by Michael Goodhart, Vermont, USA
I’d like to share some experiences I’ve recently had that I feel were made possible by applying some principles that I have learned through my participation in Universal Medicine workshops and Esoteric Healing sessions. The main point being that our lives are greatly the result of the choices we make in every moment, and that if those choices are loving ones, we can heal patterns that may otherwise repeat themselves in order to show us where attention is needed.
When I first came to read Serge Benhayon’s books and commenced taking some courses I was very much in my head about the work being presented and began using some of what I had learned in an intellectual way with my friends and family. I knew in my heart that I had finally come to a True Way of Living that I had been looking for my whole life – but had been applying the teachings in the same way I had with the myriad of New Age spiritual modalities I’d delved into previously. That is, I was merely repeating the words and principles I had learned. However, this is not at all what Serge had presented to me in the first place. He has always provided a truly different approach in that if we are to really change our world in a positive way, we have to LIVE these principles of love and start feeling from our inner hearts and bodies – not just our heads. That being said, I recently made the choice to reach out to members of my family and friends who I felt I had gotten off on the wrong foot with when I first set out on this new way of living. There had been some things that were said that initiated a separation and breakdown in communication as I thought I was re-claiming myself – but was going about it in a way that pushed some people away, instead of just being me and letting them be inspired by that, if they chose to.
So, one day recently I decided to simply make a phone call or write an email to four different people that I felt fitted into the category described above. I just honestly told them how I felt about them, avoiding a big story or gushy apology but also taking responsibility for my words and actions in the past. Each conversation or letter was based on only one important message… LOVE. I just chose to open up, forget any past negative emotions that had been projected towards me, and focus on connecting with each person. Even though I tried to hold no expectations, to my delight each one resulted in a super positive response and in some cases, a true healing for both of us – as well as other connected people. I was amazed at how simple it was, and wondered why I had waited so long to act on my feelings. Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead. Through my continued inspiration from Serge Benhayon and UniMed events and students, I’m starting to gradually see my life and what occurs in it as a direct result of my choices. This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.
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Such a beautiful example of the healing power of love. Being able to let go ‘of being right’ and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and deeply honest is the first, and very big step, in this wonderful healing process.
I think that is the essence of what being esoteric is all about, simply being yourself, and it’s hard to resist anyone being just themselves, it radiates a sense of trust and familiarity that is beautiful to feel.
Regardless of how far we may wander away from living love, whenever we are willing it is always there for us to return to.
Choices work. We are not powerless.
We can choose, or not, to see to what extent we exercise our right to make choices which are totally consequential for us. When we choose to do so, awareness comes right into the next choice.
It has been a bit of a ‘two steps forward, one step back’ process, Doug, whereas the more I have been openly honest about my feelings and have called out things that for instance felt abusive, un-true, or downright corrupt, the more reactions I have gotten from people that have at times been difficult to deal with. But I feel that now it is even more difficult for me to hold back, because it actually hurts in my body to do so, as if I am holding back my love in doing so that could potentially help others with the awareness and understanding that I have shared (even though sometimes I get it wrong too). The beautiful thing is that it is now so much easier to express myself at a deeper level with people, and I find they are craving those meaningful conversations too.
If this is possible in an email, what is possible if we make our entire life based on love?
So amazing to feel how the way of love is that it offers healing and truth, and does not right the wrongs.
When we come from right and wrong we have removed ourselves from love, but when we can with honesty and love express how we are feeling, then much healing is on offer for those concerned.
It’s not about right or wrong but choosing a quality that is expansive, supportive, caring and true. Anything less as you show Michael just isn’t us.
Yes, ‘right’ can be dreadful and we can be wrong when we are utterly convinced that we are right.
When we first come to truth it’s understanable if it gets converted back to lies. After all these are the patterns we’ve lived with for so long. Yet if we commit to what Love really means we will never settle but open up to what truly works. Thank you Michael for inspiring me to keep asking ‘is this love?’.
There is a huge difference between knowing the truth of something by one’s mind and knowing it through our body, to embody truth and live it. For example, we can understand the principle of how to ride a bicycle, and therefore ‘know’ how to ride one, however, we do not truly know how to ride one until we physically master the art of doing so.
Beautiful Michael. It is amazing what happens when we express the Truth with love.
Michael I love your honesty and that you are not holding back to share it with the world: “Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” Would that not be the best medicine for most of us that stopping to be right – perhaps this “little” choice could change the world!
We often feel so much better when everything is out in the open, even our body can go through significant changes in posture and openness, including in our face.
Michael it’s a short blog but it encompasses so much about human relationships, that we will often make mistakes but with sincerity and from our love we can reach out and continue loving one another again. We do let so much come between us, one incident can stand out and cause a stand off for years, when there may have also been a huge history of love shared that gets dismissed by the hurt. Whatever is happening, love is there waiting to be expressed and shared continually in every relationship.
Being open, transparent and true with others opens a great doorway to developing our relationships in the most beautiful way.
I have reread this blog again today and I was considering that this is true bravery, that being able to love and put any other emotion on the bench is such a fantastic way to re-imprint past ways have not sat well with us. Often when something feels murky, we simply avoid it, indulge in it or over apologise for it but to express and appreciate back into it in full love should be our go to, well done, very inspiring.
Your approach and the love emails you sent are the perfect proof that everything, even our perceived mistakes, are all beautiful opportunity to evolve. It all depends on how we approach life.
Relationships are fundamental in understanding life and how the science of reflection works. In other words, we can know ourselves by knowing another because we are all one in the same by essence and energy. Of course, we can get caught up in the mess of what we create to get in the way of otherwise powerful and pure reflections – but we are continually being pulled back to see and feel the truth and oneness we are all part of.
Michael this wonderful blog illustrates the very principle of which you write – I feel inspired to offer same to people to whom I envangelised in the past.
‘When I first came to read Serge Benhayon’s books and commenced taking some courses I was very much in my head about the work being presented and began using some of what I had learned in an intellectual way with my friends and family.’
Getting ourselves out of the way in terms of what Serge Benhayon presents is a challenge in and of itself. For example, Serge has long exhorted us to simply be who we are. 10 years on, I feel I’m only just starting to live this, having spent the last decade in the knowledge of this statement rather than in the livingness of it.
I can relate Victoria. Sometimes we can also dismiss what we feel is too simple, when it’s actually very powerful such as “just be yourself”.
When we choose to live with love we live with truth; when we choose to live with our hurts we live with lies. One keeps us together, the other keeps us separated.
Imagine if healing relationship conflicts could be as simple as sharing how we truly feel from our hearts. Such simple medicine could not only save so much conflict but also evolve the quality of how we live.
Love your sharing Michael. We often tend to make these mistakes when we think we have found that one person making a difference in our lives. I did something similar with other modalities/teachers and understandably people would run the other way – it wasn’t truthful.
As already mentioned when we start to reflect another way of living with out words or impositions, people notice. All we are doing is reflecting to others that we are being our true selves – a huge impact.
“I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” It is very confronting when we wake up to the fact that so much of what we thought was ‘right’ is so very ‘wrong’.
A great article and how about this, “I’m starting to gradually see my life and what occurs in it as a direct result of my choices.” and I don’t think I truly know to the depth of how true this is as yet. I have an awareness of it but still hold some things out. In this one line we could change everything, every moment, every relationship, every conversation and while it maybe difficult to see at the time, what comes next is the freedom to walk your own steps. This one line means that if we just or only truly connected with the choices we make then our life would reflect that truth. To me I see a great freedom, strength and power in this and have seen it many times already reflected to me.
Michael what a delight to read this. It’s inevitable we will make mistakes with relationships, hurt each other unintentionally etc, but how wonderful to be able to honestly and humbly express yourself and reconcile and continue to move to greater love in those relationships – beautiful! .
Letting go of old hurts allow us to feel the greatness of love, this has been key to deepening the relationship with myself and others.
This is a gorgeous sharing Michael. You remind me that it’s never too late to express what we feel. This helps me to accept the mistakes one made along the way and reminds me that it’s how I deal with my mistakes that matters.
Universal Medicine has be mistakenly taken as just another new age thing. Yet, it is not. The movements it impulses are totally different. There is definitely something about movement that anyone can recognise not just as being different; but as being of a totally different quality and energy.
The perfect blog for me to read today. I impose my ideas about things on others when I am in my head and often I don’t realise I’m doing it because I’m too in my head to notice. Reminds me why it’s so important to live it before we speak it.
Thank you Michael for a beautiful sharing, realising that there is not one ounce of love in being right. When we express in honesty our hurts can be healed and love finds it way into the hearts of others in this loving connection.
When I read about how life and everything that ends up happening in our lives comes back to choices, I am reminded that I am much more powerful than I give myself credit for, thank you.
When we hide behind our hurts everyone loses out, yet when we express from love there is a richness that touches all of us.
When we bring honesty to any relationship, we bring the opportunity to deepen our relationship with love, with ourselves, with others and with evolution.
Isn’t it absolutely delightful to go for it! To give ourselves permission to express all the love we know and feel and always wanted to….
One moment where love is chosen allows the next moment of love to be. When we resist or hold that back or second guess it we are setting up a momentum to bring to us issues and dilemmas. When love is chosen we have much more space and freedom.
Great reminder Michael of the fact that words without love are simply just that… words without love! And when words are not expressed from the love we are, they are either not expressed in full, contain emotion and hence are open to reinterpretation from what we were initially feeling to express.
Such a simple and beautiful message Michael; choosing to heal by choosing love. The choice is ours.
People get so used to us a particular way that it makes them comfortable and feeds the status quo. When we make the choice to grow and change some of our ways of being it makes them uncomfortable and challenges them to look at how they are living – and sometimes this exposes that how they are choosing to live or be is not the wisest choice after all.
Thank you for sharing Michael. You have reminded me that it’s never too late to express how we feel.
Beautiful to read Michael. What a blessing for you and your family members, precipitated by you reaching out simply with love and responsibility.
I work a lot on the computer each day, even at times more than 10 hours a day but I feel more connected than ever to people just as I would if I was working with them in person all because I make my work about people and not just about myself
Living without connection to our bodies, makes it impossible to be re-connected to our inner heart, the true source of the love that we are, otherwise it is living emotional and lesser love through our ‘heads’ and this is not The Way of The Livingness that Serge Benhayon presents and lives in full.
“He (Serge Benhayon) has always provided a truly different approach in that if we are to really change our world in a positive way, we have to LIVE these principles of love and start feeling from our inner hearts and bodies – not just our heads”.
Beautiful Michael, the opportunity to heal is forever on offer if we make the choice.
What I love about this blog is that it really does convey the absolute simplicity of the wisdom Serge Benhayon offers. We each have a choice – to be love, or to seek love. The problem with choosing to seek love is that we are love and so seeking love creates an unnecessary pursuit of ourselves – one that can be ended with the realisation and awareness that the love we seek is already within us. No pursuit of ourselves is necessary. What is needed is for us to choose the expression of the love that we are – as Michael shares here – with some very beautiful results.
It is so key that we choose love above all else. I know for me I have a tendency to try to rectify ills and by doing so try to justify myself and then make up for them. But love says that was not love simple. So the moment we use love as our marker everything becomes clear. We do not need to get to love because we are love and this is one of the carrots we have been fed. Knowing that we are love we simply need to surrender to this fact and naturally everything else will unfold – after all how can we try to get to something we already are?
‘So the moment we use love as our marker everything becomes clear.’ – Yes indeed James. You highlight the intelligence and awareness that is available for us to be guided by whenever we are willing to surrender to our connection to love.
I agree and with this there is no trying just being and responding to what is before us.
“I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead” – I can very much relate to allowing this to get in a way of relationships. One for me to watch out for, definitely.
Our patterns are a key element to deepen our understanding of ourselves. Since they are the product of choices, some visible (we register them) and others invisible (they are so fast that we cannot even register them), working on our awareness is so crucial to shift our patterns to ones that are healing.
Once we get over our hurts and heal the drifts away from people we have allowed as a result of being in our hurts, we improve all of our relationships across the board even if another is still holding on to something.
“Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” I love this sentence as righteousness is so often the cause of trouble, struggle, arguments and wars, whereas when we let go of being right and wrong and open our heart instead we listen and have understanding for each other.
This is a beautiful account of the fact that knowledge has never helped anyone, it is only when we apply what we know to our lives and live it that true change can occur.
Beautiful experience for you and the 4 others Michael, Thank you for sharing.
“This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.” I love these words Michael, this is what I too am choosing and in choosing love I can feel more of the love that i am grow.
This is great Michael. I have done the same with people in my life and it has made an enormous difference in our relationship. I highly recommend bringing Love into all relationships. There is nothing like it!
It’s so undeniably true Michael that we are the result of the choices we make. Through being honest with ourselves and how we feel we then bring awareness to the quality of the choices that we are making, as to whether they are loving or not. For when we choose love, our connection to our inner-heart, we are choosing to move and express the essence of us all, in which the choices we make are in honor not only of ourselves but also in honor of all equally. It is here that we begin to walk in Brotherhood and heal the separation that exists within and between us all.
It is amazing how much we seek complication to avoid feeling the love that we are. It is almost too simple to be love – we somehow want a formula to make it a struggle because then we can seek recognition and reward for getting somewhere. When in fact all we are doing is returning to the love that we are.
We make life so complicated when we don’t chose love.
This is awesome Michael, when we break through our hurts we get to feel the illusion that they held us by. Love is forever waiting to welcome us back.
Simply being ourselves is ‘being love’, it is the trying to be this or that or even trying to ‘be love’ that complicates and confuses the issue and becomes imposing. Great sharing Michael.
So true Kathleen, if we try to stay in control, we miss out on love entirely.
Open expression is the beginning to true healing.
There is enough imposition in the world without trying to impose our so called version of “love” in equal measure. True love is non-imposing, understanding, accepting. True love can also be “tough love” where needed. So what is the balance between the two? How can you say it is loving on one hand to accept where someone is at, but equally loving to call someone out for their poor behaviour, or to rock the boat by saying something that is true but sure to cause controversy. The answer comes in reading where another is at and what they are ready and willing to hear, whilst giving full respect to their own free will and ability to discern life for themselves. And the depth of reading you allow yourself to see is directly proportional to the extent to which you are willing to let another in. In other words, if you love humanity deeply enough, and if you love yourself deeply enough, you will be able to read what is truly going on for another, and not allow your ability to understand what is truly going on be limited by your reaction to what you see in another.
Michael, I can so relate to what you have shared. When I’ve come from knowledge I have lived the complete opposite to what the teachings have offered. Instead of creating brotherhood, separation what’s made. It’s a massive lesson I feel many students trip up on. You offer a beautiful moment to feel how we can open ourselves back up to love and bring together what has been separated.
“I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” Oh yes, how destructive it is to hold onto being right. It pushes people away, creates separation and isolation. To be able to let go of being right and simply express love is such an inspiring way to be for everyone around us.
Thank you for sharing your experience Michael. I can relate to so much of what you have shared, particularly holding family and friends to ransom by holding back my love because I was so stuck in the energy of always wanting to be ‘right’.
It really is very about expressing our truth and not holding back. When we hold back we are holding back our love for ourselves and others. This is when we can get caught in the head which completely the wrong place to be. When we are connected to our body and expressing truth from their, it is truly felt by everyone.
We have so much love inside us – it makes no sense to hold it back. I’m inspired by the way you contacted the people you’d lost touch with to express your love for them, I can think of many people who I haven’t expressed recently how important they are to me.
‘I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.’ Yes I have found that being right and being love do not coexist very well. If we are judging something or someone to be right or wrong then we are assuming we know better. There is an inbuilt arrogance in this and a feeling of having one over on another. On the other hand coming from a place of love we see and feel everyone as equal, we go beyond what is being presented on the outside to the core and essence of the person, we basically meet love with love. If the other does not let us in, so to speak, then we are no less for there is no more or less to love, it just is.
Interesting how we hold back on expressing our love. Appreciating ourselves – and others – for who we are – not our skillset – can only build connection, which is something we all crave.
How gorgeous that in the humbleness of your past indiscretions you embraced truly expressing the love you feel and reimprinted the relationships on this powerful foundation. If you choose love, you can never go wrong.
Hi Michael, this is a huge gesture of putting the Universal Medicine principles of healing into action. Letting go of the hurts, the history, of blame or guilt and opening our hearts up and letting others feel who we truly are – and who they are too!
There are significant ‘points of choice’ we meet in our lives, where the opportunity to truly love and open ourselves up to others is presented to us. The key is, do we say yes in full to such opportunities? Or does something else ‘kick in’? A desire to self-protect, a fear of being attacked, hurt, rejected…
And yet, the world and humanity in it, has got nowhere by virtue of us remaining guarded and not being open to these opportunities that continually present to us. It’s awesome to read your blog Michael, and that even though you didn’t know what the outcomes of your heartfelt communications might be, you took the step regardless – saying ‘yes to love’, and thus also saying to others that it’s ok to do the same.
We are always learning, aren’t we Michael… What I deeply appreciate about your words here, is that you reached a point of self-reflection, where you knew there was more of you to share with others – and you didn’t hold back.
Choosing to make life about love is a great choice to make Michael, and living this love instead of thinking love brings miracles to us as you have described, which I call miracles seen from where you have came from, living from the lovelies mind that is is only looking for its own benefit and does not consider the whole. Love cannot live in this separation and will always consider the whole and in that healing happens when we commit our lives to love and nothing less.
“I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” This is a huge learning curve for me. We can always take it to a deeper level. There is always more we can unfold about ourselves.
We are all holding back in different areas of our life and each day offers us opportunities to stand forth and shine, even in the simplest of ways.
Making everything about love, every movement supports us to connect with people from the heart not head.
Like you Michael, I learned that there’s a difference between talking about the Livingness and simply being a reflection of that way of being.
Michael, this is such a beautiful example of living the “principles of love” and what the consequences are when you do. The healing that you and the four people you reached out to shows what can unfold when we trust that inner voice that speaks only with love.
Love is incredible – it is our natural expression and way, it beholds all others in equality and grace, it cannot be measured, switched on or off nor contained, it is the ultimate healer of all of our woes, a beacon of truth in the darkness and Love is forever calling us home
Connecting with and Loving others, is certainly the way to go – Simple and heart warming.
You make a great point – how practiced we become in measuring our lives and how much of us we will give to another….no one wins when we hold back, least not us and those in our families and communities who miss out on our fullness
It is deeply inspiring to read your words of how you are turning your life around by making it about Love.
With Love as the basis of our every interaction, our lives are guaranteed to be full of joy, connection with others and spark.
What a great example of how by simply choosing love and living that love, healing happens. Love for me used to include sympathy and empathy, expectations and all sorts of ideals and beliefs. It is only by letting go of all of these that we can arrive at true love and know we are home. These conditions to love are always wanting to creep back in and stake a claim and sully the true love that has always been there.
A beautiful sharing Michael and so importnat for me to read this morning. It is so important to stay in connection with that love that lives in me and connected to the appreciation I have for myself and all the people I am with and live with. As I know form the past, and sometime I still do, that when I am not in this connection I can be dismissive to people and set them aside in order to not feel my hurt of not being connected with myself and in that with them, bringing harm, not only to myself but to all of us.
Thank you Michael for this super simple reminder that living from love is living from the body and not from the endless pictures and words that can come through our minds.
So true Michael, if we choose love 1st and foremost above all else – then everything, literally everything is taken care of. Obviously we have to still be practical, love is more about bringing our quality in and with everything we do, rather then the airy fairy version so many of us have been taught it to be.
Much of my life I had spent holding on tenaciously to being right, there is great freedom in dropping that and committing to being true. Simply true.
Thank you Michael, I loved your blog and your last line “This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.” it leaves me with a warmth in my body and a smile on my face, because this is who we truly are.
Hi Michael, thank you for your honest blog. I too have discovered that I had been holding on being ‘right’ and therefore was missing the boat with being ‘true’. It feels so liberating to break away from old held ideals of ‘right and wrong’ and ‘good and bad’ and just be me without the control factor and all the frustration with myself and others that comes with that.
What I love about what you share is your self awareness and willingness to move towards the people who had separated from you. We can all learn from this. Whenever tension leads to separation, we don’t have to wait for someone else to move first, feel from the body what needs to be done and simply connect with love.
What I got from this article is how important true expression is
When we return to the truth, it is like some part of us still tends to see it as an abstract instruction, like those we might read in a school textbook or learn in a lesson. But as you so beautifully say Michael, the difference and healing lies in us actually living what we are presented. No matter what it is we are working on, let’s not wait for a far off day, but live in for ourselves and see how this makes a difference to our day to day. Life is a grand experiment just waiting for us to live scientifically and all the evidence points to the fact that our head alone, has no got the full answers.
I know this to be true for today I made the choice to choose love and listen to my body and the change in my body, energy and the way I had been feeling was immense. I felt light, committed, loving and found myself saying out loud I love my job, and meaning it – this came from my body and not my head.
” just being me ” this is how simple life can be – there would be no world wide plague of exhaustion either, as we wouldn’t be draining ourselves trying to be everything we are not meant to be.
The key is definitely the body, we can know so much in our heads, but it is our body that holds the deep love and wisdom God shares with us. If we don’t take care of our bodies and listen to them, we are lost.
“I knew in my heart that I had finally come to a True Way of Living that I had been looking for my whole life – but had been applying the teachings in the same way I had with the myriad of New Age spiritual modalities I’d delved into previously. ” I can relate to this – it’s about living the work. I can know it all, inside out, but it is the living of love and truth, that truly makes the difference to all, and makes life so simple and joyful to boot.
Why do we choose to complicate things so much?
“The main point being that our lives are greatly the result of the choices we make in every moment, and that if those choices are loving ones, we can heal patterns that may otherwise repeat themselves in order to show us where attention is needed.” how simple and deeply profound is this? We make up all these issues, stories, excuses, huge blockades, high jumps and hurdles to jump through, when all along it comes down to the choices we make, it really is that simple. Far less exhausting too.
“This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.” Beautifully said Michael, and the magic is that all those around you can feel it too, so you are writing a letter of love every day.
I was the same, kimweston2. I could babble away even before I was on my feet to stand up because I was so excited about the changes in my life and I was already getting reactions from people around me, and I was trying to justify myself and my choices. The thing is what Universal Medicine represents was completely different from everything I had done in my life, and it was not asking me to become more knowledgeable or more skilled in anything, it was just about restoring what had always been there within by surrendering to it – and that I was not used to, and I guess many of us didn’t even know how to be with that.
Me too, Michael – when I first came to know Universal Medicine, I approached it just as the next one on the list of things I had been trying as an idea, technique, something I would play with in my spare time, and took me a while to really understand that it was about living which had no starting/ending point where one choice leads to another, then another… seamlessly.
Michael I can feel the responsibility you chose and how healing that can be when we are open and honest about a misunderstanding, and the healing comes from lovingly addressing the situation.
Ah, so true Kim! This has been a bit relearning process for me personally, learning to share from my own lived experience and not from what I’ve heard or from my head. Whenever I share from my own livingness (which is sometimes not necessarily verbally saying anything but just ‘being me’), the response from others is very different than when I share from my head!
I agree Angela, when we share from our own lived experience and truth, an alchemy is created and felt by another.
I have found that too Brendan. By expressing who we are creates trust and people are more likely to feel safe to be able to express their natural self too.
Reading this blog again feels like I am reading it for the first time. Your courage to take responsibility for your part of the misunderstanding and willingness express love to those four people was incredible. I can feel it was a healing for me too by reading it.
This is taking responsibility to another level. Reimprinting our past with Love to lay a true foundation for our coming future. That is a very inspirational way to be!
Thank you Michael for a great blog, showing that it is not what we say but how we live the truth on a daily basis, that then becomes the reflection to others so they too can choose love.
‘…if we are to really change our world in a positive way, we have to LIVE these principles of love and start feeling from our inner hearts and bodies – not just our heads’. When we express our love unreservedly through our entire body and being our life becomes so much more vibrant, true and enjoyable not just for ourselves but for everyone equally.
When we live in our heads and our minds are full with the whirl of principles that you know are true but not lived our potential is severely capped, for it is actual livingness of these loving principles in all that we do say and feel that actually brings them alive.
Michael this is a fantastic blog that beautifully highlights the fact that when we spend our lives merely ‘repeating the words and principles’ we have learned and don’t actually live their qualities in our day to day life we virtually end up living in the shadow of our true potential.
There is a plethora of alternative and new age therapies and principles available today some of which from my own experiences have undoubtedly made life worse in the long run. Like you Michael I have found the principles and modalities of Universal Medicine to be incredibly supportive my body while also giving me a clarity and an understanding of my daily life that feels not only simple and true but actually come alive when lived.
Thank you Michael I love this line. ” This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.” Makes me smile as I feel the love you are.
Simple and true 🙂 if we are honest and truthful people can really get to know us, rather than hiding behind an image or picture of what we want people to see. Life is so much simpler and more beautiful if we allow people to see who we really are.
I love one of your messages here Michael: Choose love over being right. How many times do we hold onto being right over truly loving and connecting with someone? I would say far too often.
Totally – the best way to learn something is to live it, the result is so much richer and more beautiful than if you learn it with your mind.
Being “right’ is so insidious, so many battles begin with this desire.
Brilliantly said kimweston2!
This deserves to be repeated..”However, this is not at all what Serge had presented to me in the first place. He has always provided a truly different approach in that if we are to really change our world in a positive way, we have to LIVE these principles of love and start feeling from our inner hearts and bodies – not just our heads.” I have been doing the same thing for so long, trying to get it in the head and completely neglecting the body!
This is a great reminder for us all of what a pattern is there to teach us..”The main point being that our lives are greatly the result of the choices we make in every moment, and that if those choices are loving ones, we can heal patterns that may otherwise repeat themselves in order to show us where attention is needed.” Patterns direct our attention to the centre of our issues.
On further pondering I can see how my reactions to my family are simply a reflection showing me the reactions I have to myself and where I am not living the responsibility and wisdom I know. Also, I find that when feeling and accepting all I am, my choices (good or bad) with out judgment I can do the same for others. Bottom line is, there is always something being shown and we are always being offered an opportunity to see where we can deepen or refine our livingness.
‘Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.’ This is a very honest and humble point to come to with oneself Michael – very beautiful indeed. Once this is understood it makes way for Love to be the focus and not the justification of loved ones needing to know what you know. I can deeply relate to this and your blog has asked me to have look at another layer of how I hold back Love in my day to day life.
So true Kimweston2, I feel many can relate to figuring out how to live love again after spending so much time and perhaps many lifetimes away from the truth of who we ALL really are. Of course we want our loved ones to understand what we have found as seeing them in pain or struggle is painful enough, yet it is our livingness that makes the difference and not being right or needing them to change for us.
In writing those letters you have allowed millions of people to choose to reconnect to brotherhood, Michael. I learned not to underestimate the power of my choices.
I have learned, the hard way, that holding back love hurts; it hurts me deeply in my body, and it hurts those I hold back the love from, as they are not getting all of me, just a watered down version. And from the lesson of what happens when you hold back love I have also had the most beautiful follow up lesson, that when I do not hold love back I can feel it expand throughout my body as I express it, and at the same time I can see it light up the joy and love in the eyes and the body of the one I am expressing it to; and then like a ripple in a pond it continues to flow on out into the world. The power of love is endless.
When responding in decency and loving respect very few people will not respond positively.
This is a great example how not holding onto our pride can strengthen many relationships.
Yes Luke, also a strong example of the magic in surrendering to our feelings and allowing them to speak to us without reserve or judgment. This is a powerful move and one that can heal and deactivate our held hurts by way of understand and being honest with what we are feeling. I love the humility in reaching out to others with no hope or expectation, just a rawness that says’ this is me and what I’m feeling’.
It is truly amazing what can happen when we make the choice to live from our inner heart. It is the Magic of God for all to see if they/we want too.
This story is beautiful. I am stunned to be honest, because I feel I have been walking away with a cast off ; thinking I got it. Well actually what I can feel is that this cast is ‘the wanting to be right’ uniform.What I can sense from this is that I have use a defending guard to protect myself, but actually I was not showing the world how sensitive and devoted I am to love. This article made me stop and feel that holding on to this guard of being right, is actually causing me to stand further away from my love, as I can feel Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is offering us all everyday. It is time to claim my way and drop this guard of needing to be right. I am love not right.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of wanting to share with others the various gems of knowledge we have found since becoming students of Universal Medicine. We get disappointed when others become defensive or are disinterested when we talk with them about what we have learned. It has been a work in progress to truly shift from letting go of trying to control other people’s lives, imposing on them and their life path by sprouting esoteric knowledge etc, to focusing on just myself and the quality of how I am living. While I know that my reflection through how I live is the strongest influence on others, I still occasionally get caught in the ‘wanting others to get it’ trap but can now feel it when this happens and pull myself back.
So many of us it seems have experienced similar reactions from others when we first became aware of this amazing and true blessing we have called Universal Medicine and were over enthusiastic in our sharing with family and friends, “coming from the head not the heart”. I too have learnt to live and let live, if others are inspired by the livingness that is a bonus for all. Thank you Michael for sharing.
Michael this is an amazing sharing and one that I can to truly connect with. As for quite a while I was holding on to being ‘right’ and not coming from that place of love and honesty in expressing my truth. This I could clearly feel in my body when expressing to those around me and it was making uncomfortable moments so they then held back from expressing freely. Quite a knock on effect. The beauty is that I did feel what was happening and changed the ‘being right’ to being more open to love and to express from my lived experiences, sharing and not pushing yet not holding back.
Beautiful sharing Marion, I felt the same too. Now, I realise the most powerful way to inspire others is to just live the fullness of who I am, consistently expressing truth and love and this will be all that is required, by simply living the teachings.
That’s so true Benkt, I find talking or intellectualising what I have learnt doesn’t inspire anyone but to truly live the Way of The Livingness and be myself consistently will naturally inspire others. Whenever I go about anything with an expectation for others to get it or understand my choices then it often pushes people away. To bring people together is to simply be love.
MWow, Michael! It’s so amazing that you realised what caused the separation in your relationships and then you chose to express your feelings and love to those people. This is inspiring, choosing to be and express love is extremely healing. It is really the only way.
I agree Marion – by living in full who we are and not holding back is more valuable than shouting from any rooftop – because we provide a solid and consistent support for others. That reflection is very powerful. As humans we learn from observing each other – it is our basic instinct – so if we consider this, then our responsibility is to live in a way that honours who we and others truly are.
‘I was amazed at how simple it was, and wondered why I had waited so long to act on my feelings.’ Acting from our heart, I like that, and no wonder it went without complications, when we come without the righteousness and the force of our mind there is room for everyone.
That’s beautiful Michael, the more we choose love the more normal it feels, and the more it feels like us. When first presented with ‘you are love’ I baulked at the idea like many others because it seems so far away from how I was living. There is a part of us that knows that we are love but that voice has just been suppressed for a very long time but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Like anything we become masters through repetition and what reading this blog has reminded to me is the simplicity of – the energy we choose is the energy we are, choose love and we feel that love.
A great example of the power of being responsible for our choices in life – choosing to be you, without any expectation of an outcome but merely expressing how you feel.
Good work Michael, the livingness speaks for itself.
Michael I was just like you, preaching when I first came across Universal Medicine, and having to be right, and I felt I pushed many of my family away. But quite quickly this was exposed and with the loving support of Universal Medicine I understood what I was doing and the harm it was causing. I changed my way and approached everyone with love, as this was felt everyone started to become more open and our relationships stated to change, with love and respect.
I was just like you Michael preaching what I felt was true. After all my spiritual courses I felt this is it and was surprised that not everybody was as enthusiastic as I was. Now I see I was not living me , living the love, I was imposing once again on others to get it, just like my other spiritual courses. Now I feel I can be an inspiration by the way I live and share my love by letting people in and don’t hold back.
This is the absolute key I’ve discovered also Annelies – that when something is felt in the body as being true and when there is a way and quality of living that reflects this, there is less need or push to want to ‘make others get it’… As this is replaced more and more by taking responsibility for our own choices, we also allow others the opportunity to be inspired by (not imposed upon) simple, living reflection.
Just like you Michael, ‘This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day’. Awesome blog thankyou.
I love this line too Suse, an awesome reminder and feels amazing to read, as I am appreciating how far I have come with learning to choose LOVE consistently.
Thank you Michael, I can so relate to what you wrote. I too at the beginning was trying to understand what Serge Benhayon was presenting by intellectualising it. The more I did this the more I tried to find excuses to not go deeper or accept the truth of what was being presented. After an absolutely amazing healing experience at Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 2 I attended, I eventually started to listen with my entire body. What I felt during the course what so profound that I knew I couldn’t make any more excuses to not connect to love and truth. I was deeply inspired to make changes in my life and take responsibility of my choices. I started making loving choices for myself and changed my old behaviours that were simply Yuk and not loving. Your blog also inspires me to write to my friends to share how much I love and appreciate our friendships. This is something I haven’t been doing, so I am learning to express my appreciation for others, this feels so beautiful and confirming to do.
For me not wanting or having to missionize is one of the confirmations, that Universal Medicine is the truth. Before, whenever I found something that seemingly had helped me, I wanted everybody to do the same thing. Now I just live what I know is true and let my friends be. This allows a true and deeper intimacy. (not being sexual)
I’ve found this also Felix. When I was first introduced to Universal Medicine, there was no doubt it was truth and that I’d finally connected to a true way of living, however initially I was often imposing on others or judging them and applying knowledge about what I was connecting to. The more I began to develop a relationship with myself, the more I was able to work on my own quality of living and the less I began to impose on others. As with you, I am learning to live what is true and simply allow others the opportunity to feel this in themselves and live this also.
Yes, I try so hard to get them to change and it’s an uphill, USELESS BATTLE, not to mention imposing and completely disrespectful – ouch!
‘I just chose to open up, forget any past negative emotions that had been projected towards me, and focus on connecting with each person.’ Thank you Michael for this simple inspiration to connect with others by opening up. I have spent my life being so guarded in case I got hurt that I kept myself in a prison of my own making but as I let down the barriers I feel truly met by other people and my relationships have deepened so much because of this.
What a great turnaround Michael from some one coming from a place of knowledge, to expressing the real you by the way that you choose to live now, your family and friends get to feel the truth of who you truly are.
People can´t relate to what they get told, if there is no living proof in the body. It is all about sharing me and no teachings I once learned.
That’s awesome Michael.. Takes away the scariness of opening up and expressing from yourself. Many times I’ve played the ‘what if they’ games and been worried about the other persons response or reactions but when I just stay open and say what I feel in the end there is no need to worry anyway.
It is so beautiful that you recognised your choices of the past that needed reimprinting and chose to heal what had broken down with loving words. How freeing to let go of being right and not hold back your love anymore… their responses are nothing less than gorgeous confirmations of the healing power in expressing the love you are, and feel, in full.
This is great. We have to make every day about LOVE. because it is a real tangible quality that can be felt. I find that when I speak from my heart and what I live, every word I say is true and shines with joy. I feel like a master of communication in that moment. But if I’m trying to converse an idea to another that I don’t get myself.. Then it doesn’t work
My hand is up as what you share with us Michael is exactly what I feel I did with my family – instead of embracing the self loving choices I decided to live by, I so wanted my family ‘to get it’ as well and be a part of those changes. “Instead of just being me and letting them be inspired by that – if they chose too. Gradually as I let go of the ‘doing’ and went about my everyday as I now choose to live – little by little I’ve noticed them bringing some of these changes into their day. I call it communication by observation. A great sharing Michael thank you.
This is such a great reflection Michael as it shows how when we live in a truly loving way and connect to people around us from this love (not to teach, or preach or even try to convert them to seeing our truth) then it is this love that they connect to and feel as it reflects the truth of who they are too. I find the more I live from this space the more life flows and the more myself I feel. Thank you for inspiring us all to live from our truth, body and heart and leave the mind out of it.
This is a great example of how important it is to understand that Universal Medicine presents a way of life, not books and books of knowledge. It is a life based on loving choices and a true way of being. When we come at people from knowledge it can be abrasive and holds no magnetic pull to ask them to come back to truth. Our lived experience of love does have magnetic pull, for those who are ready. Our loving expression holds them, which is why you received such positive responses from your heartfelt letters. Lovely.
Absolutely Lovely Michael and Jo. The students of the Livingness share a love that brings us all to an equal understanding of truth.
It’s interesting how we can take something and warp it to suit our needs. I had a rocky stage when I was using the knowledge but not living it too. Its a great note that expressing opens a different chapter for relationships… I think it’s incredible how when one person opens up to another, tension in a relationship is dissipated super easily and I love the courage of the first initial contact. It’s lovely.
Great blog Michael and I can relate to what you are saying. I too, went down the road of wanting everyone on board and could not understanding why they didn’t get as excited as me when hearing what I was sharing with them. I now realise that it is all about being the love that you are and living that, and the people around you feel the true reflection and then choose for themselves. Thank you for sharing
If we choose to live and express on a daily basis from our loving essence, we provide a beautiful reflection to those around us. Thanks for your blog Michael.
Micheal what an incredible inspiration this is. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you, Michael. This is very inspiring. “Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead” – wow, this is great, is a great prompt for me to really feel into relationships in my life..
Yes I did the same as you Michael, at the beginning of attending the Universal Medicine Courses I was holier then thou, espousing to every-one how they should be living. My kids and family found me to be a pain in the butt. Like you, I fortunately saw what I was doing and stopped preaching and started to live what I had learnt and became a beautifully loving person. This, without me saying any thing, was what inspired them to make changes in their life.
Thank you Michael and Mary-Louise, I agree, until I walk the path of truth no amount of words or preaching have ever changed my friends or family either. Love in expression is never pontificated but lived and shared equally as a reflection of the magnificence of God. The presentations of Serge Benhayon inspire through the lived love that is emanated by the students of the Livingness, so the love of God can be discerned from all the fabricated religions!
I love your realness Mary Louise! From my experience, espousing knowledge just pushes people away and keeps us from truly living from our innermost. After much inner reflection, esoteric sessions and pondering (!) I am also now living what I have learned and no longer push people away with my lack of understanding for where they are at.
Yes, I did this as well, talking about all that I heard and wanting others to ‘get it’ rather than just practicing living it and this put me in the ‘weird’ box and has taken, and is still taking, time to heal this separation from them. Now as I am learning to live love for myself there is no need for anyone else to ‘get it’ because I know they already are love.
Lovely Michael thank you for your open hearted blog. I was touched by: “Perhaps I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.” What if we as human beings would live more like your described insight? For me this would be a bit more heaven on earth.
Thanks Michael, that’s a wonderful blog. And shows us that true connection with others is really easy, all we have to do is let our guard down and speak from the heart, be truly honest with them and express our feelings. It might be really vulnerable and raw, but in most cases like you’ve shared, it results in both people having a true healing.
So true Harry, it is that simple to just be willing to let our guard down and embrace our vulnerability and allow love to do the rest.
A great confirmation that when we take responsibility for our choices, amazing events can take place. Awesome.
I am inspired by your blog Michael. It is very beautiful to hear about how healing this was for all of you involved by feeling and choosing love.
Michael,
To connect with your friends holding you and them in love and simply expressing such, this is beyond beautiful. It is the way, Michael you are showing has all the way to live and to be in this world today.
I loved reading this blog Michael and was inspired by the responsibility you took to connect with others through love
Thank you for expressing so clearly and with love.
Michael this is just beautiful – thank you. This is so true what you have shared, that if we intellectualise esoteric teachings they simply remain as knowledge and information. However when we embody the esoteric teachings and put them into practice they become our esoteric way of life, our lived experience, our livingness, and the truth and love of these teaching are reflected through us simply and naturally by our way of being.
Thank you for sharing this story Michael. In my experience, life is definitely about each and every choice we make in each and every moment. All the little choices add up to make our life. I am trying to choose love in each and every moment.
‘I had come to a point where I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead.’
Confirming for my the importance of letting go of having to be right. There is no right or wrong, there is love, truth, harmony, stillness and joy. Holding on to old hurts gets in the way of opening up and loving one another.
Thank you Michael for your very timely article. This is very timely for me. What I realize I can do is hold back my love, because of a series of possible outcomes that I create in my mind. I couldn’t possibly know what the outcome of someone else’s choices would be. As a result of this it doesn’t actually allow the other person to make a choice either.
Michael…I love the simplicity of what you chose – to come back to love – & that you didn’t wallow in needing to apologise but instead paved a way forward that felt true without attachment. I have found that truth is always simple…
And how many of us have shared with others from the head…many I am sure and can very much relate to what you have shared. No-one truly changes as a result of being told and I know for myself it is when I am inspired by another’s loving reflection and presence that I can make true changes in my life.
So beautiful Michael and I really felt your words. Coming from love as apposed to our opinions makes such a big difference on ourselves and others.
On my second reading of your very insightful blog Michael, this jumped out for me to take note of – it was actually one of those “ouch” moments: “I realized that I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead”. I could suddenly see how many times I had done this in the past and I realise now, what a complete waste of time and energy it was. Was I needing something from making another wrong? Did it give me a sense of power? I’m not sure of the answers yet, but one thing I am sure of is, that holding back my love is a choice that I no longer make.
Your words Michael “The main point being that our lives are greatly the result of the choices we make in every moment”, are so inescapably profound: this means that if we are making every choice, then there can be no one else to ever blame (or even thank) about our life and how it’s turned out. That if we ever do, then there is a part of us not wanting to accept – that we made the choices – every single time or moment.
Thank you Michael for sharing this wisdom , most of us have gone off track with what you have described and as you have shown its just a matter of exposing that and making it all about love.
Michael your comment ” I had been holding back my love and was holding on to being right instead” reflects my past attitude towards many people. I am learning to pause, reflect, observe my reaction, try to connect to myself which greatly reduces the need to feel validated by me being right. My being right implies others are wrong and this is not the way of the livingness.
That feels really clear and straight-forward Brendan, to me it means expressing fully and not holding back, but there is no force or agenda. Thank you. Great blog Michael.
This is a great observation. I too have noticed how horrible it is for others when I talk about a new way of living yet, I am not actually living it. It comes across as judgmental, arrogant and self righteous, no wonder people react and run miles when they encounter this type of behaviour.
Yes, I have experienced this myself as in when someone is trying to impose something on me and make it out that they are right and become judgmental, I would to stay away and shut off. I now, talk less about the theory of this way of living but instead share how my life has changed and how amazing I feel from a result of my choices.
Thanks Michael. I have read this blog for the 2nd time now and it still very much resonates with me. My sometimes different approach to life these days is beginning to be better expressed through love and acceptance rather than through a ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ attitude….which absolutely helps support relationships around me.
Thanks Michael, I feel most of us would have been at that spot, one point in this journey back to love. It feels great when we get to a point of understanding how to present and live love and not dictate what we “think” love is.
Love is a feeling, not a thought. There can be love IN thought but a thought that comes first without an aware feeling of it’s quality in the body I have experienced to be nothing but bad news when that thought is put into action. As Serge has presented, our choices to be aware of our body allows us to be aware of our quality – a quality that will then set up how we feel and experience our expressions. That last line about choosing Love to be the quality you will continue to choose feeling is awesome Michael. Serge Benhayon has shown how simple it is to choose love, now this blog is also sharing an experience of what choosing love can do. If one man can choose love and say we all can and others are now sharing their equal experience of being able to choose love then it is turning the tide on what is normal by the definition of the masses believing something – that belief makes whatever is being believed ‘normal’.
Michael, yes I so understand where you are coming from. I myself went into my head about how to ‘be love’, which is just ridiculous. I found its about coming back to the simplicity of what I feel deep down and express from there. So simple.
Very honest sharing and shows how powerful we are in making choices, we either choose the action of love or to hinder us…and it’s about living love not thinking about it… When we think about it, it becomes beliefs, ideals, right, wrong and so forth.
I agree Karoline, it is definitely about living in truth and love and not just talking about it. When we live it we truly experience it from every part of our body, therefore we don’t have the to need to explain it or justify it, it is felt by others and no words needs to be exchanged when we are simply living and experiencing what is naturally within us all. I too did go into trying to explain it to friends and convince them how amazing this way of life is, but I realised it was all just talk. So, I have let go of that and I am now choosing to live The Way of The Livingness without holding back or justifying my choices. It is simply amazing to live committed to love.
Thank you Michael for reminding me how the choice to hold back had affected my past relationships and how choosing not to hold back the real me affects my ‘now’ relationships and the ripple effect that it has.
Michael what you write about is so true and something I have indulged in too. That sense of being righteous in a new way of being that ultimately pushing away family and friends. I was missing the important ingredients; me and love!
I was coming at it from knowledge based beliefs rather than a living choice of love and care. I imposed a way of living and that is not what Universal Medicine or the Livingness is about. Thank you for the opportunity to reflect on this behaviour.
To choose love and live from our inner heart. The choice is quite simple really. Thanks Michael.
“This time around, I’m choosing LOVE, and it’s feeling more and more like me every day.” Here, here to that Michael.
This brings a big beautiful smile to my face. Here here Michael, love is the way.
Love is just so simple, and I love how that simplicity shows through so clearly in your experience here Michael. I appreciate you sharing this.
GO Love team!
Letting go of being ‘right’….the BIG one! I am personally working on this one daily….among other things!
Yes me too Elodie…there is no love in being right. I am learning to behold others with love as I do for myself…we each come to truth & love in our own time as it is felt and known, not something we can be told from a text book or mental application.
‘There is no love in being right.’ This for me has been a mega hard pill to swallow – we champion and are rewarded so much for being right, it takes a while to let go and know that love is so much more important than being right, and that if being ‘right’ comes without love, then it’s not even ‘right’.
Thank you Michael for the lovely reminder of how far I too have come. I remember those early days after my introduction to Universal Medicine, being so excited that I had finally found what I had been looking for and wanting everyone else to know how amazing it was – and then wondering why they couldn’t see what I was seeing; a very evangelical phase of my life that pushed most away. Now I know that it’s simply living what I know to be true and allowing others to come to the same place, in their own time, but only if they choose.
Thanks Ingrid for your comment. I so relate to the way you put it, that the lesson to be learnt jumped out of the page instantly. Thank you Michael for inspiring Ingrid with your blog. I read it again with a different light. Beautiful.
Beautifully said Ingrid, allowing others to come in their own time and only if they choose it for themselves. Thank you.
Yes Ingrid its about living in a way that feels true for you and allowing others to make their own choices in due course, if they so choose. Keeping it simple is the way to go.
‘Now I know that it’s simply living what I know to be true and allowing others to come to the same place, in their own time, but only if they choose.’ Said with such immense wisdom, this is a big big lesson many of us have to learn, to claim our own truth but let other people make their own choices about what’s important to them and the life they want to lead?
Beautifully expressed Ingrid. When we impose anything, be it love, it will only push people away. True Love cannot be present if we impose it on others. We can have good intentions but can quickly become harmful if we are not coming from true love, allow people space to make their own choices and without judgement or any outcome is truly supportive.
I can recognise a lot in your story, Michael. Until I am fully living what I want to share with people around me I will express from my mind instead of my inner-heart. I will try to apply a theory instead of my own lived experience and every time I have evolved in living from my inner-heart I surprise myself what the teachings are actually about and how they play out in my day to day life. That the actual living of the ‘theory of love’ is much more all encompassing than what my mind could ever imagine.
Love this! Thank you
Gorgeous Michael.
“Love” over “right”.
I too have made similar mistakes, and when I opened up to the person in question with nothing other than love, great healing followed.
Thank you Michael for confirming the power of love.
Michael how much in the world could be healed if we followed your example ‘forget any past negative emotions, choose to open up and made it about love’ ?
That is pretty cool Michael, I loved reading how you made the messages about love as I can recently remember such situations where I have myself done so. It feels lighter to get those held back feelings out into the open and to let my body speak as opposed to my head allows others to do the same, like you say, if they so choose to. Thank you for the reminder to let go of my head and let my body do the communicating.
I can relate to this very much. I remember in the early days my enthusiasm at finally finding the truth overrode the need to be still and live the love that I had rediscovered – and I know this was confronting for some people close to me. One night Serge Benhayon said when presenting the Sutra’s that “a sutra is not known until it is lived”. This really made sense and opened the door for me, to the Way of the Livingness becoming my living truth, not just knowledge that I took home from a presentation.
In the beginning you felt to push some people away. Then you learned that this was not the way and realised that it is about letting people in. Quite an extraordinary turn around Michael!
It is very easy to get in your head about your livingness rather than ‘just being in your livingness’ and being love. It sounds good to say the ‘right’ words and appear knowledgeable about a topic, but we are just kidding ourselves if we don’t first feel it for ourselves, then express from there. I have also found its very easy to over analyze ourselves and be self critical if we eat the wrong thing or put a foot wrong. What I am learning about myself is to accept, really accept with understanding that everyone is at a different place in their journey. I can’t save them or fix them, rather be gentle and accepting of where I’m at and by just being me, will give them an opportunity to feel their own truth.
So thank you for sharing Michael.
I love your comment Wendy. A great reminder to not be self-critical and accept where each of us is at.
A beautiful blog Michael. Coming out of our heads and truly living from our heart opens the way to joy and harmony within ourselves and with those around us.
An amazing Blog Michael, learning to live the love. Thanks.
Your article is a great reminder that truth has to be lived and that just talking about it is disingenuous and merely a mental exercise.
A great reminder to all of us Michael, truth (Love) can only be felt by another if it is lived in the moment we express.
Wonderful inspiring blog. You revealed your true heart, what a healing for all, thank you.