by Elizabeth Dolan, RN, Australia
Recently a patient I was nursing said to me, “You are a true healer – your presence heals”. I knew exactly what she meant, but only because of the work I have done with Universal Medicine. Let me explain…
When I first met Serge Benhayon I was full of anger and blame. I was angry at the world and felt let down by it. I had spent my whole life searching for the ‘meaning of life’. When I was in my teens I read all sorts of literature to try and understand what life was all about. In my twenties I traveled extensively in search of some elusive thing that I felt was missing. I worked in various countries; tried to do ‘good’ by working in refugee camps and with various disempowered groups; went to university and studied psychology and philosophy thinking that this would help; became involved in experiential psychology, and then studied metaphysics and even became involved in new age spirituality… None of it helped, and all of it left me feeling more and more empty – in fact worse off than before I had started, because my head was now so full of theories, ideals and beliefs.
By the time I met Serge Benhayon I had almost completely given up on that feeling that ‘there is more to life’. To the outside world I would have appeared like a fairly functioning human being, but really I was miserable, drank too much, was about 15 kgs overweight and was working mainly on night shift in a nursing home because I couldn’t face people. I would not have admitted it back then, but I was just managing my way through life, surviving life as best I could.
A friend had been to see Serge and spoke highly of that visit. I resisted going at first, but eventually made an appointment. So I walked into his treatment room, full of anger and full of blame. I challenged him on everything he said… I was rude and obnoxious and questioned him about his work, the way I should have questioned every other person I had read or listened to, but hadn’t. Every two weeks I went back to interrogate Serge a bit more. He didn’t react – he just answered my questions. What he said was very challenging at times, but it made a lot of sense. The thing I was bitter about was that I had always felt myself to be a genuine person who was on a genuine search for truth. I had devoted my life to it, but it had gone so terribly wrong. When he explained to me that I had to look at the energy I had been searching in, then I started to understand what had gone wrong. I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t. I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.
With the support of Universal Medicine I learned to reconnect with myself. In doing that, I experienced myself not as an empty vessel, but someone who was full of love. I discovered that this was not only true for me, but for all others equally. We may not always live like that but it remains a fact – we are by nature love.
Over the years my life has changed beyond recognition. I changed my diet and stopped eating gluten and dairy. Because I wasn’t eating gluten anymore I stopped bloating, and as a result lost all the excess weight. I stopped drinking alcohol when I let myself connect with just how harming it was, and I realised that I was just using it to take the edge off life. I bought a house with 2 friends and committed to living, to the best of my ability, with truth and love.
I now work full time in a busy hospital, and love it. I love being out in the world and just being myself. On a daily basis I see how people have given up on life and themselves, and the consequences of that. I also see that the world is in need of people who have started to deal with the things that have brought them to the point of giving up on love, so that others can feel that maybe, just maybe, there is something beyond just managing life, and that we can in fact enjoy it.
Universal Medicine supported me to go deeper, to look at the energy I approached things in, and to be honest with myself. I learned that the choices I make on a daily basis impact my body and life, and the lives of those around me. Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.
Now back to the patient I mentioned at the start of this piece. I understood what she was saying because of my experience with Serge Benhayon. She experienced ME – the fullness of me, and in that she could feel the more (love) that she is. In feeling the love that she is, she experienced the possibility for true healing. This is exactly what happened for me with Serge Benhayon. He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.
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This is amazing Elizabeth. We will never find what we are looking for when we search looking outside of ourselves from a feeling of emptiness inside. We will only find that which feeds the emptiness. Connecting to that which is already there, we find who we are, where there is not an ounce of emptiness. Only the spaciousness that love provides.
I think this is what we all need, to be met, to feel that there is nothing wrong with us or anything that needs to be fixed. It’s all there within us. Not always easy I admit but nevertheless it’s all there to accept and eventually let out, because it takes a lot of effort holding the love within us from not flowing outwards.
Beautiful to re-read your blog Elizabeth and to know there is no ending to the deepening of love for ourselves and others. Without perfection we can constantly refine our choices, our living and our loving . Then others can say, as your patient did:’ your presence heals’.
We all have the power to heal ourselves, and I guess we start the path of healing when we are ready, when we have had enough of the distractions and comfort we have chosen, and hear the calling for more truth.
A reflection on healing : healing is that which is allowing one to let go and discard that which no longer works. True healing comes from within – it is what our Soul brings up for us, and it takes our willingness to see and let go of that. This proces is something that needs to be honestly understood and held deeply by each one of us.
So many of us just manage and function in life, and though on some deeper level we all know that there is more to life, when we do the search all we encounter is distractions and more ideals and beliefs to follow. Until such time that we are ready to encounter the truth. I too kept the search on the outside knowing there was an ache within and not knowing why my life life did not feel fullfilled despite ticking all the so called boxes of what people perceived life to be. And then my encounter with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and my embracing step by step of the truth that lay waiting within me the whole time! Where would I be without this today, I shudder to think.
Moving in an ill being does not help others. Yet, there is something very magical when we go through healing and we settle in the body. There is a quality that is felt as true and that invites everyone to change their own movements.
True healing comes from a lived way, you can not just meet someone with knowledge, when we live with love and true care in our own everyday life, that is felt by others.
It is life changing to know that we can heal ourselves, that we can heal our lives and heal all our relationships by choosing to heal our hurts and deepening the relationship we have with ourselves.
This is lovely Elizabeth . ” and with that I have been healing myself. ” This is so important we heal ourselves and we do this by letting go of what has been imposing on us from the outside . When we meet a person who has healed themselves and developing the full self by this form of re-connection , then this is inspiring
Responsibility is often regarded as a dirty word. But if we can’t be responsible for ourselves – our lifestyle choices etc, who or what can we truly be responsible for?
Spot on Sue, Responsibility is seen as a dirty word, and yet when we embrace it, it feeds us back the energy and the willingness to take on more because it is our natural and innate role and purpose.
” I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t. I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.” I wonder how many others for whom this is also true? It was for me.
How beautifully you share, Elizabeth, that we are our own healers, though without a reflection of another it is very difficult, if not nigh impossible, to understand and initiate this for oneself.
To allow another to feel the love you are … and to stay open with that love no matter what, yes that is deeply healing, and it leads to miracles … I am one, having come back from being deeply given up to a point where I am now more deeply committed to life than before with a level of vitality I would not have previously thought possible. And all this because I was inspired by another and choose to heal.
This is a beautiful story of your searching to find you have come to the right place at last Elizabeth. It is so wonderful that you persevered all those years to find that all the previous ways were not truth, but now you have found it.
The healing affect of a person who is an embodied representation of their own love and honouring is infectious and precious beyond words.
In the past I gave my power away to others when doing courses and following ‘their way’, and travelling further away from myself because I was lost and did not know my way. The first step or decision to turn this around was when I decided to put myself first in my life, and from that one different choice, so much else unfolded.
Beautiful confirmation Elizabeth that true healing not only heals ourselves but opens us to heal others by simply being present with ourselves and walking in love.
Thank you Elizabeth this was great to read again, and I appreciated these words “I experienced myself not as an empty vessel, but someone who was full of love. I discovered that this was not only true for me, but for all others equally. We may not always live like that but it remains a fact – we are by nature love.” It’s surely one of the greatest revelations we can uncover (or recover) by reconnecting to ourselves – not only are we in essence love but everyone is equally so. We as human beings must be the greatest untapped resource on the whole planet. Imagine 7+ billion human beings reconnected to their love and expressing it daily – amazing.
“Serge Benhayon…… He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself. ” And when we do this others feel it and receive a healing too. Beautiful Elizabeth.
Searching for the meaning of life outside of myself, in courses and spiritual new age stuff only to get stuck even further as nothing changed in my life…..The meaning of life for me has been about healing my hurts and clearing any emotional baggage I have taken that was not mine, and coming back to self-love and appreciating how much I have transformed my life by living true to myself – in other words, putting myself first before everyone else.
Facing ourselves can be challenging, lots can come up, but well worth the effort for all the returns in health, feeling lighter (and yes losing weight) as my body shape changed, all my relationships improving especially between family members. An increase in awareness which supports me to read all that life presents to me, which enables me to know how to respond and not react…. in other words, I have learned to observe and not absorb – that is worth its weight in gold. Yes, healing our hurts is the great medicine!
I agree Jacqueline, since coming to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine my life now is unrecognisable due to healing all of my hurts and the associated behaviours.
Dear Elizabeth – the fullness of you is indisputably gorgeous. I’ve known this since the day I met you, and likewise we can all feel it…. and its lovely to read the journey you have taken to feeling it for yourself as well!
He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself. True empowerment Elizabeth, for the true path back to Soul is to heal thyself and not expect someone else to do it or to fix us.
” He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself. ” So simple and beautiful thank you for sharing Elizabeth.
This is really true for me too in terms of what Serge Benhayon’s reflection offered me “He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.” The tools Serge provides including the Gentle Breath Meditation, the Universal Medicine Therapies, and his presentations have all supported me to reconnect to the love I am within, however the consistent reflection of how love looks when lived is what Serge powerfully and constantly provides.
I am sure at some point we all try to work out the meaning of life, yet we don’t realise the key may be in truly knowing ourselves first, and from there life changes because our choices come from within ourselves and not from the outside.
Such a beautiful reminder that us just being us is more than enough. Feeling the fullness of another and recognising the same within us too is so precious. I so love that you kept coming back to interrogate Serge to challenge his work. Clearly you recognised the truth.
‘… just being us is more than enough’. In fact, being us is the only thing that is needed
We all have the capability to heal and be healed, there is nothing to do, it is simply an alignment to that which is true within us as this has the power to dispel that which does not belong to the divinity that we are from.
From being miserable and angry with the world and feeling let down by it to how you now ‘love being out in the world’ and simply being yourself, I have to say that is a pretty awesome transformation Elizabeth.
Yes you connected with the light that is in us all.
Wow such an amazing turnaround Elizabeth and all because of the inspiration you felt from another and then making supportive choices for yourself. From being given up in life to having a completely re-awakened sense of purpose and commitment…
Our presence is powerful and does have either the vibration that heals or can equally harm. We are communicating so much in our every movement.
Very gorgeous Elizabeth, thank you. In reading this I can feel the love that I am which is the true starting place for love to flow out and in.
From an empty vessel to the fullness of you, now being a reflection of love and healing for all your patients, how awesome is that!
Our reflections are very powerful and if we are reflecting love we are offering healing.
I just love what and how you share this. It’s felt. True healing from you and that the other person, therefore, conneced to herself to find the same within her 🙂
This is beautiful Elizabeth Dolan – you are a role model for many, including myself – your presence is indeed very healing, so so well acknowledged by her and yourself. Appreciation of this is key.
“I would not have admitted it back then, but I was just managing my way through life, surviving life as best I could.” – How many of us have been in this situation, and how many more are still in this predicament…Seeking answers is a common theme in our society, but to get the real answers, one does have to be ready for it, and when we are truly ready, then the answers do come, and then it is about us being willing to go there and change the way we live…what a lesson, and what a journey that is endless, forever expanding and so incredibly rewarding when it comes to opening and unfolding the richness of the heart and what lies within, and yet there is so much we are here to renounce in order to embrace the truth that lies within! This is the conundrum we are faced with each and every day, each and every moment. And yet it is no conundrum for one that has tasted truth and finds it sweeter than all else the lies around as temptation.
“I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.” I have found that this is what drives us to keep searching for solutions from others, desperate to not feel this emptiness anymore, to feel complete. However, it can never come from outside because it is the detachment from our connection to ourselves that means we are an empty vessel. Choosing to fill it from the love source we are from is love- filled sustainable living!
To walk into a room without being loaded with anger and bitterness is a healing in itself. Love has such ease about it because it is who we are, where we are from and what we are made of. Reflecting that to another opens the door just a smidgen to feel that in themselves.
What a powerful reflection of what can happen when we choose to be self-loving first in life. This clearly is the key to turning around empty, unfulfilled lives to ones that are lived with joy every day.
It is true, just being around someone who has chosen to walk through life as the love that they are is healing. There is no perfection in this, but an inner dedication to the soul in daily expression.
What I loved reading about this blog was the similarities of how I and no doubt many others have led their lives. Always pointing the finger at the world but deep down inside we are just accountable to the anger and blame we project to others – we are in one big pot boiling and stewing.
I have spent thousands of dollars, thinking that this was the modality but always left feeling empty and disappointed. Then one day I met a Universal Medicine practitioner and I truly started to heal and it wasn’t always pretty but the wisdom was like no other – genuine truth. When I first met Serge Benhayon despite the hurts I was going through – I knew I was home and whenever I attend any of his workshops I feel I am with my truest family.
I used to cringe when I heard the word ‘responsibility’ as I was holding a false picture of what that word meant, quite simply it has been a beautiful step to take responsibility in my life and to feel it’s not so scary at all and actually brings a greater embodiment of love and quality into your life and relationships.
We all have it within us to heal ourselves, but sometimes it takes the reflection of another to remind us of this and the way back to ourselves – never through anything outside of us, and always by looking within.
We can waste lifetimes searching for answers outside of ourselves from that place of emptiness and lack and need or we can reconnect to an enormous amount of wisdom and understanding inside of us that we all have access to, within minutes – this is just one revelation that Serge Benhayon has reflected to me.
Beautiful Elizabeth – this is the science of true healing you present here! To empower another to re-connect to the love they already are and then what they are not, which was accumulated along the way, like some kind of heavy, cumbersome baggage, starts to fall away.
After spending a night in hospital for the first time, I can totally appreciate what you do Elizabeth and understand the need for nurses to be reflecting true health and healing to patients. Actually, this reflection is needed everywhere! We can heal when we walk through a supermarket or any other public place just by walking in the glory of who we are.
So true Rachael, one only has to look at the Benhayon family to see how truly powerful our reflection can be for others.
‘He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.’ True empowerment, because we can only but heal ourselves, always our choice how much we grow and evolve.
Our presence heals. This is an absolute truth. Yet, do we walk such truth?
Yes Edurardo, our presence heals, and a powerful reminder of choosing to be responsible for all our movements and expressions, and that we can be a loving reflection for others.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing your life changing experience of searching out there to fill the emptiness only to find that, by the true reflection of love given to you by Serge Benhayon that indeed it was within you all along “He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.” your commitment to live this love is second to none.
I love the commitment to life I feel in your blog Elizabeth – it’s like, ok let’s do this, no more messing around let give life one billion percent. It’s so refreshing and how I feel life should be approached day to day.
you have nailed it beautifully Elizabeth “He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.” This is what is on offer to everyone. Every time one of us connects to the truth of who we are, there is another point of light to light the way for all.
I wonder how many others go on the search for truth from an emptiness that then needs to be constantly filled. I feel this is why I hopped from one new age therapy to another as each one never fulfilled the need in me. Truth is truth, and when we feel it there is no need for anything from outside to fulfill us. The journey starts with us from a place of humbleness, healing our own anger and frustration before we can begin to heal another.
Is this what life is all about and how we live inspires others to live the same way, “He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.” We often talk of role models, leaders, inspirations etc and how they have an impact on the way we look at things. What about the change that comes from someone consistently showing you the love that you are from the simply living the love that they are fully in any moment? You can see from this article the changes are dramatic and ongoing and what’s more the changes are supporting not only the person directly but also going out to everything around them, extremely powerful.
It is a pleasure coming back to reading this article, to be able to offer another the love you are so they can again feel the love they are is a beautiful thing to bring to the world. What is so very sobering is that this is actually normal.
Elizabeth what I love about your blog is how it reveals your own inner healing. How apt for your patient to say “You are a true healer” as I feel this can only be felt within a person and this is exactly what she felt within you. Thank you.
‘I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first.’ This is profound Elizabeth. I too was searching by looking outwards, trying to acquire knowledge and things that would make me feel whole. Switching my starting point was a game changer, and the beginning of my healing. I now no longer look outward because I am feeling the love that I already am, and from there developing a relationship with myself that was missing.
Thank you Elizabeth, your blog is a real testimony to Serge Benhayon and to the power of love. It is also a testimony to the knowing we all hold deep within that there is more to life than meets the eye. If we did not hold this knowing we would not be searching or giving up. The search and the giving up end when we begin to look within rather than outside of ourselves for fulfillment. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has presented by example just how to be the love that we are so the we can be that and inspire others to be that also.
We know so much more than we want to give ourselves credit for, we feel everything and that is why it’s so important that we don’t give up on life. We are all able to be these amazing reflections for each other. I know that I have been the point of love that inspires others but equally I have been pulled up by a stronger love or light. Its not that ones better or worse, as we are all equal brothers but the way we choose to let that love out can vary. It is our responsibility to ourselves and one another to keep reflecting the way home, the truth, without perfection but with a strong intention to be the love that we are.
Thanks Elizabeth, I’m glad I found my way back to your blog today, it’s been a great reminder that I have learned to manage life and to give up on love myself, but the truth is it’s there waiting for me anytime I want to reconnect – thank you.
What you describe Elizabeth is quite profound and has been recently proven in research that when medical professionals actually show genuine care and ‘kindness’ to patients, they heal faster and with less complications. What you’ve shared shows that this care and kindness cannot be an act, but the result of having healed yourself, restoring your own being to its naturally caring and kind ways. This is felt and responded to in such a way that healing is fostered. How beautiful is that? And how revelationary for the health profession as well as those who work with the sick or needy in any way.
What you have shared Elizabeth is timeless, for it seems that the quest of human life through the ages is to search for the ‘there is more to life’. We search in space, through our lifestyles, through war and through religions with no true success, as still there is an unsettlement that continues to rattle our bones. For as long as we have been searching there has also been The Ageless Wisdom Teachings, as today presented and lived by Serge Benhayon. The keywords being ‘lived’, as it is through living this way that many more have been inspired to know ‘the more to life’ is found within. It is also through your living ‘the more to life’ that you know, feel and choose to live in connection to that you reflect to the world the ‘the more to life’ is in fact real, accessible and our normal way of being.
You are an inspiration Elizabeth. To meet a woman like you who is deeply committed to life and their work and who is enthusiastic about life and very loving is a blessing.
Feeling and living the fullness of the love we are requires us to truly claim ourselves and once this happens it can be felt by those around us – this is the true healing you speak of Elizabeth and the shift it allows in others. Serge Benhayon reflects this equally to everyone and allows the space for them to know that the too are all of this.
“I experienced myself not as an empty vessel, but someone who was full of love.”. Reading this I have just realised something I had not clocked before. We are always full of love, no matter what because love is our very essence – it is who were in the depths of our foundations. So when we talk about being empty, it’s and illusion because we that love hasn’t gone anywhere, we have just chosen not to feel it. So if we chose to feel it instead of pretending we are empty, we instantly feel that we are made of love. We go from emptiness to being full of ourselves in an instant.
This has yet to be accepted of course, but the day will come when we realise that there is a relationship between the quality of our being and the quality of service we can provide as a practitioner.
This is a beautiful sharing Elizabeth. You say that the energy we are in when we do something or look for something affects the outcome. This totally makes sense to me . So much has changed for myself also in the years that I have been connected to Universal Medicine.
It is in fact that simple; we feel if someone has a healing or a ‘connecting back to myself’ effect on us or not. We may be able to explain in full how it works but we experience it anyway. It is by reflection that we get the inspiration and or ‘true hope’ that something is possible we may have given up on but nevertheless deep inside know to be the truth of what life is all about.
“questioned him about his work, the way I should have questioned every other person I had read or listened to, but hadn’t.” This is very revealing as to me it demonstrates that even at first meeting you were aware that you were hearing the truth and reacting with anger and frustration that it had taken you so long to reconnect to the truth and love you were met with.
We can use the searching for truth as yet another way of avoiding truth. – the constant moving, seeking is another form of withdrawal, of lack of commitment and will guarantee not to bring the answers we seek… only by stopping and surrendering will we relearn the truth of who we are.
If you can’t be all of who you are for yourself, if you fall to old patterns and behaviours when you know they are not true to the light you are, then do it for everyone else. The more people walking this earth reflecting the Divinity we are actually from is making it more known and more accessible to those who are still asleep.
So much of what we say we love is not love but relief. By way of example, we may say we love our coffee, but the truth is that it gives us temporary respite from our otherwise exhaustion. And sure, you may say, no, I love the taste. But taste like many things is aquired, and like beer, very few people actually LOVE the taste of it the first time they have it. It is, after all, quite bitter, the point being as I started with, that if we start to unpackage life this way, we realise that much of what we say we love, is but a management tool to make up for lack of permanency of joy in our lives. And true joy, true love, is not ephemeral in nature, but self-sustaining, and indeed, forever expansive. The fact that we don’t know this shows just how far we have strayed from what true love entails.
“I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t.” I cannot thank Universal Medicine enough for showing me how to connect to my essence. Connection instead of the search (HUGE sigh or correct me gentle in breath). We do not have to go anywhere. We are the walking Halls of Wisdom if we so choose.
How will we as a humanity, as a mass, end the search and begin to connect with our inner-harmony? What pulled me to knowing the truth was being honest about how I felt on the inside and how life was treating me. “Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.”
There are those who live a meaningless life while searching for the meaning of life. There are others who live a meaningful life but are convinced otherwise and do not bother to live meaningfully. And there are those who live meaningfully. The first ones will know very quickly when they get it. The second crowd will not look for it. They will be convinced they are already there.
Elizabeth you are a true healer and I love it that you share what that means – “She experienced ME – the fullness of me, and in that she could feel the more (love) that she is.” You showed with your lived life that there is something beyond managing life and that is absolutely inspiring – Thank you
Brilliant blog Elizabeth, that really is True Healing. Being inspired to reconnect with the love that is already inside us and take greater responsibility for our daily choices doesn’t just benefit ourselves alone but everyone whom we meet as well.
It makes total sense Elizabeth that what we look for is true healing and that love is the answer. Sometimes I think it’s very confusing when people use the word love left right and centre and very rarely does it feel like there is any love, it just feels like it’s a word we use to point out that we like something. I was never very fond of saying I love you to people, it just doesn’t come out that way for me. I’d like to describe what it is that I love about someone, that for me is saying I love you. Maybe off topic there but it feels important to define what love truly is and for me it’s not just something someone says, I have to feel it as I understand that patient did with you, which also proves that love precedes words.
Amazing transformation Elizabeth, your choice to be honest with yourself, willing to take responsibility and connect to who you are, the result is naturally healing for yourself as well as everyone around you. It is amazing how healing works, once we embrace it fully, the healing expands outwards, as in, it doesn’t just stop with us but expands out to people in our circle and beyond. The ripple effects of healing is truly powerful, never for one individual but works in a way that includes us all. So, our world definitely needs more people like you Elizabeth, because when one person chooses to heal it impacts on us all.
‘Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.’ Knowing this simple truth and beginning to live this everyday was a turning point in my life that has enriched all my relationships especially the one with myself.
“He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself” – what a beautiful statement. I really love this. I used to think that ‘healing’ meant there was something/someone who healed me while I was being a passive receiver, and I can feel how disempowering that is. Having spent most of my life with deep self-loathing, it has not always been easy to accept that I was love, but the more connected I feel with my body, the harder it becomes to resist this truth.
Sometimes it is hard when we are presented with honesty because we have to see how many choices we made, by our own free will that have caused so much of the resulting pain and difficulty. It is so much easier to blame someone else. But what a gift these people who come into our life bring us.
Absolutley Lucy – the greatest gift being that through our honesty we are more aware of our choices and the effect they have on our lives, allowing us to choose to live more freely who we naturally are.
We are always watching and always feeling, and we know when someone is genuine or not. We are either confirmed by another’s living way and choose this for ourselves or we are bombarded by more images, actions and beliefs of what we are not. Serge Benhayon has been a constant reflection of the divine of what lives inside us all.
The path of return back to the love we are is the true healing path, and the purpose of life. The fact that we search at all confirms we do know that we are part of a greater more expansive whole than we often settle for.
Very inspiring story Elizabeth. I can relate to the searching you speak of, and looking for the answers outside of oneself. This also came to a stop for me when I reconnected and built the inner relationship with myself. The realisation that everything we could ever want is within us is a joy beyond measure, and is ever unfolding.
Healing is a pathway that is on offer every day, should we choose to connect with ourselves.
Great sharing Elizabeth, I know what you are talking about, there are people that hold you in their presence, which can feel a bit challenging but all in all supports you in being true to yourself and does not ask you to keep a facade. And dropping our facade and protection in itself is already so freeing and deeply healing – to realize that we do not need to hide anymore.
Dear Elizabeth,
Thank you your words below have supported me beyond measure today. The ideals that are intertwined in our psyche create beliefs that we are missing out on something because we don’t have such and such in our life. One ideal in particular has many tentacles into my psyche, but these words brought me again to feel truth. And to commit even more to getting to know me, delving ever deeper every day.
“when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t. I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.”
The fact that the quality of our presence can either harm or help someone heal is a fact that we all too often overlook, yet we all know that someone else’s quality can have a massive effect on us. I like the example you gave of an angry person – we can feel the harm of that, but what if everything we feel affects other people? A dramatic step up in responsibility would be needed.
Awesome comment Meg. One of the greatest realisations we can have is to understand how our choices and the way we choose to live impacts on everyone, not just us but everyone we come in contact with and beyond. The way we move, express and hold our body communicates so much and its impact can either be healing or harming. Understanding this responsibility to live in truth and love, embracing it in full is very much needed in our world where we are currently celebrating irresponsibility, disharmony, competition, hatred, anger and the list goes on. So, I absolutely agree Meg, a step up in responsibility is certainly very much needed.
In my experience there is no substitute for knowing the love that we are innately. Doing so changes the foundation of everything we do and the relationships we have because we shift from being empty seekers of love to vessels full of love that reflect the very same to others – as you have done here Elizabeth. Truly healing as you say.
It is really something to appreciate the fact we heal ourselves. This is responsibility and how, rather than being something to avoid, is actually the foundation of love and all the gorgeousness of life.
That is so interesting Elizabeth, what I hear is that she felt cared for, love and met even though you were working. So for me it is about your healing meaning you dropped the anger and just embraced being there with people. That inspires me.
I walked around for the first 55 years of my life with a deep seated feeling that ‘there is more to life’, looking outside of myself for answers, burying myself in bringing up a family and losing who I was in the process. And then I met Serge Benhayon, and from the moment he began to speak I could feel in every part of me that I was about to be presented with the answer to that very long term question, and I was; yes, there was definitely more to life than I had been living.
“Every two weeks I went back to interrogate Serge a bit more. He didn’t react – he just answered my questions.” This is absolute confirmation of the man I know Serge Benhayon to be – no matter what I may be caught in or wrestling with in life, I have never felt one iota of judgement from Serge, and he has without fail always met me with a respect and dignity that is beyond measure – this in itself has taught me much about the way in which I can actually hold and regard myself…
As you’ve shared, the support and inspiration was to get to know and embrace all that you are – first and foremost – and meet the world from there. And the proof is in your magnificent ‘pudding’ Elizabeth Dolan – in the powerhouse of love you are today. Absolutely A-maz-ing.
How many people truly make such a remarkable turnaround Elizabeth? Especially when so angry and embittered by life, as you’ve described… This is a truly amazing and inspiring real story – from a real woman who I know today to be one of the most dedicated and passionate-about-life people I’ve ever met.
Such are these stories – so many, many people whose lives have been turned around by the inspiration and support of one who cares so deeply, as to not hold back the truth from any of us – Serge Benhayon.
Spot on Elizabeth! I know this and agree deeply: from the presentations of Universal Medicine “I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.” Nobody can in fact give or bring me what I am looking for. It is in me and it is my choice to connect to it or to suppress it.
A great blog Elizabeth it was beautiful to read how the patient felt your powerful healing presence, which I have had the joy to feel also. The love that we hold within when connected to, is our best and only true way to heal, and when this is reflected out to others they can find that same healing power within them also.
Words from the wise woman you are ” Serge Benhayon allowed me to feel the love I am……and with that I have been healing myself.
Exactly! That is what he does – reflecting us the love we all are. This blessing is coming with responsibility and a few of us are not ready yet to take it, but sooner or later we all will heal ourselves. This is just the start.
I am going to write exactly what I said out loud to my husband whilst reading your blog and after finishing it.
“I didn’t know that Elizibeth Dolan did all that study and went to Refugee Camps…”
“God that is a good blog, what an amazing writer she is”
I enjoyed every part of this, the way you shared it was so simple and easy to relate to.
This is a great testimony to Serge Benhayon and what he offers. This totally sums it up Elisabeth . . . “He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.” . . . knowing you before you met Serge Benhayon and knowing you now I can vouch for the changes you have made and can attest that they are remarkable. You are a completely different person from the reclusive person you once were as now you are not only more outgoing, open, loving, joyous and all inclusive, you are more vital and are looking years younger. You are also more womanly, very tender and your eyes sparkle making you more beautiful than ever before.
I love how the patient’s comment just confirmed to you what you already live and know and how you claimed yourself. This is powerful in itself as a reflection to others, as the majority do not have feelings of worth or confirming and appreciating themselves and wait to be told or confirmed by others. I agree Elizabeth, people need to see another way… and yes it stands out but everyone watching on knows within that they are that too.
What an absolutely gorgeous sharing Elizabeth. And I must agree, that your presence is so very healing, for I have been in your presence and felt so cared for and so inspired by you! This is a blessing you bring to the hospital, the patients but also the staff, for your healing would of course extend itself to all.
My understanding from your sharing Elizabeth is that true service is being all that we are (and all the love that we are) that allows another to feel that within themselves.
It’s a real testament to the way you are living Elizabeth – having someone feel the fact of what you walk around in in your day to day life.
“We may not always live like that but it remains a fact – we are by nature love.” I love this line Elizabeth. In truth we are all one in the same- big balls of love.
Great to read your blog again Elizabeth, I can really relate. I also searched high and low for the truth, for meaning, and for something to fill this yearning I felt, but like yourself the truth is “I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.” At the end of all my searching I still felt empty – actually even more so. I’ve now reconnected to myself and to my essence via the work of Universal Medicine (and particularly with their Gentle Breath Meditation) and found what I was looking for was always in within me. The joy, love and truth I sought was inside me all along. Now that I can live from this connection I also can feel how healing my presence is because of the truth it reflects about us all – we are all this love, truth and joy.
‘On a daily basis I see how people have given up on life and themselves, and the consequences of that’. When we give up we close our eyes to the opportunities our everyday life experiences presents to us to let go of and heal our hurts that caused us to give up in the first place. It’s a vicious circle.
“…‘Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me…” Living this is the ultimate U-turn towards health, wellbeing and takes the load off a health care system to fix and address many of the non-communicable (lifestyle) dis-eases.
‘Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me.’ This is one of the biggest gifts Universal Medicine has given me too. Learning to take responsibility for myself, and know that essentially everything that happens in my life, good or bad, is down to me is so incredibly empowering, and I love learning to take more and more responsibility.
Gosh I love this blog, I feel like working on the ground in a health care position really humbles you to keep prospective on what is going on in the world. I don’t know if you remember back in the day and probably still now, they had Candy Stripers, young people that went and volunteered in hospitals. After reading your blog I was considering, imagine it was compulsory for young adults to spend a time in hospital as apart of their health education, I think it would make a huge difference to a broader understanding of self care.
What a gorgeous confirmation of the enormity of what you have connected to and live. In a world full of sickness it is a blessing to know the difference that taking responsibility for ourselves and our choices can make in our own healing and the power of this being reflected to others.
Wow, what a beautiful blog to read today, thankyou Elizabeth. I really related to this line “I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first…” This is also true for me Elizabeth. My fruitless search in the outer world simply led me back to myself. Serge Benhayon is a tremendous reflection of love and of all that we are – and of the all that we come from.
I would agree Elizabeth with your Patient that you do have a lovely healing energy! The same goes for Serge Benhayon and I love what you expressed too “He allowed me to feel the love that I am and with that I have been healing myself”.
It is amazing how someone ‘s presence can be very healing, I love the way your patient felt this quality in you Elizabeth. We think that we have to do something to offer a healing and we underestimate the powerful of being in our essence and the stillness this brings to someone especially if they are unwell.
This is such a beautiful and inspiring read Elizabeth, especially this line – ‘Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.’ – Thank you for such a simple and powerful reminder.
You have shown true responsibility Elizabeth and giving back to the community what you have learnt yourself that is for each and every one of us – a claiming of the love we are – true healing in whatever shape or form is required comes from that place.
Great testimonial Elizabeth. Since attending Universal Medicine courses many years ago, I have made many changes to my life, including diet, sleep rhythms, etc – all which have benefited me tremendously. But the truth is that I only started to make those changes, because I connected to the possibility that I am actually worth something, that I am actually worth treasuring. I wonder how many of us actually truly realise how much we are worthy of our own love. I wonder if we truly realised how magnificent we were, whether we would allow ourselves to abuse our bodies in the way we do under the illusion that we are actually doing things we like. A donut tastes great, agreed, and we can see it as a way of rewarding ourself after a hard day’s work. But if we know we are magnificent, then why would we need a reward to confirm the fact, especially a reward that actually harms the very vessel that we are supposedly rewarding.
Although our capacity to feel that there is more to life is unlimited, the plethora of things that there are our there (new age included of course) that do not really answer the call and above everything drains you, hurts you and deviates you from yourself and life have the consequence of stop searching and giving up on something we all know how vital it is. Is this a mere coincidence?
I love this Elizabeth..”so that others can feel that maybe, just maybe, there is something beyond just managing life, and that we can in fact enjoy it.” To bring to others the YES to that quest is a miracle!
I love reading this Elizabeth. We get to feel the love that we are and the more we live this the more other people get the opportunity to feel that they are the same. This is true love and true healing.
Beautiful Elizabeth. “With the support of Universal Medicine I learned to reconnect with myself. In doing that, I experienced myself not as an empty vessel, but someone who was full of love. I discovered that this was not only true for me, but for all others equally. We may not always live like that but it remains a fact – we are by nature love.” I too with the support of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the inspiration of you have reconnected to the love that I am and am no longer an empty vessel seeking that elusive ‘something’.
What a stunning piece of writing Elizabeth. I was particularly taken with – “I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t. I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.”. This describes so much of how the world operates – I know I was doing it as well for many years (lifetimes even!). Once we know ourselves, and know ourselves as being LOVE – this forms such a foundation on which to go about our daily lives and bringing our full PRESENCE to everything we do. We can heal so much in ourselves by coming form here in turn offering a healing to others.
When I was really empty and desperate I could not understand the support of others when it was unconditional – I was always looking for the conditions, the hidden exchanges/ deals of I’ll give you thin in return for x. But I took a leap of faith at the time and began to trust people and myself when I felt there were no conditions attached to me receiving support.
As I have come back to feeling the love that I am that is ever flowing I am connected to the fact that it is not mine to keep but for everyone and is designed to flow for everyone. So supporting another to connect to their flow this is a natural design, as is receiving support and love in full.
“Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.” This is something that each member of humanity needs to come to – for each of to take responsibility for our part of the whole.
Great blog Elizabeth, showcasing what it means to truly heal, take responsibility for oneself and truly love being a part of the world, part of a community, committed to work. This is something to truly celebrate.
We sure are all healers and the world is waiting for us all to step up to the plate and for fill the role we have willing chosen here to do
Wow what a transformation!.
From giving up on love to supporting people on a daily basis to come back to it.
Beautifully and simply said Luke.
Great article Elizabeth.
It highlights something that is so simple – and yet if we consider it in full – it simply changes everything. EVERYTHING.
Energy.
Everything is energy. Once you consider that and start observing how life plays out energetically – things must change. And life opens up to reveal itself as very different to how we think it plays out if we ignore this fact (the most well known scientific fact there is).
Thanks for sharing Elizabeth – your transformation is nothing short of a miracle.
This is beautiful Elisabeth “He allowed me to feel the love that I am”. This is what is happening to me, discovering and learning that there is so much to share with the world, moving out of the shadow and into the light and expressing the joy of living and sharing.
A beautiful sharing thank you Elizabeth your choices to truly heal are now having a flow-on effect to all those around you – the power of love is indeed amazing.
What stands out for me in your words is that we always heal ourselves and that it is never another who does the healing for us. When held in equallness and in the fullness of another we can truly heal.
I agree with Sueq2012, this is a beautiful blog and one which I come back to from time to time. What stood out for me this time was the length and breath of our searches and the different avenues we are sent down in the pursuit of finding out why we are here, and that there must be more to life than what we are experiencing.
For me finding Universal Medicine has also helped me with all of the unanswered questions and has explained and highlighted so much of things I was blind too, along with the things I didn’t want to see.
This is such a beautiful blog, thankyou Elizabeth. Connecting to who we truly are – our essence – which is love – rather than what we have been told by others is so important. So many changes made – and this refinement is never- ending – is a constant work in progress, which now feels joyful for me, rather than something yet to be attained. Enormous appreciation to Serge Benhayon for presenting us with the truth and being an amazing role model of how we can all live.
Serge Benhayon allows us to feel the love that we are so we can work on healing ourselves. When I met Serge, I was full of hurts, anger and frustration, blaming the world for where I was at. I was completely empty from inside, looking for ways to fill my life, I went of on a search for many years on how my life can improve, to only be disappointed at the end. Once I met Serge, he turned my world around, for the first time I felt and understood what true love was. I was then supported in connecting to the true love within, and my entire life changed. Healing took place in all areas of my life as I started to take responsibility for myself. Serge Benhayon is one amazing man who has so much love to share.
“With the support of Universal Medicine I learned to reconnect with myself”… that’s what it is all about isn’t it Elizabeth. Connecting to the truth of our being and not to keep distracting and numbing ourselves away from the Love that we innately all are inside. Although I am not always able to hold onto it, I have connected to my essence and it has felt AWESOME, super lovely, and a feeling that I cannot describe in words. The ironic thing is that this Love is inside of me, waiting for me to re-connect to it, and it is also inside everyone else too. We are all walking around on this planet in total denial of who we truly are, and the only way to wake up is to acknowledge the fact there is more of us that meets the eye, and for me it is thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that has shown me the way home, to me. Awesome blog Elizabeth.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing your experience, I too, searched for truth and thought that being caring and kind, doing and being good was the way to be love, and to love until finally giving up on all religion and the searching. All my life, even as a young child I had looked for God, until I came to Universal Medicine and found the love I had been looking for was not outside myself, but was deep within my inner heart.
I can relate to the search for something more in my life, always going around and around in circles never once stopping to feel that everything was within waiting to be connected to or should I say re -connected to. Universal Medicine offers us all equally the opportunity to truly heal and take responsibility for our choices. It is beautiful Elizabeth that your commitment to make loving choices and to be all of you inspires and supports others in so many ways.
I so loved re-reading your blog Elizabeth, as it just highlighted to me the fact that what truly heals us is ourselves. The moment we decide to live from the love that we are and truly embrace and be that in the world, we offer all others that we meet the opportunity to feel that quality within themselves also. That is love in action and that to me is what the Way of the Livingness is all about.
“We are by nature Love”. To feel that love reflected back by another is so amazing. Such a beautiful sharing with us Elizabeth thank you.
Thanks for sharing your path Elizabeth and highlighting the direction of truth that Serge Benhayon presents.
That’s awesome to read about Elizabeth. I can understand what your patient means by your presence being healing too. Being around someone who is with themselves and solid is very.. calming, or healing, as everything else seems like it is in disarray sometimes. Being with someone who knows who they are lets me see a little bit of myself too and brings me more to myself.
Perfect timing to re-read this inspiring blog, as this morning I appreciate for myself the lovely feeling in my body of just being me, and the journey that has brought me to this point. There is nothing more powerful than someone residing deeply within themselves and connected to who they truly are. And as Elizabeth has shared, this is very healing to be around as it confirms that it is possible for all.
I loved reading this Elizabeth. Isn’t it funny that we can run to the end of the world for answers only to find that we had them inside us all along and from connecting to this wisdom and the love we are, have the power to heal all that has come before and whatever lays ahead without ever needing to go anywhere.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful journey Elizabeth. When I look at you now and know a little more about your journey to the amazing, beautiful healer you are I feel many have been blessed by this too and your example of Love for all equally.
This is pretty amazing, a nurse that absolutely loves people but couldn’t handle life was left resorting to working nights in an effort to be able to cope or merely function in life, shows us something is terribly wrong. The turn around nothing short of a miracle to be shared with all patients, medical students and doctors, there should be a Phd or research on this way of living
Wow Elizabeth- Thank you for an article filled with practical wisdom, deep honest sharing and YOU! Loved it, and I love feeling all that you bring ~ you are inspirational and very cute!
When I read your words Elizabeth I am reminded of how true inspiration works, igniting the Love in another, the opportunity for true healing is then possible – “You are a true healer – your presence heals.” These words say so much.
Beautiful post Elizabeth, I can so relate to the ‘searching’ to ‘fill’ in the past. I love your words- ” I learned to reconnect with myself. In doing that, I experienced myself not as an empty vessel, but someone who was full of love.” Absolute truth.
Elizabeth, your path back to yourself reveals to me both the depth of change I have experienced since becoming involved with Universal Medicine and the areas in which I am still finding challenging. I’m especially struck by your words ‘Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.’ This reminder is something I will take with me today to reflect on further. Thank you.
Hi Elizabeth these words are so sweet and so true: ‘He allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have been healing myself.’ The whole time through reading your blog I could feel within my heart the truth of EVERY word – especially that you had to look at the energy that you were searching for truth in.
Elizabeth your blog is so inspiring. I had heard of phrases like “the Kingdom of God is within” but I never knew how to get to that kingdom in a way that felt solid and enduring. I also read and explored many therapies and books to find answers to that emptiness you describe. I am still amazed and delighted at how simple is this connection to the love that I am.
I love this blog, Elizabeth. There is so much truth in it – the power of simply coming back to yourself by dealing with the issues that made you give up on life. Becoming responsible in this way really does shine a light for others, showing them that it is possible to have real joy and purpose in life again.
Gosh Elizabeth, I’ve also done the same, searched and read books that I thought they were it, but never ever talked that love is and always has been within. Learning to live with this love in everyday life is the way.
Beautiful Elizabeth. I was searching all my life for what was true, but as you have described, the energy in which I was searching in was not true – for it was as much an escape from this crazy world and from myself. With the support of Serge Benhayon I have reconnected to everything I knew was true within, and taking that with me, jumped right back into life. Now I can see the world as it is and not be affected, but just staying steady with what I know to be true within myself.
Awesome Elizabeth, what you have shared reveals that it begins with self-responsibility. Like many I too have chosen not to be fully responsible for my choices and opt out when the going gets tough, but feeling into this it is my lack of commitment to me that I have allowed to get in the way. Reading your words I can feel the power that comes from committing lovingly to ourselves first and from here we offer an inspiration to all those around us (if they choose to) to feel that that love is within them equally so.
Beautifully explained Elizabeth. True healing happens with us. In feeling the love we are the possibility for true healing IS, this is gorgeous.
Oh Elizabeth I love your piece! This is truly what I can feel whenever I have a client. The reflection of me seen in them that it is true – to live the way of the livingness. To be love, responsible, simple and caring. And that in life we do have a choice. Back to love and the truth of our inner hearts. I say yes
Thanks Elizabeth what a great sharing , I liked this part you quoted ” I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t. I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.”
Beautiful post Elizabeth. And what you say here a great reminder in regards the way (energy) in which we not only seek to find, but also approach work, find a job, meet a partner, exchange at a supermarket, basically – anything and everything. People can, and do, feel the energy in which we are in, and in this feel either the healing effect like your patient, or otherwise.
Beautiful blog Elizabeth, I loved the part about the world needing more people who have started to deal with the things that have brought them to the point of giving up on love. Doing this is becoming a true healer, by becoming a reflection of what we truly are.
Elizabeth your story is inspiring, thank you for sharing it.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing your story , what a love story- love holds love and love comes out to meet love and both are in love and live love.
Elizabeth, what an amazing turnaround, how when we truly connect to the love we are, it is felt by others, they know and indeed it is healing. I too have learned this though the grace of meeting Serge Benhayon, someone who showed me that love is possible, it is who I am, and who inspired me to change my life and learn how this could be – I’m still learning and it will never stop.
Elizabeth what can I say other than you are incredible and Serge Benhayon is one of most loving and supportive people on this planet. I thank God for you both.
So true Elizabeth Dolan, that when I allow to feel the love that I am, true healing will commence from thereon. With the love I fill myself with, the emptiness in me will be exposed and will not be able to play its part in my life anymore. Thank you for shining your light in all area’s of your life and being a lighthouse to show the true way of life there is beyond the managing way of it that many people are lost in.
I love these words; “You are a true healer – your presence heals”. I can really feel how when we choose to live from the fullness that we are, others notice and by way of that reflection also feel the fullness (love) in them and choose to live from that point. Choosing to live from and full of love is immensely healing and choosing to live from anything less (the ‘empty vessel’) can only harm. We are our own healers whose reflection is very healing for others, as in it they feel the same power deep within them.
Love it too – your presence heals, describes so beautifully how it is about the lived quality and not what we do. It also challenges this constant need for doing something to change or better a situation. It brings it all back to the essence – love.
Like you Elizabeth I also went in search of something that I already was. Ouch! – a perfect recipe for anger, bitterness and blame. Fortunately, like yourself I ‘stumbled’ upon the truth through the words I heard Serge Benhayon speak and I knew beyond a doubt that they were words I also spoke within but had yet to live and voice.
Elisabeth, your story is inspirational for me and my nursing practice. What a difference we make when being who we truly are with our patients. they really can feel it. Magic!
Elizabeth, thank you for your sharing how it was possible for you to transform your life where you are connected with yourself and what blessing this connection brings.
Your words are inspirational Elizabeth. It is easy to be angry and blame the world for our misery but it doesn’t resolve anything by being in that state, by being in it we feed the misery. You showed us by taking responsibility for your choices and choosing to reconnect to your inner heart and let go of anger and blame is definitely possible. And now you inspire so many people by you living truth and love in fullness.
such a powerful story of personal responsibility and being willing to look at where it all starts… your line…sums this up… “I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first”
Absolutely, starting with thyself is where true healing starts.
It’s funny how when we are first presented with something that is too good to be true, that we challenge it with all the other lies that we have easily accepted, because they don’t challenge us or our comforts in life, and what we don’t want want to see. It’s lovely to read that there are people who are willing to keep looking deeper and take responsibility for all of our past choices.
Beautiful story to share Elizabeth. Inspiring to see that you have ceased the blaming and looking out at the world to be filled up. It is lovely to experience that all those things (love) that we go looking for a actually within us.
Your healing presence shines out through your words here, with amazing clarity to heal all. It’s beautiful to read this Elizabeth.
These days it is the norm to just cope, function and manage our way through life. Because almost everyone is in the same boat we think it is as good as it gets, and we call it living. Until we meet someone who is actually living a full vital life without distractions or crutches or vices and not just getting by. Then, if we want to, we can be inspired by this to explore how we might do it too. And this I would agree with Elizabeth, is the basis of true healing.
This is so beautifully expressed, Elizabeth, thank you very much for writing this. Indeed, being honest with ourselves and taking responsibility in our own choices are a foundation of creating a life that is lived lovingly.
Dear Elizabeth,
I so know the searching you describe, and also the way of searching, coming from the emptiness within, looking outside to find that which will fill us. In my experience nothing that I learnt before coming to Universal Meducine even suggested that the thing I was searching for was simply my love, that was inside of me.
Yes Leigh, it has also been my experience that ‘nothing that I learnt before coming to Universal Medicine even suggested that the thing I was searching for was simply my love, that was inside of me’. This truth once known, is so simple, yet why are we not taught this truth as children?
For me it has been a challenge to get to know myself because I too have spent so long searching outside of me for something to fill the emptiness but the more I connect with me and the more loving choices that I make then the more I am beginning to feel the quality within.
“You are a true healer – your presence heals” – this comment from your patient is amazing and such a great confirmation of how the ripple effect plays out. Thank you for sharing this gorgeous blog.
It seems to me that the greatest thing any of us crave in this life is connection, and yet so hurt are we all by general experiences in life, that we end up trying to avoid it wherever possible. Our greatest healing therefore is often to be met with someone who is present – with themselves and with us. I always responded best to a teacher, or doctor, or coach of that matter who was present with me, who I could tell cared, who was not just playing out the role. We can all relate to the doctor who we know who just sees us as being another number in the queue – it is disheartening to say the least. It is amazing how a little care shown by another (and being present is caring) can be so inspiring.
“I was an empty vessel trying to be filled.” I understand this concept and the one thing I know is when I search for something in emptiness I will be filled with some form of empty ideas and beliefs, there is always something false ready to fill the empty space.
This line also resonated with me, the insatiability of trying to fill a gap that can never be filled from the outside, but rather a fullness that can only be connected to and brought forth. Feeling and living the truth of this is life changing.
Agreed Annemarie00, It is crazy how this form of healing has deeply touched and transformed all the peoples lives who have actively participated and yet it is not nationally or globally recognised. Do we really want the answers to our woes or do we just want to comfortably stay numb?
Good question Toni, taking responsibility for our lives and letting go of comfort is a biggie. It certainly has been and continues to be for me at times. But I feel people are crying out for true change, so for all who have embraced this way of living to live it in full and offer a true reflection is the greatest gift to all.
Absolutely Elizabeth, I too was lost in New Age pursuits and was on a forever asking path, looking for the truth about love and in a similar way had an arrogance about all I knew. Enter Serge Benhayon; for me I felt the depth of his truth straight away but I still had an arrogance about all I knew. Slowly over many years I have come to discover the real me thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
When I read this ‘None of it helped, and all of it left me feeling more and more empty – in fact worse off than before I had started, because my head was now so full of theories, ideals and beliefs.’ I could understand why it had left you MORE empty .. because everything you were searching for was taking you further away from the love and wisdom you already knew within. I only know and can see this now only from the clarity and integrity I have learnt through the teachings of Serge Benhayon (because I used to do exactly the same, search and search and search to get somewhere or come to an understanding of life). It is beautiful what you have shared and expressed ‘Universal Medicine supported me to go deeper, to look at the energy I approached things in, and to be honest with myself. I learned that the choices I make on a daily basis impact my body and life, and the lives of those around me. Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it.’ It is also so, so important to know and have an awareness and understanding about the energy we choose to do things in. The teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are absolute gold … actually .. more than gold.
Oh Elizabeth – what a powerful woman you are! When I read “I had gone in search of meaning from a place of feeling empty and lost, and wanting to be filled up from the outside, when in fact I needed to have started with knowing myself first, and in that way I would have been able to discern what was true and what wasn’t.” it really resonated with me. I did the exact same thing – desperately seeking something from outside to confirm I was worth something. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have allowed me to connect with the truth that I am more precious than I can imagine. The best part is – I always have been and I always will be. Now – thanks to Serge and Universal Medicine – I get the chance to choose this for myself.
Beautiful Elizabeth, so honestly and fully explained. We are love. How we choose to live our lives with this knowing makes all the difference. I too am returning back to this knowing and living daily to validate this.
“Ultimately I have learned to take responsibility for myself, and to stop waiting for someone else to bring to me something that is in fact already within me, should I choose to connect with it” – That’s what it is all about, the simplicity of taking responsibility for ourselves and realising how our choices not only affect us profoundly, but how they affect others too. Thank you for sharing your experience, Elizabeth, your workplace is truly blessed to have you.
Dear Elizabeth this is an amazing blog, I love the way you have expressed how you found true healing after searching for so long. How amazing it is that you work as a nurse and can take the loving and healing way you live to all your patients. This is very inspiring!
I feel very moved by what you have shared and thank you so much. When I read the words – “to look at the energy I approached things in, and to be honest with myself. I learned that the choices I make on a daily basis impact my body and life, and the lives of those around me”. The opportunity to make the choice to be willing to go deeper never ends and the next moment to make that choice can sneak up on you when you least expect it. Reading this blog has presented one of those precious moments to me.
I agree, and I also have the pleasure of knowing Elizabeth, in her ‘before Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine ‘ life, you could say, and now, and it is gorgeous to feel and see the great warmth and love she naturally carries getting fuller and fuller.
Elizabeth, thank you!! Your words made me remember your pictures before and after Universal Medicine. They are a great testimony that your journey in a genuine search for truth led you to very difficult places before you let out in full the adorable Elizabeth I know.
“I was an empty vessel trying to be filled” – this, I feel is a very important point for all the ‘seekers’ to admit and be humble about in order to start a true healing.
I agree Elizabeth, I have the same experience. If I’m just myself everyone gets a blessing, me included of course.
What a blessing you are to nursing Elizabeth and a blessing in my life. I adore that I get to work so closely with you.
To start with the fact, that we are Love, is the most wonderful prayer, I have ever heard.
What a beautiful reflection Serge is for anyone coming into contact with him. Pure LOVE. It was a great reminder about how true healing can take place by just being love and allowing others to feel the same within them.
That turning point in me was also a revelation. Coming out of that cloud of emptiness to finding the true me and the love that I am. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey.
Beautiful Elizabeth, it’s all about the way we approach the search, looking for something to fill the emptiness or actually getting to know us first and looking from that knowing. Like you I did the search looking for something, anything and went down many rabbit holes along the way without seriously questioning and often ignoring my own misgivings (my desperation). Ironically when I did meet someone who didn’t impose on me or try to persuade or convince me in any way (Serge Benhayon), I was suspicious, rude and obnoxious in my questions, even though I’d never really done that when it might have served me with all my earlier forays into various modalities. I was met with an infinite patience and care and learned through that, that I could give that to me, I had that love in me too. And that has changed my life, it’s brought me back to me, and it’s still unfolding.
It’s like we’re looking for something but have our eyes closed. There’s initially a sense of relief when we think we find what we are looking for, but the search continues constantly as we won’t find anything until we open our eyes.
Beautiful Jennifer, that’s exactly it, we look without truly seeing, with an agenda, from a need and until we’re ready to see truth nothing changes, but once we show we are willing, it’s there ready and waiting, it always has been.
Yes, it is as simple as choosing to connect, moment to moment with the love that I am. The outside is always alluring, telling me to look out there but it is all inside me when I stop and let myself feel it. As Serge Benhayon has ceaselessly offered his love and to those that have received this for more years than I and offer it to me, now I have the opportunity to do the same.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing your experiences of healing and your return to you. I could relate to much of what you shared about the merry go round of searching outside of yourself for relief and comfort from life. Like you none of it worked for me either. Universal Medicine has inspired me to hugely simplify my life, connect to stillness and the truth of who I am, which is simply found within.
Wonderful Elizabeth I love what you share so openly and easily about yourself. I had to laugh because there are so many things in your life I can relate to. It is so good to have found these missing things and for me it was a big surprise that the answer to all my questions were laying in me. So I have a great love for Serge because he also allowed me to feel the love that I am… and with that I have also been healing myself step by step.
I love that we are healing ourselves by feeling the love that we are and claiming that more everyday.
Elizabeth to know you now and hear about your past, is amazing – how much you have changed! Your patients are indeed blessed to have you attending them with your loving fullness. This is the kind of healing presence that will inspire people to connect to the love within themselves and turn the overwhelming tide of sickness and misery in the world.
Wow Elizabeth, how awesome is that. You are an amazing support when it comes to people passing over or living in hospital, I would say the same – your presence heals. It’s so true that you bring all of you and by that whoever allows themselves to feel it they can be inspired to also allow who they are. I can say this because I have met you and you have supported me through so much.
Great blog Elizabeth! The commitment I can feel you have to be true to yourself and everyone you meet is very inspiring, there is such solidarity and strength in your writing, I don’t even need to see you to be inspired by you!
Elizabeth, thank you for this blog. I too, have experienced your radiant, healing presence. What I love, is the fact that despite all the anger, blame and obnoxiousness in your mind, and the fact you thought you chose to return to Serge Benhayon fortnightly to ‘interrogate’ him, it appears obvious to me that something far deeper and more real was going on. Our minds need all sorts of reasons and rationale to justify why we do things but the body instantly recognises truth and the heart knows True Love as it is its essence, we know when we are truly being met, no question.
When we live the love that we truly are, we allow others to feel the same love in themselves, and when they live this love, in turn they allow more others to feel and respond to this equal love. It may not be everyone’s choice to respond, but this is the most simple and beautiful way, (because in truth there is no imposition
to others or pressure to oneself) of evolving, which constantly brings us higher and deeper.
I love how you say “and committed to living, to the best of my ability, about truth and love”, what a great place to start..
Elizabeth I can relate to what you share, Serge ” allowed me to feel the love that I am … and with that I have been healing myself. That is exactly my experience too. Serges reflection of love is beautiful.
Thank you Elizabeth for such a beautiful blog, in my interactions with you in the past I have felt the deep love and care that you have for yourself and others and have only been inspired by it. I too, worked in a nursing home doing night shift to shut myself away from people. Thank to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine teachings I am connecting to and bringing out more and more of the love that I am in healing .
Elizabeth, I can attest to also feeling ‘the fullness’ of you. A few years ago I was a patient in the hospital where you work. I was being taken by an orderly to have an X-Ray and while in the lift in a wheel chair, the doors opened and you walked in. Before I recognised that it was you, it felt like an angel had entered the lift and the lift seemed to light up. In fact, what I was experiencing was ‘the fullness of you’ and as you say, “in that I could feel the more (love) that I am and in feeling the love that I am, I experienced the possibility for true healing”. The world needs more nurses like you please!!
That’s wonderful Anne, and it really does show that, once connected to our fullness we really don’t need to say or do anything, because our light shines through and can be felt, just like Elizabeth.
Wow, what an experience Anne that you simply felt Elizabeth’s healing presence as she entered the lift. Could you image if all hospitals world wide were filled with doctors and nurses just like Elizabeth?
Elizabeth, I too now love being out in the world amongst people, thanks to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine..this is the true Pay it Forward!
Thank you for sharing such an understanding of self-responsibility: To make choices that say to myself “you are already enough as you are”. These choices are made to show others that they can say the same thing and stops the ‘I’ll hold back my love until you show me love’ to the world game. And that is all that Serge has ever presented, “WE are love”.
I loved reading your article Elizabeth, ‘I love being out in the world and just being myself’, this is very beautiful, what a turnaround from being ‘full of anger and full of blame’.
Such powerful clarity in your writing, exposing the illusory quest for something ‘out there’ that will fill us out of our emptiness when all we need is the fullness of what is already within but that we have lost our connection to. .
Feeling the love that I am, that is what Serge Benhayon has offered me too. It is a gift not just for me but for all I connect with.