From an early age I learned that it was worth staying with the truth. The truth was always easy to write, say and remember because it was something that really happened as I experienced it and it was locked away forever in the make up of my body.
If I wrote or said something that wasn’t the truth my body would let me know because if I didn’t honour that truth, what came after was a mess and it took so much energy and time to clean it up. Not siding with the truth was like watching a movie that kept you in suspense for the rest of your life, or until it was made true.
I worked for 13 years in law enforcement in a highly stressed environment, participating in many investigations from domestic situations and drug matters to high end vehicle theft. I worked as part of a team and individually, providing evidence at the local, district and coroner’s courts. Among the many things that have stayed constant is the truth and how important it is.
I spoke to people in many situations, including victims, offenders (in interviews), colleagues or members of the public, always having a sense or feeling of where the truth was in what was being said. For me it was just whether I followed that sense or feeling or overrode it for something else.
I spent sleepless nights worrying about situations I was involved in with my body being in a heightened state – I was anxious and my heart was beating really fast. The only thing that would settle me was knowing the facts of what had been done or seen. I would replay the situation and this would confirm to me, through the feeling in my body, that I was operating on the facts and hadn’t added anything or left anything out. It was like I was saying to myself, “yes, this is the truth, this is what you saw or heard and you are only writing about it so you can’t be wrong.” My body would soon confirm to me if I was right in my replay of the event and I would sleep feeling the truth, or my body would continue to race.
I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing. It was the best friend I ever had; I loved how it made me feel.
My friend Serge Benhayon has confirmed to me the feeling I always had about the truth. I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels. Thank you Serge and Universal Medicine; I know you are the truth, not because of what you say but because after all my life experiences my body always tells me so.
By Raymond Karam, Goonellabah
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
Truth, a difficult subject to write about if we have not lived it.
‘Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ Truth is something so solid in ones body it is hard to walk away from it. This said I had a simple revelation yesterday which was I realised I often feel the truth about something – that it’s not loving. But rather than be honest and just acknowledge it for what it is I try to sugar-coat to to myself, What a lot of effort this is and I usually eat sweet things to try to make what isn’t sweet palatable. Why not just feel what I feel and be ok with this?!
I have thought that coming from truth can be a very lonely place, but this is an illusion, for when we walk in truth we walk with God. If we ever feel lonely, then we have let go of the truth.
Truth and its companion love, are great friends to have and to cherish.
The truth is simple. If we allow it to be simple and we listen, then we can respond to it. Our bodies know what the truth is and these examples are so lovely to read – that you experienced complication when you did not choose it – how often do we override this! It shows how we dishonour the truth to get our way.
What you have shared here shows just how anxiety can take hold of us and rule our lives, rather than the settlement and knowing that comes naturally when we live or are open to embracing the truth. Also how our body really can never ever lie to us about what is true and what is not, we just have to be open to listening and be guided by it, as it is this quality that supports us to live who we naturally are.
And, as you say, with a bit of practice this works very well.
“Thank you Serge and Universal Medicine; I know you are the truth, not because of what you say but because after all my life experiences my body always tells me so.” One’s body is the greatest lie detector ever made.
Truth is expansive and includes us all, it has a resonance that unities us in love.
Awesome Ray, the body simply knows truth, it is a resonance that is felt.
I know the uncomfortable feeling when telling a lie when I was a child and even later on in life when a half truth was told I would spend so much time in my head trying to justify and make right what had been said, so much complication, so different to when truth is expressed, it is so simple and clear, leaving the body feeling settled in its knowing.
For many of us, our relationship with truth growing up was at best, long lost pen-pals, receiving the odd post card. But the sweetest thing is truth doesn’t hold a grudge or seem to mind, the closer we get the more we find truth is as you say Raymond, our greatest friend. So why continue the cold shoulder then?
I agree, it’s an awful feeling to walk away from the truth, there is something missing inside ourselves and it is the loss of part of who we are.
As do I Melinda. There is absolutely no substitute for living in connection to truth, as ultimately this is the quality that is the unifying pulse of life, of which every part of our body and being is inescapably part of.
The body is alway a true witness to all that happens, its our choice to listen or not.
Truth is the only thing I have found that not only truly unites us but also leaves my body feeling content, settled and complete. Anything less than speaking truth always has repercussions and what might start with a small deviation from truth usually escalates into trying to cover ones tracks and a feeling of unease within my body. I am only fooling myself when I think I can get away with not being absolute with the truth with myself.
When we speak even the tiniest deviation from the truth, a veil comes down and obscures all else, suddenly making everything jittery and uncomfortable.
“The truth was always easy to write, say and remember because it was something that really happened as I experienced it and it was locked away forever in the make up of my body.” This is so true, it is when we start to lie and complicate things that it is harder to remember them because our body does not have the experience of what happened because it is made up.
Great observation, Lieke, that it is difficult to remember lies because the body does not have the experience of them, which I had not realised before. It also explains why it is possible to become so entrenched in believing a falsehood is true no matter how unrealistic it is, if we have embodied the lie.
From a young age I could feel the truth but it was over ridden by beliefs, cultural or fear that I would be punished for speaking up opposite to others. And when I expressed it, it wasn’t expressed from love, it came across laced with frustration so I wasn’t heard.
Since attending Universal Medicine workshops, I’ve re-learned to bring forth what my body communicates to me and present it in a more loving tender way, a contrast to before.
I am heard more now. I really appreciate reading this blog. It’s a real confirmation of not only how I used to feel, but how others must be feeling or experiencing.
Well said and we at times don’t look beyond ourselves and yet “how others must be feeling or experiencing.” is all a part of the same thing. There is a saying that is similar to “what you do to yourself is what you do to others” and in this way how we are with ourselves immediately translates into how we are with the world, it’s all connected and our hands are in it.
The more truth I speak and move in truth, the more I know no other way to live.
I loved reading that Raymond, truth is the only thing that settles in the body and allows it to surrender to all it is part of.
Actually I can say that I knew that always too, that when my body was at ease with a given situation or question I had, then I knew it was true. But actually this way of thinking, feeling was not encouraged in my upbringing and later in my working life but rather that other way of reasoning, the reasoning from the mind that never gave me the surrendered feeling in the body but instead a feeling of unrest, a disconnection with that stillness within.
Your blog reminded me of when I learnt to lie as a child, my face would go bright red and I would feel so uncomfortable in my body I felt like I was going to explode. I would say that every single part of us knows the truth and going against that has catastrophic effects.
It is funny Meg you mention the learning to lie as a child and I remember too that I experienced that for everybody obvious to see response of my body. But the most interesting question is why do we learn to lie, what is the purpose of it? As it is actually so obvious for everybody to feel and see that you are lying, why do we do it?
It’s not difficult to see through the lie in a child and yet as we grow we become more versed at it and at times it can appear more difficult, but is it truly more difficult? Or is it possible we have also ingrained the same pattern as the person we are looking at who is lying? That way same doesn’t expose same or like meets like. In this if we see the child in the lie it’s easy while if we truly see what the adult is doing this would mean we also are needing to see the same in us. We can only cover the truth, delay it or bury it under behaviours because as you see you can never change it or make it different, it just is.
Yeh super interesting points – could it be possible that we not expose lies because then we would have to end all the lies we live ourselves?
Alternatively, what you have shared here Ray actually reminded me of how after a young teenager would do something really abusive or harming and be at the point of needing a serious consequence for that behaviour, people will say; “They’re just a kid”, as if that excuses the abusive action somehow. But if we realise how that ‘kid’ is actually an ancient spirit in a smaller human body and using all the tactics of lying and manipulation to get their way that have worked for them in past lives, we might consider how important it is to maintain a consistency in treating situation with understanding, but with a firm consequence. Otherwise, they will continue the behaviour as if it is OK, because we have made an excuse for them. I know for a fact that my parents made excuses for me all the time when I did something that actually really needed a consequence in order for me to learn and grow.
Most of us are feeling our disconnection from Truth, and have no appreciation of what it can bring to our life, so thank you Ray. Could it be that Truth should become the new standard for us all, after we have learned to be at-least honest?
It would be a “new standard” that is in fact old. As you can see from this article and the comments like yours we know it and so while it maybe ‘new’ in title we are in fact returning to something we know and have known forever and it’s true through appreciation, even when you only feel this in a small way,it is part of this ‘new’ return.
Truth just is and it doesn’t need any justification.
‘I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from.’ What an inspiring line this is – a reminder that the only true foundation, the only real rock we can have in life is the truth that we know. We try to compensate with physical security, money, the house etc etc. If truth is not at the core, what we are living is but a lie…. and eventually this catches up with us in very painful ways.
Truth is always simple, perhaps we are not appreciating the beauty in simplicity and rather like the complication and appearances that there is something happening which is really just distracting us from the ease of being.
This is great as through simple appreciation all is revealed. There is no need to go to the rest but simply truly appreciate all that you see. Put this on your daily dedication list and watch the world change, more importantly how you are in the world will change before your eyes.
Truth is always simple as your blog reflects Ray. There is no muddiness or concealed bits…it just is what it is.
Truth is indeed a wonderful, uplifting, liberating, healing, loving friend.
Truth never leaves us; we know it to our core.
Yes we know it to our core because we are it and of it which makes it even more strange that so few of us live it.
The way to active ‘it’ or to see it more clearly is to truly appreciate this fact, we know the truth of everything as a feeling, when you were younger the houses or the people you walked past because something didn’t feel right, the people you didn’t want to kiss or hug because of the same feeling, the knowing of when God was presented to you that it wasn’t all there was, when something went ‘wrong’ knowing after that you sensed it but overrode it as being silly or dismissed it and the fact there are so many of us writing comments here about how well we feel truth and have done for so so long. I’m not sure we don’t live it because truly how could we not, it’s more that we live over, around and in reaction to it. We only need stop at different points and truly settle ourselves and from there our next step would be ‘in truth’ that is how simple the recipe is for us.
All that matters is Love and our understanding of truth. The outplay of circumstances, events and relationships are just the details of the initial choice we make. When we focus on the specifics of a thing we miss the bigger picture – the simple truth we know and feel in our body. Thank you Ray.
The focus is so often in making the “circumstances, events and relationships” better or fixing them when the quality of the start is always key. As is said “Love and our understanding of truth” and the connection to that quality or choice to connect to this is where all else flows from. So no matter how good or better you make something the choice at the first step or at the core is what guarantees all else after. This choice is an every moment choice and not something you make once to make it all happen. There is a flow to life from this connection and an ease and when things are complicated or at a struggle point we need not sort it out or even think about what to do, the choice then and there is one of connection, deeply so.
I have a friend
its name is truth
it lives within me
and guides me through.
Truth is a forever constant friend, never shying away from the fullness of love it offers. Never walking away from us but holding and waiting for us to walk to it.
A beautiful confirmation that we all know truth in our bodies.
Truth is a friend that never lies; now that is a friend I would keep for life.
That’s a friend I would keep for life along with you 🙂
As with you Nikki, for when a friend is a friend in true relationship they are forever.
It is so very true, when life gets complicated, it usually means that we are missing truth in some way. We continue in the complication, this usually entrenches a situation farther from the truth. If we can bring honesty to what we are feeling, the layers can be seen for what they are and discarded – eventually allowing the truth to be felt.
It’s funny how we are when life gets complicated, we usually think up a plan that becomes complicated to get us out of the complicated, only for it all to become more complicated. If we just use this as a point to stop, truly stop and have a look at how we are moving. To truly change the face of something we need to stop and change the movement, no amount of thinking up a resolution will truly change anything. It may bring short term relief but in the end it will always lead us back to the same point. Once you are walking in a certain way your arrival point is guaranteed and the only way to change that as is said is to change the way or quality you are walking.
The truth is so important in every situation in life, from relationships to expressing to those we meet in our daily lives. Thank you for the reminder Raymond.
When we connect to truth, our thoughts cannot run wild and our body is able to feel the stillness and steadiness. Whereas if we hold back from expressing truth, we can feel the tension in our body and it drains us because we are going against what is natural to our body and to the universe.
When truth is spoken there is an instant knowing that it is true, because it is felt in every cell of the body, what we do with it after that is the question do we stay with it or ignore it or override it?
Great point Elizabeth to really feel truth we need to be present in our body and stay connected to everything that is going on around us. If we bring in our own ideals or beliefs of how we may see a situation, we loose the connection and sully the waters with our own version of truth.
Yes when we stick to the truth, there is an integrity that is upheld. If we start to dilute the truth with little lies, then what we deem as truth also will be diluted over time.
A wonderful sharing Ray! I have bent the truth on occasion in the false belief that it may have hurt someone to tell the truth. This I have learnt is very destructive behaviour and causes more harm than good!
The truth is something that lives inside of us ready for us to recall at any moment – a dear friend indeed that consistently supports us and remains solid and steady no matter what challenges comes our way.
Truth is a constant we can rely on in life, once we have established a way of knowing from the body when it is that we encounter truth (the universal applies to everyone equally sort that is), there is no more sure way of navigating through life.
Ray, your description of how truth feels in the body is one I absolutely relate to. The truth just is – no drama, no repercussions, just a simple, beautiful ease which allow and lead us to feel the flow of life.
Truth is our constant ally and when we feel its strength and clarity. We can then move with it or we can ignore it and continue to move in a way that denies this knowing but to note that the truth will come through in the end because it is steadfast and its movements can bring us back to who we are and that truth encompasses us all.
Truth is our greatest friend, it is the quality that will always define, represent and confirm who we all equally are in essence.
The truth cannot be held back, it always niggles till it finds its way to the surface. We would do so much better, as a humanity to really champion truth and unpeeling our layers of suitable truths as this could so easily change the rising levels of anxiety with live with as normal today.
Truth never gives up on us. It is we who give up on truth.
We could bounce this around many ways but as you say, “Truth never gives up on us. It is we who give up on truth.” this is why we can always return to it if we choose and why you can sense it like we do. Truth holds strong and firm in what it is, we move and choose around it and then create all else other then it. As we do this we don’t change truth or water it down or create another truth, we only muddy the water around it so we see it differently but in Truth it has never changed.
The truth is everything, yet possibly it is one of our most under-valued friends. Yet when you stand with the truth you know exactly who you are and exactly where you are going and what needs to be done – there is no friend like it.
When I buy a product I usually unwrap it and use it right out of the box. The user manual the company has carefully prepared gets shoved to the back of a cupboard, never to be seen again. That is till the day I have a difficulty and google is not helping me find the right thing to do. Why is it we treat the truth in much the same way? It’s with us, simply accessible if we wish, but we wait till we end up in strife to check what it is. Is this truly human ‘nature’ or a selfish way our spirit has us behave? Thank you Ray for sharing and inspiring me today.
How do we know the truth? Is it in the words that we use, or the things we like to hear? Is it in things that make sense to our mind or our ears? Could it be the result of a scientific experiment or maybe at the end of a bottle of wine? God knows we have tried all these routes and more, but at the end of the day as you beautifully present Ray, our body knows the truth because of how it feels. So what would our life be like if we finally embraced our body as our great friend and honoured and treated it better than the most precious radar, satellite or sapphire ring? Surely if it guides us through all the lies that exist, it only makes sense to respect it in every way.
‘I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it’ – it is so simple really but we all complicate relationships, situations, choices because we often have a need that has not been met or want another to accept us. There is honour in the truth not matter how hard it is to speak. ‘Truth’ is a simple word but holds profound outcomes in our lives depending on what we choose and express. Thank you Raymond.
When Serge presents I feel an expansion in my body, I can feel the truth of what is being presented, for so long I did not trust what I was feeling in my body but overrode it coming from my mind, which brought complexity and anxiousness,
This reminds and confirms to me the fact that our truest friends and greatest inspirations are those who live by the complete and utter truth without twisting it with lies or distortions that suit them or incite emotion.
Once we can establish a clear sense of what truth feels like within the body, navigating our way in life becomes far simpler. It is when we try navigating from our heads that we get into complication and struggle.
The feeling is not our own, the feeling of truth is grander and greater then just us and it’s confirmed by the comments on this article. In this way there is a flow to the connection to truth, an uncomplicated, supportive and clear flow. We need not worry or concern about the “navigating” as this is all taken care of from the connection to truth and it’s flow. As simple as water can ‘see’ where to flow truth is no different and all we need do is to deeply connect to it and allow the flow to come through us. We aren’t speaking of something new here as this has been around for centuries and again this is confirmed from us all knowing and having the sense of knowing about what we speak of far beyond just this conversation.
I agree – lies feel very unsettling to our body. Unlike truth, which we can just revisit any time and find it the same consistently, lies cannot be left as is even just to be, they need to be kept being fed constantly.
I can vouch for the fact that the truth is still your best buddy after all these years, in fact, you are so loyal to your friend the truth, you will place it above all else at times, this is not cruel, in fact it shows a dedication to your body and your ability to hold integrity over need.
What I love is how you have absolutely embodied truth and you know how it feels. That’s huge – it makes it real and something we have a marker for.
Embodying our truth sounds to me like really living, freely.
“I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels. Thank you Serge and Universal Medicine; I know you are the truth, not because of what you say but because after all my life experiences my body always tells me so.” In this present world there is very little that is true and based on truth. When one does encounter truth one either runs away from it because it is too confrontational or one embraces it. Once embraced it is a foundation that is forever there.
Very true – and how is it that it has seemingly become far easier (more common) to live a lie than it is to live what is truly true?
Could it be because Truth is rarely offered?
There is the truth or what is “truly true” and then everything else. We think there are many versions of truth but that’s not how it works, truth is felt and not dictated or idealised. When there is a dedication to truly feeling life at every point from this we sense the truth of things. When we don’t make life a dedication to feeling we are left with trying to work out the truth of things which is what has been dictated to us or become an ideal in life.
So so beautiful Raymond – simply because it is truth. I do love truth and can not stand without – simply because without nothing makes any sense. And so when we deviate away from it – there is only complexity to rise. There is nothing more loveless than lies (lack of truth). Hence, I was deeply touched to see this exact truth being lived by a person called Serge Benhayon, who equally touched on that exact feeling and knowing of truth. One feeling I have never stepped away from – yet, I can now feel can way more stronger life – as is shown in example by Serge Benhayon. I would not be able to be where I am now without the reflection and support from Universal Medicine.
This is deeply poignant and beautiful Raymond. Most particularly with your words at the end, I can feel the difference between knowing the truth from the core of one’s heart and being, as opposed to a mental construct… This shows that we have a capacity far deeper than the mind alone, to both recognise and honour what is of truth, and what is not, in our everyday lives and experience. Very powerful, thank-you.
We have the thought and the belief that we are here in life for a whole different meaning and yet it would seem more and more we are here to live truth. It’s not about getting by or making it better but about dedicating to honour your feeling of truth in everyday life, in your everyday step. That way this step is pulling you to more of the same, an expanded truth you can say. We are here to expand the truth and not allow ourselves to be dictated to by ‘how things look’, it’s the true feeling we are needing to see and honour more and more and from there allow life to flow to us.
First we have to reconnect to truth ourselves first before truth can be felt and seen in all aspects of life. So actually there is a movement that keeps us from connecting to this truth and in turn will keep us in the endless thinking and worrying and there is a movement that is in direct connection with truth which we call feeling or sensing and is our best guide in life to choose for.
The truth is that which is always there to support us, it is indeed like a good old friend that supports us all the way, letting us know through our bodies that what we know is the real deal.
Indeed benkt, we are the real deal, we only have to connect to the truth of it.
The truth is indeed like an old friend. Sure it can bring up things and feel a bit awkward and even at times challenging to feel but it is always on our side at the end of the day.
What a beautiful blog this is and man you are Raymond. So often in my life I have thought that the truth is ‘hard’ and better off tucked away. Your words here remind me that’s just a great big lie. That when I return to the truth, there’s simplicity, easiness and a surrender in me. Who wouldn’t want this feeling? So it seems it’s just a matter of how long we want to carry on in the opposite direction in this world. I for one wish to permanently arrest this lying, deceptive part.
I love this, those moments in life when you can get race or caught up in a situation, however when you allow yourself to feel what is true there can be a deep settlement as this can give you a greater perspective.
What a beautiful and powerful lesson, thank you for sharing your experiences and your wisdom Ray;
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from”.
When I hear True Truth spoken I feel Love and Joy in my body. This is what I experience when I hear Serge Benhayon speak.
Nothing beats the truth!
So cool Ray. What better way to live than to trust your own body. Makes perfect sense to me!
It is only when we make this our way of life or our living life that we step into a whole new world. When we live anything else this allows us to be walked into all manner of things. At it core all is about energy well before anything physical and so we can play around and try and fix how things look or we can roll up our sleeves so to speak and deeply look at why things are like they are. When you stand in what is the truth and it’s feeling then you are speaking a different language, a language of energy. This is where you align yourself to the flow and ease that comes through or not, our choice and no matter where you go or what you do the flow of truth is there, waiting for us to make the choice to come back to it.
Ray your blog is reminding me how often and how easy it is to take our work home with us and go over and over it – so much so that what remains unresolved within us imposes on and shadows our whole life. Without doubt this lays the foundations for burnout, how can it not.
It’s so interesting that we KNOW how easy it is to just be honest, there’s no need to tangle ourselves up in lies, excuses, etc. However, we often choose to turn a blind eye, or plain and obvious – lie. I have a friend who is the truth machete, and so often I get angry with them because they’ve said something that is true but I’m trying to avoid. Boy oh boy is that person my best friend!
Raymond, I can very much relate to what you are sharing, when I met Serge Benhayon I knew in my body that what was being presented was the truth; I felt a knowing and an ease with my body, in the past when listening to presentations before I met Serge Benhayon I often felt a tension and unease in my body, my body didn’t feel settled, something didn’t feel true. It is amazing how my body always lets me know if something is true or not, all I need to do is listen.
Truth supports life to flow in harmony – it is our natural way of being. The truth nourishes and confirms us. Everything else ie. not truth, is completely unnatural and is felt as an invader in our body. It creates dis-harmony, dis-function, dis-ease. So not worth it.
We are born of truth and thus it is the very essence that makes us to be. To not live this truth creates an incredible tension in the body because we have polarised ourselves in the sense that we have truth, and then we have all that we live in its place. This is why humanity is currently in such a shambolic mess. We have lost our rudder for truth and its whole-hearted expression and thus we are being taken off course in a wild and stormy sea.
I love how the truth brings clarity to the all and is unwavering in its message. Love is undeniably needed and the truth of this is steadfast.
Thanks Raymond for sharing such light and clarity on truth. It is supper simple to understand, appreciate and fully feel the truth of what you are sharing. We live how we choose and if it isn’t truth we aren’t switching off no matter how we kid ourselves with activities that distract – in truth ‘numbing’ what we don’t want to be truthful to ourselves about.
The truth is always the truth, and can never be anything else, it is when we stray from the truth that we get ourselves into all sorts of trouble, and it definitely pays to always tell the truth.
‘I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from’ – Beautiful words and something I will take into my day Ray. When confusion reigns it is the truth that is always the stillness in the eye of the storm
this is deeply inspiring, as I know the truth in my heart but not always choose to express it out of fear of reactions. It is indeed so clear for our bodies, the truth is known and thus brings an inner rest, the falseness doesnt bring this rest and creates a tension. It is for us to get comfortable with the truth and the reactions this sometimes creates with others.
Wow Ray, what natural law lives in our body. Your story is inspiring to me, as I know I specialised in numbing my bodies feelings and internal voice, and so like a thief in the night it seemed I got away with a variety of crimes. But I never did. For when you go against truth, you go against Love, and all that is left is an anxious fear of the truth catching up. For deep down we all know in the end the truth will always return to take us by our hand. In this way it is indeed, our most trusted friend.
Truth in all honesty is the end game and I feel in absolute honesty that the truth is something I am working towards. Truth will come alive for me when I can be absolutely honest and humble in every area of my life.
Yes Ray, Truth is not a word-y thing, but a feeling of truth felt in the body, well said. Even though we can express truth in words it can only be a full truth when it comes from our whole body, that is simply established by connecting to it!
Harmony and Truth are siblings and both qualities of the Soul. How you describe Truth sounds Harmonious which makes complete sense.
Beautiful Raymond, ‘I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ I am learning more and more to express the truth I feel, if I do I feel amazing and it feels harmonious and solid in my body, if I hold back the truth I can feel the anxiousness in my body and I feel uneasy. So more and more everyday I am learning to express what I feel and am aware of how important this is for myself and for others.
It goes to show that we all know Truth…it is more a question of whether we have walked away from it, put a lid on it, denied it or ignored the fact.
… the great part is that Truth goes nowhere and forever is shown to us.
Feeling and knowing truth in our bodies is a perfect compass for living life. Thank you Ray for the beautiful reminder to know and feel truth and love.
‘Among the many things that have stayed constant is the truth and how important it is’.- Living the truth erases all tension from our body and leaves a solid foundation. When we allow a lack of worth or need for approval to get in the way of living and speaking truth the constant anxiety and tension is always there like a slippery path.
“If I wrote or said something that wasn’t the truth my body would let me know because if I didn’t honour that truth, what came after was a mess and it took so much energy and time to clean it up.” What I can recognise here is the spirit getting a double dose of individuality; not only does it enjoy the rejection of, and action opposite to truth, but it also gets to luxuriate in the mess and complication afterwards! There is clearly a knowing and a calculation between a), how much we are prepared to ignore what we know to be true and b), the mess we know will ensue. We pick the degree of ignorance and see how far we can get away with it.
I love what you share about truth Ray, we often complicate things when we go against the true feelings we have about anything, as you so beautifully say – staying with the body will always confirm the absolute truth for us.
Absolutely Ray, it is one thing to hear words being said that you believe or think to be correct and another completely to feel in every cell of your body how real truth flows. For a long time, I’ve been satisfied with the mind’s version, whereas the body has been more like a distant pen pal to me. After reading this blog I’m inspired to make sure the truth and I stay in much closer touch energetically.
Life is nothing without the truth, the truth is literally the best friend you could stand beside.
Truth holds us in a constant knowing that what we feel from our bodies instantly cannot be denied. It is only when we allow our heads to join in that an insidious game of stories, stress and tension are allowed to reign supreme.
I have had a similar relationship with truth. When asked to say something untrue or cover up for someone, my body always felt so uncomfortable and I usually made a hash of it! I always felt like the other person could tell this wasn’t the truth (which we all can) and this made me feel really uncomfortable. Truth which is known in my body, gives me a solid foundation to live from.
Truth is absolute, nothing needs to be added or subtracted it stands on its own, it just is.
Truth has a quality that is priceless, cannot be traded, and must be at the core of our lives.
Even though we live in a world filled with lies, deceit and corruption on many levels, we all have an inner knowing of truth.
Through the years I have lived, I too have discovered that living with truth, in connection to and being led by our truth is what truly allows us to freely live in the power of who we are in full. It is truth that sets us free, for it is truth that leads us all to know and live the light of who we are, with everyone. Our bodies are the markers of our truth as they always reflect the quality of the choices we make. As such our movements will reflect the degree in which we have surrendered to live in connection to our truth, to our love within and what we then share with the world. The more we live walking our truth the more we freely live knowing ourselves through which we hold firm and stand strong in the light of who we all are, and are all here to live together.
The truth is everything, and when we stand with it nothing else matters. The power of speaking the truth is something I’ve learnt a lot about this year, don’t speak the truth and it can massively effect other people’s lives, speak the truth and you’re taking your part and your responsibility in life. It really is everything.
‘My body would soon confirm to me if I was right in my replay of the event and I would sleep feeling the truth, or my body would continue to race.’ This is such a good example of how we actually know the truth even if we think we don’t…there is always more to unravel when the body gives us clear signals that it is not at ease.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing.”
Hear hear Ray. When we make truth our foundation, all that is not of this love and this light crumbles away. To stand on anything less is to invite a tremor in. Truth is who we are, although truth is not always what we choose to live.
“I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels” Beautiful Raymond. Truth is too precious to let go of.
It is our denial of what we know to be true that causes so much of the tension in life that we say we struggle to deal with.
Truth is absolute, with not a grain of maybe/maybe not. It is or it isn’t, and our bodies know that.
Everyday is an opportunity to build my relationship with my friend the truth. The more open I am the more direct the communication between us becomes.
Truth is simple, clean, and clear, so opposite to the complication, distortion ,and anxiety that lying brings.
So true Jill. The complication that lies bring is there to offset the inherent simplicity the truth naturally shines. Lies are designed to muddy our perception of a water that is always pure and pristine. They cannot taint the water itself, they can only obscure our vision of it.
There is much simplicity and ease in the truth. I am learning that when complication sets in it is a distraction away from the truth.
Choosing dishonesty or lies over truth is a hard thing to keep track of because most stories or comments are different to different people. Truth is equal and known – it makes life simple and accessible to anyone we communicate with. Truth doesn’t discriminate or idolise anyone – it is available in full for all.
I too have always loved the truth, and growing up learned not many others seemed to love it! With attending workshops with Universal Medicine I have reconnected to truth, and that it can be the only way, and what a joy that is.
Our body is the greatest barometer for the truth. If we let ourselves feel what it’s saying, we will feel a lie coming before it is even spoken or written.
I totally agree, withholding the truth feels like there is always something unresvoled, its amazing how supportive simply telling the truth is, and this is great for our body and mind.
A great example of how our bodies communicate to us if we choose to listen and confirm all that we know. If we all work in a way that you have described our legal system would be far more truthful.
We all know truth, but sometimes I don’t want to know, because it means having to look at what I have invested in and why, so it’s not always comfortable. However the comfort of a lie is fleeting and is not comfortable at all, certainly in the long run.
If we stay with truth there is no need for recall because it is absolute.
When we feel and know truth in our body then the mind cannot over-ride it.
So true, truth is so needed in this mixed up world.
‘I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ Thank you. The feeling of absoluteness the truth brings is hugely supportive of living a clear, loving and powerful life.
The relationship you describe Ray between truth and the way your body feels is gold. If only this were taught to us from young, or reminded. I can of course completely relate, although had nowhere near the grasp you did on truth throughout my younger years. Knowing it as I do now, it is something that keeps life simple. As soon as I stray from the truth of something, complication follows faster than I can blink.
Sorry to play with words but what you say is so True. The truth cuts through and brings life simple or you could say when you live the truth life is simple and as you say when you walk from truth the “complication” hits you, only when you walk back to the truth do you see this. Life can’t be walked when you’re not truly feeling, we can exist but it’s not living. It maybe hard to hear or difficult to see but as is being said if life has a “complication” it means you have been knocked and you are now walking a different step in the belief all is the same. It’s not ‘life is meant to be simple’ life is simple and the key is to live it that way more and more, simple.
Spot on Ray life, when the path we tread is true, it IS simple, and that can only happen when we live from the body, not from our heads and the myriad of ideals and beliefs that bombard us with expectations constantly.
As we are saying you can only do this from feeling and you can only feel it all from using everything you have and so it makes sense to use the whole of you, your entire body. As we keep bringing awareness to the whole feelings we have the more we grow and the more simple things become. Life is about feeling and from there responding to that feeling in movement.
I love how the inner world constantly interacts with the outer world. My heart feels the truth and then usually something I observe or hear confirms back to me what I am feeling and may also reveal even more.
How amazing to think of the truth as our friend, a companion that will always love us.
Amazing Ray. If we live our days not in truth – then a left over feeling of unresolvedness is always in our bodies and we will find it difficult to sleep at night or function during the day. The best way to be at ease is to live and speak the truth, our body’s truth.
A great sharing Ray. There is an absolutely solidness in the truth held in the body that can be deeply trusted…when you align to it, you can never be led astray.
Ray, I absolutely love how you have shared that the truth for you is a whole body experience. This does show that we can feel so much about situations and our body does register what is true or not, even though the mind might not always hold the same awareness. Recently a friend of mine shared that she had gone to the supermarket to buy some groceries. On her way out, after paying for the groceries and loading them back in her cart, she stopped for a moment, not knowing why, and just stood there next to the cash registers, as if her body was saying something to her. She was not sure what it was and so she turned and left to go home, only to find that 2 of her grocery bags were missing – they had been left behind on the rotating bag stand at the cash registers! What was amazing was that her body had registered that something was amiss – her body know that the groceries loaded into the cart were not complete. How cool is this? Our body registers so much more than we give ourselves credit for! And so it comes back to what you have shared here too Ray – we know the truth on some level, it comes back to a quality that we can feel around us or in another, and if this quality does not match the quality that we know deep within, then there is something amiss – a grocery bag or two, or perhaps a smidgen of truth, or respect etc.
Not too long something about the way I was approaching a situation was pointed out to me and although I trusted the person offering me this reflection I could not totally accept it. Over time I was able to allow myself to feel the truth in the situation and could deeply appreciate what I was offered and therefore know it was not the right time to take the path I was looking along. The beautiful realisation though was not this but the fact that I can now feel the difference between what I was feeling and what I now knwo to be the way of truth and allowing a deep honesty within me to guide me.
Ray what I really loved during reading your blog is that I could feel the absoluteness you have about what truth is and how it is felt in your body. That is really inspiring and I am wondering if we not all have this clear marker of truth in our bodies.
Ray, your blog crystallises for me the simplicity of truth, once things start getting complicated I know the truth is not there, the foundations are rocky without that truth and my body will tell me so. I am learning more and more to see more truth and for me it starts with honesty and being willing to see and feel exactly what my body tells me, and over time the more I honour that, the more I see and understand the truth. Our bodies really are amazing guides.
When we live with truth in our life it becomes simple, it is when we sway from the truth that we bring in the complication.
Wow Ray, we so know this from when we are young children… our body tells us so. We know the truth in all situations even if the adults in our lives were saying the opposite, our little bodies spoke loud and clear. Imagine how different it would be if when a child wets their pants or can’t sleep at night, we asked them what their body is telling them… what in the day made your body feel this way… empowering the child to honour and hold on to truth.
You are totally right Ray, we can’t go wrong with the truth, whether it be with others or ourselves, it is the one thing we can rely on. In this day and age it is great to know that there are people out there that can feel and live the truth, when there is so much out there that is complete nonsense.
When I stand and express from truth I can feel how my whole body speaks. Even in silence I am expressing and as long as I stay with the truth I can feel how I stay open to receive, feel and see even more.
Thank you Ray the truth is most definitely my friend and I am appreciating this more and more as I build more trust in me feeling what is true and choosing to follow that. The steadiness in my body is divine and I no longer have the anxiousness that dogged me for so many years when I was frequently going against my innate feelings of what was true in a situation so as not to rock the boat. I would never have done anything that was against the law but frequently overrode my truth which had a profound impact on my body and it is now lovely to feel the unity in my feelings and actions that give me a steadiness to go out into the world ready for whatever may happen.
‘If I wrote or said something that wasn’t the truth my body would let me know because if I didn’t honour that truth, what came after was a mess and it took so much energy and time to clean it up’. This creation and correction of the messes we make when our intention has been untrue applies to everything we do whether that be writing or speaking, any of our movements at all.
“I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it.” This is so true for me too, I have always had the sense of truth, when I was young, I would know what felt true and what did not. I could also always sense when adults where lying too. When I was young and I would lie because I was put in a situation to lie it felt so horrible in my body, I would be so upset in myself and would often cry on my own. This feeling of knowing the truth has always been with me. With the loving reflection of Serge Benhayon and his absolute truth and strength, I now committed in moving forward in only expressing the truth.
The feeling of space and ease in the body when we are truthful is amazing. I know even before the words are coming out of my mouth or I am doing an action if I am being honest or not. Just as you have mentioned Raymond, when I override this feeling in my body, and push ahead regardless, either in reaction or because I want things to be a certain way, I pay for it big time. It also hurts when the reverse happens and people aren’t truthful and honest with us. So, I definitely agree; being committed to being truthful is well worth the effort in every way.
Hello Helen and what I was also bringing us to was that we have felt what the truth is all along but chosen time and time again to ignore or turn away from it. Then we get to a point in life and wonder why we feel abandoned by it. Anything that happens to us in life is a reflection for us, so if we get hurt by another not being truthful there is still something for us aside from the hurt. Truly the only way a ‘lack’ or a ‘dismiss’ of truth will hurt us is if we have done the same, otherwise you would simply see it coming.
The truth is so much easier to deal with as you mentioned Raymond. To deviate away from the truth for any reason such as, not to embarrass anyone or ourselves, or some other reason causes much trouble and discomfort within us. I totally agree with you that the way to live is truth first every time!
Hello Roslyn and it would seem life is simple, truly connect and speak from what you feel. Give life headings or a part more importance or labels like my family etc and we delay what we feel in favour of doing so many other things. The reason life goes around and around like it does is to give us an opportunity to do exactly that, bring it all back to truth. So choose to not speak from what you truly feel and then put your seatbelt on because around we will go again to give us another opportunity to choose something else, the truth, it’s more than just a word.
‘Life isn’t mapped out so we can follow it to get to the end, all life is in every moment and we only need to connect to that and walk the next step, nothing more and what’s more no surprise.’ It’s interesting that we think we can make plans and that they are the best way and sometimes they go very awry. How do we respond or react? Recently I had planned for a friend to pick me up from the airport but he was not there when I arrived. He was not there an hour later. I had begun to get anxious and during that time all sorts of thoughts came into my mind. He had not responded to any of my calls. I felt strongly that he must have changed his phone and not told me. I felt that he would turn up but, because he had not always been reliable in the past, doubts kept resurfacing. Every time I chose to accept that he would come,which is what felt true, and if he didn’t then I would simply get a taxi, an extremely expensive exercise considering how far I lived from the airport, I settled in to my body and chose to continue to work at something on my laptop. I could work on my laptop for a while even though I was very tired after travelling for what amounted to nearly twenty four hours. I could also sit and do nothing. The more I accepted the situation and let go of any reactions to the situation the steadier I felt and after one and a half hours or so he arrived. There had been an accident and he was tired and hungry. I learned a lot from this experience not least that staying with myself and trusting my feelings are paramount and that doubting thoughts just get in the way. We do know the truth of the moment if we but allow that connection.
Great Blog Raymond, it is so great to read and feel what truth brings to life, truth is the easiest thing to write and see when we are connected and chose not to dishonour ourself. The simplicity of this is a great marker of where we are.
Thank you Benkt and it’s important to appreciate that it’s always been there. This is not a new skill or a trend thing, but more a return to a quality of being or life that was once common sense. We have walked away consistently from something that was at the centre of everything for us and now it’s time to retrace or re-imprint those steps.
Hello Jill and I agree, thank you also. If you consistently develop a knowing of what your body feels like being still, not standing or sitting still as we would imagine but a feeling of stillness throughout your body then you know when something disturbs that ‘stillness’. No matter how big or small, a feeling that disrupts the stillness is an energy that’s not equal to the quality you know. This is the first point we ask, ‘what’s going on?’ and the ultimate responsibility would be not to walk past this point until we feel the stillness we know return.
Gorgeous article on truth Ray – I can’t believe I have missed out on reading this for so long! I can so relate to what you say about truth resonating a particular way in the body that allows it to ‘settle’, where as something that is not of truth just does not sit right in the body. The key I would say is developing the ability or choosing to tune into what the body has to say and then honouring this feeling. We could say that the body speaks loudly to us when we listen, and likewise, we can choose to turn a ‘blind eye’ or a ‘deaf ear’ to what the body is saying to us. The choice is in our hands and at any time, we can make the choice to listen to the body and develop this relationship with hearing and then honouring what we feel.
Hello Henrietta and you have left you run somewhat late, but thank you no matter what the time is. The point you make is clear “we can choose to turn a ‘blind eye’ or a ‘deaf ear’ to what the body is saying to us. So nothing truly is a shock or a surprise, ‘we’ have made a choice, or choices, that make it seem that way, but if the ‘truth is to be told’ we always have known it.
Spot on Ray, it is there and we have always known it, so when we act surprised or shocked, this is a genuine response of having fooled ourselves. And that is ok too – for it is simply about getting up again, dusting yourself off and having another go at things, this time perhaps with a little more awareness and less of a likelihood of allowing oneself to be fooled to the same extent.
Thank you Henrietta and I agree. Don’t spend to much time in the “surprised or shocked” or anything else but get back to seeing the next moment in front of you. That said and in every step you will feel every part of what has just happened if you are open to it. Then the choice presents again, go down the same track and wake up shocked again or keep feeling your way through life and be open to the feeling and let go of the picture. Life isn’t mapped out so we can follow it to get to the end, all life is in every moment and we only need to connect to that and walk the next step, nothing more and what’s more no surprise.
Hello Kevin and all that we are saying means we would need to live in a way that supports us to see the truth, The Way Of The Livingness. If we slow life down, in other words if we make life about what is right in front of us and nothing else. You may think well that’s just crazy but let’s look at what I’m saying a little closer. If the world is energy, ‘everything is energy’ then if we were to keep dedicating to deepening the quality of energy to what is in front of us we would naturally change the energy around us. So we make life about the quality of what we are doing, and not just doing. In that way then the simple task of typing keys on a keyboard with a deep care and connection would have the power to change the world. So you don’t need to run a country or even run a company, we all only need dedicate to the quality of our next movement and in that everything else is taken care of and the world changes.
We all hate being lied to yet how honest are we really when we are with ourselves and others? It’s not only what is being said but it’s also all the other forms of expression we use to tell the truth and to communicate with others. For me, truth is a beautiful marker of where I and others are at. I know that if I’m not being truthful with myself eg playing small and trying to hide my light, then I will have discomfort in my body and even my mind will join in for the ride with lots of self criticism etc. Far better to be truthful in the first place. Thanks Ray – truth is definitely our friend!
Hello Helen and I agree, “It’s not only what is being said but it’s also all the other forms of expression we use to tell the truth and to communicate with others.” We can hide a lot of things in words alone but how something feels can never be hidden and in fact it can be seen well before a word is spoken, The Way Of The Livingness.
Hello Jonathan, I agree and for me we can’t be attached to what that ‘harmony’ looks like. With where we have walked at times our ‘harmony’ may not look like what our perception of harmony is but again we would need to be aware of how it feels. We have a picture of harmony but as we know harmony is a feeling well before any physical outplay and so like anything truly feeling what things are is our lead and from there we can never be caught in a picture.
Thank you Ray for a beautiful blog on truth. When we hear truth, we know it, as we feel it resonating in our body, the body being our marker of truth.
Hello Jill and this is a blog I couldn’t not write. This is something I have known for a very long time and it was great to get it out and on paper. I love reading back over it and the comments to see what more is being said. At different points the same comment can bring a fresh awareness and it can be almost like you are amazed you didn’t see it before. We have placed many things in front of truth and so it’s like unwrapping a gift, there are some layers to go but after every point of unwrapping you get a sense you are getting closer to the ‘gift’. Thank you Jill.
It is beautiful how our body knows the connection to truth and when we deviate away from it we can feel it, our body tells us straight away. But the crazy thing is, we still try and take ourselves away from truth even when it’s loud and clear. When we choose to stay connected and honour the truth, there is a beautiful sense of feeling within us.
Hello Amita and many would deny this outright truth. As we are seeing more and more our bodies won’t sustain that ‘walk away from truth’ in fact we are made from it and so even the slightest deviation is already putting yourself in an altered state. The world is built to drag you out or away from this connection and then distract you from seeing that you are feeling it. The world is built on cycles, a flow and when you honour the flow you feel life is different and you see more. Learn to reconnect with your body, then listen and trust what you feel and your steps back to truth will be stronger and stronger at each point. This is a truly beautiful thing.
The connection that is available between the body and truth is truly a great feeling. It’s a relationship to be honoured and valued. Our inbuilt guidance system highlighting truth to us through how the body feels is a masterful stroke in both design and function. All we have to do is use it.
Hello Cathy and I love that word “connection” and you could say it all comes from connection. I see “body and truth” as one in the same and at this point we think we know better and it would seem with the rise in illness and disease our bodies are telling us otherwise. Truly connect, feel and walk, then repeat. Trusting our “inbuilt guidance system”.
There is nothing more honest than the truth. Great blog Raymond.
Hello Suse, thank you and this lived consistently is world changing. We have built a world on many other things, while truth sits there waiting for a chance to shine. The more people that live in this way the more ‘it’ will be available for all. Truth is a gift but one you won’t be surprise by because you have known it all along.
Yes sarahflenley and the feeling in the body when we fight or resist and even try to run away from it is as Ray describes it, a very anxious and awful feeling that does not go away; we can fool ourselves by overriding or numbing this but it stays and eventually it comes out one way or the other. I have remained silent a lot instead of speaking up and I am re-learning to speak up and to be seen, and my body is very grateful and I love how every time I do speak up my body is clearing and letting go of the old imprint of staying silent. Very empowering and confirming the body is aligned to truth.
I love what you have written here Raymond, the body always is a our marker of truth.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing. It was the best friend I ever had; I loved how it made me feel”.
Truth as our best friend and guide, what a divine gift.
Hello Shirl, thank you and indeed “truth as our best friend and guide, what a divine gift” from a feeling in your body. To think that this ‘gift’ is there with us and has been all along but we have just grown or chosen to be numb to it. The more and more I choose to listen to what I am feeling the more there is to see and listen too. The world is truly not what it seems and from choosing to tune into my body the world has been turned upside down.
Isn’t it odd that in our world it can seem that the Truth is ‘scary’ or hard to find? Now I can see truth has actually been there all along, waiting with an extended hand to start a friendship with me. Today I feel like opening up my arms and giving this long-lost pal a big hug – and saying thanks for looking after me buddy! Thanks to you Ray for this beautiful blog.
Hello Joseph and I agree. The truth that you feel needs nothing and in fact as you say no matter how we have been with it, “truth has actually been there all along”. For me that is the depth of love in the truth, no judgement and no delay when you choose to turn back to it. Truth is a constant terminal that you can build on, as solid as anything. Appreciate all you feel and what you feel will grow stronger and more consistent, everything loves to be appreciated.
Truth has an amazing resonance to it… It has a feel, it is a presence, it is like a beautiful perfume, and yet it is something that we can totally forget what it is like… And yet once re-experienced, it becomes something that we understand is fundamental to living a life that is full and rich.
Hello cjames2012 and while it may appear “we can totally forget what it is like” I see it more as building a cover over the top of it so it only appears we have forgotten. Sort of like putting something in a cupboard and closing the door and turning your back. It may look like you haven’t got it and it also may seem like you can’t even see the cupboard. You can walk out of the room and have a whole day or life without ever going back to the room. When it comes down to it there is only a choice and the moment you walk back in the room and open the door everything is still there waiting for you untouched. We don’t ‘forget’ we deliberately make choices that keep us from ever walking near the room.
A beautiful confirmation of the awareness and alignment to truth that the body has, and how this is with us from birth.
Truth for me always resonates and feels light in my body, a clarity and a knowing – now to experience living a lie or feeling this from another is heavy and lays deep as if a blockage needs to be cleared, and will constantly come to the surface to be exposed for what it is. Awesome sharing Raymond thank you.
The way you describe that your body knows the truth, and corresponds to that Raymond, is important for me to read as I know that too but have not made this a fact of which I am aware with within myself. Considering the fact that my body knows the truth in every way shape and form, gives me the strength and solidness to be myself in full in my every day life. My biggest friend that my body is, will be always there to support me through life. Thank you for writing this blog Raymond.
Hello Nico van Haastrecht, thank you. As you are saying our body is “My biggest friend” and so getting to know your body would be important. I found the Gentle Breath Meditation an important part of this for me. Finding my breath is always a key point to feeling my body. At anytime I feel ‘lost’ I feel my breath and use this meditation to settle and surrender to the feeling. My next step after is always solid, thanks again Nico.
Truth is definitely my best friend, my foundation and my guide. If I can’t find it or lose it, then I can feel the disturbance in my body – a restlessness, anxiousness and incompleteness; as though I have a sword of Damocles hanging over me as unfinished business that will out and won’t rest. The trick I’m working on is clocking when I know something isn’t truth and really trusting my knowing instead of looking elsewhere, outside of myself for validation. That’s simply about trusting myself to know truth when I feel it – and to acknowledge the feelings I get when it’s not there. Both are great barometers. I just need to heed them.
That’s what I have done a lot Cathy, looking elsewhere trying to get validation from others and even hide behind them, you could say manipulate others to speak up and I could stay in my comfort of knowing the truth but not claiming and truly trusting the knowing. With loving myself more and more it’s not an option anymore as my body will let me know that this is not the way and just like you I am honouring this feeling of what is of truth or not by confirming that I do know truth and I can speak up because I will always have me!
I love the feeling of your absoluteness in knowing truth Raymond Karam. Like a stake firmly planted in the ground. No wavering.
I love the quality of truth expressed in your blog Ray. I too have always had a sense of the truth and after making past choices which were not always in alignment to this have felt the turmoil in my body if I deviate too far again. It’s actually almost impossible to not feel it once it’s been there, but despite this fact the crazy thing seems to be the extent that we will go to, to try and do just that.
Hello Michael Chater thank you. When the awareness is there it brings the feeling more to light. We are forever learning to listen and we are equally forever feeling, we can’t step away from feeling we can only delay the fact.
I agree with you Raymond, your sharing on truth is a beautiful reminder that truth lives inside us ready to access at any given time. I know people who lie and it becomes obvious because their stories get muddled and mixed up because they are not connecting to truth or facts but this endless stream of lies that make no sense and they have difficulty recalling. To confirm the truth we hold inside is something I have also learnt with the support of Serge Benhayon – the power and simplicity that this brings to my life is truly amazing.
Thank you Anna and I can relate to the ‘people’ you are talking about. At this point when we are faced with someone who “are not connecting to truth or facts but this endless stream of lies that make no sense and they have difficulty recalling” it is our responsibility to go deeper within our truth. It’s not an argument that comes or a digging in of heels but more an understanding and a feeling of what is going on. Too often we allow this style of thing to shake us from our truth, but it is what it is, a feeling. We first and foremost need to dedicate to how things truly feel and trust from there that everything else will be taken care of. No matter what we are faced with there is always a reflection for us to deepen our connection to the truth we feel, ‘these people’ are just another point for exactly that.
Hello monicag2 and the “complex and complicated” are a reflection to stop. As you saying they are a ‘walk away from the truth we are’. Life kept simple is almost always close to truth. Again as you say we can walk wherever we choose but if it’s not with truth then it’s just a “detour we take” and eventually everything leads back to it. We may not want to see that or even consider that but it’s the truth and we can only delay this very fact. Thank you.
Ray, reading this again today, I can feel how indeed life gets complex and complicated if I do not live the truth I know. As you put it ‘Not siding with the truth was like watching a movie that kept you in suspense for the rest of your life, or until it was made true.’ – this is true, no matter how much we try and make it work, if it’s not true it never does and in the interim our bodies know and wear the consequences so I’m learning to more clearly see that the simplicity of the truth and how my body shows that and to honour it. Ultimately we all come back to true, no matter now long a detour we take and our bodies are that ‘canary in the coalmine’ always sniffing out truth.
“…truth is a foundational aspect to our bodies”… This is a great way to describe my own experience of truth sarahflenley because the feeling of truth and expressing truth is for me, simply a knowing and feels totally different in the body relative to its counterpart – it feels complete and clear whereas holding back on truth or lying feels uncomfortable and creates tension, and this latter feeling doesn’t go away until truth is once again expressed.
Hello raegankcairney and yes, “Being able to feel the truth of a situation is paramount” Where are we if we aren’t aware of what we are feeling? Lost in trying to work out life and following words and being lost in what is said. Anyone can say anything and if you are following the words alone you can be tricked. Being aware of what you are feeling and you can never be tricked. This isn’t a belief I have, I see this every day, I live this way and my life has changed dramatically.
Sometimes when I am not myself, when I am caught up in my thoughts, being racy or having a mini melt down, for a fleeting moment I can doubt Universal Medicine. I stop at this point and reflect on all the constellated divine moments I have experienced. I know for a fact that Universal medicine is the truth as I live it in my body and it feels amazing. A lie in the body feels horrible and unbalanced.
Hello lindellparlour, I have found that Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon are a constant terminal for truth. While it is only ‘fleeting’ the doubt that has kicked in could possibly be a reflection for you and how you are with truth and not to do with Universal Medicine. As you say “I know for a fact that Universal Medicine is the truth as I live it in my body and it feels amazing.”
Hi Raymond, thank you for your blog on truth. Reflecting on my experience of truth I have observed how truth can so easily be twisted in conversation, or manipulated using humour. None of these instances ever felt right. The truth needs very few words to be expressed. I could feel so much in your comment – ‘I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from’. I know that this is the only way to live. There are no shades of grey, only the filter we choose to put in place in order to colour the truth. The body is living wisdom and will always communicate the truth to us, and love and support us to live it.
I can recall an internal struggle I used to have with the truth that I felt and the world around me, my choice at this stage was to undermine that truth and bury how I felt and respond in ways that did not always support that truth….”My friend Serge Benhayon has confirmed to me the feeling I always had about the truth. I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it.” I can appreciate this quote, it is something I have experienced, I am not scared as I once was, to follow what my heart shares with me. I am learning to honour it and through doing so have freed myself of the inner turmoil I once felt, I follow my truth and it feels like a natural flowing river, less struggle and more purpose in life.
Katrina it is beautiful how our body clocks the heaviness and allows us to work through the dishonesty, easing the tension and making way for expansiveness and stillness we feel as we express truth.
This is so true Raymond, our bodies always tell the truth, all-ways. It picks up every nuance and clocks in an instant anything that is out of integrity from all angles like a super sleuth detective. There is nothing to believe, only to trust and I am surrendering to this fact more and more each day – the truth is in my body and if I don’t treat it as my friend and I go at it alone, creating my fantasies because I don’t want to feel what is true then I get hurt big time!
Hello Suzanne Cox and I agree, “There is nothing to believe, only to trust and I am surrendering to this fact more and more each day” This is so true and as you say “trust” and “surrender”, thank you Suzanne.
Hello deborahmckay and in short, “It’s much simpler to stick with the Truth” I agree. Less chaos, less energy, less problems etc. It leads to the question what is the attraction that appears so strong that we will continually walk away from truth, something we have identified as the ‘way’ to be and the far simpler way to be? In the meantime let’s keep reacquainting ourselves with our very old and wise friend, Truth.
It’s much simpler to stick with the Truth. I love how you assessed what the truth was Ray by listening to the feeling in your body.
The truth feels so easy and clear in my body, whereas with a lie I feel anxious and unsure of myself. I learnt from a young age that truth was the path for me, as it just felt right. I saw how some people ‘thought’ they were clever enough to get away with lies, but the lie could always be felt and left an icky feeling between people.
Truth just is. It is not something to believe but is something you know deep inside asking you to live your truth in full.
I have been relearning the connection with my body and how things make me feel. I have always known when things are not the truth without a doubt but I am only just realising how this feels in my body specifically. The body tells us all if we so choose to listen.
When we speak the truth we just move on from that moment as a closed cycle. But when we lie, even a simple small one, it starts a cycle that can grow and grow and last for years. This reminded me of something I saw the other day on the motorway. Two cars had crashed and had closed the southbound road completely. If we take for example that one of the drivers made an error; I was going the other direction and there was slow traffic for about 15 miles from people rubber necking. The other side had, when I passed the end, 7 miles of stationary traffic. I felt into the effect that one small bad choice had made and the amount of people it affected. The people stopped completely for hours going south, the people being delayed that were going north; it added an hour to my trip; the people that were waiting for all of these delayed people and goods. Can lies have the same effect?
We can rest easy in the truth. Anything but the truth creates a tension in our bodies that holds us away from the flow that creates ease in our lives. If we want to have this easy flow within our lives we have to come back to what is truth. This can extend to what my body can eat and how it truly feels with different foods, to the truth of how a certain television program feels in my body and whether it interrupted the flow of love in my body. Are these things worth doing if they take us away from the love that we are? It is important that we are truthful about all these things.
Well said Amanda. When we stop and really feel the effect of our everyday choices on our body it will always tell us the truth and its up to us to listen to, understand and accept these truths.
So beautiful to read your blog again – it was like visiting an old friend who you highly regard. The integrity of your life is felt and is greatly inspiring as are your words ‘I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing. It was the best friend I ever had; I loved how it made me feel’.
Straying from the truth makes things very complicated; you have to remember what you said to whom and cover your tracks and constantly be on the lookout and not ever let your guard down – no wonder the body gets racy and the heart starts pumping like mad.
Super powerfull blog Ray. Our whole way of being is based on using the mind to know the truth, but this is a fallacy, and the reason why that great institution – our court system – often delivers what is right according to the law, but often fails to delivery what is true according to universal law. For the mind can be tricked and swayed and co-erced into seeing things that are not there. It can justify, defend, twist, argue, and perceive what it observes to suit its own agenda. Only the heart knows truth beyond doubt, and it is always speaking to us louder than words if only we stopped to listen.
Feeling how the body feels when speaking Truth is a great confirming marker that we’re on the right track. I know I’ve not always spoken Truth in the past, feeling I needed to conform to what people wanted to hear. But I’m learning that Truth is the only way from now on because it feels so true now in my body. It is the only way forwards.
What I consider to be a little white lie is a lie just the same and feels just as bad in my body as a big fat lie and both lead to bigger and bigger lies to cover up the previous lies. Whether that is a lie to another person or to myself justifying how I am not living my truth. Living less by holding back by not saying what I feel to say is something I often do and it feels horrible in my body. When I hold myself less than others and don’t say what is there to be said because I think no-one wants to hear what I have to say I feel heavy and uncomfortable in my body. When I do connect to my body, with my body I feel light, still and clear to express truth and when I express truth my stillness expands even more.
Hello Margaret Shadforth, as you are saying to express truth there needs to be a connection to the body. Or you could say build the consistent connecting to your body and truth is there equally. So do we try and find the truth or express truth or do we simply keep connecting to our body, build from there and the truth flows. At the point where, “I think no-one wants to hear what I have to say” is another point to go back to how things feel in your body. We often have things said to us or thoughts come to us that all need to be felt and not just followed or trusted because they have been said. Thank you Margaret and as you say, “When I do connect to my body, with my body I feel light, still and clear to express truth and when I express truth my stillness expands even more.”
So true Raymond, when we are connected to our body the truth just flows right on through us. It is like I am observing and listening to it all at the same time. When I surrender to this, the words and the quality are naturally there to say what needs to be said. And most of the time it is not the words or even the topic, but the quality that is being shared. A casual conversation on a random everyday topic can deliver so much truth if it comes from us being connected to our body.
Hello Vicky Geary and I agree wholeheartedly thank you, “It is like I am observing and listening to it all at the same time. When I surrender to this, the words and the quality are naturally there to say what needs to be said.” The big key is connection.
Yes hartanne60, It is so important to confirm the truth our children speak. This hones, not only their ability to see and speak truth, but they get to clock how truth feels in their body. This gives them their own authority and they know they can rely on their amazing barometer – the body – to discern truth, or not, in the many situations they encounter in life.
Once I come to really feel truth in my body, actually nothing can shake it nor me. It is rock solid and as you say Michael – simple.
Beautifully said Sonja. The truth is absolutely confirmed in our body and everything feels simple. This also helps me to understand when I am stepping away from the truth as my body changes and there is less simplicity.
Hello Lucy Duffy, thank you and well said to you also, “Truth is absolute”. This is not in a dictatorship or dogmatic way where there is pressure on you and you are anxious, but in a freeing supportive way where you feel ‘left alone’ and at ease. If you connect and honour the feelings you have life is simple and flows. Go against this, as we all have the choice too and you make life something else. Everything comes from us and then out, we always have a choice in every moment. Thank you again Lucy.
The very fact that we can talk in this way over the Internet Ray is in itself a catalyst for change. Even a few years ago, discussing topics such as this one would not be heard of over the Internet, let alone now the 10000+ comments per week that get posted over all universal medicine associated blogsites!
I can relate too Katerina! The heaviness and feeling of discomfort is indeed enormous, and it seems that more lies are needed to either cover up, or excuse or justify the first lie. It also made me consider, that a lie doesn’t have to be something we might normally consider something morally or legally wrong… to me a lie is simply not expressing the whole truth, so whenever I hold back (which includes ‘not’ speaking up when I can feel in my body that I should) is also a lie… and the impact on the body is ultimately the same. Likewise, the feeling in the body when I express truth – whether it’s to stand up against something that is obviously not the truth or simply to express to another what I am feeling – is completely different, and comes with an expansiveness, confirmation and completion in my body.
Love your title “My Friend the Truth” Ray. Such a beautiful way of bringing our awareness to how we actually feel about the word Truth and giving us an opportunity to reflect and deepen our level of understanding that Truth REALLY IS our friend. Thank you Ray.
Thank you Tamara Flanagan and I agree we really get to see Truth in a new light. As children many of us were imposed upon or demanded to ‘tell the truth’ but as you can see from the blog and the comments, truth is a sacred thing and well worth exploring. I love the title as well and it says it all for me, “My Friend the Truth”.
It is so gorgeous that you have discovered that truth is the only foundation you can trust completely to stand on and step from, and that that truth guides your way through your body ensuring you can never be led astray. So very awesome Ray, thank you for sharing this.
Hello Samantha Westall and the great thing about this blog is that if you can feel that is the truth then everything you have read are now your words and not mine alone. Even if you have entertained the possibility then this is the same. The truth is a universal thing and not something just for one to stand on. As we are all saying here, truth is a feeling first before it is spoken and so if you can feel the truth of what is being said then naturally that ‘truth’ lives inside you. I love that you enjoyed the blog and now the possibility that these are your words also. Thank you Samantha.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing. It was the best friend I ever had; I loved how it made me feel”.
In contrast Raymond, I grew up telling fibs, protecting myself from possible scoldings.
Over the past decade I have learnt about truth; i.e what it means in my body to express what is true and what it feels like to know what is true.
Thank you for the reminder and inspiration to feel and express truth.
Hello Shirl Scott, it would seem that when you, “grew up telling fibs, protecting myself from possible scoldings” is the step away from the truth you felt. What the blog is bringing us back to is that we all have the truth there as our friend but at times we have stepped away, the longer or the more frequent we do this, the ‘more’ that sits on top of truth. We are not so much ‘learning’ how to feel truth but more returning to the feeling, through the things ‘we’ have placed on top of it. Thank you Shirl.
Yes me too Shirley and I can remember always feeling ‘uneasy’ inside when telling fibs but the ‘relief’ that came from escaping a scolding, etc. would quickly overide that initial ‘true’ feeling.
Truth is what our body can live with – if it is not truth our body get ill. In our world people would say this simple statement is crazy and that is sad. The thing is everyone knows deep down that it is true (hahaha) but we chose not to feel it hence we all suffer. Thank you Raymond for reminding us with your powerful blog that we all know how truth felt.
Thank you esteraltmiks and I don’t think that “simple statement is crazy”. I love how you break it down, “Truth is what our body can live with – if it is not truth our body get ill.” This is not about blame or anything similar but simple awareness that what we are doing at this point isn’t working. You don’t need to look far to see most illnesses and diseases are on the rise. I have seen a huge increase in people with cancer or knowing someone that has had cancer. We are missing something and at some point we may need to stop ‘chasing’ cancer and other things similar and have a look at where this all comes from. Has society changed in anyway over the past 20 years or even 10 years that may contribute to this? I have seen a move away from people just simply getting together. I am not saying technology such as online shopping etc aren’t a great thing but they can’t be at a cost of connections with people. Go out into the community and listen, everywhere I hear is people talking about a “disconnect”. We can keep going the way we are, that is our choice but we also in that will need to be honest, are we really caring for each other or are we driving through to a point continually to ‘feel better’. Simply due we get to Monday feeling down and can’t wait for Friday? I am not being critical of anyone but for me we need to keep speaking about the way we are being with each other, from all I see we are disconnecting from truly being with each other in the simplest ways and this in turn isn’t supporting our health as the figures are showing. There is a simple message in all of this and as esteraltmiks has offered “Truth is what our body can live with – if it is not truth our body get ill.”
Absolutely amazing blog Raymond, I have many times pushed away the truth of what I feel and not expressed it, this has had an impact on my life, body and health.
From years of doing this it becomes hard to trust ones feelings or inner knowing.
Through the help of Unversal Medicine I am reconnecting to truth, and am very greatful to them.
Hello Thomas scott, thank you and I agree. It is amazing what we have put in the way of truth and as you say not expressing what you feel, “has had an impact on my life, body and health.” What if all the health conditions we see in the world could be related to this? Simply not expressing what you are feeling. Too big? From my experience it certainly appears that way. The dramatic health turn arounds people have had due to just simply doing this have been astounding. Thanks to Universal Medicine and the support offered for people to stop and connect to what is really going on around them. Thank you again Thomas.
The easiest thing in the world is to just say what happened, express what you feel or generally just stick to the truth because it actually is or actually happened – so how is it that so many of us are having such a difficult time doing just that? I like what you’ve reminded us of here Ray, that we know our truth and if we keep it that simple and just express that, then it doesn’t get complicated, or racy or anything else. Gold.
Hello Oliver Hallock, thank you. For me truth as you say is really “simple”. You say or express the feeling you have and then listen to what comes back, then repeat. The complication, racy etc only comes in after we have walked away from what we have felt. I love how simply you have commented Oliver, it clearly makes sense.
What a statement on truth and how very true. Our body knows truth we just have to learn to listen to it.
Hello Esther Andras and I agree, “Our body knows the truth we just have to learn to listen to it.” This is an ongoing process of getting to know ourselves in a more intimate way. As I have shared above, the gentle breath meditation is an ongoing support for me to consistently have a point to come back to. A known point when things become complicated to come back to and build from. Each step I take back into truth I don’t leave the things like this mediation ‘behind’, they support me as keys and I keep using them over and over. Thank you Esther.
Thank you Ray for giving myself, and others permission to claim how truth feels in our body. It is all to easy sometimes to override for fear of standing out. I love how you speak that truth is our friend. I can relate to this so much and since receiving support and inspiration from such people as yourself and Serge Benhayon I now feel claimed and accepting that , I absolutely do know truth. Our friend, truth, speaks loud and clearly and confirms and communicates with how sensations of how we feel in our bodies.
Hello ginadunlop and very well said, thank you. It is great how truth supports everyone to know the same thing. There is no better, more or exclusivity with the truth. It’s just is what it is, simply. When we all build a connection to ourselves and the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great start then we see and feel the equality that is in truth. As truth is my friend, equally it is yours. Thanks again. http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation/what-is-gentle-breath-meditation.html
I love how you describe the truth Ray. It is clear you are a man of great integrity with a love of the truth. Thank you for reminding me how messy life gets when we stray from the truth. Your blog is a great reminder that things stay simple when we are living true to ourselves.
Hello Leonne Sharkey and thank you. I loved this line in particular, “Your blog is a great reminder that things stay simple when we are living true to ourselves.” Isn’t that the truth and it’s amazing at times when life becomes seemingly complicated out of no where and we turn on ourselves or those around us. We blame life or people or the banks which ever it may be and go into almost a grind. Life isn’t like that at all when you live in connection to the simplicity of what you are feeling at any moment. If life is or becomes a grind that is a reflection or a sign that we need to take a step back and have a look at things. At some point we have stepped away from what we feel and yes it looks as though the world is doing things to us but in actual fact part of that we have bought upon ourselves. Some may read this as harsh, but how loving is that when we know how beautiful and simple life can be when you feel and honour what is true. I know, no matter how hard I would always want ‘life’ to call me back to truth. I’m blessed to have truth as my friend. Thank you again Leonne
Absolutely Ray. I can feel how supportive the truth is. If things did not get messy we would not know we were off track.
Yes Leonne Sharkey, we would just go on living the same way. Life has a way of reflecting the ‘world’ to us at any moment, we just need to be able to listen and see.
‘If life is or becomes a grind that is a reflection or a sign that we need to take a step back and have a look at things.’ Ray, I know this feeling of becoming a grind so well and it is true that at that moment we need to take a step back, breath and see what is truly the case. I have crushed myself many times with going on even when I felt to stop. I know when I connect everything falls into place and I am the only one who can make these steps by honouring and feeling instead of blaming and getting frustrated.
Living true to ourselves makes life so simple – now ain’t that the Truth Leonne!
Hello Elodie Darwish and really well said and this is it for me thank you, “Of course, I may not always get my way, but I will continue to express regardless, and in doing that I avoid unnecessary tension in my body, and am able to take full responsibility for my choices.”
Absolutely Ray. And I think it’s important to note that the ‘truth’ is more than just not telling a lie. An example of this is: I was in a situation the other where I was being charged an additional amount for a service I had not been quoted on. I considered just paying it because I was worried about the conflict it may cause. But when I allowed myself to feel into how ‘giving in’ would feel to me, I noticed how awful that felt, giving my power away to someone else when I knew in my body that was what happening was not right.
So, I gently presented the facts and stated that I was happy to pay for what I had been quoted, and nothing more. My request was granted. Speaking my truth in this instance was about honouring that my body was telling me something didn’t feel right, and so I acted on it, and man am I glad I did. This is now a huge marker in my body. Of course, I may not always get my way, but I will continue to express regardless, and in doing that I avoid unnecessary tension in my body, and am able to take full responsibility for my choices.
I love how you say of Truth ” I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels.” This is so simple. If we allow ourselves to feel we have a marker of what’s going on in our bodies. A truth/ lie detector built in. No need for concepts like honour to get in the way – although we are naturally honouring our feelings if we act on them in truth.
Hello elainearthey and thank you and I agree to how simple it can be. Keep feeling our bodies and then be honest enough to say how that feels. Not in critique or judgement but from an open, self responsible way. It may not always go along with a conversation but it will always support the truth.
Thank you Ray, I too can feel the difference of what the truth feels like, I will continue to work on trusting it so that I can speak up when truth needs to be spoken. In our house, the truth can sometimes be uncomfortable, but it is always simplest and takes us through the issue with the least dramatic route.
Hello Lucy Dahill and for me the ‘continued trusting’ is a possibly an ever ongoing building block. If we consistently appreciate the moments, not matter small or big when we are feeling, trusting and speaking the truth then this supports the ‘build’. To often for me the critique steps in and looks for perfection or for fault. The appreciation of what we feel right now, not perfect but in equally appreciation for ‘where you are at’ with truth is another key. I find in the hardness of ourselves and in how we are there is also the hardness on others. In appreciation of ourselves, there too is the appreciation of others. Thank you Lucy.
I’ve experienced the same situation, not the car thefts but the feeling truth is the only thing to stand on.
I had a experience of accidentally taking a product out of a store, in effect stealing. As soon as I noticed that I did not hesitate to return it. I know if I did continue and say “I’m already out of the shop and they should have stopped me”, I know I would be feeling the repercussion of that as it wasn’t the truthful thing to do. This is a extreme event to get a point across this also happens in more refined ways in my life.
Hello Luke Yokota and yes your point is clear to me. The self responsibility you take at the time in your example is the ‘stand’ for truth. It’s great to identify or appreciate the moments you take these stands as “extreme” or not they are count and are equally as important. Thank you Luke.
Thank you Raymond, very clear, refined or not, moments of truth are are worth appreciating to the end degree.
For small events lead to larger events being understood, and larger events lead to smaller events being discovered.
Hello Luke Yokota and thank you. I agree and you are spot on. Often we ‘look past’ the “smaller events” or moments to see the bigger things but all is there for equal appreciation. As you say “moments of truth are worth appreciating to the end degree”.
Hello Sonja Ebbinghaus as you are saying “A deep deep marker is truth in our body”. It would make sense then to only trust what your body feels like when you express the truth, otherwise we can be caught up in the ideals or beliefs like being “nice”,etc. Again as you say, “the freedom you feel when you have expressed truth finally – is unimaginable”. Thank you Sonja.
A deep deep marker is truth in our body. Even if truth seems not to be nice at all and brings up uncomfortable things – the freedom you feel when you have expressed truth finally – is unimaginable. Truth is the foundation of our physical and mental health.
Hello Carola Woods, thank you. I have at times lived with a blindness to how “anxious and unsettled” I have been. As you are saying my deeper understanding and relationship with truth has been away for me start to see more clearly what was causing that. The deeper I go with this the more settled I feel and it seems there is no end.
Beautifully expressed Ray. I can feel how the truth has always been there for me and I have in fact always has a sense of it. However many times I overrode what I felt was true for many reasons and as you shared I too lived with the result of this in my body, feeling anxious and unsettled. I am now developing a much deeper and honoring relationship with ‘my friend the truth’ and how this feels in my body. And with this there is a more honest and real way in which I live that is bringing more harmony into my life and my relationships.
Really enjoyed reading your blog Raymond – It brought up reminders of my early childhood experience when confronted by a teacher, parent etc they would say “Are you telling the truth?” I would always reply ‘yes I am’ – but the amount of times they would not believe me! I would feel totally crushed inside. When I was listened too and telling the truth did resonate with them, I felt lighter and brighter and the true me could shine and yes in your words ” I loved how it made me feel”
Hello Marion Hawes and thank you. It is interesting in your comment about when you were “confronted by a teacher, parent etc” you can feel how in these times we are under pressure for the ‘right’ answer. It is almost like the way the question is being asked isn’t really allowing the space for an answer. It makes me reflect on how many times I was asked, and I asked, in a way that already had the answer loaded. In other words, asking a child if they are telling the truth while already saying to myself that they aren’t. So you configure the answer from the way you ask the question. So in your case the “yes I am” is being said under pressure and maybe added to why you feel “totally crushed inside”. It doesn’t matter what the question you are asking is, it’s about how the question is being asked and in this case, and like all, you can feel everything.
Hi Ray thank you a great reminder of how simple yet powerful truth is and using your body to uncomplicate what our mind can so easily make more complex.
Hello nicolesjardin, thank you and I agree. The body will free you while the mind can turn you around and around and around.
Hello Brendan, that is a question for the individual but then is also answered by humanity. The individual can answer that question from what they perceive or from how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ their life is compared to others but if we look at humanity what is being reflected? We are getting sicker and sicker. Many people are presenting with a multitude of symptoms to doctors and the medical system is being overwhelmed. Where is the next place we turn to look for answers? Surely it is time to turn within, turn to yourself or as some may say return to a way of living that supports us, truly supports us. The Way of the Livingness stands as a shining example of that way through Universal Medicine. It’s not a quick fix or a magic pill but it supports you to feel what is true for you and then everyone is supported from there. We are all connected whether we choose to see that or not and what you do does effect others. The only way out of this is together so it’s time to not look back or look forward, time to go within. Thanks Brendan.
I can totally relate to what you have shared here Raymond, the truth is a steady and still feeling, whereas when I follow choices that are not true, regardless of how much I can justify or fool myself into believing it is the right thing to do, my body will tell me so in the numerous ways it can, and does. And had I not had the support from Universal Medicine to discover how to feel my body and feel the qualities that can be in the body, I would no doubt continue to believe in full what my mind tells me to be true, regardless of its real outcomes and impacts on myself and everyone else.
Hello leighmatson, yes Universal Medicine supported you to ‘rediscover’ what you were already feeling but had chosen to not be aware of. We can hide what we feel in many ways, with many things. Life is about feeling, we knew that from when we were young. You didn’t always have an answer for it but some places and some people just didn’t feel good but you listened to that feeling. It was almost automatic, at that age you would just trust what you felt with no question. As we got older we doubted those feelings, questioned them and then suppressed them with ‘right and wrong’. If we live in a world where “everything is energy” then how could we not support the feeling of energy?, crazy in a way and it doesn’t make sense. Get back in touch with what you feel, get in touch with Universal Medicine.
Yes Brendan, the dedication to truth in each moment brings with it a certain way. A way of living that not necessarily prevents, but more allows more space for the “complications and issues” to be seen differently. The truth allows you to look at life in a different way, where as you may live thinking the “complications and issues” are you, with more and more dedication to truth in each moment these things are seen for what they are defined as, you see them as something outside of you. After a period you may even see the “complications and issues” are not even there, you walk past them without even a passing glance. It’s not that you don’t see them, you do, but you see them truly and see that they are not part of you and so give them no power. Living truth has the power to ‘burn up’ anything else that is not from it. Thanks Brendan.
Hello Felix, I agree with what you are saying and I have truth and love as one in the same. In other words truth comes with love and love comes with truth, they are inseparable. What you are describing for me is the ‘conflict’ that comes between what our body feels and what our head thinks is right. So when truth/love is presented to us our body says yes but part of us tries to hold on and defend, argue and say no. The ‘pain’ comes from having the lie or untruth being exposed in us and then it’s our choice, let go and stay with what feels ‘right’ or defend and hold onto a pattern that really has never got us anywhere. The ‘pain’ comes from holding on and not from truth and the amount of ‘pain’ or ‘hurt’ will be equal to the time we have spent holding on or out of truth. The truth will never hurt or be painful, it is our choices away from truth that hurt. Thank you Felix.
When truth is told to me with love, it feels very yummy and my cells delight, even though what is brought up might be painful.
Raymond, the truth is the only thing that is real.
Hello Concetta, this is a very simple but powerful line and if we looked at everything like this then it would also make life very simple and clear. I agree with you that, “the truth is the only thing that is real” and that would obviously make everything else unreal or part of an illusion to try and stop us or at least delay us from seeing the ‘truth’ or the ‘real’ way to be. Thank you Concetta.
I am still wondering what makes us want to step back from truth. As you say Ray it takes a lot of energy and it creates a mess not only for ourselves but for everyone around. When I am not with the truth I so clearly feel inside me it creates such a complication, it frustrates me, but still now and then I walk away from the truth. I am always called back by the wisdom of my body.
Ray I love how you talk about the body just knowing truth so well – inside and out – and it being the most natural state for the body to live from. I can so relate to what you have shared here and can now see how I have made my life so complicated and difficult at times not living from my truth. With this awareness I am now able to honour my truth more, and live in a way that is not consistently impeding myself. Thank you for your reflection of this Ray, it is beautiful.
Hello Amelia, thank you. As you are saying and it is almost like we have truth – it is there as a foundation for us, but then we make “life so complicated and difficult at times” that then leads us away from truth. You could say we are our own worst enemy in this way.
I agree, and if we were to accept this as truth, ” it being the most natural state for the body to live from” then we don’t really have to ‘do’ anything or ‘go’ anywhere. We just need to let go of the complications and difficulties and bring life simply back to our body and the truth, the rest takes care of itself. I love what you have added here Amelia.
Hello Amita, yes it is ‘amazing’ but at the same time it is very natural. I understand what you are saying but also we only look at it being amazing because we have removed ourselves so far from where and how we naturally are. From this point the ‘feelings’ we have are amazing but from another point that may look totally natural. What is ‘amazing’ is that we are so dedicated to living in a way that ‘blinds’ our body so we can’t feel our very natural state.
Ray it is amazing how the body tells us when we are not speaking the truth as we feel anxiousness, and when the truth is spoken there is a completely different feeling.
Thank you Ray for the beautiful revelation of how lies have an impact on the body and how truth can be felt by the body. We therefore all know the truth from our body if we are willing to be honest with what we feel.
Hello Andrew and it is a “beautiful” but simple revelation. We are simply saying everything can be felt by a certain vibration within your body. Some things disturb the natural harmony you have within and others align with it. So in this case it is about living a certain way that supports you to feel all the intricacies of each vibration or living in a way that doesn’t. The only way we can say, ‘I can’t feel that’ is by having first lived our body in a way that has taken it away from a natural harmony that is just there. For me the first part of being responsible for the ‘all’ that I feel is a dedication to living in a way to support my body to ‘be’ able to feel or to be in that natural state of harmony.
Beautiful Raymond… Keep on walking with your buddy alongside! I sometimes lose listening to that dear friend, and that’s when I too find myself driven by anything but me. Scary to then look back at what this period has been like, and ugly to feel the body with it too.
Hello Christinahecke it is great that you bring awareness to when you stop “listening to that dear friend”. What is important though is to ‘step back’ to that dear friend before you look at why. We may at times attempt to look at where we left truth from a point that still isn’t the truth. So the first part to being responsible for the ‘walk away’ is the step back, then from there look at why and how. From truth you will see truth, everything else will just force you to walk away further.
Beautiful reply Raymond* Yes, it is the inner voice, the dear friend I have to reconnect to first and then walk on..*
Spot on for me Christina thank you.
Hello Jenifer and thank you for the comment. It doesn’t matter at times where we have been when it comes to truth. If you read something and relate to what it is saying and can feel that is somewhere you want to go to then that is your truth. It doesn’t make you less or right or wrong it is just about honouring what you are feeling and building from there. Jenifer as you say you maybe only “starting to see” but the fact that you have highlighted this part of the blog above here is already showing you have a strong foundation in truth otherwise you wouldn’t have seen it as being “powerful.” Thanks Jenifer.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing.” It is so powerful reading this, Raymond and this has not been my experience, but I am starting to see ITS truth and claim that. Thank you
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from”. This is such a powerful statement and definitely something I have experienced in my life as well.
Thanks Elizabeth, we are all agreeing of the physical nature that can be felt with truth, a solid foundation you can ‘stand on and step from’. Does anyone need the proof of this? Well we have just done the study for you in this blog and comments.
Hello Elaine, I agree the truth in any moment “can change everything”.
Today I was in a meeting that was not going well and felt horrible. I found myself saying “There is no love in this room – absolutely no love here at all – where is the love? ” I had surprised myself with these words and everything went quiet, and then they started speaking again and the bitterness and anger was gone. In that moment they had come back to themselves. It was such a beautiful testament to the truth and how expressed, it can change everything.
Amazing Ray! This truth that you are expressing about it being in your body is so the truth! I felt deeply as well that when I am not expressing the truth, my body shutters and I feel very anxious, it is a clear sign that I am not expressing the truth about something…. And its amazing to reflect that as young boys we both had this so solid and it was very natural to always be discerning the truth and what is not true. I am always amazed by that.
Hello Harry, thank you. You have a clear connection to truth as you have described. It’s great to appreciate how solid your connection is, truly it is no surprise.
Yes Ray, so true!
Hello Shiri and thank you for your comment, I enjoyed this “Truth is indeed our best friend, so loyal, constant and forever available”. This is a great description of how truth is for me, thanks again.
Thank you Ray for the wisdom you have expresses
Truth is indeed our best friend, so loyal, constant and forever available
Hello Jeanette, I agree with what you are saying but as you would have felt reading through this blog and comments here we all feel truth so clearly so the world we live in is only reflecting ‘us’ avoiding or masking the truth. In other words if we change the world changes, the more you ‘stay with truth’ the easier it will be for you and everyone to do the same. As we have spoken about in the previous comments, truth is so tangible you can almost touch it. We only need look at why ‘we’ can’t make contact with truth at any given time because truth doesn’t leave or go on holidays, we leave it, we take the steps away and it takes a lot of time and energy to do that.
Well said Ray
We live in a world where truth is either avoided or masked which can make it hard to discern at times but as you say, we do have a very strong marker of truth in our bodies and it can be come back to at any time. So confirming to read your blog Raymond, thank you.
Raymond, thanks for a great blog and the simple message of letting our body guide us when seeking truth. I am reflecting on your words ‘I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it.’, realising that I have also held back needlessly out of fear. Time to change that around, starting from now!
Hello Helen, I have found there are many things we ‘fear’ that don’t make sense or we have no reason to fear. This is one of them, what was I afraid of? There was no basis to the fear and I realised it wasn’t true to use it and hold onto to it anymore.A good friend of mine told me similar words, ‘what have you got to fear, if all else fails you still have yourself and that’s pretty special’. So really you have ‘nothing to loose’ as you will still have yourself and nothing can take that away from you. So you should go for it Helen.
Beautiful Ray – I was reflecting on the fact that we actually have to push our bodies hard to alter the truth. My understanding is that we feel where we are at – the truth is ever present yet we choose to subvert or override the it to gain some advantage or contract away from certain people or situations, this hurts and results in our bodies taking the rap.
Thank you Lee, if we all agree that the truth is powerful and cuts through a lot and makes life simpler and easier than yes you would have to bring in a lot of energy to stop or “alter” that truth.
Ray I love coming back to this article as truth is something I am continually learning more about. I love how truth sits there in its absoluteness and waits for us to feel it and most importantly act upon it. There was a comment/discussion on here about the uncomfortableness of speaking the truth that gave me a huge realization. Speaking the truth is not the uncomfortable part. I have always thought that being truthful was uncomfortable. This is such a trick. What is so incredibly uncomfortable is feeling at that point of expressing truth, all the times before this that I had walked away from it, given up and not loved myself or another in that moment. Now that is what is really uncomfortable.
Hello Vicky, that is a great realisation and indeed a trick. The truth is none of the things we are lead to believe it is. Truth can be felt and the feeling is simply freeing and once more you are always feeling the truth in everything, the choice is whether you listen.
I really get what you are saying here Vicky Geary, I/we seem to have to get over the ‘hump’ of all the times we have not been truthful, that as you say is the uncomfortable bit once we do choose to express truthfully. Whether holding back from speaking what feels true has been through being nice, not rocking the boat, or not wanting to hurt someone (we hurt them more when we are false), there is a huge discomfort in that. I am learning that to truly love both yourself and another/others, truth, and expression of it, must be part of the equation.
Thank you Brendan, yes and I love how this sounds, “Truth speaks for itself” as it literally does. So often if you are lying or try to convince someone of something you will need to repeat things or keep making things up and you will be given a variety of feelings, fear, doubt etc. But the truth will just keep standing there, saying the same thing and feeling the same way, it is constant. As I said the truth literally does speak for itself because when it is said it needs nothing else, “it is what it is”.
I love this Ray, it’s so simple. The one truth we can never deny is what we feel in our bodies.
And, as our bodies are always reflecting to us the Truth, we can only ever lie to ourselves for so long, before our body inevitably brings us back to Truth.
Hello Kylie, very simple and you have describe it beautifully.
This is wisdom Ray and Kylie of the absolute kind. My body holds all the answers.
I love how that feels when we say the body is the marker of truth.
Thank you Ray I enjoyed your blog.
Hello Lynda, thank you and well said. Your comment is simple but powerful and shows me again how things are said (the energy) is the key to everything.
Truth feels so beautiful that I cannot understand why we would ever step away from it.
Hello Judith, that is a question for all of us. When all we say and all we feel is saying the opposite how and why do we step away? It would take a force to move us away from what is true and ‘we’ need to look at where the force enters. The most supportive thing to do would be to appreciate what we do feel, appreciate the ‘beauty in truth we feel’ and then look at the ‘why’ from there. If we look at the why from the “step away” it will only lead us back to the “step away” again. It would be sensible you could say to connect back to the truth before the next step. At least then you know what you are standing on. Thank you Judith.
Thank you Ray, the body is indeed the marker of all truth.
Hello Patricia, yes it is the “marker of all truth” but what does that truly mean? It means your body has truth at it’s core, innately knowing truth from every angle in every way. It is our choices on top of this that cloud how we see truth but your body will never lie, you can only trick yourself into thinking that. It is our choice to support and love our body in a way that we are able to see the truth more clearly. We aren’t teaching our body the truth, we are returning to listening to what we are feeling and returning to listening to something that has truth in it’s make up, rebuilding our awareness. Our body already has it all, already knows the all and that is one of the reasons you can say, “the body is the marker of all truth” Thank you Patricia.
Beautifully said Raymond, indeed our body is a reflection of the vehicle of truth and light, all we need to do is to support it and love it in any way possible in order to connect to it.
Thank you Francisco Clara.
It is wonderful to know with every sense in our being that the body is the marker of truth. It is physically tangible and if we trust how the body feels, it will never lead us astray. Great sharing Ray, thank you.
Hello Jo, I agree with the truth being a “physically tangible” feeling in our body and if you make it a way of living then you will never be lead astray. At first it maybe a little difficult to believe or comprehend that through the development of what you are truly feeling your life will become simpler, more fulfilling and richer in every way but there are a great number of people experiencing this very fact through Universal Medicine. Thank you Jo.
Yes absolutely Jo, our body tells us so much when we simply listen to that inner wisdom.
I agree Greg and then action is needed to that ‘listening’.
I agree Ray the listening and action bring us to the wisdom or our ‘marker of truth’.
Hello Deborah, thank you. It is amazing to see that even so ‘young’ in the world we are able to know what is true. This is was confirmed to me when I was writing this blog and as you can also feel. When the world around you doesn’t support that truth we learn to navigate ourselves through, doing what we need to do to survive, which as nothing to do with truth. For me it was only when I had to ‘stop’ (an illness) that I started to look deeper into what was going on and how I was doing things. So for me it was returning to what I had already known and discarding the ‘techniques’ I had used.
I really enjoyed rereading your blog Ray.
Listening to our bodies, often times screaming at us, is the key to always expressing from our truth.
Hello Shirl, yes that is “the key”, and moving or clearing what we have put in the way of “our truth” supports the “listening”. The more truth we express from what we feel in our bodies the ‘more’ of the same becomes available to us; it expands upon itself.
Ray, I so enjoyed hearing about your life experience of knowing truth in your body and how that related to working in law enforcement. I love how you stated at the start how you’d always known and stuck with truth – the inherent wisdom of you as a young boy is felt in that, and the wisdom of the truth-bearing man you are now is felt as well.
Thank you Ray, I love how you’ve described the importance of the truth and how it serves us – always, we just need to choose to feel it.
Hello Kate, the awareness of what is true is an important part and a step back to something we already know. The choice to feel it is what we at times avoid, becoming aware of the little feelings we are having at any given time can support us when there are bigger things to feel. You can say start small and build, but at least start. To often we trick ourselves by ‘trying’ to do it all in an instant which only ends up putting us back in the same spot.
Hello Shirley-Ann and thank you. We have so often thought in the past that the ‘truth’ was only something you say, but now as we are realising, truth is something very solid and physical. It is not only something you say but it can be felt, whether it be said, written or seen.
Dear Raymond,
I loved reading your blog, I too have felt that if I stick with the truth my body supports this with ease. However for much of my life I have lived feeling the guilt of not holding strong to the truth. A way of being that no longer supports me in any way. For you to share your life experience, and how only by choosing the truth in some very difficult situations, could you sleep is a wonderful marker that I will hold on to deeply for myself, thank you.
Hello Leigh, thank you. You have a very lovely way of putting things. What I shared started off as a very personal life experience that I thought was just how it was for me but has now grow into a very personal life experience that so many people confirm as being the same. This shows me that we always ‘think’ we are the only ones going through something and often shield or hide it from others. By sharing how we feel about situations or moments in our life we can have support from others. This sharing is not a blame of others or an emotional outburst but more a personal experience of how something felt and how my body reacted. This indeed is very powerful and something I continue to live by, how my body feels. I relate this consistently to how it feels when I sleep for I find this a great way to ‘check in’ on how the day was truly for me.
This is such a great reminder of the simplicity of living by the truth – not for honour, but because your body knows it to be so. Thankyou Ray.
Hello Deborah, thank you for this, “the simplicity of living by the truth” and I agree.
Ray, you reminded me of how simple truth is and how when the complication sets in, it’s not true at all.
Hello Monica, you highlight a great marker for me for when “complication sets in, it’s not true at all”. It is about seeing things as they are and usually complications leads things off track and you find yourself talking about something completely different and usually an argument follows. Keep it simple, keep it true.
Thanks for the reminder Monica, when things start to get complicated it means truth is not there, and so to continue in the complication only entrenches a situation farther from the truth, covering with more layers of falseness, so that the truth of it is buried deeper. If we can bring honesty to what we are feeling, the layers can be seen for what they are and discarded – eventually allowing the truth to be felt.
I loved re reading this blog Ray and can confirm again how true it is that truth is known in our bodies. As soon as we connect with it, the body surrenders because our mind and our bodies are at one. Simple but so empowering.
Hello Bernadette, the truth brings it all together and you can feel it. Feeling anxious, having trouble sleeping, have an honest look at your life. Not out of criticism but out of ‘why do I feel like this?’ Universal Medicine can support this because as you can read it doesn’t have to be this way. Not only that, as you can see that it is not meant to be this way, there is another way to live and this way is true for everyone.
Awesome Ray I agree completely “with all my body” haha. Seriously pun intended. Nothing has ever given me so much satisfaction honouring the feelings in my body. Living for Truth that resonates deeply in me has brought purpose to everything I do. I now have an understanding of life, a responsibility I choose.
Truth is the most powerful thing in life – that´s why it hurts so much, if you step away from it.
Hello Steffi, that is why truth is one of the true loves of my life. It’s not afraid to call me back when I step away. This is not a thing to fear but a love to appreciate for it’s not truth that hurts you, it’s the choice to step away.
I like this Steffi, it certainly does hurt to step away from truth.
Thanks Ray, that’s so lovely to read, and as you say… it is because of how it feels in my body.
Hello KD, great to hear from you and thank you.
So beautiful Ray, reading this article felt gorgeous in my body as it confirmed what it too feels is true.
Thank you Giselle I am glad you agree and as I read your comment I realise truth should be celebrated and appreciated, often.
Thank you Raymond your truth speaks volumes for me. ” The truth was always easy to write, say and remember because it was something that really happened as I experienced it and it was locked away forever in the make up of my body. ” The truth really is so simple, felt deeply and remains locked in our bodies for us all to truly feel how awesome we really are.
Hello Kelly, once you are aware of truth it becomes all that you are. In other words, similar to the saying ‘you are what you eat’, ‘you are what you express’. So spend the time expressing what you feel, the truth and that is what will be there for you. Spend the time on expressing something else well then that is what will dominate you. Truth changes your life but you will need to do the work, truth is there but it can’t get to you unless you action towards it.
It is gorgeous to feel in your words Ray how delicate and responsive we are to truth in so many ways. It is like we have ‘truthometers’ built inside. When you make truth your friend as you have done, you are a friend to all.
Hello Joseph, as we have seen here from this blog, “you are a friend to all” in other words truth is universal to us all. It is not for one or a select few but is there for us all equally if we choose it. If you don’t want to choose it, that is a choice but you should allow others to walk their path and if they choose to be true than that should be respected. Many more will choose truth, not because it’s a trend but because of how it feels to them.
What a valuable lesson for us all to learn Ray, Truth is your best friend. I recognise that feeling in the body when I’ve spoken truth or not truth, it feels clean and free when speaking truth and then there is that unease, anxious feeling when I have spoken something which is not truth. Why would we ever choose the unease and anxiousness of speaking not truth!
Hello Judy, thank you and that is a good question, “Why would we ever choose the unease and anxiousness of speaking not truth!”, when the truth “feels clean and free”. If what you are saying is true, which it is for me then how would we choose the “unease and anxiousness” over the “clean and free”? There is a choice yes, but not only a choice in the moment to express that way but also there are little moments that lead to that. The deeper care we have for ourselves and how we are in the way we live in each moment will support the truth or it will support the other choice. So if I am having trouble waking up in the morning, I don’t set more alarms I look at how I was or how I lived in my day and how I took myself to bed as a starting point. Then I may look at what I ate prior to going to bed, was it something light to support me to wake up or was it something else. As I said you don’t just arrive at a point and ‘not be able to wake up’, there are other smaller hidden choices that can lead to the bigger choice. Thanks again Judy.
Wow Raymond, that’s really amazing to hear about. It’s way to often that truth gets warped and changed and misused for personal gain. It’s really incredible that despite your day job you were able to hold onto and recognise the need of truth and not let it get bastardised fully.
Hello Emily, it’s not the truth that “gets warped and changed and misused for personal gain” it is a version, our version of truth which is not truth at all. If truth is a feeling that can be felt from one to another, like this blog. I write something but others feel the same, then there is only one truth. The many ‘versions’ come from us as individuals. My “day job” gave me a chance to look at extremes of how not being aware of what I was feeling would lead to a mess or sleepless nights. Did I get it after the first sleepless night?, no it took many but I just kept looking, being aware that something didn’t feel right. It wasn’t until Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that I was given a chance to really look at what was happening in those moments, it all made sense. I already knew something wasn’t right before Universal Medicine, I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Universal Medicine changed the game for me, I was supported to sharpen my gaze on what I was already feeling, on what I already knew and now my life is testament to that.
This is a beautiful blog Ray that gave me a new layer of appreciation of what you write while reading it again. It is so clear to me the difference of how I feel in my body when I live truthfully. The body never lies and can never cover a lie, the truth can be uncomfortable but ultimately rewarding.
Thank you Stephen, live true to what you feel and there can be no “uncomfortable” feeling. Truth doesn’t feel that way, it is the mess created when we have walked away that has that feeling. I know it may seem like I am playing with words but for me truth brings freedom and a clarity, an ease but anything else brings the uncomfortable, anxious feelings.
Thanks Ray, for your beautiful reminder. It’s so easy to get caught up when something goes awry – either in the reaction of injustice or unfairness, or anxiousness of trying to understand what has happened and who is ‘right’, but instead.. just keep making it about feeling truth in the body, and the fog and confusion gradually lift, allowing a deeper awareness and understanding.
Hello Annie, this is very well said and is certainly a way to live, thank you.
Ray, I have only come across this very short but super powerful blog this morning.
I can so relate to this on every level. Truth is known inside you. I know when I have not acknowledged the truth to myself, I cannot sleep well either. And when I have and am completely open to seeing the whole truth I sleep the most deeply, with nothing touching me.
I can also relate to how you say you always knew the truth only difference was that prior to knowing Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine you were too scared to hold onto it. I too had this same thing, always knew it, never held onto it, the truth is dear to me and not to be neglected.
I love this blog and I look forward to reading through each and every comment of the now 700+ – it just goes to show how important the truth is to all of us.
This is so true Ray. After the first Universal Medicine Retreat in Vietnam this year I am having a whole new appreciation for truth and how it feels in my body. Anything that is not that, certainly does not feel like it belongs. I love your simple and succinct explanation here – thank you.
Hello Amelia, thank you and you will be seeing things very clearly after the Universal Medicine Retreat. As we have all said the truth is very simple, it’s us that complicate it.
Hi Ray, I love what you write here. It seems that you would have had many sleepless nights if you weren’t so aware of truth from your body.
Hello Natasha, thank you and yes I would have been very, very tired. At times this will still happen, not so much a “sleepless” night but a disturbed sleep but with the awareness I have it doesn’t carry over into the next night. Just the awareness of something alone is very powerful.
Once again I come back to this blog and find more gems of truth. What I took from reading the blog this time was that truth is enough, truth doesn’t need to constantly race around to be more truth because it already is true. Listening and following my mind and what it ‘thinks’ and what I actually feel are two different matters, one puts me into a rush and need and drive to correct, fix find a reason or justification for all the perceived wrongs but the latter, the one I am just starting to re-build a relationship with says ”I feel that” and from there a space opens up where I can question if my previous actions led to whatever I am feeling. It’s like my body is a SATNAV (navigating system) and when we don’t listen to the body we go down the wrong road and chaos ensues, back tracks need to be made and acceptance and questioning of why we chose to ignore the clear message in the first place.
Hello Leigh, truth can be everything in a moment if we let it. As you say so precisely “truth is enough” but in everything else there is a “need to constantly race around to be more”. The truth can be built on and grows every time you feel and appreciate it. All else needs to recreate the same thing over and over and doesn’t go anywhere but repeats itself until we make it true. Thank you Leigh.
A great reminder Ray to always listen to our body. How awesome that we have such a up close and personal friend that will let us know when we are not with what is natural for us, the truth. Feeling the tension in my body when I make a choice that is not right, or truthful, for me and feeling the anxiousness if what I have expressed is not completely true is very uncomfortable and that makes it easy to recognise. The next step is being very honest to myself and others and from there I can get back to what is true.
What i also realised is that we do not only have our bodies as this friend but we can be this to each other too, because the tension I feel in my body is also felt by those around me. What if we lovingly supported each other in being truthful whenever we feel this tension?
As you so rightly say Carolien, not only do we have our bodies as a friend ‘that will let us know when we are not with what is natural for us, the truth’, but we also have each other. If we are not in truth than this is felt by those around us who are in truth and we can lovingly support each other in being truthful. Such friendships would be truly evolutionary.
Hello Cherise, yes and as you are saying the more you go to truth the more it is there for you. As you know the truth is always there it is just our awareness of it that is lacking at times. We feel everything but it depends from person to person on how much we are aware of what we are actually feeling. The building of awareness is important and how you are with truth becomes a way to live rather than a thing to follow or find. So by honouring the little things we feel in each moment you build a trust of what you are actually feeling, and more awareness comes.
My body tells me that truth can feel uncomfortable, or exquisite. If the choices are not supportive, the build up is unpleasant. Everything plays a part in our state of being, every breath, every step and every thought..
Hello Matthew, truth is simple and an “exquisite” feeling. The “uncomfortable” feeling isn’t truth, it is all the things we have or put in the way of a simple feeling. I know what you are saying and understand but the truth is a freeing feeling, simple and clear amongst others, so what is uncomfortable about that? The uncomfortable feeling has to come from what ‘we’ want truth to be and not from what it actually is, it’s a condition, an ideal or belief on what we want or need it to be for us. The truth is the truth plain and simple. You can run from it and make things how you need them to be or you can follow the truth and allow it to guide you. Thank you Matthew.
Truth is your rock and this is what you lay down in your foundations. This is what you stand on everyday.
Hello Luke and yes it is my dedication to step to truth in every moment.
The truth will set you free, this is something when I have lived it, has always rung true for me at a whole body level. As you say Ray the truth can be felt so clearly in our bodies, it is part of our DNA. For me what Universal medicine and Serge Benhayon present has always been deeply felt as truth, a truth (no matter how challenging at times) I can never walk away from.
Hello Jade, I agree about truth being “part of our DNA”. It is like when truth is presented you can feel it right through you and it makes sense to so many things. Prior to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I had heard nothing that ‘rang true’. Together we have made sense of my life, going back into my childhood. It was like I had to travel back to all those moments to right all the untruths. After listening to Serge Benhayon I had a chance to look at those moments and have a different awareness of how I was feeling at the time. It wasn’t necessarily a focus on what was said but it was how I was with it that was the key. Having the truth as a foundation in my life allows me to ‘listen’ to things differently, I have more space to hear actually what is going on. Thank you Jade.
‘I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing.’ – This is so true Ray.
Hello Madeline, thank you. The truth has been such a great support in my life.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from.” I know this from my body as well Raymond and I thank you for sharing this simple and confirming blog. The more solid this foundation of truth becomes the more it shows us clearly when we may be trying to stand on wavering ground, the truth is something that is known and felt and when honoured as a way of living and in our movement it appears to magnify around us – creating space for more truth to be expressed and by virtue, space to nominate, observe or discard that which does not feel true.
Hello Cherise, yes and as you are saying the more you go to truth the more it is there for you. As you know the truth is always there it is just our awareness of it that is lacking at times. We feel everything but it depends from person to person on how much we are aware of what we are actually feeling. The building of awareness is important and how you are with truth becomes a way to live rather than a thing to follow or find. So by honouring the little things we feel in each moment you build a trust of what you are actually feeling, and more awareness comes.
So simple and true. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Laura, those 2 words go hand in hand, “true” and “simple”. The truth is simple and anything away from that is a point to put up your hand and say so. We often complicate life so as not to feel what is going on around us. Keep it simple, keep it true.
The truth is so often avoided or denied, but it feels so great when we allow it and honour it. I have been rehabilitating my relationship with the truth over the past few years. It feels great to let it be the most important thing I consider now.
Hello Felicity, it is funny that something that “feels so great when we allow it and honour it” is “often avoided or denied”. So what is going on? It is important to note that the way we live may not support us to be aware of the truth because as you have said above how it feels great but truth is often avoided or denied. So the next time you have a feeling about something and ‘walk past’ it only to find you should have followed the feeling, have a look at the way you lived in that moment. Were you too busy, thinking about tomorrow, going over a meeting you had just had, etc. Whatever it was something about the way you lived in that moment didn’t support you to go to the truth of what you felt, so at least you can bring awareness to that as a start.
Thanks Raymond, yes as you point out, often its that we get distracted by other things and don’t see the bigger picture. I have in the past made relationships about what i need or expect from others, and now I am learning to turn it around and look at what I could be needing to give myself. That is a game changer for sure.
I loved reading this blog about feeling truth and expressing it. Feeling & expressing truth leaves me feeling wonderful and free; while expressing/even accepting not full truth leaves me feeling rather uncomfortable within myself. Yes, I feel like our body is always communicating with us and l love how you’ve used truth as your friend here.
Hello Pinky, thank you and the more we express that freedom the more “free” we are.
Truly great blog. The truth is a reliable friend. I have come to realize how easy the mind wants to twist and turn the truth in all matters in my life, in relation to food, relationships, how my body feels etc.. It feels like one needs to be extremely vigilant and aware to always stick to the truth. There really are no short cuts to the truth. Thank you for reminding me of this, Raymond: “I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from.”
Hello Nathalie, thank you. As you are saying it is wise to be aware of “how easy the mind wants to twist and turn the truth in all matters in my life”. There is a simple dedication to the moment that can support with this. Whether it is brushing your teeth, driving to work or applying for a job each moment is important. So when you are ‘with’ something just do your best to stay with it, don’t let you mind wander off into tomorrow, yesterday or wherever just stay with it. I have found this dedication without perfection has supported me in building my awareness.
Thank you Ray, your blog reminds me how wonderful my body feels when I express Truth. There is a strength and solidness and clarity that builds in my body with each expression of what I know to be true. It’s like an anchor for me and I have a renewed appreciation for the support this offers me; the more I choose to express from truth the more the anchor expands, and the greater the platform I have available to me to keep me steady, centered and focused when I am tempted to stray off course.
Hello Stevie and this is very well described. This is how it has worked for me as well. We too often get caught in the thoughts of how bad we are doing or the critique of how we shouldn’t do this or that even just the thought of how you can never give something up, all these thoughts lock us away from appreciating what we are doing or how well we are going. It’s not a positive versus negative thing but more an awareness of how you are actually feeling and not a continual talking yourself up or down either. If you are feeling genuinely ‘bad’ then asking why and not just assuming you are a ‘bad’ person or going into all the reasons why you are that because that isn’t truth either. As Stevie describes everything we say or express builds on itself and so be aware of how your thoughts feel. Truth brings with it a freedom, an understanding and a “strength and solidness and clarity”. The more you express this the more it will be there for you when you need it and the clearer you will be to make the ‘right’ choice for yourself in any given moment. Thanks Stevie.
Thank you Raymond to introduce your friend to me. I enjoyed it so much that just cannot stop reading again and again. Truth as a friend is a powerful marker to print.
Such a gift to read, thank you!
Hello Nadia and thank you. We can’t help but enjoy the feeling of the truth of things. We have the wrong impression of truth, thinking it is going to be all bad. But once you are reintroduced to how it feels, well then you wonder where you have been for all these years. So Nadia it would be welcome back to truth and let’s never leave our friend again and it’s time to introduce it to others as well.
I love your blog and what you say about truth and that the body feels it as true!
What an amazing marker and foundation!
Hello Andrea and thank you. If we keep appreciating the feeling of what is true as you say, it builds and builds in our body. If you deny it and or walk away from it well then you can’t blame truth for not being there for you. The more you go to the truth and appreciate the feeling then the more it is there, even at first if it is only small, it’s a start and appreciate that.
Ray, the truth is: I Love it – Awesome piece of writing! I love the simplicity and the realness of what you share. I get two things out of what you have written… Firstly I can relate to it at a personal level – whenever I have not followed what I know to be true, it is like my body ‘screams’ out at me with a palpable tension – whether this is because of how I spoke or behaved with another person, or just allowing myself to slip and be disregarding or dishing of how I am doing something, it is like this ‘thing’ that sits with me until first of all I admit to what is bothering me, and then allow myself to honestly say that that was not ok with regards to how I expressed. It’s not about it being a confessional, rather it is just about being able to say “Gosh – this is what I did, and boy, I never want to feel like that again!”…Of course there is no perfection here as there are those times too where I attempt to ignore that feeling and knowing that something does not sit right with me – and what do I do? Often I will eat something that is not good for me, or overeat to not feel what I am feeling or get distracted by other things around me. A very familiar thing I am sure most can relate to. But thankfully this way of being with the truth is becoming less and less frequent …Secondly I can see how this feeling of tension in the body can also come from sensing what another may be expressing or not expressing – by this I don’t mean that we walk around trying to read if a person is lying or not, but rather we can, if we allow ourselves, we can actually sense a dis-ease within how another expresses – all this means is that we can sense if another is expressing truth or not by how it resonates in our body too! This is something that I have yet to develop a deeper relationship with.
And of course, the next challenge is the refinement and deepening of it all, a never ending process which just offers us a greater and grander opportunity to understand and embrace truth and ourselves more. As I said, the truth is, I love it!
Thank you Henrietta, not a bad blog of a comment yourself. I love how you have bought it back to self responsibility first, you make it personal. The more we fine turn how we are with truth the more that ‘fine tune’ will be there when we face others. The two for me go hand in hand, the more aware I become of what I feel, the more awareness I bring with me to others. It all starts with us first and then from there out to everyone.
“Our body is the Marker of Truth” is a phrase that is used a lot within Universal medicine. And what I come to realise that living in a truthful way keeps the body in a great state, it keeps life simple. Simplicity brings joy which is also a great feeling in the body. And it is true that at times you cannot always pinpoint what is going on exactly but it just doesn’t feel right in your body. And if I override this feeling it always turns out in not such a great way. And that is part of the process for me in developing a relationship with understanding what my body is telling me. And what I have read in your blog I can feel in my body that it is very true!
Hello Diana, that phrase is used a lot and some people react to it, but simply your body feels everything all the time and it naturally knows what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. You can override it, that is your choice, you can deny it, again your choice, you can fight it, again a choice. Or you can go with it like many are experiencing and enjoy the simplicity and freedom listening to your body or what you are feeling brings. It’s not difficult but it requires dedication. You can criticise people for ‘listening to their bodies’, or ‘honouring what they feel’ or ‘having their body as a marker of truth’ but you can’t deny the results these people are having with how they live. Most if not all are seeing huge improvements in every area of their lives, medical conditions turned around, healthier relationships, higher working output, healthier looking, it is all there to see. So if you don’t like it or it doesn’t agree with you it is your right to do something else but then honour what other people also choose. I choose to listen to my body for the simple reason of how it makes me feel and how then my life has been, nothing short of extraordinary.
Thank you Raymond.
Yes truth brings simplicity and relaxation to our lives, whereas lies only cause stress, tensions and frustration. And this of course includes lying to ourselves ;o) – as we may try to do when not wanting to see and take the responsibility for our lives.
Hello Michael I agree, thank you.
I absolutely agree with you Ray. I remember the very first time I heard Serge Benhayon speak; my whole body was confirming that what I was hearing was truth that I already knew was within me. I could not deny how my body felt upon being in the presence of true truth.
Hello Andrew, thank you.
What I have also come to realise is when people (or myself) don’t tell the full truth it hurts, I can feel it in my body when the truth is dressed up to be nice or sugar coated instead of being clear in what they mean. Even though we sometimes can worry about how another will take this, it actually feels much better for the receiver and the person sharing when we are truthful in what we want to say.
Hello Gyl, just as you say “I can feel it in my body when the truth is dressed up to be nice or sugar coated instead of being clear in what they mean” others can feel the same when we do it. So truth is truth no matter who is expressing it. The more we support ourselves with what we are aware of, the more it supports others. It all starts with us though. If we keep unwrapping what we are feeling, from here it goes out to others naturally. If you gauge yourself on others first well then you will always be measured to that and not really listening to what you are feeling at any point. We all hold the key.
I totally agree truth is a friend. Truth is the only thing that helps me make sense of the world. Truth is one thing I can always rely upon and it never leaves me even if I try wandering away from it. Truth is love always there to show me the way, magic.
Hello Toni, you are the truth and so you already know the world inside and out. It is just there is a part of you that likes to think this is not the case. That is the part that tells you that you aren’t good enough or that you are wrong, how dare you think like that etc. Truth is our friend but we are also ‘that’ truth and it’s not an external thing or a friend as we see normally in the world. The more we appreciate the truth is ‘us’ the more we will bring in the full understanding of what that is. Truth is not an external thing, truth is how we are, it is us and so if you walk away from truth you are walking away from yourself. It really doesn’t make sense.
Agreed, well said.
Isn’t that just wonderful, that our body never lies? It always reflects us back the truth and if we choose to listen, our body can in every moment be our marker of truth. Not for single moment does our body lie to us. What a great friend, the truth and also our body.
Hello Mariette, I agree it is an amazing friend to have, always there, always waiting and not holding back. What type of friend are we to our ‘real’ friends. Do we love them in this way? Or are we quick to be hurt and then hold back or give only part of what we feel and are aware of at any moment. Our body could also be an inspiration to us on how to be a true friend with everyone and everything. Our body shows us a lot of understanding, love, power and consistency to name a few. No matter what we seem to do to it or no matter how many times we turn our back on it, our body and truth are always there ready and waiting for an opportunity. Our bodies just keeping reflecting the truth and I feel this is a guide for us of how to live. No matter what happens keep reflecting the truth we are, for it’s not about the people that turn away from you, it’s about the one that is ready to turn and face.
Very inspiring and such a great reminder that we know truth and that when we move away from it even a little there is tension in our body that lets us know we are astray. Letting go of the thoughts that may keep us from being aware and staying with this will allow for the truth to be expressed.
I’m appreciating more and more what a great friend Truth is. Boy, when the going gets rough, it is the only solid ground, the only ‘port in a storm’! Best of all, when it’s within oneself, that is a great foundation from which to face the world without fear or getting ‘taken out’ by whatever amiss comes your way.
Hello Dianne, the appreciation of anything, especially the truth you feel is an important part of building on this already solid ground. To often our learning has always been geared towards achievement after achievement but not appreciating the little things along the way. The little things are set aside while the bigger things are the focus. I have found appreciating the little things builds me a different way of dealing with myself and things I see. I have found when you do something ‘wrong’ or something happens where you have regret there is a head chatter that leads you further into a place that is more about beating yourself up. Appreciation of the little things keeps you with a different focus in these times and the realisation that we aren’t perfect and there is no need to be because this isn’t true either. Appreciation is very powerful and does support you.
You’re right Ray, truth is not always about big serious things. The little things are just as important to attend to and appreciate, and when one lives in truth they can be a source of great joy and also great humour. The more I choose to live in truth, the funnier and lighter life becomes!
Thank you Dianne, this has been my experience as well. It’s not a ‘funnier’ to relieve a situation but you see life and things differently. The way you speak and are is lighter and not so locked into things. When you think of the ‘truth’ it becomes a court room scenario with sharp lights and all but that is far from the truth….. Truth is whatever it is needing to be and as you are saying and I agree “The more I choose to live in truth, the funnier and lighter life becomes!”.
Thank you Ray. I love what you have written. The truth is always there for us and it’s simple and straight forward. I too have worried and found it hard to sleep when something doesn’t feel right to me. On the other hand when I feel what is true and what is not, I feel such ease in my body. It feels great to remember that the truth is always and forever our best friend.
Hello Rachael, it is great you know the feeling and the freedom of truth. When you describe it as you have I wonder why we don’t hold onto our dear old friend all the time? The answer for me has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with the choice we have made without truth. Next time you think the truth is scary or hard or will hurt etc, stop and realise that has nothing to do with truth because as we say here the feeling of truth are simple, dear, clear and free. Turn the tide on what we are thinking about truth and feel what ‘this’ really is, for it could be those very thoughts that are the ones keeping you further away from your old friend….
Thank you Raymond, my whole body was saying yes yes while reading your blog. It was a great confirmation of what played out for me just last night while trying to go to sleep… I kept going over in my head something I had read that I was upset about, and there was no way I was ever going to sleep, then I remembered my ‘best friend’ (what a great name – love it!) my body and started to feel in my body what was really going on and what the truth was…within minutes I felt the truth and my whole body relaxed and was able to go to sleep. How truly amazing and supportive our bodies are!
Hello Aimee, great to see you. A living action of what we are all saying in this blog and a confirmation of an old saying around, ‘the truth setting you free’. At times you can be ‘imprisoned’ by your thoughts and here you give a great example of how to free yourself and bring your body back. I am glad you felt what was going on with your body and then that exposed the real story for you so you could rest. What you have done here and said is available to us all in an instant, we just need to commit to choosing it and then appreciate and build those choices to the point the choice is just there for us. If you think this is impossible or finding it difficult, stay with it and this will change. For it shows for you it’s just been a bit longer since you made the choice to be aware what your body is saying. Thank you Aimee.
Raymond I love what you say about never walking away from truth, ‘ not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ This speaks mountains. It says to me truth isn’t something outside of myself, something that holds reverence, but it is part of me. To live in accordance to it is to live in harmony with myself and others and, actually, this is how I honour it and myself.
Hello Karin, I love what you say about truth being a part of you and that’s true. Truth is a very natural state of being for us and as you say “it is to live in harmony with myself and others” So if this is in fact true, which it is, well wouldn’t now be a good time to stay with truth…..I would say yes. In a world that lacks many things we hold dear it is time to bring them back, truth is one such thing and well worth returning to. Thank you Karin.
I was also struck by this line Karin. ‘not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ To do something,out of honor can come from a place of pride or obligation, with a very mental prices involved. But to feel the truth as it is in the body has a simplicity and solidness that does not need any interpretation. It simply is. Beautiful.
I feel you make such a valid point here “The truth was always easy to write, say and remember because it was something that really happened as I experienced it”.The part that sticks out for me most in this line is” truth …. as I experienced it ” – our bodies never lie. At times as I have overridden my feelings, but I have always known the truth in my body. it could be as simple as knowing a food is not what your body really wants to eat. overriding this, taking one bite and saying yep, my body was right all along.
Hello Gyl, if we start to listen to all the ‘little’ truths we feel then this supports us when the big ones are there. So the next time you feel the truth of something no matter how small do your best to listen and take the next step, there are many steps back to being fully aware of the truth and most of them are small. Don’t expect things to change unless you are willing to take the steps.
‘Truth’ is my ‘best friend’ too Ray, I love how you describe this. There is no room for anxiousness, sadness, anger or arrogance when truth is by my side. What I am left with is simplicity, grace, and ease.
Hello Suzanne, I agree and there is not only “no room for anxiousness, sadness, anger or arrogance when truth is by my side” but these are not true. As you say “simplicity, grace and ease” are true but the others are possibly just a further distraction away from what you truly feel.
The voice of truth is forever talking and leading our being into lightness. It impulses from the body and it is very clear, but the challenge is, do we listen. I’ve noticed this voice is always there, but when we ignore or override this, it chips away at our state of being ever so gradually. Here, then the space for truth has been replaced by a pocket of ignorance and a heaviness that retards the natural joy that is within. So if I listen, I learn what truth really is all about, which is in the next decision or choice in front of me and towards either the absolute beauty that lives within, or not. Ray your commitment to this blog and connecting with everyone is really beautiful, a great steadiness I feel.
Hello Matthew, thank you. A great description “So if I listen, I learn what truth really is all about, which is in the next decision or choice in front of me and towards either the absolute beauty that lives within, or not”
Thank you Ray for my friend the truth, simple as it is. I have made life sometimes very complicated and lived with a lot of anxiousness in my body, fear of being rejected, of standing out, lack of confidence, holding back what I knew to be true etc. My body was running on nervous energy and frustration not a very healthy state of being. The truth was always there but I ignored my body. I am learning now to listen to my body, to make my body my best friend as a marker of all truth as I know it to be.
Hello Annelies, you are not alone in what you are describing, I am also learning to listen and be more aware of what my body is saying in the moments of my life. For me this is an ongoing relationship and one I am dedicated to because of how it feels for me and how it feels for everyone I meet. So if you are reading Annelies’s comment and can relate to any or all of the conditions described in the first part of the comment then slow things down a little and ask the question, ‘what’s really going on’. In time and given the permission your body will let you know. The states of being, anxiousness, fear, rejection, lack of confidence etc are all things that come from not being aware of what is truly going on in any moment. For this to change we need to change and it all starts with small steps and then building on those steps, you will need to make the start as no one can do it for you.
Really enjoyed reading this again Raymond – and how Serge simply confirmed what you knew all along.
That is exactly what he has done for me too.
My life is so much simpler now I have chosen to not let drama, lies or complication be more important that me and my relationships with others.
Hello and yes I agree. The reflection we can all bring to each other is the same as the relationship you have felt with Serge Benhayon. I love that you life is simpler and less complicated by merely committing to yourself and others and not making all the other things in life more important. Thank you.
Ray, I love the very last sentence of this article. What I get from your words, your expression, is that by living what is presented by Universal Medicine, by actually putting it into practice in an everyday way, we get to feel in our bodies, and observe in ourselves the result. If it feels beautiful, natural and more alive, more loving and opens us up to expressing more of our true selves, our innermost, then it must be true, it must be from a true impulse. And for myself I can honestly say, wholeheartedly, that this is the case. So I come to the same conclusion as you, and honour our friend the truth.
Hello Paul and I love the description you have here, “by living what is presented by Universal Medicine, by actually putting it into practice in an everyday way, we get to feel in our bodies, and observe in ourselves the result” This is what it is about, a living way or a way of living that feels free in our body. The truth can be our friend in so many ways if we let it, but as you say Paul so strongly, it needs to be lived. You can’t think yourself back to truth but you sure can walk yourself back. Thank you.
Hi Ray and all the ones who commented so far. I just love the interactions that are going on. And how Ray connects with people and is sharing his Truth as a reply on that. There’s so much Truth going on here. It’s touching me and bringing tears to my eyes. It is so beautiful to read that in so many various ways we are finding our way back to Truth. That to me is very inspiring, because I find it hard to accept that I did walk away from Truth. This blog AND all the interactions underneath are definitely supporting to move away from the hardness (in the body:-)) and surrender more to the body. Thank you Ray and every single one commenting.
Hello Floris, part of this blog was for me to reply to comments in this way. It feels like a great way to get to know people better, some I have never meet before. It shows us truth is there for everyone the same, it’s universal. You can be anywhere and not even know the person but connect to the same truth. If we look at any point or any moment in life as a chance to feel something, so just say you are finding it hard to accept you walked away from truth just stop and feel that and not go into a story or find a reason why, just feel it and then move back into your day. We can spend far to much time focused on the parts of life that don’t really support us. Like being focussed on why we are not doing something or why we aren’t something etc. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the focus on the things that do support us? So the next time you find yourself thinking, have a look at what the thoughts are doing. Are they supporting you back to truth or taking you further away. If it’s further away it would make sense to say ‘no’ to that and then connect back to the feeling of what is true for you. Most of the time the “further away” does feel hard, locked up and tense, where as the connection back will feel the opposite. It is really just a choice.
Thanks Ray, for a beautiful article and this beautiful response to Floris. For a long time I felt little in my body but now as my body is waking up my mind often confuses its messages. this is a great lesson in understanding what my body is saying.
Hi Ray, that’s a lovely response. And I’m indeed experiencing exactly that. That all this accumulation of mental energy brings me further away from Truth, from my body, from myself. Amazing how I’ve fooled myself with identifying with my thoughts. Your response is very supportive and confirming what I experience and more an more acknowledge. Which feels wonderful!
Beautiful point you have made there Raymond. The amount of time I have spent in the past beating myself up for getting it wrong! When all I needed to do was take the truth of why I got it wrong as a lesson to support me in the future.
Hi Ray, I am reading your words again because I can’t get enough of our friend the truth! What strikes me about your experience is how physically you have felt the essence of truth in your bones. This has made me realise that when we make truth our foundation, we stand still, steady and absolute, if we lose our footing and feel anxious – we have perhaps let an imposter in.
Hello Liane, very well said and described. You expose the “imposter” through feeling. Liane you write in a way that is simple, easy to read and understand and is freeing, all that leads to the truth, thank you.
Yes Liane,
Being truthful is so much nicer than not being truthful.
Thanks ray, there can be such a chasm between honest and truth…and as you say truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from.
Hello Joel, thank you for your comment they are most welcomed.
I too Ray have experienced the body telling me something is not right by not going to sleep and being really uncomfortable. The truth is always there to be seen and felt. How much opens up when the truth is honoured.
Hello Daniel, we all feel the “something is not right” but some don’t choose to be fully aware of it. The more people that choose to be aware of this, the more people will in turn be able to do the same. It builds something stronger for us all. It is like the more you practise the art of listening to what you feel, the more it is available for you and than equally for others. I think this is a beautiful thing, thank you Daniel.
Ray this is great – that you felt truth and not-truth in your body and chose to honour what your body was telling you to the best of your ability all your life. I felt the same, and also grew up with a mum who constantly impressed upon us kids to always speak the truth and never lie. It was great advice, because if I ever did go along with something that wasn’t true, I’d feel sick, worried, sleepless and awful, as you have. The truth is indeed so much simpler and healthier. It’s the bottom line. There is no need to invent a web of lies to cover a first lie, no complications, no basis for conflict. The best gift you can give to yourself or anyone else is Truth with a capital T!
Hello Dianne, your comment brought a smile to my face. You seem to be one that is always playing around which is great. Yes our parents gave us some sound advice, we may have reacted to how it was said at times, but it was at that point the only way they could express how much they cared and loved us. Truth is absolutely “much simpler and healthier” and it sets you free from the “web of lies” we often create. I am glad we feel the same Dianne thank you.
Thank you for sharing this Raymond. I can feel the simplicity of truth that you have shared. Living anything other than the truth becomes complicated and ultimately falls apart. A foundation of truth provides the basis from which all else can flow.
Hello Lee, it’s great we all see truth as such a solid foundation, there is no question of this for me and as you say “Living anything other than the truth becomes complicated and ultimately falls apart”. Truth it is then. Thanks Lee.
As you say Ray, the body doesn’t except anything but truth. It is an amazing barometer that reads every situation exactly how it is. What a gift we have. When we don’t accept the truth of what we see, or express the truth of how we feel, our body has to deal with that imposition.
Just beautiful Ray. The way you write flows like water down a stream. It feels right in my body too and that’s how I know that what you are sharing is the truth.
Thank you for reminding us all that we can and do feel the truth. It is lovely to have an inbuilt monitor that is not swayed by good manners, the ‘right’ thing, or keeping up appearances. I knew this feeling well as a child but spent many years as an adult over riding it. It is wonderful to read how you have worked with the truth in such a practical way. Thank you for reminding us that we can all do this.
Hello Wattleblossum, this is one of the many beautiful things the truth gives us when it is lived by another, the reflection of that. In my reflection you can feel the truth and it ‘brings you back’ to that same feeling. This is no longer just my truth you feel but yours also, equally. If we were to understand this fully I don’t think we would be so quick at times to override it. Everyone is always watching to see and feel when the next person holds to what they feel, they are then reminded of the truth in them also. There is an old saying around ‘don’t wait for the world to change’, I would say if we want the world to change well then we should look no further than ourselves. I know from staying with the truth of what I feel in the moment ‘my world’ has certainly changed, I am part of ‘the world’ and so from there ‘the world’ has changed.
I loved reading your blog Raymond, thank you for sharing. I can still feel in my body moments when I abandoned my friend Truth. I haven’t valued this friendship enough in the past but as I’m learning to trust the Truth of me once again I can feel the honour that this friend brings to me always. Forever grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for re-uniting me with my friend Truth and the body that houses it.
What a good solid foundation there is in truth, rock solid, you can’t go wrong and making it your friend is more wise beyond words. Thanks Ray this is well worth a re read.
Truth as friend not foe, as an ally that holds and supports not an enemy that exposes. These are some of the things I have come to understand since learning with Universal Medicine. Your clarity and commitment is inspiring, Ray, thank you.
Great claiming of your truth and the importance of expressing it always, Ray.
Your blog is inspiring, and reminds us how amazing our body is in letting us know loud and clear when we are not expressing truth.
How wise our bodies are, and I certainly experience what happens if I override the truth of what my body tells me. I have only come to recognise this fact in recent years after meeting Serge Benhayon and through healing sessions and courses allowing myself to feel and know the truth. It is like coming home instead of being in a cold and empty place that feels insecure, and where I have to hold on tight in case everything falls apart, so busy am I protecting myself from feeling the truth I know inside.Then I get racy and anxious like you describe Ray, and there is no stillness. We do have a choice if we stop and feel from our bodies.
I love how you call truth a ‘friend’, Ray. Yes, the body does know the truth and, if we read it, we know without doubt whether someone is telling the truth or not. To say an untruth I have to separate from the body because it feels so uncomfortable and I want to avoid feeling that. And once that little white lie is said it lays the foundation for others and it is harder and harder to admit that it’s not true. The truth, on the other hand, feels clean, straight, and pure and I can stand upright and face the world head on and the more I express truth the more expansive I feel.
I love your dedication, acceptance and commitment Ray, sometimes for me the truth feels like it is not going to be a pleasant experience in my body but I realise I just need to learn to trust and allow what ever needs to happen, happen – and just stay with the truth!
Hello Amber, I have seen and walked through the mess that is created when I don’t ‘stay’ with what I feel. I am not perfect so I may not hold to this always but the commitment is to stay with what I feel no matter what happens in front of me, the moment is the most important. This may sound harsh to some but from my experience nothing has supported me consistently any other way and I know if I’m not supported then things may look ok but in reality they are not. Everything in my life has always bought me back to truth, it is like a never ending cycle showing me again the places I need to stay with the truth. So for me I don’t look too far ahead I just stay with the moment and what I feel, then from there do my best to honour the next feeling I have. Trust is a part of this but the trust comes from you and not something you ‘need’ to tell yourself to do. Start to trust yourself and what you feel in little moments and you build the trust for the bigger moments.
Ray, I too know what it is like to walk through the mess I create when I waver from my truth. This constantly inspires me and reminds me that I did know the truth, that I felt it to my very core. I am very quickly shown the consequences of overriding the truth for whatever need it is that is playing out at the time. From here I always have a choice to see what happens when I deny the truth that is so very loud and with that embrace and welcome it for all that it will bring.
Hello Vicky, this is great awareness for everyone. It certainly changes an old line of, “what’s life all about”. It could be walking back through each moment we have not honoured a feeling we had deep inside us, the truth.
Hello Rachel, thank you. I was never a great writer in my life. So often I found it difficult or didn’t really care about it, to me it wasn’t important at all. Like we are saying with “expressing truth” the more I write the truth of what I am feeling the easier and clear my writing has become. Before when I read my writing it sounded like someone else, even to me. Now with the dedication to writing the ‘truth’ my writing now reflects how I speak and I trust that. It is like we are saying, the more you express the truth the easier it becomes. So the more I write the easier it becomes and also the more my expression comes together, so the way I say things in person is the same what I write. This is thanks to the support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and a special thank you to Alison Greig who is a great writer of the truth.
I can so relate to what you are saying Ray. Sometimes in the past with my work there may have been situations when I could have made a better decision than I did -I would go over and over it in my head or toss around at night about it. The reason for this was that I was trying to justify my actions so it looked better and made me feel that my decision had been the right one. However it never worked because I was not being truthful with myself and could not accept that I did not have to be perfect in every situation. When I could not accept the truth of the situation nor my response to the situation it was very dishonouring of me. I now always reflect truthfully on any situation, acknowledge that I am not perfect but that I am being all that I can be in that moment. I sleep pretty well most nights!!!
Hello Anne, thank you for being so honest and I remember trying to justify to myself why I had done something and trying to manage what had happened. Staying with the feeling that I know and not managing or trying to work out a situation has never supported me so much. It seems each time you do stay with what you feel, it supports you more and more. I can also see that if I’m supported more then everything around me is supported that ‘more’ as well and I love sleeping well and very deeply.
My relationship with truth has not been as solid as yours Raymond. I have given my power away for a long time and am just beginning to learn to allow myself to express what I feel without worrying about the reactions. With a stronger connection than ever before and more awareness of my body, I am finding my way back to truth. Your blog has inspired me to deepen my awareness of my body as a support that is always there on my way back to living from truth.
Hello Katinka (I hope that is right) and it’s great to read your comment. If you can feel the solidness in my relationship with truth well then that same solidness has to be in you as well. You wouldn’t be able to feel the depth of that truth unless you had the same in you. Appreciating the steps you are taking builds on those steps, you are already more than you can imagine. Thank you for commenting like you have.
I made a conscious choice to always look for the truth, no matter what, even if it was painful. My body tells me so clearly when something is and when it’s not truth. To go against this is hard to do and leaves a mess to be dealt with, most certainly, with so much energy taken to counter what is naturally within us all.
The body certainly knows truth. Recently I was doing some research on epigenetics for a lecture, what I found was science validating the effect of trauma on the body and how it is locked in the cells as a sort of “memory” (which can be changed btw), so I am sure this is the same for truth – our cells harmonise with the truth as Ray experienced deep sleep when he felt the truth.
Hello Zoe, thank you for the different flavour you bring. It makes sense what you say and I know what they say about ‘muscle memory’ etc. For when we are in the truth of something the feeling is like my whole body agrees and yes “harmonise”. You are at one with what you feel and so then when you rest, the whole of you rests. This just makes perfect sense Zoe and is a great perspective.
TRUTH, what a great topic Ray and so great to have this conversation started by someone who has dedicated their life to finding out the truth and tested out what this means in some of the more extreme cases in life.
I also know truth, and like you it is something that I feel in my body and every fibre of my being. What I find is the more I honour and live by the truth I feel, the more clear and refined my sense is for truth. I find if I say ok a little bit of compromise is ok, then I corrupt my clarity for the next time I am called upon to discern truth in my life.
Hello Rebecca, yes like many of us I have been around the block a bit. Yes it is like when you unlock the first bit there is another bit waiting to be unlocked and so this goes on. If the “compromise” isn’t truly what you felt well then yes in the next moment or when you face the next piece to unlock that choice will be there with you also. It’s not about what it is as you know, it’s always about the feeling. The ‘what it is’ has always had me lost in something where as the feeling has always freed me. Thanks Rebecca.
The truth is something I have played with quite a lot in my life. I am coming to realise now though that, the truth is the only way for things to feel right in my body, just as you describe. The lies I would tell made life false, not real and something I wanted people to see rather than what was actually happening. It has kept me alone and in an illusion of perfection.
Hello Kate, it is amazing the time and energy we spent trying to keep up an act almost, a facade of what we want people to see. We all crave the truth, you can feel it. When we see something that is not the truth, we turn away, get frustrated, argue and many other things to try and get it to change or stop. We are realising more and more that if you go to how things feel first then life is much simpler and less frustrating. Plus you can never be alone in truth, you always have yourself.
I remember getting a great lesson about truth in my first year of working full-time. I took a day off work (a sick-day) when I wasn’t sick. That day I got so sick and I knew it was my bodies way of showing me the consequences of lying. Lesson learnt – I have never taken a day off without real reason again.
Hello Vicky, I remember also having false sickies from work. They were days where my anxiety levels were through the roof. I also remember feeling really flat and tired the next day I had to go back to work. It was like that ‘sickie’ was only good as a title “day off” because it never felt like a day off in fact I could do some great things but it was always the feeling that I was left with that I couldn’t shake. It was the perfect day on paper, a paid day off, an extra ‘rest’ day, a sleep in etc but why did it feel so bad. As you say Vicky it had to do with the way I set it up, it wasn’t honest and couldn’t have been what had come from my body otherwise there would have been no anxiety. Also the day after I wouldn’t have been dragging myself around and feeling slightly depressed. It shows me at times we make many things outside more important than how it feels inside.
I am not saying we don’t need to have days off or rest but like all things around us there is a rhythm to it. Go against that rhythm or feeling and from my experience you feel worse. I have learnt to listen to what I feel, listen to the truth because I know if I don’t, in the next step I will have to clean up the mess I made and that takes more time and energy.
Great way to explain truth Ray. The way the body cannot settle without truth is something I can so vividly remember as a child. Thanks to Serge Benhayon, man of truth, I can now reconnect and once again feel my greatest friend – the truth also.
Hello Kathleen, I love the fact and as you highlight that truth is a ‘reconnection’. As we are all saying truth just is and it is ‘us’ that need to stop and listen. For many people the reconnection has been supported by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. If you are ‘looking’ for the truth than this is a great place to start.
Wow Ray – awesome insight. Sometimes truth can feel scary but your blog makes it so clear that truth really is the biggest support we could ask for. Love it.
Hello Leonne, thank you but what makes the truth feel scary? From everything we have said here and from what I feel there is no scary feeling in truth, what I see is a lack of trust. How do you trust and not feel ‘scared’ or anxious by starting to listen to what you feel in the little moments. It’s like building any relationship. If you had an old friend you grew up with and say moved away from them when you were 12. The first few times you go to meet back up with them you would feel a little strange, scared maybe. But just say you had sent a couple of emails to them, a text or two and maybe a phone call prior you would feel a little more at ease. Rebuilding the relationship with truth is no different, if you are not ready to meet truth face to face well then maybe start with a letter, a comment or maybe a blog. Rebuild the relationship you once had, one thing is for sure it won’t take long to remember your old friend and the feelings you had together.
You are right Ray – there is nothing scary about the truth and when I feel this way I know it is in fact a convenient ‘trick’ I choose to play on myself to avoid the pain that comes with feeling all I have done that has not been true.
Beautiful Ray, I can relate to what you say about having an anxious body when not being in truth. It is amazing how our bodies confirm the truth, and not confirm what is not the truth.
Hello Benkt, thank you. It makes me wonder now that I am aware of the anxiety how long it was there? and also how many other people live with that feeling? The next time you wake up just pause for a moment and feel how your body is. Is it well rested and still resting as you wake or is it already ‘in’ something. This is a sign for me something or someway I have been living just isn’t ‘right’.
“I came to learn that the truth is the only thing I could stand on and step from. Anything else would eventually fall away and leave me with nothing. It was the best friend I ever had; I loved how it made me feel.” To me that just summarised the whole blog.
Hands up here. I did not stay with the truth. Confused and shocked by the world as a child, I learnt to lie. Lie to everyone about how I was feeling, lie to myself about what was going on, and all these early behaviours set a pattern for later. I set myself up as the carer and fixer in my family so was constantly modifying how I expressed things to please, soothe and maintain some kind of status quo. What is so interesting now is that as I break out of old, ill behaviour set, I see ever more clearly the depth of the deception – not so much to others (although that is significant) but, more seriously to myself. I have waded through so many entrenched patterns that I fixed myself with and each time I do I feel a marked sense of liberation and ‘return’. Return to the truth that I have always known. How super cool to never modify ourselves away from this. That would be my aspiration for our children.
Interesting Danielle, Raymond and Matilda. My parents didn’t so much lie but set standards that I was supposed to live my life by but didn’t live up to those standards themselves. I was confused as I felt guilty for not living those standards.
Maybe that is when I became distracted because I didn’t want to feel what is going on because there was no truth in what they were saying.
I recall as a very young child being so confused when I felt people lying to each other, to me or about something. At times I would ask my Mum or Dad to explain, or ask why, and not understand what was going on, and often they would not understand what I meant. Pretty soon I learnt to deal with the fact that life all felt messed up with people lying about how they felt about themselves or about another, or about what they wanted to do, and eventually I joined the game. With the teachings of Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness I’ve reconnected back to the fact that I do feel truth, and know it to the very bone. It’s taken a bit of work to be clear about my feelings again, because I did play the pretend game for so many years. I also now understand why people are lying and that consciously they do not realise they are lying, and they are not purposely trying to hurt me or anyone else. They’re only lying to us because they are lying to themselves to avoid feeling something that they don’t want to feel or consider.
Hello Danielle, thank you for your personal sharing. What if most of the ‘games’ we play were merely just a distraction for us so we don’t have to feel what is really going on in any moment? What would be the purpose to this? If we all feel truth naturally and have known that for a long time, hence most if not all comments here lead to the fact that we are returning to something we already know. Then we would have to be kept away from feeling any moment because at any moment if we were ‘left alone’ we would return to what we already knew. If you follow, that means there is real power in every little moment and an opportunity to feel what is going on or you can distract yourself with something else, this is our choice, or freewill if you like in each moment of life.
I love this Ray ” there is real power in every little moment and an opportunity to feel what is going on or you can distract yourself with something else” – only if this was taught to us as a child – it’s what school should be about!
Hello Danielle, you are right in what you are saying and with our awareness we can bring it to our children and then there is a possibility it will be in our schools, it starts with us or starts with you.
I have directly felt and experienced the beauty and strength that has developed in you Ray, the more you have expressed what you have felt as your truth. Thank you deeply
Hello Jenny, that is a very touching and heartfelt comment thank you. The beauty and strength of what you also express here is very physical and it feels like I can almost touch it. This directly relates to how you are with truth and shows where you are at. Thank you again.
This is also my experience of truth and when I was growing up I experienced it as a physical response in my body too. Unfortunately as I got older I stopped listening to what my body had to say and so was led down the garden path of lies for some time, with only glimpses of the truth I had once felt so strongly. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon re-introduced me to my body as being the marker of truth and this I have come to understand is the only way I don’t get tricked or fooled by very sophisticated lies and innuendoes of the truth. I find nowadays with this physical knowing I am less tense and less on guard because I know my body is there with me always, ready, willing and able to point me in the direction of truth.
Hello Robyn, thank you.
It is so true – truth is our best friend – steady, strong, simple and always there in support. When I am expressing my truth its like a warm smile builds from inside me – just like a hug from my best friend. Thank you Ray for this golden blog on how our bodies show us what is true and what is not.
Hello Kate thank you. I love that you link the warmth that can be felt when you express the truth of what you are feeling. I relate warmth to love and it’s great to relate the feeling of truth to that as well. Truth, a very loving thing to do.
Truth is a dear friend that never leaves, even if we fight to deny it, it is always waiting arms open for us to come back.
Hello Joshua, spot on and I agree thank you.
The truth is simple and straightforward – because it is true. Everything else takes us on a twisted journey and causes contortions in the body.
Hello Gabriele, yes and much like your comment, “simple and straightforward” what a refreshing way to live.
Raymond, why oh why were we not taught as kids that if there was something we wanted to know, to simply ask our bodies? It seems so utterly crazy to be born with a body that is not only a lie detector but a navigation device as well, to not only not listen to it but, to actively over ride it as well! Jeepers creepers, it seems apparent now that we are lured away from our bodies so that we do end up going here, there and everywhere before eventually finding our way home!
Hello Alexis a good question. I guess you could be the answer to you own question. We have children around us wherever we are. Now is the time to confirm to them what they are feeling. To show them through inspiration that it is ok to not only be aware of what you feel but to express it as well. We have a bigger responsibility to truth, so not only to express it yourself but through that expression inspire other to do the same. This doesn’t mean to copy, but more for them to see something consistently they know but haven’t gone to yet and feel that for themselves.
Its wonderful that you always felt this, Ray. Everything that is not truth is harmful, that’s how it feels to me, too. Even when it is just something small, a joking remark or an oversight that seems irrelevant, it leaves something unresolved, disharmonious.
Hello Regina, it is great that you touch on this. The ‘small’ things often seem or are made out to be insignificant but that is not how it feels. If anything, it’s the small things that are more difficult to handle because there is little understanding with them. Things are said like, “it was just a little joke”, “ah come on loosen up” “don’t blow it out of proportion” etc. This brings with it a doubt to what you are feeling. No matter how small, stay with the feeling because big or small its the same and as you say Regina, “Everything that is not truth is harmful”
Ray what a great story about Truth in relation to your work, and how the body ‘state’ was such a marker affirming what you already felt. Truth is felt in our body, and honouring this as you do, is indeed our forever-friend.
Hello Zofia, thank you and my body was consistent in how it guided me back to the truth. It was almost like the metal detector passing over metal in the ground. When something came to my body that wasn’t the truth an alarm would go off, anxiety and unease this time. But when I was on track with the truth, nothing and my body would be rested. In the end I used my body to guide me because everything else had always lead back to the same uneasy feeling. I was learning to trust what I was feeling again. It’s not complicated at all.
I love your honesty in this blog Ray. I have spent many years ignoring what my body was showing me and now I have begun to listen, it is amazing and so simple to be able to hear it’s messages. My body loves being heard.
Hello Irene and thank you for confirming everything we are saying here. There is a consistent message from all of us. Some of them are:- listen to your body, take care of your body, the truth is simple and not complicated, truth is something we are coming back to and not something new, your body leads the way and there is a freedom to truth.
Like anything Irene the more you do something the easier it becomes, so start to listen to what you are feeling and in time this will be second nature.
Beautiful Irene. I remember not listening at all to my body. Using my body to my own expence. And being proud on how functional it was –> running, playing football, going to bed late, digesting lots of sugar and alcohol, etc. How ignorant I was on the fact that it is my body that’s showing me the way, my way. How amazingly coordinated are my body and Soul. The way they work together is just superb, off the Richter Scale, Enjoyable:-).
I love how connected to truth you have always been. Having always had a pretty strong sense of truth myself, over the years I became pretty good at ignoring it… seeing what I wanted to see, not seeing what I didn’t want to see. Through the presentations of Serge Benhayon I have been able to come back to myself and honour my sense of truth – and use this as a guiding force in my life.
Hello Brooke, doesn’t the fact that we ‘ignore’ the truth also confirm how well we know it? How could we ignore something that we feel so strongly and that is always there, no matter if we listen or not. We would have to have a number of specific tools available to us 24/7 and at an instant to keep us from the truth or what we are feeling. To me this confirms we are master of truth otherwise we couldn’t be so precise in the ‘how we don’t listen’ part. It seems we are forever attempting to escape the truth so we don’t have to listen to it, but we can only run for so long. Time to stop running from the truth and turn back to it.
Ray, I love your relating of truth to your body. I love your reflection on your experiences in your life, how it affected your mind, body and being. When you didn’t pay attention to it, overrode it, and when you replayed it to check the facts and how that felt for you. I am coming to terms with my sensitive radar. What it picks up. How much it picks up.. or rather how much I chose to acknowledge what I felt and what it was. To embrace it rather than being afraid of what I am going to feel. We never ever stop feeling everything.. it is just how much we chose to be aware of it.
Probably the most tricky thing is discerning truth from not truth. Actually the most tricky part is probably my mind not wanting to know the truth, because it will unravel a bunch of things I don’t want to deal with!
I love that very clearly your body tells you and you can rest. It is inspiring that it is so rock solid for you! Because your body continually brought awareness to you until you could allow yourself to feel it. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I am in the process of connecting deeper to my body. I want to develop what you have. I know through your sharing that I can, that we all can. It’s just a case of developing my relationship with myself, my being, my awareness. My feeling about it so far is that when you hear / feel truth, it is undeniable, it is the only thing that makes sense. It feels right in all of your being. Even if your mind doesn’t know why and can’t explain it, can’t begin to. It ‘s like you agree.. your whole body is nodding, yes and is at peace and is one with itself. It also feels like Truth can ‘level a room (of people)’ or rock it! A light going on..like what you have written here! Ahh..Maybe any thing else that brings doubts, complication, confuses, or feels empty as you say…Clouds and voids. none of these qualities are to do with the qualities of truth.
Now I understand how a question can either bring complication or clarity. One leads to a simple or greater truth, the other leads nowhere.
Hello Michelle, this is great and I really enjoyed reading your comment. In your mind you can be taken anywhere but your body can only be in one place at a time, so even in that there is a great thing to see. Stay with your body, in one place and don’t let you mind wander off. The last piece you have written is a stand out for me, “Maybe any thing else that brings doubts, complication, confuses, or feels empty as you say…Clouds and voids. none of these qualities are to do with the qualities of truth.”
So if it’s not truth then why spend anymore time with it, say no and walk away. Then to this “Now I understand how a question can either bring complication or clarity. One leads to a simple or greater truth, the other leads nowhere.” So time spent on the ‘one that leads to a simpler and greater truth’ would be time well spent. Thank you Michelle.
Yes, I agree Ray. Truth confirms itself and it feels harmonious in the body. It truly is our greatest friend as when we don’t feel that harmony, it reminds us where we went off course… and we can either choose to listen or feel the consequences which are not so pleasant. Truth IS that ever -wise best friend that has always been there for us. It is lovely to feel your relationship with truth, thank you for sharing it.
Hello Victoria, thank you and like wise,
I have always loved the simplicity and solidness of truth. There is nothing to remember and your body knows it inside out. However there have been times when I have given up on truth, feeling that people don’t want to hear it. However since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I am coming back to realising there is nothing so dear and no matter what the response, I need to express truth.
Hello Fiona, and well said. It is amazing to read so many people being able to relate to the same feelings about truth. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been a large part of that support for people and bringing awareness to what they feel, the truth. There is a common theme to what is being said and you confirm that in saying, “I am coming back to realising there is nothing so dear and no matter what the response, I need to express truth.”
It’s so true Ray. When the body feels the truth and we listen, acknowledge and accept it there is no need for the body to race.
Hello Suzanne, yes we could say you are in ‘rhythm’ when this happens and when you feel a “race” you are out of that rhythm. It takes some dedication to ‘listen to you body’ and it’s not just a matter of sitting down and concentrating. We have put many things in the way of listen to how our body feels that the dedicated approach may need to come from different angles. Whether that is sessions with practitioners, consciously doing your daily routine, altering your eating and or sleeping patterns or all of these. There needs to be a choice from you first that this is something you want to do. Usually this follows a period when you realise the way you are living isn’t ‘it’. The truth we speak about here is available to everyone it just comes down to if you are ready to make the choice, or not.
Yes truth brings real, harmony and exactness of what is going on or what needs to be expressed. Our bodies know truth and respond to truth – living in wellbeing. It’s when we go against truth that trouble happens in many ways. I love it – truth is my friend . . . hear hear.
Hello Karoline, glad to have you on board. The absolute precision with which the truth can support any moment is astounding and I appreciate it the times I see it. At times we think we just say something but if you have been living in a way that supports you to connect to your body and what it is saying then as you say Karoline, “truth brings real, harmony and exactness of what is going on or what needs to be expressed”. Thank you.
Hi Raymond, I absolutely loved reading your blog. How beautiful – Truth is absolutely a friend worth having! And it’s just a choice. And yes, Serge and Universal Medicine are absolute Truth – my body with every cell and particle knows that irrefutably. Thank you Raymond, and thank you Serge and all of Universal Medicine for bringing truth back to us.
Hello Esther, I enjoyed reading your comment and I’m a glad we share the same ‘friend’. It is amazing as you say about truth “my body with every cell and particle knows that irrefutably” how much energy would it take to constantly go against this then? We wonder why we are exhausted and are continuing to be so unwell as people. This maybe a point to look at, if our bodies know the truth that well and we are not listening to it, that would put ourselves at odds with….ourselves? Truth is truth, it doesn’t stop or colour itself down and I think it’s about time we turned back and listened.
Hear, hear Ray. So True, how amazing huh that we’re absolutely craving energy where there’s a very easy and simple choice to be made to have the most amazing amount of energy… I remember while writing that once upon a time – not even that long ago – I was completely lost. And yes, from my own experience I can only admit that resisting Truth takes so much more energy than accepting it. Even though at times it can be tough at first.
Well said Bernard, so true. I can relate to that fully. Once I feel it in my body I know it’s true.
If we run from the truth we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically and as someone said earlier it “makes you squirm”. In the past I have tried to protect myself or someone else and learnt that it doesn’t work, only makes everything twice as complicated! Thank you for a great blog and the reminder to listen to the body, it knows all.
Hello Roslyn, it is interesting how you say “In the past I have tried to protect myself or someone else and learnt that it doesn’t work, only makes everything twice as complicated!” Most of the time this used to be how I came into most things, protected. I found as you say it only makes matters worse and also it was the very thing that was exhausting me. It maybe a big step but protection is not the answer, it is a part of the cause. The less I protect myself, the more open I am to what is being said or done around me. This gives me the power to answer what I feel on my terms. I have been hurt many times when I was protecting myself. When I haven’t, I have never been hurt and in fact the opposite happens, I am better equipped to handle anything that is in the moment in front of me.
Good point Roslyn, every time we attempt to avoid the truth, life gets complicated and we waste our energy. When we lie we have to continually feed that lie, ensure that all our stories add up, calculate and plan. Truth just is, it requires no energy to maintain it, it is constant and therefore is always there for us to draw upon when required, nurturing and supporting us in all ways.
Thanks Raymond, a great blog. It feels that truth holds a vibration that is known to the body. It is as if when we acknowledge and express truth, it is in-line with a vibration that already exists and in expression, the two marry up or join together, does that make sense, like joining the dots together, hence that is when the expression ‘feels right’ in the body. Building the consistency of acknowledging whatever needs to be expressed and actually speaking out rather than holding back the voice is the key. I’ve noticed that if there is a lacking in one part of my life, it has an effect on other parts and there is often a link between the two.
Hello Matthew, this is very well said and described. Truth is a vibration that exists and is the same for everyone in vibration. If your expression matches this vibration then you create or co create in that expression with truth. The “building the consistency” is another key for us, the more you ‘honour’ what you feel or “marry up” these feels the greater they are and the easier it is to feel when you need it. There is a great wisdom in what you have described here Matthew, thank you.
Mathew I love how you have said it is” like joining the dots together hence that is when the expression “feels right” in the body. Just reading this felt right in my body.
It is amazing to connect to that feeling from our body that is absolute, immutable truth. Sometimes our minds and the belief systems we’ve taken on might be rocked by the truth which perhaps we’ve walked away from, but what I’ve found is that if in those moments, regardless of the discomfort, I let myself feel this truth that I do know, my re-connecton with what is true melts away whatever I’ve put in place to deny and not see, and my heart just keeps opening up more. Our bodies are designed to be radars of truth — which is quite simply why we tend to get sick when we stress, push too hard etc. These ways of being with ourselves and others (stressing, pushing, being aggressive etc) are not part of the Truth of where we all come from and our bodies will quickly tell us so.
Hi Ray, thankyou for your wonderful expression of the truth. Your blog has really highlighted for me the connection between when I leave the truth that is living in me and how my body may feel. I will be deeply exploring these signals this week. From what you described in your body, it may be safe to say that part of the epidemic of stress and anxiety in the world could be traced to many other people also leaving the truth they feel in their own body.
Ray I love how you highlight the language of the body and physiology in reading the truth. A revelatory blog.
Ray this is a powerful reminder that truth can be felt – the only lie detector we need is our body. I’ve come to realise that I too have have the ability to feel when what is expressed is not truth. What I’ve learned from Serge Benhayon is the importance of then calling out what is not truth.
What is revolutionary here Ray is that you speak about feeling truth in your body not as an intellectual analysing or weighing up of the facts. This is a complete change to how most of us view and discern truth and it would stop a lot of haggling in the world as to who is really telling the truth. The body never lies.
Hello Andrew, wow imagine the freedom in the world you describe where the truth is something that is felt and not a “weighing up of the facts” etc. How much more time and money would there be as we would be super efficient. I love what you are saying here Andrew because you are giving us a glimpse of how the future can be and what feeling the truth from your body can do. Reading your comment opened me up further to the possibilities here. If I continue to ‘do what I feel’ then others will be support to ‘do what they feel’ and then the world will see the truth in action, very powerful indeed.
Absolutely Ray. I like how you added the personal bit about how we have a responsibility to keep learning how to discern truth from our bodies every day so that it gives others permission to do the same. This is the only way things will change on a bigger scale.
Hi Raymond and Andrew, I totally relate to both of what you’re sharing. In the past I was completely dominated by arguments, reasons, etc. I used to say, I love debating. And had many judgements on simple and quiet people. Nowadays I feel the enormous quality of many people living ‘simple’ lives. No wonder with so many people like me (and far far worse) that people getting lost / overwhelmed by an enormous doses of words, arguments, etc. And from there chosing to hide. Not that this is Truth either, but it’s time to let Truth out. Yesterday I supported a mediation session where it easily could have gone into a fight about words, arguments if this was not cut. So simple, if we could learn when we disconnect, to take responsibility for that and dare to honour that, how simple would life be? So EVERYONE can return to their friend TT, The Truth.
Very true Andrew, we always know when people are telling the truth, we can feel it. And not only can we feel this in another, its how our bodies feel when we are expressing truth as well. Truth feels firm, open, transparent. I wonder how our governments would run if Truth became the true foundation of our politics?
Hello Rowena, I love where you are going with this but we can see we are a long way off this. While I’m not being critical or talking about politics, I don’t think I have ever heard anyone say they enjoy the politics of politics. For me I can see the lack of true care for people in it and it seems everyone knows it but still we go along with it. As Floris is saying the more in our conversations we brings things back to how they feel and the truth then the more things like politics will change, like in his mediation session. Don’t let things run down their usual roads and I am not saying to create a road block either. Just make small changes in how we are because we can’t expect something to change without making the change ourselves.
The clarity in what you put forward here Andrew is deeply inspiring. I know it but just hearing it again and my body agrees! To stay with our body and keep the mind out of an equation is totally liberating. Lovely to revisit this again Raymond, thank you to you and your friend truth : )
Thank you Raymond for your expression. I too know truth in my body and can say without a doubt that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the real deal and bring absolute truth, love, responsibility and integrity.
Hello Bianca, thank you. What more can I say to what you have written here but to repeat it as a quote, “I too know truth in my body and can say without a doubt that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the real deal and bring absolute truth, love, responsibility and integrity.”
I love the simplicity and truth of this blog…truth is truth when felt in the body and cannot be denied if we listen to our body.
Hello Mary-Louise, have you ever known truth to be any other way but simple? If you have it may not have been truth but just a part of it. So and as you say Mary-Louise “truth is truth when felt in the body and cannot be denied if we listen to our body” then we better be careful with how we are with our body. If we don’t support and care for our bodies then how clearly will truth be felt and what will be the quality of the message.
Thank you, Raymond, for your article. And the above comment. More and more it feels that our body is the finest indicator and can tell us everything – if we listen and look after it. As Serge Benhayon keeps saying: “The body is the marker of truth. It can not lie.”
Very good point Raymond, if your body is polluted that stops you feeling truth, then it will be a lot harder to know what is truth and what is not. For me it is most definitely worth looking after and supporting our bodies.
Spot on Bernard, I could definitely say I don’t know truth until I have felt it in my body.
This is one of those stop me in my tracks blog, the part where you spoke about being restless while trying to sleep and then asking the body how it felt. Feeling the body allows me to feel truth, truth doesn’t wavier, doubt or second guess itself – there is a solidness to it, I know where I can stand if I choose to feel truth. Thank you Raymond.
Hello Leigh, I love how you describe this, “truth doesn’t wavier, doubt or second guess itself-there is a solidness to it”. So if truth is like you say and I agree then all the things that are not this are a choice by us not to feel. So if there is wavier, doubt or a second guess then this relates personally to us and not to the truth. Truth is waiting for us all, not to get it but merely return to it. Thank you Leigh.
Gorgeous blog Raymond, I can relate to dishonesty having such an awful effect on the body, like a tension that is just waiting to be ‘found out’ – pretty exhausting! The truth at times can be uncomfortable, but I’d much rather that feeling of openness that it brings than the tension of lies.
Hello Melissa, the truth can shake the comfort we have been living in by not feeling what our bodies have been saying. But the “uncomfortable” feeling is not truth, it is what we have put ourselves into that needs then to be corrected that brings the discomfort. Truth is easy, very supportive and feels very freeing. The uncomfortable feeling as I said comes from what is being exposed, our past choices and not from truth at all.
Very true Raymond, it is not the truth that is uncomfortable, it is the (un-true) choices prior to the truth that are being felt. Thanks for bringing in this clarity 🙂
I love the way you relate to what you feel in your body as being the Truth, and how you knew it at an early age. It’s a marker for us all to recognise that we have always had it but not always listened to it.
Hello Gill, yes spot on. There is always moments when you feel you are not learning something new but merely returning to the way it was. That is why we/I knew it from an earlier age and why when I came back to truth it all made such sense. Truth has never left where it is, it remains constant. We step away and then after that first step we can choose to step away again. These steps away build a cushion or a comfort between ourselves and the truth and so we keep stepping not wanting to look back because it can be painful or uncomfortable to see and feel. Once we decided to turn back then we recognise what you say, “we have always had it but not always listened to it”.
I love this line “Among the many things that have stayed constant is the truth and how important it is.” I absolutely agree.
Thank you Gyl.
This is a great way to look at truth Raymond, by embracing it as a friend. Nothing is more solid than the truth but I am still finding the truth, or getting to the truth requires dedication and a lot of honesty on a daily basis.
Hello Kevin, it is a great way to look at it and I feel takes the pressure off and makes sense. With the dedication you have already it’s just about the consistency as you say. I find bringing that down to moments as well. So say you have been expressing what you feel is truth once a week, well then “what’s next?” is a question I genuinely ask not critique. So then go to twice a week and so on. We are all “still finding the truth” it is just at different levels. You feel solid Kevin so just keep asking the question, “what’s next?”
I love your sharing Raymond, as it resonates deeply in my body. I love how you have described your job situation which has so much to do with truth and untruth and how you found a stillness when you felt the truth and have being willing to stick to it. I know similar situations and I only can agree, truth is setting me free from doubt and blame.
Hello Kerstin, yes it was amazing for me to ‘go back’ and actually feel there was always a choice for me. I couldn’t blame anyone else for me walking away from the truth of what I felt but even before Universal Medicine I could feel the choice. Universal Medicine supported me to clear the way so then I could do this. I am forever greatful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for supporting me to unlock what was always there.
Fabulous blog Raymond and absolute truth. The body does not lie, it doesn’t know how to and it lets us know when we are lying to ourselves or when someone is lying to us! We can ignore the body but we cannot ignore the outcomes that are a direct result of not listening.
Hello Janne, ah extra responsibility you bring here to us Janne. The responsibility of not only “lying” to ourselves at the time or turning our back on what we feel but then the impact that has on our bodies down the track, love it. It may seem to big possibly but absolute truth at the same time, thanks Janne.
We all have an innate ability to feel truth with our bodies. It’s important to stop and feel what’s the truth in what is being said or experienced. An amazing tool to develop deeper, with so many benefits. Great blog Ray.
Hello Natalie, thank you. I agree and we can use that “innate ability” at different points to mark how it feels. I also love how you have gone to this “It’s important to stop and feel what’s the truth in what is being said or experienced” because you are not focused on the ‘not truths’. That means you will often see people for who they are in any moment and not focus on all the other things. We can often go to the issues and ‘things’ we see wrong without appreciating in any moment there is always truth to be known. I love this because it super powerful for you and for others. You see all the other things and are aware of them but your intention is the truth, however that looks like for you at that point.
This blog has assisted me in continuing to unlock the lies I have been telling myself and others my whole life. They are not big lies or ones that others might even consider a lie. They can be as simple as the thought or sentence “I can’t write” or “I am a bad driver”
As I let go off these things I used to cling to as a strange identification of who I thought I was, I feel freed up.
Thank you for the blog and it does not go unnoticed the time you take to answer peoples comments with such dedication and integrity,
A testament to who you are.
Hello Sarah, thank you for highlighting the “not big lies” we tell ourselves or that sometimes run our lives it seems. The little internal chatter that we often discard is a point for something bigger. I notice with your “not big lies” they have a similar flavour with “can’t” and “bad” in them which are almost derogatory towards yourself and how directly they are linked to how you feel overall about yourself, “As I let go off these things I used to cling to as a strange identification of who I thought I was, I feel freed up.” So even though these things that would seem “not big” they are in fact big and a key in a way because we build a whole way of being around them that we ‘think’ is us. When we let them go or bring awareness to how we use them on ourselves we unlock or feel “freed up”. I can relate to what you say Sarah and will keep an eye out for the “not big lies” because as you can see they aren’t bigger than who we truly are but they are big enough to control how we are. No matter how convincing the message in your internal dialogue is it’s worth asking is it the truth.
With simplicity and sureness this writing inspires me to constantly deepen my trust in my body as the greatest truth detector on offer! Thank you.
Hello Matilda, writing has been a HUGE part of this process for me. I never knew writing could be so physical and not only related to hands typing or writing. “It feels like at times with every comment of the truth of what I feel, it unlocks some more in me and as you say Matilda ‘deepens my trust’. Thank you.
Truth is a known – we know it through our bodies and yet we can ‘unfriend’ it as we start to walk through life and choose to ignore what the truth actually feels like – that we can shut this down is mind-blowing as it is the answer to everything – literally.
Hello Lee, absolutely on board with what you are saying. Things as simple as you state, that in writing on this blog is “mind-blowing” and has an effect, not only on yourself but on everyone. Let’s keep going, thanks Lee.
I always instantly felt what is true, but often I choose to override this feeling – mostly pretending that I did not want to hurt others or make them uncomfortable. In truth the only one I did not want to make uncomfortable has been myself ;o)
Expressing my truth more and more and feeling what in fact I can bring by speaking out is such a beautiful change in my life, which has had ripple effects in many areas.
Hello Michael, it’s great what you bring here. That we often project what we ‘think’ is going to happen. We put it forward and then walk into it, to confirm the thought. But what you are saying Michael is, if we be responsible for that ‘thought’ and then express the truth of what we are feeling then the whole world changes. I have certainly experienced this, self responsibility for what I am putting out there into the world first and in that the “ripple effects” are endless.
The truth is fundamentally important to the flow of our lives. If we are not truthful about one thing, the issue then blocks our advancement to the understanding of many other aspects in our lives.
At times the truth feels like it tears me apart but my experience says that it tears apart the false ideals that I have held to be myself, yet wasn’t me at all. It feels amazing to let go this false idea of who I am and to truly embrace the true me.
Hello Amanda, this is great and you should write a blog yourself about this. This is a great understanding of the whole picture and needs to be shared. This is spot on how it works, from truth and the “flow of our lives”, to “the issue then blocks our advancement to the understanding of many other aspects in our lives” and that truth “tears apart the false ideals” that “wasn’t me at all”. I really enjoyed what you wrote and I took a lot from it, thank you.
It is awesome Raymond to read how you hold a relationship with your body to feel whether something is of truth or not- very simple- and also allowed me to also connect to this in my body as I read this. Thank you.
Hello Arianne, it can be very simple and for me I use that as a marker. If it goes pear shaped I peel it back to simplicity. Complicating things can lead you further away from truth I have found. I love that truth can be felt and not just by one as you say, you are connecting to the same thing in your body.
Your amazing Ray. It is really beautiful to feel how committed you are to what you feel. I can also feel Ray, that there will be moments of vulnerability, that there is a real tenderness within you and an immense care for others. It is very healing for me to feel this from you, it supports me to also feel that I can stand by what I feel to be true, which has also been very strong for me. That I can be the delicate woman that I am and it is Ok. Thank you.
Thank you Lisa, I agree and really beautifully expressed. There are “moment of vulnerability” and “real tenderness” but to be honest I don’t look at them like that. I feel them and see them but it is all one and the same. What I mean is I don’t look at myself and go now I am tender etc. I know this isn’t what you meant but what I would say is that the Truth is the truth and so no matter what it looks like it is the feeling that I stay with, to the best I can. I have seen myself ‘try’ and be things and this has never worked, the feelings are the part I stay with.
I also feel that truth is the only thing that lasts, I am learning to stay with the truth and the more I stay with this dear friend the more solid and confident I feel in my body.
Hello Lieke, I agree and you can feel how solid it can become if you choose to listen or honour what you feel. I am also “learning to stay with the truth” and love how it continues to feel and support me. When I wrote this blog I saw truth as my friend and not really a part of me but now I can feel we are one and the same, “My friend the Truth” is now ‘My Truth’.
What an amazing blog Ray and I love how you answer all the comments. As I read the comments and you comments to comments we are all evolving as we go until
““My friend the Truth” is now ‘My Truth’”. Thank you.
I know the feeling of “If I wrote or said something that wasn’t the truth, my body would let me know”. Thank you Ray for writing this.
Hello Ryoko, it was a pleasure to write. I am guessing this is how it would be for many of us, the only difference is that some listen to their bodies a little more than others. The more you ‘listen’ to truth (your body) the more you will be able to hear it when you need it. Walk past truth in any moment and you push it to the background and from there you will need to listen more intently. The world as we know doesn’t support us to stop and listen and so to listen we need to live in a certain way. Not in a way to conform or control but in a way that supports us to listen to our bodies, the Way of the Livingness.
I love this blog Raymond, the difference I feel in my body and my whole being when truth is spoken is undeniable. Most of my life I was only speaking parts of truth, assuming that was ok knowing it was and still is the norm in the society – surely we wouldn’t want to ‘hurt’ someone, by telling them the truth? How on earth did we as humanity get to the point that telling truth is a bad thing?
Hello Eva, a great question but one that can be answered by everyone in their own way. If we all continue to hold to what we feel is true at any given moment and then bring the awareness to how that expression feels. From there do the same for the next moment and so on and keep unfolding life in that way then we would answer that question without actually addressing the question. We know how truth feels and what it looks like, express it and we support others to do the same from there. We are humanity and so if we don’t like how it looks. well then let’s ‘truly’ do something about it.
Awesome response Raymond – this is what I have come to understand too, and forever learning, moment by moment. The world is what we make it.
I had tears coming to my eyes reading your blog Ray, it is so beautiful and I am reminded that Truth and Love are one and the same. I feel your love when I read this.
Hello Nicola, I hope they were tears of joy. It is amazing what we can feel from something so simple as words on a page. Thank you Nicola for your continued appreciation of me.
Thank you Ariel. We are usually very loyal to old friends. We stand by them through thick and thin. It is like we know them so well and it is not that we excuse other behaviours but we take the approach we ‘know’ them and how they really are. Truth is our friend, an old friend but how well do we stand by that friend? Or are we willing to walk away or only see that friend when it suits us. It seems like truth has always been our old friend all along, steady, always there ready to help out at our call but it is ‘us’ that have let the relationship drop. Like all old friends, the more you are in contact with them the more they feel apart of your life, it is about time we ‘caught’ up with truth more often. You should call on yours today.
I love this concept, or reality that truth is our old friend. That feels very strong for me. I feel sad that I have not treated truth like an old friend, who is valuable and beautiful and very dear to me. I think I might have been treating this old friend like an annoying husband always nagging at me. Definitely time to change this relationship, and bring back the delight, understanding, inspiration and love that I know it actually offers. I love my friend, truth. Thank you so much for reminding me.
Hello Lisa, I agree and when I wrote it I could feel the strength in the analogy. What you are saying is exactly what I meant and could feel. To often we look at things the wrong way or have a belief about what they are. Feeling the truth as an ‘old friend’ is an amazing start for us all and most of us really love the feeling of catching up with old friends.
You have such a strong and beautiful relationship with truth Ray. I feel inspired to honestly look at what I have put in the way of truth and build a loving relationship with truth again.
Hello Rachael thank you. To be able to feel that strength and appreciate it like you have shows that you are equal to that feeling. In other words you are what you feel first before it can be seen in another and so you have such a strong and beautiful relationship with truth Rachael also.
Well said Ray… the truth is our friend!
Ray your article rings true, and I can feel your ongoing commitment to bringing truth to your life. I can relate to the body unease and complication that occurs when we do not express truth – so many times I have avoided speaking truth plainly and without fail it causes a mess and hurts people more than the original discomfort (for myself and/or them) would have done.
Hello Anne, it is amazing that we see what the lack of truth can do but we still aren’t willing to go all the way and come from an absoluteness. We are here to heal the things we are not and so truth is a way to heal. If we are just about managing the situation well then we confirm ourselves as less than we truly are. Truth is our guiding light, so we can choose to honour when we feel it or not. A simple choice really but one at times we have enormous problems with.
Well said Ray, that is so true.
Ray this is absolutely beautiful. Truth is known in everyone. What a game we play to pretend this isn’t the truth.
Hello Vicky, yes and the time we ‘waste’ playing around the truth is really something to see. This is not a criticism by any means but a fact of life. When you are with Truth there is an ease, time opens up and it appears the days are longer, go against or deny it and time fly’s and you look around and the days just disappear.
A beautiful blog where you cannot but feel the power in truth. Thank you.
Hello Sally, it is a confirmation that we all can have the same truth, through feeling. We so often ‘stand’ for what we believe in and are willing to accept that we have different truths. We have different ways of expressing it but truth is a constant terminal that can only be found in how it feels. Thank you for feeling the truth.
This is beautiful Ray and confirms for me how the truth never walks away from us; it is only ever us that can choose to walk away from it. Now that’s a true friend!
Hello Liane, that is a great point and a quote for life. Thank you.
oh wow Liane – so beautifully said, thank you 🙂
That is beautifully said Liane. We do all know truth innately.
A very insightful blog Ray. I too often experience tension and anxiety in my body but have not always understood what it is telling me in truth. A realisation for me to not be overtaken by the tension and anxiety but to truly listen to what truth my body is revealing.
Hello Karen, yes I agree. If we feel a tension or anxiety at first that maybe all we have, that you feel tense or anxious. If that is all then just move back into your day until you ‘feel’ it again and then just check in to see if there is more for you. If there is or isn’t again it is a matter of feeling that and back to your day. This is a connection to yourself in a moment. I have found this to be very supportive. Too often we dwell in the moment, carrying it for days or sometimes years and then expecting to get an understanding of it or work it out.
You can have it all in a moment, we just need to build the consistency of being in the moment so we can give it our full attention. Often we are doing multiple things at any moment, driving while talking on the phone with the kids in the car on their way to school while planning dinner all on the way to work. There is time for all these things but they all need their own time, you just need to build how this looks for you. If you feel tense, anxious or anything at any moment, just stop briefly and ask yourself why the feeling is there, you may just get an answer because it is no way for you to live.
Thank you Ray. I love how you express your relationship with truth, as ‘your friend’, someone who never leaves you, but you have the choice to leave him/her. I feel ‘seeing’ the truth is an integral part of us all, it’s just a choice as to whether we want to see it or not, how honest we want to be, as that also requires us to take responsibility.
Hello Alison, thank you. Responsibility is a big word for us and at times when I use it I don’t feel like I have scratched the surface of the true meaning of it. All these things are there for us but it is us that walk away or turn away from them. As you say Alison it is our choice and it is not that we are alone but the choice does remains with us.
That is true Ray, we are not alone, sometimes we can forget this. But blogs like this and the inspiration I feel from you makes the choice to stay with truth so much easier.
Ray great blog on how the body knows truth if we choose to listen.
Thank you Kim, yes our part is to listen and to unfold what we have put in front of truth over many years by not expressing it when we feel it.
Dear Ray I love that you have written about the physical manifestation of truth in our bodies, just the other day I was discussing with a friend how much the heart in our chest talks with us constantly if we but listen and allow ourselves to be guided by the wisdom and intelligence it holds. The heart will race when things are not right and making us nervous & anxious –it will also be warm and glowing when things are on the mark and we get to trust and feel this throughout our bodies.
Hello Lee, to me truth and my body are one and the same. Not perfectly but my body marks truth and so it is that. It has been important for me to keep marking how things feel and not keep going to a familiar or looking for the same feeling to be replicated. Our bodies and our awareness of things around us continually change, so in that same way there needs to be a flexibility in what we feel. In other words if we are locked in, looking for something to feel a certain way then are we really feeling it?. You may think this is a play on words but it is just about being a student to feelings, this keeps an openness to more.
Raymond I absolutely love truth as well, and reading the word truth gives me goose pimples. Truth is very clear, very steady and very simple.
Hello and very well said. I love, “Truth is very clear, very steady and very simple” and I agree. Build on truth and how it feels and what you have said translates to how you live, so your life in truth will be ‘very clear, very steady and very simple’. Thank you.
Hi Ray, I love what you have shared, I feel the greatest relationship I have is my relationship with truth and it keeps me steady. I love how you bring it back to the body and how truth and facts are felt in the body.
Hello Amber, yes when you have or feel truth as your foundation it is solid. As Serge Benhayon has shared, “the body is the marker of all truth”.
How simple living is when we are truthful with ourselves and others as opposed to how complicated life is when we lie.
Hello Deidre, well said and you can use that as a marker of truth. Keep it simple and the truth will be easier to find, complicate it and the further away from truth you will be.
Life can be simple, it is a matter of choice.
Great blog Ray, I love the title ‘My Friend The Truth’. It feels amazing in my body to be with Truth and awful when I have chosen not to. I am learning to always express in truth and not hold back. Indeed Truth is our best friend, it’s us expressing in full who we are.
Hello, yes I agree truth is “who we are”. We can think differently at times but in the end we are all from Truth.
Thanks Ray for a great blog, I have found the more I have developed my relationship with myself/ body the easier it has been to let go all the stuff that was not allowing me to express truth and hold back in life. I can now feel the deepening in my relationship with truth and the power that it brings not just for me but others.
Thank you Francisco for you comment. As you say the more we develop or listen to our body or the feeling of things the easier it is to ‘see’ the things that are in the way of what is true for us. There is a beautiful relationship between truth and the power that is there for everyone when it is expressed.
Hi R, thanks for a great blog on truth. Through out my life I also have felt truth, however through reasons such as wanting to be accepted by others, a hiding in a comfort and not wanting to rock the boat, I had given up on people and myself. And so I have not always stood up for truth and so my body suffered from all the ways I numbed myself to bury the feelings of truth and lived in anxiousness from knowing my life was not full or complete, as it was without truth and the actions leading from truth. But like all good friends it never gave up and just kept offering its love until I once again, through the inspiration of a mutual friend Serge Benhayon, I am aware of my lovely relationship with truth. I am truth.
Hello PM, thank you for comment. As we are both saying truth is our friend but in truth it is more than that. A friend brings you the image of something or someone beside you or near you but as you are saying, we are truth. So it is not something outside or just a small part of us that we don’t listen to. We are made of truth, it is just how we are and it is all of us. So if you accept what is being said, that our whole body is made of truth imagine the energy it would take to go against that or to ignore that. You would have to do more for you not to be with Truth, so truth is easy it’s the getting stuff out of the way that seems to be the hard part.
Hi Ray this is a great blog that you have written. When I was a child my father told me that I would never get into trouble for telling him the truth. Whatever I did wrong he was true to his word, I would get a lesson but was always forgiven. It meant that I never had to lie. I did the same with my own children and they also learnt to be truthful. I could say the truth has always been my friend.
Hello Nick, thank you. Yes as children we are told many things and some are supported and some are not. We are rarely supported however to feel the truth for ourselves. It is one thing to be told but another to feel it for yourself. Once you ‘own’ the feeling the truth is always yours and yes Nick your friend. But if we are told or shown then it is a version but possibly not the whole truth.
That is such a blessing Nick, to have parents who teach you to be truthful. And yes, truth is a great friend once you take it’s hand and walk with it.
That was a blog which openly reveals that your body knows the root truth of everything; just feel and all will be felt. Thank you Ray!
Hello Ben, it is amazing what we can feel if we are able to allow it. Our body has a living marker of the truth and is always willing to let you know. The anxiety, the unease, the stress etc can be all signs that we haven’t honoured something we have felt. The next time you say or even write something, stop and feel it and see what else is there maybe to say or change. Just this awareness will set up more for you in the next moment.
Truth liberates. Truth is freeing. Speaking truth with each other expands the body and lights up the fire inside. The truth, the truth and nothing but the truth.
Thanks, Raymond.
Hello and yes I agree and have experienced this, “Truth is freeing” We go around thinking the best model is to keep everyone happy, say all the right things, be the nice person or the opposite you need to be cruel to be kind, tell people really what you are thinking etc. None of these models say to you, connect to yourself and feel what you want to say. They don’t say anything about the truth and how that feels. It is all about responding to what is in front of you and then trying to make it better the next time. I remember how much pressure and time this took up in my day and life. Now that I connect to me and how I am feeling before I respond it has made my life simpler and clearer. At times it may not look good but it consistently feels good. The truth for me is definitely a great way to live.
This is very touching Ray. I loved what you shared here ‘I always knew the truth was my friend but at times I was too scared to hold onto it. Now I will never walk away from it again – not out of honor, but because of how it feels.’ I am inspired because I can feel you will never walk away from you Ray – you are truth.
Hello Marcia and thank you. I love ‘standing’ with truth. There is a real power that can hold and be felt by those around you. The truth will be forever the best friend I have ever had.
Perhaps the truth really does set you free. Thank you for providing a living example of how you have valued your truth and used it to benefit us all.
Hello Wattleblossum, thank you for the comment. I use to never really understand what that meant “the truth will set you free” but now I have a living memory of how that feels and for me it certainly feels spot on.