by Annelies
Universal Medicine is all about a commitment to a way of life, living naturally from our inner heart. To say I follow Serge Benhayon, NO WAY… I live the life that I feel is true to me. Are Serge Benhayon and his family, or indeed anyone who lives from their inner heart an inspiration? YES. And that is what the world needs – more people who are living in a way they feel is true, so that other people around them can see and feel that they are more naturally loving, joyful, vital and self empowered.
Six years ago my partner came home from a Chris James course he had attended, with a new breathing technique, saying, “you do not need anyone or anything outside your inner heart to tell you what is right for you, everything is there in your inner heart”. This was the Gentle Breath Meditation as inspired by Serge Benhayon.
At the time I totally resisted this. We were followers of a guru – yes, a real one – and I did not intend to let it go. You could say I was really nasty to my partner, accused him of being selfish etc.etc.
But he was just going on with his gentle breath meditations, and after a while the name Serge Benhayon was mentioned, the first book of Serge Benhayon appeared in the house and later on he started to listen to the audios from Universal Medicine.
In a few months I could feel and see changes in him: he was more open than ever, less irritated when he came home after a day’s work, more loving to himself and our family and definitely more vital than before.
After years of doing all kind of new age courses and workshops like Reiki, Yoga, training in intuition, Gestalt therapy, rebirthing, bodywork, etc, I never felt or saw a real change that had stayed in either myself or him.
Slowly, slowly I began to question him about what Serge was presenting. And he always just answered my question, no more no less. So I started to try the gentle breath meditation for myself, and after doing that for the first time ever in my life I had the experience of being able to stay connected with myself whilst around others.
I had always absorbed other people’s emotions, adjusting to the energy of others and suppressing my own feelings. Always trying to fit in, doing what people expected from me, trying to be liked.
This had made me a very mental, frustrated, anxious person. I was having migraines, feeling tired from pleasing others – that was my life.
So now I was the one reading the books, listening to the Universal Medicine audios, and our life together developed into choosing a life that was and is, simple and natural to us.
We felt to change the way we were eating and drinking, sleeping, working etc., just because, in the process of becoming more self loving, we became more aware of what our bodies were telling us. We were and are learning to trust our feelings, knowing that we have a choice in every split second of every day. (“The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis” – Serge Benhayon).
Why was I resisting in the first place? Living naturally in this way makes you responsible for everything you do, say and think, you cannot blame anyone. I had not made very loving choices in the past and this had an effect on everybody, to take responsibility for that… well let’s say this is not always easy… simple but not easy.
This was the start of a new way of living, individually and together, sharing this love from inside out with the people around us, our children, family, friends, colleagues etc. And this is an on-going process. (And I had not even met Serge Benhayon yet.)
After the first year we both started to visit the workshops and courses that Serge Benhayon presented in England. For the last three years our children have come with us. We take the opportunity to have sessions with the amazing practitioners from Australia to support our way of living as well. And of course to be inspired by the immense love that Serge is and lives. To be inspired by all the people who have made this same choice. To enjoy and celebrate who we truly are.
Thank God for Serge Benhayon and his (extended) family for their endless love for humanity.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
I think this is a big one for us to read because we don’t often consider that there is a way to live that is natural for us. Often we do things, we work out, we apply certain diets that we think is good for us but quite often this approach fails in one way or another. If we truly listen to our bodies however the way forward is quite clear.
How much do we honour committing to a relationship with our bodies and our inner heart? I reckon it is not our normal and therefore we live at the mercy of all the expectations and demands of life.
When we are truly listening to the guide of our inner heart and our body we start taking responsibility in life.
Magnetic pull is beautiful. When we live, we reflect and the world can See and feel the shine and this is Truth being seen.
To enjoy and celebrate who we truly are, we do not do this enough, because the norm is to go into comparison and jealousy when another shines because it reflects too much our own choices of not shinning. But at any moment we can make one different choice, that leads to the next and the next.
‘you do not need anyone or anything outside your inner heart to tell you what is right for you, everything is there in your inner heart’, such a powerful reminder for me as I move forward in my new cycle of living and being impulsed by my Soul and making that my only way.
When you witness someone especially your partner living true to themselves and the changes that occur, we get a reflection, and then it is our choice to choose that or not, but we all equally have that choice.
True, when we are naturally inspired it is pure, someone accepts us as we are, knowing we are the same in essence and in our own time making our own choices, mistakes, experiences to learn and grow from life.
There is a huge difference between change and real change. Change can happen when we participate in new age workshops or have sessions, but does it last? or is it because of an excitement fuelled by emotion? thinking we have good intentions, but find it is not true. There is no emotion whatsoever when real change occurs – it can be very subtle, but it remains as we move on and say yes to what is next to let go of and change to support us in our evolution.
‘And that is what the world needs – more people who are living in a way they feel is true, so that other people around them can see and feel that they are more naturally loving, joyful, vital and self empowered.’ And this is the Way of The Livingness, the religion we live connects us to who we are.
It is more than 5 years ago since you wrote this blog and I have seen both you, your husband and your children change so much over the years, it is hard to put that into words. A before and after would be a great gift and reflection to the world. And it keeps deepening and refining for there is no end to the depth of love.
‘Universal Medicine is all about a commitment to a way of life, living naturally from our inner heart.’ Simple. Universal Medicine just presents what is possible for us to live. It’s our choice to commit with ourselves and make it possible.
There is nothing better than finally realising you don’t have to live in tension of the world. The freedom in that alone is worth everything. Realising that you don’t have to absorb people’s emotions has changed my life. I used to want to understand how people felt and I did it by literally taking on all their stuff and ‘putting myself in their shoes’ almost literally. It’s no wonder I was exhausted and a bit of an emotional mess.
Beautifully inspiring Annelies, we can learn so much from one another, especially when we notice the changes in people we know well, and are able to see the difference it makes to them, because we realise that we too can make similar changes.
By reflection, we are teacher to each other. Choices we each make affect everyone around us. From your sharing, I got to understand how it supports us to be responsible when a teaching is shared with no imposition or coercion but simply by reflection and whatever we decide to do from that point onwards clearly is our own choices.
If to live in connection to our body and being is absolutely natural and as you have shard Annelise, is a way of being that is founded on and led by our love and truth within, where the realness of who we are can come to life, which becomes the basis of all our relationships.
How can we evolve if we are not inspired by another who we know in every cell in our body is living truth and love? Through inspiration we can also make the necessary changes to be that inspiration too.
Agreed! It is the inspirations we clock in our lives that support us to recognise there is more to life than we are living. The people who come into our lives and walk love with consistency are inspiring and then offer us the opportunity to choose what we want to dedicate ourselves to in our lives. For some that might be partying, alcohol, study, sport, church, the list goes on. For me it would be a dedication to the relationship with my body, because from that I build awareness of what I am feeling and then that body is taken into my work, my relationships, my play, my partying, my study, it is the most consistent and reliable marker I know and I am dedicated to getting to know what I have not wanted to know so I can redress that imbalance!
The mentality of wanting and needing to fit in and be liked by everyone so we suppress and hold back our own natural expression is a debilitating way to live.
Living a life that feels true to us is the greatest gift and freedom we can give ourselves. It feels expansive and spacious and very open. Living any other way, like doing things to constantly try to please others or gain their approval etc, is draining and serves neither them nor us, nor anyone else.
So true Bryony. We know what true freedom is when we surrender to being impulsed by our Soul, through which we are a gift to this world.
Sounds like there was a changing of fuel for your body and a fuel that is natural and true.
Yes Matts this fuel is natural and true and this kind of fuel is available for us all, it is always there, just a matter of choice!
I have only just come across your blog, Annelies. I found it truly inspiring. I can so relate to the ‘mental, frustrated, anxious’ woman, and I also did course after course to ‘improve’ myself or to find what I knew was missing. The first time I was shown the Gentle Breath Meditation (also by Chris James) I connected straight to my heart -something I had not experienced despite all the ‘yoga’ meditations I had done before. After that, i also resisted the work of Universal Medicine for awhile, but eventually i found my way home to the truth, and now I have the honour of sharing the Gentle Breath Meditation with others in my work.
I loved what you shared about your husband never imposing on you -he simply gave you the space to feel what was true for you. How I wish i had done that with the people closest to me! This gave me an opportunity though to learn new skills -I am forever learning…
Thanks Anne for your sharing and I can say although my husband had given me all the space to feel what was true for me, I can say I have been more of a ‘preacher’ in the beginning, I had to learn to let go of my control and just share my livingness without any attachment to outcome.
Inspiration has no push or sell, it does not understate nor does it demand anything of any other. When we are naturally inspired by someone it is pure and we are allowed the space to make the same choices for ourselves, or not.
What Serge Benhayon presents simply speaks to a place deep within me – and us all. He speaks of things we already know innately and hence, there is no need to try to convince or persuade. Those who hear him, are left to make up their own minds about what he has expressed and if there is any resistance, it has come from us not from him for he does not force his opinions on anyone.
I love that your husband allowed you the space to feel if it was something of interest to you rather than being in your face about what he was learning, or re-learning.
He truly did and in the beginning it felt like he left me alone, later on when I started to embrace this way of living myself I could see how he never imposed anything on me and like you say he allowed me the space to feel for myself what was and is truth in our living together and in life.
“The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis” – Serge Benhayon. I love this quote as it reminds us of how our choices are key in life and can support us to live with true health and well-being on a consistent basis.
True Nikki, the moment we start to preach, our movements will communicate what we are living and people will feel in that instance there is no truth in our words.
This is a testament to the Way of The Livingness and the power of reflection. It was the changes in your partner that made you sit up and take notice. It was not what he said or did, only his way of living that got your attention. This is the same with Serge Benhayon. What he says is super powerful but this is because it is backed by what he lives and how he moves.
I love how steady and committed your husband was even when you were uninterested and almost against what he was doing. Testament to what is presented through Universal Medicine about letting others be where they are at, and loving them regardless of what they choose.
Yes Elodie, we inspire others by the way we live, just presenting ourselves.
This is one of the main things that has been refreshing for me, “I live the life that I feel is true to me.” This then, when it comes to what lands in front of you, is the ultimate reflection for what you have chosen. No one had ever offered me the keys before and going further actually mapped it all out for me to see if I wanted. It brings a real joy to how you walk when you know that every step you are taking, if true, is bringing with it more and more to see and more and more awareness of what is going on. When we appreciate this fact then each step keeps expanding into the next and before you know it the meaning of life has made a change before your very eyes.
Thanks Ray, what you have written here makes me aware that I can deepen the appreciation for the true steps I take and to bring more joy (I know so well) back in my life.
The old line of ‘just be yourself’ always came with such pressure and in fact I never knew truly what I looked like in those moments. I remember being such a critique of life and myself, it seemed like nearly in every step you were doing something wrong and forever trying to get it right and as close to perfect as possible. These are all something I now see as a waste of energy as if you treat yourself carefully then this care will be passed down into every other part of your life, if you truly start to appreciate yourself then this again will be passed down into everything you do. From this then could the ‘secret to life’ if there was one be simply bring whatever you are seeing is needed in the world to the way you are, into the way you live and from there ‘it’ goes out everywhere. Sounds pretty simple……
With more self love, more awareness grows, of how our bodies are feeling giving us the opportunity to go deeper in our livingness. So beautiful that your partner only gave you what you asked, no more or no less allowing you your own journey of discovery, upholding you by his self loving reflection.
This is a great example of the power of reflection one can offer when living from their inner heart. Walk, live and breathe the change we know is true, and the pull to follow this truth will follow.
One of the many things I enjoyed from this article is how you described you initial reaction after your husband came back from a Chris James workshop, and when you did begin to ask questions, the fact that your husband never got over zealous, got excited or shared to much supported you to come to things in your own time, its a credit to the love you and your husband hold together.
There is great wisdom in this sharing, for one to not stay locked in a belief but to be open to change if you feel it is true is an insight into how can we all adjust our lives, especially if we notice that how we are living is destroying us.
I first experienced the gentle breath mediation after my first session at Universal Medicine where when I got home I decided to try it. It was at this point that my life changed as I realised that there is an exquisite quality within me that I could be living with. I truly felt that exploring this quality within, this connection to who I am, was the ‘more to life’ that I had been searching for. And beauty of it all is that it was always there simply waiting to be connected to.
What a beautiful story. I love how you gradually opened up to the possibility of living another way by observing your partner, and then your children making the same choice as well – there’s a very beautiful sense of coming together.
I love this line: “Living naturally in this way makes you responsible for everything you do.” What if our natural way is to take total responsibility for ourselves and our actions and everything we put out into the world? How would today look like if we made that call?
When love is expressed naturally from the body it is felt and there is no doubt where it has come from but when love is expressed from the head because it is what I should do or how I should live it feels very false and I can feel it is not from a genuine source. This in my opinion is what makes Serge Benhayon unique as the love expressed comes from his body and is a reflection of the loving choices he makes through the way he chooses to live in each moment… this is what I am inspired by.
‘…in the process of becoming more self loving, we became more aware of what our bodies were telling us.’ Yes, this is exactly what happens when you begin to be more self loving, caring and appreciative of yourself. Certainly in my experience, my awareness has become far greater for what works and does not work for me.
“This was the start of a new way of living, individually and together, sharing this love from inside out with the people around us” The teachings of Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom offer a way to return to the true love that we come from.
Yesterday I slipped into what felt like an old behaviour of wanting to please. On reflection I realised I immediately felt an imposition but instead of observing I reacted. As I begin to live in connection to myself incidences like this are beginning to stand out and although I reacted yesterday I became much more aware of the fact that I knew exactly what was going on… I simply needed to make a choice to be loving and stay with me.
There is nothing ‘airy fairy’ about Universal Medicine or what the teachings present. After being into new age modalities myself, and just sinking further away from the truth of who I was, it feels COMPLETELY different to be living the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom. Here I am re-learning responsibility, how to live by understanding the world of energy we are part of and connecting to the love and harmlessness within, which is the same and equal in all.
It is a beautiful blog to read, feeling the responsibility you took to change your life for the better.
Re reading my own blog today made me aware that taking responsibility for our own life is quite something, sometimes it is so easy to let it slip and to take a break of living responsibly. The more I realise that every movement I make has its effect on someone else and on the whole the more I activate myself to live what I know is true in every moment.
Annelies what I love most from your sharing is your simplicity and honesty – for me this is simply infectious. It is an invitation to feel that life is not about control and bashing but a way of letting go and self-loving.
It’s wonderful to feel your honesty Annelies. As you say, it is not always easy to change our habits and patterns that are no self-loving, but it is very simple.
Sadly taking responsibility for our lives, and the quality of those lives, is not something as a whole that humanity has embraced. You though, have so clearly shown that by acknowledging that your life is your responsibility, that it is possible to turn around the way you live, and although at times it is not easy, it is actually quite simple.
“I never felt or saw a real change that had stayed in either myself or him.” – the choice from the inner-heart. The choice comes from within so the change is tangible and felt. A choice made from sophisticated knowledge or ideal can change or offset another ideal but the feeling is pushed deeper inside covered up by a new belief you have now created. There is certainly a difference to live from your inner-knowing via The Gentle Breath to an outside intelligence that does not support true natural change.
I like how you say it is “simple, but not easy” to take responsibility for our choices. As it takes a commitment to constantly be willing to accept more responsibility, could it be this alone that we react to so much? That already we know how responsible we can be, but are easily swayed from it to avoid the next level of responsibility being felt and known?
“To say I follow Serge Benhayon, NO WAY… I live the life that I feel is true to me.” Serge is a great reflection of true livingness and he inspires us all. He has shown us a way to live a life that feels true to us, making choices that feel true to our body, discerning energy before making choices.
“So I started to try the gentle breath meditation for myself, and after doing that for the first time ever in my life I had the experience of being able to stay connected with myself whilst around others.” I had a similar experience and also realising that I could actually breath (determine) my own breath and that it was ok to be the master of my own breath.
Yes it takes beings to stay steady within themselves so that others can remember where we come from and what we are truly made of.
Thank you for sharing your journey to being in the Livingness Annelies. What a beautiful outcome for you all as a family and I totally agree that Serge Benhayon and his extended family are nothing short of amazing and truly loving human beings!
A beautiful sharing Annelies on the power of reflection and how your husband’s loving choices began to inspire you to also make similar choices. Well done for eventually embracing what was on offer and for learning to deepen the connection to yourself and to your partner – now you both become powerful reflections for many others.
“you do not need anyone or anything outside your inner heart to tell you what is right for you, everything is there in your inner heart”.
If anyone presents that you need nothing but to truly know yourself, then you know that they are the real deal, for there is no agenda in this type of teaching.
Reading back my own words ”To enjoy and celebrate who we truly are.” O yes, there is so much to appreciate and celebrate in our lives. And Serge Benhayon has not disappointed us, on the contrary his livingness, his wisdom and his love for all of humanity are forever growing and inspires us in every way possible.
It is so beautifully amazing that when we become more self loving, choosing to treat ourselves in a very tender and respectful way, that the times we do not stand out so clearly so it doesn’t take too long to realise that it is time to bring in even more loving changes into our lives. One of the most standout consequences of choosing to truly love myself is that I can now hear my body speak to me so clearly, and instead of ignoring its messages as I did for so long, I now chose to listen and act on the wisdom that it shares in every moment; this to me is what I now consider to be “living naturally”.
”The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis”. Reading this, my whole body responds by melting into itself because it knows the truth of how to live in a way that allows Love to be expressed, towards myself and everyone else.
It really is the love of humanity that sets Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine apart. It is always first and foremost about the all. Never have I experienced it being about individuals, which is so completely different to what I have witnessed and experienced in the past.
From the outside, it can appear that Serge is being followed, because his name is used so often, but it’s actually not that at all. He is willing to stand up for truth no matter what, and all of the time, not just when he feels like it, and in the face of all the attacks he gets from those who’s feathers have been ruffled. So he stands out…and so he should.
Annelies yours is an inspiring story indeed. I too appreciate the presentations of Serge Benhayon which give me a true choice from which to evaluate how I am living and feel the consequences. Before hearing his presentations I was groping around in the dark, seeking answers from everywhere, but no one else spoke with such clarity and from lived experience, nor did their ideas resonate so deeply with my own innate knowing.
My experience of Universal Medicine is that it is about living naturally and ‘following’ the innate wisdom of our bodies, rather than any diktat imposed by another. And it works as Annelies has shared here.
It is more rare in a marriage that you hear of a man taking the first steps towards a personal healing and growth that can typically be viewed as challanging or confronting for men, so I wanted to say that you must have a pretty amazing husband. The fact that you have gone to workshops togther as a family is very beautiful and I hope to meet you all in person one day as you sound like a very inspiring family.
Annelies,
I love that you could see and feel the changes in your husband, and that you responded by wanting to know more. This says to me, that no matter how you may have lived, you knew a true way once you felt it. Amazing how deep inside we already know innately who we are.
We all know truth deep within our hearts, that the quality of our lives depends on quality of choices. When we choose to connect with ourselves we naturally feel a responsibility to the way we live and what we reflect to humanity.
So true Margaret, it’s all about what choices we make, choices that are completely decided by what quality or mentality we align to.
Amazing Annelies… To have come to this: “…for the first time ever in my life I had the experience of being able to stay connected with myself whilst around others.”
The knowing of oneself, and how to remain connected with oneself, not ‘bleeding into’ or losing ourselves in others, whilst remaining absolutely open and connected with others simultaneously, is the greatest blessing. How amazing that you brought this to your own life, through the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and his work – shared freely with all – and felt how simple and profound this can be.
Again, this time round it all started with one man, Serge Benhayon who is showing us the way and through his way of living he inspires thousands and thousands to reconnect to that same light he is connected to, as that has been there burning in our hearts all of the time.
Annelies what you have shared shows the power of a true reflection. Even in your strongest resistance to what your husband was sharing with you, you could not discount the changes you saw in him. This shows your willingness to see truth and love to then get honest with how you were living. Amazing family reflection you all are.
It is all About Living the most true way we know deep in our hearts. When we choose to connect we are able to live in our natural way, bring responsibility to all that we choose.
‘I had always absorbed other people’s emotions, adjusting to the energy of others and suppressing my own feelings. Always trying to fit in, doing what people expected from me, trying to be liked’. How many people of today’s world are presently feeling the pressure to constantly calibrate to the world outside of them exactly in the way you have shared here Annelies and not from the purpose and wisdom within.
This article so brilliantly exposes the power of true inspiration. True inspiration is where a persons actions or way of living are louder than words and inspire another to have the inner-strength to easily bring change into their own life – love and evolution into their lives and the lives of those around them!
Annelies your story is inspiring too. I totally agree that the simple truth that Serge Benhayon presents and lives has profound effects when lived. My life has completely changed simply by being more responsive to my body and its needs and understanding my place and purpose in the order of the universe.
The simple truth presented by Serge Benhayon is not matching the complications we expect life to be of. We have fallen for the illusion that things need to be complicated to have a deeper meaning, but actually the sophistication lies in simplicity as Leonardo da Vinci said.
It’s a great question you ask Annelies about why to we resist the very naturally loving way to live? As you say because we don’t yet want to see that we are responsible to all of the choices we make and also we do not want to see that we have chosen to step away from that loving way that we do know so well.
Thankyou Annelies, I have very much enjoyed reading your blog again. It’s a very similar process for each of us after finding Serge Benhayon’s work, we each simply become more loving and responsible for ourselves through developing an honouring relationship with our own body.
Wow what a beautiful and powerful testimony to living the loving principles of what Serge Benhayon presents, shown by the transformational effect it has had on your lives. Your story and your heartfelt appreciation is just gorgeous to read and a stunning reminder of what is possible when you embrace living in a deeply loving way.
This is an inspirational blog Annelies an encourages us all to be open to change in our lives no matter how far off the beaten track we may have gone. It is our choice to live naturally loving and joyful lives.
I see myself as I was, like a bundle of cartoon scribble, tied up in emotions and dramas, carrying all my hurts and experiences, carrying all my good and bad memories and my heavily entrenched ideals and beliefs, and everything I tried to alleviate this was just another thing to try to carry – yoga, meditation, self help stuff and more ideals and beliefs. The only thing that has made a huge change is listening to Serge Benhayon and realising all I was carrying and that I didn’t need to. It was not about following anyone it was about feeling what is true and unravelling this way that totally didn’t serve me. Now I feel light, unravelled in a good way, not needing to hold it together, knowing I have everything I need to be with whatever comes. It is a huge relief and there is so much more room for love.
Annelies, your sharing is yet more proof of how power-full a living way of true love can be and how much inspiration it can have on everyone around us. Not even having met Serge and his living truth was enough to inspire both you and your partner to begin to live your own true truth. True Love is Power-full!
I love how your partner, inspired by the living way of Serge Benhayon gently inspired you in turn by living in the same gentle way. We don’t need to convince anyone of anything – just live our natural way from our innermost and allow others to make their choice.
This is a beautiful reminder Annelies to live the love we naturally are and let others feel the difference, no need to preach just allow your reflection to inspire another – simple yet very powerful.
I have been preaching and I have felt how awful this is for not only the receiver but also for my own body.
Thank you for writing about living naturally Annelies and it’s great how your husband was your inspiration, with no push from him at all you were held in grace to feel and make your own choice. This feels super loving.
That is beautifully said Shelley, very true I was held in grace by my husband and could make the choice in my own time. A foundation of respect and love has always been there in our relationship and we keep on building.
I appreciate your commitment to the truth, Annelies. You didn’tI follow your husband neither rejected Universal Medicine teaching. You made your own choice and the one of love which benefits you and others.
It sounds like a gorgeous unfolding for you and your husband Annelies. I love the way you wrote ‘And he always just answered my question, no more no less.’
There is so much love and wisdom in this.
And that’s what is still there emma, evolving together in this relationship with this gorgeous man.
‘Simple, but not easy’. How true is this. Yet why do we need things to be easy? We resist the hard yards and seek what is most convenient to fit the way we currently see things. Yet the Benhayons show us how the hardest work can in fact be a playful and joyful experience. This is incredibly inspiring! Especially once we understand that by confronting the hard yards, the most enormous love and intelligence is accessible to us. I have only had glimpses of this but I know this to be true by what I see in the eyes and lives of the Benhayons and this is what inspires me to keep going deeper when I hit resistance in myself.
Agree and well put yourself Annelies
“After years of doing all kinds of new age courses and workshops like Reiki, Yoga, training in intuition, Gestalt therapy, rebirthing, bodywork, etc, I never felt or saw a real change that had stayed in either myself or him.” I too wandered down the spiritual path for nearly twenty years, but there were no lasting changes and I became disenchanted with every presenter as no-one walked their talk. In deep contrast I could feel that Serge Benhayon was the real deal and as I have become more loving towards myself – and others – I have let go of old hurts and can now be of more true service in the world.
Inspiration of someone living a true and natural life will change the world. Your story shows this so clearly as one then another felt the difference in someone and chose to make more loving choices for themselves. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are an inspiration for true brotherhood in the world.
I suppose because we are all aware of gurus and followers, of churches that tell their congregations what to do, and of people who exercise influence and dominate others, so when we meet someone who is a world teacher, not someone to be followed, but someone who inspires and who doesn’t abuse people in any way, it’s a bit unusual. We’re not used to it and it takes a bit of convincing that this is not more of the same, but truly love, a man and his family walking the talk of love.
We can all connect to our deep selves through this simple breath technique, then love is limitless.
I love how tall you’re standing, Annelies. “NO WAY…” are you following Serge Benhayon, but you live the life that feels true to you. In the same manner each and every one of us can ask him/herself: Am I living the life that feels true to me, or am I following something outside of me (my parents, fashion, religious ideals etc.).
A beautiful reminder of the simplicity of our breath and connection to our inner-most. I’m going through a stage of absorbing other peoples stuff and have been at a loss of how to stop and here is the answer, keep with my breath which in turn keeps me with my stillness. This was a timely blog for me today Annelies, thank you.
This is just beautiful. All that happened was that you saw a change and were genuinely inspired by another’s way of living and took the same self-responsibility upon yourself. No imposition, no preaching.
And it was and it is amazing to see the change of what love can do when we choose to keep on going by exposing what is not love and appreciating being part of such a grandness. I could not imagine how our lives are now compared with the beginning and it is forever growing and growing together.
Annalise, thank you for sharing this very beautiful example of the gentle unfolding nature of love.
I love how you call it ‘the gentle unfolding nature of love’ because that is what it is, love will never push us or force something, it is always respectful of our free will.
Your line here Annelies is so simple yet so profound: “in the process of becoming more self loving, we became more aware of what our bodies were telling us” – what I got from this is the more we love, the more we feel – what is there to feel, and increase awareness. If love is infinite, then so too is our ability to feel and be aware.
Annelies, I found myself re-reading your blog with fresh eyes and found what stood out for me was the honest and clear way you express the fact that living with responsibility is simple but not easy. This has so been my experience too, but the more I take the time to be with my body, really listening to what it presents the choices in my life become easier, more loving. The presentations of Universal medicine truly are life changing as they present to all equally the same message, which is the opportunity to stop and connect to ourselves and come back to the fact that all the answers we seek come from within.
And to appreciate the true choices we do make Elodie because of our commitment to this natural way of life. I still appreciate and celebrate my partner of coming home with his commitment to start living the love he is and never judged me for my behaviour at that time. A few weeks ago we had our 25th weddings anniversary, a beautiful celebration of sharing our life together, with friends and family, a celebration of Love and this will never stop.
And I still appreciate and celebrate you, Annelies for letting go of your initial resistance and for offering me the choice to the gentle breath meditation, to love, to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. I was there at your recent 25th wedding anniversary and I celebrated your ever evolving relationship with your beautiful husband and your loving friends and family with you.
Thank you Monika R. this way of celebration feels natural , connecting with family and friends, sharing some delicious food, some Glorious music being together just appreciating and celebrating who we are, a great way to cherish the love in us all and our forever evolving relationships.
I love how real this post is Annelies. Thanks so much for sharing with such honesty about how hard it can be at first to start taking responsibility for our choices. I know I certainly resisted for some time, in fact I still do from time to time when I’m not quite ready to stand up and accept that the reason I feel the way I do is because of a list of choices I have made that have lead me to feel that way. A you say, it’s simple but it’s not always easy. But we’re not alone, everyone is experiencing the same thing, and it’s totally ok to make mistakes and learn from our experiences.
Thank you Annelies for this great blog of yours , so simple and so natural is the way of the Livingness and the reflection of health vitality and harmony in our body and life once we commit to truly live is miraculous.
It amazes me how far from simple I can at times make life for myself, in the trying to have it ‘easy’, or the thinking things need to be difficult. When I return to what is simple I remember in a single breath how my body naturally loves to be.
Beautiful Annelies. Yep. I can relate to absorbing other people’s emotions- it’s incredible what we do to not feel our own. Serge Benhayon has presented another way to live- naturally so. And it’s an awesome gift, one that wouldn’t be discovered if there wasn’t a flow on affect from seeing how amazing it can be.
This is spot on Annelies, to be a student of Universal Medicine is to be a student of your own inner heart – no following! Loved hearing about your journey, thank you for sharing.
Thank you Annelies for such a great blog, the Gentle Breath meditation is so simple yet very profound and has supported me to make changes in my life as it has thousands of people worldwide. I recall being taught the Gentle Breath meditation by a Practitioner many years ago, I experienced a feeling of ease and connection I had never felt before, soon after I was inspired to meet Serge Benhayon – because I had finally felt something that was really true.
Annelies I was inspired by your willingness to try the Gentle Breath meditations and listen to audios without meeting Serge Benhayon. Your choice to live “simple but not easy” has obviously led to beneficial changes to your health as well as more harmony and joy in your life. Thank you for writing about living naturally.
Annelies, I appreciate your honest sharing of your journey to Universal Medicine and the work of Serge Benhayon. It is wonderful to hear that you have put aside your doubts and tried for yourself the Gentle Breath Meditation that your husband shared with you and the rest is history , as they say!
It is so beautiful how the incredible changes in your life have developed slowly over time with your choice to commit to being more self-loving and feeling what is true for you… bringing a love and inspiration into your life that you deeply appreciate, share with and bless all you meet. Gorgeous.
It feels like another case of ‘truth wins’. Through you being inspired by the very natural and truthful way Serge and his family live, you are now an inspiration for others to care of themselves and to choose simplicity and love over complication and drama. That’s pretty huge.
It has been a slow process for me as my body recognised the truth immediately when I first starting hearing what Serge Benhayon was presenting, but the mental energy wanted to question everything. Still, my body insisted on moving forward despite the mental chatter and now I can honestly say my life is better than ever before. It is more natural and simple as I have been learning to step away from the dramas and chaos that is around me and just concentrate on my own connection to myself.
Good point gilesch, I know that my mind can get in the way too sometimes, but it is always my body that shows me the truth!
I second that , thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Annelies there is such beauty and truth in the way you express, it feels like I have been cracked open by your words. This I mean in the most loving way, as what you express exposes our role in our lives, one of either choosing responsibility or not. Once we choose to become more responsible it opens us up to feeling the truth (or not) of the choices we have made and we can begin to decide how we truly want to live. What you and Serge Benhayon offer is that we all have an opportunity to connect to the truth that lies within and begin to live this in our day to day lives, it really is that simple.
It’s amazing the positive changes that happened in your relationship through meeting Serge Benhayon. A testimony to him and all he represents.
I agree Christina, I have the feeling I am just touching the surface of the true meaning of responsibility, let alone live in responsible way. It is quite a challenge to become aware and feel what is there and to stay present. Making the choice over and over again and appreciating that we make that choice.
I find the same Annelies, in ‘making that choice over and over again’ I find those new levels of responsibility like little nuggets of gold and really appreciate how that supports be to stay present.
Can only confirm what the 3 of you started to express here. The moment I am in full responsibility it feels very simple and empowering and I don´t understand why just a moment earlier I was still resistant to go there. It is very much an ‘in-or-out’ phenomena – being with myself and everything falls into place and becomes easy, being not in harmony with myself and everything seems to be difficult or an “unsurmountable” effort.
Me again. After having read your blog again I sense that other words catch my attention: “simple but not easy”. Actually that is something touching me. I can sense that I deeply understand and feel the responsibility, but the deeper I surrender the more I truly get the meaning and awareness. And that is sometimes not so easy to cope with, even it is still the simple truth that is underneath. Being truly present in life every moment of every in- and out breath, sensing more and more what’s truly going on around me and therefore feeling more and more the importance of my responsibility is really a challenge!
What you have shared Annaliese is the beauty that reflection offers us. You partner didn’t tell you what changes to make, you were open to making these changes because you saw the changes in him. The power of reflection is indeed powerful. There is nothing we need to do, but to simply be ourselves and reflect that there is another way to live.
Yes thank God for Serge Benhayon, thank God for the choice to know we always have a choice.
Thanks for your sharing Annaliese. I can relate to your story and it reminded me of the initial resistance that I had when I first came across Universal Medicine. I was a follower of a couple of new age modalities and like you, I hadn’t felt real and solid changes from practising these. The goal was always outside of myself. When I let go of my resistance, I felt the simplicity and truth in what was being offered by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I tried and tested what was being offered for myself in my own body and I found that it made a big difference. I couldn’t deny the changes I was feeling and am extremely grateful that I listened to my body as applying the simple offerings that Universal Medicine present has led me to discover a ‘natural way of living’ a way that is joyful and loving.
This is such beautiful expression and it’s so right, what Universal Medicine is helping us do is to make choices that lead to a life that is “…..simple and natural to us”.
Not living by someone else’s guidelines, or rules or framework but following the inner guidance of my heart means I indeed am faced with the ultimate responsibility of my life. It is actually so simple that I will often overlook it and complicate it by looking outside of myself or for solutions from my mind.
Fabulous Annaliese. This line really sung out to me “Living naturally in this way makes you responsible for everything you do, say and think, you cannot blame anyone.” as ultimately, where we are in life and how we experience this life is all about our choices. When we take responsibility for that, the whole world – no, universe! – opens up to us.
‘The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis’ this is something worth reminding myself of. What it boils down to is the choices I make to look after myself, or not; that’s my responsibility and nobody else’s.
A beautiful blog Annelies as from how you write I can really feel and appreciate the naturalness of it all and that if we only let go of the resistance, and are willing to be responsible, all else will come from that naturally so. Thank you.
Beautifully written Annelies, living naturally is simple although it seems not always so easy!
“Why was I resisting in the first place”? Something I have asked myself often in disbelief. Universal Medicine feels the complete natural way, it’s amazed me that I had chosen another. Taking responsibility is another point I had wonder why I had never taken. It does seem crazy when you start to think you have resisted such immense love for yourself and others for so long. Such is the illusion we have lived under.
It’s an ongoing process – and as I do understand you – the best choice one could ever make! Self responsibility is a key to self love, truth and real connection with others. What else do we need on earth than lived love?
You hit the nail on the head with your title of this blog – It’s All About Living Naturally and then I loved what you wrote in the blog as well. There is so much tension in this world that people are continually navigating and reacting to. And much of that, I believe, is because deep down we know that there is a way of living that is natural to us and we know we are not living it. We know we are meant to get along and live in a way that is in tune and in respect of our bodies, but we often don’t want to truly feel that or see it. It has only been slowly adding self-care and self-love into my life, that this much more natural way of life has become to emerge, and then tension as I step into it, is dissipated greatly. It is a simple way, but as you say, not an easy one. It takes great commitment but the rewards – as your blog clearly demonstrates – are quite amazing.
Thank you Annelies, I love that you were open to being inspired by the changes in your husband and that this inspiration supported you to start reflecting on your own choices and to re-connect to living naturally once again.
It was beautiful to read of how your partner made the changes that in themselves inspired you to take a look at Universal Medicine, there was no forcing in this but just a response to the lived way he was presenting. Sharing our natural way with others is always more powerful than trying to convince someone with words, that something you feel is right. Thanks for sharing your story and your ongoing development Annelies.
Living naturally from our inner heart is an awesome way to live. That in itself is a beautifully responsible act for a life of love and joy. Thank you Annelis.
Very beautiful blog Annelies, what your title says says it all. It is all about living naturally and developing self responsibility and self love.
There is a lot of unravelling and letting go of and recognising old ways, to get back to the simplicity of living naturally and realising what comes naturally to us. It’s simple but not easy but so so worth it.
“I had always absorbed other people’s emotions, adjusting to the energy of others and suppressing my own feelings. Always trying to fit in, doing what people expected from me, trying to be liked.” What you have described in this paragraph is how the majority of us live our life and all that trying does get tiring. I always thought that it was what we did that made us exhausted but I now know it is how we are in the world that can deplete or energise us. The word trying carries a tiredness with it, when there is a knowing that is when we start living.
A cool article Annelies , thanks for sharing .Its amazing how powerful connecting back to our true self or inner essence can be ,and the gentle breathe meditation is a great way to get us to stop and be present with ourselves and breathe.
agree Annelies, thank god for Serge Benhayon and his (extended) family. It’s incredible how much they present living a natural, normal life that is so down to earth and real. I don’t actually think it can compare to another modality or presentation. This quote you shared from Serge Benhayon is pretty amazing for todays life style “The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis.” We need more people to present living a life to what feels true to you. It’s a great inspiration and something we definetly need more of. I can relate a lot to changing how I am when with others and living a life based on everything around me not necessarily what I feel is true for me. Reading the beginning of your blog couldn’t have come at a better time to remind me to do that- live what’s true for me based on my feelings.
It is a very inspiring blog Annelies. It has been amazing for me to realise that I am only responsible for my own choices and not other people’s. I have been focusing on helping others but have neglected my own responsibilities and where I am truly at with myself. I have learnt to stop and take care of myself and learn to connect to the love inside of me first. I have learnt to make loving choices more and more each day. Learning to self-care and nurture myself have naturally flowed onto how I am with others. My choices in every moment affects everything around me, so the responsibility for me to choose love in everything I do is paramount.
The resistance to take responsibility for ones life is so huge. It’s society’s missing link. Everybody wants to point the finger, and it’s gotten us into a right mess.
The fact that Serge Benhayon is inspring so many people to take on this concept of self responsibility is one huge step for mankind, and so many lives, including my own have improved drastically because of it.
Painful and awful to accept and be responsible for some of our past choices, but the thing with choice, is that there is always at least 2 to choose from, and if you pick one that doesn’t work so well for you the first time, there’s always another chance to try a different way the next time.
Although everything in our lives, while not connected to our inner heart is designed for bringing us further away from ourselves, there is this non-imposing beacon of light that is there for us to consider, or even choose, to be our guide in our lives.
This is very beautiful Annelies, thank you. Indeed, taking responsibility in your own choices is “simple but not easy” at first. But the more loving choices you make, the more responsibility you are willing to take!
And the easier it becomes Ryoko to make the loving choices.
Annalies, you reminded me that of all the various new age or other things I’ve tried the one thing that has struck is this work as presented by Universal Medicine. Why, it feels like it’s a natural way to be and live and I’ve experienced huge beneficial changes by doing so, it’s who we all are underneath all those things we allow society to impose on us.
I can relate Annelies, to resisting the work when my husband first attended a couple of Serges courses and came home making changes!
Thank you Annelies for sharing your beautiful life with me. I am so joyful to share my life with you as we travel together on our way back to the love we innately are. Through our choice to build more love in our lives and into our relationship, our relationship is deepening and is changing form a relationship based on our mutual needs to a relationship where we are both equally responsible for building a relationship based on the foundation of love. How beautiful living the simplicity of life can be!
I too have found this beautiful way to live life – naturally. What is amazing is that if it is natural why was I not doing it initially? As you say it’s simple but not easy – and sometimes I find I am still less willing to take responsibility for all my actions. When responsibility becomes really hard I can escape it with distraction or just to ignore it, and then after a while my actions will come back to me and I will again have the opportunity to take responsibility. I am offered many opportunities to change my way by a very patient and loving God.
Yes, well said Susan we will be offered many opportunities to change our ways of the what is not true
Simple but not easy – that is living life with self – responsibility for how we are living and how our body feels every day. It’s not easy because it seems so ingrained in us to look outside of ourselves when we feel something we don’t like in our lives. But the only thing we really have any control over is how we are feeling and our own choices in life so why not start there?
Hello Annelies, thank you for this honest and very real blog. That was some dramatic change to your life, all from a simple breathing technique, the gentle breath meditation. I found the same with this technique and then reading the first book, “the way it is” and after a few years I still consistently use this technique. For me and as the title of your blog says, “It is all about living Naturally” and Universal Medicine has supported this.
You have written it so clearly. I do not follow Serge Benhayon either but I too am inspired by him.
That’s a great point Laura, worth repeating and declaring. I too don’t follow but am inspired.
It is beautiful to hear and feel the changes you have made Annelies. I remember being introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation and feeling the support this offered and then opening to the potential changes in my life by “choosing a life that was and is, simple and natural to us.”
I had been involved in many other modalities but nothing delivered the true change and re-connection to my innermost that is presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Hi Annelies, I love how you looked at why you were resisting this way of being and how this was from not wanting to take responsibility – it can be most difficult to look at our past choices and see the previous lack of responsibilty there!
Pleasing others and seemingly easing their life was what I thought my life was about. With the help of Universal Medicine, I have discovered, that in fact it was about hiding myself – especially from my responsibility. The gentle breath meditation has been an amazing support in feeling me again, as has been esoteric yoga. But what has brought the biggest changes and allows me to love myself more and more has been to care for myself and my body. For example making every single movement in a loving way – avoiding the hectic, hardness and tension that used to be there and by that allowing them to leave my body.
Thank you Annelies for your awesome sharing. And as you say – “Thank god for Serge Benhayon” because he is prepared to stand up and say it as it truly is and therefore he continues to inspire more and more people to return to who they truly are.
I too am inspired by him. Not because he is special, but because the choices he makes consider ALL and that strikes at the deepest part of me that knows we are all one. When I live from my inner heart, I too am an inspiration to others, as is anyone who chooses to do so. So now there are more and more lights going on all around the world and just the thought of this, makes the light in my heart shine even more brightly.
Like you Annelies, it was several months after encountering the work that I met Serge Benhayon. The changes had already been set in motion by the inspiration of a great healer, the books and the meditation.
The changes as you have said are simple…but they are not easy. Responsibility is a tough baton to pick up once you have dropped it. But is becomes easier with time. Not just easier, so many of us now appreciate the fact that there is no other way we would choose to live than this: loving, respectful, responsible.
How inspiring Annelies! I agree that living from one’s own inner heart and taking responsibility for one’s life is simple but not always easy because we have not been used to being responsible to that degree. However even small changes make a huge difference and as your story illustrates, one small change soon leads to another.
I agree, your comment is inspiring. I love what you said, ‘small changes make a huge difference’. This is so true, sometimes it is the small changes that I can easily over look and forget to fully appreciate. Awesome, thank you.
I completely agree with you Annelies, the world needs to see others living from their inner heart. The more people that are living in this way the richer the world will become.
Living naturally is definitely a beautiful way to live. I used to be one of those people who absorbed other people’s emotions and one of those nice people who’ll always be super supportive and always there for people no matter what. But that ‘no matter what,’ was very harming to me and absorbing other people’s stuff does not help you to help others. In fact it leaves you crippled, less of you and so in the process others get less of you too. What a vicious cycle. There and many other such patterns that we live in are such a trap. I too found that attending presentation by Serge Behayon and seeing Universal Medicine practitioners showed me a different way which was so supportive of me 1st and then in the process truly supportive for people I wanted to support in return. There are so many things I can relate to in what you shared. Thanks Annelies.
Thank you Annelies, a truly inspiring blog. The heaven sent inspiration of Serge Benhayon lives in us all equally and to believe any thing less holds us in less than love! Thanks Sanat for the Livingness and Serge Benhayon.
Thank you for sharing your experience with such openness and honesty. You can’t fault the work of Universal Medicine – it is all based on love, integrity, brotherhood, all the things we miss so much in life. Yet having to take responsibility can keep people away, until they are ready to realise that in reality there is no escaping responsibility and it is an essential part of life. I loved the fact that so many changes happened in your life before you even met Serge. This shows to me how much the opposite of a cult leader Serge Benhayon is. Cult devotees become disempowered by putting their guru on a pedestal. Whereas Serge Benhayon empowers everyone equally, and as was the case with your husband, he was then able to inspire a whole family.
I can feel in what has been written here a great testament to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and what they represent – it is written with great confidence and assurance yet without arrogance or any hint of this is something I did because I am special. I too was heavily invested in spiritual practices and when my partner started to attend Universal Medicine events, I also started to defend my old practices. Yet there was no defence or criticism in my partner, just a feeling of change which allowed me the space to feel, wow, that resistance ‘in me’, is not me. It allowed me to ask about what have I been investing in from these other disciplines, that makes me feel owned by them and not free to just discern truth for myself. The decision to let go and start to attend Universal Medicine events and read Serge Benhayons books was totally freeing and I have not looked back.
It is interesting to observe the times that we’ve had resistance to something, it is usually something that has challenged us to be more, more of who we are, to take more responsibility of our choices and yes this is not always an easy thing to do as we have invested so much in making life about being comfortable. However, the benefits of living another way that is true to ourselves outweigh anything we can ever imagine. Thank you Annelies for a love
I can relate to what you say, thank God for the Benhayons and their endless love for humanity.
And it’s simple, but sometimes not easy to be naturally, energetically responsible for all my expressions. Not easy only because it’s not normal and new to me, but as I keep going, it gets easier, and more and more joy-full.
I have re read my own blog and what you say is true, I am becoming more joy-full every day. I would never have thought this would be possible. It is a forever deepening process.
Well said Regina, thank God for the Benhayons. Them being here, showing us the way is ample proof of how much God actually loves us all. We just have to let it in. And I agree to, that it’s simple; but not always easy to be energetically responsible all of the time, but it is well worth persisting, without perfection.
Thank you Annelies for a wonderful blog. This is a blog that so many of us can relate to, there is so much wisdom and love in all of us human beings. Serge Benhayon, through The Way of The Livingness, has lifted the lid on so many old ideals and beliefs we have all had, and has brought us to a place of truth and self responsibility, self nurturing and love.
A wonderful sharing of where your life was, to where it is now. Thank you Annelies for your reminder that life is simply natural. I bet you and your partner have some great photos for the Before and After project.
I also love what you present, that your partner never asked you or tried to make you change. He just lived his life and what felt true for him, and from there “In a few months I could feel and see changes in him”. Now that is powerful and an amazing way to live.
I love this too Gyl that he did not impose this on Annelies or their family but by living what felt true for him he inspired others around him to make changes they could then feel were true for them also.
Yes, I do, I love that when you asked a question he gave you the answer, nothing more nothing less, and in your own time you felt to also read one of Serge Benhayon’s books. Not because anyone had told you to, but simply that you felt to.
I love this line ” I live the life that I feel is true to me.” I agree, and there is nothing more freeing and amazing than this. For so many years I have chosen to be held down by ideals and beliefs, but now I know what it means to truly live. And this just keeps on growing each and every day.
I totally agree Annette, the absolute TRUTH.
Your account Annelies just shows what Serge Benhayon presents – it’s not about what he or Universal Medicine can bring to the world, but when we connect to ourselves that’s how, when and from where, the change occurs.
And it shows the power and truth of the work presented by Serge Benhayon that the changes are set in motion by the gentle breath meditation, and books, and the changes you felt in your husband.
A link to the gentle breath meditation is added here. (http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/introductory-gentle-breath-meditation.html)
When we connect to ourselves, we will realize how simple life can be and how powerful we are. Taking responsibility might seem confronting at first, but very soon you will realize the changes this brings and how much more you are yourself. This beauty is beyond description.
I love this Annelies. You share openly and humbly and in doing so, with a solid authority of knowing that what you are speaking of here is the absolute truth. To live our lives in the most natural of ways requires us to take full responsibility for every choice we make and this is not something many of us are used to. We’ve been accustomed to blame and focus on things that happen to us outside of us. And so when someone who does live naturally come our way and thus presents this to us, simply by them being in the joy and love that they naturally live day to day, it can be a tough pill to swallow when that’s not what we’ve been choosing. But all we need to do is be honest, acknowledge how much we would love this way of living for ourselves because we are worthy of it too, and then we have the willingness within us to start making some very different and more loving choices. So so worth it.
Annelies I love the simplicity of your story, how you changed your life to one of listening to your body. The way of life you now live is so simple and it is inspiring me to come back to this simplicity, to remember looking after my body and listening to its wisdom is all I am required to do.
I don’t have to control anything as everything will be taken care of. My body is in sync with the world around me, so listening to it is like me taking note of whether I need to wear an extra jumper or not. So here’s to trusting what I feel and discovering how in tune my body truly is.
I love how you wrote this Annelies, it is a remarkable feeling to connect to the gentle breath and to then not become absorbed in the emotional drama that swarms around us all like a plague. I have found in connecting to my breath more, that I am less caught up in events that surround me, and much steadier in my daily living. It is a fabulous feeling to feel steady and not be so up and down with what happens on a daily basis in life. As you say, it is great to have someone like Serge Benhayon and his family to be inspired by, but it is completely our own choice how we live and how our lives unfold.
‘simple but not easy’. How true that is. My life was so complicated, built around pleasing everyone else. Its taken time to unpick all that and make it all about love, starting with my own love and self care. I’m still finding knots of resistance hiding in the depths, and gently letting them loose, finding that living simply is worth the commitment, and life has become easier.
Yes thank God for Serge Benhayon, but also thank God for you Annelies, and for us all. For constantly inspiring people, by presenting how natural it is to live from the principles of what Serge Benhayon presents. It is awesome that your partner was so open to the work, came home and began to live that way, resulting in you being completely inspired by him by how he had changed, and now the cycle goes on with you inspiring others.
Annelies I love how you shared that although it is simple and natural to be responsible for ourselves and our choices, it is not always easy. Despite this,I chose to commit to live me from my own connection to my inner heart everyday, from the amazing inspiration and commitment to people lived by Serge Benhayon and his family. Like you I feel deeply blessed and grateful for the Benhayon family.
So beautiful and confirming to read and feel your experience – thank you for sharing the amazing transformation you have made in your life. Deeply inspiring!
I love the simplicity presented here. The reason we all love and support Serge Benhayon’s work with Universal Medicine is because it works. There is nothing weird about it, it’s very common sense and as this blog says, very natural. The norm of today’s way of living is deeply unnatural but we accept it because it’s so pervasive. Yet, it goes against the body in so many ways. The rates of violence, addiction, anxiety, illness and disease as an example of this lack of naturalness are through the roof. I have never felt so well since I have started applying the simple principles of self love and listening to my body as presented by Universal Medicine. Great blog.
Great explanation for resistance: ‘Living naturally in this way makes you responsible for everything you do, say and think, you cannot blame anyone. I had not made very loving choices in the past and this had an effect on everybody, to take responsibility for that… well let’s say this is not always easy… simple but not easy.’
Wonderful to read your blog Annelies and for me very inspirational how you by observing the changes with your partner, you were inspired to also make different choices. And indeed, Thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine!
I admit , it is very inspiring to feel love so consistently expressed through Serge Benhayon and so many others.
To allow what this truly means – is to let go of all our layers of protection. And to understand religion in it’s true meaning.
Lovely to read your story Annelies of how you were inspired by one person living a more honest and natural life, ie your husband….a lovely reminder that when we choose this natural and simple living, how we can also inspire those around us just by being truly loving with ourselves. You are also a gorgeous, precious and claimed woman out in the world inspiring many other women.
What a beautiful account of how you have changed your life around Annelies! A simple process you just said yes to.
I love how inspired by your husband you were Annelies, and now you’re inspiring others. Very cool!
Living naturally is indeed simple, but to break the consciousness of all the years of resistance to that, is a painful process. It is so absurd, that we forsake something simple for something so complicated. How did we end up being addicted to complication?
‘How did we end up being addicted to complication’, great question Felix! I know for myself, in the past my life was a constant struggle, struggle and complication were my two companions….. at that time this way of life felt so ingrained that I could not escape or change my life….. I tried to change my life by trying many new age things, such as ( yoga, reiki, rebirthing, tantra, singing bowls) which in fact buried all my stuff/issues deeper. I only came to this awareness when I started to attend courses/presentations by Serge Benhayon, and then I did truly start to heal my past because I was making new choices and choosing a different way to live…which was much more self supporting and self loving…. To repeat what Annelies mentioned at the end of her blog:
Thank God for Serge Benhayon and his (extended) family for their endless love for humanity.
Complication is what keeps our minds busy and detracts us from having to feel our inner hurts let alone deal with them. As long as we struggle with complication we can feel like the victim and do not have to take responsibility.
I love hearing everyone’s story about how they came to the gentle breath meditation and a more caring and loving way of living. There’s always someone who inspires one person and so on and so on. I feel this is the power of this way of living – it’s for everyone!
Thank you Annelies, your sharing is so sincere and open. I can very much relate to your journey. I too have been inspired by Serge Benhayon and have empowered me to connect to me and live my truth. The gentle breath meditation was also my first start too. Which lead to the audios and books and then met the man at presentations. My life has been blessed and enriched for it.
Awesome article Annelies! I love how you shared ‘I had always absorbed other people’s emotions, adjusting to the energy of others and suppressing my own feelings. Always trying to fit in, doing what people expected from me, trying to be liked. This had made me a very mental, frustrated, anxious person. I was having migraines, feeling tired from pleasing others – that was my life’. I can relate to your words and experiences so well that you could actually be describing how I have lived my own life! I totally agree, thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who have shown us that their is indeed another way.
Well said Annelies, the relation with Serge is not leader-followers. He presents his livingness and the wisdom, consistency and trust that comes with it, we, discerningly opt to give a go some-all of what we feel is true in the knowing that our body (including our brain but not just our brain) has a major say regarding what and how we feel. The other thing I felt again reading your blog was the burnout and mistrust from your past experience with the New Age. Could it be that the New Age was set up at the time it was set up to either get people trapped or burnout and mistrust so they would not give it a go to something that is truth-full?
Your shopping list Annelies of new age courses is the same as mine and I could certainly add a few more. I was a new age junkie until I came across Serge Benhayon.
I love what you say that you resisted it because living naturally in the way that Universal Medicine presents requires us to take responsibility and I like yourself did not like that.
Your changes are inspiring and I have found that anyone who truly embraces what is being offered can make true life changes that are sustainable and above all support you.
There is no way that Serge Benhayon or Universal Medicine tell you what to do. Everything is for you to choose and that is why I am still around after 9 years living life instead of bopping along and dragging my body which was on the floor with chronic exhaustion.
Thank you Annelies for sharing your journey to Universal Medicine with us all. I too followed New Age modalities and it wasn’t until a friend introduced me to Serge Benhayons presentations that I realised how different the Truth felt and I could relate to the way he shared that all of us are Love and all we ever need is within us . To connect to this using the Gentle Breath Meditation made sense and also the fact that we are responsible for choosing the energy that we live in the Fiery or pranic. We never stop learning!
“The best medicine is how you live on a daily basis” – Serge Benhayon. Thank you Annelies you have demonstrated how true this is and how you were able to recognise it because of all the other things you and your husband had tried previously which had not worked. A very powerful testimony.
Absolutely Dianne, I still would be looking for a remedy outside myself. When I feel my frustration nowadays I know that it is not who I am but something I have taken on. I have hardened myself and how painful this is for myself to feel and for others, because from this frustration I start blaming others for what has happened instead of feeling my own hurt underneath and understand what is going on. I have learned so much from Serge Benhayon and still do.
Here’s to you Annelies, my fellow “very mental, frustrated, anxious person… having migraines, feeling tired from pleasing others”. Definitely thank God for Serge Benhayon and his loving comittment to humanity, or you and I might still be in the same disconnected boat we were in before we met him!
Me too Dianne, I would have been an anxious wreck somewhere as far far away from people as possible. I have Serge Benhayon to thank for the amazing confident woman I am today.
The great commitment and understanding that your husband was able to show you and your family during those early days is very inspiring. Also, I love how you were able to recognise the difference between all the pushing and striving you were doing and the openness of your own inner heart which you were so able to connect to with just the simple gentle breath meditation. This confirms to me the fact that the potential for this transformation is there inside every one, no matter what choices anyone has made. God is always here through connection to one’s true inner heart.
The relationship between my husband and I (and in effect with everybody) is a never ending process, to commit to love and discard what is in the way of building this loving relationship , this a daily commitment that is an ongoing process. Sometimes we stagnate but we are always able to get on track again because of the amazing life (love) we have together and this opens up to everyone.
Great sharing, Annelies. Feels very natural and graceful taking your own time to develop your loving way to live. Inspiring !
I love your gorgeous and very powerful testimonial, Annelies. I have witnessed all the steps you took and the huge changes this brought around. Beautiful how you did it in your own timing, starting to listen to your inner heart and your body. You are an amazing reflection, a living inspiration for everyone of the effects of taking responsibility for yourself and taking care or yourself. Simple (not always easy).
Thank you Monika, we can give each other amazing support, it is truly inspirational how we all make our steps on the way back to who we truly are and to bring more understanding to ourselves and others. With the understanding judgements disappear and love comes back to us all.
Absolutely Tim, this decision is life changing in a way we are not able to describe other than we feel how to live and to deepen this day by day and there is no end to this deepening forever unfolding love we share with each other.
Thank you Annelies. With me, the roles were reversed in that it was my wife who first started attending the Presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and then I started to listen to the audio and eventually attended a presentation myself. To say Serge Benhayon has inspired us to change our lives is an understatement and is without doubt one of the best decisions we have made.
I love how you say ‘our life together developed into choosing a life that was and is, simple and natural to us.’ To live from trusting what we feel is true and from what our bodies are telling us, is to live simply and naturally. What a beautiful truth to share – thank you Annelies.