by Angela Perin, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Up until a few years ago, I had been a strong supporter of alternative medicine and its various modalities, including ‘new age’ or ‘spiritual’ therapies and techniques. In fact, I considered alternative medicine to be the answer, or to hold the primary solutions and methods to healing illness and disease. When an illness or condition presented with myself or within my family, this is what I turned to, and actively pursued.
Although I grew up with some understanding and use of Western Medicine (to the extent that I did have occasional visits to the local community nurse and saw a doctor on a handful of occasions during my childhood), it was not a big part of my awareness or experience. In my late teens through to my early 20’s, and as a general outcome of my immediate family taking more of an interest in health, I began to become more interested in alternative medicine and therapies (which included general lifestyle changes such as the incorporation of organic food, supplements, regular exercise etc.).
By the time I was in my mid-late 20’s, I was moving more and more towards alternative medicine as the means of healing illness and disease – to the point where I began to discount Western Medicine as a means of support. In fact, to be honest, over the last 20 odd years this was with a large degree of defence and arrogance against Western Medicine, and I avoided it wherever possible. I took great pride in claiming my family and I never went to the doctor, and that we handled nearly every situation without this support. Of course, there were a handful of occasions where I could not avoid this, but even then I accepted the support with a large measure of reluctance and resistance (considering it something that was necessary and unavoidable, but never something that was embraced).
Since 2010 and my association with Universal Medicine, I have had the opportunity to re-look at my beliefs around alternative medicine and Western Medicine, in the context of how they are able to support dealing with illness and disease.
While I have held an understanding for a long time that illness and disease are not random events, and that they result from something else going on (i.e. emotions, lifestyle etc.), I had arrogantly held on to the belief that Western Medicine could not be a part of the healing process (unless of course ‘absolutely necessary’). I had held on to a belief that engaging the support of Western Medicine was considered a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’.
In the past 2 years I have come to an awareness and understanding that Western Medicine is not ‘the’ answer to illness and disease, but it is an important ‘part’ of ‘the’ answer. I have also come to an awareness and understanding that illness and disease come from the way (the quality and self-care) in which we live, and the way (the quality and self-care) we are with ourselves and others. And while it is an individual’s choice to consider and take responsibility for the cause of illness and disease, and to have the opportunity to connect to and be honest about the patterns, behaviours, ideals and beliefs that result in us living a certain way, Western Medicine can offer tremendous support in assisting the physical body as part of this process. Neither of these two is any more important than the other, but rather complements the other in addressing and healing illness and disease.
In the past 2 years, I have had the amazing opportunity to begin to embrace and accept the support of Western Medicine as an important part of a healing process, and to let go of the solid resistance and arrogance I have held for several decades.
And recently I had the amazing opportunity to put this into practice! I had a large abscess on my leg which was not healing, and had no hesitation or resistance in going to the doctors to get it checked out, which resulted in (emergency) minor surgery and a total of 3 days in hospital.
The amazing thing was that I accepted, and in fact, embraced, all of the support that was offered to me – without resistance, without avoidance, and without arrogance. I was able to accept responsibility for my body and my choices, accept the support that was offered – not with an attitude of ‘you (i.e. Western Medicine) fix it’ or ‘I’m totally helpless’ (i.e. giving away my power) – but with an understanding that Western Medicine was an equally important part of this healing process. I was amazed at how much I was supported simply by ‘allowing’ the support that was there, and how this assisted in the overall healing, and the support I received and felt as a result, was truly lovely.
From resisting Western Medicine to embracing it – now that to me was ‘true’ healing!
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
Western medicine is staffed by people. People who have trained and dedicated themselves to support other people to live healthy lives. We have a responsibility to care for our own body and appreciate the expertise that is offered by western medicine.
I’ve recently had to go to the doctor because of a possible condition and I’ve felt really surrendered to the whole process. Knowing that I was in expertise hands made me trust as well as knowing about my part in the healing process and embracing it, helped me to go deeper in the understanding of what I was experiencing. This felt complete to my body and soul. Definitely Western medicine and Universal Medicine are great complement in the approach of our health.
I had reason to appreciate western medicine only last week when my 11-year son simultaneously broke both bones in his forearm! The number of people it took to put him back together again was quite surprising..paramedics, a number of nurses, orthopaedic doctor, radiologist, anaesthetist, the person who sorted out the plaster etc – not to mention the administrative team. I have honestly never appreciated the expertise of NHS professionals more. To see my son’s arm straight again was a huge relief. The healing process has been expedited because of their professionalism and care.. the rest has been up to my son and to the connective tissue sessions he has been receiving, which dramatically reduced his pain within days.
I literally marvel at Western Medicine, for example that fact that someone can have a replacement hip or knee so easily … like a hip or knee taken out and replaced and it is such a standard operation now a days, or a triple heart bypass! It is quite amazing. But alongside Western Medicine, as you have shared, we really need to understand and be aware of the energetic root cause of illness and dis-ease; this is the huge piece we are currently missing and of course the two combined together aid true healing. Could it be though if we understood the energetic reason right at the beginning of an illness or dis-ease or even a twisted ankle or bruise and were on to it as soon as possible, looking at our livingness and the way we live, making changes to the way we live along the way, less operations and medication would be needed as we would have dealt with it right at the start before it manifested into something else?
Why do we resist western medicine? Perhaps an arrogance? Perhaps we have seen flaws in it which have shaken us? Perhaps it hasn’t worked? Perhaps, it hasn’t worked because of us and not the doctors, perhaps if we were to consider that & take the blame away from western medicine we will see that our health is entirely dependant on how we behave & treat ourselves.
“I had held on to a belief that engaging the support of Western Medicine was considered a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’” – I can very much relate to this. It’s true that Western Medicine is not THE answer, but for us to have this kind of reaction, in itself exposes our reluctance to be responsible and the fact that we are actually seeking something that would take the pain away from us in exchange for our power.
It is very easy to blame doctors, nurses and everyone else – it takes away our responsibility, we are blinded by our own fury & thus will never be able to truly heal.
Although I have been an avid supporter of alternative medicine for many years, many of the modalities I sought help from didn’t actually make any difference to improving my health until that is, I started to attend the Universal Medicine courses and workshops. One of the biggest components to my improving health started when I started to take responsibility for my health and stopped wanting people to fix me. Having the Esoteric healing practices and Western Medicine at my disposal is definitely the way forward for me and a lot of people I know.
Yes, the Esoteric healing modalities along with Western Medicine are a fantastic combination.
It is worth embracing western medicine, our doctors know much about the physical body – the way it works and the way it shouldn’t work. Many of them have gone into the profession because they care about people and have gone through rigorous training in order to be able to help people. If we come across a doctor that is truly caring, stick to them – they can help us understand a lot about our condition, it’s root and what we can do to change it.
I have come to a place where there is no resistance or fight towards western medicine. Western medicine is there to support me alongside Universal Medicine, which I now embrace them equally in my life.
The beliefs we hold can have a devastating impact in our lives and that of others however when we let them go, the freedom and expansion within the body allows for harmony to be lived.
Perhaps it is this knowing inside that we do need to heal the spirit that takes us to alternative and complimentary medicine and the gamut of the new age therapies, but somewhere along the line they have often focussed on themselves to the exclusion of Western Medicine, and of Course Western Medicine has often poo pooed the alternatives. There is more of a cross over now and an embracing, but for the most part Esoteric Medicine has been left out and some even see it as a threat, just like other powerful ways of healing have been seen as a threat in the past. One day we will see them come together on a much wider scale.
Esoteric Medicine as taught by Serge Benhayon is a very much needed modality, especially if we wish to heal the energetic root cause.
It is not just the physical body but also the spirit that needs healing, and from what you say you are going a long way to addressing both. Our attitudes and lifestyle, the way we care for ourselves – mentally and emotionally all count. Western medicine, especially when it takes the whole body and being into consideration is awesome, and even if it only focuses on the physical, Esoteric Medicine can do the rest.
As I also now embrace all of the support offered to me from conventional medicine, my relationships with the medical practice have changed. I have an acceptance and understanding. I speak up and can be me in love and joy with not one ounce of arrogance or comparison. My family and I are supported embracing the doctors, nurses, receptionists and everyone associated with conventional medicine.
Western medicine is performing miracles every day and we need to understand the relationship we have with every aspect of good medicine as it is a life changer.
I have also had that sense of pride of rarely needing to go to the doctors for health issues. I have always appreciated what medicine can do but also seen its limitations. I found that western medicine with complementary medicine are the perfect combo.
Healing is bringing understanding to why we got ill in the first place, and being honest about what we need to do to address it. If we’re not open to working together with the body to: a) look at what happened, and b) look at how we need to heal that and best support the body, then we delay our own healing and evolution.
It is always important to look at why we became ill in the first place, what was going on in how we were living that led to this ill health.
We develop so many abusive habits and understandings and the resistance to medicine is one of them. Very cleverly designed by the spirit to keep us suffering and to hold onto old patterns because without true healing the spirit remains wayward and continues to cause havoc.
We are never truly free and our potential to truly heal is hindered when we live holding on to pictures or ideals of what or who we are and how we ‘should’ live. In opening up to feeling from within what truly supports our body and being, we open up to intelligence in our bodies that knows what is needed to best facilitate true healing and naturally live with vitality and well-being.
We can be blinded to the fact that alternative medicine is not ‘it’ when we have realised that western medicine doesn’t have all the answers. When I trained as nursing student, I found that when medicine didn’t know something they would generally admit it, or say what their best guess was, so they do acknowledge its limitations. Western medicine can do wonderful things, it really just needs its partner in Esoteric Medicine to complete the whole healthcare package.
Working together, Western and Esoteric Medicine can support people at a whole new level.
Gorgeous and how important this true attitude is, not the helpless “oh I am a victim” attitude, for that does not help us heal and stand in our own responsibility.
Western medicine shouldn’t just be our ‘fix’ when things go dramatically wrong, but we can make use of all the support and advice it offers us so that we don’t have to get to a crunch point of needing a big operation, medication prescription etc.
That you have come a full circle and redeveloped an appreciation of how conventional medicine can support our physical body is absolutely great Angela, as there is so much information and opinions available today from people and on line claiming otherwise.
It’s common to feel like there ‘just isn’t the support’ there for us to deal with particular issues or problems, but what if we had to part to play in this, in a sense that when support IS there we reject it or choose to bottle things in rather than express them.
No matter where we are and what we are being presented it is important for us to seek and allow support. For to long we have put on the brave ‘I can do it” and push on through, but really what is being asked of us is to surrender and allow support.
I remember travelling to Vietnam and experiencing time with local villagers and their families. They had such poor health education and medical systems, one had a serious physical impairment from an amputation, this was from a situation of being burned and not knowing basic first aid, and not having access to antibiotics and good medical care. The villagers were absolutely gorgeous and made me a part of their families. But what the situation taught me was to appreciate what I had on offer in Australia in terms of medical care and technology and to make good use of it.
I have had the same journey as you Angela, I was once very arrogant and took pride out of the fact that we as a family first turned to alternative therapies and only when there was no other way turned to Western Medicine. (You could say we took the same route for our children with the education system, alternative and spiritual and have changed this too the moment we became aware of the illusion we were in) Now we know we are responsible for our own healing process and that Western Medicine can and definitely has an important part to play.
Now that is true responsibility and healthy by example! Seeing what truly needs changing and allow the healing to take place on a physical/medical level (when needed) and equally energetically (from our beingness).
This is the power of what Universal Medicine presents. The teachings of the Ageless Wisdom offer people an opportunity to look at their ideals, beliefs, and pictures around life, and see if they are really true for you or not. Was it something that you took on from outside of you – your parents, school system, society etc… or was it from a hurt inside of you, wanting to protect, be a certain way etc… When you take this opportunity with a good dose of honesty, it is quite incredible what you can discover and choose to let go of.
I totally hear you where you say that conventional medicine is an essential part of the answer, it’s not the only part but an essential support and aid none the less and equally how there is healing that we can employ in our own lives, through the way that we are and live and this too is an essential component of true health.
Absolutely, how we live and move affects our own health, it is always important to look at our lifestyle when examining our well-being.
I think western medicine need our love and support to be able to be inspired to bring more of that love and support back to us. Right now it feels like it’s lacking the necessary love aspect. There are for sure many loving people working within the field of conventional medicine but the system in itself is very instrumental and sometimes can feel quite cold and not truly caring. I would love to see more of that.
I have found that unless people love, care and nurture themselves that they are unable to bring these qualities to another.
Embracing all parts of ourselves and be honest were we need to open up more and let in the support we deserve.
Western Medicine was a big part of my early life as I was sick a lot, as was my father; it was simply the go-to each time we were unwell. But in my 30’s when my daughter became ill and the Western Medicine didn’t have the answers I began to look to alternative medicine over the four year period of her illness. From then on until Universal Medicine came into my life I stayed in the alternative medicine camp but slowly I came to see that I was ignoring many great resources for healing simply because I was holding on to a hurt. These days I embrace Western Medicine, the healing therapies of Universal Medicine and accept my responsibility to care for me in the best possible way.
I have found that embracing western medicine as an important part healing along with the esoteric modalities has truly given me a holistic approach to my understanding, learning and physical wellbeing.
I agree Rachel – for the varying degrees of illness and disease that we have created and impacts us, through our way of living today, the union of western medicine and esoteric medicine is a powerful one that supports true and deep healing along with supporting to maintain a high level of health, well-being and vitality. Both are an essential part of my well-being plan.
I too was once quite arrogant towards Western Medicine and turned my nose at it thinking it couldn’t possibly offer what was needed. I now realise that was only because I knew it wasn’t offering the full package. These days I use Western Medicine to address the physical symptoms when needed and I also address the energetic side – this is the complementation of Western Medicine with Universal Medicine.
As a society we do need to stop seeing that seeking help from Medicine is a failure – illness and disease are a means of the body to communicate about something that is not serving us in some way. After all if it is the way we are liiving that is making us sick, then our best medicine is to change the way we are living. Hence it is a beautiful learning. And this is done with the support of Conventional Medicine as well as the Esoteric Modalities – hand in hand for the best outcomes – an open choice for all.
Universal Medicine has certainly supported me to embrace conventional medicine, and I am thankful for this in terms of how many more options this has given me, compared to my very narrow minded approach of only natural medicine will do. I still have a strong connection with Natural Medicine, but know this is not the full picture and I understand how important it is to explore both arenas so that we can use all the tools we have available to us in order to support ourselves through illness and return to our innate vitality and health.
I agree Henrietta, in that I feel it is important to explore both arenas and what they have to offer, so we have more tools to access in supporting our healing.
There is much support offered by Western Medicine, but true healing involves us to be equally engaged and taking responsibility in the healing process also.
A bandaid doesn’t have healing properties. But it can support the healing – that comes from within.
Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine work well together, equally important is our part in the healing process, how we live and move plays a huge part in our well-being.
Alternative medicine not only is not the answer, it is also dangerous because it’s founded upon an arrogant belief that this is much better than allopathy (just an image), and also feeds another image: because I am into it I am taking really good care of myself. Neither of these beliefs/images are necessarily true at all.
I didn’t trust western medicine for a long time, but when all alternative methods didn’t work out, I had to give western medicine another try, albeit unwillingly but necessary, and it was the most amazing choice to embrace a big chunk of responsibility back to my life.
“The amazing thing was that I accepted, and in fact, embraced, all of the support that was offered to me – without resistance, without avoidance, and without arrogance.”
Gosh you would have made a much better patient than before 🙂 I reckon the hospital staff would be glad that you have made the change 🙂
Blimey Angela, if we withheld ‘Western Medicine’ from humanity for say 6 months, there would be very few people left in the world…seriously. It is because of the sophistication of ‘Western Medicine’ and the support it gives that actually hides just how very sick the world population really is.
My resistance to Western Medicine has been completely dissolved now that I combine it with looking at the energetic side of illness, disease and in fact anything that goes on in the body. I realise I didn’t actually have a resistance to it, only that it was not complete.
In my gravitation towards alternative medicine (not complementary medicine), what took me years to admit was my desire to avoid responsibility and find a cure to rid myself of all the symptoms and problems – exactly the same attitude whether going for conventional medicine, or going for a little bit more exotic and seemingly more ‘natural’, just that in choosing ‘alternative’ was only a disguise and it came with even more arrogance. If one thing was not able to deliver, go find something else, always leaving some areas of my life unquestioned and not allowing any true honesty to enter.
Could it be that we don’t just fight ‘going to the doctor’, but we sometimes actually fight finding out what’s going on and how our body has responded to the choices we’ve been making, and in turn what our process of treating and healing these patterns is set out to be?
Now that is what I call true medicine, embracing all the medical support that is given and also taking responsibility and looking at the part we play in it .. why the illness or dis-ease has arisen in the first place which is the most important part to look at .. the way we have lived.
Yes, the way we have been living is super important to look at when assessing our health, ‘taking responsibility and looking at the part we play in it .. why the illness or dis-ease has arisen in the first place which is the most important part to look at’.
In my experience, alternative modalities can give a person an illusionary view that conventional medical practitioners are not only not needed, but can actually be contra-indicative to one’s healing process. However, since learning about true medicine with Universal Medicine, I have come to see how conventional medicine can be embraced and welcomed, for what it brings is essential and vital for our health and recovery from illness and disease – especially when it is brought to the condition in combination with a life lived with the esoteric inner-heart.
I used to also have strong beliefs about avoiding Western Medicine except for the basics, however now what I see is all the wonderful people who have trained in medicine to support other human beings, and I really enjoy receiving all the support and benefits of their care as well as the technology and advancements.
We make life about option a and b, black and white, wrong or right – when the true answer lives in consideration of it all. This unification is the real medicine we crave. Thank you Angela.
I was always very anti medicine, or so I thought. I would only go to the doctor if all else failed and if it was absolutely necessary. So despite my resistance, it was a last point of call which tells me something in me knew that it would work.
I agree, Alison. to acknowledge that at times we require the support and help of Western Medicine is being self-responsible and loving rather than,”… a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’.”
That’s exactly it, seeking the support of Western Medicine is being responsible, caring and loving with ourselves, it’s very simple. It becomes complicated when we live to ideals or beliefs that we have to ‘do it on our own’, or ‘being sick means you’ve failed’, or the ‘medical world can’t be trusted’, etc. The simple equation of being unwell and allowing support then becomes a complicated process due to the beliefs and ideals.
Changing our attitude to Western Medicine as the go-to to fix illness and disease, to one of being self-responsible for one’s own health, and that Western Medicine is there to support, has been a great understanding presented by Serge Benhayon.
Western Medicine is not appreciated enough for what it brings to humanity but it may be because it has lost in time that part we nowadays call Complementary Medicine, that addresses the underlying causes of the conditions where Western Medicine marvels in curing these. The re-bonding of these two would be a blessing for Wester Medicine as it will by that act return to its original imprint and from there truly serve humanity in healing its ill ways.
There is a distinction between complementary and alternative medicine – complementary medicine is when natural medicine works hand in hand with conventional medicine (Western Medicine), but with alternative medicine it works in separation to conventional medicine. The latter is an avoidance and a separation of the whole picture. Without the whole picture a person does not get all the options presented to them to best support them in their healing and return to well-being. How important is it that we work together as a team?
Sure there is a distinction to make in Complementary and Alternative medicine which is not always understand by current medicine and general public. But finally we all will come to the conclusion that Alternative Medicine is indeed as you say as received as a separation and a replacement for the Western Medicine while the Complementary Medicine is actually the missing part Western Medicine is so much so looking for.
It’s a big distinction and one that is not often made. Often therapies or treatments that do not fall under the banner of Western Medicine get lumped together. The difference between complementary and alternative is colossal.
I have had this belief as well, although looking back I have no idea where it came from. ‘I had held on to a belief that engaging the support of Western Medicine was considered a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’.’ I think from anything it was a fear that I could not control my own health (that my health was not in my own hands), but along with this, crazily enough, I didn’t look after my own health! Ironic really and I feel today we very much still have the same situation. I certainly have loads to learn with this and if we are honest and take a look in the world, I would say on a very large scale we don’t take full responsibility for our health and well-being and sometimes don’t even know how to! For example if somethings happens in our body .. we have a stroke or are diagnosed with diabetes. I feel we do not go there in asking why do we truly have this? what is the body showing us? what have our choices been and can we change or heal this by making different choices/taking care of ourselves more? Instead we carry that diagnosis and feel we have no input into it. And yes alongside our taking responsibility and getting to understand the true energetic reason why something has manifested, Western Medicine definitely has a role in the healing process.
I can relate to what you share Angela, I was practically the same, championing the fact that i almost did not see any doctor and could fix whatever came up with one or another ‘alternative’ healing modality or medicine. But what I can see now is that this came from an arrogance and a lack of responsibility to truly heal what my body showed me bringing to the surface, and instead choose to keep it in the veils of irresponsibility, as the treatment I chose at that time did not bring me any healing, but buried the root cause only deeper in my body.
I used to count the number of years that I had not even taken a basic painkiller (I got to 10 plus years) and I used to champion the fact that I did not use anaesthetic when I went to the dentist to get a filling done. But in the meantime I was not really taking care of myself and not really taking full responsibility of what was going on for me as I only chose to use natural medicines thinking that was ‘better’ for me! Thankfully I have come around to seeing that we need to work hand in hand and that each one has so much to offer. And then the next step, like you have mentioned Nico, was to see that so many alternative treatments actually drive things deeper into our body rather than offering a true healing. Thankfully the esoteric modalities have been a true complimentary medicine to work with Western Medicine to offer the whole picture of healing. What a blessing to have had and still have access to these amazing therapies!
Healing is always a multi-faceted process and we need to take into consideration that every aspect of our life does either hinder or support our overall health. Using Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine to gain a broader outlook on our health not only gives us a greater understanding of why we are sick but also a surrender to our bodies honesty and our willingness to go there.
There is an important awareness here – that we have a responsibility in this process and do not expect our medical professionals to do it al for us. Healing is a co-operative process in that we work with our doctors and other medics, not simply expect to be fixed.
Indeed Richard, when we bring in our own responsibility into the healing then the path for true healing is being walked.
I agree Richard. Where there is cooperation there is true medicine, and this cooperation can be in working WITH the body and not trying to silence or fight it.
Absolutely, Richard. We tend to take ourselves out of the healing equation and expect the medical professionals to do all the work for us. By choosing to be active in our own healing and healthcare, working in cooperation with medical staff and complimentary health care therapists, we really are onto a winner.
Turning to alternative medicine as ‘the answer’ is often a reaction to what we can feel is missing or not true in conventional medicine. To me this is a ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’ approach which does not support us to use the best of both worlds.
I love how we can integrate western medicine and complementary medicine to provide a way of healing that offers so much more than just popping a pill because, we not only get the symptoms assessed by a doctor but we can look at how our symptoms came to be in the first place by looking at how we feel and what issues have come up in our lives to move through and grow from. Connecting both western and complementary medicines not only gives us a wider scope to learn from but also offers us true healing in the process.
I have never resisted western medicine, except not wanting to take a paracetamol a few times when I have a headache , but even then – we will resist what may be good medicine at the time, even though we may clearly be in need of it.
Western Medicine is great, it just needs to accept the fact that no matter how great it is it is not the whole answer that is required to deal with the levels and severity of illness and disease that we now have.
Combining our own body awareness and trust of what we feel with western medicine supports exponential healing.
How often do we have ideals and beliefs but not stop, take a step back and feel why do we have them and where have they come from, we do not discern the energy of them. I used to be into alternative therapies as well turning to them more than Western medicine as I knew there was energetically more to us than what Western medicine presents. However, I was not discerning of these alternative therapies at all which was not cool. Since knowing Universal Medicine I am now far more discerning of everything, meaning I do not just take things for face value or what they claim to do, I feel whether this is true for me and the clearer my body is the easiest it is to feel this. I now have a better understanding about us energetically and also know and can feel just what a valuable role Western Medicine plays in all of this. As it has been said Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine are the perfect marriage for supporting us to return to our true wellbeing.
Having rejected western medicine for a long time but have chosen to return to it, this process has allowed me to experience that western medicine on its own is never the answer but with its support, it has given me the space to truly work on myself and to look at the core issues of my problems.
That’s awesome. Letting go of an idea we have and being open to all the support on offer really does change our lives and reminds us, we’re not actually living in a battle field.
Western medicine does have its truth and can be a great part of the healing journey for any person who wishes it so because of its phenomenal understanding of the human body. And we can all benefit from this, from centuries of research and enquiry which continues today. And this is amazing in itself, that still after so long there is still so much to discover about the human frame, so much more in fact that western medicine has yet to embrace the energetic facts about life on earth and how this relates to the human body in it’s entirety.
The Universal Medicine therapies are in a league of their own and absolutely complementary to (and encouraging of) the use of Western Medicine. I have far more appreciation for health care professionals after using Universal Medicine Therapies and I always feel confident that I will be able to handle any health issues I need to look at in the most supportive way.
For a person to be offered holistic care, it is about offering them all possible options to support them in their healing – this includes conventional medicine and also complementary medicine. To think that we can heal without one or the other is an arrogance, a denial of the teamwork that is actually everyone’s right. Universal Medicine takes this to the next level, the final piece in the puzzle that allows it all to be brought together. It is everyone’s ‘right’ to have access to all of these options so that they can make a choice.
Western Medicine is amazing but combine it with Esoteric Medicine and it becomes the true medicine that is urgently needed in today’s society.
Beautifully said Elizabeth. I love the fact that Universal Medicine Therapies ask patients to take responsibility for their own healing and this is something that is truly needed in patients seeking support from Western Medicine. Esoteric healing and Western Medicine is a match made in heaven.
What medicine does for people, and assists them to heal is extraordinary. I’ve often thought it is amazing how a sequence of doctors, nurses and allied health staff can support someone to get their healing in the physical sense, although there are many flaws in the system and many things causing healthcare practitioner burnout, the range of medicine is amazing.
I have found Western Medicine to be invaluable, along side Esoteric Medicine the two work really well together and we are offered a much deeper healing.
I too have held a strong stance, arrogance and resistance towards conventional medicine which I have let go of and healed. This may not seem important and such a big deal to most people but to me it is a miracle when anyone chooses to look at the extreme reactions in life because of held beliefs or ideals and makes a choice to truly heal.
I can relate to this blog with the belief’s system I grew up around Ayurvedic medicine had the answer to all illnesses. In some aspects there were some truth in it. For instance, certain foods would affect the body in causing too much heat, mucous and so forth. And when I observed mucous producing foods, diary and gluten my body was certainly experiencing this.
It was interesting how I used the Eastern and Western medicine, if one didn’t work I would go to the other but I didn’t stop to think where I was in all of this – my choices, my responsibility, my part I played in creating the illnesses. Till Universal Medicine came along and I started to look deep within myself.
I won’t deny there are times when I go into too much thinking, instead of pondering what is being offered by my body, but I certainly combine the Western medicine with my body’s medicine more often and both equally important to healing.
I used to also resist Western Medicine, which changed due to the presentations I attended by Serge Benhayon – what he shares about the value of medicine in self care was life changing for me. I now see my doctor regularly and have had two medicinal procedures performed under anaesthetic, and I have come to deeply appreciate not just Western Medicine, but the many amazing and truly caring, dedicated people that work within it.
I used to hold western medicine in contempt and only visited the doctor if I really had to. I remember one time during my pregnancy I had a strange rash on my tummy and I had self diagnosed myself with shingles. I went to the doctor and he was unsure what it was and after googling my symptoms came to the conclusion that it was shingles also. I couldn’t believe he googled it – I was outraged. But looking back I realise that I had this expectation of him as a doctor to be a God – that he should know everything, know what to do and to be able to cure me. Because he’ didn’t fit my impossible picture it only further confirmed how I felt about Western Medicine. I expected an instant cure and without it nothing was going to measure up. The full responsibility was dumped on the doctor with none of it remaining with me. No wonder western medicine could never win.
If we are to understand illness and disease we have to look at how it got there in the first place and how it managed to get a hold over us. Also important, I feel, is to not judge it or ourselves in any way for being a failure and to allow for the Western approach and the Esoteric approach to compliment each other and work together. All along it is our own approach to ourselves and living here on planet Earth with 7 billion other people that makes a difference. How we live every day and the quality in which we choose to move and have our being is the greatest medicine, and that is free.
I always found the words ” alternative medicine ” disturbed me for its not possible to have alternative medicine. Medicine is medicine in what ever form it comes in , once it is medicine.
We have a funny way with things at times and it’s like we can’t have things together, you have the 2 groups, those that support or believe in it and those that don’t. It’s not that clear cut but what I am saying is that we at times don’t seem to consider that it’s the mix or the partnership of the 2 things that gives the true power, the thought is we need to choose. It reminds me of the conventional and alternative medicine arguments or sides and if only we could see the important part they both play for each other and I guess that maybe reflective for all of us. From what I see we could all use some more understanding for ourselves and each other and why leave this as a one off thought or action. There is more to the world we can see everyday, we only need continue to be aware about what we are seeing in front of us and not fight or argue about it.
Support is available to us 24/7 and it is our openness that truly brings it to us. If we are stubborn and do not wish to see this, we will be given more opportunities to come back to this truth. When we feel a lack of support, there is more connection and resources to open up to, there is more acceptance of ourselves to go deeper into.
Western Medicine when combined with the Esoteric Modalities provides the body with the space to truly heal. Like you Angela I also resisted Western Medicine in the past but now view it very differently as well and instead of judging it for past mistakes I now see the necessary role it plays in bringing true healing to the body.
Understanding the origin of long term health issues, particularly lifestyle diseases, is pretty simple, but many of us are not willing to feel the responsibility that this entails…I myself had not considered how simple and clear the origin of these health conditions, it is in our choices…I had not considered that my choices could have such an impact but they do. Since being more aware of this I have made sure I see my GP, and keep on top of check ups, it feels responsible to commit to life and health in this way.
Hi Angela, I can so relate! I felt a total resistance to Western Medicine to the point of having four home-births, which fortunately for me went well . . . but on another occasion had to be carried by my husband to the doctors with quinsy (which is absences on the tonsils) as my physical state declined so badly as I hadn’t drunken or eaten for nearly two week because I couldn’t swallow at all! Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I wisened up to the benefits of modern medicine . . . if I hadn’t I don’t know that I would be alive today.
It is great to let go of arrogance, arrogance keeps people out and away and it is very loving for ourselves to let go of that and allow people in. It releases a huge tension when we do this and that alone is a big healing for the body.
Alternative medicine is part of the picture of living an alternative lifestyle that intends to show how much you really care. The problem, of course, is that this lifestyle harms those who adopt it (e.g., diet and modalities) in such a way that often times alternative medicine cannot cope with it. So, the image of caring and self-sustainability is a false one.
A true healing on many levels. When we embrace the skill and support of Western Medicine complemented by the deep understanding of Esoteric Medicine and an acceptance of our own part and responsibility in the healing process it makes a powerful triangle.
Universal Medicine is a unifier (I think I made that word up!). They bring unification to everything, as their tag line says, ‘One Unified Truth’. We as a human race live in so much separation, and this blog shows us how we can do this with healing and medicine. We can separate alternate and western medicine, and this can be to our detriment. Serge Benhayon has presented that we must always look at the whole, and that western medicine can be a necessary part of our healing. I have found their presentations support you to look at what beliefs you are holding and if they are truly what it is needed. More often than not, I have found they are not and have let them go.
I went through a period when I was a teenager of taking absolutely no conventional medicine, no matter how much pain I was in. It was actually a Universal Medicine presentation about complementary medicine that inspired me to rethink my approach, and that we definitely need Western medicine too. It was such a relief to be able to take pain medicine when needed rather than be dying in pain!
A brilliant example of seeking true healing is within oneself and the medical help/support on offer, and much more too perhaps. We need to come back to the truth of healing, not as in a wound per se, but the wholeness of what healing is energetically in our body and equally physically in our body. When we make them count as equally important we will have a balanced approach and will heal in the most deepest way. As nothing will be left out, it is a whole healing from inside out. That is why we dearly need both.
Brilliant Angela – I feel the same way. It’s like we expect drugs and pills to cure all of our ills without us having to take any responsibility for ourselves. What kind of world and healing would this be? Being frustrated with this perceived lack of success it’s like we ‘cut off our nose to spite our face’ – this approach is as unloving as it sounds. For then we are stuck without any support for our body and unable to address the underlying issues as well.
“Neither of these two is any more important than the other, but rather complements the other in addressing and healing illness and disease.” That seems to be a very good way to heal as it includes what our body need to heal deeply. To find a solution or to fix an illness rather than to get the deeper understanding of it would not have the same healing effect and that is good to know!
Why is it that we get reluctant to see doctors or seek help when we need it? Why did I feel I should tough out having a headache rather than seek Panadol? Sure there is a propensity for quick fix seeking and solution seeking when seeing doctors – and medicines easily provide that but there is also self loving medical care that we need regularly to make sure we aren’t breaking down.
Western Medicine is a huge support. It’s inspiring that Universal Medicine is so pro-Western Medicine, it works side by side with Western Medicine and knows that it plays a big part in the healing process. It’s beautiful to read about the many people that have found themselves embracing a form of mainstream medicine that well may save their lives one day.
Angela, it is great to read how you have embraced western medicine as a part of your healing. I can feel how with myself and my peers that it has been common for us to discount western medicine and seek only alternative rotes, I was dismissive of doctors and their experience, this is no longer the case, I now see healing as the whole package, including how I live my life and western medicine, it feels great to allow myself to be supported by doctors and to take responsibility for my health and wellness too.
When we discount conventional medicine or when we discount complementary medicine, in both cases we are selling ourselves short of the whole picture. A truly Holistic approach considers the whole person and hence will be open to exploring all options, never discounting the importance of conventional medicine. In the other hand, one of the dangers with the whole spiritual aspect of many healing modalities is that it does not take into account the energetic aspects with the level of integrity as Esoteric modalities do, and an arrogance can creep in to not value what the esoteric actually brings, so it gets lopped in with all other ‘spiritual’ modalities and then too, a nose gets turned up on our everyday medicine. Openness to the esoteric and an understanding of it allows us to have a relationship with conventional medicine which is supportive.
Angela, I have had a similar experience, I used to be very resistant to western medicine and any form of medication, preferring to use only foods and exercise, I was very dismissive of doctors and even if I did go to see a doctor I would not believe what I was advised. That has changed now and now I accept the whole package of healing on offer, working with my doctor, looking at my lifestyle and my behaviors.
Pretty awesome to be open to changing your views like that. To me it feels like we need to always be checking in with what feels like common sense, and do our best to not be influenced by external opinion. It’s difficult of course, especially with the force of some of the opinions that come our way. But like everything, practice is the best support.
I can really relate to your previous sentiment towards Western medicine – for me too it was the last resort. It was only after I encountered Universal Medicine I gradually started to contemplate and then admit that in my gravitation towards something alternative there lay the not wanting to see and feel how the way I was feeling was the consequences of the way I had been living, as I was illusioned to think that I was health conscious and making healthier choices by choosing the alternative medicine.
The truth is, western conventional medicine doesn’t have the answers, when practised on its own it has a fix or a prolonging effect on the body but not a healing. The system is hauling so much irresponsibility – from the carers who care without self-care to the clients who are not taking responsibility for their health conditions.
Perhaps we are long-time hurting… because we’ve known that Western Medicine isn’t the ONLY answer, and we long once again for the depth of wholeness that is brought when it is married with Esoteric Medicine… Clearly avoiding one part of the picture isn’t the answer, as many of us have well learnt… What IS the answer, is to unreservedly claim the whole, and the equal value of all of its attendant parts.
This is needed more than ever today, in a world where reductionist thought seeks to obliterate our knowing of all that true healing and addressing the root cause of any ailment, entails
The word that you may not have actually written here, but that resonates so strongly throughout this sharing Angela, is ‘responsibility’. In any developed aversion to Western Medicine, I am reminded of the old joke (or we should say parable…) about the guy who is drowning at sea and asks God for help. God sends a life-ring, a boat, a helicopter even – all refused by the man because he staunchly holds onto the belief that he will also be helped/supported by some old-school ‘miraculous’ intervention, a ‘hand descending from the clouds’ if you will…
And so, he drowns.
After dying, he meets God and asks why wasn’t he saved? God says, “Well I sent you the life-ring, the boat, the helicopter…”
In ignoring the blessings and essential need for Western Medicine, we negate the possibility of the divine working through its means, and those who deliver it. Enough said.
This is brilliant, Victoria. Such a classic.
😉 And so very true…
That is how to heal Angela, embracing and allowing the body the space to do what it needs to do. Work with the body and the support that is there when it feels true.
Angela I love what you have shared about true healing and that we are always a very important part of it – that is really something more people should consider.
Letting go of such strong resistance and defence is medicine within itself. The energy in which we use to be arrogant and ‘I know better’ is more poisonous in our bodies than the ‘issue’ or medical support we are trying to avoid.
There is definitely a balance to be struck with western medicine, and how it is used. At present it is used by many as a reliance for fixing health problems, but if our lifestyle is not supporting good health then this can only ever be a temporary fix. It is astonishing how advanced Western Medicine is, but in the long term nothing can determine good health more than how we live, and this must be our foremost means of staying well, with Western Medicine as a hugely supportive part of that where necessary.
From seeing people around me who rely only on western medicine – I too had the view that western medicine was a last resort. Enter Universal Medicine and now – 12 years on – I see the value every day of marrying western medicine and living in a way that is supportive and nurturing to myself and others. It has highlighted my ignorance I held before in thinking western medicine was failing. Actually it is amazingly supportive when needed and these days I see the value in preventative medicine and listening to my body.
It is interesting how we make our approach to medicine a trait of identity of ours. If you go alternative, you are different. There is a feeling of choosing better than others. The question is: to what extent is rejecting medicine and going alternative really a better choice?
Universal Medicine presents a truly harmonious approach to health and healing – embracing the essential support that western medicine has to offer whilst also giving us the tools and support to address the energetic aspect of any illness, disease or condition.
Great blog Angela, I agree, Western Medicine is to be embraced and utilised, it is an essential part of our healthcare system. Equally esoteric medicine is the important missing link addressing the deeper root causes of our ailments and illnesses. The combination is very powerful and supports a true healing process.
‘I considered alternative medicine to be the answer, or to hold the primary solutions and methods to healing illness and disease.’ The conventional medical model has a great understanding of the human body and the care and treatment options required to cure or alleviate and manage our physical symptoms. But, we are all a human beings and on top of our physical body we have many layers and parts to us such as a personality and spirit that also influences us as a human being. In other words, we are not just a physical body and for true healing to occur we cannot just treat the body, we have to treat the whole person. People may get disillusioned and frustrated with the conventional medical system but we all need to appreciate it is very busy and overwhelmed system and that for true healing to occur alongside the support of our conventional medical treatments we all need to take responsibility for and actively commit to and participate in our own healing process, and like you Angela, I have found Esoteric Medicine and the Universal Medicine healing modalities absolutely awesome for this.
We must see that western medicine is not sustainable on its own, and that mankind is not sustainable without western medicine. Only from here we can see that the medicine that is our Livingness will support western medicine to be sustainable for all.
Its easy to understand why many have an aversion to western medicine, I find the levels of corruption within pharmaceuticals extremely disturbing, and the influence they have over health, where lifestyle should be foremost in healing. Yet I have also come to the same understanding that you have Angela, and that is that Western Medicine has an important role in healthcare, we might say vital, but it should never stand along in how we are tending to our own care.
I love this blog as it takes me back to my late teens and early 20s when everything had to be natural and organic – so much so going to a supermarket was just not the done thing! The funny thing looking back is how I simply substituted ‘unhealthy’ things for ‘healthy’ things – so say could easily eat a bucket of blueberries and yes I do mean a bucket from the local market yet would think someone was off the planet going and eating fast food. It is these convenient truths, that through understanding energy more and becoming a student of The Way of The Livingness, I have been able to see and understand life much more. And with western medicine, it is great no doubt, but something I have found is the gap between wellness and illness is where they are not great and this is why I trained as a Naturopath. What Esoteric Medicine does is marry it all and enables for true healing rather than simply just a return back to functionality.
If alternative medicine and western medicine were the answer, then why do we still have so much illness and disease which is not only at its highest level ever, it is still rising! Only Universal Medicine’s perspective has brought the missing piece of the picture into view, and that is the key to also taking responsibility for how you are living, that is causing the ill to be there in the first place. Simple stuff but so rarely practised!
I’m not sure what the origins of alternative medicine is but the word itself suggests that it is an alternative and not something that complements something else. Complementary Medicine is working alongside with conventional, or western medicine and perhaps other practices and I think that is the way to go if the way forward is true of course. Sometimes I experience the alternative medicine world to be a little bit arrogant and stubborn thinking we can do it our way as if conventional medicine is a bad guy. They do their best but should of course not claim to have all the answers.
It is true that Western Medicine does not have all the answers, but as you clearly show Angela, the part that is missing is not to be found in a book or a drug, but in the choices we make every moment of life. This is the element we have long resisted looking at, but wow what amazing medicine when we do go there. So much of life is like this, work, relationships, families too – what if they are not the nightmares we make them out to be, when we take our true responsibility for what we choose?
“I was amazed at how much I was supported simply by ‘allowing’ the support that was there, and how this assisted in the overall healing, and the support I received and felt as a result, was truly lovely.” How powerful acceptance, truth and love with an understanding of energy and the true healing process with our own responsibility and integrity, really is. True medicine comes from the way we live and this a beautiful sharing in our understanding of all that is on offer to us all.
When we allow support in any area of our life we realise we are not alone, that we don’t have to do it all by ourselves and all the support we could ever need is just a choice away.
I’ve never wanted to rely on Western Medicine but looking back on my life I am glad to have had access to the healthcare I have. There are situations that have arisen where medical support has been crucial to my wellbeing, of course knowing that from that support there is a need to keep living with my own care for my health and that this is the most crucial part of living optimally in good health and wellbeing.
The future of medicine will be Western Medicine standing alongside Complementary Medicine, for the combination of the 2 is very powerful for the body and to combine the Esoteric Modalities as well – now that is true healing.
In the past I was a staunch avoider of Western Medicine and like you, Angela, I was very proud to announce that I had not taken any medications including Aspirin or any pain killers for 10 plus years. There was an arrogance in how I was with it, as if I knew better and sadly, I actually judged others for having to take pain killers or other medications. Thankfully this has changed for me quite a lot over the years and I have come to deeply appreciate all that Western Medicine has on offer, and this has allowed me to consider all areas and see which one suits for whom and when best, no judgments, and no arrogance in that anymore. Phew – it makes life and health so much more open and free to work with!
There certainly seems to be a strong divide between the choice of Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine. It is almost like a a belief that you can only ‘belong’ or ‘chose’ one over the other. Why is this so? The marriage of the two together is after all very powerful and when we allow ourselves the full choice of all that is there, then this is indeed a way for us all to take fuller responsibility for our own health and well being.
Well said Henrietta, why indeed cannot we choose both complementary and western medicine to work together to address both the physical and the root energetic cause of disease and illness – this makes absolute sense to me.
Thank you Angela for your article. I too felt some pride in using natural methods for healing the ailments that affected my family, instead of going to the doctor, I was against drugs unless absolutely necessary. I now have come to accept how important a part Western medicine plays along with the healing that Universal Medicine offers.
Imagine life without western medicine.
Well said Joe, western medicine focuses on diagnosis and treating the signs and symptoms of illness and disease in the physical body – and as we all have a physical body it makes absolute sense to me that conventional medicine is a part of its healing process.
I can very much relate to this. I gravitated towards alternative medicine, believing that I was being more health conscious and savvy in my choices, and I saw Western medicine as something that delivered a solution to symptoms often with unwanted side effects, and never looked at anything deep, and I avoided it as much as I could. Thanks to Universal Medicine I realise now it is in the way we use medicine that makes it a true healing or not, and that Western medicine does play a big part in my choice to take more responsible care of myself.
Many of us have come along this way: neglecting Western Medicine at some point. Could it be the same ‘giving up’-phenomenon that is found in the ‘you, doctor, fix it’-mentality? Just more hidden? I find it interesting to observe that a more responsible way of being in the world goes hand in hand with an embracing and responsible way to be with Western Medicine.
Oh how familiar is this story to me! Exactly like you, I arrogantly looked at western medicine, however I know that this dismissal is rooted in my knowing that there’s more to the root of illness and disease. When I was 18 years old, I discovered a small bulge in my groin. I knew something was being signaled to me, and out of fear I ran to go and get it checked out by my General Practitioner (it was one of those moments where Western Medicine felt “necessary”). Interestingly, the bulge did not show itself when I was in the doctors office.
A couple of years later, after requesting an ultrasound, and discovering that the bulge was in fact a hernia, it was becoming more persistent. I then decided to pay attention, and that is when I had my first session with a Universal Medicine practitioner.
Through working with the practitioner, and connecting with myself, I began to get a stronger understanding of its root, but more importantly, of what the body needs, and it needed the hernia to be sealed. Throughout my work with the practitioner, without ANY imposition on her behalf, I began to somewhat embrace Western Medicine and really appreciate the knowledge doctors have of our bodies. I went in to have surgery and remove this ill from my body by surrendering, and being open to receiving support. The surgery went beautifully, and my recovery did too.
So hand in hand, support from others, and responsibility on our behalf are vital to heal our wounds!
For me what I felt very strongly in my resistance was the accepting of support from other people and this belief that ‘I got myself in this situation I can get myself out’. But the thing is I am learning is that illness and disease comes around from our choice to disconnect from ourselves and each other, if we are thinking about something in our heads and bang into the coffee table then that disconnect led to us not being aware of where we are, simple. Likewise disconnecting from a person and not understanding them leads to miscommunication and thus a division. So one of the greatest things about accepting western medicine has been about opening myself up to those working in the medical professions and accepting the support from others. The more I feel that within me there is a willingness to support myself that get reflected in the support from others around me which in turn reflects to them that patients can support themselves and not rely on the system to fix them or avoid the system that can be used to support.
We’d be so lost without medicine, no matter how much we resist it you can’t help but admit that western medicine is what is keeping most people alive at the moment! Like you have shown it’s way better to embrace something that is ultimately there to support us with our health.
I have recently been in the company of a relative who has needed to use the services of the NHS quite extensively. I have found every professional to be patient, understanding and extremely caring, even towards an inquisitive protective relative like me who was asking lots of questions. I really do admire their work and dedication to serving.
I admit to being very anti medicine in my younger years, even shunning headache tablets and preferring to tough it out rather than get the support they would bring. I was always anxious about the side effects. These days, whilst I still check out the side effects of medication, I am more open to receiving the wonderful help that the medical profession offers. I have all my check ups and just recently had a full set of blood tests because I was feeling very tired and wanted to make sure there were no serious underlying causes.
From my training in natural therapies to my exploration of more new age philosophies, there is a subtle and at times not so subtle rebuke of western medicine (and it flows the other way as well). Its a clever way of keeping parts of the same solution at odds with each other.
Throughout my 20’s 30’s and 40’s I would have constant low grade neck and back pain that would occasionally flare up into more sever pain if I overdid something. Neither Western Medicine nor Alternative Medicine had the answer or were able to really help me. It was only through Universal Medicine that I got to really understand that how I lived my life was the main contributory factor to the pain. With this awareness, and by being more gentle caring and self loving in how I approach life, the pain has for the most part gone, and when it does come back I know it is something I am doing in my life that is creating it. At 60 I now have very little pain in my body, and I no longer feel tired at the end of the day. I very much look forward to the day when Universal Medicine is accepted for the missing link it brings to our health and sits along side Western Medicine .
I too had a resistance to Western Medicine, borne from a belief that it was unnatural and therefore should be avoided as much as possible. Yet when I got sick it was there to support me and now I see that it is an important part of healthcare, but that this fits in to looking deeply at why I might get sick too, which is where Esoteric Medicine has really been a great support too, where making every choice, every move a form of medicine, and not waiting to get sick but being proactive to be well.
Great realisations here Angela, thank you for sharing them. Western Medicine really does offer a lot in the way of supporting true healing, I agree with you that it’s not the only answer but an important part of the whole it is.
There is definitely need for both spectrums and hopefully one day in the near future they will be each other’s compliments and partners. Western and complementary medicine.
It is amazing that because of our ignorance (not truly understanding) we can become arrogant!! I can relate to how I have done this in the past and on reflection it was actually the fear of the unknown, or not knowing, and because I didn’t at times feel in ‘control’ of my health I would completely dismiss western medicine as not knowing a thing at all??? The beauty of esoteric medicine is that it works with western medicine but brings a much needed truth and far deeper energetic understanding not only of the body, but of life and the universe as well. This is extremely empowering as the ‘unknown’ is no longer unknown and true health lays within our own hands and the everyday choices we make.
I sometimes wonder if even western medicine practitioners have been robbed of the freedom to truly express what is going on, and what they see in clinic – being controlled so much by associations, pharmaceutical companies and government and the threat of deregistration if they go against the status quo – this is huge for someone who has spent 15 years studying to have reached their position, and who would lose their entire livelihood. So we are at the mercy of organisations corrupted by greed, wealth and power, doing everything they can to suppress the notion of self-responsibility – who make ‘health care’ about using drugs to manage conditions – and who ensure doctors toe the line and do not speak out at what they see is not true in their industry.
Western Medicine is amazing but it is not the be all and end all – in conjunction with Esoteric Medicine it is unbeatable and brings not just cure but true healing, if we but embrace them both.
I went through a phase where I was proud to announce that I had not taken a single medication for 10 whole years, not even aspirin nor panadol, nor local anaesthetic when going to the dentists…There was such a strong belief in me (it hardened me up), that I would be poisoning my body if I took any medicines. I was so blinded that I did not even want to see how they could actually also be of benefit or support. Thankfully I came around to western medicine eventually and when I started work with Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon confirmed how important it is to work hand in hand with conventional medicine and natural medicine.
Western medicine has an essential part to play in our health and can be a great support when we use it wisely, alongside taking responsibility for the way that we are living.
There is just so much that western medicine has to offer. While relying on it absolutely while ignoring the innate wisdom of our own self awareness is not helpful either, it is a vital part of how we care for ourselves.
Just because someone doesn’t go to the doctor does not mean they do not have any underlying illness or disease, it just means they haven’t been to the doctor.
Ha Ha – this is so true! You will see from my comment below that I was one of those who prided on not taking medications…but this decision was not made because I felt it truly supported me, it was made out of fear of my body not handling the meds.
There are so many different types of alternative medicine out there and having tried many of them by the time I found Universal Medicine, at first I thought it’s just another one of those New Age modalities which never really seemed to make any difference to my health, but I was 100% wrong, as within a couple of months I could already feel the difference in my energy levels and my health improving drastically. It seems now that I have the best of both worlds, access to western medicine and Esoteric Practitioners, and most of all myself.
I could really relate to a lot of what you shared Angela, always wanting to go down a path that wasn’t western medicine first. In fact even when I had the most horrific of colds and flus, I wouldn’t take panadol. When I think back, it makes me cringe, that I would be so unloving towards myself that I wouldn’t relent out of being so wedded to ideals and beliefs around such things. Today is a very different story, I attend the doctors regularly, I seek medical advice always and take pain relief when needed. So what has changes, reconnecting to myself and building a level of self love and care within, that allows me to be free of the ideals and beliefs, the shoulds and should nots, instead listening to my body and acting on what I feel to.
Putting blind faith into conventional medicine, hoping for the quick fix, the rescue, the magical cure, is equally sabotaging as full on resistance to it and what it offers. Both are missing the crucial element of self-responsibility and self-awareness. We can embrace surgery, medicine, even chemotherapy appreciating what it can do to support our healing, but we must also bring to the treatment a body and a being that has explored and understood as best we can what energy we have been running to get ourselves into that ill-condition. If we can heal our ill-momentum, the self-destructive choices we have been making, we give western medicine its greatest opportunity to help us to heal as well..
I used to be very anti conventional medicine mostly because I felt it did not have all the answers and could only help when things out of control, ie. too far down the line to really change things. So I shied away from doctors and went down the alternative route – which was a relief to what I had been used to, lots of time taken, I was listened to etc.. but even this never felt enough and did not actually get underneath things. Universal Medicine has been the only modality that has truly embraced conventional medicine and energetic medicine – it sees the role of both and knows that each have their place. When we consider and utilise both then we can truly heal the body, at least that has been my experience!
I have found the marriage of both conventional and complementary medicine incredibly powerful in supporting the body to truly heal both the root cause and the physical outplay in equal measure… a marriage that looks at us spherically rather than in parts and empowers us enormously through encouraging us to take responsibility for our own health through embracing the part we play in both the cause and the healing that follows.
It is impossible to discount Western medicine for without it a large portion of the human population would have died last week.
Complementary medicines and western medicines have their places and better yet they complement each other for what the public is asking for.
Learning to embrace both western medicine and complimentary medicines is something that the world has not yet grasped. I know for me as I had grown into my twenties, I had erred on the side of only wanting to see complimentary health practitioners, instead of going to the doctors. This did not support me appropriately, due to me being stubborn. Now days, I am totally the opposite, embracing all things western medicine has to offer, whilst still visiting complimentary medicine to do just that, to compliment, western medicine as and when needed.
After a long time advocating and practising ‘complementary medicines’ there are many ‘new agey’ modalities that I can now fully understand why western medicine looks at and goes…’what the’. You can also feel the coldness of many practising western medicine and have the same response. Which is the setup. Both try to be right rather than honestly explore what is right within both to make a health system that supports people.
“Since 2010 and my association with Universal Medicine, I have had the opportunity to re-look at my beliefs around”….this is what I love about Universal Medicine to support people to look at what they believe in and discover what is really true for them (or not). In your case it is around Western Medicine but the … could be a big list of things for many of the students. I have never fully realised how many belief systems are actually running me and slowly – over time – I am sitting down with them, having a (metaphoric) conversation with me and working what is actually real and supports me and what needs to be let go.
Beautiful story, I hope one day that Universal Medicine and Western medicine stand beside each in all medical Centres around the world, they both hold an important key to supporting us out of this global heath care epidemic.
Well said Sarah. That would be a sight to behold.
This shows how important it is to stay open and not get caught in the trap of thinking we know what’s right. Arrogance is just a form of protection which stops us looking at the whole picture. In this case, just because we may have been burnt in the past by western medicine, it does not mean we have to discount it completely but perhaps see it in a new way and for the truth of what it is; not the answer – but part of the solution which is part of a much bigger picture. Having self responsibility and self care during healing is a huge part of medicine.
I know that in the past I leaned towards alternative therapies, much to the dismay of my family. I would be quite staunch in my views, not allowing anyone to sway me from my views, even when I was quite ill. But today I have a very different point of view. I very much look to western medicine first, knowing that there is also an energetic reason for why something has come up for me in the way of an illness or issue. This change in perspective was made possible by attending presentations by Universal Medicine, learning more about the energy, enabled me to be more committed to life and that of the benefits of western medicine, NOT to shun it instead of, which is why it is called complimentary ‘to’ medicine.
Alternative therapies can perceive they are instead of or even sometimes better than western or conventional medicine. With this approach there can sometimes be a bit of distrust associated with this movement that completely undervalues the wisdom of conventional medicine and the level to that which it can and does support our human body.
“I had held on to a belief that engaging the support of Western Medicine was considered a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’.” It is interesting how so many people get caught into this pattern, I have known many people in my field of work who have had this approach and have become very ill. There is a place for western medicine and we need to understand that as a society. When an illness or disease appears in the body we need to be open to treat it to prevent it from spreading, as we make loving choices to heal it.
My life turned around when I accepted the role Western Medicine played in healing the body and then combining the Esoteric Modalities with this supported my body to heal in amazing ways as well.
Thank you Angela. I used to think I had somehow failed and that my body had let me down when I had to go to the doctor for an illness. Universal Medicine presentations have shown me that my own body offers a clear diagnosis of the treatment I have been giving myself and that I am responsible for writing my own prescription for changes in my lifestyle, Esoteric Medicine, while Western Medicine can support me in finding a solution to the problem, so that they are truly complementary of each other.
Western Medicine has played a crucial role in my life. I am so appreciative of it and yet I feel I can now expand that appreciation to bring some personal responsibility to how I live in every moment so that I lighten the load on western medicine and the amazing people who work so hard in it.
I have come to appreciate and understand that we need both western medicine as well as healing to support our body. There are times when our bodies need that extra support for the healing to take and if we ignore the support of western medicine we are causing more harm than healing. Western medicine has its place in the healing process. I have seen in my family with out the support of both, they would be in a ver serious condition, today they are living a life without full blown cancer as it was caught in the early stages.
I, in the past had very much the same reactions to Western Medicine as you had Angela, and like you, came to the realisation that depending on Western Medicine or Complementary Medicine alone and not embracing both as a necessary part of caring for ourself can be very detrimental to our health. But another key factor is to look at the choices we make in the way we are living and the possibility that they also have a huge impact on our health, for after all we can be given all the advice in what we should and shouldn’t do and what medicines or supplements we should take, but in the end our health is our responsibility and that includes honouring and caring deeply for ourself in every thing we do and seeking assistance when necessary. So for me it is a combination of the three – Self responsibility, Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine.
I relate to what you have said about considering the need to seek the support of western medicine as a failure, I feel this kind of attitude is promoted in the culture of alternative therapies generally. I agree also that this attitude is associated with a generous serving of arrogance! My involvement with Universal Medicine has also changed my attitude completely. On the one hand I now embrace what western medicine has to offer if I have a medical issue and yet at the she time Universal Medicine has inspired me to take far more responsibility for the root cause of my condition, through identifying the choices I have made that have brought it about.
I can then choose to make more loving/healthy choices.
I can relate to having gone down the path of not wanting to fully rely on western medicine. I was always going down the natural pathway instead, even when I could have gotten better with medication. I wasn’t averse to medication all together, but did not seek it out. So it really was coming along to Universal Medicine presentations and workshops that I changed my mind completely around western medication. Universal Medicine always advocated that it is loving and necessary to have and utilise all that western medicine has to offer. So these days I very much have the annual blood tests and doctors check ups, go to the dentist regularly and take a lot more time and care with myself.
‘I was amazed at how much I was supported simply by ‘allowing’ the support that was there. ‘ Yes, I feel we often overlook this and do ourselves a disservice by carrying on as if we can manage on our own, not allowing others to care for and assist us when we are ill, or even when we are not.
My experience of Universal Medicine is encouraging people to take care of their bodies by getting the treatment they need, and my understanding that taking medication when it is needed is self loving and nurturing.
Growing up with the National Health Service, here in England I have taken the services that they offer very much for granted and often have scorned them and gone the private route in order to receive quicker and better care. I have also had periods in my life where I have felt that I know better and have chosen alternative medicine to get me by. I am now so appreciative of the National Health Service and all they offer. The hospitals are generally very understaffed to bring a high quality of care and the nurses themselves are not often aware of ways to look after themselves in such conditions. Self care for nurses and hospital staff will go a long way to alleviating this problem, allowing for better relationships and more trust and appreciation for this system.
I agree elainearthey – I have recently attended an NHS hospital twice and on both occasions have noticed how challenged the staff are by lack of human resources however on both occasions I could feel the intentions of the doctors I met to be caring and really appreciated this in the way they treated me. What I could also feel is the state of desperation that the NHS is in, and underlying feeling that no one truly knows how to solve the problem we have or understands it’s cause.
I can relate to what you have shared Angela, I always wanted to be pure and go the ‘natural’ way. Go the complementary health route, but I have so changed that opinion so much since going along to Universal Medicine presentations, who are ‘complementary to medicine’. I now go to the doctors more frequently and have a lot more awareness in my body than ever before.
No way reading this today has reminded me about talking with some kids about how they get sick, and it’s important to look after yourself which was fine but I realised that I said I hadn’t been to the doctor in ages but came with a bit resistance still about going until absolutely necessary as if I was on my last legs. Goes to show just how super important it is to not rub of any ill beliefs we still might have …
This is a great story Angela and one that so many could relate to. I too held the ‘arrogant’ beliefs you mention about western medicine to the point as you say “a ‘failure’, a ‘step backward’ and even a ‘weakness’. How crazy is that when in Truth it does serve and it does have a purpose. I was only AFTER UNIVERSAL MEDICINE that I go off my high horse and started to listen to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and gave myself permission to completely let go of the nonsense in my head about western medicine.
I would be the first to go to the GP now and get checked out and have no problem taking a paracetamol if I was feeling like it was needed. Thats revelation if you knew how my past was – mrs alternative to the point of thinking “affirmations” was the answer in A&E whilst having a traumatic miscarriage and refusing medication. That is one example and there are plenty more but you get to read the ridiculousness of how strong held beliefs can run the body to the ground.
I absolutely relate to this ridiculousness and agree with “how strong held beliefs can run the body to the ground” as this is how I was with my body for many years, believing that conventional medicine only made us sicker and it was the devil! I thought at the time I was ‘well’ because I was doing everything ‘natural’. I was actually so disconnected from myself I had no idea what wellness was. It was only after meeting Serge Benhayon and then developing a serious disease that I turned to conventional medicine and discovered how supportive it is when used along side Esoteric Medicine.
Same here Bina, it is very important to see and be honest about those things, also when they are super uncomfortable – that is our responsibility. I actually now, after meeting Universal Medicine, deeply deeply enjoy and respect Western Medicine and all the benefits it brings, the world can not do without, yet there is another aspect that is important and that is the why?.. This is what I have learned from Universal Medicine, to feel more why thing occur and what my relationship is with that. To me Western Medicine and our Universal Medicine makes a beautiful whole.
I totally agree Angela – Western Medicine and Complimentary Medicine combined allows the body to truly heal. I also turned my back on the medical profession years ago, since attending Universal Medicine I started going for regular medical check up’s and seeing medical specialists when I needed to. My health is now the best it has ever been since I have combined Western Medicine and the Esoteric Modalities, the two work beautifully together to truly support the body.
I also went through many years of not really embracing western medicine. Not ever wanting antibiotics, wanting to see complimentary healers instead of the doctor. But it was actually since coming along to Universal Medicine presentations and courses that I completely turned around my views on this. I was aways encouraged to seek western medicine and see any kind of esoteric healing as ‘complementary to’ western medicine. That they need to work in alignment and harmony with each other. I feel so much more robust and confident in my medical choices now, seeing both as important as each other.
It’s interesting what you shared, Angela, about having viewed the need for western medicine as a failure. I think this perception may be more common than we think, though not widely talked about. People speak about the measures they take throughout their lives to maintain their health and when they get sick the question of ‘where did I go wrong?’ can sometimes emerge.
It is time we as a society became open to the fact that we are made up of much more than skin and bones. We are primarily made of energy, therefore it makes sense to take an energetic approach to our healing, alongside the more obvious physical bits that need to be taken care of. A beautiful and complete approach to healing would be the day esoteric healing and conventional medicine work equally side by side.
Beautifully said Kate. We are so much more than skin and bones and if we all considered our body and illness and disease from an energetic point of view, I cannot but wonder if our present health statistics on disease and illness would not be escalating as they are, as we would be far more responsible for how we live our everyday and not expect a quick fix from any practioner we see, be that a practioner of conventional or complementary medicine.
Having walked very similar steps I can say today: Nothing is more powerful than the services of Western Medicine combined with the services of Universal Medicine. In fact, I call Western Medicine as being part of Universal Medicine.
That is a great point felixschumacher8, I too would include Western Medicine as part of Universal Medicine.
I grew up in an environment where Western Medicine wasn’t exactly shunned, but there was a belief that you only used it as a last resort. Along the way there was a couple of major mishaps where mistakes were made by medical professionals and family members came close to death. This just reinforced my distance with Western medicine. Necessary visits to a doctor were undertaken with a measure of suspicion and reluctance and at best, with indifference. Since participating in Universal Medicine I have come to realise a much broader understanding of the part Western medicine plays and that best benefits occur when combined with esoteric medicine. The difference is that I now go to the doctor with an openness, making it much easier for the two forms of medicine to complement each other.
The separation of Western medicine from complementary medicine is supported by the arrogance and stubbornness of both sides to see themselves as unique and separate from one another, whereas if this attitude was dropped and they supported each other by working together, it would take a huge pressure off the overwhelmed healthcare system.
This is an important story to tell as it is common for us to hold beliefs and ideals about health and medicine – whether we are in reaction to the mainstream or ‘alternative’ medicine it is both coming from hurt and judgement rather than from a direct listening to our body. Universal Medicine has always been pro-conventional medicine – and rightly so as we would loose many lives without it. However with the current state of illness and disease (including burnout), a deeper energetic understanding of illness and disease and wellness through Esoteric Medicine is urgently needed.
Thanks Angela. You’ve really highlighted what it means to allow support in. Sometimes we think the world is against us, and we choose to make drama out of anything. But what happens when we really just allow and let things unfold naturally…the support is always there just waiting to be offered. There’s so much to learn.
By resisting the support offered by Western Medicine I made my life unnecessarily hard, I had a lot of fear ( and still am wary) taking Medication’s. The embracing of western Medicine and surgery has been a super supportive and life changing experience for me.
I can relate so well to your journey from arrogantly rejecting Western Medicine to embracing it. For many years I lived from the belief that as Western Medicine did not address the emotional issues underlying illness and disease, or if it did it did not do it well, I judged it practically as the ‘enemy’ the more I developed my involvement in alternative medicine. It was not until I encountered Universal Medicine that I have come to appreciate the huge benefits that Western Medicine can bring and that the combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Healing as presented by Universal Medicine is the perfect marriage.
What I love about your blog is, that you dropped your arrogance and accepted the support, which is given by western medicine as well – very inspiring.
I agree with Amelia “There is a lot to still be learned in the field of medicine, so an open mind (and heart) is key.” My paediatrician recently shared that in most times they are throwing a dart at the dart board (all be it a well educated one) to find the answers to any number of ailments. The are so many amazing things to be discovered in the realm of energy and our bodies.
I am glad you point out the arrogance, resistance and reluctance that you had against conventional medicine. I had them too, despite being a conventional health professional myself, and to be honest, also had the strong feeling through my own illness processes that the combination of western and complementary medicines would be the way forward for the world. And that is why what Universal Medicine presents makes so much sense.
There has been a lot of arrogance in myself also, resisting along the way to using conventional medicine. I used to be all holier than thou, feeling superior to those who just went to the doctors, it makes me cringe now when I think about it. How could I have been so judgemental, so self righteous. I do not feel like that now, far from it. It is good to feel how much I now embrace both conventional medicine and Universal Medicine.
The part you wrote about Angela considering it a ‘step backwards’ really stood out to me. And at the moment I feel there is an arrogance because I don’t have anything I would deem ‘serious’, it’s like there is less get up and go to consider all my options in terms of my health. But now I ask what is ‘serious illness’? Do we compare it to other’s health or are we basing it on our health in relation to who we truly are? Reading this has offered me a chance to question my stance on western medicine, am I holding it at arms length or am I embracing all that it does have to offer the body, to allow who I truly am to be in it without unnecessary prolonged ill-health?
I feel this issue of responsibility concerning health is for some reason controversial “I have also come to an awareness and understanding that illness and disease come from the way (the quality and self-care) in which we live, and the way (the quality and self-care) we are with ourselves and others.” But why? We know that much of the illness that people face in the world is actually avoidable, this means there is a choice, as confronting and uncomfortable as this is, there is a choice. Absolutely, every one has a choice and does not deserve to encounter judgement, concerning this, but it is important to say this out loud, and live true health. Reflecting another way, that actually is really good fun. True health is a joy, no denial, just true care and self love for ourselves and others, how could that not be a joy?
I have to admit I went full into the alternative modalities route and only saw the doctor if absolutely necessary. The alternative modalities hardly ever had any long term relief for my catalogue of growing illnesses and I became even more despondent. Now I feel I have the best of both worlds – me, Western Medicine and Universal Medicine.
I was the same Julie – caught up in all the herbal answers to illness without any regard for what my body was telling me. As I understand now, when I do get sick in any way, it is my body’s way of staying stop for a minute and look at what’s going on. Getting sick can be a huge opportunity for us to look at how we have been living and make different choices. I didn’t understand this until I was introduced to Universal Medicine, and as I have said, it absolutely complements western medicine, and offers me a point to go deeper and understand my body more rather than just taking medicine to fix a problem.
Whilst doing nursing I felt that Western medicine didn’t hold all the answers to attaining health by pill popping or surgery. So I studied alternative medicine- naturopathy, herbal medicine, and reiki, medical Qigong, kinesiolgy…- it was endless the search for true health and vitality. I still didn’t find the answers. Only after listening to Serge Benhayon
at Universal medicine, experiencing esoteric healing and learning esoteric healing modalities myself, that in the end I realised that both Western medicine and complementary medicine are needed. The key is not giving our power away to medicine- to fix us, but to take responsibility for our own lifestyle choices and behaviours.
I’ve always found it mad how people can be so stubborn when it comes to their health and are unwilling to see that Western medicine or Alternative medicine doesn’t hold all the answers and that the way that we are living plays the biggest part in how healthy we are or are not. Embracing a well rounded,unbiased and open approach to our health has got to make sense.
I was constantly sick when I was young and always taking medicines. When I got older I didn’t want to pollute my body with the ‘western’ medicines and wanted to only use ‘alternate; medicines. I have since learnt via Universal Medicine the ‘western ‘ medicine was once the alternate medicine. Alternate medicine was once the only medicine used. Together they make a great team, and with a qualified practitioners’ support, it can be very beneficial to the healing process. Thank you Angela.
I have a similar story to you Angela growing up our family doctor was a Homeopath, and I had an arrogance against conventional medicine.
This has changed over the years and I have found tremendous support in western medicine and Surgery. The awareness and support I have received from Universal Medicine to take better care of my health and see a doctor when I need to has been instrumental in my choice to embrace western medicine.
That’s awesome Thomas! I didn’t grow up with a strong alternative medicine attitude, but I certainly was proud of the fact that I very very rarely needed to see the doctor. It was like some kind of victory and proof that I had it all sorted. But now, I too appreciate that regular visits to the GP are just part of self care, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Being aware of the cause of an illness is very important, but as I feel just as you write, it is very important to allow the Western medicine to help heal the physical.
Western medicine is a very important part of everyone’s life – it helps to heal the physical aspect – but as you rightly say Angela, there is more to life than just the physical and this also needs to be addressed for full healing to occur. Taking responsibility for our bodies, and our illnesses being the result of the way we have lived.
Yes Rebecca, I agree, taking responsibility for not only our physical but our emotional, mental and energetic bodies also are important. The energetic bodies are less known and talked about, but there is equal importance for this too. When it does come into the physical it is important to address this with western medicine. As you say, this is where full healing occurs, with both being worked on.
“I have also come to an awareness and understanding that illness and disease come from the way (the quality and self-care) in which we live, and the way (the quality and self-care) we are with ourselves and others.” This is so important as so many feel important when faced with an illness that seemingly comes ‘out of the blue’. Prevention is so much better than cure.
It is really beautiful that through Universal Medicine you have been able to embrace the support that Western Medicine can offer wherever needed without belief systems deterring you… for that in combination with the self-responsibility you now practice is deeply healing.
It is great to be aware of how conventional medicine can offer support when we require it “…with an understanding that Western Medicine was an equally important part of this healing process.” I would always seek support from an experienced medical professional if I felt I required it, I have seen my GP more in the last few years than I did in the past because I am much more aware of my body and how it is doing, since attending the Universal Medicine courses.
Angela, it is great to feel how you have claimed back western medicine. While western medicine does not have all the answers using it as part of an holistic approach to treating our illness and disease, in collaboration with our own understandings of our body and it’s rhythms, feels like much truer way to be.
I have a great team of health practitioners that I see to support me with my health and wellbeing. They are all fantastic in their chosen fields of expertise. I don’t have the ability or desire to study medicine for 8 years and I respect and admire those that have the passion and focus to be able to. What I do know well is my body as I have been in it for 42 years. I know when I feel vital and focussed and full of energy and I know when I feel fatigued and moody and not right. In the last 10 years I have focussed a lot more on my body and the subtleties of what it is telling me, I have come to understand that everything is energy and that includes anything in my body and I support myself to look after the shell the physical and the soul.
What a great way to be nicolesjardin. You know when to seek support from your health practitioners, and how to support the treatments they offer. Great combination.
True long lasting transformations are possible. I am living proof and so are many other Universal Medicine Students.
That is great nicolesjardin and I would propose results in life being medicine. If we can live life with this level of responsibility it is inspirational.
Medicine can support us when we are sick – I’ve learnt to trust the research that has been done, the technology put into these treatments, and the knowledge of a physician. But above and beyond all this, I have needed to trust my body. What is going on with it, what am I doing that is perhaps effecting my health, how am I living to allow myself to get sick or even bump my knee or chip a nail? It is a constant responsibility on my part to be aware of my body, so I don’t give my power away to an answer from a doctor.
Thats what I have done in the past, giving my power away to the answers of doctors (western medicine or alternative) because I did not took the responsibility for myself, for my body. I just used my body in an arrogance that it was there to support me in anything I would undertake. But now, as being a student of Universal Medicine for many years, having attended many presentations and workshops that truly supported me in becoming more aware of my body and about the responsibility I have towards it, I am able to feel the delicateness of my body and what a wisdom is contained in it. This new connection also came with an deeper awareness of the care I need to take in looking after my body, and going to the doctor for assistance with any illness or disease is starting becoming normal to me. And now I do go to the doctor because I feel responsible for looking after my body, not giving my power away, but with the understanding that I have to do my part in the healing as well.
I can very much relate to this blog. I have resisted Western Medicine in the past, only to seek help when I had to. I was living arrogantly, thinking I would always be ok and there was no need to visit the doctors. Thankfully, these days I have changed in that there is no hesitation to have support when necessary for myself and my family. I have come along way but I have not truly embraced Western Medicine as equal to Universal Medicine as I could feel some resistance in my body when I read ”Neither of these two is any more important than the other, but rather complements the other in addressing and healing illness and disease”. I am inspired by this article to go deeper.Thank you Angela Perin for sharing.
A great article. When we use Western Medicine as a ‘go to’ prop to fix us when things go wrong so that we can return to living in the same as we did before the illness we are missing out on the equally important aspect of healing – our own part and responsibility for looking at the possible underlying cause of any illness and choosing to make changes to the way we live and care for ourselves. Simple really. Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine are partners in love.
This is true Mary, when we use medicine (anything really) as a prop up without taking the responsibility for our role in getting to this point, we put pressure on any modality to ‘save us’, rather than offer the support that they are each able to do.
Exactly Joel! The key here is a partnership between western medicine and esoteric medicine that has responsibility as its commonality and foundation.
Totally agree, a partnership. This will make a huge difference to the health service and to the health of the those who work in the health service.
‘…partners in love.’ I love that line! So true Mary. Self responsibility is absolute key to healing. Without it, we are simply puppets giving our power away to whoever we allow to control the strings.
Thanks Angela for the sharing. It’s wonderful that you felt the support and healing of Western Medicine and now feel able to embrace what it offers, and use it in conjunction with what Universal Medicine offers. The combination provide a true healing.
Yes Peter, and 3 years later I find my relationship with both Esoteric Medicine and Western Medicine is deepening all the time, as is my appreciation and respect for what they both offer in relation to addressing, preventing and healing illness and disease.
Thank you Angela for sharing your experience with Esoteric and Western medicine. There is a lot to still be learned in the field of medicine, so an open mind (and heart) is key.
I can see too how western medicine plays a crucial part in healing. Esoteric medicine and western medicine is a match made in heaven!
Yes I agree Fiona55. Esoteric Medicine is complimentary to Western Medicine and they are indeed a match made in heaven.
The argument between Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine reminds me of an advertisement for chocolate milk I have seen on television where two men are arguing. One man is saying his milk is better, the other man is saying his chocolate is better. The ad ends up with both men praising each other and saying their product is nothing without the other man’s product. A bit silly but easily relatable in many areas of our lives, we get so caught up in thinking our way is the only way that we close off all other avenues. It is our arrogance and stubbornness that can hold us back.
I like your analogy tonysteenson, simple but sweet; that crazy stubbornness we can be stuck in preventing us from seeing the whole or big picture.
That stubborn arrogance is laughable really, all we do is cause ourselves more pain. When used responsibly Western Medicine is amazing, and Esoteric medicine offers the support to do this.
Nice one tonysteenson love it … you sure it wasn’t at the work site !!
Great Analogy tonysteenson. Absolutely spot on. I’ve been like this in the past, put my blinkers on and been stubborn as all hell about one thing or another. I still do do this to a degree these days, as old habits die hard, but I am certainly more and more open to what life has to offer and also more trusting of myself and what feels right.
Great analogy, just shows how our stubbornness can hold us back. Only if we just let go of this arrogance and stubbornness we wouldn’t be wasting so much time. The truth is the two forms of medicine work hand in hand and need each other for complete healing.
Powerful analogy tonysteenson. We can resist brotherhood, unity, equality like the plague and resist we do because in the stubbornness of keeping life in pieces we are able to be recognised and seen
Thanks Angela, I can very much relate to what you have shared here. I held a similar attitude towards Western Medicine, so much so that I nearly said no to chemotherapy when I went through breast cancer. In hindsight I am extremely grateful that I ended up listening to my body and accepting that it needed this form of Western Medicine. The reason as to why it was difficult for me to accept having chemo was that I held a strong ideal that taking drugs or Western Medicine would do me more harm as it wasn’t natural. It was a hard lesson to learn, but I learnt it going through chemo, to accept that all forms of medicine are needed. Not to give our power away to it and expect it to fix us, but to see it as part of an overall healing process. I now know that Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine are both needed, Western Medicine can work with the body to deal with the presented symptoms and Esoteric Medicine assisting us to see the cause of why we have the ill in the first place.
Wow Donna, that is a hard lesson to learn but what an amazing healing process you have gone through! It is so true what you have shared, Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine are the perfect partnership.
I am so pleased you said yes Donna. What you now share from your experience has been incredibly valuable for so many of us.
Thank you Angela for a very balanced view of medicine.
Angela, this is a great blog. Rejecting conventional medicine seems crazy to me. It has its issues but it very often works and if we don’t reject it, conventional medicine works even better. When I read about quite a few of the ‘failures’ of conventional medicine they seem to me a consequence of the patient sabotaging what is happening or having utterly unrealistic expectations. Clearly there are other cases as well, but demanding from anything in our world that it ‘just works’ without us co-operating properly, may not be a well-working attitude.
As a past complimentary medicine practitioner and lecturer I was part of the us and them approach to western medicine. It didn’t serve and didn’t support myself or my clients. The work of Universal Medicine as truly been the missing link in so many ways.
It is lovely to read how you have accepted and embraced Western medicine. You are right it is not the answer but an important part of it. I really relate with what you have said here ‘By the time I was in my mid-late 20’s, I was moving more and more towards alternative medicine as the means of healing illness and disease – to the point where I began to discount Western Medicine as a means of support. In fact, to be honest, over the last 20 odd years this was with a large degree of defence and arrogance against Western Medicine, and I avoided it wherever possible.’ I was exactly the same looking at all the ‘healthy alternatives’ to make me this amazing person but I wasn’t willing to be really honest in how I was living and what I was eating and drinking. Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine have taught and continue to teach me loads including how look after myself and at how I am living. I love going to the doctors now and really appreciate them, the nurses and receptionists.
Traditional medicine does not have all the answers, this is clear from the rate of illness which is increasing across the world. This is why it is healthy for society to use traditional and non-traditional forms of medicine to support health “Neither of these two is any more important than the other, but rather complements the other in addressing and healing illness and disease.” This article is a very clear and sensible testimony.
I can relate to what you have shared Angela about feeling like a failure if you resorted to Western Medicine. For a long time I treated almost all conditions alternatively, however if my body didn’t respond to this, or a condition arose where I did need to go to the doctor, I felt ashamed, that I’d let the ‘alternative’ team down and was selling out to ‘the drugs’.
Of course I can now laugh at this and appreciate my close relationship with conventional medicine in addition to my relationship with Esoteric medicine.
My health care is now complete from ALL angles and my entire wellbeing has benefitted enormously as a result.
Thank you Angela Perin again about this reminder of the value of western medicine. It reminded me of being in A & E in the early hours of the morning having just had my first miscarriage. I had never experienced so much pain and was of course unaware that I was pregnant in the first place. I sat there waiting for over 4 hours with my latest spiritual new age book constantly saying affirmations in my head, like that was going to take away how I felt. I was alone, ashamed and at the same time thought my ingrained beliefs could heal me. I was anti-western medicine.
Nothing really changed until another 10 years later when I had my fourth miscarriage and had got an understanding from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that it was important to use western medicine and afterwards, look at how you have been living that could have possibly got you to that point of illness or dis-ease in the body.
This is when things really started to change and my body has been reflecting that back to me with increased vitality levels and no general health issues now for over 7 years.
This tells me Universal Medicine know what they are talking about.
I have nursed for over 25years so although Western Medicine is still something I wholeheartedly embrace and is foundational to my taking care of my own health, I have always felt there was something more to it, something missing from the clinical picture that Western Medicine offers. Like you Angela I accept and understand ‘that illness and disease are not random events, and that they result from something else going on’. So for a time I was looking outside Western Medicine to help me take care of my body and I extensively used alternative therapies. What I came to accept and became disillusioned about is the fact that alternative therapies have an arrogance that they are better than Western Medicine, somehow instead of and alternative to Western Medicine. This is not true. Western Medicine is essential and provides foundational care for all and in truth, society today would be far worse off than it already is without the likes of antibiotics, analgesia, vaccinations, surgery and chemotherapy just to name a few. For me, Universal Medicine with its esoteric philosophy and awesome modalities that support the human body is truly complementary to Western Medicine. It provides that missing link and the sense of responsibility we have to our own true health that I feel is missing in Western Medicine as a stand alone treatment.
Esoteric medicine and western medicine together bring the whole package of support that we need, neither can truly work on their own.
There is indeed an ongoing resistance to western medicine that is now manifesting in diseases, that were once inoculated out of our lives, found to be lurking around again and popping up much to the horror of Health commissions everywhere. It is truly commendable how Universal Medicine encourages the consideration of what Western Medicine has to offer to the point whereby 100’s maybe even 1000’s of people are reconnecting with their local GP’s with sustained positive life enhancement.
My experience with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine also changed my relationship with Western Medicine. I was very ‘anti’ and also prided myself on never needing to go and having other means to look after myself. Since then, I have learned so much about medicine – the ultimate form of medicine being the way that we live. This is so empowering to know that our daily dose of medicine is in the quality of every moment in every day. And going to the doctor is a huge support for me that I no longer resist, in fact I warmly welcome the experience in having someone to support me in ways I can’t. Thanks Angela, great blog!
Thank you Angela for being so honest about your resistance to western medicine. I had similar thinking about it. Now I am glad I have a deeper understanding of western medicine and myself. Nowadays I take my part in the responsibility of my illness and I am happy that western medicine supports me in my healing.
There have been many times in my life where I have been thankful for Western Medicine, but with this I have developed an understanding that I need to keep developing my own levels of self care. I can look back on two or three occasions where pharmacological drugs have been hugely important to regaining my health, while I have also maintained my desire to limit my dependance on needing this type of intervention through the way I live and the health choices I make. Thanks Angela for writing on this important topic.
Angela, I have a similar past concerning western medicine. By learning to understand western medicine in a different way, more as something supportive as something I am dependent of, my attitude changed completely. Medicine today is firstly for me to take responsibility for my body and listen to its voice and secondly to take the support of the western medicine with its check ups and medication if needed.
Yes I agree we need all the support that is available to us when we are not well. From ourselves, western medicine and Universal Medicine as well as family and friends. All plays a part, as does the food we eat , beverages, quality of rest and medication.I agree with what you say Angela.
Thank you Angela Perin for presenting your experiences with Western medicine. I too have come from that place and have now also found that true healing comes form western medicine in combination with the complementary medicine as being presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Thank you Angela for sharing your journey to appreciation of the value Western Medicine holds. I can relate 100% and in fact, it felt like you were sharing my experience of how I had approached Western Medicine. Whenever I did ‘have’ to go to a doctor I did so rather arrogantly, with a closed and negative attitude. At times I weathered pain to merely stand by my belief. But now I also have come to understand and become aware, through Esoteric Medicine as presented by Universal Medicine, how my illness and dis-ease are a direct result of how I have lived and the choices that I have made from the unresolved emotions that drive me. From healing these emotions that had led to harmful patterns developing in my life, through Esoteric healing modalities, I now have begun to make truly loving choices and care for myself in a supportive way that honors how I feel and what is needed for my health and well-being. So I now do visit my doctor with an openness of what support is actually on offer and this is part of caring for myself as are my regular visits to Universal Medicine practitioners. As for me they both work beautifully together.
“I have come to an awareness and understanding that Western Medicine is not ‘the’ answer to illness and disease, but it is an important ‘part’ of ‘the’ answer”
What you say here Angela is ‘ditto’ for me as this is exactly where I am at now thanks to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Having been big into the spiritual new age stuff, I went off the rails literally with my ‘alternative’ medicine stuff and literally ignored the western medicine. In fact I recall being in A & E reading a book and saying the affirmations a thousand times but the pain was not going and I was making out that the miscarriage I just had was not really affecting me.
I know those who are not in spiritual new age but say that taking tablets is not the answer but suffering and seeing it through is.
The ideals and beliefs that we hold can be damaging to our own health and well-being if we do not look at the ‘whole big picture’. I realise now that by avoiding western medicine in the past, it led to my health deteriorating and thus costing my body and the health system more. This is not responsible living and thank God I know the difference now so I can live in way that supports my body. Making choices that are responsible not only benefits us directly but society also gets the benefit.
Angela, thank you – I can certainly relate to your experience as well! I too prided myself with how long I could go without taking any medicines, and instead turned to alternative medicines in an attempt to ‘heal’ things without actually attending to what was going on. Over the years, though I always knew that conventional medicine played an important role in health care (try healing broken bones or a heart attack with alternative medicine and you are not going to be very successful), I still also held an arrogance in thinking that I did not need conventional medicine unless it was an emergency, and would see others as being ‘weak’ for turning to conventional medicine. I also held a fear that the medicines would affect me in a bad way, to the point where I did not like to have anaesthesia when I went to the dentist – so I refused this at one point (this refusal thankfully did not last very long!). Childbirth was another area where I prided myself to have had a ‘natural birth’ with no pain killers – but I wonder how much different my experience would have been if I had been more open. Over the years I have learned to embrace conventional medicines and seeing conventional GPs as well as specialists. And attending Universal Medicine events as well as hearing Serge Benhayon talk about the support that conventional medicine is to us all, has been a great confirmation for me in accepting more and more of this in my life and essentially embracing it as needed and with so much common sense – and hence today I can see the value in conventional medicine as well as what I now call ‘complementary’ natural medicine – essentially one cannot stand without the other. Today I am a health care practitioner and I advocate both conventional and alternative medicines as I can see how there is a place for both, and that both are equally as important.
Thanks Angela – I had also avoided Western Medicine as much as I could thanks to some seriously unpleasant early experiences that did not help me one bit. However I had gone on to study ‘alternative’ modalities like homeopathy, Chinese medicine, herbalism and naturopathy, and while there were a few gems in what I had learnt – overall I was far less satisfied than even the conventional medicine approach. No-one it seemed had the true understanding of health and illness and the part it plays in our lives. … that is UNTIL I went to a weekend course run by Universal Medicine. And finally here was someone, Serge Benhayon, who spoke about illness and disease in a way that made total sense. Through this understanding I have been able to reembrace Western Medicine and benefit from the great support it provides while at the same time addressing the patterns that led me to being in the state of ill-health I had created. I only wish I knew way back what I know now.
I was one to avoid western medicine until I came to Universal Medicine and realised that it had a place in supporting my health and well being along side other complementary healing modalities. For the past 4 years I have been having regular blood tests which showed that certain aspects of my health needed support. I did this with a combination of herbal medicine, esoteric healing modalities, western medicine and looking at my lifestyle choices. This combination has been excellent.
Your story makes it very clear, Western medicine is needed to help the physical body to heal but we have to be aware of our bodies and feel what caused it energetically.
Indeed Benkt, only when we feel the energetic cause and commit to healing it, the illness or condition will truly heal.
What I love about this sharing Angela and which i can totally relate to is the following:
1. That we are ultimately responsible for our health and wellbeing through our choices and the way we live.
2. That if something happens in our body we have the choice to take responsibility for what led to this.
3. We can embrace the support offered through Western Medicine to assist in our healing process
4. That we are the ultimate practitioner of our health and our body
Thank you for writing so well about Western Medicine. Many great and loving people have devoted their lives to bringing help to people through western medicine and also many great and loving people have devoted their lives to offering healing in ways that are outside western medicine. For example the use of essential oils can be a wonderful support for humanity but it is not weakened by the inclusion of western medicine when necessary and nor is western medicine undermined by the inclusion of essential oils. I think it’s quite ok to embrace both for the support each one can offer. Thank you for bringing the benefits of western medicine to our attention.
Western Medicine can clear the field and create the space, and esoteric medicine will dig for the roots which cause all medical conditions. Working together that can prepare an incredible ground for a new and healthy life to grow and flourish on it.
I absolutely agree, I was brought up with homeopathy and even though I always went to see doctors and made regular check-ups I never appreciated Western Medicine for what it brings. I always saw it for its deficiencies and that it was lacking the overall picture. Since Universal Medicine I have a clear understanding how to complement my own journey and responsibility with illness and disease with the support of conventional medicine and my general care of myself with regular check-ups, etc. When I am sick now I don’t suffer unnecessarily rejecting all kind of conventional medicine, but I take it to support my body and to give me space to look at the reasons why I have been getting sick.
I have a similar experience, having shunned western medicine for years. I always knew that there was a reason for any illness, but was determined to do it alone. Until Universal Medicine I was naive to not see the beauty in the support that we are offered in this way. Now I can appreciate that twinning medicine with greater awareness is the truly loving choice.
Angela, I can relate to having an arrogant resistance to Western Medicine. It’s amazing what support is on offer around us when we truly support ourselves.
Beautifully put Angela. I could feel the harmony in what you expressed and indeed the harmony that exists between taking responsibility for our own health and using the Western Health System when necessary. You made an important point also that it is not just that we do use the Western Health Service when needed but our attitude to using it. If we are doing anything with reluctance, regret or indeed resentment then these emotions in themselves are very harming to the body.
It’s lovely to read that you were open to seeing things differently, which I’m sure at first would not have been easy, but the fact that you allowed yourself to take responsibility of your arrogance around western medicine is awesome.
There was a time in my life some 15 years ago perhaps when I discovered homeopathy (not for me but for one of my daughters). What was interesting for me then was my arrogance at the time: I do not need conventional medicine and doctors any longer. It was a feeling of superiority in there. My own feeling todays towards conventional medicine is much bigger than it was. As you Angela rightly say, they are part of the answer.
Great example of how ideals and beliefs keep us stuck and where it is either or. I know of a woman who had breast cancer and a so called alternative healer said she should not go to do western medicine. She didn’t, also because she did not want to get into early menopause because of the radiation. She did not survive. The papers were full of articles to blame the alternative healer, but forgot to mention that the choices, beliefs and ideals of that woman made her not go seek for western medicine.
Great blog, thank you Angela. I work as a registered nurse and have always loved western medicine. My experiences at work have shown that western medicine can be very supportive when people have illness and disease although I have also seen first hand that it does not have all the answers. People often have huge expectations on western medicine to fix them and this puts much pressure on health care professionals. In 2010 I began listening to Universal Medicine’s presentations on Esoteric Medicine and how experienced first hand how the esoteric healing modalities offer a true complement to western medicine.
Great blog to read, I too was caught in the don’t need to go to the doctors route – but now I see this when it is needed as something very loving, supportive and healing and something to be definitely embraced – but now I take me with a responsibility rather than giving my power away and looking for a quick fix or relief from the choices I have made that got me there in the first place.
You raise an interesting debate here I was never against conventional medicine, but I have always known that it does not have all the answers. What I have come to understand very concretely (through what Universal Medicine has presented) is that we are responsible for our health and that our lifestyle choices (including what and how we engage emotionally) are the most powerful factors in our health outcomes. This along with conventional medicine and complimentary healing give us a great foundation for true health and well-being.
Yes I was the same…I knew that conventional medicine did not have all the answers and I knew that there had to be more to the jigsaw puzzle. Lifestyle medicine (the way I choose to live) has been the most potent remedy I have found…no quick fix, but a way of living that has an enormous impact on my health and vitality. The combination of conventional medicine, complementary healing therapies and my daily lifestyle choices has proven to be a wonderful trio.
It feels great to actually allow ourselves to feel into both modalities and make choices from our hearts to what may be the most supportive. And to take personal responsibility within ourselves to heal as well.
It’s amazing when we feel the arrogance of “alternative” medicine. It sees an imperfect western medical system and rather than acknowledge and work with the imperfection it rejects western medicine completely and tries to replace it with something that is, arguably, more flawed. As a healthcare professional, I have found the way Universal Medicine approaches healthcare in a truly complimentary and supportive way, working with and encouraging people to regularly see their doctor, to be supportive and caring for the individual. There are no vested interests, no agenda, just an openness and willingness to do what it takes to care for all aspects of the person. This combination of western and complimentary healthcare is the way of the future.
Awesomely said Lee – indeed there can be huge arrogance on both parts – when approaching ‘Western’ or ‘alternative’ medicine from either side. When it is seen that both (largely) have the goal of improving human health and suffering, this arrogance can indeed be dropped and the truth of the matter seen. There is no denying the importance medicine (i.e. conventional) has for the human body in supporting the healing of illness and disease – of course with no perfection. Embracing this with lifestyle measures and the use of equally supportive complementary therapies, (though the support is often indeed different to that offered by conventional medicine) can produce a beautiful relationship for healing.
It is true that Western medicine does not have all the answers but neither does alternative medicine, yet working together we may come close to finding out all the answers. It is lovely to hear how you have now embraced both so that you can be supported to heal.
I agree Sandhya and how we essentially will know what will be appropriate for us by listening to our body and feeling the support that is required.
It’s interesting to note that there have been lies posted online about Universal Medicine not supporting western medicine, and telling people to not see their Dr or continue with their medications or treatments. This blog is proof that such comments are absolute lies, because here is this women, who was beginning to become a little into western medicine actually re-embracing Western Medicine since being involved with Universal Medicine. I work as a health care professional and I am involved with Universal Medicine, and I can say that in no way what so ever is there any anti medical treatment going on, but instead the opposite, encouraging people to take care of their bodies by getting the treatment they need.
Western Medicine works really well – especially if you have the right attitude and take care of yourself.
Christoph I agree it does work well, as long as we do not give our power away to it and we take care of ourselves.
A great example of what “being open, allowing and accepting” can reveal and bring a whole new perspective. Thank you Angela for writing this.
Thank you for showing that we don’ have to be arrogant and we don’t have to give our power away when we choose Western Medicine.
A great experience Angela to feel how ideals and beliefs are not representative of what is true!
As you share this Angela, I can feel that there is almost a fight, a need to push through and an arrogance saying “I am OK” that is present when we are thinking it is all about Alternative Medicine and never Western Medicine. The simplicity, ease, love and support that can come with Western Medicine feels like a lovely way to embrace our vulnerability and tenderness in the true care that another can provide.
I was always resistant to Western Medicine as I felt it was imposing a harmful unnatural treatment on my natural body. What I have come to appreciate is that Western medicine can offer very effectively treat my body when it is sick or out of harmony, and can be a great aid to creating wellbeing for my body, this for me is only of true benefit though if I also introspectively look at why I needed the intervention of Western Medicine in the first place and make the appropriate changes to my lifestyle to stop the reoccurrence of the ill health and dis-ease in my body that has taken place.
What happens with Western Medicine and Alternative Medicine: they play the age-old game of ‘who is the good guy and who is the bad guy’. Some of us may stand on one side and some on the other and we might also change sides. I also got a healing with Serge Benhayon. It was through him I understood the meaning of the word ‘Complementary Medicine’! Game-Set-Match: Love.
I have held a lot of skepticism towards western medicine as well.
Working in the office of a spine surgical department of a large hospital for the last years has made it very clear to me what amazing benefits western medicine can bring and in how far it can contribute to truly healing. In what Serge Benhayon is teaching via universal medicine I have found what for me is the ideal complimentary to western medicine. Since embracing both nearly all my medical conditions have healed and I feel vital like I last did during my early childhood.
I can totally relate to what you are expressing here, Angela. I had too completely aligned with the alternative medicine while discounting the Western medicine in large part. It came a time, however, when I had to be really sensible about what type of treatments I was going to choose to heal a serious illness. I was so blessed to be supported by Serge Benhayon in seeing that Western medicine was a very important part of my healing and could play a fundamental role in it. Initially, there was a lot of resistance in me on that front but, slowly, I realised that it was indeed important to embrace what the Western medicine had to offer, which is a lot. I was however also aware of the fact that to truly heal I had to also learn to deeply care for myself and honour my body. The two approaches combined revealed to be very supportive for my return to full health. I am very thankful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for supporting a different way of looking at medicine and healing.
Yes I can see how I like many people, felt let down by Western Medicine, first of all because I approached it with the attitude of: it is their job to fix me and secondly because I gave my power away to it. The reaction after realizing this was to reject Western Medicine, pretending I can live without it. It is a bit like the behaviour when you are let down in a relationship and you are hurt.
Meeting Serge Benhayon, who showed me how to heal my hurts, I could let go of this attitude more and more and actually embrace Western Medicine as a part of my health care regime that plays an important role in my life today.
Thank you Angela, I agree a holistic approach to our health and well-being comes from complementing western medicine with Universal Medicine therapies. Other complementary modalities can also be incorporated when required. Embracing the things that bring true health and wellbeing is an integral part of healing. I have found that if any area of my healing does not have a holistic approach then I am missing a part.
I have had a similar experience of not really appreciating what real love and true care western medicine can offer. Although I have always gone to the doctor, had my regular check ups and tests, my attitude towards this was “I have to do this” rather than, I am doing this because I care for myself”. When I was more open to engaging medical staff, nurses on the basis of care, I began to feel the real care that was being offered to me. It made for a much more engaged and deeper experience than seeing myself being treated as cattle, which is not fair on all the wonderful medical staff that are there.
I was brought up with the approach of dealing with what ever health issues first with a ‘natural’ approach. Then my mother took me to a doctor that offered homeopathy as well – what then would take place was his overall assessment and then use which ever modality he felt was necessary. Interestingly enough it was always the medical approach that felt more effective and supportive, which is what I have always continued with. Once meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I felt that introducing healing and self-care this had an enormous support to my health and when I need the medical support this works also. Having the two hand in hand seems to be the most effective formula.
Thank you Angela for an insight-full look into a different way of looking at medicine. Medicine to me was always more of a holistic approach to healing. Universal Medicine has expanded that holistic approach to such that I now bring responsibility to every aspect of my life.
I too Angela appreciated Western Medicine in the same way as you described, totally relying on the alternative modalities and only when really required I went to my GP for some Western Medicine fixes. Since I started to attend presentations and workshops with Universal Medicine my relation with Western Medicine has changed to the opposite. I can appreciate it now for its great knowledge and the wonderful ways of treatments for all kinds of ailments of the physical body, that this way of treatment is required to assist the body in its healing process. Together with the complementary healing modalities as being taught by Sergen Benhayon and Universal Medicine, total healing is possible to both the energetic source and the physical result in the body.
I found the important part of this article for me was when you expressed that you had to take responsibility for your body and allowing of where you were at then letting modern medicine be a part of the healing process rather than have the resistance towards it.
Thanks for sharing Angela
Beautiful points you present here Angela. Totally agree that western medicine has it’s place and yes it is up to the individual to look at possibly, how or why that particular ill is there. Western medicine is a supportive part of us getting rid of this ill accumulation. The question is what choices do we make after this support and also to what level of responsibility do we take with looking at our lifestyle choices and patterns to understand why? I feel that when no responsibility is taken from the individual to really look at their part and then when western medicine is used as a relief or tool- then this is not completely supportive to our whole potential healing process.
Thanks Angela, for this great blog, and for the opportunity to consider how Universal Medicine has enhanced my relationship with Western Medicine. Even as a doctor, I used to have great trouble embracing my own profession, and certainly only used it for myself as a last resort, when things were dire. One of the many lovely things about being a student of Universal Medicine has been the restoration of my love for my chosen profession, and my understanding of the great part it plays in healing, especially when used in its right place, in conjunction with a loving and caring way of life.
Thank Angela, you have helped remind me of how I use to hold a belief, that western conventional medicine was disempowering and ‘alternative medicine’ was empowering. I would think – even if it is placebo, it shows the power of the mind to heal. Now thanks to Universal Medicine I understand more deeply, that the mind can align with healing or harming and we need to look at the intention behind the choices. Western Medicine based on scientific foundations takes out much belief and conjecture and provides a baseline of support for people. Alternative medicine opens up a pandoras box. Universal Medicine is the missing link, of holding integrity of ones intention to truly heal, and not seek a quick fix solution or crutch of support so poor lifestyle choices can be ignored or championed.
Your story reads almost exactly the way in which I felt about western medicine before coming to Universal Medicine. Thank you Angela for reminding me of what my life was like before Serge Benhayon. I would have gone 40 years without a G.P. Yes, I had lots of minor surgery for cuts and broken bones but I never fully embraced western medicine.
Twenty-two years ago I smashed my back so badly and refused to go to the doctor. My spine was fractured in at least 6 places, the vertebrae in my neck were a total wreck, but my back was so sore for 4 weeks I had no idea that my neck was even damaged. It then took another 2 weeks so a total of 6 weeks before I felt my head was sore and had a hole big enough to put my thumb in! All from a skiing accident at 60 miles per hour! This accident definitely slowed me down for a while but I never once considered getting my body checked out by a doctor.
So enter the splinter in my foot. I had lots of splinters and in my later years I did my own procedures to remove them, or my wife would dig a particularly deep one out. Three years ago I had another splinter in my foot and this time I embraced western medicine and was hospitalised to have the splinter removed.
Western medicine is now an important part of my healing and I have a G.P. and get regular check ups. The bringing together of Western Medicine and Universal Medicine now gives me a balanced perspective and a greater level of holistic support.
Well Said, I know a few people I would have loved to have read this. People tend to think you go one way, make one thing the ‘right’ thing when if you combine the two they can really support each other, it really is beautiful when you can embrace both forms of Medicine.
Angela, I can so relate to your journey with Western Medicine. I also arrogantly refused any help & support, rather trying everything alternate first and then feeling like a weak failure if I had to succumb to visiting a doctor or taking ‘non-natural’ medicine. It feels so amazing to have let go of all the ideals & beliefs I had about this, to choose to take responsibility for my health and the way that I live, but also accept the support that is there from Western Medicine should it be required.
Like so many of the others who have commented on this blog I also was adverse to using Western Medicine when I first started attending Universal Medicine workshops. When I first heard Serge Benhayon speak favourable about Western Medicine and doctors he almost lost me! After having cancer at 50 and being told that I would likely not live for more than 2 years, I studied all that I could on the subject and on health generally. I was disgusted and disillusioned when I discovered how much cover-up there is of research if there is no financial benefit for pharmaceutical companies etc. Even research for which the researcher had been nominated for, or received a Nobel Prize such as Otto Warburg! So for many years if we had small injuries or illnesses my now husband and I would treat it ourselves. One of our favourite remedies was a potato poultice after we were told that it was what was used to successfully treat children with burns at a hospital in India when their parents did not have the money for conventional treatment. And, I have to admit that we did have success with this treatment. However, after hearing Serge Benhayon, I reconsidered my stance against Western Medicine and now embrace it as ‘part of the answer’.
This blog got me to stop and consider how blessed I am by the Universal Medicine teachings about health and disease. Serge Benhayon brings a balance to healing and medicine that appeals to common sense, he inspires the listener to really consider their daily choices and what in their lives might contribute to ill health far beyond the usual healthy diet and exercise prescription . Before Universal Medicine I was arrogant about the downfalls of Western Medicine while at the same time using it when I really needed to without appreciating the amazing science and healing it offers. Thank you Angela for how you have brought this out in your blog.
What is great about this blog Angela (thank you for sharing) is that you not only share the views on medicine that we important in your life in the past, but you also share that through the support of Universal Medicine you have for yourself now embraced the combination of Western and complementary medicine. It is incredible the arrogance that the spiritual new age style therapies can bring through. While complementary medicine like Esoteric Healing works hand in hand with Western Medicine and supports the person not only to recover but also to truly heal.
Angela I am sure that there are many who hold a range of beliefs that keep them away from Western Medicine. Interesting that even in this fundamental area of our welfare, that of caring for ourselves and each other, we have beliefs that are focused on separation/division, not on harmoniously working together, and also keeping people away from the care they may need, and which may well support them. It makes me consider what purpose our fiercely held beliefs really serve.
‘In the past 2 years I have come to an awareness and understanding that Western Medicine is not ‘the’ answer to illness and disease, but it is an important ‘part’ of ‘the’ answer’ – This is an amazing point Angela. Often people believe those who support Western Medicine are anti Alternative Therapies, and those who support Alternative Therapies thus dislike the former, but you are saying that they in fact COMPLIMENT each other, neither is ‘better’ or ‘the right choice’; they both play equal parts in supporting humanity to live healthy lives. Thank you for your incredible blog.
Surrendering to the acceptance that Western Medicine is part of the whole, rather than being arrogant and separating it from other forms of medicine, does feel like such a healing in the way you describe it, Angela, and I realise I have also done that journey. Recently I was pondering about the Medical System, and it came to me that doctors and health workers are trapped in it like many of us are trapped into other systems. This allowed me to feel another layer of letting go as I thought, they are just like us, probably having to align to the various rules they do not agree with. But I have met doctors, (and teachers) who manage to approach their job humanely and bring their own values to it and make space to be fully with the patients. (or pupils)
I too was very much for alternative therapies and thought almost everything could be dealt with them. When I was 30 years of age I had a rumbling appendix and was very proud that I had dealt with it by changing my diet to Macrobiotic… I had lost a lot of weight effectively but it all came back two years later and found it difficult to lose it again even eating brown rice everyday! I was addicted to sugar and cakes, I could not resist! It’s only 5 years ago when I went to my first presentation with Serge Benhayon that things started to shift gradually, nothing overnight! But there I was advised to do regular checks with my doctor and to not leave anything suspicious left unseen, I could not remember my doctor’s name, I had probably met him once in 17 years!
Great blog Angela, it’s interesting how so many of us considered going to the doctor as being a failure. But with true understanding from the presentatiions from Universal Medicine about the Ageless Wisdom, that true medicine is accepting both Western and Complimentary and understanding ones body to take responsibility for illness and disease.
I agree with you Angela that western medicine is not “the” answer but an important “part” of the answer. Our relationship with medicine is also something to take into consideration, what we bring to it, what we chose as a way to heal ourselves, what part it plays in our lives, how can one find true healing, what elements are needed for healing to occur? And that relationship to medicine evolves as we evolve.
I did visit my doctor, but had the attitude that I wanted them to fix me and why was I feeling this way? Like it was their fault. Since studying with Universal Medicine I have come to realise that I made all the choices that led to the ills in the first place, so now I can make a true change. And I can visit my doctor or ask for support from others when needed.
As a former nurse I saw the good and the bad in Western medicine, and became disenchanted. During my spiritual search years I trained as a complementary therapist. I became proud of the fact I rarely saw a doctor – such arrogance! Coming to Universal Medicine, where Serge Benhayon actively encourages us to seek professional Western medical help in addition to the Universal Medicine modalities, I have had more face to face contact with the medical profession than I have had for many years, mostly for checkups, and now truly value the part western medicine plays. We need both for a true healing process, complementary with each other.
I can very much relate to what you say because I have always been into complementary medicine, practicing different modalities, and into all sort of spiritual trends, including the rejection of western medicine while at the same time working for western medicine as a nurse. In fact, it was that rejection of doctors and all the prejudices that came with it what stopped me from studying medicine myself when I had more than the necessary grades to do it, and my family was encouraging me to be a doctor as many of them are.
Through my experiences in life I have come to appreciate the heart in so many doctors and nurses, the great work and support and the everyday saving lives with no fuss, no pretense, very matter of fact. And through Universal Medicine I have come to understand that going to the doctor is another part of self care, and to truly appreciate western medicine for what it is, a very necessary part of the healing process.
A great article very profound.
It’s great to read about your experiences Angela. For many of us medicine is something we seek when we are in pain or suffering, be it physical, mental or emotional. Since I have started to live with more care and love for myself, I’m discovering that the way one lives is a form of medicine that actually prevents illness in many ways. Combining this with western medicine, we can develop a well-being that doesn’t use illness as a barometer for how well we are.
I love how when you let down your guard, defence and protection and allow support where it is needed you really feel looked after and cared for. We are not here to do it all on our own and make it – we are here to be together and to look after and support each other. I have taken a long time to let go of that guard and still can catch those moments where the old behaviours and beliefs pop up and see that is not my truth.
Thank you for this article. I started from the other extreme. I depended entirely on conventional medicine and expected the doctors to ‘fix’ me. I thought, ‘They are the experts and they will know and do whatever needs doing.’ Once fixed I continued living as before without any consideration that the way I lived could be part of the underlying cause of the problem. I have been inspired by the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and now take responsibility for my own health in the way I live and ask for help whenever needed from western medicine and support and deep healing from Universal Medicine. All have a part to play.
A great sharing on turning around to embrace western medicine. I too went through a similar process and now not going to the doctor is not an option! Thank you Angela, an inspiration to many.
I love your story and how finally ” the amazing thing was that I accepted, and in fact embraced all the support that was offered to me without resistance, without avoidance and without arrogance.” Great way to be in everything. Thank you Angela for this inspiring blog.
Hi Angela, I loved reading about how your attitudes towards western medicine has changed from resistance to allowing a very practical, when needed support. Thanks for sharing.
Great blog Angela and awesome points about giving your power away to the medical system and demanding to be ‘fixed’. We do have a part to play in this and need to take full responsibility for why and how we are in that position. For me I have always swayed to the new age/spiritual/ natural approach for healing but over time have come to realise that Western Medicine has an equal role in supporting this healing. Since attending Universal Medicine courses, I have come to an understanding and embraced the Western Medicine even more. As you say letting go of the arrogance and defence and allowing the support. It really can be that simple.
Thank you for sharing this Angela. Now you have embraced western medicine, I feel inspired by what you have written that its ‘not with an attitude of ‘you (i.e. Western Medicine) fix it’ or ‘I’m totally helpless’ (i.e. giving away my power) – but with an understanding that Western Medicine was an equally important part of this healing process.’ I used to have the attitude that I was totally helpless, that any illness or disease was something that happened to me (and was very unfair) and that it needed to be ‘fixed’, so that I could move on without considering that there was a reason this happened and take responsibility for this. I now have the awareness around illness and disease and have come to learn that it is our everyday choices that affect our state of health.
Loved your blog. I was sent a letter a few years ago from my doctor…basically inquiring if I was still alive because they have not seen me in over 15 years. I realised I had not had any major reason to see a doctor in that time. The kind of things you should not do at home had just not come up in that period; fixing broken things, sewing on things that were attached, parts of the body that swelled up and changed colour that hurt… never came up! At most times in my past, my doctor would have a guess as to what was wrong with me, give me some pills and say come back if that doesn’t work come back and we will try some thing else. It is amazing now because through Universal Medicine I have learnt how to reconnect to my body to consider what choices I have made that might be causing something in my body, and just by listening more carefully to my body. I also know that I have the support of western medicine should I ever need it…
Really great blog. An important point you raise Angela is that we don’t use Western Medicine with a “you fix me” attitude, but also embrace our role in what choices we have made that gets us to this point – this is where Universal Medicine is so unique and awesome. Unfortunately too many of us still bring this ‘fix me’ attitude to the table and give our power away to the medical process, hoping it will solve everything.
Thank you for sharing Angela, I too turned away from Western Medicine – for me I found doctors were great at helping people once they got to a certain level of disease but in the early stages they were not very well equipped. Their arsenal of drugs can only be employed once the body has gone to a certain level. One of the things they lack is nutritional knowledge at least that is what I would put it down to. I then tried many ‘alternative’ modalities but none had the full answer either. Through Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I have found that by combining Western Medicine with the science of the Ageless Wisdom we have a perfect balance, that can support the body in full. Doctors do a great job at what they do but are expected and asked to do soo much more. It is like isolating someone and expecting them to know everything about everything rather than utilising different people to bring together a greater understanding of the whole. We are not meant to live in isolation and amazing results can be seen when we start to truly work together.
Such a great blog – this is why Universal Medicine is true complementary medicine, it is in no way alternative medicine. The combination of living the Universal Medicine Ageless Wisdom teachings and seeking Western Medicine when necessary, is the way to truly support your body.
It is such a graceful combination Jess. When I visit the doctor now, I take along a well cared for body and ask for support. Years ago I would reluctantly drag an abused body to the surgery and expect them to fix it, which is an impossible situation to put any doctor in. The support and praise that Serge Benhayon has for allopathic medicine at first surprised me, but I too now hold the firm opinion that allopathic medicine has much to offer us and does great work.
I too put my hands up!! Before Universal Medicine I would try anything so called healing and alternative, believe me I have done some wacky things. In those days the very last thing I would do would go to the doctor. Now on the other hand I embrace western medicine and have no hesitation in getting checked out if need be. I used to also feel that they were so busy I would just be bothering them!! Now reclaiming my self worth and losing my long held belief that western medicine was evil I now see going to the doctor as a loving decision. With the help of Universal Medicine I am making choices to empower me.
Well said Samantha, what I find lovely about the article and all the comments is through the inspiration of Universal Medicine there is a union between Western Medicine and true healing. It’s not relying on one to do everything but embracing and appreciating the support and part that Western Medicine plays.
I use to aviod western medicine where possible and choose to “go it alone” with any lotions or potions that I could find that were anything but prescribed by a doctor. If it was a “herbal remedy” or a little “natural” pill then that was where I went as taking the other route via a Doctor, in my own arrogance was deemed a certain failure and to be avoided at all costs. With the help of the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have changed my view and I now embrace the support that Western Medicine has to offer. This is a way that offers much more in self care and I can see the true benefit of using western medicine as part of the healing process, whilst also being prepared to explore the ill-way of living that has created the bodily disturbance in the first place. A true marriage for the healing process.
My family has always visited the family doctor whenever they have felt unwell, so I came to Universal Medicine with a healthy respect for what Western medicine could provide. In complete contrast to you, Angela, I was wary of alternate medicine, however I had started to explore a few modalities, as deep down I knew there was more to illness than I had discovered at this stage.
Meeting Serge Benhayon, who presented the energetic reasons for illnesses, provided the missing piece of the puzzle I had been searching for. Serge has voiced his absolute support for Western Medicine many times since then and I know he works in close liaison with many professionals working in the medical domain. The media really are way off the mark with their claims about Serge.
Isn’t it interesting that the media is writing that Universal Medicine is against Western Medicine yet there are so many of us who are ready to admit that WE used to be against Western Medicine and would say we did not use it, and only chose to use “Alternative Medicine” – yet we are now very open to seeing doctors, getting support and using Western medicine since we have been attending Universal Medicine.
I was totally against Western Medicine – I have completed a diploma in Herbal Medicine and was quite strong in my beliefs. I have made my daughter suffer through fevers when I could have used Western Medicine. These days, I have changed a lot, and I do use Western Medicine, and I do take my daughter to the doctor. Serge Benhayon and the many doctors and surgeons that have presented at various courses have really assisted me in seeing the good in what I thought previously was just a money making, artificial drug taking industry.
I used to avoid Allopathic medicine like a ‘plague’. A couple of years ago during an Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) session my lady practitioner discovered a lump on my right breast. Her bullet fast comment was: You must go and check this out at the doctors. I chose to ignore her advice. A few months later I had another EBM with a different female practitioner and her reaction was exactly the same – she strongly urged me to go and see a specialist. I was somewhat taken aback that they were both so pro-medicine but I still chose to ignore their advice – partly because I had very little faith in western medicine, partly because I was sure it was nothing sinister and partly (possibly) because I didn’t want to know in case it was something serious! It took some time for me to go and have the lump tested (which turned out to be harmless) and that is after many conversations with the Universal Medicine practitioners and hearing their support for Western Medicine.
My relationship with Allopathic medicine has changed immensely (for the better) since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine (UniMed) practitioners. For any human being to claim that Serge and UniMed are against Western Medicine is as true as saying that the Earth is flat!
Thank you Angela, your words ring true for me too. I had an adverse dislike of Western Medicine too and an arrogant belief that alternative medicine was the only way, until I met Universal Medicine. Since then I have also embraced our orthodox medicine, and truly appreciate it and the people who have chosen to work within with such love and dedication. This is a full 360 degree turn that would not have occurred without the strong support openly voiced by Serge Benhayon and UniMed team.
I have long held the belief that I was never sick ‘enough’ to go to the doctor. True, it’s good not being sick, but it was to my detriment as I championed that I was somehow doing better than everyone else by not needing a doctor. I have since felt that I am worth taking myself to a doctor who will support my well-being and indeed that’s what a good one offers. Another spoke in the responsibility wheel. 🙂
Thank you Angela and Suzanne, I can so relate to the arrogance with which I avoided Western Medicine ‘like the plague’. I now see it as a useful tool to support me in taking more responsibility for my health and wellbeing.
I had a similar belief about western medicine before coming into contact with Uni Med – actually I was studying naturopathy and was very anti western medicine, thinking it was the root of evil. Then Universal Medicine introduced it was actually a true support for me and my body and now I embrace it and all it offers.
Same here Toni – for me I was against western medicine because I thought it was harming and even weak to rely on it – but through Universal Medicine I have a greater understanding of this as a healing and how supportive it is. It makes so much sense now and the prejudice has dropped away 😉
Angela, that bought to me how I have also held that arrogance about not going to the doctor, almost boasting about it. I recently went to the doctor, for a general check up, and felt the love and support from just having made the choice to go. For me giving support to others comes easy, but asking for support for me has always been hard (I can do it myself)… Well, what a lesson for me!
So many people will relate to this Angela: of course anyone that has been to a course or workshop knows that Universal Medicine has a pro-medicine stance to health and healing making the anti-Western Medicine claims in the press all the more ridiculous. Indeed for many people, including myself, my relationship with western medicine has improved as a result of attending Universal Medicine presentations.
So true Rebecca – It’s a bit of a trend to avoid western medicine altogether – and I was certainly ‘proud’ to avoid doctors – as was my father. But since attending Universal Medicine, that opinion is no longer there – Now its about working with western medicine and it still being a huge support. A whole new way to look at it and for us to take responsibility for our illnesses, not just rely on or blame medicine alone!