643 thoughts on “Soul – The Missing Link”

1. I love the fact that our greatest form of medicine is the way that we live as it brings us back to our responsibility about our choices.

2. Healing is never from self first and Living it allows others to do the same. A practitioner cannot fix anything for his client but he/she has the responsibility to share truth which is universal to all.

3. “So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” – what a great line, and yes from my own experience I agree with this. Not being connected to and living from my soul has been behind the reason I feel stressed and anxious, and have made choices that were not good for my health and led to chronic illness. Being connected to my soul means I make choices from love and this is great medicine for my health and wellbeing, as is loving and honouring myself.

4. Giving ourselves the space to feel exactly how we are operating in our lives and the quality we’re actually bringing is a healing in itself. I was an esoteric practitioner before moving to another country four years ago, so I’ve had this time to really feel the beliefs that were there about what I did and the expectations I had on myself. It’s been a great learning to see how healing can take place by just staying present and bringing all of me to an office job.

5. We all have our pictures of what it is that we need to do to save the world, some people work hard to become prime ministers and presidents, others study endless hours to become a doctor, third strive to create a global company and reach people from every part of our planet. We strive, drive, and move mountains to change the world, whilst we are screaming in discomfort from the idea of having to change ourselves. Realising that what changes the world is not the big hoo-haa moments, but the tiny, almost unnoticeable ones in the moments of presence.

6. We cannot complete a jigsaw puzzle if we are missing a piece. At best we can form some sort of vague picture that falls far short of the complete masterpiece we can see when all the pieces are in place. So it is with spirit and Soul and the simple yet vast understanding that comes from this wisdom.

7. Yes, we can choose to focus on the emotional turmoil and physical ailments, or the steadiness, space and enormous amount of love that we hold within us. When we connect to those inner feelings and solid knowing of who we are, nothing is a drama and nothing is too big to handle. There’s a feeling of more space within and around us.

8. “I could feel the truth of what was being presented”. I can relate to what you write here about Universal Medicine. I did lots of ‘soul-searching’ and ‘spiritual seeking’ and adopted some practices for a while over the years and had some benefits (none of them long lasting), but like you nothing ever felt 100% right, there was always something that was not quite right.

   Enter Universal Medicine into my life, and I could feel the absolute truth of what was being presented. And I just finished their 2018 Australian Retreat and it was filled with love-bombs of truth, opening my eyes to much. This truth I can feel in my bones.

9. What a beaut love story!

10. The difference I have found between the alternative modalities I have tried in the past and Universal Medicine is two fold: the presentation of two different sources of energy, the spirit and the soul, or prana and fire and the responsibility of the client to look at lifestyle, hurts and patterns to self-heal with support of an esoteric pracitioner.

11. The role of the Soul is something that has been willfully obscured in this world, for when it is included in what we do, the individual who’s been running the show has to take a back seat and stop telling the body what to do. The Soul knows the purpose of Love and makes life simple as can be.

12. What a difference to look at bodywork from the inside out. This is a cool sharing Rebecca – it shows again how as clients we can give our power away to the therapists to fix us, but in this we choose not to appreciate that true healing starts from within.

13. Often solutions offer us short term relief, but as you’ve shared Rebecca if you revisit that person or area further down the line, perhaps a few weeks later, this is when you get a clearer indication of whether the solution was a band-aid answer, or a sustainable initiative that offers evolution, development and has stayed strong.

14. Many years ago I attended a psychotherapy session which was designed to have the ’emotional processing and cathartic release’ the author has mentioned, but the whole process disturbed me greatly that I never went back. During the session, I was asked to go deeper and connect to the anger inside (which was there), but then it turned into a blaming session of those around me who I felt had wronged me. Now I know that this was not true healing because at no point was I asked to responsibility for my part.

    1. Going into emotion to “release it” is a big part of the New Age as well. I read a book by a well known author and it encouraged having an anger release session which the author did using a tennis racket to beat her bed. I’m not judging people’s right to explore emotions and healing in their own way, but I now realise how harmful this was to magnify that energy in my body but believe I was healing myself.

15. It feels so much freer the way you work now, without the conflicts you felt within, surely this will impact the quality of service you impart to your customers.

16. So very true and well said: ‘When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ Anything else is purey a form a relief from the excess we have taken on and gone into.

17. It is so interesting that we often seek relief in modalities such as massage from the tension of not living in connection with the soul.

    1. It sure is yet somehow we trick or fool ourselves into thinking we are looking after ourselves and doing something ‘good’ for the body.

18. It is interesting that we often seek relief in massages from the tension of not living in connection with the soul.

    1. this is true Jenny, in fact we use most medical and alternative modalities to find relief so that we can continue to live in the same way and not suffer the consequences that are inevitably calling us back to the soul all the time.

19. When we don’t consider the effect of the quality of what we do and the impact that has on the body, there is a clearing that has to take place because the body is vibrating to one rhythm and we are moving to another.

    1. This is so true Lucy and this clearing is called ‘illness and disease’ and it is why our greatest form of medicine is the way that we live.

20. It’s easy to get caught with the surface stuff and in fact we often do, until someone like Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine come along and remind us that in fact we’re not that surface drama, that there is an essence in us that is forever true and untainted and it’s to connect to and live from that place and not the dramas we experience.

21. The looking for appraisal and gold stars from other people is so well known to me. I grew up thirsty for the approval of others – so much so that I had a goal to keep everybody happy and was completely convinced that it’s possible. The self-loathing that we drown in when we dive into this mentality is tremendously painful and it takes real honesty to pull us out of it to catch our breath.

22. I too can now appreciate the times when I have stopped a particular practice because it is not coming from that deeper connection with the soul. Many times it is coming from that place of individualism where I need recognition, approval or acceptance from others and life.

23. Treating the person without knowing the difference between spirit and Soul is like trying to perform surgery in the dark. We are selling ourselves way short if we ignore these aspects of our being or just settle for dictionary definitions of these terms. Find the truth here: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index

24. When I feel in true connection to myself there is an absoluteness and my response to life is immediate. I know what is true and what isn’t. The key is in the holding of this knowing, especially when sometimes faced with a challenging tension and emotions flying all over the place around me. I sense this tension, it is natural but it is not a part of me, therefore it is paramount to observe and not absorb.

25. Working with the Soul brings in the extra dimension that is needed for true healing. Without it we are left with a way of working that helps function, but does not allow the root cause of illness to heal. When we bring in the energy of the Soul it becomes so simple. The focus comes away from the complication of all the symptoms, and as we allow the presence of the Soul’s energy to magnify and expand, the symptoms can reduce and drop away. This can bring true harmony to the body.

26. It is interesting to ask the question why, while we are in search of the truth and find something that has some parts, but not the whole, we still tend give it a try.

27. It is a wise thing to stop an activity when you find that you are not yet ready for it. By doing so you give it the opportunity to grow and evolve and come back to later when the time is right and in response with the call of humanity.

28. I too have been deeply inspired by the Universal Medicine practitioners, so much so that I have made that part of my life and I too practice the Universal Medicine therapies. They are deeply powerful and I have been honoured to see how people respond to them and how they have supported people to heal and have long lasting impact in their lives.

29. “It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.” This is so very true. When we do not connect with the greater and true part of us then we are limiting what we can bring to the world.

    1. Yes Elizabeth, we can limit ourselves by thinking small and only about this physical life. But when we stop that pattern of making ourselves small we give space to our true being that is much grander and interconnected with all of life and the universe and from that connection we can bring the wisdom of the universe into our three dimensional world.

30. We can take a million turns and ‘new directions’ but the only thing that will truly work is connecting to our essence. This our number one job in this life. Thank you Rebecca.

31. “The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body”. This is beautiful Rebecca and something I have found to be true. We miss that warmth as we know from babies that warmth is love. When I breathe in deeply and feel the warm air in the base of my lungs, I feel complete, held and loved.

32. ‘What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.’ This makes total sense! Whenever I hold onto a negative emotion like resentment, it totally colours how I feel and relate to myself and others and yet if I choose to focus on my body, on its natural stillness, by changing my movements and taking a moment to connect, it is amazing how this supports me to realise the issue isn’t as big as I thought, creating much-needed space to deal with it without so much reaction.

33. In my experience the integrity of esoteric practitioners who have studied with Universal Medicine is second to none.

34. Universal Medicine does offer simplicity to life, and a way to live that is deeply nurturing. It does seem odd to me that we do tend to focus more on what is the matter with us. For most of us we have no idea that just sitting below the surface of all our perceived hurts and emotional pain is our soul, and that when we connect back to our soul everything seems trivial in comparison our hurts, and pain just melts into nothingness.

35. ‘When I am connected I love my job, simply because I am being me, and therefore able to be there fully with everyone else.’ It is so simple isn’t it! When we connect to ourselves any job we do is a pleasure to carry out because there is a purpose in the connecting of the service we provide and if people are around the added bonus of connecting with them also. No job therefore, becomes insignificant or too small.

36. There are so many training courses available for the aspiring and experienced massage therapist, and it can at times, be very attractive to include each one in your repertoire. But Rebecca, what you say feels absolutely spot on when you talk about the soul needing to present for there to be true healing. As in my experience, without the soul as part of the session, the techniques are merely just functional and offer little except temporary relief.

37. We can complain and moan about all the different body aches we have, and put it down to ‘bad luck’ or fate. But what if we understood that each one is placed in exactly the right place to tell us something about the way we are living? Then massage and medicine takes on a completely different outlook as you show. Thank you Rebecca.

38. What a gorgeous blog, thank you. It says it all.

39. There is an enormous amount to learn about being a practitioner and it is very joyful and sometimes humbling to go through the process.

40. It is interesting to read about your journey with massage, and how your overall desire was in fact to find a better way or ways to help people. This is beautiful and needs to be deeply appreciated. You had at the core of your work a love for people.

    1. Yes, that is very true. Rebecca’s love for people is very much there.

    2. When we can sense something is not true, we not only support and love ourselves, but everyone around us and beyond. Essentially it comes from a true love for ourselves, but also there has to be a love for people, for when it comes from heaven everyone is included.

41. There are many modalities around that talk about working more than just the physical body and even though I knew that was more than a possibility but a fact but nobody was able to explain to me how this was so with the clarity that I could recognise as truth, until I met Serge Benhayon. What I have learnt is that the Energetic Law cannot be packaged as knowledge, it is an awareness that is to be lived with and applied to every aspect of life.

42. ‘When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ I love this reminder to return to the simplicity of what brings true healing.

43. It is the universal joke that we look outside of ourselves to confirm and identify ourselves, when all the time we are really craving that re-connection to our own inner heart.

44. Identifying ourselves as a practitioner is a big one to crack – identification as any role is an imposition and does not allow all that we are to be expressed. This has been a big learning curve for me and I am still discovering areas of identification and degrees to which I have identified myself with things/roles etc.

45. We can spend our lives looking for answers, but if the search is not genuine, we will only ever come up with solutions!

46. When we are trapped in the idea that we are ‘just a person’ the merry go round of incidents and emotional ups and downs grabs us and leaves us feeling justified for our individuality and choices. Soul changes all that and only sees room for Love and evolution -knowing we are all part of something great. Thank you Rebecca.

47. To be able to feel the truth of our whole being and the warmth of the soul does reveal how we have stayed distracted at the level of physiology, emotions and the mental.

48. You have described a whole healing process where the healer must heal themselves as foundation for working with others.

49. “..but I realised I needed time to build my own loving foundation in my body before trying to treat other people” – the very core and basis of any work, job, profession too i.e. a livingness that is not just for those engaged in body-work, medical fields… because essentially ALL jobs contain the element of dealing and interacting with people.

50. How awesome it is to find the true missing link, for living was right there all the time and all it takes is a moment to pause, appreciate and move from it’s wisdom. Thank you Rebecca a lovely blog indeed.

51. Esoteric healing and massage has become a regular part of my life. These sessions give me a great stop moment to consider and make adjustments to support myself more in work and home life. They are also tremendously nourishing for my body. Everyone seems to be stressed to varying degrees nowadays. I appreciate that I have made a claim to not accept carrying stress as normal and to support myself as much as I can out of this.

52. Thank you for this reminder of this simple, yet life-changing Universal law – “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies”.

53. Someone who has integrity and responsibility to how they first treat/care for themselves before administering this treatment to others, it is a level of healing that most practitioners are not aware of. And yet there is never any perfection in ourselves, so the way we are being true to us when consistently practiced we would also naturally be that with everyone in our lives.

54. Going over and over old emotional issues probably feels like it is helping at the time, as there is some form of relief felt in the expression. But what if the tension that needs relieving is due to the rehashing of emotions? It’s like having a coffee because you are tired, which stimulates the flight or fight hormone of cortisol, thus draining you more, which means you need another coffee. It’s a trap that keeps us stuck and the thing we think is helping is actually part of the harm.

55. Rebecca I loved your acknowledgement that clients would keep coming back after treatment time and time again, because until you break the cycle by finding the root cause nothing is actually going to change, the problem is many want to find relief rather than start being honest about how they are living, however through that honesty we get an opportunity to deeply heal ourselves.

56. “I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out. ” I agree Rebecca, and unfortunately we still have a long way to go as there are many who seek the relief and not the true healing that comes from the responsibility of how we live.

57. I have done this myself Rebecca, become identified with a role or a profession. I love what you’ve shared. I agree, how freeing it is to let this need for identification and recognition go. It also allow me to feel and treat everyone I meet as an equal. By holding onto any identification or recognition it blocks true connection and equality.

58. When we live from a place of true connection with ourselves, we are all practitioners of life regardless of what we do, and we don’t need a ‘therapy’ in our job title to identify us. How amazing to know that it is possible to bring this same quality and inspiration to anyone and to anything that we do.

59. ‘The root of healing is found in the re-connection’ to our essence, our innermost. Great blog Rebecca.

60. I love the fact that you see the value in what you bring Rebecca and that it does not have to involve a treatment couch or the tag of therapist pinned to your chest to bring healing to those you meet.

61. It is interesting, this model of therapy which is focussed on a cathartic release. And, while I can understand its value and place in the overall journey of coming to understand ourselves, I do wonder if by placing so much emphasis towards the pains we have experienced we do forget the glory of who we are. And perhaps it is not so much a forgetting, but more of an avoidance. Maybe by delving in to the pain exclusively, the power and the beauty is simply not seen. Which is why the work of getting to know again and of re-establishing a relationship with one’s soul is so vital for life moving forward, because without it there is the possibility of being lost in a constant wave of misery and turmoil of not knowing the glory and the beauty of who we are.

62. There must be a lot of practitioners in this world that have thriving businesses because their clients keep coming back time and again without anyone asking the question why, as you did Rebecca. Nothing will ever get healed it the root cause is not addressed.

    1. Very very true kevmchardy, I hadn’t actually considered practitioners from this point of view but its true, if you don’t heal the root cause its effectively like cutting off the top of a weed only to have it grow back again, and again…

       1. I like that Suse, very good analogy, that is exactly right and I should know because I am a gardener.

       2. I like your analogy Suse, it is so true and makes sense. Sometimes when we cut off the top of a weed it can grow back stronger, and I can see how this is very similar to how we treat illness, disease and our ill behaviours. If we do not address them at the roots, we are simply just covering them up or trimming the tops off them which most likely means they come back stronger.

63. It must set off mental alarm bells when techniques such as massage do not support clients to heal, but rather temporarily improve function. Similarly, I found there was something big missing from my nursing training and our medical understanding of the body. It is only since I discovered the soul, body and spirit that everything about health and illness make sense. It’s a shame that Plato knew all this thousands of years ago but we have conveniently forgotten it.

    1. I get irritated when I think we had this information so long ago but haven’t made it our living way, instead taking us on a massive detour and making ourselves (as practitioners) the centre of the healing process rather than the body. It seems a bit too like the way of thinking that had us believing the sun revolved around us rather than us revolving around the sun.

64. You have reminded me what is emotional is on the surface, and if we are looking for what is truly relationship with ourselves, we have to go deeper and access what is within us.

65. You remind me that the level of integrity in our every move is reflected in the job we do – whatever that may be.

66. What I have been understanding and putting into practice more and more is how it doesn’t really matter what we are doing but we need to treat everything as if it is a treatment session. That no matter what the quality in the way we go about life and conduct what we are doing is essential and needs to be the same no matter where we are.

67. When we are with the soul we have everything that we could ever need.

68. ‘The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing.’ I love the simplicity of this. And why wouldn’t it be anything other than simple? So good to clock when I am making addressing an issue complicated when all I need is to go ‘straight to Soul.’ Beautiful.

69. ‘It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.’ With the support of Universal Medicine, I have also come to understand the true part of who I am, knowing this enables me to look at my hurts with greater observation and far less emotion arises.

70. When we connect to our soul its amazing how much more we understand, feel and learn from the simplicity of our movements and the expansion this provides.

71. I love the regularity and routine of a job too but have recently asked to step out more into less of that, so the rhythm of my body has to be respected even more, and the surrender to the support within and from all around embraced even deeper.

72. Universal Medicine is exactly that…. offering true medicine in every possible way, to every last one of us. Medicine being anything that supports us to restore a connection and relationship with the Soul.

73. We ourselves cannot heal another, but if we are coming from our inner most we can be a facilitator. You have been on an amazing journey Rebecca.

74. I appreciate your honesty. I was a client of so many alternative therapies. When I look back it’s clear to see that none of these treatments truly supported me. I was blessed to be the client of a woman that was able to recognise that the therapies she was offerrring did not offer an opportunity for true healing and through her I found my way to Universal Medicine therapies, therapies that have (and continue to) support me to truly heal.

75. What a great revelation Rebecca.”I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.” I have also discovered that true healing comes from our re-connection within… and living that in our lives.

76. When in connection we are all practitioners of life, it is our responsibiltity to deeply appreciate this and live it consistently to the best of our ability in order to reflect truth and trust for others to return to soul.

77. This is so beautiful and dearly missed in many of the therapies available today – the fact that from our soul there is all the healing we need.

78. When we start with a knowing and appreciation of the love that we are in our essence first and then from there observe any issues or emotional conditions that we may have it can give us the true perspective or clarity we need to be able to genuinely process what’s there and heal it – rather than just magnifying an issue or burying it deeper away to have to deal with later. If we start knowing we are already whole and complete and that it’s just more a discarding of what’s in the way of us living from that love then it takes away any drive of thinking we need to be ‘better’ or to get something from outside of us to be able to be love…

79. It’s easy to provide people solutions and many people make a lot of money from this, but solutions can at best be temporary and don’t address the real problem at hand. To truly change what’s going on for someone requires a much more spherical approach that takes into account every part of their life and their health and well- being.

80. What a beautiful understanding of the simplicity of returning to our soul and the difference this makes as it is what we are all living in separation from when it is part of us and what we miss deeply. Building responsibility and love in our lives with ourselves is the starter to all healing and building a life of true love.

81. It is our greatest hurt to live in separation to the love that we are. In this state we wander as an ‘isolated self’, highly individualised and caught up in the desperate outer search for the Whole we have departed from, without once ever looking within. Our Soul is who we are. All else is a fragment of this we live in its place.

82. “The answer to my searching question ‘why’? was very simple. When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” I feel this is the answer to so many of our questions when we ask why did that happen, why me? The answer lies within us but we need to connect to our essence and be willing to look at and change patterns that we have possibly been doing for life times.

83. Beautifully written, this part ” The Love and responsibility needs to be to self first, before one can be there for others. It takes time to build up the energy of one’s loving choices in the body, and it takes patience and dedication to remain committed to oneself in that way.” speaks volumes to me right now, yes it’s a path and it can be a beautiful one if we choose so ❤

84. In all of our professions all across society what is Missing is soul – thankyou Rebecca for your stunning blog! Imagine walking into an office, into a hair salon or into a supermarket and just receiving Soul, wow.

85. ‘The Universal Medicine practitioners have been a source of continual inspiration to me. The unwavering and loving support I have received has enabled me to make decisions in my own life based on the reality of how my own body is’. So true Rebecca. Universal Medicine practitioners have a level of integrity and deep self care that reflects to us all that we too can choose this.

86. You raise a great point here with the practitioners of Universal Medicine therapies. They are trained to apply the different modalities, but equality to live with integrity and healing in their own lives. It is their own dedication to ‘going there’ within themselves that then adds to the depth of inspiration a client may receive and feel from a treatment.

87. When we are true to ourselves, it is a great reflection for others to do the same. Although this week I observed that in being true to myself at work, it did bring a few reactions from others, and in this I could feel that their reactions were because they were not choosing this for themselves. And instead of being honest with themselves, they went into reaction. I had to really stay steady with myself.

88. ‘ I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.’ Spot on Rebecca, so many health professionals work from the outside in and that’s is why nothing ever gets healed, it is just a band-aid solution. The Esoteric Modalities begin to look at the root cause of any ill condition and through a deeper understanding and awareness of the body it is supported to begin a process of true healing.

89. It’s lovely to re-visit this blog and I feel this line says it all – “I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do.” For so many years I also tried to fit a picture in a constant effort to become something I wasn’t, rather than simply value myself for who I am and celebrate what I bring to the world.

90. Rebecca, by reading your blog you have just explained to me why after years of Psychology I came away feeling so numb, going over emotional issues time and time again didn’t help, looking back on that period of my life the magnification only made my situation worse and I became more unstable than before but no one could have told me this because I would have totally defended the therapist I was seeing as I had convinced myself that they were the only person who truly knew me, and so gave my power away completely to a therapy that for me did not work. It didn’t work because I never got to the actual hurts that were affecting my life. I was encouraged to blame everyone for my predicaments especially my childhood rather than to take any responsibility for the part I had played. Blaming everyone else and living life as a victim is so debilitating because I went into a deeper depression.
    The Universal Medicine practitioners have supported me to pick away at my hurts so that they no longer have any affect on my life whatsoever and I have taken responsibility for my part in life this, that has allowed my body to feel light and easy within itself and more settled than I could ever imaging myself to be.

91. ‘so the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ Beautifully and simply said. When reading this part of your blog my whole body felt more full and ignited I know you are speaking from a truth and that this is something you have truly felt ‘In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing.’ For me it just goes to show just how lost as humanity we are, in that we have completely dismissed, ignored, misunderstood, misinterpreted the most integral part of our being .. our Soul.

92. We are all practitioners in our own right – matters not if we work in a shop in retail, in a restaurant or a cafe or in an office…being a practitioner is certainly not limited to working in a clinic and seeing clients for counselling or body work! And this is a great way to broaden our understanding of all that we have to offer and work with, and what a responsibility we all hold!

93. I first started learning about massage and natural medicines more than 15 years ago and I was always fascinated by what was on offer and how they worked. But I always felt there was something missing. It was not till I discovered the Esoteric Healing and other Esoteric body work therapies such as Esoteric Massage, that I realised how I had been working was not the full and complete package. There is a depth offered by the Esoteric therapies which really allows for a level of healing that is incredibly and amazing – and this depth is one that I got to experience in person when I received my first esoteric healing and Esoteric massage. Once I felt this, I knew for me that this was it and that there was no returning to the old way of working without Soul.

94. I have said this many times, that meeting a Universal Medicine practitioner and being presented with the idea that underneath all of our “issues” we are Divine was a huge turning point in my life. What she presented to me was out of this world, in so many ways!

95. I am still discovering and uncovering more and more in my return journey back to my soul. The depth of esoteric healing is never ending. There are always more depths to go to and more love to embrace. It feels so awesome to be open to evolution and continue to renounce what does not truly serve. Why would we want to live a lie?

96. ‘…true healing comes from the inside out. How empowering is this!’ I agree Rebecca once connected to, healing looks different and in a whole new light.

97. Yes Rebecca, I can see the enormous weight we place on ourselves when we identify ourselves as being anything at all. Identification is in fact a rejection of who we truly are.

98. An inspirational Blog Rebecca. The wisdom you share here is very important for all of us , especially healing ourselves first before we can help another.

99. “The Love and responsibility needs to be to self first, before one can be there for others. It takes time to build up the energy of one’s loving choices in the body, and it takes patience and dedication to remain committed to oneself in that way. ” We need to be our own healers first by going within to a connection with our soul but often through life, we are looking from the outside of us to heal but it is only by going within that true healing occurs.

100. When we realise that we are responsible for our own wellbeing it changes our view on healing. While there is a need for true support from different sources to heal we understand that we cannot get fixed from an outer source as true healing comes from within and our ability to heal ourselves through the connection to our soul.

     1. and this is so empowering.

101. I worked as a practitioner for some years and found that I was continuously looking for and studying the next thing to improve my practice and make me an even better practitioner. Whilst I now appreciate that further studies are necessary, what I really appreciate now is how I am with people and what my presence actually provides and all this from being more loving and tender with myself. This can occur no matter the type of work that we do. Everyday this blows me away.

102. I too tried lots of different therapies, even a mainstream religion, to deal with my past hurts but this only churned up and fed the issues – all the whilst I thought I was progressing I was just treading an ever turbulent water. Reconnecting with my innermost, my essence, that has never been tainted by anything, event or situation or anything worldly, I have the perspective to see how hurts etc. may still be painful but they can be felt and let go of given how small they are relative to our innate grandness.

     1. Before Universal Medicine I saw a psychiatrist for a while because I just knew something about the things I was feeling was not right. It was very interesting because on the surface I felt “normal”, however I always knew that this “normal” was not it, something was bugging me. And when I met my practitioner and she said that the base of esoteric medicine is to treat a person based on their quality something just clicked, it was as if I had heard it before.

103. ” Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” I love this question and have thought the same. However, it’s big business to have people coming back for more each week and when dealing with emotions they can be a bottomless pit.

104. “An esoteric practitioner is not someone who simply turns up and gives a session with a whole load of skills. To practise esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life.”

     This in itself is unheard of, it sounds so simple and normal to take care of yourself truly before giving to others, common sense really. .

     1. I had never really thought about the importance of a practitioner healing their hurts before supporting another to heal, but it makes perfect sense – I used to see a psychiatrist to assist me with overcoming an eating disorder, however she also had troubles with food so nothing really came out of the sessions that we had together…

105. Yesterday I was reading in a book written by Serge Benhayon, about how Time is not real. It blew my mind in such a profound way and made sense in every detail. As I closed the book and put it down I felt like life was so sublimely simple, and changed for me forever more. Now switch to this morning, I am stuck on a train concerned about being late again. I feel this sums up the way we find the truth in life and then drift off back to the distractions again. Part of us entertains and indulges this purely ‘human’ point of view, the issues, stress and difficulty, instead of deeply connecting to the truth, our Soul and our divinity. This knowing changes it all. Thank you Rebecca for this beautiful reminder.

106. Beautiful Rebecca, your story is a great representation of the fact that so many of us try to live ignoring the essential truth of the soul. So when we make choices, say words or make arrangements with each other is it coming from that place of universal evolution, Love and eternal care? Or a place of selfishnesss, betterment and emotion? The difference is so clear, let us live never forgetting the grandness that is there, underneath the surface appearance of us and the stars.

107. “After the first few exercises on my first day I could feel that all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all.” This statement is important to understand for any treatment being provided to anyone with physical illness. Because when we make it about the illness we indeed give energy to what is actually not us instead of giving attention to the being that, when diligently taken care of, has the power to heal from the inside out…… all that is on its periphery and in fact what never belonged there in the first place.

108. This is one of the many great sentences in this blog – “the root of healing is found in the re-connection”. Without re-connecting to our innermost essence there cannot be any true healing. This ought to be the basis of any healing modality/medicine/nursing etc. If the practitioner is disconnected from their soul how can they offer a true point of reflection to their client/patient and if the client/patient is disconnected from their innermost essence what part of them is available to heal anything? Definitely worth pondering on.

109. You offer a great example in your blog of how trapped in a loop we can become, this loop offers no healing and is continually feed by reliving emotions over and over. Universal Medicine modalities connects us back to our inner most, a marker that then can grow into our living way, it then continually offers a point of truth outside of our loops. The inner most shows us that these loops are not where true love lies, and that we can find another way of being.

     1. Beautifully said Kim. You remind me how important it is to focus on who we truly are rather than on the parts of ourselves that we judge harshly.

110. “It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.” This line holds the key to the doors so many of us feel is locked and another holds the key. We are the masters of our own health and wellbeing, the masters of our own healing. We have held the key to our ‘locked’ doors all along but it wasn’t until Universal Medicine pointed this out to me that I understood this and can now feel the essence that is Me – my Soul, which is where the true healing comes from.

111. “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.” Universal Medicine presents a way of living so that we can reconnect to our essence and in that the equal essence of all those around us.

     1. This is lovely Mary, “the equal essence of all those around us” – this has so much understanding and allowing.

112. This article shows a massive turn around in a persons life and what is possible if we learn to live with the trust and appreciation of what we are already feeling. This, “I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.” is a revelation in itself and the fact we often chase the outward ‘better’ in place of the internal healing. How different is the world when we turn within to shape the outer and not live the outer all the time. Our bodies are showing the impact of living outside in and not living inside out. What a difference is made, as evident from this article when someone changes the game and lives true from you.

113. Rereading your words Rebecca, I appreciate today that what is so powerful about Esoteric Medicine is not that it solves or fixes any issues but simply that it makes it clear they are not who you are. Yes difficulties may present from time to time in your life, but they are viewed from the place where you know, you are divine. All that’s left is to continually celebrate and come back to this truth.

114. What is going on? Why do those particular events take place? And where are we all headed to in this life? Perhaps you are satisfied to say it’s all ‘destiny’ or that there is no underlying clarity that exists. But for me, it’s like every event that has occurred in my life has been pointing and indicating to a deeper sub text. When you stop rushing along, and start to read what is happening in between all the lines, you may be surprised just what you are able to see. Thank you Rebecca for inspiring me.

115. This blog is full of revelations, such as each person has the capacity to heal themselves and we have it back to front dealing with issues rather than focussing on the wholeness of our soul. This is important to read from someone qualified in bodywork and psychotherapy, to see what is missing from our current treatments.

116. When we ask the big question “why?” we have to be very discerning about what follows next. We’ll be given many answers but not all of them come from the light and truth of the soul. If we are discerning we’ll keep asking until it is the soul we connect to and the response of the body is quite difference when that happens.

117. I agree that there are so many solutions out there that do not truly have the answer, especially when it comes to our health. It’s so cool that you felt that offering people short term relief was not enough and begun to look for something more.

118. Thank you for a great sharing Rebecca. Universal Medicine has taught us all so very much about true healing.

119. The moment we are identified with something we have disconnected from ourselves and are looking outside of ourselves for something. The only true contentment comes from knowing ourselves and living true to who we truly are.

120. One day it will be known and widely accepted that our physical health and wellbeing depends on our energetic state first and foremost and thank you to Universal Medicine we can start to break away from the old approach of treating the body as functional and look at the energetics choices that might be causing the disharmony within.

121. We are dynamic and complex creatures, not just flesh and bones. Healing needs to include so many facets of ourselves for real change.

122. Issues and self-judgement are my way of distraction from truth — that I am simply Love and that if I am honest about what is not from truth and without further delay return to feeling the deep Love that I am and choose to express it to the best of my ability, then there are never any issues. I am not saying life will be easy, but truly so, issues do not stick because why would I want to indulge at all in who I am not?

123. ‘I wanted to work with the person in front of me, not just the muscle and bone. I wanted to ask the question ‘WHY’? to all the conditions and pain that were presented to me.’ By accepting we are so much more than muscle and bone we lay the very foundations for realising we are all multi-layered human beings who in order to heal must address every layer both lovingly and holistically.

124. Isn’t it interesting how much we identify with what we do and how that can stop us connecting to others? “The esoteric way of life takes self-love and self-responsibility to a whole new level.” This has been a revelation to me, I had thought there was some great secret to living esoterically but what has transpired is that it is the body’s most natural way. I had resisted it because it was not cool or normal. It was much more usual to focus on fixing yourself in some way or fixing others. Quite a turnaround and means I now live inside out just like my clothes at times!!

125. ‘I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.’ This is so true. Whenever I’ve tried to deal with an issue it was a case of either ignoring it and pretending it didn’t wasn’t there (this only made whatever coping mechanisms I used more exaggerated and seemingly additive) or the support on offer either stirred the issues up but didn’t support me in my connection with me and accessing my own ability to heal.

126. I have always disliked modalities that leave out the soul. Something always felt not right about them to me. When we work with the soul the practitioner knows that it is the soul that does the healing and not them so there is no need to be identified as a “great” healer/practitioner.

127. We can try a million techniques, but nothing can touch the power of loving ourselves. We equate changing people and our environment with management techniques and driven campaigns. But the simple fact is that true change is activated when there is a renewed comitmment in us to go deeper. Like a secret ingredient, we don’t appreciate this alchemy that flows from inside. Thank you Rebecca for your sharing and making it clear where we need to start with healing in life.

128. You can’t solve a problem from within the problem. It’s like being angry and telling another that your loving. It’s the same energetic loop that offers no out, when we reconnect we connect to a different source that offers another way of being.

129. “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul? ” This is so important to understand and bring to the worlds of therapy as it is the missing piece.

130. To understand that in a world that is presently and predominantly being driven by the ups and downs of emotions that ‘all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. That in the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul’ is one of the most powerful blessings we can ever learn.

131. ‘It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.’ Very true, it is so important to know the difference between these two different energies we can tap into and use our soul to remove what plays out in the body and is not us.

132. It all comes back to that inner connection with the love that we are. If we can go there, with the help of esoteric practitioners if needed, we come to a place where our body does know what is needed to keep it healthy and sound and from there to rebuild that inner fire to the strength it was before we choose to disconnect from it.

133. Healing comes from how we live our life when connecting to the soul. Living connected to the soul we are healing in our every interaction.

134. It’s like with children, if you connect to them and not their sometimes out of place behaviour they can come back to themselves. Just like healing. If we focus on the issue then we only give it more room. Yes sometimes feel it and nominate it, but then go and focus on what is you and true.

135. Understanding that we could be a practitioner and have the ability to heal wherever we go makes our everyday life and our work life more purposeful. It means we all have the ability to heal as long as we live in a way that is loving, with absolute integrity and truth. When we choose to live with responsiblity, love and grace, our every moment is already healing. How powerful and amazing is this? Every step we take we can take with a knowing and awareness that we have the potential to offer healing and love.

136. What’s interesting is that not only can we be invested in things like our work or what we do, because it can make us feel good about ourselves, but equally we can find a sense of satisfaction by being invested in things like stress and overwhelm, things that also bring us down. This goes to show that while one can appear ‘better’ than the other, they both leave us feeling less than who we are.

137. It takes enormous amount of self responsibility and integrity to give up the very thing that you felt identified you for so many years. This can be a lot harder to let go of than it sounds.

138. “I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do.” This is beautiful and when we do this our life changes because we are not running around trying to be all things to all people.

139. It takes great honesty to see that something we have invested deeply in and may well make a living from, is not ‘it’. And then an even greater willingness to commit to letting go that which hasn’t been true and embrace that which is.
     The thing is, if we reconnect to the joy of who we are as you have described so beautifully Rebecca, we can meet all of this and more. Hats off to you and your commitment to integrity in all that you do, and all that you live. It is this that truly changes our world.

140. The change is huge, the labels we hold over ourselves are so daunting and tiring. They feel like a pile of rocks tied to our backs while we’re asked to keep going forward with life…

141. “I am now working in a busy shop in the centre of London, a regular job that is providing me with a regular rhythm through which I am learning to lovingly support my body.” There is magic here.

142. Within that simple impulse to look deeper, the whole universe can be revealed to us.

143. Love heals everything but love is not at all what we think it is and does not have one ounce of emotion. One of the ways we have actually harmed ourselves in the first place is by bastardising the true meaning of love. Love Unimedpedia gives some great insights into what true love is: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-love.html

     1. Same applies to Soul and Soul Unimedpedia – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-soul.html – reconnection to our Soul is true medicine and healing.

144. This is healing – “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” “The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing.”

145. It needs to be redefined and fully understood what healing truly is. It is the reconnection back to Soul through building love in connection to the body. It is a responsibility to hold that connection and stay focused. As Rebecca claims “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.”

146. “…each person has the innate ability to heal themselves, and need not be reliant on someone else to be responsible for their health.” Yes, it is great to get the support when needed, but not to be over reliant on it and to support ourselves through our daily choices.

147. what resonates for me in this article, which is very beautiful, is the simple humility that is being revealed… And when this is awakened within one, so much can change and be released

148. The most healing thing I have ever come across is that I am not all of my emotional issues, problems, bad behaviours and hurts. I do not need to sift through all of that to heal. That is surface stuff and what lies underneath is an untouched divine spark of joy. I can look at why I have all of that sitting on top of who I truly am but I know it is not who I am. Realising this is life changing.

149. How truly free we are when we deeply heal all that is in the way of our true soulful expression.

150. Awesome blog Rebecca, your level of responsibility is inspiring. To continuously look deeper and develop our relationship with ourselves (our soul) and with people is definitely the way to go. Also to understand that healing is not only restricted to a treatment room means healing and being a practitioner can take place anytime and anywhere which is very empowering. Life is a constant journey of healing.

151. The sabotage we visit upon ourselves through denigration and abuse, undermining and self-judgement is guaranteed to keep us from knowing the truth of who we are. Confirmation and appreciation are the keys to returning and reclaiming that fullness of the spark that lies within – for ourselves and everyone.

152. “I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.” This brings a beautiful clarity, Rebecca. We are always looking outside of us for answers and for healing,.. but it is all there for us first when we look inward.

153. Any modality should not create a revolving door for their clients, where they temporarily ‘fix’ people’s complaints only to have them return again. True healing offers people something greater than relief and empowers them to support their own body. Reminding people through their own experience of their soul is this something greater and is foundational to healing vs. curing or fixing.

154. Yes – we can not go on without Soul, or yet we can.. but the results would be hard felt and differ, but truly when we connect to Our Soul, we extend to our missing link. We are Our Soul and we can be all that we are, simply by connecting to All that we Are. Thanks to Universal Medicine I had found the way to Soul back again. Let’s connect, connect!

155. I worked in complementary health for some time as well and although I may have prescribed herbs, or a bodywork treatment and given a client more of my time, it was still the same approach as someone seeing a doctor. I have this condition that needs changing, improving, fixing, etc. I may have made recommendations with diet, but there was never any way that the client would end up questioning for themselves the impact of their own choices and how they are living in their body. What we had never learnt was that that comes from the lived loving way of the practitioner, which without uttering a word can inspire another. This is true art and true healing and can be offered by any health professional, or in fact any person regardless of role. The true power lays within each person not in the role or the skills we have.

156. When or if you do return to practitioner work Rebecca, what a great practitioner you’ll make. The foundation you are building in your current work feels very supportive not only of you but ‘of and for the people’. What a rich experience.

157. Very simply put – “the root of healing is found in the re-connection”. Re-connecting to our inner knowing breaks down the need to look outside of ourselves and give our power away to others. Our own body is such a huge marker of truth which we can trust to show us whether how we are living is supporting us or not.

158. Rebecca, this is so simple and lovely; ‘When I am connected I love my job, simply because I am being me’, I too find this, that whatever I am doing if I am connected to me then I enjoy it, if I am in my head or rushing then I do not enjoy my job – it’s so simple and I realise that daily tasks such as washing and getting ready in the morning – working, seeing friends and family, can all be enjoyable if I’m connected and are not enjoyable if I am not. I can feel that with young children this is why they are joyful and enjoy such simple things and do not need lots of external stimulation, simply because they are connected to themselves and this makes life joyful.

     1. I have noticed the same thing Rebecca. But sometimes I find it challenging to stay connected to myself and I end up going into function and drive in getting the job done instead of en-joying and appreciating what I am doing. Reading your comment reminds me that it is a choice to reconnect and then everything changes, the quality and joy is then present.

159. Spot on Rebecca.. ” What we focus on and give energy to, magnifies’. It makes perfect sense to me therefore that if we want to be well, we focus on the part of us that is already well… and as it turns out is responsible for supporting any other part that is not well to heal. Sacred Esoteric Healing knows this fact and engages the healing element in the body, rather than professing to be the healing element itself, as do most modalities. That is why they don’t work in the long run, because the true energetic state of the body has not been restored.. and that is true healing.

160. This is what has become so important now in our society, an ability to look deeper. It was so amazing read this blog Rebecca and be reminded that our essence is amazing and it is this that does all of the healing, if we allow it to take place, and the extraordinary dedicated lifestyle of those who practice Esoteric Healing.

161. It is true so many therapies focus on getting to know who we are NOT and that is endless and just gives energy to what is not true.

162. It is important to build a relationship with ourselves first, and from there we can then build a relationship with others. And when that relationship with ourselves is built on self-love, self-care and responsibility, it is then what we bring to others. This a living foundation that people can see and feel, offering a different reflection of what is currently being offered.

163. There is an art to healing hurt and not giving it any power or influence over us. It is interesting because I am becoming aware of the fact that when I feel hurt and I focus my energy on the hurt, it actually gets bigger not smaller as the energy I am focusing on “fixing” it is actually perpetuating it! It is important to acknowledge the hurt but to always come back to the love we are inside and look out at it from here. We will not give our power away in this and hence come back to the love we are.

164. Nothing can beat knowing we are love first to begin with and live life from that place. We are practicing something constantly – whether that is true love or healing, or harm. We are never not a practitioner.

165. ‘When I am connected I love my job, simply because I am being me, and therefore able to be there fully with everyone else. There is a huge potential for healing here, for me and for those around me, and I am nowhere near a treatment room or a healing couch (!), but simply living and loving my daily life’. So true Rebecca, I am becoming so much more aware of what I bring and reflect when I am at my work, just by being true to myself, taking care of me and loving and appreciating myself. The reflection we offer others can be the healing and the catalyst for others to making different lifestyle choices……

166. There is something wonderfully poetic in your use of the phrase ‘only touching the surface of the issue’. Is that how we want to live our lives, or are we interested in what is really going on?

167. We are love to the very core of our being and while the outer shell may be comprised of the sum total of all our behaviours and movements that often do not match who we are in essence, it does not change the fact that we are love and that this great body of love that is our Soul is forever by our side awaiting our return from the path of illusion our spirit has taken us on, away from such truth.

168. I appreciate your journey Rebecca, having done something similar myself. Your words ‘I now understand that what I was actually doing was magnifying these issues and not healing myself or others at all, but doing the exact opposite. Ouch!’ – resonated with me. Like you, I spent years cycling around endless issues and catharsis. Knowing now about soul – thank you, Universal Medicine – I can more easily cut to the chase.

169. Soul and healing from the inside out – now that’s a true tonic for mankind.

170. The deep and abiding inner connection within is there for everyone and will always be… and it is always a matter of the choices we make

171. It is so important to understand that we are not our emotions and that these are only something at the surface. Underneath that surface there is our essence, the essence that is connected to that grander whole, the universe, we are equally part of. So in a sense we have emotions that are withholding us from connecting to the essence that will give us all that we need. While the emotions make us think that we have to look outside of ourselves for solutions to give relief to the inner turmoil that in turn our emotions are causing, the answer to all our questions is simply inside.

172. Thankyou Rebecca, it was so lovely to read your blog. Your journey from being a bodywork practitioner to simply being yourself possibly makes you a much greater practitioner – of life! This line really encompassed the simplicity of living from soul for me, “learning how to stay connected, gentle and true in everything I do.”

173. One of the things I have found with Esoteric Massage is that it not only helps clear your past patterns it also helps to free the body up and intstill a deeper flow of love and harmony. Whereas I have found converntional massage is all about relieving pains or ailments or seeking relief rather than about being and living more love.

174. My experience has been quite similar in that I used to administer various bodywork techniques to clients and always felt that there was more, that we were only touching the surface and shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic. Improvements I certainly saw on a daily basis, but true healing I did not. That only came years later with the Esoteric Therapies.

175. It is simple to live from the love that we are, not so simple the ways we avoid it. Living esoterically simply means re-turning to re-learn and thus re-live the exquisiteness we all in essence are. It is a total game changer, if not the complete renunciation of the game itself.

176. Rebecca, this is gorgeous what you have shared – for health and healing is so much more than just going to a therapist to get a quick fix! A true healer or true therapist will always empower the client to heal themselves and in a way that is long lasting, and this can only come from the highest of integrities lived and applied on a daily basis both as a client and as a therapist.

177. The is difficult until we commit to the choice we have chosen.
     Otherwise there is always the option to sway.

178. Every choice we make can either harm us or heal us, the more loving choices we make in our lives the more powerful our reflection becomes to others.

     1. And that is the key, making life about our reflection to others – then suddenly we have a purpose to life and it is no longer all about me me me. The moment I bring others into the picture suddenly I get a dose of reality and whatever I am in seems to fade into insignificance!

179. Beautiful Rebecca, knowing where we are energetically is a big and needed one if we are to assist someone in their healing process. Being connected to our inner most is what is needed and then we can inspire others to get there also.

180. Yes, Rebecca, this is a great reminder that we are practitioners all of the time because we are constantly interacting with people, and can reflect love and truth through the quality of our movements and expression.

181. Treating the whole person makes so much sense. Remedial massage and other forms of healing, like you say Rebecca, treat the muscle and bone only and it doesn’t work. Treating or relating to the body in parts doesn’t work or truly heal, but it can relieve. We are a whole body and every single fibre is connected throughout, so everything needs to be taken into account.

182. When connected to our Soul we are healers in everything that we do, to ourselves, and to everybody that we meet just by being in connection with that most precious unwavering aspect in us, our inner most, our Soul.

183. We can heal by making loving choices and then reflecting this to others – it does not have to only be a physical session. It shows that there is a deep responsibility for us all to look at our choices and know that healing starts from within.

184. This is a great sharing Rebecca, thank you. I agree that we don’t all have to call ourselves a healer and yet that is what we all potentially are. As we grow in self love so we can then share that love by just being who we are and connected to our inner most.

185. It takes courage and love to let go of a previous identity we’ve held on to, stay open, learn and heal ourselves. Working from inside out allows our inner qualities to shine through whatever work we do.

186. ‘ I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do’. Beautifully expressed Rebecca. Such relief when we let go of all the trying and simply be ourselves.

187. Such a gracefully simple and loving blog Rebecca, thank you. You remind me that if we let life take over we lose our essence and the journey is learning to live life with our essence; you also remind me that we all have different healing paths, different things that are supportive to us at different times and to allow the space to explore this, and that at times this may take us to surprising places – it’s a forever on-going journey.

188. The search for ‘why’ is so much more important than the outplay. You can treat the outplay of something a million times, but you only have to treat the why once.

189. This is the second blog post I have read this morning where the writer has been so honest and open about the years they practiced their respective healing therapies that lacked the integrity and truth they knew was missing. Amazing that since being presented with another way, one that allows for true healing of self first before helping others has been so well received. No ego, no arrogance that there is only one way. When truth presents itself, it can be hard work to ignore it.

190. “To practice esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life.” This is what I love about the esoteric work. Everything is everything therefore how we live impacts on everyone hence why there cannot be a “public” face and a “private” face. It is all one life.

191. “The true me is more important than trying to be something”. This puts things into perspective Rebecca, for if we are being true to ourselves we enjoy what we do and that brings in a lightness and joyfulness to any workplace which lifts the energy and supports everyone to come back to themselves.

192. It shows your integrity Rebecca, that you gave up being a practitioner because you realised that: ‘I needed time to build my own loving foundation in my body before trying to treat other people.’ When we treat people we not only bring or skills to the session we bring every aspect of ourselves and the way we live and this affects our clients. So we have a responsibility to live lovingly and harmoniously with ourselves first so we can then reflect that to all others.

193. It’s true Rebecca, that many modalities are looking at things ‘back-to-front’. They ‘magnify the issue’ because they are complicit to the idea that there is a problem and the client becomes identified with their condition because the focus is on that and not on them as a whole person. As you say: ‘true healing comes from the inside out’.

194. That’s great, I too was a practitioner and found a level of commitment to walk the talk that was laid out in the Esoteric Practitioners Association that had not been in any other association I was part of. It has meant that no matter where I am my level of commitment is the same.

195. Gorgeous! The labels we hold for ourselves are nothing but panic layers of protection. Reading your blog made my body tingle, I felt such ease like the layers were slipping off. It is absolutely amazing to have that feeling in my body, thank you very much for this sharing!

196. There is a stark difference between the tender, graceful, honest guidance that our soul holds and the demanding, controlling, domineering way our thoughts run, when we choose to not stop and connect with our soul within.
     Dropping the arrogance and surrendering to what is held within is key to everything you share Rebecca.

197. When we are not connected to who we truly are in the livingness of our lives, it always feels like something is missing. The moment we re-connect and allow the love to be our absolute expression then everything changes and our presence becomes healing for all of humanity. You choose to listen to the inner voice that kept calling you to the truth and by sharing this you have brought more understanding and healing to everyone that reads your blog – thank you Rebecca.

198. A great statement here, which does seem to apply to everything… “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection…” When we allow life to take over we can see this in the way we walk, talk, move, if we take things on, feel burdened or stressed. These behaviours do have an impact on the body in some way, and we see the result of these impacts in dis-ease of the human body.

199. What we present and reflect any where in the world, whether in a cafe, gym, workplace or grocery store either confirms to another that they are precious and worth deeply caring for… or the opposite that they should do everything for others, put themselves last and just get by. I have also had to let go of riding on a title of being a practitioner or what I do is more important than how I live. I forget this at times but gee when I do remember my soul has it all sorted and knows how to heal and keep life super simple, life just flows – “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.”

200. What a weight off your shoulders Rebecca! No more need to have to ‘do’ anything, simply be you and the opportunity for the client to heal is naturally offered. We are all naturally practitioners when we are connected with ourselves.

201. “after the first few exercises on my first day I could feel that all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.” Thank you Rebecca. Your blog is awesome and the line above really got me pondering. I still spend a lot of time stuck in the issues when I could be consulting with my soul and getting real instead. This blog is a great reminder to seek the support of my soul.

202. When we ask the deeper question ‘Why?’ to the body we are in fact asking for the truth of what has been lived. This is the only way I know that honestly provides us with what’s necessary to heal.

203. What I get from your article Rebecca is the importance of committment. To ourselves and to life, which then flows on to include a committment to live our love with all in all that we do. The responsibility and integrity that needs to be choosen to allow such committment is the missing piece in the way we live in our world today.

204. Yes, Truth is always very simple!

205. I love how you say – ‘ I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out. ‘ Don’t we all live this way? – from the outside in, rather than claiming who we are and living from the inside out. I reckon you could expand what you say to, the whole of life comes from the inside out 🙂

206. I had tried a vast array of modalities in my search for healing for my body and also for answers to life and the truth behind things. I always knew there was and is far more than purely what the eyes can see yet no one could ever give me any answers. With the different modalities I tried they were also a quick fix, a solution but not something I could then take into my everyday life – Universal Medicine is the 1st and only modality or way of life I have come across that has empowered me to actually take responsibility for my life and thus truly heal and let go of the angst and tension I have been carrying around with me. It is not simply a relief mechanism whereby I am left needing or wanting more but rather an ongoing re-establishing of deeper and deeper levels of love.

207. I always had the sense that healing and living a religious life with love as its foundation and governing principle somehow belong together and are actually one, but only with Universal Medicine all the pieces of the picture were put together and indeed, the missing link was the Soul and everything that comes with the true meaning of Soul and the understanding of energy as presented by Universal Medicine.

208. I am practicing, learning to be / live as an Esoteric Practitioner, “An esoteric practitioner is not someone who simply turns up and gives a session with a whole load of skills. To practise esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life.” I have been humbled and inspired by other people who are living life with the above commitment, I understand to be all I can be as a practitioner it is essential that I live with equal care and consistency in all areas of my life. The way I practice massage has completely altered since I have encountered Universal Medicine, it has meant I am much more connected and aware of how everything I do, move, say has an impact on the session.

209. Since knowing the Universal Medicine Therapies as a client as well as a practitioner my understanding of healing has changed fundamentally, same applies for massage. As long as we only focus on the body, emotional and mental issues as just being an issue of the human being true or whole healing cannot occur as all root causes for every existing issue has its origin in energy first. For true healing to occur the energy must be addressed in the knowing of the only two energies available to us, the fiery energy of the Soul or astral pranic energy that feeds the spirit in separation to Soul. The Universal Medicine Therapies are the only existing modalities that recognise those energies and know to handle them appropriately.

210. There are so many techniques and modalities that are available today, each one promising to be the one that can turn your life around, and to be fair many of these do offer solutions to the pandemic rise in chronic illness and diseases we see today. But as Rebecca Turner points out, they can often also leave the practitioner still wanting more, something deeper and everlasting – a true healing. The key is however, and not to ever be forgotten, that Universal Medicine does not heal, it simply reminds you of who you are and the natural connection you have with the soul, which in your own re-connection with it is a healing experience. The mathematics of this relationship are simple : you + soul = your essence lived in full = healing.

211. Having been on the receiving end of many different treatments over the years for various illnesses it is true what you write here Rebecca with regards to not getting to the cause or the root of the issue, and at best the treatments for me were a temporary fix. But Universal Medicine presents illness and true health in a different way; a way in which makes sense and presents the fact that it is our own choices which have us suffering as a result of living in a disconnected way.

212. True healing is more than just about improving bodily function, more than a quick fix that allows us to keep going in the same way that made us ill in the first place!

213. I can relate to that feeling that I was not truly supporting the clients that came for bodywork and massage but making them just well enough to do more of the same yet again, time after time again with no end in sight.

214. ‘The answer to my searching question ‘why’? was very simple. When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ Beautifully said Rebecca, when we disconnect from our source, our Soul, we can’t help but turn to function and survival.

215. The re-connection of who we are comes from our bodies and the simplicity of our movements in every moment. The beauty of living from our soul’s movement is an expression unlike any other.

216. “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.”
     Healing is so simple when we know the truth. Innately we are love and when we re-connect to the love, love pushes out the what is not love and the more we discard this, the more room there is for the love to re-fill our body, thus we return to love.

217. Before Universal Medicine and learning the Esoteric Therapies I could also feel how I was not really addressing the deeper causes of a client’s dis-ease; I used to work as a bodywork therapist and homoeopath and it made me quite sad that I did not have the tools to understand the root cause of the human condition, did not know the difference between spirit and Soul; and all that applied to me and my colleagues as much as to my clients.

218. We do indeed have things back to front, we treat the symptoms (needed yes), but fail to go underneath and consider how it is we’ve been living that may have taken us to that point. As you say Rebecca ‘the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.’ and that is our soul and best of all, we all have one, so each and every one of us has the opportunity to take an active role in our healing and to choose how we want to be in each and every moment, and with that we become active participients with our doctors or therapists as we make our healing journeys.

219. It’s beautiful to read the simplicity of your article Rebecca. I certainly spent years doing different sorts of therapy thinking that if I went deeper into the mud, so to speak, I would one-day be clear of it, but I just got muddier and muddier. And because I had spent so much time wallowing in it, and though it felt yucky, it also felt familiar, something I knew so well it felt safe, comfortable. So I kept choosing to slip back into it. But becoming more acquainted with my loveliness the mud has no place and washes away.

220. Before we do what we do, we need to know who we truly are and be who we truly are, then what we do is simply an expression of who we are and not a need for identification to make us something we are not.

221. ” true healing comes from the inside out. How empowering is this! What this actually means is that each person has the innate ability to heal themselves”. This is beautiful, not giving our power away to anyone, healing comes from within, making loving choices for the self.

222. Well said Rebecca,there is such a major difference when we live with and considering our Soul, our essence. Without it we are merely existing getting by from day to day. Yet with it suddenly everything changes and we see that we are in fact needed, as people need to be reminded of who we are, just like Serge Benhayon reminded us.

223. Amazing, thanks for sharing Rebecca. The soul is something which is not even considered in everyday life, there are notions of good and bad, right and wrong, and we are given education, a nation, and a culture or something to identify with, but there is a tangible and real aspect to us that isn’t activated, and it is the thing that is missing out our natural love and knowingness!

224. There are many powerful things the you have said here in your blog, Rebecca. Here are two sentences that really jumped out at me:
     (a) “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.” – this is so true, we give life and energy to what we choose, and hence this is what actually creates our lived experience.
     (b) “the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” – how beautiful is this to know that true healing lies in our own hands, in our reach for all of us. It is not about fixing ourselves, rather it is about bringing the connection with self, deeply so, so that we are then more clearly guided in what is needed each and every moment.
     Thank you Rebecca for this beautiful blog with many amazing quotes.

225. Simply living who we truly are in everyday life is being a true practitioner for it offers others a living reflection of who they truly are which is of the same essence. Any issues we have are manifestations of all that we are not, so being all that we are takes care of that!

226. It seems it is actually quite simple for us to heal issues and configurations in our body, but what is not so easy is how we have a propensity to recreate them. We are often quite attached and identified with our imagined issues, but none of them are really ours at all as who we truly are is very simple and does not have any of this stuff that we have taken on!

227. ‘Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul? What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies’. We are so much more than just our flesh and bone and as you have so beautifully shared in this blog Rebecca, it is our soul that is the missing link. Healing the root cause of all of our woes lies in re-connecting to our soul and will ultimately lead us to ascending from the game of life we are all engaged in at present

228. By simply living in connection with Soul to the best of our ability, we will simply heal all of our hurts we have accumulated in our life time and at the same time we will be an inspiration for other people to also reconnect. We must not underestimated the power of all of our choices, as they are magnified in all of our moves, therefore when we choose to live from Soul the energy we bless the world with will eventually bring all humanity back to Soul equally so, as that is how love works. It unites and brings us all back to the origins we all have walked away from equally so.

229. Rebecca, I love how you have shared that just working a ‘normal’ job in retail is an experience that for you has been just as enriching as practicing as a massage therapist, in that you can offer just as much healing. The depth of care and capacity to heal that we can bring is not limited to the profession we do. It is about how we are in every moment, how much we can be ourselves and appreciate who we are and what we are here to actually deliver.

230. This shows a level of responsibility: ” but I realised I needed time to build my own loving foundation in my body before trying to treat other people.” – for how can we really be there for others if we are not there for ourselves first?

231. I love reminding myself of the fact that everything is energy. Whilst we can think we want relief from something if we do not change the energy nothing changes and all we get is just that relief.

232. “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.” so simple and true and when we bring a focus to an ill or something we don’t want, we spend all our time focusing on it and then theres no space to consider how to get around or over it. Working from the inside out creates a feeling of space to see whatever the situation is in a different light. Since being involved with Universal Medicine and experiencing the truly esoteric modalities this has been my experience again and again and yet I still have things that just go around in circles. It’s like there is attraction to focusing on these negatives despite the affect they have on the body but when connected to our Soul that attachment starts to fall away. Which has been shown to lead to true success and health as seen in how Serge Benhayon, his family and now others are starting to live.

233. As someone who has also trained in psychotherapy, I agree that we can only truly heal when we embrace ourselves as a soul, and no longer therefore identify with all the hurts and reactions we have gathered throughout our lives. Then the therapy work can simply be a process of discarding what no longer serves us from the body, and claiming back the essence of who we are.

234. Great blog Rebecca, massage without taking account of energy is simply muscle relief shifting tension and alleviating it from one area for it to then return back at a later date, At least that is how I used to find massage I am not blaming anyone as I would go for relief rather than actually wanting true healing. Having studied several different types of massage I always found something was lacking and then in comes Esoteric Massage and wow what a difference suddenly it all makes sense.

235. Re-reading your blog Rebecca made me realise that there is a beauty and knowledge presented here that has no end. What touched me this time is the fact that true healing comes form the inside out and that his fact means that we all have the ability in us to heal ourselves. How different is that to what I see on a daily basis where people give their health in the hands of the medical system and do not have an full understanding of their own capabilities and responsibility in maintaining a healthy and vital body. There is a lot to learn for all of us from this blog.

236. ‘I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out. How empowering is this!’ Very empowering indeed Rebecca, in fact it is one of the ultimate revelations we can ever be blessed with realising.

237. I love your description of the “well of love” that we have inside us, how we are actually masters of our own healing if we understand and allow ourselves to be so. I see many traditional massage techniques that impose on the body an outcome. I have trained in massage myself and so know the many techniques, but my understanding now is that to force out a symptom in the body will just cause that energy to resurface somewhere else, perhaps in another unrelated form, so to cause pain as part of a massage is not resolving the issue but pushing it deeper. That is a big responsibility but one we must grasp if we are committed to assisting others to heal, and not just be there to provide short term relief and a seeming but short lasting cure.

238. The physical symptoms of illness can be treated by differing modalities, also our doctors and though what Western Medicine offers. These treatments often help but when we return for help because the physical symptom returns, there is something else going on. The question rarely comes up regarding what else is going on and the tendency to blame the practitioner for not ‘fixing’ the problem is always there. We make the choices regarding how we want to live our lives and these choices always have an outcome. It is time we took responsibility for these choices and looked at what it is we are repeating over and over again that causes the illness. Western Medicine is amazing in all that it offers but the energetic component has to be looked at – how do we think about our lives? how are we driving ourselves and taking for granted the body that answers the call day after day? What is our level of self love and self care? There is much to be considered here.

239. This means that we cannot heal ourselves at all without Soul in the first place! This means that we can be physically fit and able but energetically be carrying enormous levels of hurt and pain. A good dose of honesty and eventually a dash of truth later, and the true healing can begin, because unless we are open to knowing why we are hurt, we can never realise them.

240. As you share Rebecca, we start first with healing ourselves by connecting to the Soul! We can only facilitate healing after we have first let go of the thought that we heal. An inspiring sharing, thank you.

241. Beautiful Rebecca, you are now a true practitioner – a practitioner of life. The greatest healing we can offer another is to live from our essence.

     1. … and of course the greatest healing we can offer ourselves is to live from our essence!

     2. One thing to watch out for is that there is a true essence and a false essence. Obviously it is only the true essence that offers a true healing. Unimedpedia provides a great insight into our true essence: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-essence.html.

242. I can feel Rebecca such integrity in your choices and love how you are now working as a healing practitioner without the title as you are just being you in your regular job and all those around you are experiencing healing when they are with you and the reflection of love you bring. So beautiful.

243. “For four years I went over and over those emotional processes thinking I was healing and releasing them, and doing what I thought was ‘getting to know myself’. ”
     One thing that stood out to me in this article was this line and just shows that we can take ourselves around in circles and think we are getting somewhere. No matter how many times we shift the issue in the body we can never truly heal anything unless we come from the inside out. The phrase ‘the body never lies” quote SB is the true compass to determine if modalities are really working or not.

244. ‘In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul’- and it is as simple as this. We are all amazing, pure essence, Sons of God and the choice is ours whether we claim this and live it or avoid it. We have a responsibility to be the love we are and to reflect this to the world – it is just a matter of when.

245. It’s about connection first and for most. Great blog Rebecca

246. Thank you Rebecca, a very honest and inspiring blog. You have certainly embraced an incredible level of responsibility, self love and self care. What you’ve shared is full of wisdom and I can feel the love you have for yourself and people. Letting go of years of training, skills and identification that you realise was not supportive was courageous and deeply loving. It is very empowering to know that we can heal from within, not to just solely rely or place this responsibility on others but embrace it fully ourselves and to understand that our illness, disease, issues and emotions are not who we are. This changes everything as it brings the responsibility of true healing back to us and is deeply empowering.

247. A great article. Thank you Rebecca. This puts a new slant on our old models of psychotherapy and attending to our emotional and physical ills. It makes everything so simple, and I am with you 100%.

248. Yes Rebecca, when we hold the fact we’re a Soul not just as a concept in our head, but a living truth in our heart, chest, arms, fingers and legs, there is an irresolvable knowing in us that we all one and are eternally strong. Then what problem or issue could come that could stop us from what we are here to do? For when we connect the full picture, it deeply connects us to each other too.

249. Great blog, being open and connecting with people is where it is at!! I enjoy this immensely, feeling the openness come back to me when I am open and engaging with others, they truly feel that openness and are drawn to it, it can be very contagious and fun!

250. ‘When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on.’ I love this line and can verify its truth in what I experience. I often find myself in my day noticing how I feel tense because I’ve allowed the reality of life to take focus rather than stay with the truth of my essence. I’m learning, through giving living from my essence greater precedence, that life is simple and manageable no matter how demanding reality appears. My learning to trust me in my essence is a work in progress but it’s never let me down.

251. ” I now understand that what I was actually doing was magnifying these issues and not healing myself or others at all, but doing the exact opposite. Ouch!” that is a big ouch and one most psychotherapists would find very difficult to admit. I really admire your ability to say this is not it and look to what was true and then to change your work completely that is pretty incredible and shows a real integrity and depth of responsibility that is very inspirational.

252. I love that analogy about a plant and taking true care of it, to love and care about ourselves is not the same as just going through the motions we need to constantly bring the next part and that may be re potting so the roots can grow and expand.

253. This is a stonkingly great blog Rebecca! Everything you share is so brilliant as it is so simple and exposes why our mental health systems are overwhelmed and not bringing about healing for those who are asking for that help.

254. I did not truly begin to have a deeply connected relationship with myself until I understood the difference between spirit and soul. This key distinction in all of us and all our lives is key to understanding more about the illusion we have now come to live in each and every day.

255. Rebecca this is a great example of being a practitioner whilst doing a job which does not involve a healing treatment room, simply by connecting to your soul and just being you.

256. ‘The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body’ -knowing this and knowing that we are never alone and that we are always held is amazing. Thank you Rebecca.

257. It is so true Rebecca, that we do not need to be a practitioner to bring healing to people as I experience also in my work. When in connection with myself when I am meeting people, just the way i connect to them makes the difference and provides them with the opportunity to heal aspects in themselves they are not but have taken on in order to cope with life instead.

258. Being ourselves is the most powerful reflection we can give. I work behind reception and for me every meeting I have is like a session. We don’t have to treat people on a massage table, when we are ourselves and in connection, true healing is happening.

259. If all Practitioners were as considerate and conscencious as you are then we would be in a much better world. Most people are so identified in their ‘position’ that they are seldom willing to do anything else. I think you are an inspiration and if you ever decided to go back to practising massage you will be really amazing, thank you for sharing.

     1. Thank you Sarah. I do now offer sessions again in my spare time. I love my present job and love working full time and do not want to change this at the moment, but I do now offer Esoteric Massage, Esoteric Healing and Connective Tissue Therapy to clients on my days off. I love having the combination of the two expressions, and each one complements the other. It is also lovely to work with people who are interested in true healing rather than people who are coming for a session simply for relief.

260. Gosh, if we lived this line – “What this actually means is that each person has the innate ability to heal themselves, and need not be reliant on someone else to be responsible for their health” – the whole health/fitness industry would be revolutionsed. Could you imagine if the industry was set up to support people being responsible (and truly) for their own health and understand consequences of their actions?? Bring it I say.

261. The bit that you mention about attending the Universal Medicine workshops “as me rather than as a practitioner” rang very true. This is for all of life. The more I get rid of labels the more I am able to connect to both myself and to others. In a truly transparent way. This roles, ideals, names, identities that we all use as protection and defence and justification…they are keeping us all imprisoned, locked away from the magic, joy and wonderment of who we truly are – which is not just enough but is in fact, Everything.

262. … integrity, responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself is a gorgeous way of living to be inspired by and inspire others from.

263. Isn’t that great that you were able, through the healing and gradual unfoldment of what feels true for you, take steps to be the true you. I can feel that your service to people and the joy with which you do this is now is so much greater. Lucky customers.

264. Going over and over the same issues is a vicious circle that gets you nowhere. In fact and as you shared Rebecca, it actually magnifies those same issues which is not at all healing for ourselves or anyone else for that matter. In fact, it could well be ‘doing the exact opposite’ and actively continuing to feed those same issues.

265. That’s a huge and responsible decision to make, you brake the ideal of having to be a Practitioner and Patient for healing to occur and bring the focus back to true support being a living way. You are probably providing more healing from the busy shop in London than you were treating as a massage therapy, it just doesn’t come with the identification, well done, brave move and very inspiring.

266. The other thing that I DEEPLY appreciate about Universal Medicine and the Sacred Esoteric Healing courses they present and hold is how I was taught to lovingly reposition the clients body on the massage table before starting a treatment. Before attending any of the Universal Medicine courses I did a massage therapy course including sports massage and aromatherapy, not once were we taught the importance of getting the client prepared before a treatment so they are completely comfortable; but as both the practitioner and client that have felt and received this care and attention I can say it makes so much difference. Moving hair away from the face, gentle repositioning the clients arms tenderly so they are more relaxed and open, gently repositioning the legs and covering with blankets all make such a difference. Universal Medicine bring the true care, love and attention to healing.

267. ‘Soul – The Missing Link’ this should be a newsflash all over the world not just for body work and massage but politics, education, office work, doctors, nurses, care homes … everything! Anyone that wants to have a deeper or true understanding of energy, life, us and the Universe I would instantly without hesitation signpost to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who put all on track to the true path of return.

268. Underlying all of the things that we hold in our body are the choices that we have made throughout our lives. Through our body is the way that we can uncover what these choices are, but when we want to start to make true and loving changes, these come from aligning to the being within us, our Soul.

269. Hi Rebecca – ‘So the root of healing is found in the re-connection’ – Re-connecting is returning to something we know and something that holds us as the love we are. It is as simple as that. Thanks for sharing.

270. ‘I had been treating the body from the outside in, and can now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out’- the simple choice to acknowledge what is happening within the body and feeling all it as to say to us begins the healing process. Any physical symptoms that may then go on to be expressed can be released. I agree Rebecca, the soul is communicating with us all of the time.

271. Living true to ourselves rather than acting out a role is very powerful and very life changing for both ourselves and others.

272. ‘Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming’ this is so true and when we are either healing or harming the body, our every movement comes with great responsibility to ourselves, and others.

     1. …and I find that when I live with this responsibility to make choices that support my body and are therefore ‘healing’ my whole body feels vibrant and alive and my eyes start to shine really brightly. When I am making choices that are not supportive to my body and are therefore ‘harming’ my whole body gets lethargic, I feel depressed and my eyes go back to being dull and sad. I know which kind of practitioner I would prefer to go to for healing sessions – someone who is committed to living in a way that is healing – otherwise what are they offering me in a healing session? This is the responsibility we have as healing practitioners if we want to bring anything of quality and healing to others.

273. “the tension would be relieved and they would leave… but only to return with exactly the same problem a few weeks later.” This is seen as so normal yet you are right, why is this tension back in such a short period of time? It makes sense that if we do not change the way we are living a massage or session won’t heal the issue at hand.

274. ‘When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on.’ Many more people are beginning to make the connection between stress and illness, they look for more of a work life balance, however I have found that being present makes the real difference for me, although I have not yet mastered being consistent with my presence, it has already made a difference.

275. Rebecca your words ‘I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.’ This was a great learning for me too, many people are now realising how important it is to eat supportive food for the body, and the more I talk with people the more I realise that there is a greater understanding how healing comes from inside out.

276. I had such a big smile on my face reading this blog this morning, thank you. This was such a pearler for me – “After the first few exercises on my first day I could feel that all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing. This was the missing link.”. So nailed it. All the years I spent dragging through the emotional stuff, to realise it is not who I am at ALL, it is just junk that I have built up that needed to looked at let go (for sure) but the focus is on the Soul and living in connection to that love. Thank you for the clarity and joy in which you write.

     1. You’re welcome Sarah, this was a ‘pearler’ for me too! There is much joy in discovering that we are NOT our issues and emotions. How much time, money and energy people would save if they had an understanding of this. Universal Medicine is offering something huge to the world.

277. Having had hundreds of massages over the years I used to attend to de-stress, to chill out. In fact anything to provide relief from the day. However it would never last and would mean I had to keep coming back for my massage fix. Through esoteric massage things are very different, the modality is not simply about how to feel better but instead allows me to look at how I’ve been living and deepen the care I take for myself as I move forward from the session. What an incredible difference the missing link of Soul is when allowed to be in anything we do.

278. I see more people are beginning to understand and accept the link between our bodies, stress and illness, but it is taking the next step in understanding our energetic responsibility that has made the difference for me.

279. “An esoteric practitioner is not someone who simply turns up and gives a session with a whole load of skills” Before Universal medicine I had no understanding of this and that how we live bears any relevance to the quality of treatment we offer a client. This was never explained by any teacher that I was learning another modality with at the time but then neither was the difference between prana and fire or spirit or soul or healing or harming. Once the simplicity of energy was understood I could see that thinking healing was something ‘to do’ and switch on or off was no way to approach being a practitioner and how I lived with responsibility in all of life was the only way to offer true healing. Introducing self love and self care into my life was the first step thereafter.

280. The root of healing is found in the re-connection is a beautiful awareness and brings us back to the inside out. It is important to feel that we have everything within us that we need for healing and knowing that the esoteric healing helps us to remove what is not us to reveal the love that we are. It is amazing to feel each moment of deeper connection whether we are practitioners or living our lives connecting in other ways.

281. Hi Rebecca – thank you for sharing your growing awareness and re-connection to soul. When we know we are in essence pure love and stillness in our center, we can then choose to work our way out discarding everything that we have taken on that is not true, that has left us at the mercy of what is going on outside of us. It is very powerful to know that just by living true to who we are in our movements, thoughts, food, every word and every choice we are bringing a true way of being back to Humanity and this earth we walk upon. I love your honesty and commitment Rebecca.

282. This is really honest in that you were willing to get yourself out of the way to truly see what was missing. I used to do massage and reflexology, and while loving people, I too knew there was something missing. Thank Goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine in bringing, presenting and reflecting the truth with love and NO holding back. Now I see there were actually quite a few things missing. I was holding back, had no true connection or self-love, was in a ‘fixing’ mode, did not know the difference between Soul and Spirit, prana and Fire, and also the big one … Responsibility. In me taking responsibility in how I lived but also responsibility was missing from the people I was seeing in that we don’t want to feel that WE are responsible for our health (or ill health) in the choices that we make. Also what I am beginning to see more of now is that we are nothing without our Soul and this connection.

283. Thank you Rebecca and Linda, I agree, this is so well presented and along with the comments there is a simplicity that is a conformation of the truth that is shared by the soul.

284. So beautifully said Linda, true healing only comes from the inside out. So very true, along with a huge dose of responsibility. There is so much not right with psychology today, the psychologists are sometimes as mentally unstable as the clients themselves. But through getting to know our own beauty and connection with our soul, through our breath and inner heart, this enables the space for true healing.

285. Truly connecting with my soul has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It is forever unfolding and a re-learning experience. Also understanding that the connection was never lost, but own of re-awakening the awareness to the fact it has always been there.

286. Dear Rebecca, I can relate to your experience on so many levels. I also was a complimentary therapies practitioner when I came to Universal Medicine. It didn’t take me long to realise the integrity that Esoteric Therapy Practitioners bring to their clients is so much higher. I also had that identification with what I was doing, to ‘being’ a practitioner and I needed to leave that at the door, to come back to myself and study with Universal Medicine as just me, Esther, and not as a practitioner. This allowed me to really feel the amazing quality of what is being presented here, and do the healing for myself first, reconnect to my soul and really understand who I am, and not based on what I do at all.

     1. Rebecca, Esther it is a lovely reminder to read this blog as I had a very similar experience. Before learning about the soul I felt there was something missing, something that did not make sense. Today knowing that it is my soul and my connection to my soul that is the most important treasure I have changes my entire outlook and way I am in life. That is a gift.

        1. I agree David, it’s a huge gift only we can give to ourselves, once we are reminded of the fact of the soul and that inner connection.

287. How awesome now you are not confined in your treatment room, but are out in the world in a busy shop, meeting, connecting with far more variety and number of people than you would have, and practicing healing through a way of living, and not a job title.

     1. Thank you Fumiyo, I feel this way too. I absolutely love being out in the world instead of confined to a treatment room. Give me a busy shop and a team any day! So much more potential for connecting with people, and I meet people who would never dream for coming for a healing session.

288. Really amazing Rebecca, I can relate very much to the process of working long and hard at something then it still not being ‘it’. I had worked in the corporate world for most of my career and decided my way to ‘give back’ was to retrain to become a counsellor. I knew I didn’t want to do psychology, it felt too restrictive and heady, so embarked on Holistic Body Based Counselling. I was so invested in getting the qualifications, I didn’t stop to feel if it felt right or not. Until I’d finished it and then realised my calling was to be out in the world, back in organisations, working with many people, not just one at a time. But most importantly, with all the study, there was so much missing, like you, I didn’t know what until coming across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, what was missing…..the Soul!

289. Your explanation describing alternative healing therapies gives great understanding about the relationship between the physical body, aliments and its relationship with the soul. …”all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul…” There’s certainly more to life and the space we occupy than just the physical aspect of an ailment.

290. My God Rebecca this is sooooo power-full. It is so amazing how You express here and share Yourself in full. Absolutely amazing and so inspiring – for me I feel so supported and so confirmed in reading this. Especially in the freeing thing to be just myself – just be me – and this is it! I feel ,me, more and more and this is just because of the amazing dedication from Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine & absolutely everybody involved here…I met the most amazing people in my life in all areas of my life and I know this is just the start 🙂 I am close to say – I love my life – so I am working on getting out of the way what is not love and being more aware of what is not me – as You write, the expectations and ideals – to be able to joy-fully write and know and feel it so deeply – that I absolutely love my life – no perfection needed – just being me and allowing everybody in – well me first then naturally I can let all others in. I can just highly recommend as medicine: self-care and self-love and taking responsability in ones life.

291. I came to feel again trough this blog that the building of self love is a process that needs patience and care for ourself. I always like it to be just there when I make a self loving choice, but I feel it is much more than that it is a building of this love for everything we are in this life. It is great to feel that there is not perfection, as that is still that what I am after for so often.

292. Re-training to bring our focus back to truth that we are love and we are this glorious shining being, all the judgement and critique we have for ourselves no longer own us. Yes they are there and we have to address them, but they are not bigger than the truth of who we are. This is the first step of living our own Universal Medicine.

293. A wonderful rediscovery of body work and true healing Rebecca – treating the person and not the condition. It makes sense to look at the bigger picture, for it is our choices that enable such conditions in the first place – and the question is why we continue to make choices that dishonour the natural order and flow we are in and from.

294. I love you blog Rebecca. It’s such a beautiful example of how we are all practitioners of life and the only thing that distinguishes those that have dedicated themselves to the service of humanity from those of us who identify and struggle with the emotional life is their absolute dedication to themselves, and hence to us all. We all have the potential to be a healing reflection to the world – if we but choose it.

295. So enjoyed reading your blog again today Rebecca. ‘without pressures of expectations’ the welcome gentleness of not trying and being something for someone else all of the time allows a beautiful freeing up in the mind and body so that “I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do”. Awesome.

     1. The pressure of expectation is a huge one and something that would benefit greatly from more discussion. That pressure we place on ourselves – forcing ourselves to be something because we have investments elsewhere outside of who we truly are – it is simply crippling. I have experienced such freeing in my body and mind like you say Marion when the expectations to meet certain images are let go of. For example I expected myself to clean my workstation by a certain time and could feel the pressure compounding in my body. The body I told myself that I don’t HAVE to, that me as a being is already enough (I have to do the work of course but I don’t have to do it under that pressure) the pressure and my body relaxed and dropped. I didn’t clean the area ‘on time’ but I was far more at ease with myself and willing to look at how I can better manage my time. That wouldn’t of happened if the expectation remained, instead berating would of been the result.

296. Thank you Rebecca, I agree with true healing coming from the inside first. I spent many years having weekly sessions at a Chiropractor, sometimes my pain would be so bad I would go twice a week. I didn’t really like the feeling of the manipulations done to my body but I was caught in the pain/relief cycle. I haven’t been to a Chiropractor for over 10 years now since I have been attending Universal Medicine presentations and learning to self-care and self-love and interestingly I no longer have back pain – I agree reconnecting back to the soul is key to true healing.

297. Thank you Rebecca, you make some valuable points here about how we approach the courses we attend and I relate totally to what you say here “I continue to attend the lectures and workshops presented by Universal Medicine, but now I am there as ‘me’, not as ‘a practitioner’.” as it took me a couple of years till I attended the Universal Medicine events for ‘me’ and to not be thinking I was just learning another tool for my toolkit. There is so much healing and building to be done on ourselves before we can responsibly practise on another.

     1. There was an element of this in my attending the healing courses too jsnelgrove36 and how awesome it feels to drop any investment in that way. It creates so much more space and our true potential is unhindered.

298. One part jumped out in particular today: “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul? What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.” We live in a world that is geared towards and accepting of giving fuel to focusing on all the tension, pain and emotions to the point where it appears impossible to do anything but. Thank God for Universal Medicine presenting that this is not the case and that we can give our focus and attention and fuel to that which can truly heal. Thank you for this Rebecca.

299. “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on” . When we allow ourselves to stay connected to our body, we remain connected to our essence.

300. “The esoteric way of life takes self-love and self-responsibility to a whole new level”…indeed it does. I felt like for many years I was just watering the plants (so to speak) in terms of self-love and leading a reasonably responsible life. Since coming across Universal Medicine, I have been shown a whole new way of self-love that involves much more than just watering the plants to keep them alive – we can look after ourselves in ways that we can blossom fully and thrive in our lives. And responsibility – I am just starting to see the bigger picture on how much responsibility there is and how incredible rewarding it is to live a life this way.

     1. Great analogy Sarah – with just watering the plants to keep them alive it’s like we are doing the bear minimum. It feels like we are appeasing the surface layer of who we are and not getting our hands dirty. Sometimes the plants need repotting for more space to grow, the roots trimming and fertilising to support the nourishment of their flowering cycles. It’s very symbolic really and I am learning that self care goes beyond what I look like but truly nurturing an honouring how I feel.

        1. Great expansion on this topic Rachael Evans. Thank you.

        2. Thank you Rebecca, Sarah and Rachael, I adore the analogy is so simple but true.

        3. Beautiful Sarah and Rachel. When we tend to our gardens with love and respect, they beam and bloom magnificently.

     2. I love the analogy here Sarah, and can say for me at various times in my life I forgot to even water the plants at all and often was not aware that how I was, was also affecting the other plants around me. Thank goodness for the teachings of Universal Medicine who have inspired me to not only water the plants regularly, but gently and using good quality water (along with extra support when needed!), and to be aware of how my actions affect everyone else and their plants around me.

301. In the training given by Universal Medicine for body work, there is an emphasis on both personal integrity and understanding the greater picture, that is – the core energetic factors taking place when performing a treatment. So the ability to discern energy is very important. This is very different to much of the current training modalities that are readily available for body work at the moment, who seem to focus on identifying problems and providing solutions, with the at times occasional new-age spiritual aspect added, which, without discernment of the actual energy at play, can actually lead to tiredness and eventual exhaustion for the practitioner.

302. David that sentence resonates with me also. I was desperately searching for something to be until I attended a few workshops with Universal Medicine, and gradually came to realise it was not about what I was to do, and more about being me and bringing that to what I do. I find richness working with people no matter what the setting these days.

303. Through Universal Medicine, I have come to understand that there is a great responsibility being a practitioner, as the way we live impacts everything. We are responsibly for the treatments we are practicing, as our clients will feel everything. So to be true to our practice we have to live in a more loving, nurturing and honest way.,

     1. I agree and in the modalities I was learning before coming to Universal Medicine the importance of responsibility and how we live was never presented. Now I understand the world of energy we live in, it is the only way.

304. “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” This reminds me of the quote “Physician heal thyself” and that we have to heal our own hurts and live in connection to our inner-heart and to Divinity as an inspiration to another rather than to ‘do’ healing.

305. Some truly great wisdom shared here Rebecca and a real paradigm shift in the way we view healing. I love this particular segment: ‘Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming. The Love and responsibility needs to be to self first, before one can be there for others.’ This is true for any job that involves providing a service to others – and let’s face it, that’s most jobs, so that’s most people. A blog to revisit regularly to be re-inspired.

306. ‘ To practice esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life ‘. And it’s due to this level of integrity that I continue to be inspired by all the practitioners I see. Never before have I come across a modality whereby the practitioner is a living, breathing example of all that they share. The power in someone actually practicing what they preach (for lack of a better phrase), is enormous, because we are shown what is actually possible not just an ideal of how life could be.

307. ‘What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies.’ If this isn’t the truest of true, then I don’t know what is. With this one line, we can see how clearly we have a choice in every moment to choose what we want to feel more of,…love or not love.

308. I couldn’t agree more Rebecca in all the modalities i have studied and observed, including Western medicine, nothing ever got to the very heart of the matter – and the understanding of why so much illness, disease and misery on the earth, and in ourselves. Knowing something wasn’t quite right, but not finding anyone with the answer, it was tempting to give up and settle for that lesser life. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon was the first person I met in a lifetime of seeking who said it how it is, and it made sense, and it felt true. And now from my own experience I can feel that truth ever more deeply within.

309. There is a lot to let go of when we realise the work we have been doing has left the soul out of the equation. We are practitioners all the time when we are connected and work with the soul. This is what I have learnt through Universal Medicine and presentations by Serge Benhayon.

310. I so love this blog. I work part-time as a receptionist and I absolutely love this job. It gives me the opportunity to connect to a lot of people, have a chat with them, look them in the eyes, have fun and like you say, just be me. Every time I look forward to who I am going to meet and that is the biggest gift I can give: to actually meet them.

311. I like that we need to heal from the inside out not from the outside in. I didn’t even realise I had anything to heal before Universal Medicine but have since come to know that we all carry hurts that need to be dealt with.

     1. This is a good point kevmchardy – not knowing we have anything to heal as the life we are living and the behaviours we have and of others in our lives are all we know so until this doesn’t work anymore we don’t usually stop to question. It is great that Universal Medicine are here to present otherwise which gives us the opportunity to heal our hurts and make changes as we we reconnect to who we really are.

312. Often we feel that there is something missing in what we are doing, yet we don’t know what it is. I felt the same with practising and teaching yoga and other modalities, feeling some relief and like I was making some progress but still something never felt quite right. The missing element was my connection to the soul. Before Universal Medicine, the soul was merely a concept, now it is a reality and something that I choose to be with and by each day.

313. I love your title, I can relate to it as a massage therapist, it is so vital to have an awareness the ‘soul’ in all we do. I also recall studying psychotherapy and sitting there saying to the group were is the soul in all this, it was so heady. I had a strong impulse that something was missing…connecting to my inner essence, my soul is the ‘missing link’ which is now creating deep connection, from where a deep inner wisdom and understanding of life is developing.

314. This blog is like a golden river of wisdom, here is another sentence that called me to pause “I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do .” Choosing what is true for us over ‘trying to be something’ can apply in many life situations, I have often not felt confident to choose what is true for me even though it is the ‘trying to be something’ that makes life more of a struggle and complicated than it need be. There are many life decisions that could be made based on this simple truth.

315. Yes, the key is to not to let us be lived by life but that we live life impulsed from within, from our souls. Therefore all we have to do is to build our connection with the source of love that resides in us and from there everything will be taken care for.

316. So many great points to consider and discuss Rebecca. “It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.” This is one that I now consider normal common sense although I understand the temptation to simply want a symptom to go away without effort or reflection. If I had a dangerous infection I would be sure to take the medical drugs to support my body and also address with Esoteric Medicine the underlying energetic cause of the infection. Now if I had tension and anxiety (and I am far from immune) I could address this with Esoteric Chakra-puncture for example and this is something that also connects us with our true self. Why the tension and anxiety continues to be chosen may actually be at times more important than healing only the anxiousness and this is part of the brilliance, scope and divinity we have been gifted through Esoteric Medicine.

     1. “Why the tension and anxiety continues to be chosen may actually be at times more important than healing only the anxiousness and this is part of the brilliance, scope and divinity we have been gifted through Esoteric Medicine.” Yes I agree Dianne understanding where this tension comes from is paramount and allowing ourselves compassion and re-awakening our connection and appreciation is all part of the healing.

317. Rebecca, I too love having a ‘normal’ job after many years taking Yoga classes. Your paragraph about the integrity of an Esoteric practitioner being far more than delivering a skill set is beautiful as it brings respect to the Esoteric Healing arts.

318. I had a similar job to yours Rebecca before Universal Medicine- taking Hatha Yoga classes and had that same feeling that something was not right- I tried to reconcile myself by accepting Yoga, as it is popularly taught, was mostly a sophisticated form of exercise but there was still an ache as I could feel the missing link too.

319. So true Jean,
     it seems its easy to hold onto the identification of a role as does a young child choose to hold onto a teddy bear in a false attempt to gain some security.

320. Wonderful honesty and openness Rebecca,
     I felt inspired by your ability to let go of the practitioner role and embrace healing yourself from the inside-out.

321. I can relate to what you mentioned about your clients coming back on a regular basis Rebecca, I used to have a massage every 2 or three weeks to relieve the pain in my back but it didn’t take long to come back again. This happened for years I would blame it on the physical work I was doing and didn’t really look deeper than that. Once I began to understand through Universal Medicine that healing starts with being honest and looking at how we live, I began to see the drive that I was constantly under to get things done and the stress and tension this causes to my body, especially my back, slowly the pain began to shift and now I very rarely have back pain, and if I do I look at what has been happening in my life that has caused the pain to re-surface.

322. Really appreciate the way you clearly define the difference between being and doing here Jean, and I agree, it is, and always has been very easy to slip into identification of what we do, at the expense of expressing who we are.

323. This role identification thing is huge. Recently I came to realise how I had attached to different roles and relationships I had in my life, some arrogantly so but all because I wasn’t able to accept, claim and live just being me. Basically it just complicated a lot of my life. It’s not easy to ditch them as you say Jean and now I’m having fun exploring the intention behind all my roles and relationships including the one with myself.

     1. “I’m having fun exploring the intention behind all my roles and relationships” I love how you take the seriousness and heaviness out of this pursuit, making it light and playful without losing the sense of commitment and responsibility that it entails.

     2. That’s awesome Elizabeth. I too am starting to recognise how much I identity with the roles I play in life, or even things like my hair…as more recently having had a shocker of a haircut…the attachment I had to my hair really surprised me. It’s so great to be able to see what keeps us separated from our already wonderful selves.

324. “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies. It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.” Love your words here, Rebecca. In the past I was always meeting my ‘issues’ head on, so to speak, and so that became the focus of my life – always trying to ‘fix’ it. No wonder the ‘issues’ never seemed to go away, just more arrived. Once my focus shifted to knowing and connecting with the warm, embracing essence of my innermost, through the Gentle Breath Meditation and Esoteric Yoga as presented and taught by Universal Medicine and its practitioners, miraculously the issues and tensions lessened until I rarely feel I have an issue these days.

325. I found so many similarities Rebecca with my experience of massage and being a practitioner. I had never considered my own health to the level that is called for when you bring energetic responsibility and integrity into the equation. I too practiced sports, remedial massage, ayurvedic, reiki – all sorts of healing modalities but my own vitality was not great. I had deep care for my clients and the work I was doing with them could not be faulted but I was so tired and stretched outside the treatment room that there was a difference between how I was with clients and how I was with myself and my family. My children pointed it out first and I didn’t listen. How obnoxious was that! Now I am not a full time practitioner, I work quite a few jobs and my work in progress is to be exactly the same in all of them, home, work, paid, unpaid, I am the same with everyone – no shiny exterior with a grumpy interior that I save for those who will put up with it! It feels so much more consistent and much less draining.

326. “There is a huge potential for healing here, for me and for those around me, and I am nowhere near a treatment room or a healing couch (!), but simply living and loving my daily life.” It was a lovely revelation for me when Serge Benhayon presented that each of one of us is a practitioner as we go about everyday life and it is asking each of us to go to another level of awareness of responsibility once we understand this – that we each have a responsibility first to ourselves and then to everyone we come into contact with.

327. Rebecca I undertook training in a number of energetic healing techniques and always was left with the nagging knowing that it wasn’t clear to me how any healing could be taking place. Yet in the space of one weekend workshop with Universal Medicine I was introduced to the nature of energy, and how to connect to my innermost so that I could discern energy. Serge Benhayon’s commonsense practical approach appears so simple because it is known from a very deep place within him and us all.

328. ‘When I am connected I love my job, simply because I am being me, and therefore able to be there fully with everyone else. There is a huge potential for healing here, for me and for those around me, and I am nowhere near a treatment room or a healing couch (!), but simply living and loving my daily life.’ Being who we are by being connected is always a healing experience for all we meat, whereever we are or whatever we do. I know for me when I am not connected all kind of ideas and believes about work and life enter and being at work and having to do what I have to do becomes heavy and the only thing what keep me going is looking forward to the end of my working day to go back to the comfort of my own home. And that feels awful because the joy I have when I work in connection with me is amazing, very healing for myself and all others I work with and encounter. Just as you say Rebecca I love my job and I appreciate the joy we bring every day!

329. True Danna! And with this understanding of being a practitioner, it means we are all potentially practitioners, simply by being who we naturally are and reflecting this in our quality of living and our choices. This then offers others the opportunity to feel and make their own choice about connecting to this within themselves.

330. I also love how you have recognised that you don’t need to be in a treatment to support other people. Just being you out in the world is offering such support by reflection.

331. Rebecca what you have shared is beautiful and a true inspiration to me. What I have taken from your blog is a lovely reminder of the responsibility we have when offering treatments to others.

332. “I love the opportunity of learning how to stay connected, gentle and true in everything I do, and in each interaction I have.” This is so simple and yet very profound. If we were to just apply this to all of what we do each day, there is space for such harmony and connectedness.

333. I love what you share here Rebecca and your commitment to self-love and self-responsibility and how this supports and inspires everyone around us no matter what our job is. When we live with a deep connection to love and truth the potential for healing is enormous to everyone we come in contact with. Thank you for this beautiful reminder to take into my day.

334. The Esoteric Practitioner Association code of conduct is indeed a beautiful document to read. The dedication and commitment to living absolute love with self and others is clearly demarcated, which translates to utmost integrity and responsibility in all actions and modalities.

     1. Yes, an authority like no other in the world, I believe, Amelia. I’ve never heard of another body asking its members to hold such levels of love, integrity and responsibility in respect of the people the members hold any relationship with, including themselves.

335. Universal Medicine has highlighted for me how anything that I do that is out of my rhythm, puts tension in my body that can build to more complicated issues. Even trying to be a good student of Esoteric Medicine can create tension. I have found I need to come back to my true rhythm and be very honest about the way I am living and that includes the type of thoughts I have and the way I move and the tenderness I have for myself.

336. It is for sure the missing link in many therapies, the soul. I have for many years done also many therapies and trained in them, and they are either focused on the body function, like you mention with the massage, or the emotional turmoil, as if we could fix that, and getting entangled more and more as we magnify it in our bodies. There was even a time when it was fashionable to express anger, or to express resentment or fear, in the false belief that it would be released from the body. After feeling Universal Medicine therapies, I realized there is nothing to fix, and a lot to connect and claim in ourselves. I agree with you Rebecca that we can nominate it but know that we are more, as you very well put it: “The healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.”

     1. True, the body is so much more than function! It was only when I learnt what my body felt like under all my emotions that I felt the rawness of the initial feeling and how much the emotion I expressed could harm me further. The anger just hurt my body, physically – my jaw hurt, my throat hurt, my muscles felt uneasy – hard to explain but it was really noticeable to me when I had an experience of it not being ‘normal’. Universal Medicine Therapies have been instrumental in supporting me to connect to the essence of who I am underneath so that I can make free choice about the emotion that I express and be aware of the consequence to my body – never saying right or wrong, simply supporting me to be more aware of my body so at least I can choose.

     2. I agree Julie,
        I was involved in therapies prior to Universal Medicine that indulged in excessive amounts of emotional turmoil and found myself more emotionally entangled and questioning the modality I had sought healing in. Like you Julie the missing link was the soul and I soon “realized there is nothing to fix, and a lot to connect and claim in ourselves”.

337. ‘So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ – Rebecca this very profound. That when we are connected to our essence we have more clarity about what is in truth needed to heal ourselves, of course as you say with the support of others such as doctors and other practitioners when needed. This highlights the value of esoteric medicine and how together with western medicine offers the opportunity for us to truly heal ourselves and not just relieve symptoms.

338. It is amazing that while you have stopped practicing as a massage practitioner, you have continued to apply the qualities of a practitioner to your everyday life. It just goes to show that those qualities are not limited to a title that we take on!

339. I like to come back to your blog, because your blog triggers in me a lot of revelations. I like that you stopped working as a body therapist to build your foundation of love first and how you changed your relationship of being a “practitioner”.

340. This is integrity – deciding to give up – maybe temporarily – a role that you were identified with, to free yourself to just be yourself. Everything we do say and even think matters – as it affects everyone with whom we come into contact. Thus as a healer we can do great harm if we do not have this integrity in all aspects of our lives. However we are all healers – or harmers – as we go about our daily lives, as ‘everything is energy’ (Einstein).

341. I love what you bring here Rebecca, the deeper understanding that you have come to about your massage work and the level of integrity that is required to become a practitioner – and the integrity you too have shown in the choices you have made. I find this very inspiring. There is so much here that truly supports people and creates a wider awareness of true healing, I especially like your deeper understanding you have come to on healing. ‘I could feel that all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.’

342. I think it’s amazing Rebecca, that you chose to put a hold on your practice while you took some time out to heal yourself. This is true integrity and commitment.

343. This is such a great blog Rebecca, I wonder how many therapists have a similar feeling of things not quite being right what ever their modality. Your ability to be so honest and open about where you were at and make truly supportive choices for your self and others is inspiring. Letting go of that needing to be a practitioner can be difficult to except, revealing that there may be attachment to that role…

344. Not knowing that we have a soul is like not knowing we have a deep love that resides in each and everyone of us. When you look at it like this it certainly is the missing link, as without knowing ourselves as love we are indeed going to be looking outside for something or someone to fill the void.

345. Great blog Rebecca, I like what you are saying; In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing. This goes down so gently and is welcomed from my body to feel the power and love in this words.

346. That is very profound, what you are sharing Rebecca. You address a lot of important things, e.g. the risk to get identified with the role of practitioner and what healing actually is. Thanks for your shared livingness.

347. Rebecca I really appreciate your myth busting expose’ about how true healing does not require hands on techniques and a string of degrees, but is possible to express in all we do depending on the energy we hold ourselves in, by as you say ‘simply living and loving ourselves and our daily life’. This blows away a not of illusion in our current education model which espouse that the knowledge and techniques we gain as the most valued criteria for are ability to help others.

     Time and time again in these blogs, the testimonials show how our energetic integrity underpins all we do and upon that basis either supports or hinders our knowledge and techniques in being truly effective.

348. I love the truth and clarity that comes through your blog Rebecca that you are simply loving being with you ! the simple honesty and strength and the lack of judgement as well is very inspiring .

349. A truly inspiring sharing of your journey Rebecca sharing that you needed time to build your own loving foundation in your body before treating other people, what a beautiful example you set for other therapists who continue to work on clients when they themselves are tired and exhausted ( I have been there too) To practice esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of life and we don’t need a massage table in fact the whole world is our treatment room.

350. With all that goes in life we develop a harness in our bodies. The trend has emerged with people wanting firmer and firmer massages. I love the gentle touch of Esoteric massage yet it works very deeply with your body. It is like being massaged form the inside out, there is the support physically and the support energetically.

     1. This is true Nicole. I was experiencing people asking for very firm massages and they were not happy with a light gentle touch. This tells us a great deal about how people are living today. People want relief from the hard exterior they build from themselves. I found that firm massage was not the answer as I felt I was trying to break through this tough exterior and people would literally ‘fight back’. The gentle techniques of Esoteric Massage go so much deeper and allow people to let go. So much more powerful and so healing. There is no sense that I am trying to ‘do’ anything, just simply allowing the client to connect to themselves and release what it is they are carrying that is creating the tension in the first place.

351. A beautiful sharing with us Rebecca. The Esoteric Practitioners who have trained with Universal Medicine are incredibly inspiring and dedicated to the work they do in helping others to help themselves – the support is continuous. In your words “they are living in connection to the love within continually confirming a building this love with every choice and every move they make”. What a beautiful example they set for us all – as does this beautiful blog share with us that if we can first ‘heal’ ourselves that then we are ready to help and inspire another to do that for themselves.

352. Absolutely beautifully expressed Rebecca, I particularly like how you have worded this “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing.” – Just beautiful.

353. A great blog Rebecca, beautifully written and full of wisdom. The observation to heal or care for another, means that you have to care for yourself first, before you lay hands on another. Your respect and responsibility for yourself and your clients shines out. And every customer you now meet in the shop is a client and I am sure each one gets a healing from you just being you.

354. Rebecca your story is beautiful and a great inspiration, the truth of healing is to reconnect to oneself. When we choose this we allow ourselves to heal and others. Building ones true foundation first, is the best way to rebuild oneself and let go of any false identifications. Like you say one day you will reconnect to being a true practitioner and the foundation will be on truth, you had to put a stop to the old momentum and identification as a practitioner.

355. I really appreciate this blog and can relate closely. To make such a simple understanding prevalent in one’s life is powerful: “Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming.”

     I’ve started a simple business serving people each day in a simple way, cleaning the exterior of their homes. I can remember being in a more hectic office job wishing I could just ‘be’ and doing this manual work is also, like you said Rebecca, supportive in building the foundation required and super enjoyable when with myself.

356. There are so many sentences, I could highlight, but the one which stands out for me is “I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out.” That is so true. Thanks Rebecca for your amazing blog and your shared livingness.

357. I love the depth and honesty of this blog Rebecca, and agree with Jeanette, but also feel that your comments about the esoteric practitioners in the clinics is also my experience – they are a constant inspiration to me to build and deepen my connection to soul, a connection that is without limit.

358. A beautiful blog Rebecca, I love your honesty and courage. I know that one about identification too and it is such a limiting way of living with oneself.
     To have learned how to reconnect to Soul and work from within out, bringing that true and tender quality to all that you are and do feels so beautiful and a service to so many more now than may have crossed your threshold as a massage practitioner. Neither one is less, it is the quality that is important. So lovely to feel the depth and beauty of your quality.

359. Rebecca my “approach to my work and my own life” has also been “back-to-front” as you say. I have often strived for success in life by trying to achieve goals or objectives that society deems to be successful. This was very much a case of doing life from the outside in and I guess a lot of people can relate to this is the everyday norm.
     But approaching life in this way I have always felt dissatisfied no matter how great the achievement. And your blog reveals why this happens.
     There are feelings laying dormant inside every single person that if embraced and developed can also become our goals and objectives… but these goals and objectives are a different type. These originate from deep within us and work their way out and constitute a true purpose.

360. What a wonderful example Rebecca of the fact that being a healing practitioner is not just confined to a clinic or a couch; there is an opportunity in everything we do, like working in a shop in the middle of London, to be a practitioner. I am learning that it is not what we do that is important, it is how we do it, and as you say, everything that we do is either harming of healing, so for every choice we make there is a consequence.

361. “An esoteric practitioner is not someone who simply turns up and gives a session with a whole load of skills. To practise esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life.” In all the modalities I have practiced (and there have been many) nothing comes anywhere near the level of integrity that comes from the Esoteric practitioners. The science, philosophy, healing and love that these therapies offer is for sure a heaven sent miracle.

362. A truly inspiring article and sharing of your journey Rebecca – sharing that you ‘needed time to build your own loving foundation in your body before trying to treat other people’ what a beautiful example you set to all those therapists (and I’ve been one of them in the past) who continue to work with clients/patients when they themselves are so exhausted and tired. They too need a stop moment and reflect on what energy are they working with when working with others. We all have the amazing ability to ‘heal ourselves’. If we choose.

     1. Yes I agree Marion, this is a very important point- that we need time to build our own loving foundation in our body before trying to treat another. If we have not healed the ills we are trying to support others with then there can be no true inspiration in words, session or reflection.

363. This is such a great testimony about enjoying the simplicity of life.

     1. Tis simplicity that is enjoyable about life, as and when we choose it.

364. What a wise choice to stop what was not feeling right and simple anymore and instead choosing a job that will allow you to learn and evolve and maybe let you come back to your former work with a totally knew approach and power.

365. Rebecca I love what you have shared here about the root of all healing is found in the re-connection. The treating of the body from the outside in and that true healing comes from the inside out and how we become identified with the pain itself, rather than reading its true message of healing and to come back and connect to our soul.

366. Realizing that the ideals we were aspiring to all our lives have been what has held us back in every way is huge. The more we let go of them, the more we are free to really change and find our own strength by living lovingly.

     1. True what you say Michael, the more we let go of ideals and believes the more we are free to really find our strength again.

367. What is so unique and game changing about a session with an esoteric practitioner is that as you say Rebecca they begin from within, looking straight to what they know is true, your soul and work out past the layers of protection, sadness, anger etc.that we have taken on over the years. To be met in this way, with such equality, one soul speaking to another is the absolute gold that delivers true healing.

368. It is beautiful what you say about only treating the pain will never resolve what is underneath, what we have learned from Universal Medicine does clearly show that the pain is just one little issue which can be healed with the help of the enormous love that is our soul.

369. Thank you so much Rebecca for presenting that we do not have to be in a healing room to heal – but that it can be a daily occurrence. “Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming.” – it really is our choice – I love this truth!!!

370. “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul? What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies”. Pure gold that statement – pure gold and just what I needed to hear, thank you.

     1. Absolutely Sarah, this is the awareness that changed my life and showed me that the way I was working was completely back to front. Yes, what we choose to focus on and give energy to simply magnifies. Yes this is pure gold.

371. The Universal Medicine therapies each has a beautiful way of connecting to the inside, as you so well stated Rebecca, the place that the soul resides in all of us, every single person on this planet. When we focus on nurturing the love that is within, it fills the body like a balloon and makes it easy to clear what doesn’t need to be there.

372. A very beautiful and inspiring blog, thank you Rebecca
     What you have written here is so simple yet so divinely wise;
     “The answer to my searching question ‘why’? was very simple. When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection”.

373. This is gorgeous, Rebecca ….’There is a huge potential for healing here, for me and for those around me, and I am nowhere near a treatment room or a healing couch (!), but simply living and loving my daily life.’ …. and so true. How, and what, we share with each other is just as important and powerful as a treatment. Love being reminded of this, so thank you. We are sharing 24/7 and we are individually responsible for the integrity and quality of what we are sharing.

374. ” So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” I love this line. Unless the soul or essence of the person is factored in to any kind of modality then the focus will always be on the issue and restoring function. But if the issue is always foundationally the loss of connection to self, and it’s not part of the session it is literally a merry go round – temporary change or improvement and a return of the condition.

375. “So the root of healing is found in the re-connection” – that’s exactly it.
     When we recconnect back to our real selves, we suddenly realize how simple life in fact can be and how different it will feel. With re-connection, joy, love and clarity will steadily grow and will support the healing immensely, like the roots of a tree.

376. Thank you Rebecca, I love the way you have expressed about being an Esoteric practitioner and the fact we all are practitioners in our own rights when we choose to reconnect to soul.

377. Thank you Rebecca for highlighting that healing takes place in every moment of every day and is not just something to save for the treatment room.

378. Thank you for all these lovely comments. I wrote this blog in 2012 and can still feel its power when I read it. It is such a reminder of what is important to remember on a daily basis. Your comments bring me back to this reminder again and again. Thank you.

379. Rebecca the beauty of your blog lies in the simplicity of choosing to be ourselves and bring ourselves to everything and all that we are and all that we do. By choosing you first and connecting to who you are, you offer the world the reflection of what it is to live as you are, without the need to please others, tick boxes or do anything other than be. Now that is powerful!

380. A beautiful expression, Rebecca, that healing takes place not just in the treatment room but in our everyday living through “simply living and loving my daily life”.

381. Today through attending Universal Medicine events and making choices to the way I live my life the soul is a natural part of my understanding. Before this whilst I had heard about spirit, soul and “things like that” there was no clear explanation that felt true in my body about the meaning of many of these words. The more I look around the more I find both the magic in seeing the soul at work and also the misery when I see the great efforts put out by the spirit to try and mimic the soul in some way. With the soul I’ve come to understand that great simplicity is natural and everything that is not harmonious needs to heal.

382. If we don’t change the underlying energetic imprint nothing changes. Everything is energy!. If we let the body release what needs to be released, energetically, this is when we allow the soul to step a little closer until it sits completely within the body, and that is a magnificent feeling, and this when you realise that life is not about me but everyone else.

383. Wonderful blog Rebecca. Thank you. You describe the very essence of what Universal Medicine represents to me. That true medicine and true healing is in our everyday living, the quality that we bring to our lives in every moment. What good is the practitioners couch if we do not live in a way that’s brings harmony to our lives. Universal Medicine is groundbreaking in this respect. Not pandering to the comfort of clients but empowering them to live love in their daily lives. This is true medicine and it is deeply inspiring.

384. Thank you for sharing Rebecca. I loved that you shared your journey by following what you were feeling. That there had to be more to healing than treating the body from the outside in. Our emotions cause a disharmony that manifests as an ill in the physical body. Thank God for Universal Medicine for teaching how to heal ourselves from the inside out.

385. I had a similar experience and went through the same questions in my professional career as a bodyworker as you. Only by understanding that all emotional and physical conditions have their root cause in disconnection from our very essence first – soul / love – we can truly heal by reconnecting to that essence. From their healing, and not only curing, can finally occur, and medicine, as well as complementary medicine, can assist and facilitate the clients self-responsible healing process. The Universal Medicine Therapies are founded by these principles and leading the way of what true healing is in deep respect for, and collaboration with, classic medicine.

386. The missing link in life is the soul. Living by the guidance of the soul. Universal Medicine have supported me to re-connect to this aspect of myself and to allow myself to live by the wisdom that is so readily available through this connection.

387. ‘Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?’ Rebecca this is a great revelation. The reason why I have found the esoteric healing modalities profoundly healing is because they reconnect me to soul. I have found the changes to be lasting, and not just symptomatic treatment. Universal Medicine has shown me that living in connection with my soul is the best ‘medicine’ ever.

388. ‘Why’ is like the elephant in the room, a question we can shy away from or completely ignore, but one that as a kid I couldn’t stop asking. I loved reading your description of how ‘why’ lead you to the Ageless Wisdom and Universal Medicine. Its beautiful and inspiring to read Rebecca how you never stopped asking for the truth.

389. Rebecca – what a mighty blog! I found many bits gave very useful reflections for me to ponder further on with regards to how my own life is going. What I especially noted was you comment about re-connecting and going straight to the soul for answers, rather than going down all the blind alleys that I have often found myself wandering around in. Although not necessarily easy to do, the simplicity of this is breath taking. Thank you.

390. Great blog as we can become identified in the glamour or need of being what we think a practitioner is, when in truth and actual fact we are all practitioners in life. How I type is no different to how I may treat someone on a massage table. Great to blow the lid of the beliefs we have about what a practitioner is – it takes responsibility, integrity and joy to a whole new level.

391. The truth is simple.

392. “I realised I needed time to build my own loving foundation in my body before trying to treat other people.” I would agree, if you don’t have that foundation within yourself you can’t help anyone else. Treating other people can actually become a tool to escape what is going on for yourself.

     1. This is true responsibility, so is working in a shop and treating people with the love respect and dignity we all miss in our lives.

393. Regardless of the background that someone may have, I love how what Universal Medicine presents is an absolute and extremely simple truth. It is amazing to consider how many different accounts there are out there now from people like yourself Rebecca, all presenting how Universal Medicine changed their lives. It shows how true truth is more powerful than anything.

394. I really enjoyed reading your story Rebecca of discovering true healing. I can relate very much to a lot of what you have written, working with modalities for many years that were still keeping me in my emotions and not really getting to the core of the issues themselves, that is, the disconnection from me. I am deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reflecting that there is another way, a way of living in connection with our soul.

395. What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies – This makes a lot of sense in both ways away and towards the Soul. The more I focus on an issue the issue remains. The more I focus on my body and that light within that too has started to remain. Thank you for this timely reminder Rebecca.

396. Rebecca what is beautiful to see is that you are the practitioner in your everyday Livingness, connected to your essence, by just being yourself. You are a beautiful loving inspiration for others.

397. It’s truly about living it, in everyday life, in everything we do, and this is what Universal Medicine offers, a lived way which supports us to be more love with ourselves and thus others, to take this into everything we do. I love how you’ve presented your journey here, and how obvious it is that approaching something from the fullness of the love we are is so different to trying to struggle with something when we are in less – all that catharsis you mention only just magnifies the same energy, but when we stop and approach it lovingly, everything changes. The foundation of how we look at it is then love and that addresses everything without drama or force needed.

398. This is such a great article to be out in the world for everyone to read. Especially the part about each person having the power to heal themselves, this is such a jewel of knowledge that once lived, as I am discovering, is deeply liberating.

399. ‘Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?’ I love this sentence. It cuts through all the complications we are creating, all the drama and the repetitive non serving behaviours that we cling on to. Why putting on a big show when the way to heaven is laid right in front of us and always there?

     1. I love this question too Esther, that Rebecca has posed, why do we choose drama and complication when we can go straight to our soul, ever present, wise and loving, warm and healing.

400. Thanks Rebecca, you have so clearly outlined what it means to be a practitioner, which in truth is nothing more than a title as it applies equally to any person who chooses to live life with the integrity and responsibility you describe, building and developing a connection to Soul. In that sense you are a more true practitioner in your current job as shop assistant, than as a massage therapist prior. Learning this distinction, and what exactly is healing, is a powerful and game-changing revelation I agree. Having gone through the same transformation many years ago, I can say it is worth gold to understand and live it.

401. It’s beautiful to feel the real connection you have with yourself and your rhythm of living Rebecca. Some days I find I am swept up in the things that need to be done but a gentle reminder is all it takes and back to my own breath, my own movement and rhythm. So amazing really.

402. Rebecca, your writing is beautiful, it flows like a river stream and just washes over me. I love how humble you are, letting go of a modality that you have been doing for so long shows a true commitment to love and truth beyond personal gain and comfort.
     Sounds awesome what you are doing in that shop but honestly I think you will massage again one day and I for one would like to book the first session, I will have to fly from Australia so give me some warning, LOL. Cant wait.

403. ‘When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.’ So many amazing insights in your powerful story Rebecca which demonstrates how most people are searching outside of themselves for answers when all along the key is re-connecting to our essence. Thank you for sharing your inspiring journey with such honesty.

404. Rebecca you have pointed out to things that for me have made Universal Medicine and its modalities stand out from the crowd of other modalities and practices I have studied in my time as a practitioner. The first is the idea of working from the inside out rather than continually trying to manage the symptoms on the outside and secondly the integrity and responsibility required of the practitioner to live in such a way outside the clinic so as to not harm their clients in clinic. Two beautiful philosophies which have been transformational in my work too as a practitioner.

405. Thank you Rebecca. Sometimes we start out in life with a picture of who and what we want to be only to discover that along the way the importance we put on this is outside of who we truly are. As you say, you are healing others and self in connecting with so many people each day in the job you are now in. an inspiring blog to read.

406. Thank you, Rebecca. I have to say that the single most significant occurrence in my life has been re connecting to Soul – that and knowing that there is a hugely significant difference between spirit and Soul, and that Soul is actually where I am at, contrary to all illusory indications to the contrary.

     1. Yes I have to agree Coleen, this distinction is everything… without understanding it, and even more importantly experiencing it, it is very difficult to make true changes. In the health care industry he illusion of change is very easy to fall for, as was illustrated by Rebecca’s blog. Relieving symptoms, temporarily feel better or different, and change for the good is assumed. True change comes from re-establishing a connection to one’s Soul, the actual source of healing in the body, as Rebecca has so beautifully explained.

        1. What a great summary Jenny “True change comes from re-establishing a connection to one’s Soul, the actual source of healing in the body”. Where-ever and when-ever we ignore this connection, true healing and evolution can never occur. And to put this connection simply and in practical terms, it starts with a simple honest connection back to the (gentle) breath.

     2. I agree Coleen. This is everything. It affects our understanding and relationship with life. Before I knew this, I heard the words soul and spirit bandied about but with many variations and without me actually knowing what the difference felt like in my body. When we are in this fog of not knowing, we get buffeted about in life and grab for the latest quick solution on offer or feel good technique.

407. Rebecca, I totally get how you describe being under the weight of an identification and ideal, they certainly do feel like a weight! And how great it can feel to recognise when we are running with an ideal and let it go, let go of needing to conform to something that isn’t really us.

     1. I too have been identified with what I do, as a job and in everyday life. But nowadays I can feel how empty this is, as the identification doesn’t give me anything long lasting. It is only a momentary satisfaction. Whereas being connected to me and allowing my soul to be with me throughout my day is fulfilling and never leaves me wanting more.

        1. I know that too robynjones11, that I try to identify myself with what I do, the job I have etc. and indeed this is very empty as I do now experience as being in between jobs and not able to identify myself with a job. I feel in a way that I am in the neediness of a new job fast because I need the identification from it, while when I connect with my inner self, then this need is not there at all and I enjoy this time with just being me.

        2. nvanhaastrecht this time in your life sounds like an amazing opportunity to go about working from a different basis. I really enjoyed reading your comment. Thanks for sharing.

408. Rebecca – I can feel how much you love your work in the shop and the joy that comes from being you in your daily life…and when we appreciate these loving choices we make, the love and joy expands even more – and others feel this and can’t help but be inspired!

409. Thank you for your beautiful blog Rebecca. When you say…..”.I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do”, I feel that this sums up totally the esoteric way, where just ‘to be’ is much more relevant and important than ‘ to do’.

410. Thank you for your commitment to truth, Rebecca! Beautiful to read and feel.

411. “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” What a great question – and what a great opportunity we have in the sessions offered by Universal Medicine Practitioners to do just that.

412. Beautiful Rebecca, we don’t need a massage table or a treatment room, in fact it does not matter what we do, if we bring ourselves to our work, this is the biggest healing for ourselves and for all those around us.

     1. Yes Mariette, it does not matter what we do as long as we bring ourselves to it.

     2. Being ourselves is certainly our greatest medicine.

     3. The perfect medicine right there and that is to be ourselves. That is where the true healing lies. Thank you Mariette

     4. As i read your words Mariette, my body just radiated with love. Beautiful.

     5. Absolutely Mariette, if we bring ourselves to everything, than the whole world is our treatment room.

     6. We are all practitioners where ever we go in what ever we do as long as we choose to work from our Soul then we naturally inspire others. This is where the healing comes in as others make the choice to be more of who they truly are.

        1. It does not matter where you are and what you do, even sitting in a train can be a very inspirational moment. I have the most beautiful and inspiring chats with my colleagues every day and yes, healing takes place if we make the choice to live and express from our soul.

413. This is a masterpiece, pure and simple.

414. A gorgeous blog Rebecca – and one I know that I will enjoy returning to. I found the following passage really helpful ‘In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing. This was the missing link’. It feels like many of us focus on the pain and allow this to become who we are rather than seeing pain as a call to come back to, and connect to our soul.

     1. So true, Susan, that we can become identified with the pain itself, rather than reading its true message of healing.

        1. I agree Coleen – for so long I have hung on to the pain as a distraction and not been willing to see that I am the only one that can change my life. By accepting responsibility and making different choices I can read ‘its true message of healing’ and now see pain for the blessing that it is. I now see pain as my body lovingly prompting me to change my life so that I can truly unfold all that I hold within.

        2. Yes I so agree coleen24 and Susan. I used to be, and sometimes can still be, very attached to emotional hurts and pain as if they are who I am. My body was filled with emotions from various therapies and counselling (including Primal Scream Therapy) and I’d not got to feel the love of my soul beneath all of this. I’d chosen to think I was the piece of dirt on a magnificent golden statue.

           In choosing to cling onto that dirt I wasn’t letting myself see how magnificent I am beneath, and let that shine out through daily loving choices, and simply accepting myself; both works in progress but both I come back to even when I’ve gone off chasing dirt!

     2. The reason we are so focussed on the pain and physical illness or ailment is because we have lost connection with our soul and we have got caught up in living this way. Rebecca has brought to light what the missing piece to our healing is and a most important part it is!

415. My whole life I felt the missing link was the soul, and I don’t mean the spirit which I used to think was the same thing – they are worlds apart.

     1. Absolutely Dean. The SOUL is the missing link. This is completely different to SPIRIT. This is the understanding I gained from Universal Medicine that led me to make these huge changes in my life.

416. “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies”. This is so true and so simple. Focus on pain and emotional trauma and it increases. If it appears to be resolved it is an illusion for it has only been buried deeper to re-appear magnified and often in a different form but the original cause has not been resolved. Focus instead on the love we truly are and it is magnified. With the strength of love we then have the capacity to address and resolve any unresolved hurts.

417. What stood out for me was ”I know that this modality (massage and bodywork) is very important and I may come back to it in the future, but I realised I needed time to build my own loving foundation in my body before trying to treat other people.” This is a wonderful confirmation for me because I have been feeling exactly the same for some time. Although some doubt can creep in occasionally, I know at this moment in time I am also to build a solid, loving foundation within my body. Thank you Rebecca for sharing.

418. Rebecca, I found your blog healing. As I read I found myself re-committing/connecting to my own soul and I felt touched by and a growing sense of trust from your words, which has left me feeling inspired to continue my own journey of building a body of love.

     1. That’s wonderful pernillahorne. Thank you for sharing.

419. Here here Rebecca! Great article that exposes the meaning of healing.

420. “The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing. This was the missing link”…Not only is there an energetic element to life, which is where many complimentary therapies stop, there is an energetic quality as well. One quality will send you round in circles and the other – the soul – well it’s “The missing link”

421. “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing. This was the missing link”. Thank you for your lovely unravelling about true connection and healing Rebecca, and I felt myself connecting deeper with these words on Soul.

422. An Esoteric Practitioner (one who has a livingness of the understanding of the science of the soul and the universal energetic laws) can support a client to heal whatever one is ready to heal. No matter how great the hurt or deep the trauma, our essence, the soul is never touched by it. When we recognise this then we can understand that true healing lies in the reconnection to our soul and the nomination, renouncing and letting go of everything that we are not.

423. This is a great blog Rebecca, there is no need to be anything, like a practitioner, to feel our own worth in this world. There is so much more than our titles and emotional problems, that it is actually a waste of time to go there..

424. I can imagine the pressure that the title ‘practitioner’ would come with for many as often there’s a lot of pressure of having to fix people and supply the answers. What a refleaf it must be to remove that imposition.

425. It is truly powerful what you have shared here, that you decided to stop working as a practitioner to have time to build up your loving relationship with yourself. Letting go of all the identification with being a “good practitioner”. That is inspiring for me. I also let go of identifications with my job and “being good” in it, realizing, that this attitude prevents me from being the real me and doing, what I do truthful and with fullness, from the source of my soul, instead of the image I created from myself and others. A friend of me is traveling in trains on a daily basis and she says that this is her favorite practitioner room : ) I like that, as I do like how you wrote about the job you are doing now. Thank you Rebecca.

426. Understanding that it is not about going somewhere to be healed, but about having support in healing myself has been the game changer for me. It has shown me that only I am responsible for my health and well being and that I have the power to change how I experience both.

427. Thank you Rebecca, so much of what you said makes sense to me. I was a massage practitioner as well and thought I could heal the world one outside body at a time! As you say – you do not just turn it on when you walk into a room, well, you can, but that is not the integrity we now know is needed to not impose on the client. I too have completely changed the way I work and, as such, now know it is not my job to heal the world but to be myself and inspire others to know that connecting to themselves and their innate stillness and wisdom is what will heal. One beautiful soul at a time.

428. Awesome blog Rebecca. I love how life simply opens up like a beautiful flower when we are in our power and in our truth. Just being who we are is healing enough.

429. This is deeply huge and profound – “each person has the innate ability to heal themselves, and need not be reliant on someone else to be responsible for their health.” I know I for one have given my power away many times to others through a lack of self responsibility to heal me – but the simple truth is I can, and have to do this for myself – yes it’s great to get support and clarity at times, but if we never truly make the choice for ourselves we are going to end up on a miserable merry go round.

430. Thank you Rebecca for your unwavering commitment to love and truth and the inspiration you have brought us in the dedicated changes you have made.

431. Imagine a whole world that knew the simple yet profound truth of this “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies” – every single aspect of the world, our being and our lives could be in a very different place – if we chose to be aware of this.

     1. Absolutely Gyl I love being more aware of this and making positive choices rather than wallowing in the negative which I used to do a lot.

432. “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.” this just makes my whole body smile and feel like a little girl again – because I know it’s true and I can feel it right now.

433. Healing is in our walk, how we write notes, write essays, talk and in everything else in between.

     Well said…

434. Knowing that “each person has the innate ability to heal themselves, and need not be reliant on someone else to be responsible for their health. Obviously modern medicine, bodywork therapies and other modalities have an important role to play in supporting people to heal and indeed are likely to be more effective when supported by the awareness and livingness of daily life when in connection with the energy of the soul.” This was the missing piece – connection with soul – when I practised other complementary medicine therapies. But, as you infer Rebecca, we can all be practitioners, regardless of what we actually do for a living. It is how we are, our quality then can heal – or harm – others.

435. Thank you for sharing Rebecca. What I love about what you have written is that with the first modality you did, body-psychotherapy, you did never really know what you were healing or doing exactly but that the esoteric healing modalities and the teachings presented by Universal Medicine give you the whole picture. That is what I found as well, there are no mysteries with Universal Medicine, it is about re-connection to your soul, your inner essence.

     1. That simple it actually is, to reconnect to our true essence, the soul. With the soul we are connected to the Ageless Wisdom that will provide us with all the answers to life and helps us to heal our bodies and the hurts we have developed from the false life we have lived before.

436. This blog is very supportive and highlights something that many of us feel, I know I have. “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” Allowing moments to reconnect, be still and breath my on breathe has been so supportive for maintaining a connection with my ‘essence’.

437. Great blog Rebecca, I also found that the alternative modalities that I practiced were not really doing what they claimed to do so I stopped and am now practicing the Esoteric Modalities. I am constantly amazed and delighted with the true and real healing that occurs. Thank you so much Serge Benhayon for bringing the modalities to all of us.

438. A cool blog Rebecca on following the path of truth

439. Healing through reconnection…never a truer word has been written.

440. It is true that we can spend years going around issues in our heads and not resolve a single one. We may have greater clarity about our issues (and even used our issues to gain a bit of sympathy or as an excuse) but we are no closer to our soul or finding out who we really are. I have found that connection back to soul is all that really matters. When I do this all the issues and things I think are ‘me’ just drop away.

441. Thank you Rebecca for the clarity and honesty of returning to the true you and not being attached to the identity of being a ‘practitioner’. Everything in this world makes it all about what you do and not who you are and we can so easily fall for this ‘identity crisis’.

442. If we have all the answers within (as we do) then why do we look outside? And if Universal Medicine has the answers to the big questions (as it does) then why are not more people listening. Some people are listening and reaping the benefits as evidenced by these blogs and the photos here: http://www.unimedliving.com/the-livingness/before-and-after/the-before-after-photo-diary/the-before-after-project.html

443. I can feel the simple honesty and strength in which you write Rebecca. And the lack of judgement as well that I find very inspiring. I loved the line “I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do”. Gosh that is so important and the true way forward. I struggle at times with actually living this concept in my life when I get too caught up in the action and not the quality of being but I keep returning to it as when I don’t bring my fullness, the world is less. And that is true for all of us.

444. I love the truth that comes through your blog Rebecca – that you are simply loving being you!

445. I can totally relate to this Rebecca, I worked as a Massage Therapist too and can see now that this really wasn’t it. A deep tissue massage just made people tense up more during the session… and I was taught that this was doing them well. Tension + tension = tension. No brainer. What I have learned through Universal Medicine has made me an incredible practitioner. I used to massage people feeling totally exhausted, run down, always worrying if I was doing a good enough job, empty of the real me. I now work with myself in full, with a body that is vital, with a deep commitment to my own self care and nurture, my own sense of knowing that I am an incredible woman, and I can bring that to people and share it from what I live… it is not out of a book, it is real, tangible and it is true health.

446. I love what you’ve said here Rebecca – “What we focus on and give energy to simply magnifies. It is important to address the tension and emotion that is around, but the healing also lies in knowing the greater and true part of us.” Not dwelling on the ill but not ignoring it either. Being able to look back at the tension and emotion from a connection with who we truly are.

447. Rebecca it was inspiring to read how you let go of the attachment to being a practitioner, and wanting to heal. Recognising and taking responsibility for self and self love is the key.

448. There is real integrity in choosing to step back from the role of being a practitioner if it is to allow yourself to build a greater foundation to then go to serve others from. This type of integrity is key to the esoteric principles where each choice made is known to impact on the quality of care that can be given. I can think of no higher level of therapeutic service and it is great to read Rebecca of your commitment to upholding this standard of care. Those your serve on a daily basis in your customer service role are now benefiting from that quality of care.

     1. Great words Stephen on an inspiring article. There is absolutely real integrity in this and not just from stepping back from being a practitioner but in many ways of being in this world. I too have stepped back, and looked and how I have been living my life – as have many others inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – and gone Ok, that’s not true, that is and how can I bring a more stable, solid, loving foundation on which to stand upon and then truly serve others from. What happens when we don’t build this foundation, exhaustion and overwhelm and burn out prevail.

449. I love that you have chosen to be true within your work – now not just bringing skills but a way of living that supports yourself which then allows you to support others. That’s totally what we need in the world with all professions.

450. Rebecca it is so cool to read about this. Identifying the attachment and then letting it go was an awesome (and brave) commitment to you and reading the words “I am now free to build my own self-love, lovingly, in my own time” feel really powerful to me. I’m giving you a (gentle) high five and a big thank you for the support you have given in writing this blog.

451. Great article Rebecca! The very reason I have been so drawn and inspired to have ongoing sessions with esoteric practitioners is because of their absolute commitment to themselves first and foremost, and their ability to not just turn up, perform learned techniques and send us on our way, but to bring a whole other level of understanding to the issue/symptom being presented.

     1. So true Elodie. When I have had sessions with esoteric practitioners I often feel I have had a healing before they apply any techniques because of the way they prepare, the energy they live in, their expression – in fact their whole being.

452. Giselle thank you. Great that you have taken full responsibility for the way you live, this is huge, especially when working on another’s body as with esoteric healing. No other modality I know of has this level of integrity and true love for the client and their well being. If we do not love ourselves how can we love another? And how can there be any true healing without love?

453. Beautiful sharing Rebecca, you reminded me that the key is connecting to that essence that is us always, first and foremost, rather than getting caught in the outer dramas.

454. Rebecca this is a really beautiful depiction of the way Esoteric practitioners develop and apply themselves with utmost responsibility and integrity. It also therefore reflects the beauty of the Esoteric way of life, and the way of life you have chosen.
     I loved how you spoke about the soul and how our connection with it is what heals. I know I must have heard this a thousand times, but it really connected with me today so thank you for your sharing, I really appreciate it!

455. Yes Rebecca we often have a sense of ‘going deeper’ with modalities, but going deeper into what? The simple connection you describe reminded me that when I connect to who I am, it’s a feeling that has no bounds. This ‘connectedness’ just goes on, limited only by my willingness to feel and explore.

     1. So true Joseph. It is limitless and expansive and there seems to be no end to the depths we can explore. If I think back just 6 months ago, I get to see how very different my life is. I could never have imagined the changes that have taken place. Experiencing the changes and expansion only inspires me to keep exploring.

456. There is an other way of being which goes much deeper than being good at what we do. When we let go of the need for recognition and reconnect with our true self healing can take place for us and those around us.

457. I can totally relate to wanting or trying to be any type of practitioner, one who was wanted or seen to be helping others. Now deep down I realise that genuinely I felt that we all impact each other’s lives greatly on a daily basis. Now I see this in EVERYTHING that we are and do – not just by putting our hands on someone. Also that this impact can either be harming or healing, based on what we are aligned to in the way we live our life. I would have not known this if I had not met the teachings of Universal Medicine, and would still be trying to be a ‘good’ practitioner and most likely actually imposing on or harming people.

     1. Great point Danielle, we impact in everything we are and do.

        1. I’m glad you added in ‘are’ to Lisa, because it’s only recently have I realised that the way I am with myself (the quality that I hold) in every moment, has a huge impact on people. That is the way we are in every moment impacts people enormously, before we’ve even done anything. Wow

458. A great article in so many ways Rebecca , and thank you for introducing the soul and the connection to that part of us that is a sea of love , waiting to be let out .

459. Wonderful post Rebecca, you show us what living and working with responsibility is and looks like in your decision to switch professions. With the understanding that ALL jobs carry the element and potential for healing oneself and in this other people, and not just the bodywork/medical related ones like massage or counselling for instance. Love your words here, from your own insight that: “true healing comes from the inside out”. Indeed, why go to the emotion, drama and complexity, when you can have instead the simplicity and silent sureness of the Soul.

     1. Silent sureness of the Soul, is lovely Zofia. I agree it is beautiful how Rebecca show us how we are all effectively practitioners in every moment, caring for ourselves and others with the way we choose to be.

        1. And is it not fascinating that there are no skills to be learned or goals to be achieved, but just all that is already inside of us to be lived. Joy, love and responsibility lived with tenderness, grace and playfulness will make us change our lives and the world far more than a lifetime of conventional studies and hundreds of academic degrees could.

     2. I agree, Michael – there is not always something visible when we work with Soul, just the quality of our energy. Could that be why it is not so appealing for some – there is nothing to ‘show’ that you are offering healings /. blessings in what you do? It happens in spite of you …….

460. It’s super cool that our choices and how we are with ourselves has a direct impact on our health. For me this means that it’s not all chance and we do have a choice about the quality of life we want to live. By looking within instead of looking outside to everyone else, it brings a level of responsibility for yourself that is second to none. Awesome to realise that, we pretty much have it all.

461. You have made some very wise and brave choices here Rebecca, it can’t have been easy walking away from all that knowledge to learn truth.

462. A beautiful article Rebecca. “The esoteric way of life takes self-love and self-responsibility to a whole new level.” Connection to the Soul is the missing link to Love.

463. 
     So much of what is currently available under the guise of ‘healing’ and ‘alternative therapies’ is at best providing relief. It can keep people in the ‘safety’ of their ‘comfortability’ of living in a way that may not be honouring or even truly caring for their body. And when the pain gets too much then presto!, book another appointment. With Esoteric Healing modalities relief is not on offer, rather it is the epitome of true care starting first and foremost with the livingness of the practitioner. I am inspired to read your discovery of this Rebecca.

     1. Spot on Giselle, with Esoteric Healing Modalities ‘relief is not on offer’. As you say, these modalities offer the ‘epitome of true care’, which starts first with the integrity of the practitioner and how they live that integrity in every moment, not just in their treatment room. It is no surprise that the practitioners who are trained to offer the Esoteric Healing Modalities by Universal Medicine adhere to a Code of Ethics which is second to none.

        1. I found it amazing how innate that desire is in humans to seek relief. That is how our society teaches us to live. It is not until people see or feel in their own body that there is another way to live with integrity and love and responsibility that they are able to discern that there is a choice.

     2. Beautifully expressed Giselle:” With Esoteric Healing modalities relief is not on offer, rather it is the epitome of true care, starting first and foremost with the livingness of the practitioner.”

        1. And this livingness you experience as joy, understanding, stillness and openness as a client is an incredibly powerful inspiration.

464. Living a loving life – you can’t get any more soulful than that!

465. Such an awesome article Rebecca! ‘The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body,’ I love this line!
     I also love how you talk about coming to the workshops etc now as you and not a practitioner looking to further add qualifications to your list of studies. Your understanding of the fact that you need to look after you and deal with all your hurts etc first is so wonderful. I have no doubt that when you’re ready, you’ll return to the world of practitioners and bring so much more than you ever thought possible in the past! You’ll have London at your door step busting for some kindling to radiate their fires within!!

466. I loved reading what you have shared Rachel. It is expressed simply and lovingly and is full of wisdom and absolute truth. Thank you.

467. Rebecca, you have highlighted something that is so important when it comes to true healing whether it is massage or any other modality and that is the energetic integrity and energetic responsibility of the practitioners and the impact this has on the quality of their sessions.
     Being a practitioner of the esoteric is me committing to live in a way with integrity and love and knowing that I bring the totality of all that into every interaction that I have.

468. This is a very inspiring blog Rebecca. It is all through commitment and reconnecting to our Soul that true healing takes place.

469. Treating the body and the being from the inside out is what made the difference for me as well when I was first introduced to Universal Medicine Therapies. This approach is truly empowering and puts the decisions and choices about the healing process fairly and squarely in the hands of the client. And the practitioner need not buckle under the weight of the responsibility for the client, their only responsibility is how they live their life and conduct themselves, whether that be in their work or at home.

470. I felt very inspired reading your blog and how you share that certain techniques learnt to work on healing others or ourselves have been actually burying issues deeper in our bodies, and magnifying them.
     After a lifetime of emotional release type therapies and other cathartic types of therapies, it has been very healing and humbling to start true healing with the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Thank you for your insights Rebecca.

471. I can feel the burden of trying to be good lift as I read your story Rebecca and the freedom to be you without any pressure or expectations. Focusing on your nurturing to support your rhythms feels wonderful too.

472. Rebecca, great blog, for it inspires to follow that which we are and not that which we do.

473. Thank you Rebecca – there is a way to practice which ticks boxes and does what is needed. And then there is a way to practice that comes from deeper within, a way that walks the talk and lives and breathes to appreciate the grandness that we all are within as presented by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Once we really get to feel this for the first time, it completely changes our way of working and living forever more. And then there is no turning back, and you would never dream of going back to the box ticking, when what you have is so much more than you could ever have fathomed.

474. This is great Rebecca. Majority of practitioners (including doctors) would not look at the underlying cause of symptoms or dis-ease even though they may be asking “why”. So, I really think it is fantastic that you have acted on this question. Thank you Rebecca for writing this.

475. These words ‘hit the spot’ for me, Rebecca. ‘I am beginning to feel how being the true me is more important than trying to be something, and that I can bring the fullness of myself into whatever I choose to do’. Identifying with what we do feels to be a non-truth in the body. Bringing ourselves to whatever we are doing, thinking or saying feels like a freedom and expansion in the body. I feel truth that cannot be subjugated.

476. Stunning blog Rebecca. I love how you virtually dropped everything to develop a truer more loving way and can feel how healing this is for you and everyone you are in contact with.

477. As Plato said: “The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”

     1. Wow, thanks for sharing this Adam – how truly wise.

478. It’s amazing that you stopped and asked why people feel better after a session and then come back 2 weeks later with the same problem – I’m really struck by your integrity and the self responsibly you demonstrated in looking deeper into this. I wonder how many people ask that same question but continue on without seeking to know why or change anything.

479. Hi Rebecca, I really love this blog – all that was missing was Soul – quite obvious really, yet none of us did realise it until along came one Serge Benhayon.

480. “I could feel that all the emotional stuff is actually on the periphery, and that this is not who we are at all. In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul.” Understanding this changed my life.

     1. It changed my life, too. I felt the same as Rebecca expresses it, “With this re-discovered awareness I could feel that my approach to my work and my own life had been back-to-front. I had been treating the body from the outside in, and could now feel with a growing clarity that true healing comes from the inside out”.

481. What we focus on magnifies in the body, why then would we focus on what is not us and not our Soul is a very truthful question Rebecca. I experienced the same realisation when I was introduced to Universal Medicine and it makes so much sense. To keep the focus on the hurts and pains in the body and work on relief in these area’s is not actually dealing with the root cause at all and as you say re-connecting to our Soul, our natural harmonious state of being allows the true healing to take place. Thanks Rebecca and Universal Medicine.

482. Thank you Rebecca for a very honest and inspiring blog, I used to think that to be a healer was where it was at but since being connected to self more, and through Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon’s teachings I realise we start with ourselves and as you said Rebecca that you can do an amazing job of healing through your job or where ever you connect with people just being Love and truly yourself.

483. The true harm I feel in many therapies occurs, when they present solutions, that manage symptoms, but do not heal the root cause. The patients leave in the consciousness of “I am healed”, whilst they are not. How much time is lost, that it takes for the symptom to reappear, whilst the ill patterns, that cause the symptoms, are not addressed – are even further indulged in?

484. Very beautiful journey Rebecca from the outside-in to the inside-out, and then from the practitioner to you. I applaud your sense of responsibility of what an esoteric practitioner is all about.

485. Awesome Rebecca – your healing room now holds 100’s of people a day. I love that!

486. I can relate to you Rebecca as I work in a shop also, serving many customers and being offered many opportunities every day for true healing to occur.

487. Isn’t it wonderful when we can help and assist people by just being ourselves, and not needing a label or title to justify the treatment or healing being received.
     It is certainly much easier and I find more joyful when you are just chatting to people in a natural way and they get inspired by you.

     1. I agree Gail. And I am learning more and more how to be simply the natural me – not to impose on others but also not to hold myself back. Just simply be me. There is much freedom and healing in this.

     2. Beautifully said – so much power is out on titles and professions but often ignored is the power of just being naturally you.

     3. Yes so true Gail and so easy – I am still amazed at the impact that a true connection can have. And I am learning to appreciate these moments as well

488. You have pointed out so many great things. We can get on a merry go round with massage or other body work – feeling ‘better’ after a treatment but having to come back with the same problems. How awesome for people to stop focussing in on their problems and getting to know the warmth and power of their soul.

489. At times it can feel like life is bigger than me when I feel this I know I have lost my connection. As soon as I take the time to reconnect the same things can be going on but it no longer feels bigger than me. True healing.

     1. Yes, so simple.

        It just works.

490. Rebecca, I love how you have shared that true healing comes from the inside out. Very powerful and a must read for people who are searching for solutions or cures.

491. Rebecca, So true with the teachings of Universal Medicine brings us back to just being who we are, what a load off! I can remember living in a way that held a role, an expectation, and an identity. Now I have the freedom to just be me, and wow what a difference it makes every day!

492. Thank you Rebecca, I am wondering why I am not always with my Soul in everything that I do? Staying connected to me, my inner wisdom and love just makes every moment and everything I do a divine experience.

493. Awesome Rebecca, thank you! Healing can occur anywhere, anytime, not just with a practitioner 🙂 .

494. Thanks Rebecca, it’s true that healing can happen anywhere, it doesn’t need to be in the treatment room or massage session, but equally at the water fountain at work or on the phone to a colleague. And what we all bring to each other is an important part of that, hence the responsibility we can choose to bring the best of ourselves and to being open to others.

495. This blog is like a healing massage in itself. And what a beautiful way to describe the soul – as a well of warmth. Reading this I felt how this warmth lives in me as well. Your story Rebecca seems to come full circle. For when we serve others joyfully as you do, we all become practitioners, in truth.

496. Thank you Rebecca, what a huge shift to realise that healing does not only take place in clinic, with as you say a bunch of techniques. It can take place anywhere, because true healing arises from connection to our soul in all aspects of our lives and therefore brings healing to all we do. This connection is the missing link, the real missing link that science needs to catch up with, warm, full and residing in every single person whether they know it or not. How gorgeous for all those people who visit your counter everyday to be lovingly served by you, a woman who chooses love in all aspects of her life, bringing grace and healing to everyone you meet.

497. Thank you Rebecca, if we don’t change the energy behind something, nothing changes, it only perpetuates the same. Living to the rhythm of the soul and developing the connection is the missing link.

     1. I agree Matthew re-connection with our soul or inner essence is the missing link and without it we are at best merely relieving symptoms whether they be physical or emotional.

498. I found so much truth and clarity in your blog Rebecca – thank you!

499. I love the way you relate being a healing practitioner to working in a busy shop, Rebecca. Connecting with your soul and knowing it is greater than all the stresses that are happening around you applies just as much in the shop as in the healing room.

500. Thank you Rebecca, for the depth of integrity you share here and have. It is the quality that you describe here that ALL practitioners should have if they wish to truly serve and support humanity.

501. So Simply put Rebecca. Why focus on the small issue instead of the wholeness of who we truly are?

502. The dedication to self integrity in every moment, in every expression is the deepening connection to soul. Beautiful.

503. How many people in the world would pay every penny they have to connect to their soul… many do with gurus, trips to ashrams, spiritual courses, climbing mountains. And yet with the Gentle Breath Meditation – which is now available free on unimedliving.com, we can connect to ourselves, and with development and commitment live that connection more and more each day… Wow what a blessing!

504. Great wisdom to share with the world, your discovery within yourself that “..the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” I have also felt this within my self, being open to being still and being honest how my body feels has opened up the potential to heal.

505. I can fully appreciate that delving deep into emotional problems only serves to magnify them, this has certainly been my experience. I love how this article simply presents that we can bypass that and create a connection with our soul, a place that has no emotional baggage but is the essence of who we are.

     1. Stephen it is great that we can by pass emotional problems and make connection direct with soul, which allows us to feel the essence of who we are.

506. Beautiful, Rebecca, I love the tiny sentence here ‘the root of healing is found in the re-connection’. And it’s pretty special how you realise how you are still serving other people to see and feel this so much, without even hardly touching them with your new role, but still letting them feel how amazing you are in your own re-connection.

     1. Yes Gill it is very special realising that it is all about re-connection, in every aspect of our lives, and knowing whatever role we have in life, it is the quality in which we are living which is a blessing to everyone else.

507. Thanks Rebecca for clearly claiming the missing link in massage / body work as the connection to our soul.
     I too can relate to what you had written, and have found that if you are not connected to your soul yourself you cannot facilitate true healing in the session as a practitioner.

508. I love the simplicity and clarity you write with Rebecca and the simplicity and clarity of what Universal Medicine presents. It only highlights again how often we get caught in the struggle and stresses of everyday life, when truly all that stuff is outside of us, I love this line, “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” – it just make so much sense.

509. “In the centre of us, at our very essence, is a big well of Love that is our Soul. The Soul has a warmth that when kindled can radiate throughout the body. This energy is healing…”
     These words are so clear and so lovely to read and know.
     Thank-you Rebecca.

510. Rebecca, I can totally resonate with your experience and view on the work as a bodyworker with a slant on the emotional side of the things. All those emotions and pains – now looking back, the more identified I became, the more I believed I was getting to know my true self. The release I though was happening was just me letting it overtake me. And I used to call that approach ‘holistic’ – when the most important thing of all – the Soul, was completely missing, and there was in fact nothing holistic about it. That’s evil.

     1. Fumiyo, it’s so true catharsis in this way is really just letting our issues over-run us – I never saw it to clearly before. And worse there’s such a self identification in it, the drama of it. Reading this and Rebecca’s blog again today I suddenly have such a clear picture of what true healing is truly about it’s those consistent steady steps. And something in what Rebecca you shared about how everything we do is either healing or harming, every word, every mouthful hit me, it really is that granular, and that dedicated, and it starts with how we treat us – there’s no off switch ever, and therefore we always have the power in us at any given moment to make our next choice a loving one.

        1. So true Monica. In every moment, in everything we do, we have a choice – heal or harm.

511. Rebecca this is a gorgeous read and I feel deeply warmed and inspired reading it. ‘Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming.’ With this knowing and commitment, which shines out here, the world is a far richer place with you being you.

512. I loved reading this! It is so simple. It is our Soul that is missing from daily life on earth. Without Soul, we have all that we have.. separation, depression and sometimes complete mundaneness. Well Done Rebecca for stating this so clearly.

     1. Agreed, harryjwhite!

     2. 
        Harry, what you write is great. Yes, the choices we make on our own don’t lead to lasting well-ness. Now all we need to do is explain what it means “to be with your soul”…

     3. On the money Harry. The missing link is the Soul. Years ago I used to see a “brilliant” practitioner who used to do body work, who did something similar to body psycho-therapy, and I say “brilliant”, because he understood intimately how the body worked, and knew exactly what muscle to massage and to deal with any injury. Once I saw him after twisting my knee so badly in a hockey game that the physiotherapist on hand wanted to take me to hospital, thinking I would need months off. I went straight to this guy instead, and he had me straight back on the hockey field within a week.
        Some would call that miraculous healing, but looking back now I realise that he was actually assisting me to bury the root cause of my issues, and whilst he improved my functionality for a while, there was not true healing, for there was no support to assist me to understand how I was contributing to my injuries by the way I was living. This was proven by the the fact that as good as he was, my injuries always came back, even though often I was connecting with the so called emotional issues as well during the session. The key was, my behaviour never changed. There was never any TRUE self reflection. And so because there was never any healing at the true root source, I was free to continue reliving my patterns and repeating the same injuries time and time again.
        Enter Universal Medicine – an absolute game changer.

        1. Thanks for sharing this real life experience, the difference True self reflection and healing the root cause , rather than shifting the issues around the body. This equals true healing.

        2. Wow Adam that is so amazing to hear! It is really confusing for people who are seeking healing because there are just so many ‘healers’ out there who can do things very well but exactly what energy are they using to treat the condition?

        3. ……..and is the person seeking TRUE healing? or just something that can take the symptom away temporarily.

513. Yes it’s such a relief when we let go of trying to be anything but ourselves in any situation and it makes such a difference in the healing room when we meet a practitioner who knows exactly who she is.

514. What a beautiful sharing Rebecca, I love this and it is so true: “Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” Why indeed!

515. This is a very powerful article, full of wisdom.

516. Thank you Rebecca for your awesome Blog. Truly inspiring and so true, we are all practitioners and heal ourselves through the daily choices we make.
     I can relate to having everything in my life back the front and upside down in the past.
     Thanks to Universal Medicine I too have been able to make loving choices that now support me and my body, and so the healing process continues through these loving choices.
     No more back the front or upside down, unless of course I choose it!

517. Absolutely true Samantha, I have also wondered what the difference was between spirit and soul, and thanks to Universal Medicine I now know the difference, and true healing can begin.

518. What a great story… And so honestly and simply revealing the shallow and valueless practices and therapies that we, myself included, have pursued in our search to connect with something that was truly healing. To have done a four-year psychotherapy training and then to just honestly say… No that wasn’t it, is just great. With such an investment of time and money it could be really difficult to actually nominate something like this, and then to walk away, but Rebecca has done this, and in so doing makes it possible for others to consider what they had invested in, and to be inspired to feel what is actually true and actually healing.

519. Thank you Rebecca, beautiful post. I love the phrase “Over time I also realised that I had been under the weight of the identification and ideal I had of myself as a ‘practitioner’, and knew that I needed to let this title go.”. I can relate to that up until this day. There are so many beliefs and / or ideals about being a practitioner, professional or even human being. One of the biggest one for me was: having to be loving (whatever that means) all of the time. An identification that Loving is a doing, where in fact it comes from / radiates from the being. So yes, the Soul IS the missing link.

520. Thank you Rebecca for reminding me how I, too, wandered around in my life, knowing that a connection to something was what I yearned for but didn’t know how or what I needed to connect the ‘dots’ in myself or my life. Universal Medicine opened up the possibility of what that missing link was – my Soul. I thank myself for walking into a hall in Ewingsdale and listening to Serge Benhayon!

521. Rebecca what you have shared is colossal. You so clearly describe that if we are not being our true selves when we are with others then there can be no true healing despite the amount of techniques and knowledge we have acquired. I too spent years harming others as a disconnected yoga teacher ! And yet if someone is truly being themselves then they can heal others in anything and everything that they do. Holy schmolly it’s a game changer !

522. This is a super powerful and amazing blog, I love the simplicity and practicality of it. It just makes so much sense and it feels amazing to not give our power away to anyone (ouch!) in the sense of looking for someone else to fix our issues when in truth we can do this ourselves in how we simply choose to live each day ( support along the way is great too). It feels so amazing and so freeing and puts all those emotions, stories and woes to rest. There are so many parts of this blog I love, today it felt awesome to read this ” Why focus on the tense muscles and the physical pain, or the emotional turmoil that is creating them, when you can go straight to Soul?” Thank you Rebecca.

523. I love the simplicity of what you are doing now, letting yourself just be yourself rather than having to prove yourself to anyone. There is true Power in that.

524. Rebecca, your commitment to wanting to know why is admirable. Because you would not settle for anything less or sell out to what is easy, you found your missing link (Soul), and all the pieces fell into place.

525. Your story is awesome Rebecca, even before your life changed because it is a part of your unfolding journey of who you are today.

526. When Serge Benhayon explained that there was a spirit and soul, that was a real turning point. Before it was all about the spirit yet the spirit was just loving the attention, no wonder I was going round and around looking for something else, that being the soul and a connection to it. I have walked a similar path as you Rebecca, thanks for your story, its lovely to hear you are a practitioner of you and our real job is to just remain connected.

527. “What this actually means is that each person has the innate ability to heal themselves, and need not be reliant on someone else to be responsible for their health.” This is so powerful for us all to realise we hold the key to our health and it is not down to luck or someone else’s responsibility.

528. Rebecca your article is sprinkled with pearls of wisdom. When I first came to Universal Medicine I was desperately seeking a career change to work in the ‘helping industry’. But as I came to understand that I needed to develop a relationship with myself before even considering the practitioner path, I have found that the quality of my relationship with myself affects everyone, so it does not matter what position I hold, it is how I live my life that makes a difference (or not). Building that quality is still a work in progress.

529. Rebecca, this is timeless. I woke up today with whole lot of worries about money and working situation which I am in. Then I started reading your blog-and the tension was releasing. Connection to the soul-that’s the most important thing. Somehow I always thought that it is easier to do it when you have plenty and you don’t need to think how to pay your bills. But now I feel more and more the importance of connecting first.
     There are so many amazing insights in your article and I will reread it again but today’s message for me is connection.Thank you with love

530. Rebecca, you have explained this so clearly. The simple way to live and re-connect to our soul first does feel so true. If we live in connection to what’s out there, without “the link” of finding and living in self-love, we become and remain disconnected and confused, until such time that we re-connect to our essence again. Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for showing me that I can reconnect so simply. I feel so fortunate that we met.

531. All around us In the world are people living and doing what they believe the world expects of them. To live thIs way is hard work because the goal posts keep shifting There Is one thing though, that does remain constant and that is the essence of who we are on the Inside. If the world connected and lived from this place the goal posts would no longer be changing, connection, consistency, equally and love would be the way of the world. Living from the inside out is the answer. Thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for Introducing and inviting us to go there.

532. Rebecca it’s so true the missing link is the connection to our souls. I practiced a body based psychotherapy modality that never felt truly right to me and never really offered healing for me or my clients.
     Since my involvement with Universal Medicine and hearing the difference between the soul and the spirit, everything changed for me. Only from the reconnection to our souls can true healing can occur.

533. Thank you for your post on what it means to be an esoteric practitioner. I had never given consideration to the lengths the practitioners went to in their personal lives. ie. every bite of food.

534. Having studied Esoteric massage, I wanted to share this incredible modality further and felt to do a bit more study, so I recently completed my certificate 4 in massage. It has been interesting experience to feel the difference in what can be offered through massage my experience is that can be relaxing and bring relief or it can offer an opportunity for the individual to re connect deeply with their bodies and truly heal.

535. How different it is, looking outside of myself to have my body fixed by a practitiioner which is what I used to do, than to taking responsibility, connecting with myself and having treatments by Universal Medicine Practitioners who are deeply connected to their true essence – and the quality and integrity with which they practice and live and reflect to everyone.

536. “When we allow life to take over we can become disconnected from our very essence, and this in turn creates stress, disharmony, tension, illness and so on. So the root of healing is found in the re-connection.” This says it all for me and when we discover this for ourselves our lives completely change.

537. Hi Rebecca, I have spent a lot of time focusing on all the problems and issues, but now I’m focusing on the soul and that reconnection has in itself, taken care of so much. It is true healing to live connected to the soul. It was a joy to read your story.

538. What a great story of your own personal journey of healing and unfoldment , With the Esoteric healing /teachings helping to bridge you back to your connection with soul. From there it becomes a matter of choice.

539. “An esoteric practitioner is not someone who simply turns up and gives a session with a whole load of skills. To practise esoterically requires an outstanding amount of integrity, and a responsibility and commitment to living true to oneself in every area of one’s life. Every movement, every word, every thought, every choice, every mouthful of food is either healing to the body or harming. The Love and responsibility needs to be to self first, before one can be there for others. It takes time to build up the energy of one’s loving choices in the body, and it takes patience and dedication to remain committed to oneself in that way. The esoteric way of life takes self-love and self-responsibility to a whole new level.”

     I love what you have shared here! I was a massage therapist, and then wanted to know more so learnt Reiki and then did a diploma in Herbal Medicine… along with many other short courses always searching for more too.. and throughout that time, not once was I asked or did I stop to consider how I was living and how that would impact on my clients. It was not until I attended the presentations by Serge Benhayon that I had a massive wake up call and started to realise that the effect of me and how I lived, was actually effecting everyone around me and everyone of my clients.

     The esoteric way of life really does take self-love and self-responsibility to a whole new level.

540. So many modalities that leave you feeling so empty. Coming to Universal Medicine and having sessions is the most deeply healing modalities in the world.

541. Hi Rebecca, thanks for your article. It will be a great day when the world becomes aware of what a huge responsibility comes with working as a practitioner.

542. Hands-on Healing is indeed a lovely way to support the body. Just as a lovingly prepared meal can nourish the body. With Universal Medicine I learned, how ‘being’ in the body for me is the main key to health.

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