannot go wrong.
This is the most natural way in the world, simple and flowing.
I love being a student of life, it is so much more fun than studying in University, which is a part of life but will only teach me what is needed to work in a certain profession. The way of the Livingness teaches us all trough living life and being constantly open to learning new things and see that what doesn’t work, changing constantly on the basis of that what we live.
What you share is proving that Studies at University need a revolution. It needs to be linked to life, to everyone and the overall perspective. AND: to the intelligence of the body. Never has anything been more intelligent than that.
“But I truly loved it when we were simply contemplating and sharing about what we had experienced and felt with and from what we had just learned,” I feel this is such an important statement, Christina, it exposes the way I was taught at school. We were taught facts, interpreted them as knowledge in the very shallow sense of the term, and were expected to repeat it all parrot fashion in exams. There is a vast difference between someone who does just what you have said, takes the information available and contemplates it and feels their own responses that arise from the “knowing” within, against the accumulating and owning knowledge from outside ourselves and using it to gain recognition or cover up our insecurities and feelings of being lesser than everyone else. The whole of life is about learning — from the inside about the outside — and In the Way of the Livingness the source of that learning is from the responses within ourselves, from the deep knowing of our Divine connection.
Christina – what I love about this blog is the question you pose: what would university be like if The Way of The Livingness was taught there?
In my experience of education – it was very much based on the intellectual – with a drive for academic excellence and success. And yet isn’t there so much more to life than just how well our grades are? Isn’t there purpose beyond simply regurgitating what we have learnt via books and studies?
What you share here about your law teacher is just beautiful as it brings his quality of living into how he lives each day.
That is so powerful. We are a living reflection of our choices, so to bring this into education, to me goes hand in hand. We are all teachers – we are always inspiring others based on how we live, and that is so much more than just what we say or the knowledge we have. True wisdom is honoring the whole body and not just the mind.
“..True wisdom is honoring the whole body and not just the mind..” That’s what I felt about my law professor. And that’s something our education system does need. People who live what they teach. And live it from the experience not from the mind. We need laws based on our living together from a loving point of view. Not based on politics, which party is reign the country or what might be popular for the moment. We need to face again that we are all one. That we need to build law on respect and acceptance and leave individual interests behind.
At school I rarely felt able to connect with what was being taught because mostly it was not shared with any true livingness. It was a very rare teacher who truly embodied what they were saying and trying to understand subjects mentally rather than with my wholeness was almost impossible to me. These rare moments when I could fully connect to what was being presented were a revelation to me and literally unforgettable. The Way of the Livingness can be applied to any situation or profession – it is the real business of life.
I’ve noticed how people become their profession and are stereotyped by the way we firstly study, and then molded by the particular job. So the person becomes the profession. To me this feels like a very conditioned and suffocating way to live. It is just beautiful that The Way of the Livingness allows people to return back to their natural effervescent selves and then live this no matter what job or profession they are in.
Bringing our natural quality to all that we do will change every profession as we know it.
I agree Matthew. The Way of the Livingness is very freeing as it asks nothing of you but to simply be yourself.
I Love these points Matthew, Deborah and Elizabeth.
The way you describe others potentially ‘signing up’ to The Way of the Livingness is how I signed up – inspired by the livingness I had seen in a student who I had been able to know and observe for several years prior. That’s exactly how it works!
That’s the beauty of “signing up”. It happens only through something inside that lovingly responds to someone offering you by his or her own way of living a reflection of something you might know. We try to reduce life to it’s superficies – like: that job, that car, that body-shape represents “happiness” – that’s why we seek to have them. The moment we get them: it feels empty. But getting in touch with “The Way” something else did respond inside of me. It was not: I wanna get this. It was a feeling of: That’s what I always felt, I always knew. And my body opened up. The was the moment I “signed in”.
‘But I truly loved it when we were simply contemplating and sharing about what we had experienced and felt with and from what we had just learned…’
I also enjoyed moments in my previous degree, in which we were all mature-age students with a background in industry. We talked about what we knew and asked questions from that place. It was by far the most enjoyable part of it, and the most authentic. Most of all it felt like real learning – from our experience and open questioning, from our livingness.
The way of the livingness is life and we are all teachers of life when we live it. So it can be shared and taught in every profession, just by discovering how to build a foundation of the livingness in that profession.
Well said, Danielle Pirera! Professions are pieces of the all viewed trough a magnifier. That’s all. But the identification and the “wanting to be important – aspect” make us believe that professions are the centres of the all. That needs to be re-imprinted. It is just the other way round.
Yes absolutely ‘the other way around’! I love this. First comes the livingness, that is living connected to ourselves and making choices based on our inner-feelings of what is true – then it doesn’t matter what we do for work. We will enjoy everything we do because of the quality of the connection in it, which is worth a trillion times more than the highest paying job.
The identification with the profession, the competition and the “being better” aspect made us trap into the illusion of perfection. But here is none. It can only be complete if the all is able to flow. And we are far away from that.
I love this we are all teachers and we each have different skills and livingness to offer.
Absolutely tonisteenson, in a way we are all points of inspiration for the many personal qualities that are strong for us. The problem I see in society is that the focus has become stream lined to looking good or being good at something, and there’s less focus on peoples natural or beautiful qualities, like something as simple as being able to listen to others in a way that holds them, or a wonderful ability to be very still and calm no matter the situation, or having a high level of self regard etc etc. More focus needs to come back to these qualities about people and less about being famous or having knowledge.
‘And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.’
My understanding is that the PhDs of old were not the massive, written monographs they are today but were verbal responses to questions asked by a panel of knowledgeable ‘professors’, and that in order to earn one’s stripes, the student had also to ‘profess’ what he knew. We see echoes of this in the verbal component of today’s process but it has largely been reduced down to producing great tracts of text few people ever read other than a handful of supervisors and examiners and maaaaybe a curious few. PhD theses aren’t even considered acceptable for use as research references. You still have to produce journal articles from your PhD to have your work used in the academic domain. LOTS of jumping through hoops.
Lovely, Victoria! As history has taught us: there is only a chance in changing things by living the change. We are all called to do what we do in full. This includes questioning the things, systems, educations: and walk with IN the awareness and understanding of the all. That will make us lawyers, doctors, teachers – that will be able to teach a new way. Since based on the living – not on repeating things.
‘I do observe in myself, and sometimes in the student body as well, that we make it about knowledge.’
Too true, we do. It’s difficult sometimes to move away from a ingrained, life-long societal and familial model of how to be a good student / child and later good worker / parent / provider. The thing is, we can be good in a true sense, as in living a good (responsible) life, but that has nothing to do with roles and recognition, be it in the student body or in mainstream education.
And we excuse ourselves by saying: “but everyone does”. And that’s the trap, don’t you agree Victoria Lister? We all have the sense and the inner knowing – it is simply a choice to live and study a human life, but not ignore and live our inner voice and bring it into everything we do/study/work.
Yes Victoria, I know I make it about the knowledge sometimes and not from my Livingness and it is interesting to observe the resistance in my body I feel as I write this. I want to think I am living more of the Livingness than I actually am! Being totally honest with myself is key and discerning other students whether they are being honest is something I am becoming more aware of as I develop a stronger presence in my body.
‘There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.
And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.’
What a radical turnaround from the university – and school – The Way of the Livingness is. I trust one day we will be able to return to an education system that honours this very holistic, spherical way of learning and understanding. Where teaching comes to life through projects students undertake rather than through repetition; where the essence of the student is allowed to express.
That’s the difference Victoria the students are not asked to echo what they have learned they are asked to live it. I think this is why I struggled so much with education because I was asked to memorise things that meant nothing to me, they were just facts on a page, they did not come with the livingness or a lived experience. Coming to the Way of the Livingness was like coming home, this was what I had been searching for all my life. There was a familiarity with the learning, like an old friend, and I could feel the truth with every cell of my body and there was a strong recognition that I had learnt this way once before.
Yes alisonmoir, I too struggled to memorise things and so learning for the exams I found extremely hard work. I didn’t enjoy studying because of the ‘trying’ which I now know was going against my natural way of being. Being reminded once again that every thing I need to know is inside me and that I have a choice in every moment to connect to this wisdom has been such a blessing and one I will treasure for the rest of my life.
The best bit is it is spherical, meaning we live in cycles so there is no pressure to get everything right this time round as it will come around again and again, so many opportunities.
The best thing about the Way of the Livingness is that we do not have to learn how to live it, we need only remember – for we have lived it all before in ancient times and often throughout the ages. Thus it is a returning to who we truly are and to what we truly know in the depths of our beings. It is a gorgeous, playful, inspired and wise way of living that reconnects us to the light of our Soul and from here, the Whole is known in an instant and the choice able to be made to live this in full through our fleshy bodies and human ways, to the best of our ability.
As a humanity we have become so very lost; the constant warring, misery, anger, bitterness, competition and comparison etc. we engage with in ourselves and with each other – all a desperate signal that we have lost our way, our true way. We live as fragments that are part of the One glorious whole that is the Soul, but we have turned our backs on this and with eyes downcast, cannot see the truth that lies within and all around us. Thus, as fragments we have sought a very fragmented way of living, and following Ancient Greek times have stopped seeing the entirety of what we are an innate part of (‘As above, so below’). Choosing instead to segment and compartmentalise everything in order to justify our existence to live in separation to the Whole that deep down we know we are a part of and are forever returning to, no matter that we no longer see it.
We are here, on Earth and in human form to return to the Light of the Soul – each and every last one of us. The Way of the Livingness assists with this development for those who choose to delay no longer. Introducing it as a University subject would be a great service to humanity and would revive both the educational institutions that have forsaken the Whole in favour of the parts and also the students who have been living as fragments within this system and our lives in general. Great blog Christina – truly transformational.
Absolutely – it is simple and known to our core.
The Way of the Livingness is arriving home to infinite wisdom and absolute Love – the clarity and Godliness we are of.
Deborah I completely agree if we all just stop to feel, we all absolutely know it to our core “the way of the Livingness is arriving home to infinite wisdom and absolute love- the clarity and Godliness we are of”.
Hear hear Deborah!
I was always looking for ‘The Way of The Livingness’ in my education but never found it, not that I knew it had a name. And yet, my education gave me the idea that it was always something outside of me that would enable to me to succeed in life. I am learning that by being a student of myself, I am able to bring so much more to life that transcends knowledge.
Beautiful emmadanchin! The “so much more” comes from your living. This is enriched with you and your experiences. And therefore much “more” than reproduced knowledge or behaviour!
Bringing a deep quality of presence to ourselves and to others is the greatest gift. With awareness of a greater purpose to living, each and every moment becomes evolutionary. Divine wisdom and capacity is given to us all of the time if we are open to receiving it.
You’re absolutely right. And that’s part of free will: to choose this openness and constantly working on the self willing to surrender and with it live “evolutionary”. It’s just a choice. Simple.
I love the freedom, playfulness and exploration you describe Christina. I have noticed in myself and others that there can be a seriousness which comes from trying to get it ‘right’ which comes from the education system we have been raised with. Learning to play again, to take the pressure off and let things unfold, question, contemplate, make mistakes and learn from them and all the while developing a deep and strong relationship with ourselves, our body and the quality of energy we know ourselves to be. This is my study of life, my university, my guiding light.
The hardness that comes with “trying to make it right” is exactly the same as the tension coming from self-bashing of not having it done right so far. Both are coming from a form of comparison – either with others or the self-created picture of how we thing we should be. A study of the self in love and understanding – with the focus to deepen awareness and love for the all – is what it truly needs if we want to stop hardness, competition, automatism in reproduction and stereotype behavior.
Amazing comment Christina. Comparing ourselves with a self-created picture of how we think we should be — thank you…. this creates a feeling of failure, of having done it wrong in the past and yet each and every experience is an opportunity to learn and evolve, to deepen understanding of myself and of life. Seen like this, with loving understanding, life becomes very different… curious, light, joyful. We don’t have to be all the same as each other, in terms of ticking all the boxes; we can be true to what we feel is true, in the progression and expansion of our lives.
As we all have to take the place and power of who we are – just as in a clockwork. If we would all try to be the same cogwheel the whole would collapse. It is not only something we could possibly look at: it feels more like it is truly needed to take the place by living our truth.
Yes, there’s a degree worth studying.
An acceptance of self and where I am at is key. I have recognised this recently when I have felt the hardness and protection in my need to get it ‘right’ and feeling the lack of acceptance for myself. As I feel my sense of worth the comparison drops away and I am left feeling at ease and with myself.
Thanks Emmadanchin, I agree this is so important and it is exactly what we have lost to our own detriment. We need to go back in time and unlearn everything to find the way we felt when we were little children, ready to learn everything about the world, by making as many mistakes as were needed to get it.
This is very true emmadanchin as I too can lose myself in wanting to get things ‘right’, wanting things to be a certain way. It is very controlling. Focusing on the connection with myself and observing myself as to whether I have gone into ‘the seriousness’ is something I am becoming more aware of , simply by noticing it. When I nominate it things change instantly and I am left with no expectation of the outcome.
Yes Matthew, I feel the same way. Often I am astounded at the breadth an complexity of the subjects that are covered by Serge Benhayon and then immediately further astounded by the fact that they aren’t that complicated and that I do in fact understand them….
I can totally relate to what you are saying from my days at school. Education was entirely about preparing the student to get over the next hurdle, pass the next exam, get on to the next level. I enjoined in this 100% and then when I arrived at University I suddenly saw the conveyor belt that I was on. Not only did I not want to stay on this conveyor belt for a moment longer, I also felt that I was on entirely the wrong conveyor belt. So I left immediately, went to London and started working; getting in amongst it, being with real people in real situations – getting what was the beginning of a much wider education. But, like you, it wasn’t until I started listening to the world teacher, Serge Benhayon and studying The Way of the Livingness that I really begun to see what a ‘whole education’ was. It is now and will always be an ever evolving path. But, as this blog describes, how amazing would it be if I had started studying this course, The Way of the Livingness, all that time ago when I was at University.
“.. But, as this blog describes, how amazing would it be if I had started studying this course, The Way of the Livingness, all that time ago when I was at University..” One day you will know it, Otto! 🙂
My sentiment exactly, ottobathurst. It’s a factory line where we come out totally tamed and spayed and having no wits about who we are. Like you, I only knew I had to get out and run, yet there was nothing out there that I could relate as being true, so I kept running until I found the Way of the Livingness.
What you write Fumiyo is so perfect. “I kept running until I found the Way of the Livingness.” I have never heard it expressed like this and had never thought of it that way. But it is EXACTLY how it feels for me. I remember occasionally getting lost when I was younger. It’s a horrible feeling. I remember running (through streets or wherever) with a hideous panic and fear in my body. But then as soon as I knew where I was, I would stop running and the feeling would subside. I may have still been a way from home, there may still be hurdles, roads, obstacles to cross, but once I knew I was on my way home (or wherever I was heading) then my body would relax. Discovering the Way of the Livingness was the same. Hurdles, bridges, obstacles still to deal with – but i know that I am on my way home.
Thank you Christina, for a truly beautiful blog, what you presented is true education at its core, one that encompasses all of life, with the Livingness being every part of everyday life.
The search is over, now the Way of the Livingness needs to be made widely available for all.
Each one of us has a unique livingness to share ,and the livingness of all of us shared is even more amazing . Its funny how much as humanity we have held our selves back through not expressing all that is within and from heaven . We just have to give ourselves the permission to feel and go deeper ,and blogs like this and the 100s if 1000s more are living testimony of what is possible when we can express . Each one of us a like a particular angle of specific mathematics enhancing or expanding the whole when expressing in full and creating more space for all to live in .Thanks Christina
Thanks for your comment, Greg080! It’s not said that we don’t need medicine, technology, law – you name it..! BUT: it is the way it is taught in University. We’ve got to open up to the fact that there is energy constantly influencing us. That it is us who can choose which source to work with. And that we are far more than biological beings running on food to one day die in some way. We are forever – for lifetimes – developing and expanding. And we are all one. If that’s the common base for our education system: WOHOO***
Great comment Greg – such appreciation and confirmation of brotherhood in action and the power of expression, equal in all.
This is such a valid point Greg – that we all have our individual Livingness to share, but when we come together in this activity – wow, the expansion is endless… This is what we call true brotherhood.
“That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love.” This is great that there are only lessons to learn, no right or wrong but an opportunity to evolve in truth and love.
That’s a fact, Amita! We have been trapped into the game of right and wrong out of competition and comparison. It’s the Olympic keynote that we still run after. Bigger, better, faster. Not based on how we do things – but what end result is focused or visualized. That makes our lives a constant accomplishment of ideals and believes. No matter if they are self-created or taken on from others. Isn’t it?
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.”. Yes Christina, I also find this incredibly inspiring. It is most natural and simple, yet hardly anyone I know lives it. Before getting to know The Way of the Livingness, I thought that I knew how life is. But looking back, I had a lot of arrogance taken on. Now I’m letting these layers go, one by one – I more and more feel how delicate, tender, fragile, joyful, Divine, lovely, funny, juicy I am. And with that feeling, I also feel how others are that too! That the deep love we hold for ourselves and others can never be diminished, yet we do a lot (if not everything) to deny that we miss ourselves and God a lot.
Yes Susan, which is why it all makes sense because it is nothing new, it is already all known within us. It comes down to a choice of whether we want to connect to and feel this truth or not.
” ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” My kind of University, the University of Life. I love learning in this way.
‘We had either a student-relationship or a friendship, but rarely were the two combined. It felt like my life was broken up into compartments –relationships, studies, workplaces, homes and cafés.’
I have experienced this to. There is a deep pull to base our relationships on commonalities, yet there are different layers of what we enjoy in common. For me I can’t imagine anything more binding than the fact we all have a relationship with life. We are all here together and experience the same emotions, feelings and reactions to life.
Right Abby! As we all come from different backgrounds, more or less in protection or open to meet people. We are all sharing “..the same emotions, feelings and reactions to life..” cause we are all more or less away from feeling who we truly are. The fact that I have described above by saying: “We had either a student-relationship or a friendship, but rarely were the two combined. It felt like my life was broken up into compartments –relationships, studies, workplaces, homes and cafés” is in fact nothing less than saying: “I’m playing different roles in different parts of my life. A self responsible way of life encourages to be everywhere all of us – without any reductions.
We have grown up so much with this way of completing tasks to be ‘good enough’ it can be easy to see The Way of The Livingness this way. But as you beautifully say Christina, there is no goal or mark to be had, no better, A+, wrong or right. Everything is just a continual opportunity to expand. Any day we accept and embrace this quality as our way we automatically register our place, as an eternal student of Love.
Every day lived in presence, acceptance of our imperfection but willing to deepen love and honesty – will expand truth. And that’s what will raise humanity. Not the blinking dilemma we walk in – “trying to make a safe life till the end”. The end is nothing but the start of a new go. This “birth-death” reductionism is limiting our minds, and with it our will and responsibility to move on facing our own choices and their results.
From my experience EVERYTHING in school is about getting you to remember and recall, and it doesn’t really make sense does it – that I may be ‘intelligent’ because I can remember 5 more facts that someone else can. I really like the Einstein quote: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”, because this actually specifies why The Way of the Livingness would be a great subject to learn, because it wouldn’t matter if you were a fish, a monkey, a dog, a frog or a bird – it would be about being a student of YOUR life, not of a system that only works one way.
Jessica great sharing, it is about being a student of your life and not of a system. I love how you share “if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid”, It is silly but there is so much truth in it, and showing how so many people are currently living their life.
Thank you Jessica for reminding me of this powerfully wise quote.
As students of the Livingness we come face to face with a lot confronting situations. I have experienced nothing else that calls me to take responsibility at such a deep level. Having said that, I have met some of the most fun and silly people who share the path.
Anne it has been interesting and somewhat surprising that when relating to someone very tenderly and lovingly the way you have described, I have used the word livingness and it has not raised an eyebrow. It is a word that seems to be understood as the way of union in the new Era, without any introduction or explanation, when being lived and reflected back to others.
I think the key here is that you were relating to someone tenderly and lovingly. When we express the truth with love it is deeply felt as a known. I have learnt that the quality in which we are is hugely important before any verbal expression takes place.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.” This is really so impressive to me as well, and even more so, the breadth of what is presented by Serge Benhayon is simply astounding when you realise that he is presenting only from what he knows from his experience. However, in no way is that experience ever held to be more that anyone else’s and Serge makes the point continuously that any one of us can do what he does and connect to what he connects to, if we make the choice.
“I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.” This says it all Christina, as this is the basis for all true expression.
Absolutely agree Rosemarydunstan.
‘And by me living my life as a student I might meet others who will ask: “What do you study?” And I will answer: “The Way of The Livingness!” ‘
Ditto Christina – a forever student of The Way of The Livingness.
It’s great this. It’s intriguing to study the long list of courses available at a big university or college. The dryness, specificity and narrowness of so many of the courses. Even the course titles fail to inspire me. Imagine stumbling across a course called “The Way of the Livingness”…..Now that sounds like something worth my time!
How can we study anything without studying the all? What’s the point of learning information without relating it back to life? Bringing focus to these aspects is surely missed in our education systems.
The beauty of this course – The Way of the Livingness – is that it is open to everyone and has nothing to do with the type of intelligence that is usually valued in our society. Funnily enough it’s actually something that we will all come to study sooner or later because we do seek a deeper truth and connection with ourselves. What I am finding is that the more consciously I choose this religion as a way of life, the more the hidden aspects inside of me become known to me and I then have the choice to either accept and appreciate what is there or to discard what is not really me.
Great title……yes ‘where can I register?’ The Way of the Livingness is a choice we can all make, it includes self responsibility, integrity, building a life that is full of self honouring and love. Sign me up for that!
I am all ready to sign too raegankcairney!
This blog is really cool because it knocks out all the pressure to be something different to who we are. It says, just be your self, don’t worry about having to impress or pretend.
Yes Shami, I agree it is really cool, it is like a weight lifted from your shoulders when you can finally just be yourself, no more pretending, trying or impressing, or the constant berating and lack of self worth that goes with never measuring up. We as ourselves are already all we need to be.
The Way of the Livingness is such a blessing! Just the one “there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love” – is totally changing our world and everything. Lovely!
True Sandra, it is a forever lession in humbleness and responsibility – knowing that every choice we make matters.
Yes, because we matter, we and our choices count!
Built into the way of the livingness, is a constant and permanent utilisation of what we are studying…. we don’t have to wait till we get to work, or deal with that particular tax problem. Its not isolated to home, or cooking, or DIY. Its an integral part of our relationships with ourselves, our partner, our kids, family, friends, colleagues. Our way of living is a constant through every moment of our lives and hence the study of it is natural, needed and deeply inspiring.
Love how you say this Christina – ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life …. it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.’
Oh yes Shirley-Ann, lets bring it on!! Lets make education all about Love and how to live life!
In a world full of constraints, how refreshing is it to have something that is truly real and gives you the opportunity to evolve, all of the presentations by Universal Medicine offer evolution at such a rate that before we know it we are remembering once again who we really are and where we truly come from?! Now that’s what I call true education!
Samantha despite all the claims I’ve read, the books, the courses and that talk about being ‘a better person’, the only workshops where I feel consistent ah ha moments, moments that I know deep inside, where I truly feel I am evolving, are those presented by Universal Medicine. I feel a very deep appreciation of this.
It’s like I have been shown the most beautiful and simple way to learn. No Pressure, no judgment or assessments, just my own school of love and life.
Absolutely Simon, it is truly very simple. No stress, no strain, no pain and the list could go on. With total understanding, acceptance and appreciation of our natural gifts. I can’t help but learn and enjoy discovering more as I go. This is the school that everyone evolves in and the way of the future.
“Our own school of love and life” – yes that it is to study the Way of the Livingness. The classroom is given and we design the study by ourselves. Whether it be hard or light, deep or low, a joy or not – it is our choice.
Reminds me on the Article from Adele Leung: “Livingness in Earth School, Learning in Heaven’s Classroom” (http://bit.ly/1NGo5SL)
Sign me Up Christina.
I’m there!
I feel there is a version of me, of everyone, that exists and lives on the inside that is absolutely amazing is all ways possible. We all can feel this and have felt this, often when growing up, but it diminishes. The Way of the Livingness supports you to connect back to this real version of ourselves and bring it to the foreground of our lives. It is wonderful living with this feeling again and a knowing that this is within all of us, everywhere.
‘I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand.’ Christina in the beginning I have tried to put the Way of the Livingness in this structure and started preaching although I could feel this was not the way but it was something I was used to do out of comparison with others. Letting go of the structure allows me to feel the space to learn what my body is telling me and to hear and accept the enormity of what is been presented. An amazing work in progress.
Yes, it can at times be a challenge to let go of the structure as it has been so familiar it feels so unsafe without. The paradox, however, is that the structure is restrictive, creating an illusion of security which in truth is false. Once it is let go of and in its place the embodiment of the teachings then there is true security.
How have we come so far from living in a way that is true? Truly supportive for all equally, when I listen to the amazing presentation at The Way of the Livingness we really are presented with a truer way of living.
The Way of The Livingness is the foundation for living life that forms the basis of everything with the foundation of love, expressing this in everything. Hence in truth it should be the foundation for all learning and university and teachings from here. It brings a connection to the whole, the truth and the way it is from the ancient wisdom, from God and all is known to allow this.
Yes Tricia, how amazing is it that The Way of The Livingness offers real education in the form of true philosophy, religion and science? For far to long these subjects have been bastardised, thank God we have the presentations by Universal Medicine that clearly remind of us of the wealth of wisdom we already hold in our hearts.
I agree Tricia, ‘The Way of The Livingness is the foundation for living life that forms the basis of everything with the foundation of love, expressing this in everything.’ This is the way forth, and it should be known and taught to all.
“I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life” – There is so much to learn and in that I have found at Universal Medicine that there is a way of being open to receiving what there is to learn, that exposes the hurt that we have used to hold us back, but not be totally consumed by the hurt.
If there was a book that simply expressed what all “religions” are then it would be quite easy to see through the vale many put up. What stood out reading today is what The Way of the Livingness is; “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” There is not one other religion I know today that holds this true, the openness of this is ever deepening. No wonder its naturally inspiring.
The Way of the Livingness offers so much more understanding about life than our current education system, (as it stands) possibly ever could. It is very much needed to be a core curriculum subject!
Absolutely rachelmurtagh1. I understand SO much more about how the world works, humanity and my own individual body/life from the Ageless Wisdom teachings; it’s incredible! My experience of school is very different – I can recite the stages of the limestone cycle or calculate the resultant force of a rocket, however have not learnt much about life past the school gates!
Indeed Rachel. Because at our core is our Livingness, how could this not be a core subject.
Absolutely rachelmurtagh1, The Way of the Livingness encompasses the whole where as school just focuses on knowledge. There is no aspect of life that the Ageless wisdom does not cover, the breadth and depth of wisdom is extraordinary. The Way of the Livingness would be by far the greatest foundation for education the world over.
So true rachelmurtagh1 – the most important subject in life is how we choose to live on a day to day basis.
The Way of the Livingness will undoubtably provide a pathway in life that few could have imagined. Offering this way for our children and adults alike is a way of breaking the cycle of misery and illness many currently live with.
Wow indeed Christina, a beautifully confirming blog. Like you I am so pleased to have found The Way of the Livingness which is available to equally so.
“I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life, thankful for having met Serge Benhayon – who is teaching from his livingness”.
the education system has a lot to be desired it is currently solely focussed on knowledge. If you struggle with the way it is delivered then you struggle through school – this can have a great impact on ones confidence. There is so much more to ourselves and life than knowledge – we each hold immense amounts of wisdom within but in most cases this is not encouraged to come out. The way of the livingness brings the focus back to connecting with our inner joy, stillness, harmony and love from here everything becomes more interesting and perspective is bought to our knowledge based education systems.
There is such a lot to understand and comment on in this blog Christina. It covers a lot. The first thing I love is how it shows us that it really doesn’t make sense to ‘compartmentalise’ things in our life. And the more I deepen my understanding of myself, and of life, the more I realise that I actually can’t compartmentalise my life. How I am with the way that I eat, affects the way that I study. It affects my relationships with myself and everyone else. How I am with the way that I work- effects every other aspect of my life. How I am with the way that I write, or speak, or relate to technology and computers – is a reflection of, and a catalyst to – how everything else in my life flows. We are all connected; we are all a part of everything. There is nothing we do that does not affect everything, and therefore everyone, else around us.
Thanks for your beautiful Blog.
As you say Simon, ‘There is nothing we do that does not affect everything, and therefore everyone else around us.’ This truth and it scares most people because it exposes just how irresponsible we are as a human race. We like to believe that what we do behind closed doors at home has no affect on our day in public life… when in fact it shows in everything we do and are… it’s all one big interconnected system.
Yes Dean and we do not like to feel the deep lack of responsibility we have lived by not accepting that everything impacts everything. It is huge and would mean that we would need to change every aspect of our lives, the way we move in every moment and how we communicate in every conversation. We would need to consider all in everything we do which many do not want to accept.
Compartmentalising has become an art form – “be like this at work, be like that at home”, or “be like this with the ones I love, or like this with the ones I don’t love” – none of this actually works, and with The Way of the Livingness we can bring our all to everything we do, and with whoever we are with.
Do we live and learn from our heads or our hearts. What leads what….when I have studied in the past I could feel my head getting more and more full of stuff and I would lose interest and feel overwhelmed. As a student of The Way of the Livingness, I have developed a deeper wisdom and understanding of life and this allows me space to learn in a way that is expressed from my heart. My head is no longer leading the show, and I feel I understand more now than I ever have.
“Do we live and learn from our heads or our hearts” Great question Samantha our current education system definitely is mind driven and unfortunately we can see very clearly the consequences of this not working. It is very clear how detrimental making it all about the mind is to society.
Beautiful blog Christina – what you present is simple and very powerful.
I agree Shirley-Ann. As it stands now our education system is very successful in completely stunting a child’s natural development, making it all about knowledge, competition, recognition etc. which then goes on to impact every other area of life for years to come. Thankfully we have been presented with The Way of The Livingness which offers us a true way forward returning to the wisdom of our body. I love that I have been inspired by others on this path of return and that I am now a student of The Way, re-learning and living from my lovely body!
A beautiful comment Heather and living in a way that is from our bodies first and foremost is a very confirming way to live. I check in on my body on a regular basis to see where it is at and what it is saying to me.
True Susan. The Way of the Livingness is True study. Universal Medicine is showing us how study can be. Universities take note!
‘And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only’ this is the very essence of what is presented by Universal Medicine and life within The Way of the Livingness.
Super cute Christina… and I find the article really brings home the difference between a rather dead and dusty approach to life where we pack our heads full of knowledge to spew forth what is required at the appropriate time. This, as opposed to a living way, and to me it sounds like your Law Professor was lecturing very much from this philosophical standpoint… taking his lived experience and sharing that with others so they may learn. The best outcome would be for everyone in the class to get that that is what it is all about… sharing our lived experience. The law bit was just a useful aside!
Yes so true simonwilliams8, I know that the parts of my school education that have stayed with me came from teachers who wanted impart their life’s experience and the subject was a bit of a ‘trojan horse’ in reverse! Occasionally beautiful pearls of wisdom would escape and light up an otherwise mundane plod through secondary school. Universal Medicine has restored the joy and purpose of learning again because it all comes from a lived experience and encourages me to re-connect to a deep wisdom that resides in us all, even when we refuse to acknowledge or honour it. Stuffing my head with all sorts of ridiculous information that bore little relation to real life does seem like an immense waste of time and effort.
As a young girl I had a connection with God. At some point I gave up on God because what the church taught just didn’t make sense to me. Thankfully, I have redeveloped and deepened my relationship with God since coming to The Way of the Livingness. This religion has helped me to feel God, not know him through intellect but through the way I live.
The Way of the Livingness – ‘it is the study of the All’. How true. What a great subject to study every day of our lives, by living it, thanks to Serge Benhayon.
True – the Way of the Livingness is accessible to all via the University of Life.
And all we need to do Deborah is pay attention in the most wonderful classroom you could imagine!
Beautifully put Ariana, and we need to keep saying YES to living the love that we are as it is forever deepening, expanding and evolving.
Delightful Christina. It is so true that to be a student of life, as is the way with the Way of the Livingness, opens up the whole spectrum of how education could actually be. One day we will come full circle and teachers/lecturers will connect to the students and share life experience along with text, not just pour knowledge forward to be regurgitated at an exam to reach a ‘higher’ level of intelligence.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life”. Just considering that in itself makes my heart sing. Imagine if every one of us chose this way of life.
Yes Golnaz, life on Earth would be very different indeed.
Great blog Christina, being a student of The Way of the Livingness is truly about ‘living’ and ‘committing’. It is about being in life, that work is life and life is work. It is very much about not comparmentalising life. We are us in all that we do, so it is our responsibility to get to know ourselves, intimately. That is done through the body and re-learning how to feel us in every moment. We are well worth getting to know.
This so true raegankcairney, how often do we make one part of our life more important then another or we think we need to be less responsible here then there. Understanding life through energy will show that there is only one life and everything we choose effects the whole.
Absolutely Raegan there are no stop start moments in life – it’s all one continuum and so we cannot bring more to one area of our life than we do to another.
Very true deborahmckay. I love constantly observing which area of my life is calling for more commitment and consistency. When this is honoured it affects every other area of my life equally. Then another area will stand out and so on.
Beautifully said raegankcairney. ‘It is about being in life, that work is life and life is work. It is very much about not compartmentalising life’ – How true; there is no ‘behind closed doors’ as a true student of the Way of the Livingness, instead a knowing that how we are in absolutely every moment affects the all.
It sure does ‘affect the all’ Susie. What we do behind closed doors will always show up in the broad light of our public conduct during the day – the idea that it doesn’t is one of the greatest illusions of all.
Beautifully put raegenkcairney. We are so well worth it.
I love the Esoteric Teaching and Revelations published by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It is living wisdom, truth and love easily accessible to all. Every revelations brings a stop and asks us, the reader, to ponder deeply on what has been said. The truth of what is expressed can be felt in the body instantly. The rest is up to us. Do we adhere to it, be curious and give it a moment to reflect or ignore what is presented. We have ignored much wisdom for too long – that is why we are in the state that we are in today. Can we afford to ignore it any longer?
Absolutely Doug, everything that happens is a rehash of the last thing or time it happened, nothing is really ever new. It may look that way in terms of what new shape or form we have seemingly created yet the act of creation itself is simply a perpetual repeat of the same separative ways and it’s the same endless trappings.
Yes it’s also almost humorous Doug, like when after 50 years a science report comes out with ‘evidence’ finalising that smoking is actually bad for you. The answers have already always been there, even the questions too. We just like to think we can create new things and solve new problems because it makes us feel better. We need to feel better because we are constantly missing that one true ingredient – the one that holds the answers already.
The beauty of your sharing, Vicky, is: that everyone could be a speaker of wisdom, if we but only have lived it and chosen love as a quality to live in and from. The consistency and strength to not worry about others reaction which Serge Benhayon has brought up is what make the listener humble and everyone who attends “The Way of the Livingness teachings” feel: “This is something I always felt/ knew!” Because it is universal! I deeply appreciate and honor the power and grace of Serge to speak up and share “The Way of the Livingness”.
I agree – there is amazg wisdom in these books, and the world is deeply suffering from a lack of wisdom and live – it’s definiteky time to start listening.
Ever since the first day I met Serge Benhayon, he has been a consistent source of inspiration. He doesn’t do this by creating an artificial air of perfection, but by the very real way he lives his life according to how it is truly configured. I am beyond fortunate to know him and many others who are equally inspiring in their dedication to keep evolving and be real with life.
I loved to reread your sharing Christina – the study of the way of the livingness will be so different compared to what is happening today at university – no marks, no recall of information. Everybody is asked to share from his / her lived wisdom and to embody what other people share. Then the question won’t be any more: What do you know about this subject?, the question will be: What have you felt in your body about this subject ? Wonderful.
Beautiful the questions will be changed and they will be from the lived experience, the wisdom within, what the body has felt about the subject, not what you have learnt or recalled.
Awesome to feel.
We with them have no doubt or uncertainty in subjects, as we will know from within what the truth is.
I am imagining our Universities, Colleges and Schools of the future. How different they would be with ‘The Way of the Livingness’ as the core subject from which everything else was taught? I agree Alexander of the wonderful-ness of this!
I agree Rachel, this would be great as it would make all learning relevant to life and about supporting what humanity actually needs. The state of the world at the moment shows the intelligence we are currently using hasn’t advanced us.
That is exactly it Alexander, “the question will be: What have you felt in your body about this subject?” Commenting on blogs for me is a perfect example. Sometimes I will read a blog or comment, and nothing easily comes to me, my experience of the said subject/issue is not deeply held in my body, I can comment but I have to dig deep. On other occasions while reading an article my body instantly resonates with the others experience and I can comment with ease and with a knowing, sometimes I may get a bit lost during the process of expressing, but if I stop and reconnect with my stillness, all that within my body is available once again.
A learning that is personal to each of us based on our own lived choices and evolving of us all. There could be no comparison in grading for how can we possibly assess one person’s livingness against anothers?
And so from here we are left to finally admit that in-truth we are all equal as we come from the One same light forever burning within.
Brilliantly said Liane – in-truth we are all equal as we come from the One same light forever burning within.
I love that Alexander1207 “Everybody is asked to share from his / her lived wisdom and to embody what other people share”. Its how we truly grow, both within ourselves and with one another as a whole. When one person feels a deep truth within their body, it will apply to us all, as our bodies are all connected to the same intelligence that created them. When we are encouraged to build upon these awarenesses, our connection to truth keeps on expanding and deepening. What a rich source of learning this is, with the immensely added bonus of it then being taken into our everyday livingness, so that revelations can be further embodied and magnified for all to benefit by.
I love this question, alexander1207 – it’s the proof for one fact: there will always be evolving happening! Because expressing from experience has always developed people and things*
That is true – knowing something from feeling it in your body, and having actually lived it is so different to knowing it in your head, having learnt or memorised it.
The Way of the Livingness has inspired me to connect deeply with myself and has been key in me taking control of my own life and committing to my own journey with myself and God. Not once have I ever been told what to do or what to think – it’s a knowing that you feel deep within yourself, and with that marker you are inspired to change your life around. Simple really.
The Way of the Livingness has inspired me to connect deeply with myself and has been key in me taking control of my own life and committing to my own journey with myself and God. Not once have I ever been told what to do or what to think – it’s a knowing that you feel deep within yourself, and with that marker you are inspired to change your life – around. Simple really.
I am by your side Christina, “deeply fulfilled being a student of life, thankful for having met Serge Benhayon who is … just teaching the overall subject, seeing himself as a forever student.”
Forever Students we all are – learning to discover what is there instead of creating something.
I love this Doug – a never ending school of evolution.
There is no end to the learning available to us – we need only say YES.
Yes Doug, I love being a forever student of myself and life.
I love how you put it Doug! Who would ever want to graduate? It’s far too beautiful to ever want to stop.
Yes, a forever student Doug , and we don’ t need to graduate as we are already that which we seek – we just haven’t realised it yet.
Yes Sandra, we are learning to discover what is already there. How amazing is that?!
Yes we are all students of life… perhaps that is the first lesson of all we need to grasp.
So true Doug- who would ever want to graduate from that, we are forever learning.
Gorgeous Sandra, I agree, I am by your side as a forever student of life.
And side by side we make it. 🙂
It’s the best school I’ve ever attended that’s for sure, a never ending expansion of awareness and wisdom – who wouldn’t want a bit if that?
For me it feels like we graduate all the time! Just the study is not finish with the ‘Graduation’. It is just the claiming of a step (back to heaven), a confirmation and appreciation of what I discovered and then…next step, next graduation.
So true Doug, it is a fascinating course to embark on this endless unfolding back to being at one with God. We are already an inescapable part of God, but waking up to this fact, observing, feeling and healing all that stands between us and the Divine is an incredible journey, the most exciting one we will ever embark on and yes, it never stops!
I agree Doug, it is the most amazing thing to be a forever student of life, of God and the universe, there is nothing more exquisite, then this we just need to remember it.
The Way of the Livingness in not about self gain, it’s not about us bettering ourselves, rather, about us being ourselves which may in turn inspire others to look at the way they are living and perhaps choose differently. Little by little humanity can then return to it’s natural harmonious way of being. How divine.
When the knowing comes directly from our own lived experience it carries with it an authority that cannot be denied. Many hours get wasted in discussion about the meaning of this or that, but when Truth is presented, inspirations happens.
So true Carmel, we waste so much time discussing theories and topics that have little to do with our everyday lives. The joy of studying the Ageless Wisdom with Universal Medicine is that every topic presented for discussion is supremely relevant to our everyday lives, to how we begin our day, what foods we consume, our attitudes towards work, our relationships, our illnesses and how we advance ourselves. Nothing is left out, everything we feel and do is encompassed in the science of energy and the Universe, no action, thought or event too small to be dismissed. There is no other course out there that offers us such an all encompassing opportunity to really know ourselves from the inside out and re-connect to the true purpose of life once more. Wholeheartedly recommend it for the truly empowering study it is.
I love this too about The Way of The Livingness – it is practical, real and everyday personified… And available for everyone and anyone.
So well expressed Rowena. We have spend aeons discussing, theorising and searching for answers when the answer to the biggest issue of all is right under our noses, or eyebrows to be more precise, that of who we truly are. All this thinking has got us nowhere except to back where we started, like a downward spiral going deeper and deeper into the darkness. The Way of the Livingness is truly a way out of this miasma of life that we have chosen for ourselves. A student of the Way of the Livingness is one who is forever learning and evolving back to who they truly are by making self-loving choices and a commitment to their own healing. Looking on the outside for answers never worked that is why I choose to be a student of the Way of the Livingness, so I could leave all my baggage behind and reflect to others the truth, and that IS empowering!
So true Rowena- it is the study of life and people from the practical to the philosophical.
Absolutely rowenakstewart, ‘There is no other course out there that offers us such an all encompassing opportunity to really know ourselves from the inside out and re-connect to the true purpose of life once more.’ I fully recommend studying with Universal Medicine, my list of reasons why to is endless…
Truth cannot be denied because it is backed up from our body. That is the ‘secret’ of lived truth. And that’s the reason why it is unshakable and so challenging for opponents.
Precisely Sonja, that is the ‘secret’ ingredient here. When truth is presented it arises from a lived experience and is common to us all, a universal truth that resonates with our bodies and cannot be denied, only attacked. We know and have always known the difference between someone speaking a truth that applies to us all equally so and someone presenting an intellectual theory. When a person delivers truth it feels fresh, alive, clear and purposeful, it expands our awareness and strengthens the connection to our inner wisdom. When truth is delivered it requires no preparation or rehearsal, it arises from an alignment to the universal truths that reside within us all.
Yeap, Rowena.. that’s how truth is spoken from a body who lives it. 😉
When this is discovered for ourselves true empowerment begins.
The irony is that if our bodies have not been looked after or cared for, there is a strong propensity to have abusive and maligned thoughts that will put down even the most glorious discoveries, like for example The Way of the Livingness.
I agree Sonja, our bodies are our way of knowing truth if we are willing to listen to what are bodies communicate. I am very much enjoying getting to know my body in such an intimate way.
Me too Amina.. It is a feeling of yumminess and joy which expands in my body when I appreciate it.
Yes Sonja, truth is so simple but we have learnt to complicate it.
Truth is simple and the only barometer of it is our body. No lie stays unrecognised to the body as a whole. Fragmented use of our body like the mind without respect what the body says, makes complication possible and therefore truth unrecognisable or better said veiled.
This is exactly how we can distinguish Truth from not Truths (lies in fact). To be connected to Truth and live and encounter from life is simple, beautiful, loving, light and joyful. We can challenge Truth, but never change it. Yes, we can bastardise it, as we have for a very very long time – in fact since we’re living on this earth – but we will never be able to change it. Energy is energy and any and every expression has either the source of love or not. The choice to connect to either of these energies is ours. This is the very basic Wisdom and science that we are to re-connect to and honour to the bone. If we truly want a loving life of course.
Yes Floris, “if we truly want a loving life of course.” This is our choice and sadly but true, mostly we seek love and are willing to make this choice when we messed it up totally. That’s how most of the world learn.
Yes, well said Sonja, there is no doubting what is strongly felt in our bodies. It’s a known lived fact that is communicated to us daily, it is our constant reminder of what is true and what is not. No wonder it is unshakable.
I love the Truth and Wisdom you’re sharing here Fiona “It’s a known lived fact that is communicated to us daily, it is our constant reminder of what is true and what is not.”. Very powerful words which we are to study as humanity very clearly. It is providing us with the law of appreciation. Because in fact, all life is constantly reflecting how amazing and Divine we are – by nature. It is up to us to re-connect to this science and known fact. For many it is – yet – far away or even surrealistic, for some it is lived and deepened every day.
Carmel the way you’ve expressed this cuts through so much rubbish that goes on in relationships, work and family. I know and feel a deep authority in myself when I express about a topic from my lived experience. No blue sky theory, instead simple practical discussions that are deeply loving and evolving.
Greater understanding is possible as a result of our lived experience – this supports all others and serves to inspire the many.
Yes David, and then their is no need fo a discussion or a need to be right when truth is spoken from a lived experience.
True wisdom David Nicholson. True Wisdom.
Wise words David. In fact there are less need for words when we are living our livingness, the authority of our body says it all, and it is true that sometimes words get in the way and diminish how awesome we feel.
Yes David and Kerstin, if we share from our own lived experience there’s no need for discussion, arguments, being wrong / right, etc. There’s just experiences being shared and from that sharing unfolds whatever’s next. Without needing to know how it will exactly work out. Simply because we don’t know. I’m experiencing at the moment that the more I let go and just let life unfold, the more space I experience which leads to more joy and ‘ease’. Slowly letting go all the pressures and expectations I took on from others. It is a merry-go-round because others have taken on the pressures and expectations from others. So in order to stop it, we are to claim ourselves and just take ourselves as the authority. Let us be inspired by others, but never give away our authority and power within ourselves.
Absolutely Carmel, when we impart wisdom from our lived experience it does come with an authority that cannot be denied. And when doing so we are connecting to whomever we are delivering to, not just spouting knowledge hoping that someone gets it. Spectrums apart.
I agree Jane and building this quality allows for a true confidence something I have also been building slowly.
well said Carmel, when many hours of discussion are needed we are not connecting to the truth as there is no such thing as your truth and mine. There is only one truth and it is one unifying.
This is the simple truth Carolien, and as I fallen for the false illusion that there is ‘my truth’ I can see how this way of thinking keeps us all individual and therefore separate from each other. How simple it is then to know that there is only one unified truth for us all.
Yes i agree Carmel. Lived authority is absolute – a very concrete reality that speaks volumes.
Lived authority is absolute…feels so powerful to say and to ponder.
And a simplicity that is just there, when we express from the wisdom of our body.
In great contrast to giving our power away to an institution, qualification or accolades, we have living wisdom and unshakeable authority having lived and walked the ageless wisdom.
Yes Carmel, so much time is wasted discussing whether something is right or not right, when much of the time it is simply someone elses opinion. But as you say when truth is presented, what more is there to discuss other than the awareness and inspiration that comes as a result.
True Carmel. For me, wisdom is the lived experience of knowledge. Knowledge feels empty without this lived experience and becomes little more than a theory open to endless discussion and debate.
Yes Lee, we must all get to this crossroads…” I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.” And choose the way forward.
I agree Lee, this is why it is so much easier to learn from well seasoned professionals. I can see now the responsibility we hold in passing on our wisdom to the next generations..
This article and the comments are absolute gold. I particularly love that truth is something that is felt, not thought – thank you Doug.
Beautifully said Carmel
WOW, that’s powerful and hits the point, Carmel! If truth is presented there’s no arguing possible. This is only happening when there’s self, identification or attacking the purpose. Any comment based on expansion is expression of love and therefore more truth given. That’s where we can walk on bringing an end to self-centered discussions.
That is such a powerful shift to make christinahecke, to work at “bringing an end to self-centered discussions.” It goes against the very core of my education and up-bringing and yet it is fundamental to supporting true brotherhood. Universal Medicine has enabled me to see beyond my short sighted and self centred existence and appreciate that I everything I do affects everyone in the world. Letting go of my own indulgences and need for recognition has helped enormously to heal my argumentative tendencies in favour of living and working for the bigger picture, the whole of humanity.
It’s quite a way to build a strength inside knowing you are always enough the way you are and forever expanding and evolving. This is the ground where equalness can be build on – felt from and lived onwards.
I agree Jane. It is incredibly powerful to give ourselves permission to share from our bodies. It only needs this permission and the authority is just there. Ready to share pearls of Wisdom. One after another. It is indeed absolutely amazing what our bodies know. And the more I practise it, the more natural it becomes. Such a lovely thing to do. Very supporting and healing for both myself and others.
I love the profundity of what you are presenting here so simply Carmel. The authority that lived experience imbues someone with cuts through a lot of rubbish. The impact of which is deeply felt, as truth is then a known for all in its presence. What we then do with that truth is up to us, but the feeling of expansion in that moment can’t be denied.
I love this Carmel, the truth when lived does not need words to inspire another person, it actually lives within them. If I think of one of the most inspiring people I know, sure the truth she speaks inspires me, but also every movement she makes is inspiring, and the commitment she goes about her life inspires me.
That authority is unshakable when it comes from our lived experience because seriously who can argue with that. People can try and throw things at you (sticks,stones, words etc…) but when you speak from what you have lived it is unshakable.
So true, Carmel. Is our knowing coming from the head or the heart?? That is the question!
Same here Carmel. I have spent many hours in the past debating the meaning of life in which my arguments came from a mental construct and not from my body. Now with a lived level of love in my body, I have a lived authority in which I now speak from. As you write “then Truth is presented, inspirations happen”, I certainly have seen this as the case.
Hear hear Carmel – very well said.
Pow wow! Carmel, this comment in itself comes with the lived authority that you talk about! Clear, concise and cannot be denied.
All that discussion is us avoiding the responsibility of the fact that we know but are actively choosing to delay
Awesomely said, Carmel! Every single life is a choice: evolve and explore the uncovered inside or rest and stay in the know unwilling to give up comfort. This is the change. The lived life itself by every single one of us.
True Carmel, ‘When the knowing comes directly from our own lived experience it carries with it an authority that cannot be denied.’
I had such a smile reading this today and this line leapt off the screen – “I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life”. How awesome is that! To be a student of ourselves, a student of each other, to see life as a constant learning and to be light and playful with it with a deep honouring and respect of the machinations of this universe. I love being a student of life and a student of the Way of the Livingness as well.
In fact: we all are – whether we like it or not. We learn from each other and life is the teacher. BUT: it is a commitment to always be willing to grow and be the best possible reflection for others simply by accepting ourselves, not accepting the “normal” as given and always keep in our hearts that it is not about us but everyone else equally. And that’s a choice.
The Way of the Livingness is to live life according to my natural expression, my love and bring all of that into my connections with all. It doesn’t come out of a book but by reflection and trusting my own knowing. If I recall I can remember a lot of these naturally occurring directives that were there to guide me but unfortunately very little reflection to confirm myself. School was not for me as very few subjects interested me and I felt the pressure to ‘remember’, I could never fully align but instead left me feeling like an ‘odd ball’ that didn’t quite get it. How would it be to have the primary years just about our everyday livingness, it makes sense as surely that’s the foundations for our future and I would have related to that.
I agree the way of the livingness is naturally enjoyable to study and live.
This morning I felt how natural it is to learn. That all children naturally want to develop. They are living The Way of the Livingness naturally. I had a deep cry when I felt that we only have to allow children space to expand their already existing Wisdom within. We are to foster that connection with themselves and with others. There’s such beauty existing / living in every classroom. All ingredients for growth are present. We just have to allow it and let it unfold openly, so everyone can learn from each other, so the growth would expand tremendously for the benefit of everyone. Rather than the growth is being contained and hidden. How absurdly upside down have we created a system. It is very sad, yet I can’t help but laugh that we’ve allowed this to happen. Are we ready for the change, the truth? To let the system work as it naturally would be?
Floris it is sad we have it all back to front, when I observe small children they are so energetic, engaged, inquisitive and so naturally joyful and then they hit school and the light starts to fade, and most of the natural spontaneous joy is gone. It’s rather sad that we put our children through this …. still …. as it was my experience many years ago. I found it so difficult to feel like I was a part of the system thus I didn’t relate to the whole set up. I knew this at 4 to 5 years old, so we end up giving in to being on the ‘conveyor belt’ in life because we are not really given any choice.
Yes merrileepettinato, we have it indeed back to front. It’s there in front of our adults’ eyes, yet we blinker, observe and accept that it is all okay. Simply because we’ve been in the same system and don’t want to stand up and face the truths – and our hurts that are in us. Generation after generation. I get more and more understanding that is not (only) about protecting our young, but more to live life in a way that they’re inspired to stay with them – no matter what happens.
Wow… what a blog! What if, ‘The Way of the Livingness’ was taught at school right from when we are very small and we learnt to really live life with all the subject knowledge we need to acquire? Everything would look and feel very different.
I agree rachelmurtagh1, It seems that the most obvious lessons about life are just avoided. We are learning about almost everything possible these days, but still not who we are.
The beauty and grace of studying The Way of the Livingness: you can register every time, every second. Never too late, too old, too young, too silly or whatever. No access restriction, then your own willingness/choice.
And why wait for University, what if the Way of The Livingness was our primary schooling?
As well as part of our parenting!
That’s a great comment, Susan! If everyone would be introduced to the way of the livingness – I can’t imagine anyone not asking for more!
I love being a student of life. Every day is a course, every day I learn, and every person I meet is a teacher. There is nothing grander than living life in full.
…and no textbooks, just learning to read life. This is an education available to absolutely everyone equally.
It is very revealing that so much education is delivered as though it is separate to life itself when we are (presumably) learning in order to operate in the world.
Good point, there is definitely a dis-connect here that doesn’t make sense, no matter how ‘normal’ it is deemed to be.
Agree a good point! Education is offered all around me, in every relationship and every meeting. But this is not honored.
Life is Medicine! – and Medicine we need indeed.
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As we develop the Livingness – which is as simple as becoming aware of who we truly are, gradually saying no to what is not that and developing a responsible relationship with life, and is our natural way of being – the systems we have in place will naturally change to reflect this. Education and assessments will be about awareness and what is needed by the community, rather than fostering the drive for recognition.
The crucial step is being willing to let go of the illusion of individuality, students of the Livingness the world over are demonstrating the joy and freedom that comes with doing so. This blog and the comments are a prime example.
I love what you’ve expressed here Helen. “The crucial step is being willing to let go of the illusion of individuality” is indeed a crucial one. In order to admit this it is also important to admit the stubbornness that we choose (!!) to not let go. So many along us, don’t want to really see what’s going on which is understandable, of course, because it brings up lots of hurt of what we’ve accepted. But what’s more important? Letting our love out to support our children in who they are, or holding on to our own stubbornness and hurts so they will end up facing the same difficulties? Is our generation the one that will start the change or…
Who knows? Maybe one day the ‘ Way of The Livingness’ will be studied to the point that it becomes a university subject. Being a student of the Way of the Livingness is already like doing a distance learning course, studying every day of how I am in life, and then connecting to courses and workshops to keep learning more and more.
The study of life has no tuition fees or end of year exams, and the only classroom is life itself. When we make life about learning and not simply getting by or being at the mercy of our experiences, our lives can be so much more full and fun.
If we looked at all The Way of The Livingness brings to life, it outweighs any singular study or degree on the planet.
I agree – because unlike a degree or any other education, it focuses down onto one aspect of life – law or chemistry or nursing. It doesn’t encompass everything in life, but leaves out many parts. I know having finished my school education I still don’t know how to work out my finances for when I move out without my mums support because that aspect of life was left out of my education. But the way of the livingness encompasses all that life is – from every aspect of education and jobs, to the basics of paper work and money and taking out the trash, to the complexities of mental health and raising a family. Nothing is over looked and it gives such a completeness to life, which is why I study it.
And: our lives can be so much more uplifting for everyone, not only us. This is a out of self-centered mankind loving preoperative on life, based on self-love first to then be able to express love in truth! Lovely, Rebecca***
The students of the Livingness are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only. This is the only true way to learn, and this then gives us the basis from which to truly express.
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This is a great point as It seems like the good, bad and right and wrong has been a rather large distraction from us just being responsible for what we truly feel.
Wonderfull blog thanks Christina, I feel like your bringing the livingness home to where it belongs.
Yes! Right back into life, from the living, to everyone we meet. Back to a way of truly living love by willing to change, learn, fail and never regret!
It seems to me true education is lost these days, it is mainly about recalling information and ticking boxes – how dull! Being a student of the Livingness is however never dull, it is amazing, inspiring, real and evolutionary. There is no greater subject then living life.
Totally agree with you Samanthaengland, ‘there is no greater subject than living life’. The Way of The Livingness brings a deeper meaning and understanding to life, of which we will never know when we have given up on everything and everyone.
Walking off a university campus can leave you exhausted, unsure of the topic and feeling empty. Walking away from a Universal Medicine workshop leaves me feeling vital with a deeper understanding and connection to my body and feeling supported and loved by fellow students. It is forever expansive Katie.
Well said lindellparlour. Walking away from school, college or university can leave you feeling exhausted – as if your mind is overloaded with information and data, yet is totally empty at the same time! Of course this can only happen if we allow ourselves to be played by an education system which seems to have been set up to only teach us certain things and grades us based on our ability to recall information.
I agree Susie, this is why I struggle in exams as I don’t recall data very well, and passing isn’t good enough. The education system wants you to strive for a high distinction, so if you do get a pass you can still feel like you failed as others can achieve higher marks than you. Separation within the separation.
I’m studying at the moment and sometimes I find it hard to connect to my text book as the words feel so empty. When I talk about the topic with someone it feels like the subject is coming to life and I can embody the information through being connected with another.
Beautiful what you share lindellparlour that talking about and exploring the subject makes the subject alive and real, and make it part of our lives and society. In this way we embody it I would say, and then it is in our body because we have lived it and has become pare four Way of the Livingness.
Thanks Christina for an insightful blog. What struck me most was how compartmentalised my life, and everyone’s around me is. I would love to live with much more overlap of work, friends, interests, school, and be able to talk about my livingness openly with each group, strangers or not.
Yes Susan, that is the most amazing experience – hearing things we have not considered for a long time, but when hearing it, it becomes clear that we already know it, deep inside. We just have chosen to ‘forget’…. to forget where we truly come from. The Way of The Livingness re-connects us with all of ourselves and each other.
The way of The Livingness is living life as the true love we all are in our fullness and with responsibility and joy. It is a yes to love and an amazing adventure with this and what we can all sign up for and who we are.
Cristina when you talk of some of the things you love about The Way of The Livingness, one of your points that struck a cord, “The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there.” This is so freeing and goes hand in hand with self acceptance, self appreciation and self worth. It seems such a simple aspect to the Livingness, but it has such deep and far reaching effects.
Christina I really like your blog and can relate to what you are sharing. All the best teachers to me have presented from their life experience which translates to lived wisdom. I am never more engaged with a presenter as when they are sharing anecdotes of lessons learned. If the Way of the Livingness were taught at university this is surely a course I would enrol in!
Beautifully expressed Katie; philosophy, science and religion are taught or practiced these days as theories, separated from every day practical living. I just listened to a science programme on the radio about Time, Space, The Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, in its way excellent, but not a word about how it relates to how we live in every moment here on earth. Whereas when you listen to Serge Benhayon speaking about Space and Time and Physics, it makes absolute sense in terms of how we can live when we are aware of our bodies and movements that makes such a difference to all around us, and also what unfolds for us in life, and the way it does that. It is so practical and meaningful, and calls us to be present, here, now, feeling everything inside us. We know the philosophy, religion and science innately in our bodies, and it would be very simple to educate children to be awakened to their own knowing. The best skill for life.
Great question Christina. If the way of the livingness was at University there would be no tests or exams because they cannot capture all that we live. We could only ever be assessed for our energetic integrity and quality. A brilliant assignment can never hide the fact that all of our choices are being felt by everyone.
Very true Vicky. Perhaps this is why so many of us are driven to get high grades in spite of our well-being. Deep down we know we are playing a game, but rather than take responsibility for our part in it, we seek what security and comfort can be bought with our achievements.
We seek these comfort and security, but yet deep down we know, that this will not make us lead a joyful and relaxed life. The more we have, the more we might loose for example. Could it be, that we have simply lost the connection to ourselves and therefore have to look on the outside for something that in some way resembles the feeling of joy and stillness that we have when we are deeply connected with ourselves?
Well said Jinya. The games that we play are very precise and deliberate and we can all feel them. Trading our connection with God and the clarity that brings for comfort and security is painful and brings a deep sadness. The comfort is like a dirty band aid that is used to cover up the pain.
I always loved those teachers, the ones that brought them to the table and not just the subject they taught, the ones with the enthusiasm and the fun. And what Serge Benhayon presents is no different, his subject is The Way of the Livingness, a way of life, one which he lives and so can present for anyone to feel and find for themselves.
For myself also Rebecca – those teachers that had an extra sparkle about them, sharing themselves fully with the students, bringing fun and a flow into their lessons captured my full attention. It’s like an open invitation to come and join in with no holding back of expressing and sharing. Being a student of The Way of The Livingness is exactly that I feel, an open invitation to choose to live in a way that represents the all that we are. Life being Just one big classroom.
I agree – the biggest revaluation for me has been to treat life not as something I am at the mercy of, but something I can constantly learn from.
The beauty of The Way of the Livingness, a way of life, is that the presenter Serge Benhayon lives totally and consistently that which he shares with the students. Presenting the truth of his lived way from his body enables us, the students, to feel the absolute truth and love he lives and shares, opening us to the possibility of living this way of life ourselves.
I love what you have expressed here Ariana I can feel the commitment within you, it calls for all to do the same.
It sure does Ariana, we all already hold the love equally within us, there is no place to get to, simply an unfolding by letting go of that we have taken on, a discarding rather than an attaining. It blows all the spiritual quests and pursuits out of the water. It is so simple yet so hard for the human mind to fathom.
‘there is no place to get to, simply an unfolding by letting go of that we have taken on, a discarding rather than an attaining’ ….. feels so good to read these words, James Nicholson. So liberating. I am thoroughly enjoying discarding what isn’t me and learning to treasure what is me.
That is great to read and hear Alison. It turns everything on its head when we realise we already have everything and are everything, we simply need to discard and let go of everything we are not that we have taken on.
I feel that to be so true James – and I find as my unfolding continues I have a deeper appreciation for the fact that we are already divine beings, and we are actually increment by increment discarding all that is not of true love to reveal ultimately in full that divine being once again.
It is a complete shift of perception from thinking we have to attain or get somewhere which seems to be so ingrained in many if not all of us.
Yes James, The Way of the Livingness is so simple. Clearly the opposite of what we are led to believe when treading the spiritual path, where it is all about “attaining”, and the never ending striving for perfection.
Well said rosemarydunstan, The Way of the Livingness is in stark contrast to the Spiritual New Age and its many differing paths. It is simple, real and extremely practical. It leaves no one behind and says we are all equal, putting no one above another simply because they may have done more courses or anything like that.
By imagining The Way of the Livingness to be studied at University I realized that all study like science, law or social issues should be studied under the big umbrella of The Way of the Livingness. Maybe in future that will be the new name for Universities: The Way of the Livingness – college of life.
And that college is already there as the Way of the Livingness is presented and lived in the presentations and workshop from Universal Medicine and the College of Universal Medicine, of which I can say I, as one of many others, am a student of and have signed in for life.
Love your comment Sandra…..can’t wait for the day when our Universities are known as The Way of the Livingness – college of life and “The Way” is accepted as the only way to be.
There is such a natural flow with our expression when we express from our lived experiences, our ‘lived livingness’. No trying or pushing (a sharing of our inner wisdom) this can be so clearly felt. Which for me holds my attention and actually leave me wanting to listen some more and not switching off as I used too in class Your sharing Christina is beautiful as it highlights this so well. If more in the education systems shared in this way students would be queuing for miles – through choice.
I love the following sentence Christina, it resonates as a deep truth in my body and the only true way to learn. “And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.”
Yes rosemarydunstan, that is the true beauty of “The Way of The Livingness”. There is no exam, we feel it ourselves when we are simply living and embodying more and more of what we have been able to learn and to clearly understand through our bodies. This brings a deep knowing, without any craming of knowledge at all.
There is only one way to learn and that is to live it, and learn and learn and learn.
Absolutely Vanessa, it is only through experience, that which we know ourselves in our bodies, that we can truly learn. To then share this experience/knowing from your body allows another to truly feel the wisdom and truth in your words.
It makes no sense that the way we live does not form the basis of our learning. Which is precisely why The Way of The Livingness makes perfect sense.
Here, here Susan. The Way of the Livingness has provided me with all I’ve ever needed to know – far exceeding what I’ve learned at university and school. University and school can only prepare us for a particular vocation or role whereas The Way of the Livingness teaches us about life, community and brotherhood.
I agree – The Way of The Livingness is vast and spans all of life, leaving nothing to linger and stay obscured in the shadows, a true inspiration indeed.
Thanks Christina for this lovely article. I’m back at university and struggle with the extreme headiness of this world. And, as you say, there is little in the way of person-first learning. There is no consideration of the impacts of all of this on the human frame.
Actually, we could simply say there is no love in education at all. The career academics I meet reflect this in bucketfuls – they are stressed, wound-up, exhausted and run down or heading that way. True education would never allow this.
Shows that our common education today is like swimming against the natural, true flow. We try to hold on to our creations and ‘recalling knowledge’ instead of letting the truth flow, unfold and emanate through us. We invest so much in our creations that it is not easy to let go of them. This is very exhausting.
Why are teachers so burnt out? Is it the way they live in their personal life that affects their teaching, or is the education system making it more and more difficult for the teacher to connect to their students?
It feel like when there is “profit” a partner in the game (called education in this this case), then easily “love” is kicked out and pragmatism gets introduced. The question then is: why do we easily kick out love and commonly agree with this being fine?
Yes, I too am back studying and observe how burnt out and exhausted the tutors are. There is little evidence of life being lived responsibly, so that they can be true role models for the students, to be fully available and present with them in the classroom.
Yes isn’t it fascinating that subjects have been made so ‘heady’ and mental, that it is a struggle to learn them. What happened to true education where teachers were passionate about their subject, and students looked forward to learning about the intricate details of life according to their chosen field?
Exactly Susie, education has strayed further and further and away from sharing wisdom to simply imparting knowledge in a time frame – bang it out and get results. On the odd occasion when you still find a teacher passionate about their subject and connecting to their students the class is a standout by a million miles.
Yes well said Jo, and if you can’t ‘bang it out’ and get the results you’re expected/’need’ to achieve, you are deemed a failure; someone who will have a bad career and be unsuccessful for the rest of their life!
Thank you Victoria for sharing so honestly and fragile. It isn’t pleasant to be in a place where the tension is coming at you from all angles. And this is the place where we should have fun to study whatever we love to study. Another example of how we’ve completely turned around the natural flow of life. Yes, we do need universities. But how different it would be if we start with the fact that we’re all loving people first, have to take care of each other and start learning together. With the openness and curiosity as children have in order to expand the knowledge / wisdom that is already available.
The current system is purely about outcome. The system that is! As of course there’s many amazing people within the universities who are doing amazing jobs. Which has to be appreciated in full. But the people that we educate to be our next leaders are being educated in an environment and with an intention that is far from loving. As a society we’ve allowed this to happen, we’ve accepted this. So as a society we’re to change it as well and feel how painful it is to live in a world where love is rather seldom than a common experience. Let alone the consequences of it – the absurd increase of burn-out, cancer, diabetes, overweight, kidney diseases, divorces, dis-engagement, etc. Together we’re strong. Incredible powerful. Let’s joyfully unite.
Flores your words are inspiring – the truth about how it actually is without judgement and offering a way forward that requires only the letting go of individuality. This is The Way of The Livingness in action.
Thank you Helen Simkens. It is indeed the only way truly forward. We are to come together and start acknowledge the Truth that is not easy to admit, but has to be admit. I’m in the front row to support with whatever I can to support anyone who needs the support in breaking and turning the current trend! Today I was at a school which felt generally light and warm. They even have the best student results… Still a drop in students because they are not appreciating themselves enough (hiding) and because they choos to have all the different levels where parents are afraid that their sons or daughters might be negatively influenced by students from a so called lower level. To me this is ridiculous. Decisions made out of fear and on ideals and beliefs rather then choosing from the heart. Is this the world we want? A life based from very young on ideals and beliefs or do we want our lifes to be loving? Full of warmth, connection and true support?
Me too Victoria – I’m learning for an exam at the moment and I find it very strange, to learn something by heart with the goal, just to recall the information. The other day I had headache, because I had put so much knowledge into my head. I know now, there is another way, and I’m still finding out how to pass an exam without going too much into the head.
The beauty of choosing ‘The Way of the Livingness’ is that we each unfold in our own time; there is no set time frame to get it. You cannot fail- we only learn and get a deeper awareness into our choices and feel the consequences more in our body. We live the wisdom gained. We all evolve together in true brotherhood.
“..there is no set time frame to get it.” That’s very well said, lorettarapp! Everything has it’s own rhythm and it’s own constellations to go. And awareness is a choice – not something to gain to be a better person.
Yes Christina – the Way of the Livingness is not a subject that is separate from life. It is lived every day and all day. I agree with you it would be wonderful if it were a subject one could study at university and also at school. What a fantastic preparation for life that would be. Thank you for your beautiful words on the subject.
In reading this blog this morning it occurred to me that all the wonderful qualities we can attribute to students of The Way of The Livingness are easily shared with others when we open our hearts and minds to the truth that these qualities are normal and there to be claimed in all human beings. By holding this openness we see humanity as one and while allowing others to make their own choices, at the least, we reflect back to them the truth of who we all are, through the simple way we choose to live.
Beautifully put as always Simon. It is so heartwarming and somehow easy to be open and loving with everyone the deeper we claim who we truly and are where we all came from, together.
Christina, I like the honesty you bring with the lines that we students of The Way of Livingness also can slip into knowledge without being truly connected to what it really brings. The great thing here is that it is not about the intelligence of recalling something – but about living our inner wisdom which we can reach through our heart and our body. No degree is needed and no learned profession/education can guarantee this – only our awareness and our willingness to evolve together in brotherhood.
Yesterday I attended a reading and an important note that was made is that the world is lacking a foundation of ‘lived’ standards and values; which is True. In the past religion is what bonded us. Now there’s nothing! Except The Way of The Livingness. We are to let go of our stubbornness and hardness (including myself) to accept that this is the (only!!!!) way. A way of energetic integrity and free will to either align to love or not. It is that simple. We’ve allowed it to have become complex, but it is very very simple, isn’t it. It’s very confirming writing these words and it does feel very simple and loving. One big family. Whether people choose to be part of it or not, they still are.
Ha ha Mary, yes absolutely “we are all part of God” whether we pay attention or align to this or not and if not now then when? At some point we will all return to that which we know. Serge Benhayon is simply here to present the way to live in connection with his knowing every day.
Religion is not it. It has bits of ‘it’ but as a whole it’s not the truth. The Way of the Livingness is the real deal as it begins with the individual relearning to self love and in their own time the student begins to open up to the fact that it is more than just ‘I’ it’s brotherhood and we are part of a bigger plan.
Yes, well said lindellparlour.
Hi Lindellparlour, it’s lovely to share and to be able to share the truth around Religion, isn’t it. I love the origin of the word Religion. In fact, I’m in deep connection with it. Because it simply mean to re-connect, to re-bond. With ourselves, with other people and with everything around us. As people we’re tending to want control and bastardise the True meaning of it so it suits our comfort. In every moment this happens we’re not one with Religion in it’s true meaning. Even though at that moment we are Religious with whatever choice we made to connect to. We’re in relationship. It is precious, joyful, humble and lovely to be part of The Way of the Livingness.
To re-connect, to re-bond, religion doesn’t sound scary at all Floris when you describe it like this. It feels spacious and playful unlike the bastardised version of the word religion.
Ha ha lindellparlour, no it doesn’t, does it… I can’t help but smile and feel the joy and togetherness in your comment. We’re in this instance definitely in Religion. And isn’t it gorgeous to full. Solid, one, joyful, playful and a definite pull to go even deeper, go beyond. We’re brotherhood. Brothers in harmony. How lovely and what an amazing confirmation (again) that The Way of the Livingness is IT. Everything that we’ve been looking for and forever expanding. Thank you for expanding our relationship (Religion) together lindellparlour!
You and I, Floris – brothers in harmony all the way. Supported by The Way of The Livingness and expressing our religion 🙂
How Beautiful and Joyful is that Lindell. Brothers for eternity. How absolutely Divine and FULL of Grace this is. And yes, we are supported from all angles. Through the language of symbolism, with our ability to feel energy, by the support of the masters and all those people around us, all carying a Divine aspect within! Lovely to walk together Lindell. You, me and everyone else we encouter. Where-ever. Everywhere.
Yes Mary, absolutely. We are part of God, eternally. As he’s part of us. How incredible is that? You are me and I’m you. We find each other in reflection. The magic that is in it, is hard to describe in words. It’s just too Awesome. Connecting to each and everyone’s essence is so, so beautiful and precious. It’s extremely joyful and humbling at the same time!
Yes Mary absolutely, there’s no getting away from it, we can never not be a part of God!!
WOW Christina! I love that and guess what… I did not fall asleep while reading it – as we sometimes did in the university. 😉
Absolutely Sonja, the subject matters discussed and explored in “The Way of The Livingness” are always relevant to everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, so nobody can get bored with it, as it’s always touching us deep inside. I am sure that kind of experience is rather rare at Universities; maybe because the subjects are made bigger than the students?
I agree Esther. I have never been bored with The Way of the Livingness, if anything I’ve wanted to know more. It’s simple practical stuff that you can relate to your own life or apply it to your life without any major changes.
Correct, The Way of The Livingness is about life itself and about how we embody our soul in it. It is about us in human aspect but with considering the everything and all.
Ha ha yes. There is not one presentation that Serge Benhayon has ever given that has made me in the least bit bored or like I might nod off. On the contrary I am often perched on the edge of my seat fully present listening to the wisdom he speaks.
“And so I asked myself – “What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university”
The ultimate philosophy degree on the planet I would be inclined to say, yet so much more.
And accessible to all with no prior learning, SAT score or exam required – simply an openness to begin.
…. with no expectations on where you ‘need’ to be, it takes as long as you feel you need to fully understand something in your body, rather than your mind. The best part is you are surrounded by love the whole time, fellow students are there to help and support, there is no competition. Everyone’s journey is different, we learn with and from each other.
…and a willingness to never end. Such is The Way of the forever student.
Every thing I have come to understand about life I have learned from either reflecting within myself or from others sharing their experiences. The deeper understanding of life, how we operate, and how we can get out of mess we stitch ourselves into make life so interesting, rejuvenating and truly beautiful. I have found the exploration of life in such detail can stem only from a depth of care equally for ourselves and others.
Great blog Christina, although I would have to say – “they may be inspired” to “they will be inspired” as you write it comes from you knowing and living this too, this is beautiful and very humbling, in the sense of truly allowing others to be inspired
“Do we really have to repeat all the time, trying to improve and prove we are good students?“ Doing this makes the study of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ a subject like all others at university, based on comparison and the battle that comes with talking knowledge.” I love how you make the contrast very clear, Christina, between the two totally opposite ways of learning. It is obvious that what has become the traditional way takes us away from our true selves, our ability to live from our hearts, and the ALL, whereas the Way of The Livingness, living from lived experience, connects us to ourselves and everything that IS. It is real, it is truth, it is love, it is brotherhood and community, and not an imposition but an inspiration. Yes! Universal Medicine leads the way in this new and ancient, ageless religion, the religion of relationship with ourselves and our divine essence within, which is there for us to register with in every moment.
Where can we register for the Way of the Livingness? No registration required! …just a simple Yes to the love that we all are.
A simple “YES” to sign in: that’s a change of traditional rules 🙂
YES let’s break some old ones and bring some true ones on. Commitment is everything.
This would be amazing Christina, “What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?” Studying The Way of The livingness has been amazing, I have never studied something that feels so true, so engaging, so beautiful and all encompassing, it is unlike any other subject as it is about everything and everyone and the interconnectedness of life. I have found subjects that I have studied in the past to be very compartmentalised, uninteresting and very mental, if the Way of The Livingness were to be studied at university the students would stand out for their integrity, for looking well, for looking alive, for their natural, loving way, I can feel how they would inspire others.
With the Way of The Livingness I was at first amazed how my relationship with every aspect of life started to fit together and come alive and deepen. And everything for the first time started to truly make sense! And I stopped being so angry and resentful with the world. This is how some of the youth are in life. Providing this type of education would be a true blessing to humanity.
Christina! What a blog! If I was not already living the Way of the Livingness, I would register myself right now.
Me to Sandra! I love that I am a student, and will be always.
And the good thing (or should I say one of the other good things) about this ‘university’ is the fees are much lower.
…. and everyone is welcome, there are no pre-requisites …. though it certainly helps if you are open to the possibility that there is more ….. so much more …
Amazingly you are* Teacher and Student in one*
Absolutely. We are teachers through inspiration, and students through our willingness to be more of who we are.
I agree Sandra, re-reading this blog is a beautiful confirmation of that choice.
Me also Sandra, there are no words grand enough to express my deep appreciation of Serge Benhayon and the wisdom and love he lives and shares through his livingness, and the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom.
Christina one your your love points really jumped out at me – how we have learned to let go of the right and wrong and that we are allowing ourselves to learn in all that we do and say. This is such a massive one and for me I have felt much of the defence that I used to live in constantly slip away. I still have moments as I let go of this ingrained belief and it sure is freeing and powerful to give ourselves this grace to learn. Thanks to The Way of the Livingness it has all be possible to reflect and work on this. Super Cool if you ask me.
It’s super cool of you to allow yourself to step off the track everyone’s walking on and freeing your way of living from these pictures. It is quite a deal sometimes to find out who we truly are, cause there’s many trained and long lived habits in our daily routine. So it’s in the end simply to train our awareness and move on, with every day*
Whenever I find myself caught in the trap of old habits, trying to use my head in isolation from the rest of me and my lived experience, the practical tools I have found working with The Way of the Livingness support me to let go of any perceived exaltation of the mind – a tool which we have let run amok for too long and one that will continue to do so until we lead from the deepest place in our hearts. From here our minds can be brought into the correct position of support. It is simply that famous saying ‘we cannot solve problems with the things that created them in the first place’. We need a seismic shift in the way we live before we gather up our tools again.
True Matilda and Christina, “we cannot solve problems with the things that created them in the first place” – trying to solve problems is doomed to failure. In fact we created the problems just to stay busy and so it does not strike that we just don’t take our responsibility. To solve problems it is like turning the coin and try it with the other side, but it is still the same coin, the same energy we are using. To bring a change is to let go of the coin in full.
Well said Matilda. We have used our minds for so long that we have become experts at crafting complicated and manipulative patterns that are difficult to get out of/let go of… And when we do choose to make a choice that connects us to our body and brings us back, the mind often kicks in and tempts us with comforts that seem much ‘safer’ due to their familiarity (because we chose to indulge in them for years!).
I myself have made my mind king. But The Way of the Livingness is telling my mind to move over, make way for the heart which is waaaay more powerful. I am playing with this concept more and more, and look forward to the day when education understands this and kids aren’t asked to recall facts, rather feel what’s needed for them to learn so that everyone else benefits from each person’s learning.
So beautifully said, Matilda* There is immediately joy to feel, the body relaxes and the brings a huge amount of space: there to be filled with all of us. In fact living a loving life without trying to make it right, no letting time and competition effect me – and simply walk my whole me in the space I have allowed to be there is so much grander, more joyful and rich. It is simply a life out of contraction. The body at least does love it!
True education has existed before underneath the great pyramids, the Alexandrian Library and in many other places across the world and over the ages. The Ageless Wisdom Teachings are that indeed – ageless – and are here with us today through The Way of the Livingness.
Yes, true education is sorely needed in today’s society, hence the importance of providing access to ‘The Way of the Livingness’ in all spheres of life.
It makes absolute sense that there is a way of living that supports us to be more love, just as there is a way of living that supports us to not be love. We all have a choice as to which one we want to subscribe to and this choice is easier to understand once we understand that we are the subjects of energy.
Yes Elizabeth, there is way of living which supports love and a way of living which sabotage love. The funny thing is that we are all on the same way – back to love. It is our choice to embrace this way and live it, or fight against it (there is no other way to go – just delay on the way). The beauty of that is, although I may subscribed to a not loving way of living, I can change it with a wink. I am always on my way – just have to stop struggling.
Most of my life I’d thought life was a struggle simply to survive. But, as I read your comment Sandra and write this, I’m realising the struggle is swimming against the natural flow of the universe that flows within me.
It’s no wonder I’m exhausted when I cling to what I think should happen -like trying to make little islands where I’m safe from the repercussions of irresponsible choices. But to do so requires me to disconnect from everyone which includes myself because we are all connected so I end up purposeless, empty and miserable. Being connected within with love brings a level of responsibility that’s joyful and flows naturally when I choose to surrender to it.
Love the “natural flow of the universe that flows within me”, Karin – how beautiful is that?! I am a part of the Universal flow…why resist it? How much arrogance we must have to think we can make it better on our own, that we know a better direction to swim than the Universe. That we are a part of the Universe brings Power, Authority and Humbleness. A graceful combination.
The beauty Sandra is that it is really quite simple, there are only two choices, for God or not for God……and as you say, we are already always on our way – we just have to stop struggling.
“..this choice is easier to understand once we understand that we are the subjects of energy.” True, Elizabeth! For a start it is assisting to get to see that there is a free will. There is a choice we can make. That there is body that is constantly assisting us to feel what’s true and what’s not. And: that there is a way of living far beyond a life based on competition never being enough.
It takes an enormous amount of energy to go against the ‘universal flow’, hence the exhaustion, not to mention the emptiness we feel from avoiding being our glorious selves.
That is the huge part to what is being discussed here – ‘that there is a way of living far beyond a life based on competition and never being enough’. An alternative and true path that does not lead to the way the world is configured today. A path that can be taught but only through the way we live.
Exactly, Simon. It is only to be lived and expressed. By words you can’t convince someone to change a way of living that has no demands, expectations or outputs to bring BUT to expand and deepen love. In our materialistic driven world this would be a campaign never be given good credits or be fancied. Because it only asks every single human to be responsible, be love and willing to be one. That’s huge for many.
Yes Elizabeth Dolan, the fact that we are sourced by an energy coming trough us, is absolutely foundational. We can choose which energy we align to, by the way we choose to hold ourselves, how we move. If we choose to move in a self-loving way, then it becomes easy to align to the true fiery source we are from, and everything flows on from that alignment.
It’s lovely to read each persons comments on the absolute fundamental support that knowing we are all subjects of energy brings. Without this, a very foundational aspect of life, we are but lost puppets of the unknown thinking we are in charge. Why this basic wisdom is not shared at schools and with kids growing up is something we should not only reflect on but change. Why? Because we’ve all felt the fact that we are affected by different energies so it would be wise to understand what this truly means for our lives.
And Elizabeth Dolan, given that Love is the one thing that none of us truly resists, the one thing we feel acutely when it is missing in our lives, it makes NO sense that this common uniting aspect of who we are plays no part in our formal education. It is all about self gain and achievement to create more competition and comparison – to what end? With out The Way of the Livingness being studied and lived, the rest is a big game, a maze with no way through or out. Perfect setup to keep us small and controlled. Sign me up for The Way of the Livingness!
Great blog Christina Heck – so many points to claim and learn from here. Upon reflection, when I am asked about what I study or why I am looking/feeling so good, often I try to rattle off something I have heard and present the Livingness from recall or memory rather than what it means to me in my body. I already know it, it is living inside me and through the work I am forming a relationship more with expressing from this place.
“The Way of The Livingness is a subject that is not separate from life ….. It includes everything …. it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” I love reading this explanation. Wow I would have loved studying such a course at University and I am sure so would so many other young people. In fact if this WAS taught at universities and even at schools, perhaps there would not be so much depression, self-harm and abuse amongst our youth.
Yes the missing ingredient in all our education systems Golnaz I agree, the one that restores to us our true purpose and joy. I can remember searching for this kind of guidance when I was a teenager, struggling with school and life. I always knew there was a deeper meaning to life but none of my school subjects delivered that, not even Religious Education, in fact all the different ideals and beliefs taught in that subject just served to take me further away from myself. Universal Medicine teaches us about connection, relationship, harmony, purpose, commitment, qualities that are essential for all students of life, which we all are and an essential foundation from which to live the rest of our lives.
Interesting that pretty much all young children seem to be familiar with this way of living, which means all of us adults must have been when we are young! But then we end up leaving it behind more and more because the whole fabric of society seems to ask us to – and no one else seems to be living it. It is ironic that we leave this way of living and then later on crave it and have to work at rebuilding it into our daily rhythm of life. How glorious would it be if education from the beginning offered the knowing that there is no need to leave the truth we know in our heart behind, but supported us to find ways to live with that connection even in the most unlikely circumstances – as does Universal Medicine.
I also missed this as a teenager. At one point I went to this psychologist for intelligence tests to find out more about where I was good at in order to make a study choice. Actually, I was lost at high school, bored by all the subjects, because it was all about learning by the head. This psychologist was the first one who truly met me. Not because of the tests, but by meeting me for who I was. That one conversation with him was a man talking from his Livingness to me about my Livingness. That was a Golden Moment for me, a glimpse of true teaching.
Yes, I had the same experience. Subjects were a pale shadow of what they could have been. Some teachers at some stage tried but even then it was just a pale shadow.
Your words, ‘true purpose and joy’ Rowena, rang out for me this morning. I will ponder these words today.
I had a similar experience studying ‘Divinity’ at school. There were so many different threads that seemed to lead off in different directions. Far from unifying and providing simple answers to the deeper questions that were coming up for me, I found it fragmented things instead and left me more confused. The Way of the Livingness is entirely different – offering suggestions here there and everywhere, and then asking me to confirm my own feelings through me connection with my body and my experience.
“…perhaps there would not be so much depression, self-harm and abuse amongst our youth.” Golnaz, could we say: definitely? If our kids and the youngsters were taught with an overall perspective they would have a chance to get away from the commonly accepted “birth, learning, perfection, earning, dying” reduction.
So true Christina, at present we are taught to reduce ourselves but what a loss to humanity this is. I have spent 10 plus undoing this education and re-learning how to allow my body to educate me and it does, 24/7. All I need to do is pay attention to it and keep asking ‘why?’ and the answers come back, they can be felt within us all the time. Who I am today bears no resemblance to the person I was 10 years ago. What I can offer the world today is not based on the knowledge I learnt at school but on my expression, vitality, joy and love that I have re-connected to within and express on a daily basis. True education is about true evolution and expansion and Universal Medicine just keeps relentlessly delivering more of both. This is a study that has no end, only a deepening of one’s experience.
To me it’s both: what I learned at the uni and in my whole life so far and the intelligence of my body. To me the importance is the shift of majority: from a brainy follower who is trying to fit in at it’s best to a heartful woman surrendered to the body and willing to be open to whatever I may be given. And all I have learned in my life so far can be understood and lived from a soulful heart.
Getting away from this classic reduction by realising that there is a bigger picture would be a huge step forward and can only happen by inspiration from those who already live what they are teaching, as lived teachings are so much more accessible and lasting than just learning knowledge to which we cannot relate in our own lives.
This is the way change has always happened in history: by someone walking new ways and others being inspired; felt the need of the change and made the coin flip. So let’s be walking inspiration*
Gorgeous Golnaz,’“The Way of The Livingness is a subject that is not separate from life ….. It includes everything …. it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding’, I can feel how amazing this would be if it were taught at schools from a young age, currently the education system is all about exams and marks, I see children hardening up, disconnecting from their natural sensitivity and tenderness – these qualities are not encouraged from what i see, there is a toughness, particularly with the boys that feels so unnatural, i see the the young children with their lights shinning brightly and that as the children get older i observe that their lights are dimmed, i feel the innocence and lightness is not so obvious in the older years at school, it seems to be more about fitting in, doing well, being liked.
And it would be so easy to start with the kindergarten kids. At this age, kids are so open, so unimposing, so real, so honest, that it would be a natural part of their day at kindy. And then to take this into their school environment would be wonderful. I imagine bullying would fade from our language.
Like you Rebecca I love what Golnaz says – and I can feel the difference it would have made to my life if school had been this way. When we are offered simplicity and sense we can all embrace the learning and enjoy the experience – and the sad thing is that school has not moved on in this way. I too am aware of how the light goes out of the eyes of children once they begin to accommodate the way of school life and how to survive, rather than being encouraged to be their innately beautiful selves expressing their true essence. However, this day will come and in the meantime we can offer our children support by expressing all that we are by way of reflection.
I agree Golnaz and just maybe the younger generation won’t feel so lost and undecided what they want to do with their lives. How many of us have spent years studying a subject only to realise it’s not what we wanted in the first place – I know I have.
We are brought up to get lost in a system that only focuses on results. But it is not results that are important for our well-being, but the capability to see and accept that it is us who create the life that we live and that – once we do not try to achieve any goals – we have the gift of knowing so much more than we ever might have deemed possible, just by listening to our body and inner heart.
Yes Golnaz, I’m sure if University was taught in the way The Way of The Livingness is, from a lived experience, and with a deep love of humanity as the core, I am certain the depression and self-abuse rates in our young people would greatly be diminished. The Way of The Livingness gives the best tools for a purpose filled life with building and deepening loving and supporting relationships as the foundation.
Depression seems like it’s getting to the point where it is accepted as a normal way of being, that we all get depressed sometimes. But I know that if I deal with whatever the issue is that I’m feeling sad about, overwhelmed about right at the beginning of it, then it is impossible for depression to set in. This is The Livingness.
Hear hear Esther – I feel that to be so true also. At times it may appear to some of us that the educating of our young commence with the un-learning of all that they intrinsically know and hold close to their divine hearts. This innate place of knowing seems to be a place that we could call the universal mind and wisdom of God. I often wonder why it is that while educating our youth we go to such lengths and efforts in a life-time of formal education to have this true connection ‘disconnected’.
‘once we do not try to achieve any goals – we have the gift of knowing so much more than we ever might have deemed possible, just by listening to our body and inner heart’ ….. so true, Michael Kremer, yet this goes completely against what society is asking of us. There is such a push for people to ‘show’ what they can do, reach for the stars, outshine everyone else. The reality is, we are already all we need to be, it’s about learning how to live that, how to bring all that we are and then we have the opportunity to tap into unfathomable wisdom.
True Golnaz. I will forever be a student of The Way of The Livingness – a student of myself and ever-deepening love. If this is the basis of our learning, it brings a clarity, depth, wisdom and purpose to all we choose to learn thereafter.
Great point – having the choice between stuffing our heads with knowledge for the next exam and truly contemplating, living and experiencing what we are learning about, I know where my vote goes.
‘having the choice between stuffing our heads with knowledge for the next exam and truly contemplating, living and experiencing what we are learning about’ ….
I know where my vote goes too. So much of what we learn is not even of interest to us, but we have to tick the box, to pass the exam to get the piece of paper.
Yes it is Katie, imagine what the world could be like if this was the root teachings of all business’s as you say. This is now a time to re consider how I am within my business and to keep deepening what I have already learnt from Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon over the past 5 years.
This is a great point Golnaz. Perhaps “if this WAS taught at universities and even at schools, perhaps there would not be so much depression, self-harm and abuse amongst our youth.” The Way of the Livingness does not judge, demean or criticise, but rather honours another human being for who they are, and encourages them to share their own lived experience. What wisdom would be shared amongst our young people and how inspired they would be if this was on offer as part of their education. I too would have loved to have been educated in this way.
Yes Katie – self-love and self-care are so important. The body knows and is the holder of deep wisdom, the mind is only interested in knowledge, which doesn’t evolve us.
Caroline Reineke, ain’t that the proof for living can be given a change with and trough those who step into new ways of life. Meet others in truth and be met in love. To be seen and see others and truly be intimate with each other brings the connection and with it a deepening: which will cause a change!
Without doubt Golnaz there would be less depression, self harm and abuse if The Way of The Livingness was taught in schools and universities. There would be less alcohol abuse, smoking, drug taking and the knock on effect huge, with less crime and sickness in later life which in turn would relieve govenments of their burdened prisons and hospitals to name but a few.
The way of the livingness is the only way to live i know now and it is with so much love and understanding and brings such an honouring to ourselves and others that is deeply beautiful and a great treasure in life.
That’s very true tricianicholson The Way of The Livingness “brings such an honouring to ourselves and others”, I have never found any teachings or presentations that make this an actual practice, a part of everyday life – something to be lived rather than read about or ‘preached’.
What I love about the Way of the Livingness is the notion that we are forever students, we meaning the teachers, presenters and the students alike. I love that this subject is a living and ever expanding body of wisdom without any limitations. There is no finite point where we can say – ‘yep I know it all now’ – for there is always deeper and broader ways of understanding life and the universe.
When we consider the stuff that we are challenging in ourselves with the Way of the Livingness, it would be easy to assume that as students we are super serious all the time. There is a bit of seriousness that comes in now and again, but on the whole it is fun, lovely and playful. I love how the word ‘light’ has two meanings as in ‘be your light’ and ‘keep it light’. No coincidence there.
Absolutely love your blog Christina – you say ‘And so I asked myself – “What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?” – the students would be allowed to be just who they are and not feeling the need to strive to be anything but that. It would indeed be a very different way of learning than that which is currently common at universities.
I am heading back to University soon to complete my teaching degree. It will be most interesting to bring this light to the system. This blog is seeding forth the way for schools of the future.
I love what you share here about your old law teacher as I also experienced a completely different teaching way when I have had teachers like this in the past. I recently did a first aid course and the guy teaching was an ex army man. All he taught was real and not what might happen but does happen as he had experienced it. I have done other courses like this in the past and they have been very dull but this was alive. When I reflected on this later it was because in the other courses it was only coming from a text book as knowledge but this was real life and what he had lived. This is why everything Serge Benhayon presents makes so much sense. Thank you Christina for an awesome blog 🙂
So true Christina. Living the Love of Life.
I love the way this blog highlights the compartmentalisation we can tend to do with the different areas of our lives. The Way of the Livingness is like a foundation for me for all areas of my life, it brings a love for humanity and purpose to everything I do. It should definitely be taught at university, I core subject for all courses.
My favourite teacher at university never picked up a textbook. He simply stood up and told us stories of his days in the industry, and through his stories of what he had lived, I learnt more than all of my other subjects combined. Our wisdom comes not from what we have learnt, but from the way we have lived.
‘Our wisdom comes not from what we have learnt, but from the way we have lived.’
I love the strength and solidity of this statement Adam, no if’s or but’s, it just is plain and simple. Society may think it is the other way as we measure knowledge on what you know, but through The Way of the Livingness the understanding is rich that knowledge is in fact a lived truth.
This is pure gold for students and teachers alike. What a break out from the consciousness of having to deliver or impart great knowledge when the ‘best’ learning comes from the sharing of a life lived.
Christina I love what you have shared here and from now on I will tell people that I too am studying the “Way of the Livingness.”
It makes sense to do this Sharon because the “Way of the Livingness” is the foundation from which we do all that we do.
I now realise that I had a very limited view of life. The Way of the Livingness has allowed me to open my eyes and heart and feel the enormity of what I am a part of, what we are all a part of, equally. With this understanding I now have a strong sense of purpose and a far greater commitment to myself and humanity. I understand and appreciate the importance of living with energetic responsibility and am committed to living this to the best of my ability.
I think it would be beneficial if The Way of The Livingness was incorporated into the education system from primary school.
I agree Joe – and as a foundational premise, as a lived school motto.
I love your appreciation and simplicity in this blog! You realized that it is not about knowledge in this world and this is huge! How many people define themselves about what they know, instead of trusting that all it needs is them and what they experienced to share themselves truly with the world. I would definitely join in to The way of the livingness, after reading your blog- you access it really playfully and this feels absolutely true to me.
I agree steffhenni – even though what is shared is very real and practical, there is something truly playful about it that feels very warm and welcoming.
Two people in your life who have inspired you by sharing from their lived experience, not just trying to transfer knowledge from one isolated brain to another. I remember well, and still slip into, the struggle of trying to retain information, to gain knowledge, which is now shown in its stark, cold light alongside the teachings of The Way of the Livingness which is an embodied and experienced lived way that inspires the openness to more. No end game just the willingness to deepen and expand more and more. Thank you, Christina.
Reading your comment and others, makes me wonder why is it that we’ve made life so complicated. Hardly anyone just shares from his or her experiences within life. How crazy is that when we experience life everyday. Where everybody here’s sharing that we love and remember the people that are real. A teacher, a collegae, Serge Benhayon, and instructor, a neighbour, etc. It’s not what they do, it’s the way they share. With themselves, from themselves. When we come accross these people or even think back about those people, there’s a lightness, a sparkling, an aliveness. Which is absolutely beautiful to read. I also enjoy very much every moment that I’m doing what I really feel. That’s so confirming, almost as I’m giving myself in all those moments permission to live, a licence for life. Thank you Christina and people who commented on this blog.
You have so beautifully and simply shown the power of lived experience and wisdom versus learned knowledge.
The Way of the Livingness is something that has taken me some time to get into a rhythm with, as it has been the deepening of my commitment and relationship with myself that has fostered making more loving changes in my daily choices and life.
There is so much to what Serge Benhayon and the Esoteric Students present, we have history, science, biology , quantum physics to name a few. Thank you Christina for encapsulating what Universal Medicine teaches, it would be an amazing university course for sure.
Every time I attend a course, presentation, workshop, healing session, social get together with other students of The Way of the Livingness or simply interact with my husband at home, I feel how The Way of the Livingness in reflection from others asks and supports me to bring all of me to my life. Sometimes it’s a challenge but all the time it is an unfathomable blessing.
Yes Christina. Me too, I love when people share their personal experiences. I can listen for hours and hours without getting bored. Listening to knowledge is indeed very boring! Because it’s not alive, there’s no spark, no connection, just ‘dead’ knowledge. When reading the first lines of your blog I allready felt how amazing it would be to actually have the ability to choose The Way of The Livingness at University. A University based on lived experience and love… Wow!
The way of the livingness presents such a different paradigm to learning and living than is commonly seen today. The way of the livingness makes life a constant lesson, one you are not ‘wrong’ for not having already mastered. The way of the livingness teaches the science of making life a constant and ongoing lesson and feeling truth in the body rather than speaking remembered truths.
‘The way of the livingness makes life a constant lesson, one you are not ‘wrong’ for not having already mastered. The way of the livingness teaches the science of making life a constant and ongoing lesson and feeling truth in the body rather than speaking remembered truths.’ …. and this is evolution. The Way of the Livingness supports us all in our journey, in re-claiming our selves. The only requirement is that we are open to the possibility that things aren’t quite as we think they are.
Powerful comment katemaroney1 – and I agree, the difference between The Way of the Livingness and the way learning/education is seen and practised today is vast.
Love that katemaroney1. The Way of the Livingness is so different to other subjects because it is not isolated to a classroom – it is a constant lesson of life, and we are all the teachers!
As you say, Christina, if the Way of the Livingness was a university subject it would include everything you are absolutely correct. This is because it is the lived study of life and life has everything.
What came to me while reading this Christina is that we go to the school for ‘The Way of the Livingness’, to confirm not just learn. It confirms all that we have ever known which bring us back to the one and same source.
Beautifully said, Kimweston2. ‘The Way of the Livingness’ connects us back to an all-knowingness by simply confirming who we are and where we come from.
Yes this is true it is never about learning anything new but either confirming what we have already felt or experienced or simply, because the way of the livingness has not been our living way for a long time, relearning and reconnecting to that which is already known inside.
Absolutely Kim – we are not asked to achieve or draw in knowledge from outside of ourselves, like you say, it’s about confirming and evolving what we already know to be true but have just forgotten or lost touch with how to live. Our lived way is everything and thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for co-creating an institute to present this way again.
I very much look forward to the day this becomes a subject in every school. A class where none can be wrong and evolution is the key outcome. Where teaching becomes a sharing of a living truth that is felt with the body not noted with the head. Where competition is non-existent, because all know, we are loved equally by our brothers. This is a beautiful sharing Christina, I too am honored to have found my true school once again.
I love this chat about The Way of the Livingness becoming an integral part of our education systems because it is so feasible, practical and within our reach. Just taking a moment to consider life lived from this unification is inspiring.
When I remember when I was in school I shiver inside- NEVER I would want to go back. Having a school subject and system like you describe, I would even now would love to join in….what a difference to how we grew up. It feels like paradise, no heaven, to me 🙂
I was the same Steffihenn when it came to school, now that I’m aware of my truth, I know it was my body reacting to everything that wasn’t love and that is the whole education system.
Bringing it back to the body feels very true to me too. When I tune in to that certain period of time my body didn´t feel surrendered at all and in constant cautiousness what would happen next, that would put me under pressure.
How amazing will it be when ‘The Way of the Livingness’ and the Ageless Wisdom are University subjects? This will allow people to connect to true intelligence, in an environment that can otherwise restrict intelligence, in the way it is now set up. We need a return to true education, and a course on the Ageless Wisdom would certainly provide this.
When the way of the livingness becomes a University topic we might start to see the tipping point where we can live our potential as a race of beings. University at the moment is a highly pressurised and the body comes 2nd to the mind. Yet we are starting to see more research that is showing that the intelligence in the body is definitely not something we should put secondary to the mind, in fact quite the opposite, the body holds all our collective wisdom.
I agree Amelia, it will be truly amazing to have such an opportunity to connect to the ancient wisdom that we normally read about and think it is something from the past, The Way of the Livingness allows us to expand and break away from the limitations imposed by the current education system and share with wisdom for the benefit of all equally.
This is something that I feel absolutely “I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life,” My life has a purpose and clarity that I did not have before, since I have connected with and chosen The Way of the Livingness, I feel I have found my true school, my true way of education. Life is all about Learning. I struggled with ‘school’ and resisted academia but get me studying the true purpose of our presence here and I say yes. My opens to all learning has developed since I have begun to learn that all of life is a place to learn, it is all part of the whole.
Great blog Christina. We can all feel it when someone speaks from knowledge and when someone speaks from a Livingness. What is so great about The Way Of The Livingness is that it is not something that only benefits an individual, it is a way of living that reflects to all others and inspires them to connect to the love that is within them. A light that is for the all, not for self.
Tracey so true we can all feel when someone speaks from their Livingness or from their knowledge. There is a solidness and the truth is felt when one shares from a Livingness, there is an easy flow in the sharing. When it is knowledge base it feels empty and there is not an easy flow with the sharing. It’s interesting How we can easily feel and see that.
Yes and probably why so many school kids switch off because they can feel and see the difference when a subject is coming just from knowledge or when it’s from real life and living.
Over the years I keep deepening my level of awareness of feeling energy and it is simply amazing when one can feel the truth of life in their body. I feel so very blessed to have been open to Universal Medicine’s presentations and for healing the obstacles that made me stop feeling energy.
Yes Christina, I agree we can only really impart what it it is to do something having that lived experience in the body. I always felt that the best way to learn would be to watch someone who sincerely loves their work in their work place. . . . people actually practicing what they do. This is what is so great about Serge Benhayon he lives and breathes everything that he presents so that we are inspired to do the very same. . . to know and connect to our self so deeply that we can live and breath our self.
“simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me” this to me sounds like such a natural course to enroll in. I did. I have made the best of friends at this school, met inspirational teachers, covered all kinds of topics – from the smallest cell to the vast universes and everything in between. But most of all I’ve learnt the meaning of life, what true love is, and how to live.
“But most of all I’ve learnt the meaning of life, what true love is, and how to live.” Beautiful, Rosanna, you’ve really captured something here. The Way of the Livingness offers us a way back to everything that we have ever felt and knew deep inside to be true.
Living the way of the Livingness feels indeed like being in school for the whole and rest of my life. But in a school full of true support, love, joy inspiration, fun, loyalty, true friends ..the list goes on and on…I would never want to graduate- why? There is never an end to all of this.
My goodness Steffi, you know what came to me when I read your comment… that phrase that’s used as a re-buttle or a put-down of someone when they go on to study another degree or further education…something along the lines of “they’re a never-ending student” – implying the person doesn’t want to grow up or participate in the real world. There may be truth in this, but what it actually highlights is our perception of what learning is! ie something that should only be done at certain periods of life. But it is quite the contrary with The Way of The Livingness, it’s a FOREVER EDUCATION, a forever learning that we can never complete. In fact it is an education that engages me with life rather than, (as that put-down suggests), not wanting to participate in the real world!
The Way of the Livingness is a school for humanity, not for the individual, with no end date, everyone is a ‘forever student’.
Love it rosannabianchini, signing up to Universal Medicine has brought me home to the subjects most dear to my heart but never advertised in any other course I have ever come across. And its true the subject matter goes from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic and everything in between, with the added and immensely gorgeous bonus of being surrounded by the most amazing students and beautiful friendships imaginable. This is a very practical universal subject that truly changes the lives of those who apply its teachings to the life, no room for theory, its practice, practice, practice all the Way.
I absolutely agree, the Way of the Livingness is a forever education and I would not want it any other way. It is so rewarding to live true to yourself and to reflect that to others which then inspires them to live true to themselves.
So true, The Way of the Livingness is teaching us all about life and how to be ourselves in life, but not FOR ourselves, rather for humanity as a whole. We are learning how we are all an equally valued part of a whole and how to return to our natural state of being within that whole, which is evolution. So simple and mind blowing at the same time.
And The Way of the Livingness it is never static…just when I feel I’ve got something and am living it, there is always another level of love to go to…and it’s usually in the most simplist of movements and ways of being. And because there is no set syllabus, you can never graduate, only a constant confirming and deepening of what is already lived.
The Way of the Livingness is not about learning for the individual to ‘better themselves’. It is a about a way of learning and living for everyone to equally evolve.
Yes Donna, well said. The Way of the Livingness take ‘the All’ into consideration and understands that if a part operates on its own there can be no true harmony.
Spot on Donna, this is a clear distinction between the academic school of learning and ‘The way of the Livingness’.
I so look forward to being a teacher in one of these schools in my future lifetimes. It reminds me of what it used to be like in Persia, many moons ago. Finally it’s coming around again. This will be the way of true education for the future.
So true Donna – choices made for brotherhood as opposed to choices made for individuals.
Absolutely, it is not about individuality, but to evolve for humanity and reflect truth to everyone. What a strong purpose to follow.
Absolutely Donna, in fact it’s about ‘getting our selves’ out of the way so we are able to bring our light and love to everyone we meet so that they may feel, there is another way to be in this life.
I love how you finish this blog Christina. When we live something we’ve learnt, people notice rather than just talking about it…it’s the walking the talk that inspires others.
That’s true Sandra and really, if we haven’t lived and experienced something what is there to actually talk about? I think the key to being a great student in life is knowing when to share all the wisdom we have lived and knowing when to stay quit and listen.
I like that Sandra, it is about the walking the talk and not the other way around as I see that much around me where people are saying one thing but doing completely the opposite. I do not consider these people as the teachers in my life as compared to people who through how they ‘walk their talk’ inspire me to to take notice of what they have to offer and to learn from that. But when there is incongruity in what people are saying and in the way they live, I do not feel this Inspiration but rather a feeling of confusion when I try to understand with my mind what they are telling me.
I agree Sandra, walking the talk is what is inspiring. It is a quality we feel that can so inspire us.
The Way of the Livingness has supported me to deepen my connection to life, to people and the constant magic and love that we are held it. It has shown me a way to live in celebration.
This is the true way forward and schools would do well to adhere to its wisdom. Our teens are so lost today. What a difference it would make to their lives.
I agree Donna, there is a place here within our schools and many of our teenagers today are lost due to not understanding or being shown the truth of who they are. We have all been offered a true way forward and we live from the experiences and choices of feeling the benefits of this way of living every day. Now it is our turn to share this with others. Yes in our schools, in our organisations and in our communities. By simply being ourselves in the reflection that we hold, in the way we walk and in the way we talk. Love as a living way is to be seen and shared with all.
Yes, I feel many will ask, ” Where do I register?” in the not too distant future, Christina. As you say, this study is quite different to formal study as it is seen in this current time. The Way of the Livingness is precisely that – a lived experience of a living Truth and a living Love connected to via our own Soul within us. University and school studies come into us from the outside; The Livingness resides within and simply awaits our choice to connect.
So…”Where do I register?” “Within……”
I love how you have written from your own experience Christina. That I find very inspiring as it let’s us all know that who we are and what we all have experienced in life and have found valuable is of equal value. Everyone sharing their lives wisdom is certain to support EVERYONE to grow.
I remember the things that I have lived and the lessons learned so much more than information I have read that is still a theory for me at that stage. When we have lived something we are an authority on the subject and people can feel that the truth is within us. I also remember that at different stages of my life I felt I was just going through the motions and around and around on the same tracks not really learning anything and without a sense that what I was doing was particularly valuable. Since finding The Way of The Livingness I never feel like this. I feel that everything I learn is valuable and everything is part of my evolution. It gives me a very strong sense of being a part of the universe.
Beautifully said Amanda, I too felt this way, not a moment is lost as there is always more to learn and a deeper connection to be found.
Gorgeous Christina. Going through the education system at the moment I can totally second what you’ve shared – many subjects are very individual and separative. Because what we are being taught often has little relation to our every day lives, it is hard to draw links between different lessons. I totally agree that what is so amazing about The Way of the Livingness is that right at the centre of the ‘subject’ (as you could call it), is life! I see ‘The Livingness’ as our own relationship to life, and the All of what happens day to day and the choices that we make. I am blessed to attend Universal Medicine workshops and learn all about it!
I could sit in a Universal Medicine presentation all day and not be bored. Alas, I cannot say the same about my days at university or school. It would have been so much more interesting if it had not been so dry, but had rather engaged us with all of life. True philosophy is always inspiring.
Imagine what it would be like if school was taught Universal Medicine style from day one!
Absolutely Adam.. I even chose ‘Religion and Philosophy’ as one of my subjects to study hoping there would be some real life stuff in there – I do find it interesting, but there is so much more to the world than just learning about Christian and Muslim attitudes to animal testing or poverty.
Looking back on school and college days, I also realise that you can feel when someone is connecting with you when they present. It’s not only the content that Serge presents that has everyone riveted it’s the enormous love in his connection with every single person in the audience. He’s able to feel if we are keeping up, or if he needs to explain things a slightly different way. It’s quite beautiful, as is the assurance from Serge that we are all perfectly capable of doing the same.
Definitely a course I’d be signing up! The Way of the Livingness is the true study of religion.
Christina, I love this about The Way of The Livingness too, ‘That it is a constant way of evolving’, this does not seem to happen in society, if anything what I observe is that generally the trend is to get sicker, more tired and less evolved as people age.
I couldn’t agree more that if The Way of The Livingness was offered as a University subject many would be asking ‘where do I register’ ! We are all teachers and students by being in the Livingness of The teachings by Serge Benhayon as you say Christine .
What a great subject to study at University, – the Way of the Livingness, including the study of religion, science and philosophy. It wouldn’t stop in 3 years, it’d be a foundation course to live for the rest of our lives.
Cute and true Gillrandall… but isn’t that the point of education – to set you on a lifelong path of living and learning about yourself, your brothers, the world. Becoming a living, breathing and caring Human Being.
Learning the lesson of life is the most beautiful and wonderful way to live life in a way that is forever evolving and deepening our understanding. The Way of the Livingness is for me ‘The Way’ as it evokes a deep connection to the past and to the future and to all that we are and will ever be. Thank you Christina for your gorgeous blog – life is about living and sharing our experiences and expanding who we are.
Beautifully said Susan. It will be a beautiful moment when The Way Of The Livingness is an actual subject taught by soulfully connected teachers in High School and at University. The world will begin to move away from the loveless actions it is displaying and begin to evolve back to the love that we innately are.
I agree, Susan Lee. The Way of the Livingness makes sense. It allows me to understand why I behave in certain ways, what is driving that behaviour, I then have the choice to address the root cause preventing the pattern to repeat. I have had patterns of behaviour my whole life and it’s only now, since becoming a student of The Way of the Livingness that I’ve put a stop to them.
Susan, so very eloquent ‘ The Way of the Livingness is for me ‘The Way’ as it evokes a deep connection to the past and to the future and to all that we are and will ever be’.
So beautifully said Susan, life is about learning, sharing, expanding who we are and nothing compares to the path laid forth by Universal Medicine. Not one doctrine or lecture in sight but heaps of wisdom that supports us to journey deeper within, to evolve our relationships and embrace the glorious beings we are. Who could want for more?
Beautifully expressed Susan and I agree totally with your sentiments, “The Way of the Livingness is for me ‘The Way’ as it evokes a deep connection to the past and to the future and to all that we are and will ever be”.
The Way of the Livingness has given me an understanding of my past and provided a loving foundation on which to return to knowing me and my connection to evolving with the all.
‘That its base is the wisdom of the body and not only the intelligence of the brain’.
I love this revelation that The Way of the Livingness has shown me, that our bodies are constantly communicating with us, they never lie and they are the marker of truth, a reflection of all the choices we have made. There is so much wisdom in our bodies that we discount day after day, instead giving our attention to the brain. Our bodies are always feeling and have a far more accurate reading of what is truly going on in any situation, whereas the brain can be so easily manipulated and yet we have erroneously considered our brain to be our source of intelligence.
The Way of The Livingness is supporting me to understand that what we often see as ‘wrong’ about ourselves or something to be fixed about ourselves, can often be seen in a different light and that each step we take can be an evolution to return to living the love that we all innately are.
The lightness you have described certainly emanates throughout this blog Christina.
What we learn in schools and Universities definitely is not making the world a better place, as its all about self and being better than the next person, whereas The Way of the Livingness is about everyone equally which can only positively change everything.
That’s so true Kevmchardy. The Way Of The Livingess not only benefits the health and well being of an individual, it encompasses the all and leaves the dog eat dog world notion behind.
Well said kevmchardy, The Way of the Livingness is showing us all how to return to our true selves and live from that place, from the love that nestles within us all. By doing so the way we are in life offers a reflection for others to recognise that there is another way to live and so the love grows like a ball of fire spreading light and warmth for all to feel.
Well said kevmchardy, it is true evolution! The Way the Livingness is not about bettering the individual, the enjoyment of a ‘bettering’ life comes as a result from serving humanity and to know that we are all in together so we learn to reflect to others that there is another way of living.
It is only through the teachings of The Way of the Livingness that we as a humanity can return to a true way of living, a way of love, appreciation and equality for all.
To me it is not that we do not learn appropriate subjects that support our evolving – BUT we do not get taught the HOW. We get taught how to be a doctor in a practical way – but not how to read the human. Or lawyers – we get taught where the laws are to find which can base our defense on – but not why and how these laws are in service for the all – or only to protect some. That’s where the gaps are in my eyes.
The way of the livingness is a school we are enrolled in when we are born. But very few have ever graduated and most have just dropped out. But is has always been a drop in course and mature students are always welcome for their elder wisdom they bring back to the classroom.
If I was not already signed up and a student of universal medicine and would be asking to e signed up straight after reading this article, so an amazing representation Christina of Universal Medicine and all that it offers.
What’s super cool is you are signing up for yourself!!
Absolutely, Heather …. I have been pretty checked out in my life so far and now I’m so enjoying re-claiming me, loving life with my feet gently planted on the ground.
I agree it is so super cool Heather to finally accept and love myself, living to support and nurture myself first and foremost.
Heather loving relearning all about me and my place in the universe in relationship and the interconnection with everything and every one. Now that is so super cool.
I love that what we study is in every aspect of our lives – not just in books but in our bodies, in how we live, in what we think – everything is included.
That’s what The Way Of The Livingness is all about – everything, no parts, it always focusses on the all. It is amazing in this world that we have chosen to focus on a part at the expense of the whole. I too love all that we study, feel, live, learn and evolve with.
Very true Tracy – its always focused on the ALL, well said.
It makes so much sense to live in such a way. To Subscribe to any other way of living is to exist in a dog eat dog mentality. This way of being cannot sustain itself and doesn’t evolve us as a race of human beings.
I don’t know how humanity ever thought it could work any other way. We have been fooled for a long time. Thank goodness for the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom.
I agree Carmel, The Way of the Livingness offers the most practical common sense approach to life. It is the deepening of our relationship with ourselves. Knowing and loving our self changes everything. Absolutely everything! As if you truly know yourself you know when you are not yourself and can bring yourself back without blaming or shaming others. How harmonious is that!?
Yes Kathleen it is really obvious when we are not ourselves but even with this awareness it takes will to chose to return to who we naturally are, a choice I seem to often make much harder than need be as is the part of ourselves that enjoys anything that is not loving! I think one of the hardest things to realise is that it is a choice.
Very wise words Kathleenbaldwin, knowing and loving yourself changes absolutely everything,opening up a whole new world and way of being where you are totally responsible for yourself and your choices, and there definitely is no place for blaming or shaming others.
Yes rosemarydunstan and the beautiful thing is that the whole world reflects that love back to you.
And that truly is a beautiful way to live kathleenbaldwin.
I love this too Carmel, I have never been so inspired to learn as I am now. Nor have I ever been so interested in so many subjects. I love how I now can feel how interconnected all these subjects are how they make up the whole.
Kim how glorious will it be when we are all studying different subjects but that each subject is underpinned by the fact that it is being studied in order to evolve the human race back to soul. It is no wonder that classrooms of all ages are filled with people nodding off or gazing out the window, we know when there is true purpose to what we are learning and when it is purely for learning sake. What really is the point of learning information when that information does nothing to evolve anyone? If something doesn’t evolve someone then it must be by it’s very nature contracting the whole. It seems to me that our entire education system is designed to keep us in contraction.
You are spot on Alexis, it works in the complete opposite way to what true education should be doing. It is yet another illusion that we had signed up for and now another illusion that we are breaking out of. Coming back to the living way that everything we do should be evolutionary.
I agree kimweston2 every day is full of opportunities to learn, but in such a natural way that you can see and feel how everything is interconnected. Life and learning becomes intriguing and magical, and everyone, and all situations become an integral part of evolving.
I agree Carmel, by studying ‘everything’ we get to feel how we are a part of something much bigger, how we are all connected in one whole.
I agree Carmel and this is the way forward for True education!
Yes Carmel – this is indeed why so many of us feel like we are able to ’study’ for the first time in our lives, because when the entire life and way we live is included in the study it all makes sense and is not something ’out there’ for the select few.
I love that too Carmel, it is constant in everything we do, every interaction we have with another and every moment of every day. Living like this turns education and intelligence on its head.
‘That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love.’ …. I love this too. All my life I’ve been conditioned to believing things needed to be done a certain way, it’s been amazing to feel the freedom and spaciousness from letting go of that control and expectation, to allow myself to unfold and evolve in life rather than conform to a matrix.
I agree Alison, it is super refreshing to let go of the having to conform to a certain way of being that is limiting and not honouring of who we are and to allow ourselves the time and space to be ourselves and to express from an understanding and a knowing of our “lived experience” this is far more powerful than anything else you can learn anywhere else and far more evolving than any university you can think of. This is exactly what The Way of the Livingness offers, true evolution for all.
I so enjoyed reading your article, Christina …… ‘ I couldn’t even follow when fellow students were constantly repeating what they had just learned in Civil Law’ ….. I have always been like this too. I can’t repeat what I’ve just heard, I have to understand it and feel it and then it’s about connecting to my body and sharing from that place of understanding. I think that’s why I had such a hard time at school, I didn’t want to rote learn. The first time I heard Serge Benhayon was the very first time in my life that I sat on my chair, riveted for 6 hrs or so because everything he shared was relevant to us all here and now and I could feel the truth in what he was saying.
It has always been relatively easy for me to recall what I have just heard but I also experience a huge difference between hearing a lot of details and somebody expressing from their lived and experienced truth.
This is so true Christoph and it’s the same for me. If I just say or do what I’ve heard I feel fake and like a robot BUT when it’s something I have lived and experienced, coupled with wisdom, boy oh boy is it different as I actually feel a strength and power coming from inside of me, because IT IS coming from me.
I agree Christoph. There is a fullness of wisdom that comes when someone expresses from their lived experience.
Through my education I develop understanding much more from teachers or presenters who share from their lived experience as part of their presentations.
So true Christoph – I always found that I could recall things that I had heard but only really remember things if they have true meaning – experiences stay with me all the time.
I agree Christoph it is much easier to take in and feel what is being expressed when it comes from the body, and equally it is easier to express something yourself when it is something you have experienced, and are expressing from your body.
Totally agree Christophe – and I remember at School feeling a difference between the rote learning (parrot fashion), and a teacher that brought the subject alive, with lived examples. There was an authority that could not be faked in these lessons, the teacher’s lived experience would be communicated in a totally different way to the knowledge.
Yes, Simon, and I always felt the teacher was paying us pupils a big compliment by putting in the effort to make it a proper presentation and I always admired the teachers who went that extra mile.
Hi Alison that is my experience also, The first time I heard Serge after being riveted and feeling like I was exposed to a whole new world, I remember feeling quite sad, as I hadn’t experienced learning being so easy before – it showed me that there is another way, It further highlights for me the lack in our education system as well.
It’s blogs like these that will usher in a new and truer direction for education. UTurn permitted!
I like that Irena, I used to think that a U-turn was unacceptable, now i almost celebrate the moments when I discover there is another way.
I agree Nicole and Irena, The Way of the Livingness is paving the way for our future education where everything is encompassing of everything else just like the old Pythagorean schools which encouraged the students to embody and live what was presented and not just remember and regurgitate like we do today.
I use to struggle with what I had just learnt if some one just spoke. I could not recall unless it wa simplified or I had put it into practice. Anything practical was simple for me to learn. Practical experience made more sense to me, where as something just spoken about had no real meaning unless it was practically experienced.
That is very interesting Alison, I had the same experience also in that listening to Serge Benhayon speak about The Way of the Liivingness for the first time was captivating. His eyes and words reflected something that I had never felt before this life time, but something I’d know and lived in ancient past – it was like coming home.
I can feel and have been through the same that you are sharing, Alison! Sitting for hours listening, always wanting to get more given: that has only happened to me with the study of the presentations offered by Universal Medicine. True philosophy, Ageless Wisdom, purity and and overview perspective: that’s what catches me. And that’s what’s presented by Serge Benhayon.
Yes Alison that was the same for me, I was in fear of the prospect of sitting and listening for all that time, like you said 6 hours passed very quickly as it was the first time I was hearing the truth, wisdom and the common sense of it all resonated deeply.
Thank you for a great blog. Being a student of life, as one naturally is with The Way of the Livingness, you are on the road of graduating with a Masters, and a Phd of life and love, which is probably the greatest contributions to humanity one can give back.
Great way of looking at it Johanne. Masters we shall all be one day.
I love it Christina, thank you. The Way of the Livingness = a way of life. Studying true living. Who wouldn’t want to register…!
“And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” It is sad but true to feel how rare it is to experience this way of learning. We have a huge responsibility to change this as students of ‘The Way of the Livingness’.
Beautifully said Marika – powerfully simple yet so true.
Thank you Christina, so awesome to feel what you have written and how The Way of The Livingness is for you.
The Way of The Livingness is a life time commitment for me, as I never learnt much at school as to what I have learnt attending The Way of The Livingness presentations, and the way Serge Benhayon presents is only for each of us to feel what is true in our own body and our own livingness.
By making that choice and walking with my truth I can bring more of me to all I connect with and that allows more space inside of me to know there is more to learn.
As any changes I have made, and continue to make in my life on what has or is presented, and at any given time I can share that when it is needed, is a truly honouring way to share in life, not by knowledge.
There is so much to Learn and Live in life, as people are so caught up in the doing to please others and getting it right. That’s what I see in my every day life as full time cleaner and looking out into the world of the busyness.
I love your blog Christina and I really love how your present the major difference of being a student of ‘The Way of the Livingness’ as being “a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” There is no greater gift!
Christina I love the way you have explored this subject and brought to light the difference between learned knowledge and shared experience. Your words ‘Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me’ describes the wonderful gift and opportunity that these teachings offer us when we explore bringing them into our everyday day, not as way of following the rules to get a good grade, but to learn for ourselves where they can take us.
What I can sense deeply from your awesome sharing Christina is that when a person shares from their innate wisdom and own livingness it opens a connection to others and in that connection we learn together. It builds relationships. This is how we interact. Teaching from our heads and not our bodies and hearts opens no lines of connection and nothing can be felt or connected to. A true teacher opens up a students’ own awareness and access to knowledge – it triggers off in them the understandings that they too have in their bodies. It is unifying – teaching is about reflection and inspiration to set another on their own way to engage their own learning, if they so choose to. When it is from books and regurgitated knowledge, nothing is gained, no quality or connection or building of relationship is achieved. Students are left feeling less, not good enough, humanity is not evolved, it is stunted.
Beautifully expressed ginadunlop. That was my experience as a student. There were some teachers who inspired, and their legacy lives on, but for the most part the knowledge imparted was not integrated, passed through like an undigested meal.
ginadunlop, I loved the depth of your comments and feel that there’s so much more that you could share with others in a blog.
‘when a person shares from their innate wisdom and own livingness it opens a connection to others and in that connection we learn together’, what a beautiful way to learn..
I love this subject you are sharing Christina. I now teach myself and as a teacher it is profound to contemplate how ‘knowledge’ is delivered. If I go into the content and knowledge of the curriculum and make it only about that – I am lost and defeated and feel I don’t know enough. But if I scan what I am teaching and feel into it, always it comes back to the wisdom and understandings of the world and from there I can access all the knowledge of the world I need. When it comes from my body the lesson flows, when it comes from my head and books it is stilted. The students learn from my wisdom and sharings and together we then jump through hoops to pass exams and tick boxes. They are engaged because my offerings invite them to access their own lived wisdom and knowledge. When I teach ‘from the text book’, they disengage – there is no connection.
What I felt Christina when you were sharing about how recalling information felt unnatural and ‘brainy’ was how when we sit and discuss from our own livingness and our contemplations, we actually access an innate wisdom and knowledge which feels extremely knowledge. In this way I guess what is happening is we tap into and access the livingness and experience from other lives too – I often contribute to discussions with great understanding yet inside I am thinking – how do I know this? I’ve never studied this subject? We know – and I feel current education kills the fact that we know.
‘The Way of the Livingness is not a subject separate from life’ this is so true so many subjects we learn at school have no relevance to everyday life and how we are Iiving and the affects this has on everything and everyone.
I agree alisonmoir, ‘The Way of the Livingness’ is life, it teaches us how to be ourselves in life and bring this to all that we do. It’s the overarching umbrella that makes sense of everything else, without it we are lost in the falseness of all the ideals and beliefs that we’ve created to have some form of structure to live by. This structure has held us captive and separate, which is why we’ve all been searching, feeling like there is something missing. The love that we all have in our hearts is what has been missing, sharing this with each other. The Way of the Livingness teaches us how we can all choose to do this, so simply.
I so agree Christina, studying life and ones own behaviour is just the most amazing subject I have ever gotten involved with and I too totally love Serge Benhayon’s approach to look at life and talk about it with each other, he taught me to never leave ‘a stone unturned’ and so there are new discoveries to be made constantly.
Being allowed to make mistakes is what stands out in your blog for me Christina. It is something I still struggle with at times. Holding myself back so I wil not make mistakes. But lately I have come to understand that this believe of having to be perfect was a very convenient excuse, preventing me from taking responsibility for my what I am here to live and reflect; my light, my wisdom, my divinity and glory. Serge Benhayon is a deeply inspiring example of living and embodying the true power and love we come from as the Sons of God.
Before I was a Student of the the Way of the Livingness I would often put myself as less because I had difficulty with recall. What I have found that when subjects are taught and shared based on a lived experience then I find it easy to learn from them and follow. The Way of the Livingness is exactly that. All that Serge Benhayon presents is his lived experience and it therefore becomes very tangible and very practical in what it presents, no recall required.
This is so important to share Donna. We need to bust this myth that recall is the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ when it comes to being intelligent. It needs to be exposed for what it really is – simply regurgitating information. True intelligence comes from within and is held inside each and everyone of us.
Having studied more subjects that I could care to remember, the one thing I learnt from it is that mental, abstract theory and knowledge only serve to keep you in the mental.. until you embody and live what you are learning, and understand how it relates to life and to people, then it becomes something to grow from, or alternatively to see that it is not conducive to growth but rather designed to keep people in a lesser state. So the art of discernment is one of the most important things I have learnt in this life. and Many academics and students are so caught up in what they have learnt as a tool for success, or for recognition and acceptance that they have been blinded and thus hindered in their ability to discern what truly serves, or what only buries us deeper into a life of confusion and disharmony.
Discerning whether what I am learning supports us all to grow, to be who we truly are, or whether it submerges us into the ever darkening soup of recognition and success seeking. Annie, I love the clarity your comment brings, thank you.
You have nailed it Annie about the knowledge that we use as a tool for recognition and acceptance will only cap us from stepping into that we are all meant to be.
‘hindered in their ability to discern what truly serves,’, this is so true Annie. The whole education system is hindered in its ability to discern what truly serves, and therefore so are it’s students. Universal Medicine makes discernment its core principle, which is what gives it the ability to offer true education.
Participating in “The Way of the Livingness” School of practical everyday teachings and philosophy has been the single most supportive choice I’ve ever made and committed to. What is presented is the most practical, comprehensible and comprehensive examples of what it truly means to live life with joy, harmony, love, wellbeing and vitality in all I do. Understanding that we are all equal and no one or anything is greater or less than anything else. Life is simpler, lighter and with-in me I feel my power and purpose in being part of the divine plan. I absolutely love being part of this school and would recommend it to everyone.
I totally agree with all that you say Sandra. I deeply appreciate the huge changes I have made. Life used to feel empty, a struggle filled with ups and downs, and now it feels full and rich with a growing sense of purpose.
I recently saw an advertisement in the local paper for a child care centre that read “our children teach us what life is all about”. I really liked how their philosophy is just as you have shared – we are all students and teachers in the world. I have never felt this to be more true than since becoming a student…and teacher of the way of the livingness.
I love the name “The Way of the Livingness” as it says that there is a way of living that supports us to be all of who we are. When I discovered this it changed everything for me. I became my own student of life and I do this by simply “living me”. This then gives me a lived authority that I can pass onto other people and this is how we support each other to grow and develop greater awareness.
What’s incredible is that this way of living is now normal, and the old way (where nothing seemed to have meaning and life was just about the eternal search for romance and happiness) abnormal and long gone. Now I live in love and joy daily, regardless of what is going on around me.
The Way of The Livingness is The Best. ! Theres no need to prove anything, or be anything other than the joy we naturally are.
Christina, I enjoyed reading about your law professor and how he brought the subject alive. It’s far more inspiring for people when someone speaks from that full lived experience of life rather than regurgitating information. Serge Benhayon is a powerful speaker who never needs to prepare or use notes because he speaks from the wisdom in his body which is available as a response to what the audience needs to hear. Because of this what he says is relevant to what is going on in our lives and just what we need to hear to support us to deepen our relationships. ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life’.
Christina this is awesome. “What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.” This is what I love about life. Being a student of livingness is a way of being in and with the world from our own lived experiences and that is a very cool way to be. Thank you.
Christina, I so enjoyed reading how your experience is as a student of the Livingness as opposed to your student days at Uni. Regurgitating knowledge from our heads simply does not work, and it has only served to bring humanity to breaking point. We only have to look around and see the state of the world to see that there is something amiss with how we are raised, taught and consequently living. Students of the Way of The Livinginess are living proof that there is indeed another way to live – and this way has nothing whatsoever to do with knowledge and qualifications but from the wisdom of our own lived experience.
The Way of the Livingness is based on an ageless wisdom that anyone can connect to simply by the way in which one lives. It can only truly accessed by living not by studying knowledge or memorising information. A completely different form of study and intelligence then the traditional educational systems we currently have.
The Universities of the future could be very different – just go for one day, learn how to connect to the Ageless Wisdom and then leave with your degree!
Christina, you can count me in as a student of “The of the Livingness-” What I love about it is that there is no exams, no regurgitation of knowledge, no such thing as a failure or perfection. It is based on our livingness from our inner heart and whole body where love, truth and wisdom is felt and known. It is an unfolding and evolving process. It unifies people and we are seen as one brotherhood.
Christina, I too have found that teachers that teach from their lived experience come across more real and connect with you as the student. They usually stand out as exceptional teachers, like your law teacher that you described. The one that stands out the most for me is Serge Benhayon, who lives truth and is totally dedicated to the evolvement of humanity as one nation/ one brotherhood. He has been teaching and inspiring so many students from all over the world “the Way of the Livingness”.
I have had a phobia of university and, well, any extra study of any kind my whole life. I never enjoyed reading or writing but I always loved to learn and really enjoyed conversations that had deeper meaning and helped me and others evolve. Becoming a student of the way of the livingness has changed my prospective on study. I am able to write and read confidently and am a dedicated student that studies every day. If the way of the livingness was a subject at Uni, I would have most defiantly been on campus.
sarahraynebaldwin you are a great example of the power of The Way of the Livingness, what you bring to all of us with your wisdom is superb, you cut through the baloney with ease, and make everything real. You could teach this at university, let alone be a student.
That is a huge compliment, thank you from all of me Heather Pope.
The number of University Degrees and degree educated people continues to grow, at the same time the illness and disease is escalating at an alarming rate. I found it fascinating and rather obvious once this was stated by Serge Benhayon, that these two statistics are rather telling of the fact that our way of life is not working. Education cannot be what we believe it to be if this is the case. There is a big gap where our intelligence should be.
When one presents from what they have lived and experienced everyone can relate and connect to the universal truth of it, as opposed to theory and knowledge which separates us because it is something you either have or don’t have and therefore feel lesser or lacking in some way.
I love this paragraph: “And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” It perfectly describes The Way of the Livingness.
Absolutely Donna. When I first came to Universal Medicine, I was inspired by those that were in the livingness, and I used to switch off when people spoke about the knowledge of what was being presented by Serge Benhayon but didn’t live it. The same goes when I have done this with others, they don’t hear what is being said if they can’t feel that what is being spoken about is lived.
I am a student of The Way of the Livingness, and never in my life did I think that I would love being a student so much. I don’t have to study text books; I learn from life. I don’t have to pass exams; there is no right and no wrong. And I don’t need to compare myself to anyone else as we are all students of our own livingness, therefore at different stages of our evolution. To live The Way has become a most natural, in fact for me, the only way to live, and every day I know that I am in the classroom of life, sharing this joyful way of living with so many others who been inspired by the wise and wonderful presentations of Serge Benhayon.
Christina what you share here is beautiful, it confirms not only what I love about being a Student of The Way of The Livingness but also what a true teacher and discussions are about. Its about our own lived experience, sharing from this, nothing more – nothing less. No fancy recipes to learn, nothing that is not equal to one another. What you share and what I now really see is what true education is all about.
Rereading this article I got to feel a deeper level of your living way Christina and the power from which you are expressing. It is deeply humbling to know that we are supported every step of the way should we choose to just be ourselves. Serge Benhayon is a forever student and he reflects so much integrity to me that I had simply forgotten existed, reconnecting back to this way has been a enormous step forward for me and I can see now how lost the world has become without such simple foundations. Respect, integrity, understanding and accountability brings about a way of life that was once known and lived and then was destroyed, diminished and lost.
I can recall my first experience of the Way of the Livingness which was through the Livingness of another person, and not though any intellectual process at all. It was something that could be felt in the way he expressed and as I felt it, I was aware that it was also something I had inside me. It was some months later that I heard the words ‘The Way of the Livingness’ and realised this is what I had experienced. There is a world of difference between sharing knowledge on that intellectual level and sharing from our livingness. The latter is truly ‘universal’ and honours the real essence of the word ‘University’.
Haha, Richardmills363 – I recall observing someone very intently as I had felt a different quality to them than I was experiencing anywhere else. This person was far from any ideal of perfection but emanated a quality I instantly recognised as familiar because I felt the same within me too. Nor did this person ever speak of The Livingness or anything other than day to day to stuff to me: I asked them about their quality after observing them closely for several months! That’s the Livingness 🙂
Christina such a great blog 🙂 love the lightness and playfullness you share with. Thank You. With love Nadine
Christina – They Way Of The Livingness being studied in universities would be a complete change to the education system. Because as you say – it is not about the exams or the knowledge but about living it – evolving through everyday choices.
It seems like this is a big part of what is missing in our education – how to come back to who we are, how to honour ourselves and walk in our power.
It sounds like your Law teacher really stood out to you because as you say – outside the classroom door is life – everyone is walking around presenting how they are living, whether they are aware of this or not. And so to have a teacher present from where he is at in his body is very inspiring – that is why the teaching of The Way of The Livingness are so profound. It brings us back to our choices.
Christina you have captured perfectly the difference between studying the Way of the Livingness and a subject at university.
Out of those 400 plus courses we can have a go at, there is a reason there is only one way of the livingness.
The Way of the livingness should, and I hope it will be, taught in all schools and universities from day one in the near future. It would make life so much easier and the world such a better place to be. Love being the most important thing.
Christina, I can relate to what you have written here, ‘What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.’ I had a similar experience with a horticultural teacher, he talked from his experiences and so it never felt like he was repeating what someone else had said or that he was repeating what he had read in a book or studies, it felt fresh and alive, he would bring his lightness and playfulness and love of horticulture to us, it was very interactive and we all got to feel him, he was the best part of the course and all of the students that i have ever spoken to who had him as a teacher have adored him and found the subject fascinating, after reading your article I can now understand why.
“And by me living my life as a student I might meet others who will ask: “What do you study?”
And I will answer: “The Way of The Livingness!”” Love it Christina, and I too claim that for myself. I just love being a student of The Way of the Livingness.
I too love being a student of The Way of the Livingness, Beverly – it is the best choice of my life.
The Way of the Livingness is indeed a great study to follow as what you say Christina with “I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.” is for me key in this study. The Way of the Livingness is a study of the life I live, from my own experience and I have registered to this study for the rest of my life, and for many more to come hereafter.
Me too Nico, I am now a life long student of The Way of the Livingness and intend to sign up the next time round too and again and again, until its second nature to live like this.
Yes Nico, The Way of the Livingness is indeed a great study and the most interesting one I have ever undertaken.
It is a continual study, and one that is filled with the joy of learning and developing. I would never choose any other way.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.” That is wonderful to come from a teacher, for him/her to present from their own experience, rather just from learning from others, or from books. There is far more truth presented when speaking from true experience. For example, Serge Benhayon, when presenting is always speaking from his own livingness, the way that he always lives his life. From that, we can then all feel the absolute truth in what he is sharing, and why it all makes such sense to me. Serge Benhayon always speaks from his own body, not from any book learning or such, it is so true, and I so love what he shares. He is love and he constantly lives that love, and you just know it is Truth with a capital ‘t’.
How different is it when we communicate from our bodies. If somebody speaks from his or her body it deeply resonates within my own body and I actually love to listen and feel energised and literally inspired. I can listen for hours without getting bored or disturbed. And when I speak from my body, I love the energy that is resonating through my own body. Indeed expanding! Pure Love.
Yes Floris – this is such a joy to listen, when somebody talks from his / her body. I could listen for hours as well. Our body knows what truth is and if this truth is expressed, this is just wonderful.
How lovely to feel how you relate to same experiences. The joy, innocence and wonderment that stem from your comment are testimonies of it. Which makes me smile and appreciate even more how wonderful it is to be ‘washed’, ‘showered’ by people speaking from their bodies. How lovely would it be if this was taught at schools from day 1!
So true, Beverley, if we are sharing something that we have not lived and it is not yet ‘true’ for us, in our bodies, people may listen, but they don’t hear. When you share from lived experience, it’s felt and people can feel what you’re sharing more than hearing the words you’re saying, the words just reinforce what is felt.
Christina I loved this. Especially the ending. i can so relate to this – being in classes where the knowledge is so heady it just goes straight through one ear and out through the other. But i have also, like you, had the experience of someone teaching something based off their experience and bringing the way they live into it- what a difference it makes! “or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” I love this about the way of the livingness. It just completely allows you to be yourself.
The difference a teacher can make is huge to say the least. Like yourself Emily I remember at Uni some lectures (and teachers) were so dry that I could simply not stay awake through them. I explored this, even if I wasn’t tired at all I would get really tired in the lecture. Conversely I remember having a very passionate lecturer for law as well – I even remember his name. I felt rejuvenated from these lectures – the difference was extremely significant.
Yes I too can recall education days and the marked difference of the effects of both passionate and disinterested teachers and professors. My history teacher in particular just brought it all alive through the stories he told of the lives of those who had effected history.
Yes, teachers with a true heartbeat inspire the hearts of their students also 🙂
Understanding and expanding, how beautiful is that?!
When understanding leads to evolution then yes that is beautiful and there is an expansion, but understanding in it’s traditional sense has often lead to devolution and a feeling of contraction because the understanding has been the goal e.g. understanding the use of grammar.
Emily through reading your comment I got to feel what an evil game education plays. It feels generically like keeping a child trapped in a basement for their entire life and telling them that the basement is in fact the whole world. It really is time to wake up, we’ve been asleep way too long!
I love what you have shared here simple and true, and doesn’t it make a difference when people, like the professor and Serge Benhayon teach from experience rather than recall and repeating knowledge. With people like this I not only instantly feel their passion, warmth, honesty and humanness but also their love of others and a knowing we are all equal. These are great teachers. You are so right we are all both teachers and students in life.
That is what really stood out to me about Serge Benhayon, he walked his talk. I had seen healers in the Byron Bay area talking about evolution and health during the week and then taking ecstasy and smoking weed on the weekends. Looking back I realise that is not true health and well being. Serge Benhayon lives the words and that does truly inspire.
Serge Benhayon walks his talk in a way that sets the bar for all presenters as well. He is the same when presenting as he is in normal life, immensely humble and yet totally aware of the purpose in his life, and all he brings as an exemplary role model for so many.
That’s why Serge was dubbed the ‘healers” “healer” many years ago.
Many practitioners get a loving wake up call after having a session with Serge Benhayon. In truth he is not a healer’s healer, as he never changes no matter who he treats, instead hold a quality that communicates an integrity in all that he does. This is extremely supportive to healers that are use to social niceties, ego feeding between peers or stepping on eggshell around each other as to not offend. Serge Benhayon always has and always will just say it ‘the way it is’. If you want to check it out for yourself then read “THE WAY IT IS” only one of the many life changing purple books he has written.
It is so true Christina that any wisdom shared from a lived experience brings a quality of truth that is undeniably felt and known by the heart. As is what you have shared here about your experience of The Way of The Livingness, the way of Love, as presented by the way Serge Benhayon lives. I too have experienced the same from being a student of and learning about Love. How when I do connect to Love the more I live who I am in truth. This is what I then share with the world through my relationships.
“I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand. And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.” Absolutely Christina, developing an honest & sound relationship with our body and movements heightens our awareness and quickly the old ways of being no longer feel true or of real service.
The study of the Way of The Livingness in one way may be very simple: It is the study of life and of the responses of our body.
I like that – it is about our body and what I live. In the past I thought, the quality depends on the amount of knowledge I have and today I know, it only counts what I live, not what I know.
This has been my experience as well Susan. I find I switch off quickly if people start talking about lots of facts
The Way of The Livingness is just that. It’s about how you live and encompasses everything. We do live compartmentalised lives but this religion is about being who you are in every situation and area of you life. Bringing all the disjointed parts together so that there is a feeling of completeness, wholeness and interconnectedness.
Honouring the love we are, honours who we are in full as we are love innately, as this is the most important part of us. It may be intangible to think of this as part of our anatomy but when it is felt, it is unmistakeable. There is a place, feeling or space in each one of us that connects us to this love. It does not feel the same for each and every person, which is why it is so beautiful to connect to. Once we do connect to it though, we can reflect that to another, and they too can know that they can find this space again and live from it. This is the simplicity and awesomeness of the Way of the Livingness.
‘It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends.’ – I love this about The Way of The Livingness, there is no end goal, no destination, only a constant evolution that we cannot avoid and never ends.
mmm yes, well said fionacochran01, I too love this about the Way of the Livingness. I don’t have to regurgitate and memorise anything- just live it ! which, is so less stressful.
So beautiful Christina and so true. When we allow ourselves the grace to stop repeating knowledge and to start living an understanding, we transform ourselves into students of Life. What becomes so apparent for me in reading your article is that by being a student of The Way of the Livingness, I am not expected to repeat anything by rote, instead I am encouraged to read a great deal, to read the quality of energy in everything and to listen deeply to what I feel in my body. This is a complete U turn on our current education systems that force us to prove our worth essentially by what we can remember or by how good we are at something. How different our schools and universities will be when we not only teach from our real, lived experiences, but we make the core subject about reading energy, honouring our feelings, surrendering to what we feel in our bodies without question. There is no magic finish line either, when we commit to studying life from within our bodies, it is by its very nature a never ending, infinite lesson in Love.
Love how you have expressed all that, rowenakstewart. It is wonderful to be a student of The Way of the Livingness and not have to remember lots of information by rote. We learn by reading “the quality of energy in everything and to listen to what I feel in my body.” And I agree, how different our schools and universities will be when the students are taught from real, lived experiences. And when they learn about reading energy, honouring their feelings and as you say, surrendering to what they feel in their bodies, what different lives they would then go on to be living. In the long run, this would be so transformative for the world, as all the students go out into the world, what a wonderful world that would then be.
“Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand…” – Yes I agree and I find it feels more like someone is sharing themselves with you, sharing their life and just presenting what they know rather than trying to impress or drum anything into you.
I love this, Christina. It made me remember one of my writing teachers in university, who was always trying new things, and full of wonder and a desire to explore even in his mid-60’s. He was one of my most inspirational teachers at that time.
Serge Benhayon has taken that wonder and brought it to the next level. He has managed to inspire me to stop and look at life in a completely new way. Yes, I too have become lost in the knowledge from time to time, but when I do there is not reprimand, no bad grades, only a simple graceful patience which allows me to make mistakes and learn from them. Such is the Way of the Livingness.
Christina, I agree ‘The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there.’ is such a refreshing experience after finding that in most areas of my life questioning has been inconvenient and mistakes frowned upon.
Christina thank you, the distinction you make between repeating things already written, and speaking from your own experience is like chalk and cheese, as the saying goes. Having had the opportunity countless times over the past 14 years to listen to Serge Benhayon, who only presents and teaches from his lived experience, I have become very accustomed to the ease this provides for what is being shared to be heard, taken in and remembered… and hence (I realise) made relevant in life.
On the odd occasion these days that I hear someone speak from a prepared speech or document, the difference is very stark. It has no lasting impression, I find it difficult to concentrate and focus (as you say), and can often feel a bit heady afterwards.
So true Susan, the well learned scholars are many times not the true experts.
I agree Susan, we hold the authority of a lived experience in our whole body, when we share that with others they cannot help but feel that solid lived way in us and their absoluteness of that. In comparison to when we just regurgitate something we have heard or read, which is a concept or idea to us at that point if we are not actually living it.
Great description of the Way of the Livingness and I love how you share that it is about our lived experience and not always about knowledge. One of the things I love about being a student is the lightness and playfulness that it brings – it is a great antidote to the heaviness of getting things right and having to know it all.
This would be a life changing subject to study Christina. I would love to see the difference of the students in 3 years study from the beginning to the end. The problem would be that it wouldn’t end in 3 years, it’s a constant learning and changing throughout our whole lives, growing and evolving.
There would be one major difference: ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life”
This statement is very true Christina, we separate everything these days, compartmentalize and segregate making ourselves very disconnected form our bodies, other people and life, “the way of the livingness”, brings all people and all of life back to one whole that one can live, breath and walk, its not a mental concept or idea.
Reading your story Christina about your professor of law, I was reminded of my school days, and the teachers that spoke about their life experience and recounted story’s they had lived in their lives were the one I actually listened to rather than the one that regurgitated knowledge from books Etc.
Like you Thomas I would actually pay attention to the teachers who shared their life experiences instead of the ones that droned on and on simply repeating what they had learned from books and not from life. Those that presented from life brought the subjects alive and you could feel the lessons that they had learned, so in turn you were ready to learn from them.
The simplicity of this statement may not seem that profound and maybe the same as what other religions or spiritual practices are teaching, but putting this into my daily life has and is the most richly profound life changing thing I have done, my gratitude to Serge Benhayon.
So true Thomas its simplicity and truth makes it completely normal to your average person. It makes perfect sense and most of all there are NO hooks attached.
As a student of the The Way of the Livingness it is the most deeply nourishing and rewarding way of living that I have ever experienced. The level of love and joy that I feel on a day to day basis far outweighs anything I have ever felt in the past before choosing to live via the principles offered as part of The Way of the Livingness. The principles are super simple, to live in a loving way and to deeply honour our body knowing that it houses the soul. As our love for ourselves builds, so too does our love for humanity.
Thank you Christina. Your article reminds me of the reasons that I very quickly lost all interest in school and began to rebel. It is now up to me to live that what I yearned for all those years ago so I may inspire others to live the love that they are as well. It is through our changed way of being as a collective that will ultimately transform the education system we have today.
When we share from our lived experience it is felt by the listener and they “get it, it is inspiring and relevant to their experience, and it deepens the connection between us.”
Absolutely 1timrobinson, presenting in the Livingness truly engages and inspires the student, no arduous study required as its felt and registered in the body.
I agree Christina it would be great if the way of The Livingness were taught at universities alongside law and medicine, even better if it is taught in primary schools, and in our homes for that matter.
I agree Bernard, The Way of the Livingness will support millions in years to come! It is Gold … yet to be discovered by the masses.
The best presenters and teachers I have had, were those who talked about their experience and by doing so brought the content to life. It makes so much sense to live in a way that doesn’t compartmentalise life. It is all part of the one whole, despite us thinking we can separate portions of our life! The Way of the Livingness is in every part of my life, thats what makes it so real and practical, whilst reminding me of the magic of science, philosophy and religion.
It sounds so simple to make everything about everything but the way we have configured the constructs of society is the exact opposite of that concept. We have managed to section everything of into little different bits and pieces. The same way the modern medicine approaches the human body, we have 100 different specialist for our list of aliments but none of the specialists actually communicate with each other and to bring all the information together can prove difficult at times.
This line Christina, ” The playfulness and the willingness to explore that the students of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ have.”, is one of the many things I love about being a student of the Way of the Livingness too. My interest in and awareness of everything has been reignited and continues to grow because it comes from a playful and willing “what if…?” now rather than a dry and serious need to ‘know’. Also one never feels alone in that exploration as each person adds to the understanding as we all come to to a one unified point between us. Elucidation can be so much fun.
Beautifully said Jeanette – what we have is so precious.
The Way of the Livingness does apply to all topics because in essence it is always pulled to make life about people. We experience this in education only when we come across one of those magnificent teachers who enjoy and hold a deep understanding of the area they teach and know how this may serve fellow human beings when applied with care.
Yes, I have come across only a few of them in my time and they are like gold inside a system that is outdated.
And an enthusiastic student as everything learnt can be related to and applied in one´s own life and hence become one´s own knowing to be deepened and expanded hence it is a study of life no matter what the subject.
I love reading your blog Christina and the tribute to the way of life that is a constant expanding of love in its true meaning. Beautiful and evolutionary in simply living our day.
Just by living our lives the lessons we need to learn are inescapable. Many of us go through our lives not learning from the opportunities before us and react and complain about how life is treating us. The Way of the Livingness helps me understand and comprehend my life. The way that I live puts me in situations which can be tricky to reconcile from my past experience. I must be a philosopher and understand my own psychology to learn from my life. There are a lot of myths and superstitions about how life works that allow us to be irresponsible. Since I have been studying The Way of the Livingness I have learnt a lot about life. Thank you Christina.
Being a student of the way of the livingness is being a true student of real life. One of integrity, responsibility, honesty, truth and love with stillness and the grace of being who we truly are that is one with God. We are heavenly divine beings and we are reawakening to this and it is the most inspirational and illuminating journey ever and part of our evolution from earth as we know it. What a beautiful way of presenting this Christina with a joy and freedom that is really there for all to enjoy. An Inspiration for the true university of life.
I know there are things that are explained to me many times about systems and data but they are so impersonal I have to have them explained numerous times to remember the process.
But when someone is living what they are presenting then I feel the truth of it and learn either instantly or really start observing and feeling what it is that is being presented. It is far from having to make an effort. It shows me that once I feel it in my body then i know forever – it’s no longer a process of recall from my mind but a learning that can be built on.
How much of education is based on mental recall when actually what we learn that stays with us and makes a difference to our lived lives is from the body’s experience and wisdom.
Beautiful Christina, I love this, ‘Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me’ wow a gorgeous way to live, reading this I find it very inspiring, it makes life so much more fun and playful and not so serious.
I love how you say ‘where can I register?’ – and the funny thing is that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine do not do any advertising so all their courses and workshops are simply on their website for you to discover and sign up for. Word of mouth….and very effective indeed!
Good point, amazing really how so many people find out through word of mouth.
Word of mouth is one of the best ways of advertising! And for any business that seeks to increase it’s potential to bloom, they should study the business models of the likes of Universal Medicine and The Belle General Cafe to name two successful businesses who make it about people first!
I totally agree, people trust word of mouth over billboards because it is peoples experiences not a sales pitch. We can be mislead into thinking that business is about strategy and marketing but in truth it is about people. Nourish All Of You is another amazing business model to draw inspiration from, it puts people above all else.
Yes Henrietta, it is mostly word of mouth from the students of the Livingness but also the the glowing vitality in their faces ‘ advertises’ the courses and when people see the changes that their friends and family have made to their lives, they too ask that question…‘where can I register?’
Love what you have said Sandra – it is so true that the shining faces full of vitality are certainly a live walking advertisement. Kinda like us all being walking and talking A-frames for Universal Medicine! Gorgeous! I am certainly happy to walk around in an imaginary A frame!
Thank you Christina – I too can relate to what you share, especially the part where we have encountered a teacher who we will never forget because they had that connection to all of us as students, they left us with such inspiration because of how they shared the knowledge that they have gained in life through their experiences and through their love for life. I recall one teacher from primary school whom I will never forget because he made the lessons about us and connection and not about the subject or content, and I recall 2 teachers from high school that shared their passion and brought the subject alive with their love for Chemistry and life and so it made it easy to relate to. And now of course I have more recently experienced the teachings from Serge Benhayon – and this too is impossibly for me not to be ‘enthralled’ by because of how he shares what he lives, the humbleness yet full authority that he expresses with, and the wisdom that is shared in total equalness! Pretty awesome!
Re-visiting this blog this morning, the confirmation, truth and essence of this religion ‘The Way of the Livingness’ can be truly felt. Those who have chosen to ‘Register’ are living the future now – how awesome is that?
I love the opening quote by Serge Benhayon-
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
This is the most fulfilling way to live, and is a unifying way, as everyone who has a heart can enrol.
I love that Victoria, ”everyone who has a heart can enroll”, and it knocks out all the so-called differences and separation between countries and races, uniting us as one humanity, as one and the same.
Exactly Thomas, stripped bare of all our ideals and beliefs we are left standing in the truth of our equal essence.
Thank you Christina, being a student of The Livingness brings simplicity into my life it takes away the “trying” to be something and it allows me just to be me and express from my body from my lived experience and knowing that there is a responsibility I have in the quality of reflection I give to others.
That is what is so beautiful and powerful at the same time. The way of the Livingness never for a second asks you to be more than you already are, as a result the trying drops away as we connect to what is already there.
Thank you Christina, I enjoyed the natural wisdom you share in this blog, which is now your living way.
We register for life when we are born but as we go through the years we can loose touch with ourselves and what it is all about here on earth. The Way of the Livingness is a very natural way to live in connection with ourselves, others and all of life in an evolving way. This is the first true lesson. I would have loved to have received this understanding when young as every choice thereafter has true purpose.
In the past I used to feel less in a conversation with another who was very eloquent and knew their stuff but what I have found now is that the more I appreciate the way I live “The Livingness” and commit to it the more powerful it is what I share with others in a very simple way. Thank you Christina.
When another speaks from their lived experience it is alive and truly inspiring. I have learnt far more from my life experience and all it presents than I have from any book or formal education. It is the connection and love we bring to what we do that matters and what truly communicates.
Victoria, that is so true, knowledge is one thing but the wisdom that comes from a lived experience cannot be beaten. It is more powerful and more inspiring than any teaching that comes from knowledge.
Yes which makes sense when you consider one way is embodied and full in expression and the other is coming from a fragment (as in a head filled with knowledge).
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648. This to me is what true religion is all about, connecting to the love that we are and then being that love in everything that we do, say and be.
In my experience the most amazing and inspiring teachers are the ones who teach from a foundation of love.
What I also love about your blog is that you are actually giving the world an example of what a true study at university would be like. If we dropped the pretence, the rules, the mental constructs and simply looked at life, learned from life and made it about all of humanity and what it is we need to advance as a whole, I feel the entire education system would have to be thrown out and started from scratch.
A university that truly inspires us to be all that we are, now that would be amazing!
What gorgeous blog Christina and your appreciation has melted my body while reading it. You have captured the student – and their challenge – in a lovely way and I can only say I am feeling quite awesome to be a student of the Way of the Livingness too!
I too am a student of The Way of The Livingness, learning, expanding and inspiring others along the way by just being myself and living true to the teachings to the best of my ability in a playfully and joyfully way. I love it that there is no right or wrong way just a loving way.
I also remember a teacher at school that shared more from experience than knowledge. His classes were always engaging. What I loved most was that he related our learning to life. The Way of the Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon is all about life, no text book in sight, just a simple, practical way of understanding life and all that we are. You just can never get too much of this type of learning.
I agree Vicky, if the teaching comes the lived experience of the teacher – it makes so much more sense, is much easier to learn about and it is relatable – you can understand what is being presented in how it relates to your life. Learning is enjoyable and something to have fun with. When you learn something in this way it takes away the often painful and boring memory, rote learning too.
Yes this type of learning is always expansive, and we all have the opportunity to be both teachers and students as we each have much to offer from our life experiences.
As one who had shared here amongst others our experiences of different teachers either passionate and engaging or disinterested I find myself considering Serge Benhayon as a teacher. What I find in him is beyond passion. It is his lived way of life, his non imposing presentations and care for all that make him the best teacher I have ever come across.
Your blog made me smile Christina, an led me to ponder. One line stood out -where you asked yourself ‘ Do we really have to repeat all the time, trying to improve and prove that we are good students?’ In being a student of The Way of The Livingness I don’t have to prove anything, I know it as surely as I know my own body. I may collect a few facts in my head, for arguments sake, but they don’t stay long, because there is nothing to argue either, who wants to get bogged down in all that when one can have the sheer joy and playfulness that The Livingness brings. Where do I register? In bed, when I wake up,every morning.
“We are all students and teachers at the same time.” So true, Christina, and the example of your professor lets me feel, that learning becomes living, when someone is teaching from his livingness.
Love this Christina, every bit, I can relate to all of it. I studied law but unfortunately did not have the professor you spoke of and only managed a year! University was a cold, disconnected place that I had to leave after a year because I couldn’t make the shift from the fun and joy I had had in learning prior to entering the university structure. I used to think I had failed but I knew it so much in my body that it wasn’t true what was happening in them that I was ok with my decision and didn’t doubt it. Being presented the Way of the Livingness is a whole different kettle of fish altogether! Polar opposites in fact. I knew the minute I listened to Serge Benhayon that he lived something I knew and wanted to live again. It is the best learning environment ever for all the reasons you shared.
‘I knew the minute I listened to Serge Benhayon that he lived something I knew and wanted to live again.’ I completely understand what you mean here Vanessa as I too had a similar experience. I recall at the time that I also felt a wonderment, so delighted to have found what I had searched my life for, a knowing that human life was so much more than what we grow up believing it to be and it was also such a relief to find another that understood this too and could help me understand and live it more deeply.
I have registered, it is the best course ever, and the best part is that it never ends.
Esther, I registered too and I definitely don’t regret it. The courses just get better and better as I incorporate more of what is presented to my lived way.
I love what you have explained here Christina. There is power and freedom when we let our understanding and expansion to develop from actually living life. What I have observed with Ageless Wisdom is that it is literally ageless, it is based on actual living , it keeps deepening and expanding. In contrast the knowledge I have learned from textbooks and University stays static and fixed forever. More and more I get a sense how knowledge is a static, rigid snapshot of life, while wisdom flows, unfolds and evolves with life, a completely different world.
Oh Christina, your livingness always is a fresh breeze juicing up the rusty zest for life – to be a student of the livingness is indeed a juicy, joyfull, vibrant way of being and you are testimony to that fact with every move and word and look.
Very much agree Alex Braun, it is the most joyful subject to study and this is so felt in your writing Christina!
Thank you Christina, your blog made me smile all the way through because it is the simplicity of The Way of the Livingness that inspires me too. I had equally related the inspiration of Serge Benhayon to other teachers who had a profound and lasting effect on me and each and every one spoke from their lived experience rather than the theory. I am inspired to live each moment of my life in full, not in compartments or in roles – not even in timeframes of awake and asleep – and I love it. What a great empowering way to be – to know we have choice in every moment and that our choices affect both ourselves and others. Without knowing about this as a way of being though I would definitely have kept it in compartments and my life would have been so much less than it is now. I have no doubt I will re-visit this blog another day for a reminder of the appreciation of what I am being offered in the reflection of all those who chooses to live with this incredibly loving awareness and commitment.
The way of the Livingness is the true form of a school. It is education at it’s fullest and all encompassing. If law education was based on its philosophy, we would learn about how our criminal justice system affects the welfare and stability of families and children of those affected. The students would be taught about karma and responsibility and the system would support them and their clients to live in a healthy relationship with those things. It would be taught that a court of law is the last port of call and that law is not for the protection of people, but for everyone to align to, to live in harmony and truth.
All the things that you highlight as what you love about The Way of the Livingness, reminds me how much I love it as well, and brings up an appreciation of what an amazing thing it is to be part of such a beautiful religion. Thank you for that reflection Christina.
“I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand. And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness”. When listening to someone expressing from their body and a livingness, it feels so much better then when you are being bombarded with knowledge. There is no imposition of facts from a teacher that embodies what they share, and the student feels much more engaged and inspired to keep on listening instead of checking out and waiting for the class to end.
I love how you are highlighting the difference between teaching something solely based on knowledge, and how that differs to uniting the knowledge and the body so that it becomes a livingness, which is far grander than a load of facts that are stored in the mind.
Thank you Christina. I too am a student of The Way of the Livingness and it is the best study that I have ever done. I study myself, I study energy, I study why I do what I do and I learn how to live in a way that supports me to be more loving.
…and what could we study that is more worthwhile or valuable? With study such as this it sets us up to be able to deal with life.
Christina I love the playfulness and truth in your blog. I agree The Way of the Livingness should be taught at universities but why stop there – it should be taught in all forms of education from Kindy. How honouring would that be for children to feel All of them is being felt, met and cherished for the amazing being that they are.
Absolutely Johanna, children would be confirmed in their loveliness and supported in expressing themselves. I would imagine there could be some philosophical discussions happening here too.
‘The Way of the Livingness’ offers an essential foundation in knowing who we are from within so we may apply all that we are in all that we do.
What we live and what we learn each and everyday about ourselves and others is our natural schooling. It is my lived experiences that have provided me with a wealth of wisdom that no university or current education system could ever have offered.
I completely agree. I only wish that I had gone through school and university and my profession initially in the connection that I now have to myself as supported by my daily living choices.
I agree Marcia, we are all the same, what we learn in life is where our greatest learning occurs because it’s lived and felt in the body.
‘Our natural schooling’, I love that Marcia, when have you ever met an elderly person who is not wise? It doesn’t matter if the were so called ‘well educated’ or not because their wisdom comes from a life lived not a book or from reciting knowledge.
How true it is that when something is learned and realised through lived experience it becomes our knowing, our truth from the heart which deepens our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with life than does any intellectually acquired knowledge.
Gorgeous blog Christina I would love to have been taught The Way of the Livingness at school, I would have listened to every word. A true and caring teacher that understands and teaches from their lived experiences is worth their weight in gold, the lessons come alive and make them so more interesting…I know I could listen to Serge Benhayon all day and night, there is so much lived wisdom in what he expresses.
There is something so obvious about what you share here Christina and yet the majority of us don’t live it. You can feel and know those who do, they speak from their bodies and what they say is accessible and easily understood, like your old law professor and the Way of the Livingness. It’s a whole body experience and it’s lived and known and not some idea / belief out there, or just a talking head. It’s silly when you consider it that way, that we give power and kudos to talking heads and forget about the rest of the body and further that we think that we can live divorced from what we say. It shows how far we are from who we really are in how we live. The fact is someone who walks their talk, has a genuineness, a realness about them and for me I feel an immediate trust, it opens up a space to have a very real conversation and connection and any information imparted sinks in, I get it, and I feel we get it together; they’re not trying to prove anything to me, and immediately I can relax, it takes away those barriers and it completely changes everything, and this to me is The Way of the Livingness. And it’s something that has changed my life.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.” This sentence caught me eye. When I first came to the Universal Medicine presentations I was so enthusiastic – but I told people about it from the knowledge I had gained – and some turned away – from it and from me. Now I have more understanding – and more of the livingness, people are interested and ask questions and I share from that – no more imposing!
The Way of the Livingness does not only bring together subjects that are usually dealt separately but also refer them to a common theme: LIFE. What it does is brings an incredible amount of revelations that allow life to be studied from different angles. This helps us living in a way that encourages us to go forward in our journey back to Soul. There is nothing like this at university where subjects are studied as themes in a self-referential way.
By The Way of the Livingness “Students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it” – that’s the key …and the challenge. I can not learn about the livingness and hold this knowledge for a part of my life – it has to grow (expressed) in every corner of my life. The Way of the Livingness is like a plant – starts with a seed, sprout and blossoms up and all the time it is essential to care for this seed/plant, because when not, it withers and we go from an alive, connected and committed life back into function and arrangements. But if we care and live it, nurture and shine on – we start to produce seeds, inspire others to become alive again and change so the world can blossom up.
Christina there is something very delightful and light about what you have shared and I have no doubt that that is because you are delightfully light yourself. You are a walking advertisement for The Way of The Livingness and yes absolutely you are a teacher of the Way of the Livingness and teaching from your body is something that you recognized that you were drawn to many years ago.
What a beautiful appreciation and expression you share here Alexis. That in itself is an example of someone living from their heart. For me The Way of the Livingness has supported me to do just that.
I love it Christina. There are always those teachers that we remember, not because of what they taught but because of who they are and how they taught. Their lessons were engaging and full of enthusiasm for life built on their own experience. You can’t help but be inspired. Serge Benhayon is one such teacher. And his subject happens to be ‘The Way of the Livingness’. He simply presents what he lives.
I agree Rebecca. Serge Benhayon’s never-ending love and care for people is genuine and is the foundation of all conversations and lessons learned. Life becomes so much more interesting when we begin to relate it all back to people.
Absolutely. These teachers stand out a mile. Serge Benhayon teaches completely from the lived wisdom from his body – a sharing, a presentation and a teaching all in one that encompasses all of life philosophically, scientifically and religiously – just as it should be. Nothing is then compartmentalised.
I can feel from the depths of my being that one day the Way of the Livingness will be taught in schools. One day education will cease being all about the accumulation of knowledge but about us truly evolving and being more and more of the grandness we already are within — and the bringing that to our chosen vocation and profession. Being a student of the Way of the Livingness is like nothing else, it is me being a student of myself, of life, and my relationship with everyone and God. And from there all the wisdom that I reconnect to is what supports me in all the knowledge-based education that I do not need to define me any longer the way I used to in years past.
With you all the way Katerina, yet I feel it will be the teachers who have, do and will bring this way of living into their own lives so that they appreciate it in themselves first that will inspire it in education. Primary teachers will lay the foundations for a very different experience of puberty and high school simply by supporting the students to build a foundation of knowing themselves for who they are not simply for what they have done.
I know Katerina that we are moving to bring this back to our education, to make education about living a true life with purpose.
Now this is a university I would love to attend! The university of life and living where we learn everything matters, and every moment offered is for evolution. Though not technically a university, The Way of the Livingness offers this opportunity to learn and develop daily in the school we like to call ‘life’.
I agree with you Meg – what an amazing university to attend – Serge Benhayon’s presentations are the university of life – where every single thing matters in how we walk, talk and breath and ‘every moment offered is for evolution’.
Completely – I can’t recommend Serge Benhayon’s presentations highly enough, if you’re ready for your life to never be the same again, then they’re for you.
I love the list of things to appreciate about students of the Way of the Livingness – yes, we go through life playfully and lightly, with a knowing and understanding that makes relationships so much easier than the intense emotion-laden way we lived before.
Christina, this is gorgeous and playful and totally about truth. The Way of the Livingness is living science and art for me. It is very exciting, challenging at times, simple in many ways but complete in its’ wholeness and it permeates through my being and my living. I am forever learning and now understand how the world and the universe works and our place here. Amazing!
What a classroom! Life and our world, the more one lives from what they have learned the more wisdom, rather than acquired knowledge, is able to be shared. It is known and lived in the body and cannot be denied. It is inspiring.
I love this Christina – “I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life”. This blog is a beautiful tribute to the Way of the Livingness as a way of constant evolution and deepening of love in each and every day.
I too feel the same, I also love that The Way of The Livingness is forever inspiring me to evolve, to keep observing and study everything with a lovingness and openness to live and share the wisdom brought forth by the teachers. To allow myself to live it not to intellectualise it but to express all that is truth and love consistently.
Yes Christina what I love about The Way of the Livingness is the lack of compartmentalisation and how it is all about living my life and embodying the teachings – there is no pass or fail just a constant evolution if I am willing to listen to my body.
So loved reading this today. Reflecting on previous teachers (only 2 came to mind) and the subjects I enjoyed and felt that I could also contribute too were the ones where the teachers spoke from their own experiences, from the heart. The quality of the sharing is quite profound when taking part in workshops/presentations with Serge Benhayon. It opens doors that have been closed on teaching methods of the past which created very obvious barriers between the student and the teacher. This is so not the case when attending Universal Medicine presentations. It is like a huge welcome and invitation to be a part of something that is evolving and growing with the students as we all contribute. As you share so beautifully Christina “We are all students and teachers at the same time” and Yes I have registered.
Your writing, Christina, has the quality of your law professor – your write from your personal experience and it is fun to read. “And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me” – you do and “We are all students and teachers at the same time,” too.
Your comment Jonathan reflects that we are all equal, teachers and students and there is no one above or below another. We are constantly learning from each others and so I absolutely agree, we are all students and teachers at the same time.
Great point Jonathan – when Christina writes, it is like she is here with us and shares her experience with the joy of discovering life and what it has to offer.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” How absolutely and totally inclusive is this statement. How potentially world changing. Who wouldn’t want to sign up for this?
Beautifully said elainearthey. Yes I agree this statement by Serge Benhayon beautifully reflects how much we all have in common and how connected we all are. That being a student of Love and life is something we have all already enrolled in, as we all have a heart and we all have chosen to be born in this world. It is only a matter of choosing to accept this that we then being to engage in our eternally unfolding study of Love through our hearts and live this Love together in our lives.
‘Where do I register?’ – By choosing to connect to our innermost hearts. No prior qualifications required and the same wisdom is available to everyone equally so.
‘And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.’ I love this line Christina because the word echo describes perfectly what happens when we share knowledge from our heads rather than from the livingness of our bodies. Yes, we hear words but they are empty and in truth lifeless. What a tragedy it is when we choose to live in this echo chamber rather than in the fullness of our true being – the Livingness.
Thank you Christina for this lovely blog. ‘Living life in compartments’ is something that is accepted as a normal way of living for many people and it is so exhausting!. For me, there was no awareness of another way to be until attending presentations by Serge Benhayon, founder of Universal Medicine. What a wake up call this has been to break up an old consciousness of numbness and illusion. It is so freeing to become more honest and aware of how we can actually live in a chameleon-type of way, presenting different facets and personalities of ourselves in various situations and with varied groups of people. The Way of The Livingness brings the opportunity to be the same in every situation, open and in equal-ness with all and living life in compartments is no longer an option by choice.
“It felt like my life was broken up into compartments –relationships, studies, workplaces, homes and cafés”.
This really is a beautiful blog Christina, I love the idea of the Way of the Livingness being the way we learn, incorporating all the subjects, from Religion to health, law and astrology etc. learning from those that are living it.
Your blog brought up images of the great masters like Plato, Aristotle and Socrates sitting under a tree holding class that made learning about living.
Yes Steve that’s gorgeous. I felt the grandness of those classrooms back in history that were there to inspire and reconnect us back to the one brotherhood we are. Which is exactly what the Way of the Livingness offers, enormously so.
Love this Steve – I would add Serge Benhayon to these great masters you list here. The Way of The Livingness he presents and lives fully 24/7 – this is that true learning is Living it – in every way, everyday.
I love it Steve these guys did not have their heads in books, they like us were learning from life by closely watching and questioning all that was around them.
Agreed Steve, beautifully said. Your comment brilliantly highlights the agelessness of wisdom that comes from the heart of all those that know the all-encompassing agelessness of Love itself.
Thanks for sharing your experience of studying.. and your experience with The Way of the Livingness. It sure is one thing to know something, be able to read it and regurgitate it and another thing is to actually live it. What I love about Serge Benhayon is he walks his talk.
The Way of The Livingness has no rules, no exams to pass, no curriculum, no syllabus to follow. The beauty of The Way of the Livingness is that every student is their own professor as they learn from their own way of living where their own body is the tutor. Groupwork is where students gather to share experiences and support each other in their collective evolution to pure love and the purpose is not to get anywhere but for everyone to return to the starting point together.
Hear, hear, Mary, love all you have said. The learning that we experience through being a student of the Way of the Livingness is absolutely true, as we put it all to the test through our own bodies, and in that case, our own body is the tutor as you say. And I so love groupwork, as we all share our experiences, and as you say, “support each other in their collective evolution to pure love”, with no individuation, “for everyone to return to the starting point together”. I thank you.
This is great Christina, the difference between regurgitating something we have heard or learnt without living it feels empty in the body and to the other person hearing it, it also feels empty. When I listen to someone speak about an area of their life that they have healed I feel it emanate from their body and I am inspired. I love being a student of The Way of the Livingness, I now bring a deeper understanding to many situations in my life that prior I would have gone into blame or frustration. I know I can choose to make loving choices in any moment.
The way of the livingness, is all about living. That which inspires most, I can feel how I sometimes make it about knowledge, but at that point I observe that I get insecure, while all I have lived can be shared with certainty.
This is a great article, “the study of the all”, I have so many experiences where I have come alive when discussion was centred around lived experience, and can also relate strongly when a topic is knowledge based, and I too have found I have lost focus. I much prefer to live life from experiences shared, everything comes alive in this way. The way of the livingness is so grand and yet so completely about real life happenings and how we learn and evolve from the choices we are constantly making.
I agree with what you say here, Stephen G, it is wonderful to live life from shared experiences, so different to when information is shared from someone’s book learning knowledge. I used to find when a teacher or lecturer was sharing purely from book knowledge, it became absolutely boring, rote learning. But how much more inspiring it can be when it is shared by someone speaking purely from their lived experience of a subject. It is so much easier to learn from another’s actual experience.
This is a beautiful article Christina and I can feel your natural humbleness with all that you have learnt and experienced since being a student of the way of the livingness. It is an inspiration reading this and at the same time it is very confirming. As I too have and continue to experience a deep appreciation for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, along with many other practitioners. What a natural but also necessary way to live life, to work on ourselves as an ongoing process in a way that is truly supportive and deeply loving. How far I have come with this. I am interested to feel where we all are in 5 years from now.
This is a form of education I would like to be informed about 😉
Christina, this is a great blog and totally agree, ig universal medicine would be already taught ar schools how different the courses would be and how much would the pupils be supported in dealing with their daily issues.
We make life about being recognised for what we do, how much wealth we accumulate, who we hang out with, but seldom about living it. And you are so right, Christina, most of us experience life in segments, and we manoeuvre our way in and out and shape-shift to manage it. The Way of the Livingness presents a totally different texture to life, making it fuller and “We are all students and teachers at the same time”.
Awesome blog Christina – “I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.” When someone isn’t doing this it is very hard to connect and understand what they are attempting to convey in comparison with listening to Serge Benhayon present, I can feel the truth of his words that come from the connection to his body and can therefore readily have understanding of them myself. Our body holds the totality of our living ways and this is what speaks.
We can have all the knowledge of the world but without experience and practice it’s nothing.
“The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life… a “studium generale”….the study of the All.” A brilliant article Christina – what a great idea, this is so needed! I am currently at University and have noted how University courses currently make it all about knowledge in the head – the school system actually forgets to present how to care for ourselves/bodies or make our lives ‘One Life’. This course / living way would be the opposite of exhaustion – it would lead to an engagement and enjoyment in learning – not a detached and frazzled life/style that University currently and carelessly fosters.
Sign me up!
The beautiful thing is that The Way of the Livingness is never imposed upon anyone. Everyone there is there of their own accord, not to get a certificate or a degree but because they are wanting to learn more about themselves, about the world, about humanity, about love. They are there to evolve.
I too am a Student of The Way of the Livingness. I have studied a lot in my life but what is so different about The Way of the Livingness is that it is not about getting it right, ticking boxes or getting good grades, it is about a lived experience and the choices that we make so we connect deeper with our body and our inner-heart and from here learn to live our life with and from love. This should be taught in every school and every University, The Way of the Livingness really is the 101 of how to live life joyfully and in harmony with all.
Count me in as having registered and studying… The Way of The Livingness! In all my years and experience of studying (formally or informally) I have never ever experienced such a ‘living’ study which cannot be compartmentalised or separated from life, but which is about ‘everything’ I am and do and which is therefore about the ALL and never separate from this – this is a study that makes absolute sense and which I love to study!!!
What a beautiful blog Christina, I really enjoyed reading about what you love about The Way of the Livingness. I love it to and am deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon for his encouragement and presentations. With you and Serge I am a forever student.
What you have expressed here is very powerful and inspiring;
“I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life, thankful for having met Serge Benhayon – who is teaching from his livingness, just as my professor of law did – just teaching the overall subject, seeing himself as a forever student”
Christina – I loved reading your blog, and as I finished reading it I had a smile on my face. I didn’t have the opportunity to attend ‘university’, finishing in my middle years at high school – nonetheless on saying that, it appears that the wisdom I feel that is deep within me matches anything that those I personally know who are presently floundering in life after investing in and having spent many years of extra curricular studying for this and that degree. I love what you have presented here as the possibility of The Way of The Livingness being a subject stream to be available at the universities of learning. What a difference having such a choice could make on this planet I feel.
The Way of the Livngness would be a very popular subject for students because deep down we all want to feel love, harmony, truth, and connection to ourselves and others. We can never not be in relationship to all that is around us, and the Way of the Livingess has supported me to relate to myself and everything else from a place of love and understanding. This has made life truly wonderful for me. The Way of the Livingness supports us to meet our basic human needs, I say “Yes” to that!
The Way of the Livingness is beautiful and lays a true foundation from which to study all kinds of subjects that we need.
It is so true Christina, it is the way we live life and not the knowledge we can spout out that is the marker of true intelligence. We can write as many papers and pass as many exams as we like, but if we are not living a life with Love and harmony, then what is the point of it all? We can write these papers and do the exams – to be very much engaged in human life as we need it, but there is a way to do these things that does not compromise or drain us as people. Compromise and drain are commonplace in society today, so it would seem we have much to learn about returning to a way of Love and harmony once more. And this can be done through the Way of the Livingness.
Awesome, Christina. The Ageless Wisdom is the University of Life and developing our wisdom from lived Livingness around truth and love is all the work that is required. This university isn’t geared around a 3 or 4 year study, it’s a lifelong learning, itself supremely rewarding as we get to know, feel and expand our true selves and share that with others.
I love that we do not graduate after 3-4 years with a qualification and be done with it. We may come to a point of mastery, but there’s more and more as we go.
Awesome comment, Cathy, “love is all the work that is required.” And no way anyone wants to stop studying after 3 or 4 years as it only gets better as new wisdom and deepening of the purpose of living this life, unfold for us.
Yes Christina, I remember when i first came to Universal Medicine and looked through the courses on healing / energy i was relieved to see there were no exams to pass, or units, modules, coursework to do (!!). The studying of oneself in relation to the All, or the Way of the Livingness needs no exam because there are always levels to unfold and deepen that cannot be the same for all and in this be made to into a commoditised ‘paper to pass’ – there is nothing to mark other than one’s own joy in unfolding all that we truly are, at the time bound by our own choices and not through any rigorous force of recalling information.
It occurred to me that as well as being a study of many aspects of our lives, The Livingness is also studying what it is we predominantly do in our lives, and finding the richness in it, whether it be a tradesmen, teacher, healer, raising a family or another particular occupation we can feel blessed to ‘study’ and from which we can then take that richness into everything else we do.
I love this article Christina. ‘I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand.
And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.’
Yes! And this understanding is then truly felt in the body and expressed into the world. This for me is the only way I have been able to study.
The Way of the Livingness is a pure joy to be aligned with.
I am a forever student of life. 🙂
Christina, I love this! And most of all when you talk of how the Way of the Livingness is to be embodied and not copied, and that’s what I love about it, that it’s not about getting it right, but understanding, feeling expressing and living it. What a super blog – thank you.
I love this blog, it confirms everything I know to be true about what education is.
Life is a classroom and we learn and teach by what we live. The Way of The Livingness is about the quality of what we live.
This should be fundamental to education (and work and everything)!
I love what you share, Christina. There is such a difference when someone talks from what they know from their head (knowledge, intelligence) and something they know from their heart (lived experience). The head knowledge often comes with an arrogance of “I know more than you so you need to listen to me”. The heart knowledge usually comes with true authority and understanding. It is so much easier to relate to the heart.
I love it as you write ‘And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.’ This would be a truly amazing way of us to change the focus of education entirely.
Living it and knowing it are two totally different things. I totally agree it would be totally awesome if we were taught within the education system to live what we learn, rather than retain it as knowledge. My feeling is there would be way more balanced, healthy and vital people out there if this was the case.
Absolutely Meg, if living it is that which would define true education then surely life itself is the best education system going. We miss so much in focusing on schools, colleges and universities for our education – they are but a tiny part.
Yes! Schools and colleges are a tiny part of education, and life itself is by far the best educator there is. I know I have learnt so much more from life than from any book or school, every day you get an opportunity to learn and grow – I think that is so cool.
Although even as a tiny part of the big picture they have an very important role to play – currently the education system seems to subjugate many people by its very design – such a contrast to The Way of The Livingness which empowers people to be open and free to make their own choices according to what they feel in any moment.
Love it Christina it is such an awesome way to present the Way of the Livingness. Having spent a lot of my life studying I can relate to so much of what you share. When you make life about knowledge it loses it’s appeal, but that’s what I love about the Way of the livingness it is about us experiencing life, learning from it and forever opening up to new ways of being, not in perfection but with an openness to see how much deeper we can connect to ourselves, others and life.
I can appreciate this too Jade – learning from our own experiences and not in perfection and the joy of allowing ourselves the space from which to unfold.
What I love about the way of the livingness is that it is a lived experience and a lived expression. There is no wisdom if it is not lived. This means that the way of the livingness is in all that we do and all that we are, there is no compartmentalization or separation. It is not something that is done at a certain time or place, it is lived.
Simply having a subject to go to that had no expectations from the students such as exams, and assignments etc would be such a powerful contrast to all the other subjects within a person’s school schedule. In reality, with where humanity is at at the moment, I would imagine a lack of initial interest as there would be no immediate incentive to turn up to something that wouldn’t contribute to their overall grades as the drive to ‘succeed’ is so strong, and the time would be seen better spent studying. However, it only takes one student to make a change in their own life to inspire many around them, and so on.
It has to start somewhere….
Great point, Christina, we are trained to be brainy! Being a student of The Way of the Livingness means to deconfigure this. With that “in mind” – or in the body! – we can meet each other in love and understanding, whenever someone makes it about knowledge. I can call it out, but I don’t need to react in frustration or judgement.
It’s a wise and old understanding that always tells us to practise what we preach but not too many arenas in life fully live the truth and love that is possible. Our way of living represents every choice that we make and have made throughout life and no experience of one is the exact same for another; confirming that we all have so much to offer when we share from our Livingness.
Christina you are absolutely gorgeous! I just love what you share here as you so clearly describe what life can be like without all of the fuss..!.. the perfectionism, the ideals and the beliefs and the trying. Living, every-expanding your understanding and learning day by day makes for a very rich and deeply humbling life and thus The Way Of The Livingness is one’s own way. How magnificent.
Thank you for the reminder Christina…”That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love.” This takes away the constant striving for perfection when we think we have ‘got it wrong’, and stops any arrogance and self criticism in its tracks! There is a humbleness, and equalness with all others, in this way of being in life.
I LOVE this sharing Christina! To me The Way of The Livingness as Presented by Serge Benhayon is like no other Religion I have been part of, it is the truth of our being, who we are and why we are here. Where we come, from where we are returning to, all rolled into one amazing package of Love.
I love what you have written here Christina. Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness Religion “is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no mark to get. It’s about understanding and expanding”. “That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong” arguments into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love”.
Amazing blog Christina, I loved your line “I then ask myself: “Do we really have to repeat all the time, trying to improve and prove we are good students?“” It explains a lot about how I have approached things in life, I wasn’t aware until reading this blog how much the education system and the way I have been taught to learn things affects actually how I approach learning in many parts of my life. Even if I do not have to recall information perfectly I still have that approach of wanting to get it right. Instead of truly being a student and learning by living it.
I’ve also approached learning like this Lieke, and was actually considering how amazing it would be if our schools educated from a foundation of The Way of the Livingness. Like you show your understanding of a subject by how you live it, go out and explore it and put it into real life situations. This could then take away the need to be ‘right’ as its coming from everyone’s lived experience, and there is no right and wrong in that.
So true Lieke and I feel this approach has compounded my tendency to beat myself up when I get something wrong so I absolutely love Aimee’s suggestion to make The Way of the Livingness foundational throughout education because the purpose of education is to equip us for life.
To be asked not to learn something with the mind but to know it through living it in the body is a profound and powerful way to feel and understand the truth of what is presented… for the mind can then never come in to discount what is undeniable.
Fantastic Christina, The Way Of The Livingness is acually very fun, light, true and love-full. I am pleased to say that I am a forever student of The Way Of The Livingness, and that I study this too. Thank you for sharing.
Thats what education is truly about, to learn to walk the talk!
Completely rachelandras! It is crazy to think that we may do a course in Medicine but forget (and aren’t supported/ taught) to care for ourselves… How can we truly care for another then? We can’t… Therefore true change and true evolution is truly found in the Way of The Livingness – this is how we truly heal. Role models for people to be inspired by.
Love it rachelandras. Through being a student of The Way of The Livingness I have been inspired and empowered to walk the talk of my heart. And the beautiful thing is that there is no end to how much we can walk that talk.
An amazing blog bringing the truth, lightness and love that the way of the livingness is to the world so clearly and simply with lived experience and a knowing of the power and beauty that this carries. I love the analogy of a university course studying the way of the livingness and it would be the best ever course to enroll in and live as apposed to knowledge repeated.A lived way is the only true way and this can be deeply felt. Thank you Christina its beautiful and very inspiring and I love how you express the livingness from your heart.
I loved what is being offered here. The development in our education system has been exposed in its further separating of people and compartmentalising students with refined precision. How inspiring and re-vitalising for the whole educational system if ‘The Way of the Livingness’ was a compulsory component of every student’s course, what an amazing foundation to bring of all avenues of learning. I loved your simple statement – ‘And by me living my life as a student I might meet others who will ask: “What do you study?” – this feels amazing and has grounded something new in me, an expanded understanding of the truth I choose to live. Thank you Christine for bringing your understanding to what every student has to offer.
Christina – I would love for such a course to be available for study at University! Even having a few subjects sprinkled throughout every course would be a game changer. While I was reading I found myself recalling the various role models and teachers I have had in my life and the thing they all had/have in common was/is integrity and genuine humbleness. I could just sense that they were the ‘real deal’ and walked their talk. It’s no coincidence that such people have been so influential, as opposed to people who may have qualifications etc but live a driven life full of mental and nervous energy.
The way of the livingness is not separated from life, and that is key. When we separate things from life and not share from lived experience, there is no evolution.
Thanks Mariette, this is a really important difference to highlight. There are a multitude of theories, but few, if any people that live what they espouse to the absolute maximum possible, that they continue to find new and deeper ways to express it/live it.
Great your list of what you love about the Way of the Livingness. i would add:
there are no judgements made about the past or the present. You are held in love to evolve in your time.
Christina, I love your blog, you have encapsulated so much of what The Way of the Livingness entails. I especially love this paragraph, “The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” Yes, The Way of the Livingness indeed covers absolutely everything that is part of what and how we live. It definitely is the study of the All. Wouldn’t it be great if it would be a university subject, a study of life, embracing the All. Not a detail would be left uncovered, what fun students would have peeling back the layers, discovering more and more of how they are living their lives. But yes, it would have to be led by a ‘professor’ who truly lived it and was constantly exploring himself. I would certainly study that subject, but then, I already am, I am already exploring myself and life, thanks to the fact that I have met Serge Benhayon, and Universal Medicine and have him and his family as role models for how we can truly live on this wonderful planet of ours.
A gorgeous simple and playful blog about the reality of The way of The Livingness, the study and the living of the all. Where it is never about right or wrong, yet there is the difference between loving and not loving. Where students are invited to connect back to their innate divinity and get that reflected by the presenters and fellow students.
“the study and the living of the all” – thank you Monika, that line fits perfectly with my experience of The Way of the Livingness.
This is brilliant Christina and what a subject to study. Living and exploring who we are and sharing life from our lived experience period. Thank you Christina for reminding me what ‘The Way of the Livingness’ is all about.
Yes shevonsimon a simple, straightforward reminder of what the Way of the livingness is really about, living!
I was pondering just yesterday on the food for the Soul and food for the brain. As you have beautifully addressed Christina, society is well catered for when it comes to ‘brain food’, yet all the while how hungry are our Souls? For me I recognised mine had been starving up until I found Universal Medicine and was lovingly reacquainted to the Teachings of the Ancient Wisdom. Today nourishing my Soul is priority 1 in living each day and yes, a forever student of the Way of the Livingness I am, gratefully so.
Christina, yes, what a great university course, but of course we can all share what we live in the university of life, everywhere and all the time, just being who we are, thank you.
This blog certainly seems like a high distinction Christina to me. I love how studying The Livingness is, in contrast to academia, light and playful and completely without ‘wrong or right’. This brings an amazing sense of unity, oneness and simplicity. I look forward to reading your PHD (philosophy of the heart and our divinity).
Hear hear, Joseph. Love how you express this, and I agree, this blog certainly deserves a high distinction. How Christina has shown the great distinction between present academia, and The Way of The Livingness, wow, what a difference, and how much more fun it actually is to be living what we are learning, no exams, no study as such, just a steady readiness to uncover what is there within. I too wait for the day of the PhD (philosophy of the heart and our divinity). Thank you for a great comment.
Joseph, your comment … “I look forward to reading your PHD (philosophy of the heart and our divinity)” made me smile – a great example of the lightness and playfulness we can all live.
Graded by a master – brilliant.
Gorgeous Joseph 🙂
Love your playful way Joseph, you have a Masters already in that. Christina’s blog feels like it merits a high distinction as you say. Full marks both of you.
Well said Joseph – it will be a beautiful PHD to read!
“I look forward to reading your PHD (philosophy of the heart and our divinity)”.
It’s a wonder that the line up at that registration desk isn’t 7 Billion people long and counting Christina! This is such a fantastic explanation of the Way of the Livingness and it describes my experiences as I have come to study this subject in the university that is life. Incredibly this course is free to anyone that is ready to chose responsibility, love and evolution, there are no high achievers or low achievers (equality is a major part of the course) and we all learn that we are already everything we were made to be.
It does make a huge difference when someone is talking from their head and their memory when compared to someone who has and is living what they are talking about. It’s like the latter is far more engaging and interesting whereas the first is easier to dismiss or loose focus on I have found. Being a student of life completely cuts dead that stress and struggle of meeting up to certain standards or pictures of perfectionism, whatever they may be, seeing things as a lesson rather than a bout of bad/good luck or fate is also hugely supportive for ones well-being and life in general and thus the life of others around us!
Being a student of Life first and foremost– what different curriculum this would be, supporting choices we could make in childhood that would bring a completely different view of the world, without any ‘coloured lenses’ filtering the truth that already resides within. The Way of The Livingness is this truth.
This would certainly be a very different experience entirely if all of the university papers that are studied are studied from experiences and sharings not simply just from a text book. Wow what a place to go and to study! Not only would this be far more all encompassing as imparting experiences is a very rich way of passing a learning onto another, but this would also make studying far more enjoyable too. Yes and not to mention the study of The Way of The Livingness. It is a study Humanity would benefit immensely from!
There is an authority that can’t be matched when someone speaks from their lived truth.
Well said nicolesjardin…I have found this to be true also.
I agree with you nicolesjardin and it is said with such clarity. Often leaving me to ponder on how I live my own life.
Agree nicolesjardin, and lived experience/truth is what encourages the same in us.. and to actually want to learn because it’s genuinely of great interest and inspiration.
I have visibly seen the STOP moment when someone shares truth and even if it is for a split second there is that knowing of sameness.
Absolutely nicolesjardin. The authority of truth is felt in the heart as it is recognized as of the same source, of Love.
Beautiful, Christina, I love it. We are so used to repeating knowledge and disconnecting from the world and everybody in it when it comes to learning. We fragment as you say, We put focus on one thing (for example learning a lot about a certain subject) but neglect so many other things (for example our daily rhythm, to connect with people). We simply have forgotten what it means to live as a whole. We are walking and talking heads but the rest of our body is ignored. To have somebody to teach/share from their lived experience and their daily living is a joy to listen to, things make sense, we can relate, there is a connection.
Agree Esther, thinking is really just a little part of living and ‘what’ we do is not more important then ‘how’ we do it. The way we are with us and others is more reflecting our way of being than what we learn, work, study or ‘do’. To come back to this simple truth and start to live again, instead of function, is such a grace. The Way of the Livingness is uniting us all.
The disconnection from the body is truly one aspect that needs to be reconnected to. How on earth have we decided to let go of the intelligence of our most precious tool? The body knows EVERYTHING! I have just moved into a new home. And the tape measure said how things should be like. I followed this mind driven way – and it didn’t feel right. Then I did the thing again – just from the body in a way of feeling how it needs to be done: and it turned out to be perfect now! So looking back at our history – we have come from the intelligence of the body. No question that there are great results of industrialization but why didn’t we add it to the body’s intelligence – but replaced it? There has been something going wrong on the way…*
This sentence ‘And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.’; if lived by all would very simply have us all living equally very quickly.
Yes Sally this sentence jumped out at me too, living this way we would soon see there is no need for competition, comparison or recognition as we would know that we all have something to learn and offer the world and each other – true equality in action.
Sally I am just starting to really appreciate how we are indeed ‘students and teachers at the same time’; what a lovely responsibility this is and how there is so much that will forever be unfolding on this path.
It feels like my first steps are accepting how, as I live as a student, I am a teacher for all I meet and how this isn’t anything arrogant because what is there is everyone’s equally. And it’s also being aware of when I’m not choosing love and what I am then presenting.
I love this line too Sally. We are all students and teachers at the same time. We all offer an opportunity for others to learn from our livingness and the same is offered to us from others.
Yes Sally love this line too, and in this equalness we arrive at Brotherhood that restores humanity and earth.
Yes. And we all have the responsibility to share what we’ve learned. That is the Way.
In fact we are all teachers and students all of the time, it is not really a choice to do so or not. But HOW we live the student/teacher, WHAT we teach/share and are evolving to, this is our choice. This alone is a great offer to realize for everyone on this planet: how powerful we all are and that our choices count and have an impact – every single choice.
Christina I loved this look at University students and students of the Way of The Livingness. It would be amazing to have The Way of The Livingness a subject option for students at Universities. They would very quickly feel the difference in this and their other subjects.
Agree Sally. Just having a subject that people would immediately ‘get’, something that made sense from the get go, would put all other subjects into perspective, relieve the pressure of what they mean and give students a clearer understanding that love and appreciation for ourselves and all those around us, is more important than any amount of read knowledge. From there, I imagine they would go into their other subjects with an open heart, and allow themselves to learn in a very different energy.
Thank you Christina, I also have had life as a great teacher. From young I was in the school of hard knocks. Then being inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon my life has become one of no knocks. The love that I now feel in my body only connects me to the thing that allows me to evolve. This is the school of the Livingness, which brings in true responsibility for every thing I do. One-day the awareness of being responsible will bring integrity, and there will be a knowing that God is within us. When we choose to be power-full and we all are power-full, this will be taught again at schools all around the world. Living in this absoluteness is a joy for all, and what we are doing is being our natural self, which is the love and light that connects us back to the responsibility of the lived natural glory we come from.
Life is for sure one of our greatest teachers, it has so much to teach us about ourselves and other people. Every day there’s something to learn. It’s in slowly learning to master life, and deepening our understanding that things get clearer and life gets simpler.
“..This is the school of the Livingness, which brings in true responsibility for every thing I do..” The fact that you have chosen, and many others like you – is to me proving the fact that there is the call to be responsible. To commit to the fact that we are all one. That we are here to emanate love and evolution from the heart. “Reform” of the ‘what is’ has always started with a few*
Great blog Christina Hecke and can you imagine The Way of the Livingness being presented in University. Maybe not in my lifetime but in the future I reckon it will be going that way simply because the world is demanding answers and everyone of us can feel tension just from everyday living.
Whilst it may be way out in the future for university, what I can say is that I carried out a 27 month pilot study based on the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine inside a London prison and the results were simply incredible. Of course with lack of funding and all the usual reasons why it could not continue did not negate the fact that it works and it really does not matter who you are, where you come from and what you have done or not done. We have solid anecdotal evidence and this is confirming it does work if the person presents ONLY what they live and nothing more.
The Way of the Livingness unites us ALL as Equals and this is why it is Universal Medicine for every one of us. How we live is medicine and how we live that medicine affects us ALL and beyond and that includes the Universe.
True Bina Pattel, life itself is showing us we need to re-look at how we are living. How we are living IS our medicine.
It is very inspiring reading of your work within a London prison. Thanks for sharing.
If I was not already a student of the Way of The Livingness I would want to register after reading your blog Christina. It is awesome what you learn about people you have known for years reading these blogs , I had no idea you had studied law until 5 minutes ago.
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See..* There’s always more! What’s your news? Bring it all up!
Learning to live real love in every pocket of my life has been nothing short of miraculous.
Sign me up Christina, Ive never been to a course where there wasn’t something new to explore… no route repetition of content, only ever an exploration of what is presented in the moment.
I’m with you Joel – sign me up too. Imagine a course that was constantly evolving and responding to each student as they develop and embody their way of livingness.
Isn’t that beautiful – we are constantly evolving and that’s the proof – there’s always new things to explore, more love to deepen and more joy to expand. And we will never run out of subjects to learn and deepen! Subscribed, Joel!
Haha, we will never run out of subjects as evolution has no end point. No longer learning for life but life being the learning process.
Preciously said Alex. There’s no end point.*
Yes, there is always more to explore. It is not limited. We are not limited.
We one day will be limited loving and living in a human body – but that will also turn into a transformation. What will be then? I’m looking forward to this lifetimes ahead future*
One of the things I love about being a student of the Way of the Livingness is how every area of my life gets challenged, and I am asked to expand, and learn new skills, doing and experiencing things I had closed off to or had never even considered before. It is a truly transformation way to study, and demands that we connect with our bodies and not leave it to the brainy brain.
That’s true, the Way of the Livingness asks you stand beside truth, and to know true love in your life and that in turn asks you to grow and learn in every single part of your life.
I love your proposal Christina, what an amazing world we would inhabit if everyone attended University to read the Way of the Livingness and learn not what to think but how to truly live.
Yes, Fiona, it would be such a different world, but how beautiful if we were all working on ourselves with The Way of The Livingness, learning to live what we were discovering about ourselves, each other and the All that we are. How much quicker then would we be moving towards a true brotherhood.
One day it won’t be possible to escape the relationship between earthquakes and us treating each other lovelessly; war and hunger linked to not claiming the fact we are a great big 8 billion family etc. So maybe my proposal isn’t that far from how it could be…*
I agree I do not feel it is that far off. Making it relatable only through your Livingness will people respond accordingly. Follow and respect what is already there and The Livingness can be brought into anything.
We today call it “The Way of the livingness” which one day will be the universal way of living. In a constant evolving and never stopping expansioning process.
Thank you Christina for such a beautiful – and relate-able – explanation of the Way of the Livingness “… a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.”
There’s nothing left out. That’s the beauty and the truth of us all. We have to stop putting our consciousness in boxes, trying to fit life in categories does’t work. In the end there’s always a link between the things. And that’s a true study for me! All relates to another!
Absolutely agree Christina, everything is everything and trying to separate or compartmentalise life not only makes no sense, it simply does not work. Accepting and celebrating the inter-connectedness of all things is definitely where it’s at.
It feels like we got so deep in super-perfection that there’s hardly a will to find to change the separation into integration of the all.
True Christina, super-perfection is all-consuming and leaves one so exhausted that to choose any other way seems too huge a task. Ironic isn’t it?
You expose it: that’s exactly the game we all agree with. And as long as we accept exhaustion – cause we can dump it with coffee and sugar to work again – it will seem too huge to let go. But what if we would let ourselves feel the exhaustion and say NO: I’ve got to stop!? Exhaustion and not letting you sleep is a method to torture people in jail. And we allow it during our day easily.
Absolutely Christina, when you put it like that – that we are actually torturing ourselves- you can see why it can seem so scary to stop and actually allow ourselves to feel what we’ve been doing. But once we get over our initial shock, the sense of freedom when you realise that you can indeed make a different choice is unequaled.
Beautifully said Hannah. The feeling of freedom to be returning to the true self, ways of the accepted “normal” and believes and needs we have agreed with is indescribable!