by Alan Johnston, Pottsville, Australia
A simple truth about Universal Medicine is that it is: 1) universal and 2) medicine. This is my experience. ‘Please explain’, as Pauline Hanson once said.
So there I was, (un)happily faking it with the best of them… and had the trappings to prove it – including a holiday shack on a remote South Pacific island. All that sashimi swimming along the outer reef.
And, not so many years ago, I undertook a Masters in Social Documentary Photography and photo-shopped it into my life as a ‘creative pursuit’.
Also, I’d been through a ‘Who’s Who’ of teachers and gurus and had a clutch of certainties that seemed to stand up – although a nagging, never-healing bedsore of a question was “why am I at times run by a kind of self-loathing, that when given in to, leaves me feeling flat and joyless?”.
Given all that, when I first encountered Universal Medicine, I was hypercritical. I hadn’t really allowed myself to feel just how deeply disillusioned I had become.
In any case, I committed within myself just enough to attend a few Universal Medicine events and to have some sessions with Universal Medicine practitioners. Something like, “one more wary circuit before I really clock off and head for that palm-fringed lagoon”.
During a session in those first months I became aware of what it felt like to not be who I really am – to have “turned my face from God” (my words). That was the downside. The upside was a homecoming that was just Angelic, a roomful, pure and joyous.
The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
The joy and love of knowing you have reconnected to truth.
The journey along Universal Medicine is the path of coming back to ourselves.. as simple as that
“The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.” It is so simple isn’t it, returning to be our true selves and inspiring others to do the same. It’s something we should deeply question that we have a society where we have almost all moved away from being our natural loving selves, and created a life to support the misery of that emptiness with oodles of distractions. Life would be so different if everything we did supported everyone to be the natural essence of love they are.
Living with my face turned from God has left me in a very crooked position with a sore neck, and eventually I had to admit that it was actually so unbearably painful and start undoing that.
Returning to God is, in my words, taking our bat and ball and returning home. The game is up, so when we realise this we can pull up stumps and see the games we have been playing and start to make loving choices that serve us and humanity.
Being ourselves in full is Universal Medicine “medicine for all”. Business aside, one would think that we would jump at this chance of being ourselves in full, but it exposes our choices and what we are invested in to not be ourselves.
The way you write Alan is so interesting, a lot of the time I question whether I have actually understood what you are saying in each sentence – but at the end of the blog, I always get the message of what is coming through…. reminds me of another author I know 😉
I am glad that you didn’t clocked off Alan and that the palm-fringed lagoon is no longer in sight as you’ve made the choice to embrace in full Universal Medicine.
When we live with the illusion that all the trappings and indulgences of human life are more important than our quality of relationship with ourselves and others we are only deceiving ourselves.
The one medicine we all need to heal that we once “turned our face from God”, the ultimate source of all our suffering, reminding us of who we are and where we come from and facilitating the path of return.
A simple, yet totally life re-defining truth – I love everything about Universal Medicine and the opportunities it offers to rediscover that how grand we in fact are.
A true ‘sashimi’ capture of Universal Medicine.
Universal Medicine – a living way, the one medicine for all of us to be once again who we truly are.
Universal Medicine is exactly what the name says. Medicine for ALL and what is better medicine than reconnecting to Love / God / who-we-truly-are
What you have introduced here is the service to humanity in our returning to the truth of who we are.
A simple truth and a simple yet powerful reminder Alan, thanks.
Photoshop is an invention created out of our constant photoshopping of life, trying to believe that one thing is a bit different to what truly is and buying into it.
It sure is a Universal Medicine, that even if we don’t choose it, it is forever calling us to be more with out pressure or judgement, just a constant holding with love.
When I first encountered Universal Medicine I just couldn’t get what Serge Benhayon was talking about, yet I could sense something I had not come across before which kept impulsing me to return. I listened and as I began to gently discard that which was not true and what I thought was me, what was being presented started to make sense. On reflection it is incredible to get a sense of what I chose back then to what I am choosing today, and with every step I choose what I know to be truth and I am closer to the knowing and living of the love I am.
Thank you Alan, it’s a great line about our responsibility for ourselves “I became aware of what it felt like to not be who I really am – to have “turned my face from God”…”. Usually it’s human beings blaming God, not a human being taking responsibility for turning away from God. And this really summed up the simplicity and inclusiveness of all with what Universal Medicine presents “The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.”
It is so much easier to name, shame and blame rather than take responsibility for our own behaviour and choices. The biggest blame of them all that I have felt in my body is blaming God for letting me go and for letting bad things happen. There was always a nagging feeling that I had some part in it all though, and it was my shame that I had turned away from living all of who I am, that held me from admitting it and in my shame, I joined in the naming and the blaming of God.
Universal Medicine is a form of medicine that does not cost the earth and is accessible to every single one of us. It’s key ingredient is an open absolute honesty to seeing that there is more going on in life than meets the eye.
It feels to be remedial of all ailments in life when we come back to knowing our place in the Universe.
‘Homecoming’ is a common experience of those who attend Universal Medicine presentations, and it was for me, too.
It’s a true feeling of home, of all that we truly come from. It could be said that it’s a Universal homecoming!
A way of living that re-ignites and deepens our connection to Soul, to who we really are, all of us equally so, is indeed truly a medicine that is universal. Thank God for Universal Medicine for offering a tangible way that this can be lived.
Alan, the joy of rediscovering yourself. A divine event.
A beautiful description of your experience – in a nutshell.
In disconnection to the all, we can easily get seduced and taken by the illusion and glamour of life. It is only through our commitment to self and healing that we can once again live the grandness within.
Very true, Francisco, to live again one’s grandness does not just happen, one has to commit to it, work at it and persevere.
So well said, our perceptions of life and the very dogged belief in our choices make Universal Medicine and its modalities a standout healing for all. Yes, I am sure it was and is challenging for many when they connect with the undeniable truth and wisdom that is brought again to the fore front of our minds. For deep down, we know it. Being willing to surrender to it and again implement it in our lives is very much a committment to Truth, that eventually exposes that which we held so dear actually kept us imprisoned.
There is much truth in simplicity and your writing reflects this beautifully. Thank you Alan.
Great, joyful and honest account of ‘living the dream’ versus living a true life.
I remember the awful feeling I had in my body as it started to dawn on me that the life I was living was one where I was being everything everyone else wanted me to be, and not being who I truly was, Universal Medicine have really helped me to let go of who I’m not and live a life from who I am, truly amazing.
Alan I’ve loved the simplicity of how you shared what Universal Medicine presented for you, often the problem for some, is how it is perceived and received.
Like yourself, since my encounter with Universal Medicine and practitioners that the REAL me is emerging through more and more. My relationship with myself has developed to whole new level and in all honesty no other modality has ever assisted me in achieving this. It is ‘Universal’ and it is a form of ‘Medicine’ – it is that simple.
Spot on Alan, Universal Medicine supports you to be who you truly are and then you take this to the world and others get blessed and inspired to also be themselves – true brotherhood in action.
Universal’ . . . ‘Medicine’, I agree Alan, those two words put together say it all!
Universal Medicine is the homecoming where you can know that this is all you have been missing and seeking and rediscovering the magic of who you truly are.
We are very well trained not to be who we are. Yet, this is not really understood by humanity who by and large think that we are who we are. In spite of all our effort, though, there is enough truth inside us to easily feel when we are connecting to something that resonates very deeply with it. Our universality spark never ceases to exist and we can feel when it lights up. The universe becomes our home again. Universal Medicine brings the universe back to us and helps us to feel the extent to which we are universal units of light.
To re-unite to that which I have masked, I must renounce that which I am not.
Me, just being me, that is Universal Medicine, and with that connection, the being that is not me can be healed.
That is the thing with Universal Medicine – it has to be for all and as far I can see it we are definitely missing the Universal part right now.
You paint such great picture with the way you write. Universally, deep down we all want to heal the parts of us that feel empty or unresolved. Universal Medicine simply gives a window into what is possible if you commit to living in a way that truly supports you. It shows us that we have it all already and it’s about removing the layers in order to discover our own treasure. When we have a mark to feel who we really are and what we are capable of it makes it a lot easier to commit to yourselves.
Once we realise that we have a choice as to the quality in which we live our lives, we then can see how crazy it is to accept the duality and tension of the uncomfortable seeking comfort lifestyle as ‘normal’. For in the ‘deemed’ normality of seeking of comfort to mask our unrelenting unsettlement, we relinquish the opportunity to learn, grow, heal and evolve to a greater and far more liberating quality of life through deepening our connection to Soul.
From this article it would have been difficult to give someone that was in that position anything. It seemed like they had it all and yet still didn’t have it. From a material point of view it doesn’t make sense to us, it can’t be and yet how many times do we see the same thing. I remember and still now see that no matter what I ‘achieve’ or gain, collect, or have, nothing comes close to; “The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.” You may ask what that looks like or just see it as a throwaway line but from where I stand and have stood there is no other way, nothing else comes close no amounts of island getaways can replace ‘you’.
I love how you convey deep profoundness with such light-hearted playfulness. From turning our face from God to claiming the truth of us being us – that is what heals, that is universal, and that is medicine.
OMG Alan, you are hilarious! Living the life with all that sashimi swimming around!
Thanks for keeping it light but oh so solid!
You are right Alan, in your words “a simple truth about Universal Medicine”. We tend to complicate our lives and Universal Medicine, as presented by Serge Benhayon simplifies life for us with the Ageless Wisdom.
That’s correct Alan. It is a simple truth about Universal Medicine – discovering more of you where it is you, you discover and, it (You) deepens and expands.
Universal Medicine is indeed universal and medicine. Its name captures exactly what it is and offers.
Alan, very beautifully expressed, it is just that, a homecoming that reignites the fire within.
I agree, it’s the best medicine there is. Before Universal Medicine I used to only think of medicine as pharmaceuticals but since listening to presentations and experimenting with my own life, it’s clear that the best medicine I can take is the choices that affect my body day to day and moment to moment. It’s so cool that we can choose to be part of our own medicine.
I like how you describe how even when our lives are flat, full and joyless we will defend them – it’s so true, even when we know something is wrong we’ll defend our life and our choices to the end, but what if… we simply embraced something new? And it could take us back to the truth that we long for?
As you say Alan, the upside of Universal Medicine is healing, offered to all equally, for our choosing;
‘to have “turned my face from God” (my words). That was the downside. The upside was a homecoming that was just Angelic, a roomful, pure and joyous’. I love this expression, thank you.
With the indulgences and trappings of the emotions and comforts of modern day life fueling us it can be difficult to realise that all they do is further bury the fact we are disillusioned with our lives and the world around us and don’t quite know what to do about it.
I hadn’t really realised how disillusioned I was with life either. But with receiving the most amazing education through Universal Medicine, I understand life so much more and that there is a purpose, I have a purpose and that that purpose is not about seeking achievement, or needing recognition or acceptance, it’s not even a job. It’s about understanding what makes life and people tick and living a life of love to the best of my ability, being loving with myself first and then naturally everyone one. This certainly doesn’t happen overnight and is very much a work in progress, but the most worthwhile progress I have bee involved in, in the whole of my life.
And what a simple deep and abiding truth this is, that Universal Medicine is here for us all.
A great line Alan “The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.” we seek outside ourselves for the truth never realising that who we truly are is the ultimate truth for all. And, no island or luxury can surpass the joy of living this true self.
Universal Medicine presents to us the simple truth, and when we embrace this our life changes in amazing ways – the greatest feeling is to return to who we truly are.
I was just thinking how ‘I love simplicity’ – and this confirms the fact. The simple homecoming to ‘who I really am’ has been the end of the ‘endless’ search for happiness in exchange for the deep sense of fullness that is that connection to me. It is incredibly simple. God has never abandoned me (or us) but has been here all along – waiting with infinite patience for me to realise the fact and to stop searching for that which I already am.
The sweetest Medicine of all is Universal. Doing our own healing allows us to see how we have fooled ourselves that we are separate. It exposes what we are not, and in doing so we find home has never been too far away, it is right there with us.
Love how you bring the simplicity here Alan, we can make life so complex when we walk away from our universality….those ‘palm-fringed lagoons’ never satisfy the call from within us to be at one, and home with ourselves.
Thank you Alan for sharing your homecoming to the truth of you being you. This is the amazing feeling I felt when I first heard Serge Benhayon talk, in that moment I knew I had come home,
I have been attending courses, presentations and workshops with Universal Medicine for over 10 years. Today during a session with a Universal Medicine Practitioner it was a beautifull reflection, appreciation and confirmation of how far I have come and currently am attending an Esoteric Massage course which is OMG Absolutely AMAZING. The world is blessed with the teachings and healing modalities Universal Medicine bring and that is definitely the truth.
The ancient teachings of Universal Medicine offers us the opportunity to connect to and return to that which is known deep within us all, our divine relationship with the universe.
I have to agree 100% about the simplicity of the truth of Universal Medicine – that it is medicine for all, even those held up on a remote island, and especially those of us that are often “run by a kind of self-loathing, that when given in to, leaves me (us) feeling flat and joyless”. What Universal Medicine offers is the most potent prescription for a life of joy that I have ever been presented with.
‘The upside was a homecoming that was just Angelic, a roomful, pure and joyous.’ The start of the return to where we belong to, we being divine and an equal part of God. Life gets purposeful in serving others, reflecting the love that we all are and how we can let go of what is not of our true origin.
Beautiful Alan . . . “The truth of me being me,” . . . totally outweighs the need to . . . “clock off and head for that palm-fringed lagoon”. Such is the power, the joy and the healing qualities of Universal Medicine.
‘Having turned our face from God’ – the root cause of all our woes. Turning towards Him brings up the pain and realization of having walked away from our divine nature and it can be tough at times to face that, but it is coming home, arriving, settling and recharge life with true purpose once again – it is the only way home.
“why am I at times run by a kind of self-loathing, that when given in to, leaves me feeling flat and joyless?”. This is a great question and one I hear repeated often. We can spend years in therapy analysing or searching or just waiting for the answer to this question. It seems most of us have an idea that the answer lies in some one else or something else and if we do admit to it being our responsibility we have no idea how to change things for a lasting change, one that endures and allows us to keep changing on all levels. The Healing in Universal Medicine is one in which we take responsibility for more than we ever have before and it is an ongoing unfoldment, so to speak, as we get to appreciate ourselves and life and live life in a different way.
Alan we are all struggling with the lovelessness being reflected to us from the world around us. This feeds the common subsequent reaction we can have of turning our ‘face from God’ (your words) and dare I say even blaming God for our own choices and reactions to the disconnection, hurt and disillusionment we feel with each other that is weighing us down. But I am starting to wonder if God has got a raw deal in this blame game and shouldn’t for it is our actual disillusionment not only each other but with some of the traditional religious beliefs still being held today which are no longer current that is the issue. All this is only being further exacerbated by our inability to let go of our own hurts and patterns and this is the real culprit and sabotage of our disillusionment, not God.
When I look out in the world… ‘unhappily faking it’ captures it all really…. Interestingly you could say most are doing it unconsciously, playing a game they didn’t even realise they had signed up for, wearing whatever mask suited the parade of the day. From my experience we fell for the games and facades, accepting them as our reality… until blessed, like you experienced, by a true way that requires no faking.
Ah the misery of it all. The spiritual answers, like bandaids that don’t quite cover the wound. Thank goodness they don’t, because it is always wiser to see the festering. It means we never quite fake it as effectively as we would like.
And how else would we know we need our Medicine if not for the bed sores that take the spacious draft of Universality to heal. Thank God for our bed sores that prevent us from falling fast asleep and forever…
I love your humour Alan as you describe something so incredibly serious. We think we have life made, and under control but that life we settle for is so incredibly far away from what is possible.
“The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.” Thank you Alan, Universal Medicine stands for nothing but truth, a truth that is not lived by many and can be confronting yet ultimately this truth is where we all come from. Universal Medicine has done nothing but inspire people all around the world to live Their truth and not the truth of another.
‘Universal Medicine stands for nothing but truth’ – beautifully said, and my absolute experience too, Universal Medicine present a truth we all ultimately know, but most ultimately ignore.
I like the simplicity though truth of your article Alan
An Angelic homecoming, nothing would be more joyous – love your style Alan.
When the truth is there and you know it and you’re ready to accept it there’s no stepping away.
What a simple way to share your experience of Universal Medicine. It shows how the quality of the work can be felt without having to read a long account. Thank you Alan, a real stop moment.
‘The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.’ – Such simplicity and wisdom expressed here Alan -always a joy to read thank you.
The lure of a ‘palm-fringed lagoon’ is desolation and isolation when a choice to return to reconnecting to yourself, God and humanity is offered. Universal Medicine is the balm and ocean of love that brings us home.
I love the simplicity and to the point in the way you express Alan. “The truth of me being me and that is Universal Medicine. Healing and for all”.
Alan, what really struck me was your simplicity. We can make things very complex in life, and then find it hard to “understand” and try to “figure out” what is being presented to us by Universal Medicine, when in fact like you say Universal Medicine is “1) universal and 2) medicine”. Serge Benhayon keeps presenting the same thing, and it is until we all allow ourselves to claim and know these truths for ourselves once more. To accept the simplicity, and let go of the hardness and complexity.
Wow! Thank you Alan, so well presented, truth is all I feel when I read your simple blog. To me Universal Medicine is far beyond my wildest dreams and I had no idea about how amazingly joy-full life could be because their was no way who I am now could be comprehended from where I was before Serge Benhayon!
Yes Alan, how blessed are we all to have found a way back to ourselves, and to know that in deepening that connection we strengthen the call to all our brothers.
Absolutely Gorgeous Alan. It is beautiful to consider that healing is just beyond ourselves and making our own lives better, but actually for us all.
Yes this is the other point I wanted to mention Joshua; how incredible it is that Serge Benhayon presents on us all living as One. All living in brotherhood and harmony – is this possible? Aha! Only if we all claim we are the Ones – are we able to live as One and for the Ones (us all). How can this man get attacked when he is presenting on us all being equal, and bringing it back to the true qualities of life?! The world is clearly in a mess, but why have we accepted this as the ‘norm’ and hold a truly loving and joyful life as an utopian ideal, and somewhat ‘unachievable’???
By being the recipient of presentations by Universal Medicine and in close proximity to Serge Benhayon, the process of letting go of self and bringing it back to making it about the whole is definitely one of unfolding into the grandness we All are. A process we are All a part of. It is incredible what Serge presents every time.
I am forever amazed and inspired about how Serge can always present as he does. Forever a whole and all encompassing, multidimensional view of life that always leaves no-one and nothing less. He is showing that we can all be the real deal!
Just beautiful Alan. Universal Medicine brought me back to me. How blessed is that?!!
Love it Alan, you’re a delight and I’m so glad you turned around and came home!
Hi Alan, this is really funny but so true .
“So there I was, (un)happily faking it with the best of them… and had the trappings to prove it – including a holiday shack on a remote South Pacific island. All that sashimi swimming along the outer reef.”
Its like I have been everywhere , but not home to my true self and connection to God.
What a relief you came home to share such gems.
Great sharing Alan. Great to highlight that you had it all (materialistically) however feeling like you didn’t have a single gold coin in your possession.
Our wealth always comes from the richness of our hearts.
Not trying to live up to an image or idea of how we think we should be, now that’s true medicine, universally available to all. Beautiful, thanks Alan.
Love your quirky writing style, its got this different tone and beat to it, I will be looking you up to find more blogs if there are any Alan. You are honest and warm throughout and kept it simple and assessable, very cool.
Love this Allan! For me also the words Universal and Medicine say it all. Run them together and we have a medicine that can be universally related to all. Self care, self love, self appreciation, self responsibility; who wouldn’t these choices work for? This is our medicine
Thank you for sharing your beautiful experience of Universal Medicine Alan.
Thank God for Universal Medicine presenting the way home – no more seeking outside for answers or directions – now we are equipped with the tools to see ever so clearly our footprints in life and the Universal treasure we hold inside our very inner-hearts…True Love.
This blog leaves me almost speechless except to say a BIG Y E S to the enormity of the truth it shares – thank you Alan!
It’s amazing the depths us humans will go to to convince ourselves that we are doing OK and to try and stay ahead of the feelings of self loathing etc. This trying to keep such feelings at arms length is quite exhausting but we keep pushing ahead anyway, looking for comfortable solutions, only to keep coming up empty time after time. This is where Universal Medicine is different to everything else that we have tried and the name, as you suggest Alan, clearly says it all.
There are no boundaries of the depths I can explore to be truly me. Sometimes the almost forgotten self-loathing knocks on the door again, because I haven’t taken the next opportunity to go deeper. Universal Medicine is already there in those moments, coming from the future and knowing what I need to be supported with.
Joel, what a blessing to us all that you finally chose to return to who you truly are.
Cool article Alan, Universal Medicine is good medicine for the Universe.
What a huge effort it is to fake it – I went down the other path, faking the drop out, misfit, anti-establisment misery lifestyle. Replace the palm fringed coral reef with reefers, dodgy night-clubs and seedy share-houses and presto the opposite and yet the same model of ‘success’. And all to avoid the only pain I really felt – that of “turning my face away from God”. Thank God for Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the call of the New Era. Coming home is indeed divine! Thank you Alan for this beauty-filled piece.
Hah hah Helen, I also choose the less glamours route but as you point out, the low life or the high life can be chosen for the same reason, turning your face away from god…
It is amazing what we accept as being normal. The ups, the downs, the swings and roundabouts are not just considered normal, but considered to be an indicator of a perfectly healthy life. It is no wonder we are skeptical when we are come across someone who does not live life from within the parameters of such constrictive walls.
beautiful Alan, Universal Medicine is there for all, opening us up to that what is within us for a long time.
Yes Alan, another gorgeous reminder that the best medicine is to live our true selves in full. It does not matter where we have been or what we have done, or how far we have strayed from that simple sweet essence that has been within us all along. The moment we acknowledge it’s existence, and start to make choices to nurture and develop our connection that first flicker or recognition bursts into flame. And what a light and warmth that flame brings, not just to oneself but to all.
I get what you are saying Alan about the self loathing that would arise at intervals and literally trash me for months at a time. I had a “grab bag” of new Age, spiritual knowledge, had done the counselling thing, the yoga thing, the ‘bad-boy’ ‘lots of fun in a not very healthy way’ relationship thing….By the time I got to Universal Medicine I had bypassed jaded and was completely resigned to a life of excited highs and despairing lows that had me dragging myself around like a misery powered automaton.
Well it took me a while even then, having found heart singing truth, to get my act truly together. But here I am, home at last having sipped from the only true healing draft – the one that heals us all. Universal Medicine.
Universal Medicine is the ultimate in responsibility. It brings an understanding that EVERYTHING is medicine – or bad medicine if we abuse it. So medicine is not only surgery and pharmaceuticals (although they certainly have their place), but also in how we live, express, move, think – everything. The results of my becoming aware of this and taking responsibility for my life 24/7 has been enormously joyful and brought about a level of health and well-being that I could not have even imagined was possible… and there seems to be no end point!
I experience the same Nicola, that I could not imagine what was possible, but the same with the future. I also cannot imagine that there is no end point, but it feels that way, that we will forever evolve and never will come to an end point.
Yes I agree Nico and the fascinating thing that I re-remembered after reading the book Time, Space and all of us, Book 1 – Time, by Serge Benhayon is that we are actually evolving BACK to a Divine state that we left behind. Of course once we all (humanity) RETURN to expressing and living our Divine origins that will only be the start of the next round. It is much more joyful and harmonious when we learn to live and welcome the constant tension of evolution with the understanding that we are a part of an ever expanding Universe which itself is part of something far greater and so on 😉
Hear hear, I love what you are writing here Alan. A homecoming that is Angelic, I absolutely agree, coming home into the arms of God feeling the warmth and love, starting to breathe me again.
“The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.” – This sums it all up Alan. You know, I am the biggest fan of your writing style and gorgeously cheeky expression, I love it how you tell it like it is with the greatest of humour. Life is simple and joyous – and the moment it becomes difficult and complex, I know I am no longer being me. Thanks for the reminder Alan.
Universal Medicine = coming home. Common-sense, practical, compassionate, healing, wise, all encompassing, divine, expansive, magnificent and 5th dimensional. Just like me, and you!
Your blog Alan reminded me of how I was when I was first introduced to Universal Medicine. I resonated with everything Serge Benhayon presented, I had some sessions with Esoteric Practitioners but I was in delay for about a year before I allowed myself to fully feel how much I was living in disregard and not living the fullness of who I am. The feeling of flat and joyless was what I was feeling most of the time in the past. When I finally started to embrace the teachings and commit to life, I started to feel completely amazing. This didn’t just happen overnight, I began attending the Esoteric Healing courses and I started to let go of many layers of hurt and pain I was carrying and to allow myself to make loving choices. I am a student, continuously learning and refining my choices. I am no longer imprisoned by the belief that life is hard or is a constant misery. Now, life for me is about connecting to myself, God and people. Life is full of joy, love and truth and I am starting to experience this in my everyday life.
Universal Medicine- a homecoming to who I have always known myself to be.
Yes Kristy, a homecoming so simple, so sweet and so true.
Alan the simple truth is that the teachings of Universal Medicine are life changing and your experience is a testament to this.
Beautifully expressed Alan, when I think of Universal Medicine the words of Chris James song are there: ‘It’s the magic of God within our hearts’.
What I have discovered and am starting to embrace is that I am a deeply religious man, but in the past have always been afraid claim that.
Universal Medicine has been unwavering in their loving offering of true medicine and healing for all through reminding us who we truly are, a blessing beyond words.
A blessing beyond words to all mankind it is Samantha. Universal Medicine shows and supports those who are ready, the way back to where we come from, to who we truly are.
Absolutely Alan, reconnecting to Universal medicine has allowed me along with so many others to reconnect to the real me and it is the most amazing feeling to know I no longer need to look outside of myself, all the answers I seek are within. It is this Universal medicine that is there for all equally.
I loved your opening about what Universal Medicine really is! Made me giggle cause it’s so poignantly simple. Well captured Alan
Yes the definition is apt. Since being supported to know who I am not and to reconnect with who I am is the best medicine ever! Living in this knowing, without perfection, has enabled me to let go of so much hardness and so many issues in my body that I feel light and lovely. Letting go of nervous tension has left a lot more space within my body and the vitality I now live with is increasing!
Allan , I love your way with words , very Universal 🙂
Universal Medicine has supported me to be truly me – the greatest gift was always within waiting to be discovered – what a joy it is!
I would guess Alan that many suffer the paradox of holding onto a “clutch of certainties” and yet feeling self loathing or at least a joylessness or emptiness -just treading water – at times in our lives. It is wonderful to read how, like myself, even though you have been around the traps you gave it one more go and wow, how wonderful to find that the clutching can truly be let go of and instead that there inside is something, a stillness and joy, that can be trusted at last.
Alan I agree with you, healing for all, that is Universal Medicine. It certainly has been for me and many I know.
Thank you Alan for reminding me of how I so often felt before finding my way to Universal Medicine that despite all my distractions I so often felt “flat and joyless”. Universal Medicine has put the love back into my body and I celebrate this every day.
Gorgeous rhythm felt when reading this blog, it flows with warmth and good humour. I know the feeling of a “homecoming”, absolutely this has been my experience of Universal Medicine.
Alan you have shown how material possessions and academic achievements do not bring us the harmony and joy that we are searching for. Universal Medicine is the real deal, and the homecoming is so worth the effort to lay new foundations for our lives.
I agree Bernadette no material possession, career or superficial goals can bring us true joy. Universal Medicine is the answer to all our life issues and conflict. It shows us how to connect to Love, we search for it high and low, everywhere outside of ourselves but in fact it has been with us all along. We just needed to learn how to connect to love again from within not searching for it endlessly outside of us.
Once we experience that marker ‘how it feels to be full of ourself’ – there is no going back.
Please explain! and so you have Alan – very simply, clearly, honestly and very beautifully. Thank you.
‘Coming home’ is what it feels to me, too. From the first moment, and ever more so, the longer I attend workshops with – and work in projects for, Universal Medicine. Universal Medicine for me is coming home to my true body. And my body feels awesome.
It ia amazing to come home after such a long time and feel myself so welcome and appreciated for returning to the family I belong to.
Universal Medicine is forever, every day, every moment of my life with all that I am
What I understand from this blog and completely agree with is that being me is Universal Medicine.
‘The upside was a homecoming that was just Angelic, a roomful, pure and joyous’ – beautifully said Alan. Re-connecting to ourselves is the best gift ever.
Beautiful words Alan, and the fullness of the feeling of Love and Joy. Your comment ‘The upside was a homecoming that was just Angelic, a roomful, pure and joyous’ – flooded me with the warm we all share as a brotherhood having returned home.
Through the support of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, my homecoming has been so divinely sweet, joyous, playful, and natural, in that, I was always coming home, it was just a matter of when….
I can relate to the habit we all have of kidding ourselves that everything is ok when clearly it is not. When I consider I am divine and what my true being feels like, I know I still have a way to go with the shedding of those things that make me unaware of what needs healing or ‘ok’ with not being all I am. The two words, Universal Medicine, are not just lightly chosen words that sound good or will pull in customers. Universal means everyone, all of brotherhood equally and Medicine is the healing that will bring us back to our origins. The ‘healing of brotherhood’ – what music to my ears.
Alan another simple yet deeply life changing blogs. Thankyou from another who has also found of truth of me with the support of Universal Medicine.
‘turning my face from God’, that is beautifully powerful, in that once we have felt and acknowledged this the journey home becomes easier, we need to feel it first, as I am doing now after reading your blog. Also I too went on many ‘healing’ courses and even though it was in my body not once did anyone mention the word self-loathing. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine do not hold back, they share everything they know not keeping anything ‘for themselves’ so that we can truly heal and address everything within us, including the self-loathing that so many have. The name says it all, it is Universal and most definitely medicine.
Thank you Alan for so concisely and playfully demonstrating the simplicity on offer from Universal Medicine. I loved hearing how you ‘became aware of what it felt like to not be who I really am’ and the joy of re-discovering the real you. An amazing gift that is on offer to us all if we have that same willingness to open to the healing that is available.
Being truly our self, no facade or trying to live up to a picture that we impose on how we think we should be, truly is great medicine, for all.
Thank you fiona55 for your simple reminder – just being ourselves is great medicine.
Yes Fiona, what a relief to stop all that pretence and trying, and just be me!
That is indeed Universal Medicine. Very well said Alan.
“What it felt like to not be who I really am” – it’s a haunting familiarity I shudder to think I had identified with for so long as ‘me’. I say yes to universal medicine, too.
The second time I’ve read this blog and in its simplicity I feel truth.
Thanks for sharing your homecoming Alan and reconnecting with you ,and your awesome true self without all the imposition of the past .
Thankyou Alan for sharing how you woke up to the fact you were ‘(un)happily faking it with the best of them… and had the trappings to prove it’ and how you now have embraced a new way to be and feel of which is totally founded on you being you. Now that is an awesomeness worth sharing!
What a blessing for yourself and all people you live with Alan Johnston, that you have found the commitment in yourself to attend the few Universal Medicine events and had some sessions with Universal Medicine practitioners to begin with. You allowed yourself to face yourself with how disillusioned you where and to find the truth of the “Angelic” origin you actually are from.
Alan, I too have “felt like to not be who I really am” and this was the beginning of the journey back.
Now we see you every week with a huge smile on your dial.
Brilliant Alan. It really is that simple,and playful too.Thank you
Great honesty Alan. I love the way you write, so open, honest and truthful. You tell it as it is. Thank you.
Universal Medicine simply presenting the truth of who we are, Love. A truth that is available and accessible to all. Beautifully and clearly expressed Alan – thank you.
It is so true, Universal Medicine is “universal” and “medicine”! I love your writing Alan.
Allan I love your expression in writing, simple, fun and profound. Thank you!
I agree Universal Medicine is exactly that, ‘medicine’ and it is absolutely universal. If you apply the teachings to your life, you will be graced and able to watch the miracle of your greatness unfold.
As usual Alan, a great crisp piece of reality and truth. Not being who we truly are and with self-loathing, OR being who we are, and with joy. The choice being clear.
So simple and so huge: “The truth of me being me, and that is Universal Medicine. Healing, and for all.”
Gorgeous coming back to who you are, your words are beautiful as they reflect what you live.
So beautiful and simple Alan, thank you.
I love your playful use of language Alan and yes the truth of healing is returning to who we truly are.
Totally agree Alan Universal Medicine is 1) universal and 2) medicine.
I love that line too, it’s simple but says a lot!
Hello Alan, your story from the outside to the inside. Like so many of us we throw time and money to the outside to make it look good and make ourselves feel better, temporarily. Universal Medicine brings it home, brings it back to the inside, brings it back to you. In the return it is as you say “pure and joyous”. Thank you Alan for a simple but relatable story.
Absolutely all the time and money we devote to trying to make the outside look good when the answers are within as Universal Medicine so clearly demonstrates and assists us to return to.
Faking it with the best of them – oh, how I relate to this one!
I reckon faking it with the best of them could apply to most of the world population, I certainly was, stuck in the ways of trying to be someone, when in fact all I was doing was being even less of who I actually am. I was definitely ready for some Universal Medicine.
A really simple blog which leaves me knowing more truth than before I read it, thank you.
Said so simply. When it is made that simple, you don’t need many words. And the truth of Universal Medicine is that simple.
A joy to read.
Thank you Alan for sharing your experience of (un)happily faking it with the best of them to finding the truth of who you are.
Alan – thank you for sharing your story so simply and with your awesome sense of humour. That combination powerfully delivers the truth of Universal Medicine.
Ah Alan Johnston a very well travelled man. Yes I know you personally Alan and I know the wealth of wisdom you bring to the world. A man that was once lost to ‘us’ has now returned to bring what is needed. If this man speaks then we all should listen because there are not many things he hasn’t done. Thank you Alan for this blog and the many more to follow, your life thus far would be a best selling book and I for one would love to read it.
I found it quite a challenge when I first came to a Universal Medicine Presentation to be open one more time to see if there was something that really might work for me. I’d been through the merry go round of the New Age and personal growth circuit but I still felt empty, searching for something and joyless. My life still did not work. I felt at that time horribly disillusioned and let down. I felt there might be something wrong with me because none of the “whizz bang” therapies or workshops I had previously done had supported me in any sustainable fashion. Thank goodness I took the step to try “one more thing” because my life has now changed remarkably. What Universal Medicine delivers is profound in its simplicity, making the person and their essence central, as is self care and self love. There are no gimmicks or other silliness – it’s practical and it works!
I certainly know what you are talking about Alan as I also experienced that feeling of flat and joyless which I now can say came from my deep self loathing.
When I came across Universal Medicine in 2005, I could not admit or accept how disillusioned I had become and it took me 6 months to allow myself to feel that and then commit to do whatever it was to live the real me.
With no regrets now and a clear path that requires nothing other than to be the real me everyday, is a recipe well worth trying out. I got the ‘template’ from Universal Medicine and then found my own way of how to live in this world and I would describe my life today as deeply content and really amazing.
I never get over reading the many accounts from people about the little shifts in their lives that are monumental. I love that ‘life goes on’ and yet the inside changes. The self loathing (as Alan calls it), or anything else that is nagging at us, clears and the inner beauty reveals itself.
“although a nagging, never-healing bedsore of a question was “why am I at times run by a kind of self-loathing, that when given in to, leaves me feeling flat and joyless?”.” – Alan, I can very much relate to the way you describe the question as “a nagging, never healing bedsore”.
Thank you Alan for the simplicity and truth of this beautiful article. I too found with Universal Medicine true Medicine,true Healing ,and the truth in myself with connection to God.
I love how you express the unmasking of your disillusionment, “I became aware of what it felt like to not be who I really am”. It is such a great way of describing the experience of coming to the realisation that the things we do are not who we are however much we invest in them and believe them to be us.
Great blog Alan, thank you. I love the simplicity of how you write and express. And yes it can be that simple when we stop complicating things and allow it. This is such a tender and sweet piece, which touched me very much.
The first thing I noticed that Universal Medicine teaches… is simplicity. Until I saw a way that was simple, I had nothing to compare my own life to – revealing to me just how complicated I’ve been living. Thank you for the explanation of just how simple Universal Medicine is.
Everything that is presented by Universal Medicine, when applied I have found to be universally huge in it’s benefits to my life, providing a medicine by the way I choose to live, and like the universe I feel that there is always more to expand with.
Alan, I love the simplicity of your explanation of Universal Medicine – it is indeed Universal, open to all, and Medicine, medicine for the body. Well said.
Alan, I love this article – so simple yet I can feel and read the immense power in your return to the real you. Awesome and so inspiring – thank you.
I love the simplicity of this writing and the opening sentence. Beautiful thank you Alan.
Thanks Alan for your simple expression of the truth. Brief and to the point, and what a point. Awesome.
Love it Alan!!
Thanks be to God and to you that you chose to be open to (1) Universal (2) Medicine. If you had headed off for the palm-fringed lagoon we would all be the poorer for it. We would have missed you!
Not only bereft of a truly gentle-man, Mary but we would have missed out on his beautifully wise, humorous and loving writing. Alan’s use of words and way of expressing always touches me deeply.
Great post Alan.
Thanks for sharing how your last ditch stand with Universal Medicine stopped you from heading off permanently into the wild blue yonder in an attempt to escape from the dissatisfaction you were feeling within yourself and your life, Alan. It was joyous to read of the great turnaround you experienced.
Hi Alan, I had a giggle when I read that it is as simple as 1) Universal and 2) Medicine. That is so true. When I first heard of Universal Medicine I did not think it was a very catchy name. But as the years go by I am starting to appreciate it more and more, experience the vastness of what is presented and how it is for all equally and true medicine.
I too had a giggle Nicola. I have a feeling that this sentence alone sent a giggle wave amongst those who have read it. It reminded me how we often like to over complicate things, and how sometimes in communications and in pursuit of trying to ‘be clever’, we go for ‘big words’ and elaborate explanations… yet as Alan demonstrated here the answer is actually in the title: Universal Medicine! It’s the blooming obvious that got me to smile. Great piece Alan – thank you.
Thank you Alan so true… I enjoy the way you write the truth with humour and simplicity. Universal and Medicine is just simply that.
Hear, hear Alan. “Hypercritical” maybe… but I do remember when you began your inquiry into what Universal Medicine is about, and to me, your approach came from a deep discernment and a willingness to “keep feeling”‘ for yourself – absolutely admirable. Clearly you are no “follower” (though, as you said, you’ve followed a few in the past!). Also so awesome to feel here, the joy of your “homecoming”. May this joy ever-deepen.
Thanks Alan. I think I was in kindergarten when I started to shut down (when I used to receive special attention regularly from Miss Horrible…which was the dreaded feather duster). It took me about 50 years to really open up again and find myself – and I can specifically attribute that to the wonderful ‘medicine’ lovingly presented by Universal Medicine.
I so relate to what you both share here as I often found it difficult for me when I first went to school. I used to talk to an imaginary friend and that helped, until one day some of the older girls heard me talking in the toilet and made fun of me, I was mortified and very hurt and I shut down more, putting my head down and trying not to be noticed, and I learned to speak what I felt the other wanted to hear rather than truly expressing me and what I felt. Slowly I am winding my way back and indeed it is universal and medicine as you so lovingly expressed it Alan.
Alan, your written words are just as great as the ones you speak, clear and honest. Loving that about you.
Great article, I love your opening lines (1st 2 paragraphs) – awesome…