by Zofia Sharman, London, UK
Upon seeing and first listening to Universal Medicine in 2006 deliver a presentation about the heart through their Heart Chakra 1 workshop, I have at that time unknowingly been introduced to real love.
Always interested to learn about people, the world around us, the universe and its laws etc, I had over the years attended many one day workshops/presentations/healing courses and none of them presented the topic of love as the base-point for everything happening today like Universal Medicine did (and does); and that love’s absence creates imbalance and inequality such as excess, greed, great wealth alongside poverty, famine and war. But what Serge Benhayon presents is a real meaning or true definition of ‘love’ or, real love – which has been forgotten and substituted for an ideal type of love based on emotion that becomes the love we know (which applied to me). I approached love as an ideal, as if I had to ‘go out, do, look for and find, get, or earn it’. This, my definition of love, was formed from childhood like most through family and friends, education and society shaping it into adulthood. So it is easy to see that when the definition of love is up for question or consideration as Universal Medicine presents, that some feel especially challenged (as I was) by discovering that the type of love regarded/treasured/accepted by us has been in fact something that is not of real love, but rather is a love that is run or based upon an emotional need, drive or drama.
My own version of love was like this, a bartering system: spending time always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return. The whole process would cause a depletion of my energy creating stress and a way of living that was always in reaction or expectation which was unhealthy and unbalanced. Such disharmony makes no sense to a body that naturally is meant to run in rhythm or balance, and so it makes sense that this unbalanced way can neither be of real love, nor that the way is truly a loving way to be or operate with self or others.
What I have now learnt and what attendees receive with Universal Medicine is – a chance to learn the art of the love of self, Self-Love. Everyone who attends the courses (including surgeons, doctors, lawyers, dentists, corporate bankers, business people, builders, cleaners, housewives, college students and the unemployed), are all independently and in their own time learning to love which includes looking at choices in regards consumption of one’s intake of food, drink, sleep, activities that either work or do not work for the body – such as alcohol, drugs, coffee or anything really that makes the body go out of and away from its natural harmonious rhythm. Through being responsible and having an awareness of what is going into the body leading to a behaviour, attitude or way of being that also directly impacts upon another, raises the importance of taking personal responsibility to manage oneself and this in relation to all others. This spherical way of living (and working) is central to the teachings of Universal Medicine.
As the courses have progressed and over the past six years, what is absolutely clear is that Serge Benhayon is someone who has a deep love for humanity – because he has that same deep love for himself which he lives every day and is full of joy, and moreover that all the courses, materials, audios and workshops inspire a way to live that is natural, simple and balanced.
Today I live and continue to work as I did before Universal Medicine – in the fast-paced world of Sales and Recruitment, but this time my approach to work and life has considerably changed following the choice to love truly, and no longer do I have severe debilitating neck pain, feel stressed, anxious, pressured (and irritated) towards ticking ‘life’s boxes’ personally and professionally, but instead I enjoy waking up feeling well rested, clear headed, going to work every day feeling balanced and nourished and have great and meaningful relationships with people. And in having such regard of myself in how I make choices, I have a (continuing) great relationship with myself and also with others – and that is amazing to feel and experience and so to treasure.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
It should be of interest of scientists to explore this, that there is a fuel the body is optimized for and that is love and stillness and without this the body will have to work harder to function. This is something I’m slowly learning myself, to let out the love that is within me and not trying to fight it.
Through the presentations and support of Universal Medicine and the living inspiration of Serge Benhayon I have discovered for myself the meaning of true love and that it is who I am within, and who we all are within. Also, I have realised just how empowering it is to develop a loving and honouring relationship with my body and how this is what guides me to move and live in connection to love more and more, for myself and with all others. With this life and relationships shared are now lived enriched with greater love, inspiration and purpose to be more love, with greater awareness of what is of love and what is not, what is true and what is not, all of which is felt and reflected though the body.
Reflecting on true love and having a clear experience of it (as you did in that workshop) is something very needed to discern and discard what is not. Thanks for your testimonial Zofia. It inspires and invites me to do the same in my life.
We tend to be very clear what have we been educated on. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to see the whole package we have been educated about. It is not easy since this is what we tend to see all over. It is only when we get a reflection from a different angle and your body says yes, that you start realizing what you carry and have the chance to start changing it.
It is ironic that love is innately within us all, yet we can spend our whole life looking for it on the outside! Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are supporting humanity to truly re-connect to the innate love that lies within and to live a full and purposeful life from here.
Yes agreed Vicky. I am eternally thankful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for awakening me to the loveless momentum I was caught in, supporting me to put a stop to this momentum of seeking outside of myself for love, and sabotaging all that I always am within. As through the The Way of The Livingness I now know what it is to live with love, to be moved by the love I am within, in honor of the love we all are. A far more harmonious momentum to be in that brings greater enrichment and presence of love to life, all round.
When love becomes the way, life’s complications fade away…
‘I approached love as an ideal, as if I had to ‘go out, do, look for and find, get, or earn it’.’ Zofia I too had the same misguided understanding about love, it was not until I met Serge Benhayon that I learned that I was love and all I had to do was reconnect to it. There was no looking outside for it, because deep down I already had it, everyday I learn to connect to it more deeply.
It can be confronting to have our belief exposed that what we thought life was about, what we had been chasing after was not really it, that our comfort, our security was just a booby prize. It’s interesting how when it gets exposed that we have been lied to, some people attack the very truth that has exposed the lies (or the messenger), and not the lies or those who have been lying. It is a true inspiration when we see those who are living the fact that true power is in choosing truth.
Beautiful Zofia. To live our everyday from a foundation of love that ‘is natural, simple and balanced’ indeed allows us to observe the fast paced world around us and not get caught in its whirlwind.
Accepting that we have invested in something that is not love, even though it has been touted as love, is difficult if we are not prepared to be honest about it. Though what is the point of fighting on behalf of a lie?
Great to hear Zofia – for me this process has taken some time. I’m slowly learning that what is good and true for me is also then truly good for others because I’m giving it to myself first. I realised after watching an episode on sergebenhayon.tv that what Serge shares is exactly what we need to hear as human beings. Everything we do has an effect on everyone else and attached to that naturally we have a responsibility to not harm in any way what is around us.
There are thousands of one day workshops on offer on the issue of wellbeing on this Earth of ours. Yet, only Universal Medicine’s can change your life for real and for good.
Thank you Zofia for sharing your understanding of what true love really means, my past idea of love was to be there for everyone else, to put others first, this left me with an emptiness and a feeling that something missing, now I know that what was missing was me, a simple loving connection to my inner heart where true love is, I now have no need to look outside myself for true love is felt when I am connected to my body.
What I know love to be now compared to my original understanding really is worlds apart. I remember when I was younger, I was desperate to find love from another, to be confirmed from those around me and when I didn’t get it, I would crumble. I also feel blessed to know the true meaning of love, that it is in fact what we are all made of and that which we are returning. With this rich and full understanding of Love, I am free, I do not feel empty or wanting but very appreciative for all I have.
It is so true Zofia that the current understanding of what ‘love’ is, is based on the idea, belief or picture that it is something that is outside of ourselves that can be achieved, acquired, sought after, bought or sold and if we are ‘lucky’ may even find through what we do or from someone we meet. Is this not a powerless way live, dependent on and at mercy to the world around us to define the degree love we experience in our lives? For the love we seek is already within us as you have beautifully shared, and when we begin to develop a loving relationship with our bodies we discover that within us all is greatest loving relationship we could ever want, and to live in connection to this love we are is where our true power lies, bringing a realness, a loving quality to all we do.
“Serge Benhayon is someone who has a deep love for humanity – because he has that same deep love for himself which he lives every day” Universal Medicine is to bring ourselves back into the true love of the Universe.
Reconnecting to the true meaning of love is to reconnect to the true love of who you are.
The word love has for too long been flippantly misrepresented and tainted with the mentality we have to get it from outside of ourselves. This is a complete fallacy for love in truth is a quality that can only be felt from within and emanated out.
What I find interesting is you can do a job and hate it and then you can do the same job and change how you are within yourself and the job then becomes one that you enjoy because you are enjoying yourself.
” . . . what is absolutely clear is that Serge Benhayon is someone who has a deep love for humanity – because he has that same deep love for himself which he lives every day and is full of joy . . . ” I only can agree Zofia – Serge was and is such an inspiration for me too – like your powerful words which showed very clearly what true love is capable of.
I can very much appreciate what you’ve shared here Zofia about the true nature of love. And that living in a way where one is “always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return” is not ‘it’ – for this is the void of need seeking its fulfilment, and not love.
Love by its nature needs nought, for it is already one with God and the All.
Zofia, I couldn’t agree more with what you’ve shared here about Serge Benhayon, i.e. “…what is absolutely clear is that Serge Benhayon is someone who has a deep love for humanity…”
From every angle I have ever seen, heard and known Serge Benhayon, this is apparent to the bone. He is the most deeply inspiring person I know – ever in his presence I am at once humbled, and yet also, held with such equalness (the man allows no-one to place him upon a pedestal above any other) that I cannot but feel called to such capacity within myself.
The true nature of love has been restored by this man’s work and teachings through Universal Medicine.
It is the greatest treasure to know love in truth and not in any emotion.
There is a lot of criticism levelled at people making more loving and supportive choices for their bodies, including understanding that we are responsible for the cause and effect of what we eat. But what if I were to tell you that there is nothing ‘off the table’ in this. Every day, every food available is there for the choosing, however, once we start to become aware of the effect that certain foods have on our wellbeing and health, we have a choice to not eat them any more. I have found there are certain foods I no longer want to eat because of how awful they make me feel – regardless of how tasty they might be, but that doesn’t mean I CAN’T eat them. They are always on the table along with everything else. The difference now is that I choose not to eat them because I care about me more than I do about the few minutes of tastiness they offer.
This is a very telling statement, one that make so much sense of the lives we are living and the state of the world be are living in; “love’s absence creates imbalance and inequality”. The world definitely appears to be out of balance and the majority of our lives are out of balance. For humanity to come to understand the true meaning of love as presented by Serge Benhayon would offer us all a way to live where love comes first and from this foundation then equality naturally flows.
Love is nothing more than the embodiment of a certain quality of being. It cannot therefore be sent, but it can emanate and be felt, and by the quality of its energetic emanation, inspire others by reflection to seek to embody the same. This understanding exposes the spiritually mistaken concept of sending light and love.
Thank you Zofia. You remind me that my understanding of the truth of love has changed significantly in the last few years. The way we choose to interpret the word love can completely change our lives, it makes sense to connect to what feels absolutely true to us rather than settle for the version we are sold from outside.
When we look at the world one might say that it’s a disaster but in and amongst this chaos that we see there is a potential to have harmony, we just need to want it more than the chaos. Right now we are choosing the chaos, maybe because we cannot see another way out. But there is. We just need to stop. Really stop, and stop defending all the things we think and sometimes stubbornly want to be true. If it’s true then it is felt in our whole body and we cannot have judgemental and unloving thoughts towards another or others.
I have been watching Serge Benhayon for many years now and it is clear he is the ‘real deal’, he consistently and humbly offers everyone equally his true support and love. He offers a powerful reflection to humanity that we can all be inspired by and shows us how simply we can live and be true love 24/7. Not to perfection, but a building and allowing this love to be our natural choice each and everyday.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine live true love and are committed and dedicated to this every moment of everyday. They have an understanding of energy, what love is and what love is not so therefore because love is lived it is easy for them to teach and present to others. The beautifull thing is this is forever unfolding and evolving, there is no point that is reached where ‘this is it’. We have so much to learn and are truly blessed to have Serge and Universal Medicine teach, hold, present and live what they do, offering a different reflection to humanity of who we are and that there is far more to the Universe than what is currently seen, felt and lived. This is really important and something I feel I am learning more that we can have a deep love for humanity if we have the same deep love for ourselves .. ‘that is that Serge Benhayon is someone who has a deep love for humanity – because he has that same deep love for himself’.
Love, for all its simplicity in expression, is actually hard to live consistently, which begs the question as to why? Eventually, the more one observes life, the more one realises that life is not geared to support such a way of being – at least on the outside. What is evil? Where does it come from? If it is intrinsic, why does a small child not carry the same propensity for such harsh actions? If life is purely a learned experience, why do we not see children murdering each other, and having to be taught not to tear each other to pieces? Put simply, despite the fact children can be spiteful, harsh, and sometimes even cruel, such which we call evil is not naturally within them from birth, and so there is something that triggers human beings to behave the way they do, and that is worth deeply pondering on.
I too had been invested in emotional love thinking it was real love. I now can see so clearly the difference between the two. This has supported me in my relationship with myself and others. The transformation has been huge since I understood what real love is and started applying and living it. What an illusion it was to live the emotional love, thinking it was the real deal and I am so glad I have woken up from this and now embracing self-love and real love more and more.
Love is one of those words that had been totally misunderstood. In fact it’s much more than misunderstood. We have been totally off track with understanding what it is. Understanding what love is has been huge. I can’t say that I live this all the time, but my relationship with myself has changed ginormously through what Serge Benhayon presents.
Yes one of the most common mistruths about love is that people equate having their needs met as love. Love is unconditional and hence is never about having any of our needs met. This is a simple statement but a huge revelation if we truly consider what this means.
A realisation today that I have spent much of my life trying to make relationships the loving caring experiences that innately I know true relationships to be brought to the fore of my being that it is not about trying, but innately about bringing love into every relationship. This approach is very different to the trying approach, in that the choice to bring the loving beautiful woman I am to others, is what I now know bringing love to my relationships is.
The true meaning of love has certainly been eroded and wiped from the memory of most, but it is always known to us from deep within. When we start living more tenderly with ourselves, that is more lovingly, we remember.
I do recognise what you write Zofia, as I too have chosen to live a life being impulsed form my inner heart as being presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. No more ticking ‘life’s boxes’ but joyfully I choose everyday again to live to what my body is impulsing me. The intimate and loving relationship I have build with my body is for me key in living a joyful, vital and healthy life.
I can relate to your own version of love Zofia. No doubt many can. What Universal Medicine presents results in such a different way of relating with yourself, others and the world. yet it feel 10000000x more beautiful and natural than anything else.
“love’s absence creates imbalance and inequality such as excess, greed, great wealth alongside poverty, famine and war.” It’s so easy to see how this is the case.
Seeing Love as a bartering system where we are, ‘spending time always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return’ is a conditional way to live characterised by most wanting a bargain for their effort and to trade up whenever they can. How exhausting it is for us all to be looking outside ourselves for something that is already within?
Thankyou Zofia, a fantastic blog exploring love. I can feel that I still go between the two “loves” – the beautiful holding one that is who I am and is in my self love, the way I move, and in knowing who I am; and the needy, dependant love, the false one that I believe comes from others, is not who I am, and is not in my choices (this is when I’m feeling empty, emotional or in reaction!). The false love is the “Gimme, gimme” one, I chase after it which is usually only a form of recognition, and reflects I’ve actually given up on love. What an illusion that’s it’s only outside of me as all the time I am love! Love is certainly our foundation for a true and harmonious life and it’s truly awesome that Serge Benhayon is delivering this to the world.
It is beautiful to read of how applying the principles of love presented by Universal Medicine to your life, you have experienced the remarkable changes you have. The power of true love cannot be denied and is desperately needed out there in the world to rebalance everything that life void of true love has delivered us.
It is beautiful to read about a true understanding of love, that is not needing anything from others. As we have a foundation of love within ourselves.
It’s a never-ending fruitless search seeking love outside of ourselves and usually means we’re holding someone to ransom. Connecting to that innermost part of myself and deepening that love from within is the only way I’ve found to heal the deep sense of emptiness that was causing me to seek love elsewhere and I have the utmost appreciation for Universal Medicine and the presentations by Serge Benhayon which over time have allowed me to come to this understanding.
True love will never ask us to be anything. Therefore deeds of love are never fullfilled and qualified but outer deeds. External deeds of love can be performed however they always stem from a fullness that doesn’t need any validation.
True love is beautiful and expansive, emotional love is exhausting and keeps you in this spin of drama and neediness. Thanks to Universal Medicine presentations getting to feel the difference in true love and emotional love has been an absolute blessing and has transformed all my relationships to be more loving and true.
To love truly…so true Zofia. Until I experienced the depth of feeling, space and how all encompassing love that is non emotional is, I would have called emotional love true love. Yet emotional love now feels incredibly demanding and needy. My normal got turned on its head and I am so pleased it did as I can say that I love so much more fully than I ever knew was possible before I did any of the courses with Universal Medicine.
Beautiful to read Zofia – Love speaks to us everyday through the wisdom of our body and it never ceases to amaze me what changes occur when real love is put into action.
What I find fascinating about the true study of love with Universal Medicine is the simplicity. The tools that are presented and the way they are been presented are so simple that everybody from any country or social or educational background or age can start to put in practice what feels harmonious to them.
Zofia I too believed that love was “based upon an emotional need, drive or drama.” the teachings of Universal Medicine took a while to sink in, especially that one must love oneself. It was so alien to me, I just could not understand how this was championed above anything else. Having spent my life caring about others’ needs it was contrary to everything I learnt and experienced. But with time I came to feel the truth and beauty of caring for myself and in so doing the quality of my caring for others has also evolved.
Thank you Zofia for sharing your words we are all searching for love and yet right under our very noses we realise we are just that and once accepting we are that elusive love and then an unfolding of living the absolute love we live in – the body of God.
I have the sense of a very contented woman as I read this Zofia. A GREAT symptom of real love.
The choice to love seems like such an obvious choice, clearly it is the thing that everyone wants and looks for. Yet really it is the choice to BE love that means we actually have the choice to love at all.
Thank you Sofia for this beautiful reminder of what real love is and how it can be to live in this way. I too am slowly redeveloping a real loving relationship with myself and you have reminded me that it is ok to do it in my own way and in my own time.
Real love – coming back to who we innately are and then expressing that in everything we do, very practical, down to earth, simple and so amazing. The ramifications are immense and wide-reaching beyond what we can plan or fathom but will be experienced more and more. What starts with self-love becomes love, forever evolving as there is no limit to how much love we can be. Life simply gets better and better in a true and sustainable way.
Zofia another cracker blog from you. I love how you have shared that the teachings of Universal Medicine are all about true love. We just need to be willing to let go of what we have taken on that is not about true love and everything changes from there.
It seems a weird subject love – because it has been so twisted. It seems weird to say make your life about love yet that’s what everyone is missing.. Just not the mushy romantic love people usually associate the word with. Great blog Zofia. This – “spending time always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return. The whole process would cause a depletion of my energy creating stress and a way of living that was always in reaction or expectation which was unhealthy and unbalanced” was a timely reminder for me and pretty much what my patterns are as well. Thank you for sharing.
Zofia you have explained so clearly the difference between ideal versions of love that often involved conflict and need and emotion, and a harmonious rhythm and way of life as shown by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The way you live your life today is inspiring.
So true Zofia. To have grown up in a world that holds a most UN-real definition of love, and to feel now loves true meaning was always there in me, as has been inspired by those living it – in no greater way than Serge Benhayon, is an unequivocal treasure to hold.
It’s easy to forget how stressed and irritated I was before I started going to healing sessions with a friend who was a student of Universal Medicine, and eventually going to courses myself. I was so far away from listening to my body it seems so ridiculous now, but that was true. How logical it seems now that I should live from love and that love has to start with me.
I am very grateful to my friend and to Serge Benhayon for their consistent love of themselves and therefore everyone. It’s inspirational.
The Love the Serge Benhayon demonstrates is incredible to feel, observe and be inspired by. It is divine love, not emotional love, which is felt on many levels.
I love what you have shared about Universal Medicine giving people the opportunity to learn the art of loving themselves as it is from this blessing that they begin to develop and deepen what is loving for them and then be this with others.
‘ My own version of love was like this, a bartering system: spending time always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return.’- yep that was me. What a difference self loving choices can make!
Great blog Zofia, and a great point made about how the true meaning of the word love has been changed to represent something different today – emotional, needy and not something we necessarily could have for ourselves but could give to another. I now know that I am love, first and foremost and I can only be love and not give/impose it on another – thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I agree Zofia, none of the workshops and courses I did before Universal medicine taught self-love as a foundation, and it makes a world of difference to live that way.
Thank you, Zofia, for sharing the true meaning of love, rather than the bastardised version we were all taught growing up.
Thank you Zofia for introducing the subject of real love. Because I had opted out of life it felt so much ‘easier’ to hop on the merry go round and barter with everyone else. Having been introduced to true love by attending courses and workshops run by Universal Medicine, I am finding a level of love that feels extraordinary and life sustaining. Life is forever offering me opportunities to change and expand my way of living and that is truly life enhancing when I choose to accept and take action to play my part.
Zofia, I can relate and so appreciate waking and feeling refreshed and much more vital than I used to, since applying the self-loving principles as taught (and lived) by Universal Medicine practitioners. Although I still get tired, I am enjoying the consistency with which I approach each new day, returning to my rhythms and self-loving choices, which in turn reward me with a body that is growing in Love, joy, vitality, clarity and, hence, true self confidence!
“I have a (continuing) great relationship with myself and also with others – and that is amazing to feel and experience and so to treasure.” Zofia it is inspiring to hear your words. Thank you for sharing your experiences with Universal Medicine and finding the true meaning of love.
Thank You Zofia, before Universal Medicine I was on a search for love and asked many people what they felt love was, no one could give a definitive answer. Then I met Serge Benhayon and self-love, the stepping stone to finding true love was introduced. Wow! what a difference when there is clarity in the true meaning of words. As a humanity we have lost our way by re-interpreting words. Thank you Serge Benhayon for bringing integrity back to our language and words.
Before Universal Medicine I don’t think self love through listening to and catering lovingly for my own body was ever presented to me. Yet doing these simple (but sometimes challenging) things have brought about greater mental health, closer relationships, and of course a healthier body. It’s not rocket science so why is it not something we naturally do?
Zofia so well said, I could relate to the bartering system of love and and the need for it continually being confirmed to me, rather than knowing and accepting that love is within me first and starts with me….nothing outside of me will deliver love. Self love was something I had never heard of before Universal Medicine and yet it is the basis from which true love starts.The changes I have made in my life based on my understanding and living love has been monumental and continues daily as I unravel all the areas where I have not been love.
How well said, Zofia! I love how you mention the “rhythm” and that our bodies are designed to be in natural rhythm. This is a great marker for me to check, if I am aligned to love or not.
I think we can all relate to the old ‘bartering system’. What a killer it is. The amount of dissapointment that comes with bartering for love is astronomical…as we use what we think is love as an excuse to be either happy or sad. It becomes purely emotional rather than a way of living everyday, without the need for it to be received by person A, B or C. What we find when we give up the ‘need/dependency’ from another, is that we have love flooding our way and naturally so. If only we could trust just that little bit more that we are already fully equipped…and therefore we need or want for nothing.
Zofia so well expressed and shared. Thank you, it is refreshing to read the true meaning of love.
Thankyou Zofia. I love how you have exposed the falseness and hidden intention of conditional love…. Love that is expressed as ‘a bartering system: spending time always giving, always doing for others in the hope of what might be received in return’. Awesome.
Thank you Zofia! You stroke a nerve here: we tend to take for granted our relationship with love and persist in this. We relate to it even if our bodies are telling us loud the damage the way to relate to it is causing us. In this regard, what Serge Benhayon presents deserves an open and honest consideration. As you well said, it is life changing.
Lovely blog concerning your introduction to ‘real love’ and how this plays out in life as you say people who attend the workshops go home and “…are all independently and in their own time learning to love which includes looking at choices …”. It cannot not be given or memorised,it needs to be felt and it takes different choices to make changes happen.
This is an inspirational blog Zofia. The way you have expressed your relationship with what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents is deeply gorgeous. Thank you for reflecting the beautiful effect that choosing to develop self-love for ourselves has, not only in our lives, but also in all the relationships we have in our lives.
I’ve been participating in Universal Medicine workshops now for around 9 or 10 years and it has taken me ages to really be honest about what love is. I have always wanted it to be something that comes to me, love from another in the way they are with me, or love from a group of people in the way they outwardly accept, recognise and appreciate me. In both examples these would need to be outwardly showing me their love and adoration, constantly. Universal Medicine has helped me to feel the harm in this expecting love from others, because the result is that I did not let my own love and my full self out, unless I was getting or seeing the so called ‘love’ that I needed to see. The problem with this is that the result would be to never ever let my love out, because my needs and expectations of how love should be or look were so high that pretty much nobody could meet this consistently. Now, over the past 10 years I have bit by bit been accepting that love in fact come’s from within me, and starts with me being willing to love myself, in all that I am and all that I do with myself – including self-loving and self-caring behaviours and deeply appreciating and accepting myself.
Sofia, thank you for sharing about your introduction to real love , and how life changing it can be, when we live our life from a base of true love.
Thank you for sharing your re-finding of true love. I too was always craving love but somehow it never quite matched my expectations. With Universal Medicine I have been learning to develop self-love and the more I feel self-love the more love I have to share with others. In finding myself I have found true love.
I really love what you have shared here Zofia. The realness in how you write is deeply felt and appreciated.
I too had my version of Love which was similar to yours until I came across the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
There is a huge difference between the emotional love which I call ‘surface love’ and Divine Love which is within each and every one of us – Equally.
I too have stopped ticking ‘life’s boxes’ just as you have Zofia and my life today is full of meaning and purpose and I know what it is to live and feel that Divine Love in my life everyday. There is nothing, absolutely nothing out there in the world that I need to fill me up anymore because I no longer feel empty.
Building true relationships with yourself and others certainly is a gift to be treasured.
And the greatest gift of these true relationships is accepting that the continual growth and expansion of these relationships is what brings our daily lives alive.
So well said Fiona. It was initially painful to realise that all the time that when I believed I was being loving I was in fact catering to my own selfish needs.