In my teens I started to acknowledge the feeling that what I am and what the world presents is more than just physical. This led to the exploration of mediumship and clairvoyance and hence began my journey on the ‘Spiritual New Age’ path which eventually led me to Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness where I finally became free of all the impositions of the Spiritual New Age.
Looking for the Answer – Reiki, Crystal Healing… but My Life was a Mess
I was very much drawn to complementary therapies and would always look out for homeopathic or natural remedies as opposed to seeking orthodox medicines.
In the search for the ‘one thing’ that was going to offer me what I was looking for (which at the time, I did not know exactly what it was) I stumbled across Reiki, and this seemed to make sense for a while.
I chose to be oblivious of the fact that the ‘Reiki Master’ I trained with had a drinking problem: even after seeing him drunk and feeling the intensity of the horrible energy that came from him, I chose to overlook this and still continued with the course as I saw it to be the route to my salvation. On the course I cried a lot and saw all of this emotion to be part of the salvation I sought.
Some people within the Reiki community began to introduce all kinds of variants to suit themselves. This did not sit well with me, so I went on to train as a crystal healing therapist where I would dowse healing sessions using a pendulum. This gave me a kind of comfort that all was well and that I had found the answer, although even then I still felt really uneasy.
I constantly felt nervous, having a permanent feeling of anxiety running through my body which no amount of crystals or guided meditation would shift. I would wake in the morning feeling anxiousness in my body and I would often feel depressed at the thought of getting through another day feeling this way. I carried this nervous feeling with me on a daily basis and although on the outside I would appear confident, there was an inner feeling of not being good enough and a lack of real confidence. I was always looking for someone else to give me the answer and for someone else’s approval for me to feel okay about myself.
By the time I reached my late 30’s I was a mess. I had left an unhappy marriage, my self-esteem was on the floor and my self-worth was non-existent. I was overweight, unhappy and felt alone whilst dipping in and out of a couple of relationships and struggling to make it through whilst bringing up a child that was by now approaching teenage years. My life had gone from bad to worse even after doing many more courses that were all supposed to offer ‘the answer’.
Time for change! I knew there had to be another way.
Introduced to Chris James, the Gentle Breath Meditation, and Connecting to Me…
A friend told me of a voice presentation in our local town with Chris James, a singer and musician who offers voice workshops through Sounds Wonderful. This was the best £10 I had ever spent as during that evening I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation, a simple technique where you focus on your breath and make the choice to breath gently… no “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being”, just a simple focus on my own breath.
This is what I had been looking for!… It was the one thing that supported me to connect to me and it was as simple as connecting to my breath.
For the first time in my life I had a glimpse of feeling whole and complete without the underlying emptiness and anxiety that had kept me relentlessly searching.
Chris had learned the Gentle Breath Meditation from Serge Benhayon, founder of Universal Medicine, and when Chris mentioned him I immediately knew that I needed to know more about this man and his presentations, so I attended the next available course.
Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, Truth, Spirit & Soul – Search Over!
Following that course I read many books and went to many presentations by Serge Benhayon that unfolded all the answers that had previously eluded me. Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage. Simple, yet profound. None of the ‘New Age’ study had offered this most fundamental of facts, but instead had wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference.
In my arrogance as a ‘crystal healer’ I felt that I knew a lot about energy because I had worked with crystals and the use of the pendulum was based on the understanding that the pendulum was a visual indicator of my Soul’s communication. Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator? Surely I could trust what I felt from the inside? So the pendulum had to go, along with all the crystals as I realised I had totally given myself away by investing all my power into them. I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.
Taking Responsibility for my Well-Being
The simplicity of the presentations by Universal Medicine and the practical common sense way of being they offered was profound.
The stage was now set for me to make some changes and start to take true responsibility for myself and my life. I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.
One of my first choices was to have a look at what I was eating. I stopped eating gluten and dairy and found that the sinus problem that had been hanging around for years cleared up and the bloated lethargy that was always there went away, leaving me with a feeling of vitality which in truth was already there but had been completely dulled by the food choices I was making. My body weight and shape changed. After being vegetarian for many years I started to eat a little meat and found it to be very acceptable to my body and I actually quite liked it. I had feared eating it for so many years because someone had once told me it would make me heavy and not able to connect to my Soul.
Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.
I now embrace the support of orthodox medicine as part of the healing process and no longer resist it. I understand it does not have all the answers but choose to work alongside it whilst taking the personal responsibility to look more deeply into the root cause of any disturbance that may arise.
I am now part of the student body of Universal Medicine and I endeavour to live the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which makes a lot more sense compared to anything else I have come across in my relentless search for truth. I have found The Way of the Livingness.
The search is over – This is IT.
By Beverley Bulmer, Norfolk, Uk
I agree with you Beverly that the search is over Universal Medicine teaches that we have given up on the truth of who we are and where we come from and instead built a false reality that we cling to because we do not want to admit that we have all been hoodwinked and have become mere puppets to an energy that has enslaved us. And worse anyone who can see past the smoke and mirrors of this unreal state of being is ridiculed and ostracized such as Mad Meg in the blog that another Student has written and posted on this site.
Finding Universal Medicine and being a student of The Way of The Livingness does not mean a life without a wobble, but for me it has restored something that now feels solid enough to have an understanding and a means to come out of the wobble, and keep feeling empowered at each step.
Absolutely Beverley, once the truth has been felt in this current era there is only one choice and that is staying connected to our essences, thus then reconnecting with our Soul. This feeling of connection is normal and humbling but at the same time it does feel simple, then as we live this amazing-ness in our bodies we start to walk and breathe in the most gentle ways.
There are so many things which we can overlook when we want to see life the way we want to see the world. We can’t even say we were deceived because for the majority of the time, the tell-tales are there and the only reason we don’t see them is because of our attachments.
The other day I attended some training which was very spiritual. It was very humbling as it showed me that I can still fall for the glitzy show of the spiritual stuff and how familiar I was to it all, something I’d not fully appreciated. I felt so discombobulated by the whole thing I got to really appreciate the Soul-ful way of life and I would be far more discerning in future!
There is arrogance and identification in the New Age, just like there can be with any area of life when we think we’ve made it, or we have some kind of special knowledge. I got involved in the spiritual healing side of it and I can see how damaging it was, and how it still plays out as not holding people as equal and equally able to heal themselves simply through our connection to soul. New Age healing is very imposing in this respect because it’s a ‘doing’ for the other person. What I have learnt is that because we actually heal ourselves, any person assisting can only help facilitate our self healing, and that is by offering space and holding a soulful quality. Imposition or trying to do it for the person actually impedes the self healing process.
It is imposing, and arrogant, to try and heal another, only ourselves can truly heal self.
Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, Truth, Spirit & Soul – Search Over! My search definitely ended when I met Serge Benhayon… I knew the truth, deep in every cell, when I saw it.
We overlook simplicity, but in simplicity is the answer.
“”Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon” so many of us have fallen for this trap, me too, I went looking and got lost further, it was only when I met Serge Benhayon I could see through the illusion that had been choking me for so long.
I am another one that can relate with having been trapped in the new age modalities, the arrogance that I was doing something to heal myself, and yet nothing in my life truly changing back then.
“This is what I had been looking for!… It was the one thing that supported me to connect to me and it was as simple as connecting to my breath.” The Way of The Livingness is to know the truth and love and re-connection to God.
We all are seeking the truth of our lives in one way or another, there’s a little niggling voice deep down that keeps reminding us that life as we know it is not it. So, in all of our experiments and various avenues that we may take, we can make a turn here or there that may take us further away from our goal, it may take us on a d-tour, but eventually we all wake up and start to make changes.
It is interesting how much alcohol is consumed on a daily basis and how many so called health professionals partake of this mind altering substance. We are sometimes told to have a drink to loosen our inhibitions or to drink a red wine for our health. There are plenty of new age healers who use ayahuasca for recreation and think that it enhances their healing powers. Substances like marijuana that we tend to think of as harmless I have seen to have a harmful longterm effect on the body mind and spirit. We have gotten far from our natural way of being, our true intuition and our inner wisdom.
We have got far from our natural, true way of being, and so consequently will often present a false version of self, ‘I carried this nervous feeling with me on a daily basis and although on the outside I would appear confident, there was an inner feeling of not being good enough and a lack of real confidence.’
We are totally responsible for our own wellbeing, which is a wonderful thing and truly empowering.
We are the ones who are responsible for our own wellbeing, we make choices that affect us in one way or another, ‘to make some changes and start to take true responsibility for myself and my life. I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.’
I never would have thought that you were interested in the Spiritual New Age, Beverly – but I guess when the questions on the inside are firing up, and nothing else comes close to answer them, we all find ourselves on various paths.
I love the honesty that you shared Beverley that if you were really connected to your soul you would not need an outside indicator like a pendulum or a crystal to tell you anything.
I find it interesting, the fact that there are so many options available today in the spiritual new age, for anyone who is seeking to answer deeply unanswered questions about themselves and about life. This must show that there are many more people now who are seeking to know and, that there are many more questions now going unanswered. Which is another reason why Universal Medicine is so brilliant, because all that it ever says, is that you already have all the answers right there – within you, so there is no need to seek outside of yourself because you already are all that you have been looking for.
Yes, just reading your comment and that we already are everything brings a deep settlement to my being.
Looking outside of ourselves never works because we are looking for others to save us and have all of the answers. It was a bit of a revelation to me to find out that I have all of the answers inside of me and that I should trust that.
This is so common, yet really we are just giving our power away, ‘I was always looking for someone else to give me the answer and for someone else’s approval for me to feel okay about myself.’
The most obvious place to look for ourselves is inwards yet most of us look outward for answers. Could it be that we don’t like simplicity but would rather indulge in complexity?
The Soul has a very practical and real approach to life.
How important is it to know the difference between the soul, and the spirit, ‘there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage.’
Ignorance = ignoring the facts in front of your nose, because they do not fit the picture you want to see. It is incredible how we can override obvious doubts about a reiki master just because we hope that reiki will be our ‘answer’. This is the same in relationships, jobs, financial arrangements etc.
How refreshing to read this blog Beverley – exposing the consciousness riddled with lies that holds the spiritual seeker forever stuck in searching for the truth outside of themselves. Universal Medicine continues to offer the opportunity to remember the truth of who I am / we are in our innermost essence.
Yes.. my forays into spirituality made it look like things were ‘better’ on the surface but actually I felt like I was going around in circles, trying to finally get to that elusive place of ‘happiness’ but never feeling rested, content or steady. Appying the ancient – but ageless- wisdom to my life as presented by Universal Medicine has transformed it in so many ways. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing but that is the beauty of it: it is real and raw, as we accept and appreciate who we are and what we bring on ever deeper levels.
The spiritual new age movement can never support us because we cannot find true answers outside of ourselves.
“I now embrace the support of orthodox medicine as part of the healing process and no longer resist it. I understand it does not have all the answers but choose to work alongside it whilst taking the personal responsibility to look more deeply into the root cause of any disturbance that may arise.” I agree Beverly. From being a nurse then a homeopath I went 180 degrees in the opposite direction from fully supporting western medicine to turning away. Attending Universal medicine presentations brought me back to common sense – we need both to use the conventional approach when needed, and to take more responsibility for our health and how we contribute to our ill health.
Knowing the difference between spirit and soul is absolutely life changing because suddently everything about life makes sense.
And yet Serge Benhayon is the first person I have met in this life that has clearly and simply explained the difference between Soul and Spirit.
It is easy to get caught up in ideals and beliefs and the search for what we feel is missing, when we discover that the missing part is our true connection to ourselves, we realise that we have a responsibility to live from that connection.
Taking responsibility for our own life and choices… this might seem like a burden if we’ve been brought up with considering responsibility as an onerous list of tasks, obligations and duties, but actually it is a most empowering way to live and be. Taking responsibility means bringing our all into every moment – and the more we practice that, and remember that this is actually who we are, not all the other distractions, complications and dramas, the lighter and generally more awesome we start to feel.
I’ve always been deeply concerned about dowsing with a pendulum… at first it was because I assumed it was the person either consciously or sub-consciously moving the crystal to suit their own needs. Once I learned a bit more about energy that concern intensified as I learnt that forces are real, and who might actually be the one moving the crystal / was pulling our strings.
I used to think that the new age things I did brought me to the Ageless Wisdom, but actually I had to unpeel the layers of distraction and come back to something that was so simple, I felt very dim for walking away from it in the first place!
We can go down so many rabbit holes before we realise that the way to be at ease with ourselves is to look inside and listen to the body’s communication.
So true Lucy. I went down countless rabbit holes – and wasted a lot of time, energy – and money – getting me nowhere. Returning to my body – which has been with me all my life – duh – has been the real support I was looking for all along.
So much more simple than all the searching for answers made it out to be. We already have all the answers, within us: no course, book or personnel can give them to us, and sooner or later our body makes that fact abundantly clear.
Coming across Universal Medicine has allowed me to see my choices in a clearer light. Finally a true truth, that allowed me to see the lies for what they are.
Sue I also was trapped in the illusion of the Spiritual new age, I never found truth or any lasting true changes for many years. Finding my way to Universal Medicine has been life changing especially learning the difference between the two energies, it stops this continual search that feeds the emptiness, it seems crazy that we are not taught about the two energies from a young age as it would empower us greatly to have this understanding.
So much of your story resonates with me too Beverley. After over twenty years of spiritual searching but knowing none of it felt true i found Universal Medicine. “The search is over – This is IT.” Agreed.
Brilliant – this part about having an arrogance of feeling superior because of being a part of the Spiritual New Age. I know this arrogance very well, and it is amazing how insidious it can be, with the potential for limiting personal relationships and one’s access to orthodox healthcare.
I dabbled with the new age and didn’t find any deepth or real interest, I like yourself found a lot of support in the gentle breath meditation it has been the bridge to feeling real ease in my body.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has been so supportive for myself and many more people over the years.
Responsibility is a big one Beverley, and it needs us to be completely honest with ourselves by stopping and observing to understand and become aware of what is happening around us with people who say one thing but do another. That can be the way of the world but it is our responsibility to ourselves to feel the truth.
When the answers to our dilemmas comes from the same dimension that ‘help’ us creating them in the first place, it is not accidental that we do not go too far. The Spiritual New Age can never be the answer.
Ultimately this ‘New Age’ is capped.. it may take us a step or two down the path, but then either veers off onto a dead end, or takes us in the wrong direction. It lacks the substance that we know deep in our cells and connect to best through our bodies and way of living.
The way of the Livingness is to take responsibility in life and thus empower ourselves. We choose and create all our reality.
Yes it is interesting how the complementary health field talks a lot about energy, but does not focus on the quality of energy that the practitioner chooses to live with and how responsible they are with their body, their vessel for the delivery of that energy.
The fact of the two energies is a wake up call to what we see every where and often comment on innour every day language ‘what’s got into you’ etc we know the quality of love and we know what is not of that quality. Yet we choose to live ignorant to the energy we choose to live.
Great point, yes in every day life, this conversation could be happening and I am sure if it was, the complementary health field would be reflecting this in the way that many of its practitioners choose to live and so the energy that is chosen. The channelling of energy without discerning where it comes from can be very damaging for both practitioner and client.
It is so easy to get caught in the “spiritual new age” based on the very fact that when we know something like the institutional religions are not the whole truth then we look for something else, I know I got tainted by the spiritual new age and even though it felt very untrue it still seemed better. Amazing to have the way of the livingness to help free me and inspire me to reconnect to the truth.
After trying virtually dozens and dozens of different meditation techniques, most of which were complicated, I distinctly remember feeling that “this just can’t be it, it’s just too complex”, and everything else that ended up being the Truth in my life was much more simple and direct. When I learned the Gentle Breath Meditation, it was like a breath of fresh air (pun intended)! No bells and whistles, no external gadgets (like crystals) or sequence to memorise, just following my breath in and out of my nose as gently as possible, but with profound effects after only a few minutes, and to this day it never lets me down.
The key is choosing to breath gently that is the missing piece other meditations focus on the breath also and body awareness but none ask you to reconnect to the quality of your gentle and stillness of breathing that we all had as infants.
I have once thought that spirituality was the answer too but the poignant truth was never for one moment did I feel totally safe with it, there was so much tension from feeling it is not the full truth but I gave my power to it, wanting it to be true.
After more than a decade of diving into the spiritual new age I was worse off than before, deep in drama and emotional distress. Enter Universal Medicine and here I am 15 years later, not a skerrick of the drama I used to think I was in sight.
The search for me ended two years prior to attending a Serge Benhayon workshop. Before those two years, I was heavily involved with the Christian Spiritual church, Reiki, Chrystal healing, Vortex healing and so much more. One day it was as if I just woke up and could see the lovelessness of it all, and absolutely knew there was more to life than what my experience was at that time – so I just decided to quit everything and wait. Then when I came across Serge Benhayon I knew that I had to meet this guy I had heard about, but in the back of my mind was the fact that I did not want another fake healer. My fears were unfounded because Serge Benhayon is a 100% the real deal and I have never turned back or looked at another modality since that day.
Hi Beverley, like you I tried all sorts of different therapies, even training as a ‘Spiritual healer’ and attended exhibitions where we were told we had to wear white underwear – I never found out why – and we’d offer ‘healing’ to the general public. Looking back it never felt quite right, there was a kind of arrogant ‘I can fix you’ approach within myself that I am sure was causing more harm than good. Fortunately like you, I met Chris James and he introduced me to Serge Benhayon and my life changed for the better year by year as I attended Universal Medicine healing courses and presentations that inspired me to make more healthy lifestyle choices.
We heal ourselves no one can do it for us.
When you talk about medicine and that you chose “to work alongside it whilst taking the personal responsibility to look more deeply into the root cause of any disturbance that may arise.” I was struck by the pure gold and pure wisdom of this line. This is what will save our heaving medical system, people seeking medical support along side taking responsibility and exploring the energetic root cause of the disturbance.
I had day surgery last year for the first time and I sought medical assistance and followed doctors orders, but I also looked at why else that occurred, and I got great insights into how I was being with my body. This supported me in the hospital and with my healing.
I’ve never met anyone who presents with the clarity and true simplicity that Serge Benhayon offers, detailing the difference between spirit and soul, and the real meaning of healing on an energetic level.
“I chose to be oblivious of the fact that the ‘Reiki Master’ I trained with had a drinking problem”. When we want something badly enough or believe it is our ‘road to salvation’ we become incredibly blind to what is glaringly obvious. There is also a suitable belief that what we do in our spare time does not affect the quality of what we do, or that it affects anyone else. This is far from the truth as energy does not start and stop or have any boundaries.
For me too, Beverly, the search is over. After the first Universal Medicine workshop I attended, I was almost too afraid to hope/pray that in Serge Benhayon I had found what I had literally searched the world over for. It took a couple of years for the hoping and praying to turn in to self-care and choosing to take responsibility and I have never looked back. My search is over. This IS it.
It is indeed possible to be freed from the complications of the theory of how we should live a spiritual life by focusing on living connected to our bodies and listening to the wisdom of the inner-heart.
It is interesting how the spiritual new age makes it look like you need to do all these things to connect to your soul but that connecting to your soul is anything but that and it hides that it actually is very simple to do through the connection with our body and life.
As someone who headed down the spiritual new age path for some time, I can attest to how damaging and dangerous this path is. Relinquish your commitment, responsibility, withdraw from life and live in complete disregard of your body (and all other bodies) while you arrogantly assume you are reaching a more enlightened state and healing old wounds.
All along those wounds are being further cemented into a body that is being numbed to the bone, while the being itself is being slowly eaten away by an energy that thrives off the illusion the spiritual new age is steeped in.
Good question Doug. I would say yes – and as we discern that spirituality isn’t the answer we can be dissuaded from the truth in so many subtle ways, as we seek to return to soul.
Thank you Beverley, it’s a story I’m sure many can relate to about the spiritual New Age, that despite all the promises and practices life’s issues do not go away, nor the emptiness or feeling that truth has not been found. This is a very powerful line “I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.” That line could relate to every human being and has the potential to bring much understanding and change.
I too was taken in by the Spiritual New Age after having given up on the Religion of my family. When we are searching for the connection back to who we truly are we often get pulled off track . I consider myself truly blessed that I was introduced to Universal Medicine and its founder Serge Benhayon.
The really weird thing with me and the Spiritual new Age is that all along I knew that it was shonky! But I fell for one of them which had the appearance of being ‘pure’ and real. Oh how mistaken I was in this – I allowed myself to be totally hoodwinked by the illusion of the ‘goodness’ of this group, which was, in the end, taken over by a massive force which I finally saw through . . . but not before some damage to myself because of lack of discernment.
I did a lot of searching too – through positive thinking, popular psychology, philosophy, religion, reiki etc etc…but when I reconnected to my inner heart, through the gentle breath meditation and the support of Universal Medicine, I stopped seeking because a level of settlement came to me that I had not experienced before – the settlement that is my true inner being. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are the real deal – no doubt.
“I knew there had to be another way.” The Way of The Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offers a true way to find our way back to who we truly are.
I ventured into the New Age many years after leaving religion, still searching for “it.” After a few years of trying different spiritual healings, I was in a New Age book shop one day and as I picked up a book I suddenly felt very ill in my stomach, I dropped the book and never read another one again. This left me in the desert or wilderness for a few years until Serge came along into my life and showed me that the truth I had been searching for was within me all the time and not anywher out there.
Thank you Jill for sharing your comment. I remember buying two books from a New Age author that were very popular, when they arrived by post and I held the package, they felt so negative I threw them both in the bin. I didn’t bother reading them because I felt their energy said it all.
The search is over Beverley. The discovery or new-found awareness is now defining what is the true me and my feelings to my inner-knowing and, what is not me and the false pretences of the spirit wanting to be the more dominant so called light.
“None of the ‘New Age’ study had offered this most fundamental of facts, but instead had wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference.”
I also was embroiled in the spiritual new age practices and renounced everything that I had invested ten years of my life taking part in – two years before I found Universal Medicine something happened to me where suddenly all the things I was involved in were being shown to me as not being love and of no truth. I hadn’t worried about things being of truth or love before and then suddenly it was as if my eyes were being opened and I felt very strongly to disassociate myself from these practices.
I spent a couple of years of my life lost in the search of spirituality, there was absolutely nothing that felt true and most people that I met were just immersed and identified with the glamour and illusion of knowing how to work with energy, but no one ever considered what source of energy they were aligning to and never question whether that might be the reason why they were still living in with a victim mentality blaming others and feeling sorry for themselves, in poverty, poor health and emotional wellbeing. The spiritual new age is a trick that keeps people stuck in their own pits and the arrogance that they are doing great when in fact they are soooo far from their truth within.
There can definitely be an arrogance about sensing and working with energy as a kind of truth that’s been uncovered in a world that sees only physical from as real. The foolishness of such arrogance is exactly as you say, that despite feeling energy we are still lost if we can’t discern the source and quality of energy we are working with.
The title of this blog says it all “Tricked and Trapped in the ‘Spiritual New Age” recently I attend a mind body fair where there was all sorts of tarot card readings, palm readings etc going on, I was actually surprised that people could actually get away with offering in public these sorts of services as it was so very obviously praying on those vulnerable and looking for help. The unfortunate thing is all this kind of looking into the future is compounds their pain and leads people more astray.
We can be so easily fooled by energy if we do not know the difference between soul and spirit and this simple truth applies to all areas of our lives. There are many that have claimed to have seen Jesus but was it Jesus or another entity mimicking Jesus. The astral plane is very clever and indeed we can be tricked into thinking what we see and sometimes feel is the truth when it is far from it.
“I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.” It is truly ironic that our way of life is the result of our choices yet we blame others, bad luck or God for our life and feel a victim to fortune. The Way of The Livingness frees one from this trap.
New Age Therapies could be seen as bandaids because until one begins to make loving choices and aligns to the soul anything else is really a relief. It may be that therapies like reiki or kinesiology are seen as helpful, and I myself have tried them both but in my experience there is nothing as powerful as a simple loving choice that honours the body. I can also see now that none of the New Age therapies I tried actually were from soul, which is why they just gave me a temporary relief, nothing truly changed as my way of life stayed the same and the quality of energy behind the therapies could not reconnect me to soul as they are sourced from the spiritual plane.
” Looking for answers” a challenging place to be , as the world will give us answers as you have found out. But the answers are make up of bits of truth but not the full truth ,as in not the full story. This is why people of spirit always feel lost and are always searching. The spirit is but an aspect of us that is lost without the Soul this is where ” The way of The Livingness ” comes in and brings about the aligning of the spirit with Soul and so the search is over.
Serge Benhayon has inspired many people to look deeper and consequently past the trappings of the so-called New Age which promised much but delivered little.And the health statistics worldwide are but one sign of it.
What’s interesting about the New Age is there are so many different versions of “the answer” in terms of presentations, modalities, workshops, and products. We could say they are different and diverse flavours of the same thing which is the energy of the spiritual plane. Serge Benhayon’s work and The Way of the Livingness has a one unifying truth, and this unity is something definitely missing in the differing flavours and factions of the spiritual New Age.
Words are words and anyone can say anything. It is what comes with words and what energy they carry and are spoken in that matters. The spiritual new age may speak of many things that are true – such as energy, but there is a big part missing. For me that is where I got tricked and trapped – it all sounded good but I was not discerning whether it felt true.
My spiritual new age trappings looked different but I was on the same path relentless and desperately searching for it. The Way of The Livingness has brought me back to me and that is IT.
The spiritual new age is a trap as it keeps you hooked and searching for more and taking you further and further away from your Soul. The Way of The Livingness is completely different as it reminds you of the truth and wisdom that resides within and reconnects you back to your Soul.
The title sums up your article perfectly. I would understand if some people reacted to what they were to read here, simply because all those other modalities are so heavily hooking and feed you with enough insecurity to have you rely on them, hence the need for everything to be outside of you when doing any ‘readings’ if you like, ie: the crystals and the pendulum etc. It feels all too easy if we just relied on our inner knowing…(says the voice in our head), so out there we search….far far away from where it all truly is.
There were many times in my life, as I was lurching from one drama to another, that I knew that it was “Time for change! I knew there had to be another way” but except for a momentary respite from one new age modality or another, life remained as challenging as it always had done. But the moment I sat down in my first ever Universal Medicine workshop presented by Serge Benhayon I knew that my searching was finally over for I knew without a doubt that I had come home to what I had been searching for, for what seemed like forever, and that was home to me.
If the spiritual new age is the answer, we would not need to be going back for more and more, like a hole that can never be filled. Eventually having a band-aid is never enough, it is very exhausting and the arrogance that has accompanied would prevent us to see this honestly, so eventually either our bodies have to warn us extremely or we would have to discard it to clear the dishonesty, lies and pride we have so unnaturally lived with.
The Spiritual New Age pathway is one where people jump into with the hope having a life that they can say it is complete. Yet, those that venture there have already a pattern of movement that they want to be confirmed and changed at the same time so they can feel complete. How far in denial of what their body tells them they are willing to be makes the whole difference in the world for each person who enjoin that path. What is truly confirmed is a question that is really worth pondering on.
I can relate to what you’ve shared Beverley with regards the Reiki and dowsing. I too dabbled very briefly with this, finding more comfort in the dowsing aspect because it seemed to take any ‘guesswork’ out of it. But I still didn’t feel comfortable with these modalities as there seemed no substance to them, no tangible lasting change. When I came across Serge Benhayon and experienced my first Sacred Esoteric Healing I was absolutely blown away… nothing could have been more tangible in terms of what I could feel changing in my body as he worked, and the result was nothing short of miraculous at the time. I never looked sideways at another of the spiritual new age modalities again, they couldn’t touch the power and truth of what I had felt that day.
When I connected to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon it opened me up to so many changes in my life and the truth of The Way of The Livingness. This then showed me also how shallow The New Age was.
It is through living the principles of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings as presented by Universal Medicine that I have been able to free myself from the traps of the spiritual new age, absolutely no growth or development in it only the indulgence of that which keeps you identified with what makes us live so much less than who we truly are.
Tricked and trapped – that is exactly the way with spirituality – an illusory comfort that we are made to think is better than yet so feeble beneath its might of arrogance once exposed by the true light.
Beautifully said Fumiyo, for any illusion definitely traps us into the monotony of patterns based on our unresolved hurts that dominate and inhibit us living our potential.
There is absolutely nothing new or advancing in the spiritual new age, from my life experience it hooks you into believing you are getting somewhere but in fact is the opposite as it buries everything to a later time where you have to deal with a greater level of intensity, in my opinion it should be called the spiritual retarding age.
I was “Trapped in the Spiritual New Age” as well as Guru’s for many years until I met Serge Benhayon, he was the personal over the years I was search for truth, that I knew when he spoke they where truth there was no seconding guess, questioning there was a solid knowing. Where as others and Guru’s I questioned, what was being presented or said was true or not.
The spiritual new age offers just enough segments of the truth that it’s easy to think that it is the truth. But that is only if we are listening to the words spoken and not the movements of those speaking the words. I know I have been sent way off track by being attracted to what is being said, rather than feeling if the presenter was walking their talk and living everything that is being shared.
I had some similar experiences when I dabbled in the spiritual new age… lured into the promise that it provided the answers, but at the same time seeing and feeling things that were incongruent to what I knew something of truth to be. The most harming part was the constant turning back on myself with self-condemnation when something didn’t work for me… I must be the problem, and hence my ‘issues’ were increasingly cemented, along with my declining health. All so obvious now in retrospect, and all so easily turned around and truly healed through Universal Medicine.
I also experienced that self condemnation when New Age Therapies did not work for me. There is a bit of an arrogance around the therapies and books, etc, as they are written and presented with such an absoluteness that they are “it”. Looking back I don’t recall any humility at all in the various modalities I tried or studied, so I can see now why many would feel that they are the problem, not the therapy or book.
The so-called Spiritual New Age is not usually taken for what it is; a deeply harming set of beliefs and practices that play with energy without saying so and that create footprints in the body that in truth do not help a person to evolve and expand in the divinity we are all and belong to.
The truth about sprit and Soul as presented by Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom has to be the most important and liberating teaching there is. Understanding and experiencing this has transformed my life in the most wonderful way and brought me great wisdom and understanding about life, myself and others.
The Spiritual New Age has trapped many a ‘genuine’ seeker of truth. This is partly because these are people who know that there is more to life than just the physical. They have felt things, seen things, and know that there is divinity. Along comes a slightly re-interpreted form of divinity and they (we!) are gone hook-line-and-sinker. Thank heavens for Serge Benhayon who has taught and is teaching all to learn to discern, first by clairsentience and then by true Intuition. It is then easy to feel that there is no Livingness in the Spiritual New Age – it is actually a very sneaky cul-de-sac.
There is so much I could relate to here, the arrogance of believing you are better than others who are not as ‘spiritually’ enlightened is a big one. Yet in all the New Age pursuits I tried there was no livingness that ever made me feel complete or inspire to live. There was no commitment to life, as you just asked the universe to do it for you… I never did get that. Universal Medicine supported me to get real, be real and commit to life, self and people.
I love it when people talk and walk ‘self-responsibility’ like this, it’s great to see. We run around into all manner of things in the hope of feeling better. I remember a brief run at Reiki and those style of ‘healing’ courses and what I remember clearly above all is the fact of having no control or no idea what I was really doing. It was a fly by the seat of your pants style of thing that as long as it was working who really cared. These things were ok until there was a challenge and you realised after all you had done nothing had changed. Universal Medicine brings that change by changing or supporting us to truly see our view. It’s only through standing on your own two feet and walking that things become clear.
There is nothing encompassing of our true nature in the spiritual new age, it is all an illusion we buy into in desperation of missing ourselves, it is only through our connection to our inner heart that we know we are all equal sons of God and have the capability and free will to claim that any moment of our life.
Accepting that our soul and spirit are indeed separate is vital to our understanding of human life and how this duality plays out within ourselves and in the world around us.
Yes, I agree the search is over because we are already everything we have been looking for and much, much more than we can even fathom!
I love your experimental approach to life, and how these experiments with food and lifestyle begun with questioning what life is really about. I get the sense that the ability to question and experiment in life is an essential part of learning what’s possible and what we’re inherently capable of.
It’s a bit of a trap the spiritual new age, if for no other reason than it enables you to connect to the world of energy, which is quite enamouring at first – you get a sense of the world beyond the limits of physicality. Of course, the question that is not asked enough in those circles though, is, who is this spirit who says that they are my guide. What is it exactly I am working with here. And if we do not seek to ask even these most basic questions, then we are easily lead astray and caught in the illusion that what we have connected to is “it”, when the truth is it is far from it.
There’s such a big difference in looking for someone to answer and fix all our health and well-being problems and in taking responsibility for our own well-being. Ultimately no book, no guru, no teacher can tell us what is right for our bodies – it’s something we need to take total responsibility for.
“Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator?” When one realises this it is as obvious as, ‘not being able to see one’s own nose’?
It is interesting to see how we know what is true the instant we see it, while we are willing to choose everything that is not true to save us from the endless unease in our bodies.
The things we do to supposedly find ourselves when all we have to do is look inside ourselves.
Constantly seeking an answer from the outside drains your body in the most profound way. For me, it has felt like being a contestant on a treasure hunt show on TV that never ends. It doesn’t matter if it’s new age modalities, sport or work, this game where you pursue ‘a holy grail’ is the same in the end. Nothing can replace building Love and understanding in your own body every day. What a relief it is to let go of the games – thank you Beverley for this reminder.
This sure is it – no more looking or searching. I too dabbled in the spiritual new age – albeit it quite quickly as nothing seemed to have all the answers – sure they played with energy something I loved but it was not relateable to everyday life and this is something Universal Medicine has brought to the fore – everything now makes sense. Especially the more I choose to understand life and see what is going on and the way I am. There are no more random occurrences which cannot be explained rather everything happens for a reason and I can choose to be aware and thus responsible for this or not – either way it is happening none the less!
So often we ignore what is right in front of us, because we have an outcome/picture already planned in our head, when we choose to come from energy first, what we feel, these pictures melt away. When it comes to healing and choosing a practitioner, it can only make sense to choose someone who comes from a lived quality, of walking their talk…we need to honour what we feel.
‘Spiritual New age’ entices many people who are looking for what is missing from their lives, yet it takes them further away from finding the answer, through The Way of The Livingness I have found my own answers and that true love is very different from the love I was brought up to believe was love.
We are all desperate for love and the ‘Spiritual New Age’ appears to satisfy this craving. Hence it is so enticing and in doing so it is actually evil, leading one away from Truth.
When people search for answers not all paths lead (yet) to Rome (Universal Medicine), but over time they will.
I do agree but for me the question is how long do I want to delay my return back to Soul, symbolised by Universal Medicine? I know that nothing I learnt on my spiritual foray benefited me in any way, in fact it puts doubts into me when I came across Universal Medicine that it was the real thing and so had an element of wanting to test it, so it had to prove to me it was the truth even though every bone and cell in my body was saying yes this is it – it is everything you have known but never been confirmed with before now.
“Trapped in the Spiritual New Age” – that was me. I know what the clutches of the New Age can feel like and it can be quite hard coming out of that illusion.
The most harmful and seductive Spiritual New Age teachings I’ve found to be are those that mimic the true teachings of the heart most closely. When I came to Universal Medicine I was full of ideas that I already know everything because I recognised what I was hearing or reading. But slowly I started to realise that what I thought I knew was very different because just like a phone number or an email address where even one digit wrong makes it completely useless, a teaching also needs to be considered in its totality including the energy and the intent behind it and if the person teaching it is actually living it consistently. It can be hard coming out of the illusion, but so worth it.
Thank you Beverley, this is a great sharing highlighting the importance to discern energy what is of truth and healing and what is not from truth and therefore harming. Thanks to Universal Medicine I was able to free myself from the entrapment of the illusion that is offered by the “spiritual new age” and now know in my body when I move aligned to love.
One thing I have learnt is – just because it seems beyond explanation in the natural world, eg sessions at John of God for instance, which defy current medical and scientific explanation – doesn’t mean that true healing is taking place, and in witnessing these demonstrations, albeit impressive, had left a deep sense of unease and that there was something missing in the whole puzzle. Through the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I can now clearly see and understand the difference and why it is so – and this understanding of healing feels true to my very core.
I like the point that you mentioned about your Reiki teacher who drank alcohol which did not feel right but that because of our need to have found ‘it’, the way out of our tensions, is bigger to be fulfilled than to trusting our own feelings. Whilst as you shared listening to our true feelings will lead us out of the ongoing search!
It was not so much that I felt trapped, but that I was just lost and when I looked in the obvious places for sign posts, they always led me down dead ends and strange little diversions. The Way of The Livingness has been a game changer because it is so practical, it’s a living way (and not written millennia ago) and when I get lost it’s there with clear directions on the way back to myself and to God.
With Serge Benhayon we get answers even to questions we have never been able to put together. With Serge Benhayon we learn how it feels when the body nods entirely to truth.
Why is the spiritual new age entrapping? Because in the first instance it points to a truth of sorts in that we are not just physical, that there is a multi-dimensionality to our existence. That part is true. The problem is that we are not equipped to discern what it is that we are connecting to with these spiritual experiences. Is there only one side to the coin? Who are these so called guardian angels that connect with us, or speak to us through a medium, who seemingly are able to predict our future, or read things about us that they should have no right to know? What is that place we escape to in meditation that feels so blissful? What are those images I saw? What are my dreams really about? And so the list of experiences goes on and on.
Energetic discernment is what is required to be developed for the student developing their awareness of such things, but that is not easy in a world that does not teach such things. And so for many of us, we are ill-prepared when such awareness is bestowed upon us. It is for this reason that historically, those that have arisen to realise the truth of their divine origins, or to put it another way, have re-connected with the fact of their Soul, as opposed to their spirit, have only done so with the support and leadership of one who has already walked the path before them.
I spent many years immersed in the Spiritual New Age movement always searching for truth, what kept me going was the occasional truth or a new teacher that inspired me – but eventually I would see through it all and knew this wasn’t the real deal. Meeting Serge Benhayon was a life changing moment as it was clear this man not only walked his talk but he was the real deal – and every cell in my body felt the truth and wisdom this man brings.
Your story is my story Beverly, right down to meeting Serge Benhayon through Chris James. The first time Chris mentioned Serge’s name I knew that I was about to meet him; the impulse could not be ignored. Little did I know though that I was about to be presented with the answers to the many questions about life that I had been asking forever, questions that the ‘New Age’ definitely not have the answers for.
A wise friend once asked me, “how does sitting on a mat crossed legged with your eyes closed for hours on end truly help humanity”?
That was one very wise friend Victoria. All I got from sitting cross legged was very painful joints, so much so that walking afterwards was not the easiest. How can that be healing? And as for spending hours doing this – getting up and going out into the world to be with humanity would in my book be the way to bring the help and healing that is needed.
There is a similar thread that runs through most of our experiences and dabblings with the spiritual new age – we all had that deep inner knowing that this wasn’t IT and there was much more to discover.
I can relate to the arrogance as a Reiki master as I too thought I knew a lot about energy because I had read many books and attended many courses on the spiritual ‘new age’ but it was all about knowledge and no livingness. The glamour had to go together with the self identification of being a ‘new age’ healer.
So many who are very aware that there are more dimensions to life than meets the eye and senses fall for the trap set that presents a version of multidimensionality that sounds right, looks right, has some familiar features, but is in fact a dead-end as it misses out the one crucial thing, and that is that true multi-dimensionality requires that one lives not for individuality but for the ALL.
So true Lyndy, there is no ‘escaping’ the fact that we are part of the ALL. Some of the spiritual practices I experienced were encouraging transcending this plane of life, which was in hindsight a rather selfish endeavour. The soulful way encompasses all of us.
Thank you Beverly for sharing your experience through the Spiritual New Age to finally arriving at the truth of Universal Medicine, I delved into the ‘New Age’ for a few years later on in my life, but never feeling it was quite it, it never satisfied the longing in my heart. When I attended a talk one evening by Serge Benhayon I instantly knew that I had come home, it was interesting that a part of me knew I had come home and a part of me just wanted to get the heck out of there. Some time later I would come to know about the two energies that can run our bodies.
I love the authority that this blog is written in. Claiming our truth is very powerful and very healing for others.
Everyone thinks that Universal Medicine is another spiritual pursuit but at the moment it stands alone in its field, it stands alone in this way for it calls out the spiritual game whilst honouring the depth of energy that is forever present in this multidimensional world. It does all of this whilst 100 percent supporting conventional western Medicine. It encourages its students to study energy, study life, study at University, to embrace big business, small business, community, true charity; it encourages the student to be as committed as possible without perfection to themselves and all things, family, work, friendships. It presents that life is service, not comfort, I have not seen any spiritual teaching on offer the encompasses its philosophy, none that calls for this responsibility and therefore sadly it will stand alone, misunderstood as a Religion until the time when it is understood and embraced around the world.
Well said Sarah – Universal Medicine was the first I ever encountered to call out the spiritual game, the game that is such a deceiver – it sounds good, looks good, nearly takes us there, but fails to deliver because it does not come from the comprehensive richness of the the inner-heart.
I begun to attend presentations run by Universal Medicine because I was interested in beginning to develop a true sense of health. I was living in Byron Bay at the time (for those that don’t know Byron Bay is a very spiritual new age town) Yet I was not sold by what I saw, the endless yoga and mediation, affirmations. It all seemed a bit hypocritical as I was seeing the same people out at Rave Parties taking drugs and getting on it.
The fact that Serge Benhayon was openly questioning the energetic integrity and life styles of the spiritual new age modalities and its Gurus really made my ears prick up. Finally someone that was willing to question everything but was not just criticising for the sake of it, he approached every subject with this inquisitive nature, nothing was off limits, Religion, education but he did it all with such love and understanding for why the world operates this way. What I found at the core of Universal Medicine was a universal medicine, one that is for all equally, there is no chosen one or Guru to pay homage to. The word Medicine was also redefined for me, I now view medicine as every choice I make, it is how I move and operate that will either heal or harm me and others.
This line made me giggle – ‘no “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being”, just a simple focus on my own breath’ as I have so been there meeting guides, beings and wandering down paths. The Ageless Wisdom is so simple that is why it is often overlooked. Connecting to yourself via your own breath. So simple. And free!
The ‘spiritual new age’ is a decoy set-up to deter those seeking (or shall we say avoiding?) truth. It is the vast array of ‘glittering crumbs’ that are laid on our path back home to the love within our heart. If we stop to inspect them, we are gone, set on an illusionary path of all that glitters and sparkles but contains not an ounce of true warmth. We each have a flame that flickers deep within us that by virtue of its origin is a guiding light that can never lead us astray. Where we stumble is looking outward to the web of false light set to entice us and lead us away from that which is always calling us home – the voice of our Soul and Thy Father, the place where true Fire burns.
This is it indeed. The Way of The Livingness is the only thing I have found that offers such a fundamental change of energetic beingness away from a constant pursuit of ‘it’ to realising that what we have been seeking is in fact already within us – and delivers it too. Many spiritual new age modalities in my experience offer something akin to this, but Universal Medicine actually delivers. Serge Benhayon is the real deal without doubt.
Much of what you have written about Beverley I can relate to, especially searching with the New Age modalities, but even when I was taking part there was always this niggle that there was more and that the claims were half baked. Like you I was observing the teachers and many things were popping out – things like favouritism, one getting angry over money, another having a tantrum, one person saying one thing and doing another. Slowly I was getting to see these things because there was no consistency with any of them, but having been around Serge Benhayon now for ten years he always shows love equally to everyone.
‘I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation, a simple technique where you focus on your breath and make the choice to breath gently… no “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being”, just a simple focus on my own breath.’ And what a breath of fresh air the Gentle Breath Meditation is! Yes I too have traipsed around a few magical forests in my time and found nothing changed as a result. THE GBM on the other hand is the simplest, most practical and portable tool I’ve ever come across – and one of the most profound in terms of the changes it rings. In my case, a gradual stilling of my nervous system and sense of true balance – physical and emotional – on a consistent basis for the first time in a long time. And all in 5-10 minutes per day. Genius.
There is a knowing deep within us that there is more, more than this third dimensional life we lead which can keep us searching outside of us for years, as in my case. Trouble is while looking outside of ourselves we miss the simplicity of the fact we are but a breath away from reconnecting to the divinity within.
The most harmful thing about new age modalities is that you think you are becoming more enlightened, however they are taking you in the opposite direction
The marriage of western medicine and traditional ageless medicine is one that is our way forward.
When I was in high school became a fan of philosophy and sayings/quotes, but when presented with Serge Benhayon I didn’t like him at first. One day I realised the difference, Serge Benhayon is presenting real and true responsibility in life, where as many quotes that are around sound good and you can like them but not truly relate one ounce of it to real life.
‘Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.’ Oh yes I know how arrogant I was because of making the choice of being ‘alternative’ but I was constantly searching to fulfil myself with another course, workshop, treatment and it was never it. In a way it had the energy of entertainment, distracting me from the real world and from the deep knowing that everything is already there in each and everyone of us.
“The search is over – This is IT.” I so agree Beverly. Having also searched for over twenty years, but never felt each spiritual organisation I came across offered the whole picture or the whole truth, coming to Serge Benhayon’s presentations felt like coming home. My body said yes.
This was very similar to my experience with searching and the spiritual new-age path. Reading your story though I remembered that ever present anxiety and nervousness when especially using new-age techniques such as Reiki and kinesiology, to just name two. Many around me including myself just put it down to a lack of confidence in what I was doing but it never felt true and I always felt like a fraud yet I had this enormous arrogance of being better than everyone else. What I feel now is how the spiritual new-age for me was like a massive illusion and emotional backpack on my front and back that assured I delayed connecting back to my soul.
I can relate to feeling “tricked and trapped by the spiritual new age”. I got caught up in it for a while and it had such a hold on me. I remember when I released myself from its grips and I looked back and felt like I had been under a spell.
Yes that is exactly how it felt for me also Nikki, like being under a spell and I also see this observing others who are in the spiritual new age now. It was like being in a cloud or a bubble of believing you were above others and all consequences. One of the mantras that I said, and really needed to break through, that is quite common out there is ‘if it’s meant to be or if it’s meant to happen it will happen’. This was a biggie and a really great excuse to use to not need to take responsibility for anything.
There are many people, myself included that have had this sense that there must be more to life than just what we can physically see and what our senses can pick up. We can’t see, touch, taste or smell large clouds of anger or sadness in rooms or coming from people and yet we can feel them even though they are not physical. The Spiritual New Age taps into this knowing that we are more than the world around us but just like we can sense emotions we can sense what is and what isn’t true. I have found many of the same contradictory feelings come from mainstream religion and the spiritual new age. However I have not experienced this ‘something’s just not quiet right feeling’ when Serge Benhayon presents on the metaphysical aspects of life, he presents them as a part of the world we live in, not something extra special or allusive or out of reach but a part of everyday life as it is.
When you are into the spiritual new age it can have a grip on you and you have no idea of its strength. The best way of keeping you trapped is having you thinking that you are totally free, that’s usually when you are the most held within a consciousness that doesn’t want you to be more aware about energies. What is good though is that common sense highlights a lot of the weirdness of the spiritual new age and usually people can see what is just weird and doesn’t make sense and what is actually true. The great thing is that what is truly true is running in our veins so we just need to listen a bit more carefully and what is true will reveal itself very clearly. And no need to be shamed if we have let ourselves be fooled.
“Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon”. This captures the same way I felt after discovering Universal Medicine and how I had actually walked further away from myself and created a web of a mess in my body. How I ever thought I was ‘better’, even though I was getting sicker, was just part of the illusion I lived in for many years. Thank goodness I was led to a crossroads that showed me very clearly how energy works and knowing and choosing which one we are aligning to matters thereafter in the choices made.
Even though we may not know the words for it, we do know the energies at play in the world. We can feel and see the astral energy play out and feel Fiery energy when expressed. The Reiki master being an alcoholic is a great example of that. We know when something feels off and learning to honour those feelings is having a relationship with ourselves at a much deeper level.
It’s one of the greatest crimes – that there are so many false paths for people to journey down when they fall an awakening in themselves, or call to connect with something bigger, grander, and divine. As a result people get lost down dead ends, and invest years of their lives into movements that go nowhere. A crime when the call to initiate can be the prelude to a wonderful journey of self discovery, to the magic of God, and to life not being about self but being about part of the whole.
It is ironic how we seek answers to what is going on for us that all we have been told by the world never seems to fulfil, and search for such answers from someone who supposedly knows, only to be presented by those true teachers the fact that the answers we seek are within. For those who want concrete solutions this is never going to appeal. For those that seek true healing, this is the truth they have always sought.
Reading how you “overlook” that the “Reiki Master” had a drinking problem is a whole blog of its own. It is stunning how we all manage to do that – to be so very selective in what we choose to see and to override the truth that is so very clearly before us. Every time I finally choose to see something I had not been looking at it is always quite stunning to observe how blind I was to it previously. It is always easier to see blind spots in our friends. What strange creatures we are!
It is so easy to fall for the false light of the spiritual journey when we are not connected with our hearts, as it is only when we move with that connection we can discern that which is not true and creates harm to ourselves and others around us.
I suppose the greatest trap of the spiritual new age is that it offers a tantalising taste of the fact that the world is not just based on physicality, and in that it sparks a familiarity, a memory of a form of life that we intrinsically understand, and yet don’t live – limited as we are by our own physicality. The problem with this is that we become enamoured by the glamour of what it offers – the elation of someone being able to read your future and past, the “magical” healing moments where pain is taken away that otherwise could not be healed by conventional medicine etc. For all its fraudulent tricksters, there is enough truth in the spiritual new age to attract people to what it offers. The problem with all of this – we don’t know what we are dealing with. That information you “access” – where does that come from? The truth is we don’t know enough about the world of “energy”, and so discernment is required, for if we are to be honest, the world is not all light and love. And therefore it stands to reason that the immediate world beyond ours – or that we call the spiritual world – must also have “forces” that equate to what we see in the physical. In other words, just because something is energetic, and supposedly has powers beyond the physical, that does not mean we should be enamoured by it without first questioning its intent or source. In other words, as Serge Benhayon has always presented, and Bailey before him, energetic discernment is of the foremost importance. So by all means, accept and embrace that there is a spiritual world, don’t deny that people can connect to something that can give them information about your past, or that spirits exist, or that there are forms of energy healing that can “cure” physical symptoms. But do not become enamoured by it, and always discern its true intent and effect upon you and others – for otherwise it leads to the path of deep illusion.
I was part of the ‘spiritual new age’ too Beverley, and although I never really took to reiki or crystal healing I did dabble in some very strange practices which kept me entranced for a number of years in the belief that I was on my way to some kind of salvation. Once I had read all the many new age books I could get my hands on the novelty soon began to wear off and I realised that the IT I was searching for was not in books, pendulums, waving my hands around someone’s chakras or meditating on my navel, the truth of what I was searching for was inside me, my very own body and once I had found what I had been looking for through Universal Medicine I knew my journey home had begun. Thank you for sharing your story which I am sure is a mirror for many who are searching for their Soul and looking in all the wrong places.
Beverly, you talked about appearing confident and calm on the outside but on the inside struggling with anxiousness and feeling like a mess. It seems to me this is actually quite a common scenario amongst many people who spend much time with spiritual pursuits, meditation and healings, and this has certainly been my experience too. There is an appearance that everything is OK and under control, but deep inside there is an angst and a knowing that this is not “IT”. The key thing with this is that people are actually very very sensitive and we see and feel so much. Sometimes the intensity of what we feel and see can actually feel rather overwhelming. However, it does not have to be such an experience – We all actually have access to true support and a true sense of calm and completeness, and this is something that I have learnt from Serge Benhayon’s teachings. I too used to appear OK on the outside and yet have such anxiousness on the inside (and at times this still can happen) but thanks to the real tools (which for me simply started with the Gentle Breath Meditation) i have been able to handle life in ways I would never have deemed possible, to be so much more a part of life, more so than I could ever have fathomed, and actually enjoy the days and the completeness that lies within. Of course this is not with perfection and there are days when I feel overwhelmed, but then I just bring myself back to the basics and it does not take long to re-turn to myself.
I know and have met people who have had very positive experiences with new age healing modalities such as Reiki and crystal healing, and I do not question the authenticity of their claims. Nor do I question the supposed amazing ability of clairvoyants and palmists, and have had experienced first hand their ability to be quite perceptive about past and future events.There is much about this world that we don’t understand.
Similarly, I have received physical healing from a well known massage therapist who was able to physically manipulate my body to instantly heal what were otherwise chronic back, hip and knee injuries that standard physiotherapists were at a loss how to treat.
HOWEVER, looking back, the question I ask with reference to all of those experiences, is “was it true healing?”
For in their own way, each of those experiences brought about a certain physical relief that could not be denied. But the real clincher that for me that exposed the falsity of each of these experiences was not that they did not provide some tangible feeling of relief and even physical healing, for that they did. And even in the case of the palmists and clairvoyants, there was something psychologically reassuring about those sessions in the sense you kind of felt reassured that a total stranger could know and relate to you so well.
But the fact is that none of those experiences actually caused me to change the momentum of my ways that caused my predicament in the first place. In other words none of those treatments truly addressed the root cause of the problem, but rather in their own way, sought to treat the symptom. Even in the case of energy healing such as Reiki, it was still symptom orientated, especially if you consider what is providing the energy behind the supposed modality.
In short, the new age world is dangerous, not because it does not at times offer some physical and psychological relief, but because we really don’t know what we are playing with when it comes to energy, and that on its own is food for thought that asks us to consider energetic modalites beyond just the normal scientific analysis, and beyond assessing them according to their supposed physical and psychological benefits.
I love your title Beverley and the acknowledgement of the freedom offered by The Way of The Livingness – no requirements just an opportunity to connect to our Souls and feel our true purpose and the steadiness that comes with that.
‘For the first time in my life I had a glimpse of feeling whole and complete without the underlying emptiness and anxiety that had kept me relentlessly searching.’ Yes it is amazing how the Gentle Breath Meditation brings us back to ourselves and from there opens up the possibility of a profound return to our Soul and letting go of the myriad of distractions that we have surrounded ourselves with in a vain attempt to fill the emptiness created by looking outside of ourselves for the answers when they are there within us just waiting to be connected to.
This is ‘IT’ indeed Beverley. I felt it from the first moment I heard about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. No longer was there any impulse to continue searching for myself for I have always been right here – complete, divine and a master of life all inside just patiently waiting for me to wake up and reconnect.
Beverley its a great blog you share here as it helps many people appreciate that when we feel there is something more to life that we have to check what the “claimed” answer is. There are many alternative approaches to healing, health and life however like you it was only when I came to Universal Medicine that I found a way of living that not only was truly complementary but deeply foundational.
What I find interesting is how the Spiritual New Age can be accomodated to one’s life without the need to change how we live. Instead, Universal Medicine focuses on how we live. Our livignness is everything.
I too once sought many external healing methods and answers. Looking back what I was looking for was connection to myself. I was never going to find it by looking out and I can very much relate to the anxiety in that. Since turning my focus inward I have discovered a stillness and also discovered that the more inward I go, the more outward I become as well – not seeking anything from the outside but sharing myself with the world.
“Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.” Ah thank you Beverly I remember that trap too, only too well. I attended a ‘mind body spirit fair’ not too long ago and was disturbed at how many ‘healers’, card readers etc…. seemed to be taking advantage of the emotionally vulnerable.
Being someone who also “was always looking for someone else to give me the answer and for someone else’s approval for me to feel okay about myself”, when the New Age rolled into town I was there in the front row convinced that the elusive answer was about to be presented to me. I couldn’t have been more wrong with the endless searching coming up with some weird, and definitely not very wonderful, modalities that only served to take me further and further away from myself, until the day I met Serge Benhayon and everything began to change. My search turned inward where I finally found what I had been looking for; the glorious me!
What makes the spiritual New Age so damaging is that it is so close to the truth of the Ageless Wisdom that it almost sounds like it and in fact many think it is one and the same thing. But it is ever so lightly tweaked away from the truth, a reinterpretation of it (from the ‘cult of the individual standpoint).’ Evil is just a reconfiguration of divinity, it has no source in and of itself, but it soon, as we gather and say yes to it, becomes a ‘Source’.
As the example of the Reiki makes clear, those that fall into the arms of the Spiritual New Age only find a slightly different version of the energy that is familiar to them so they do not have a problem with what they feel is normal (like the Reiki Master drinking). The Ageless Wisdom, instead, is a totally different energetic experience. It is also deeply familiar but in a much deeper level (the level of the Soul) and it is this Soulful familiarity that makes us realise the trap of the Spiritual familiarity.
“Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage.” This was a revelation for me as well Beverley and on attending presentations at Universal Medicine I knew I had found the truth, the IT.
There is always that pull from our soul to know there is more to life that we currently live. A tension that creates that deep anxiety. We know where we are from, we know we have a purpose here and until we re-connect to that, the tension is always there. Universal Medicine and the Gentle Breath Meditation are the means by which we can reconnect to that purpose inside us.
Beverly I had lots of friends growing up that also felt there had to be more to life than the physical, but what? There never seemed to be anything that was complete. I recall being enchanted by some of the crystal shops after a film “the craft” came out but a passing fad left an empty hole. Acupuncture came close but didn’t help me shift anything permanently so it was by great virtue that I had a session with Serge Benhayon and life started to make true sense for the first time.
It took me a while to see through the ‘New Age Spiritual Healing’ illusion and the great trap it is by promising what we seek and know to be true but not delivering truth and thus no healing. Without the Ageless Wisdom teachings by Serge Benhayon I would not have developed the ability to discern energy and consciousness like I can do today. The difference of spirit and Soul, pranic and fiery energy etc, re-awakening our innate clairsentience (the ability to feel and know energy), are crucial to see through the veil of illusion or actually the many layers of it – this is part of evolution, the process of developing our awareness of what is and what is not of truth.
I can relate to a lot of what you’ve shared Beverly, I was very caught up in the spiritual new age for many years too… although all too readily dropped every last bit of it as soon as I came across Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom. Like you, it was the first time everything made sense, and I mean everything, nothing was left out. Me, my life, others and the world started to make sense in a way that empowered me in it too, it was profoundly life changing, and I have never looked back since that time.
Spiritual arrogance is a stubborn resistance to the truth of the Soul knocking on our door.
As Beverly clearly elaborates, being a student of Universal Medicine is, in truth, being a student of your Soul. Finding the Soul’s wisdom embodied in an organisation that shares it in so many ways, is like finding a fresh, revitalising source of water from a natural spring after travelling through the desert.
You really have been around the spiritual block, great that you have found a practical and supportive teaching as The Way of The Livingness, in this I have also found something that makes complete sense.
‘The search is over – This is IT.’ Exactly what I found too, Beverley. The constant restless searching is now a thing of the past.
To come from a place of constant searching and never attaining what you seek, to a place where you can rest and know you have found everything that resonates truth and delivers true settlement within, is beyond priceless.
Thank you Beverley I can relate to so much of what you shared. I first experienced spiritual healing modalities as a young teenager and from there slowly became more engrossed with the spiritual new age therapies on offer. However after a few years I was getting sicker as well as continually searching for answers. Thank goodness I met Serge Benhayon when my search stopped and I turned myself around to return to what was inside all along.
It is easy to become enamoured with the world of energy, for it is something that is natural to feel. The problem when we first reawaken to this fact is that we do not discern what it is we are feeling, or what or who is behind the energy we feel, so excited are we by the fact that we actually feel something.
The search is over – This is IT. Absolutely Beverley – the reason we continue searching is we know we are yet to find truth but I knew I’d found it when I came upon Universal Medicine.
The spiritual new age seems to provide us with what we think we are looking for but actually locks us further into the illusion. Universal Medicine on the other hand offers us truth to help unbind us from whatever we’ve bought into in the past.
Remarkable transformation Beverley, what you’ve share is inspiring. It is so true, to feel empowered and live soulfully we do not need anything outside of us to connect us to that. We have everything already within us to be all of who we are, we are all deeply powerful and no outside source can provide or replace this. We can connect to our innate power by simply choosing to do so.
Hi Beverley
That ‘spiritual new age’ seems to take us further out into the never never rather than back into the light of the soul. And like a glass wall the arrogance is hard to penetrate.
Understanding that being in and loving our bodies is the start to our reconnection with soul is an amazing revelation and celebration really. Instead of ‘out there’ we connect to ‘in here’ and BHAM life begins to unfold.
Ha, ha Beverley, I smiled as I read your blog as I could so relate to your experience as being somewhat similar to mine. I always knew that something wasn’t ‘right’ with this world but it wasn’t until I was 35 that I discovered all the so called wonders of the spiritual world. This illusionary way kept me distracted for a number of years, although at the time I thought I had found the truth. There was something fundamentally missing though, and it wasn’t until I found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine when I was 53 that I found out what it was, LOVE. Nowhere on my spiritual travels had I really experienced the feeling of love. Emotional love yes, but not true love, and that this true love was inside of me. It came as a bit of shock at first, to realise that I wasn’t special or gifted either (another hook of my lonely spiritual world) but that I was equal to everyone else and they were equal to me, and in fact when I got over the shock I felt empowered for the first time, because I could feel the truth of what Serge Benhayon presented to me, and that I had all that I ever needed right inside my own body, and not, as you discovered also, through crystals, pendulums, chanting, guided meditations, numerous new-age books, or any other tools outside of our very own loving inner-hearts.
Love your blog Beverley and having dabbled in spiritual new age modalities, I could very much relate to it….everything asks you to look outside yourself…..the pendulum the guru, the stones the crystals seeing each one as the answer to a dilemma or problem and the arrogance that comes with this, we have the answers that no one else has. “I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.” Simple and no need to give our power to anything outside of us.
The spiritual new age has many tantalising offerings with promises of a better life, a more capable life, a life where you can handle great adversity. And no one can be judged or blamed for wanting to explore this, because pretty much everyone knows that there is more to life than misery, stress and disfunction. However, what I have noticed about the spiritual new age modalities and the whole movement in general, is that it starts with the premise that you are broken or in-capable to begin with. Where as Universal Medicine starts with the fact that you are a Son of God and already an equal member of the Universal Whole, so there is no need to go anywhere or to do anything extraordinary, just the fact of you is more than enough for divinity to be here on earth, and with this comes the responsibility of awareness. Perhaps this is ultimately why the spiritual new age has such a great hold on so many of us, as we try to avoid the responsible place we have as parts of the whole.
Thanks Beverley, the futility in searching for ‘the one’ who will guide us out of our miseries is a common thread in spiritual new age modalities. Yet it doesn’t work in the long term and in fact often leaves people feeling let down and mistrustful. When I first started to attend Universal Medicine and heard Serge Benhayon present to us all being ‘the one’ and that what we carried inside of us that what we were seeking all along, I felt things start to shift. This understanding turns everything around and makes everything accessible because we only need to look inside ourselves for answers.
There are no doubt many healing techniques connect to the fact of energy. The question is, what energy are they connecting to, and if we do not know, should we not take the time to consider then what it is we are playing with? I was not into the spiritural new age, but I did occasionally, at another’s bequest, go see a clairvoyant or palmist. On occasion I found them to be very accurate. I similarly once tried a Ouija board and I could not deny there were forces at play there – something actually quite easily felt. For a long time I felt that clairvoyants were picking up on things, but they were at best only picking up on your emotional state of being, and thus why often they ended up telling you just what you wanted to hear. On other occasions, I had no answer for their ability to read things past and future with amazing accuracy. The question all of this raises, and I had never considered till I met Serge Benhayon, however, is what were they tapping into, and what was behind what was giving them such information? If it was spirits, what was their intent? etc etc etc. Spiritualism is not as harmless as we might think, especially if we give our power away to thinking that we can find answers to life through another’s predictions, rather than reflecting on our own choices.
Many of us have been down the spiritual new age path seeking answers. One part that is a stand out for me is that all the people who led/practised these modalities never lived what they taught yet like you, Beverley, I clocked it but overrode what I was noticing because I didn’t dare question what was going on. These people were the experts, right?? When I started to attend Universal Medicine and observed how Serge Benhayon and his family conducted themselves, I was blown away by their consistency in how what they spoke about was what they also lived. It has shown me that it is possible to both talk and walk ‘the talk’ at the same time and that anything less less than that is reason to ask myself questions.
Thanks Beverley your blog reminded me of the spiritual new age path I was on for many years and going absolutely nowhere except backwards in my evolution. I agree with you The Way of the Livingness is ‘IT’ – the search is over for me, finding this True Religion has been the most beautiful discovery in my life.
Hi Beverly, this blog resonated very much with me and my experience with Yoga – how outwardly I seemed very calm and knowing, yet inwardly I was felt nervous when teaching and felt an imposter, even though I could do all the postures. Universal Medicine was also for me the key to unlocking all the self doubt and embracing my true expression, through which I discovered that that life and teaching or any other roles we assume in life are not separate and the quality brought to all is an ever evolving loving truth.
How exhausting is it to continually search for something, I know I spent a long time searching following the dangling carrot offered by the spiritual new age. This did nothing but distort my view of reality and add anxiousness to the already nervous person I was.
I have recently become aware of the many people who are searching desperately for something, the intensity of our times means many are checking out with stimulating substances or choosing something which they hope will take away the pain – like spirituality. Unfortunately much of this is done in vein as unless we truly choose to deal with our hurts and take responsibility for every aspect of the way I life has turned out we just keep going around and around in the same illusion. I know because I spent years on the spiritual merry go round. Thankfully I was given a stop moment and instead of choosing again irresponsibility and illusion I changed the energy I was in and choose real love and real healing.
‘I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.’ This line is powerful, because without this self responsibility, we allow ourselves to wallow in our self pity which is then impossible to grow from.
‘I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.’ I think this sentence is true for so many of us in all kinds of situations. We are in such a habit of assuming that something or someone else always knows best. We leave ourselves behind and don’t stop to feel and accept that actually, we know a lot more than we choose to want to know.
Isn’t it amazing that although we know that all the answers are really inside and we do know, we don’t trust it and instead look everywhere to find the missing link. This takes many of us into the world of the New Age and the plethora of alternative or complimentary modalities, philosophies, etc. Like you Beverley it was not until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine did I get the understanding of spirit and soul that had been eluding me, and what then made, and still makes, all the difference.
I can relate to all you have said here Beverley and it is only when I met Serge Benhayon that all the unanswered questions I still had, after years of studying to become a professional kinesiologist, were answered and immediately made sense. It was then I stopped the search and true healing in my life began.
I can relate to trying to find answers through alternative forms of healing and trying everything on offer only to discover that all I was doing was burying the issues even further into my body. Listening to Serge Benhayon and attending the courses of Universal Medicine have helped me to realise that to release the ill energy from the body it’s necessary to become honest and feel what’s there to be felt and this is the path to true healing.
I have had the same experience, I had buried my issues further into my body with various alternative therapies. It was only once I met Serge Benhayon, that I understood about being honest with what I was feeling in my body and to allow the feelings of hurt to come to heal.
So much of the spiritual new age is based on giving your power away – to a pendulum, to the universe, to a crystal. No responsibility, no acceptance of one’s own part in how life has turned out.
I agree Adam, whilst I was heavily involved with the New Age modalities which started with Spiritualism when I was 14 years old, and then later in life progressed onto crystals, Reiki and much more, there was always a feeling that something was not right. The answers were still not forthcoming or there was an element of truth but just not quite there, and at the time I just couldn’t put my finger on it. In the end I just said to myself this is not love and withdrew from everything I was involved with, and then waited – two years later I found Serge Benhayon via a friend. Then without any doubt I knew what I was hearing was Truth.
Wonderful to read about someone moving out of such a comprehensive life of illusion, finding their way back to their own true heart, and then honestly writing about it, not holding back, so that others have the possibility of finding the way back to themselves, because this is what humanity needs now… Recognition, honesty, appreciation, and then the focus and diligence to let go of the old props and habits.
Yes cjames2012, it is as if when each one of us steps out of an illusory way of living and writes about it we are sharing a road map out of there! It will possibly not be exactly the same detail by the feeling of what takes place is there for all to connect to.
Very true, cjames2012. The equation doesn’t compute without the commitment, focus and diligence ‘to let go of the old props and habits’.
“I am now part of the student body of Universal Medicine and I endeavour to live the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which makes a lot more sense compared to anything else I have come across in my relentless search for truth. I have found The Way of the Livingness”.
With you and many others Beverley I to am now part of the student body, we have indeed found the Way of the Livingness; what a divine blessing.
I have tried many things like you, Beverley. There were some things that would ask me to be disciplined for a limited period of time – as in 10 days silent retreat; no drug and alcohol for 4 weeks (or however long that was) after a healing attunement etc. – this gave me a false perception that I was ‘working on myself’ – which in honesty was just a stimulation, so I never considered to stop and look at the way I was living and self-responsibility. There are just too many things that would set us up to believe that we are better-than by feeding us the half-baked truth while shielding the access to the very Truth.
Absolutely The Way of the Livingness is it as is the energetic responsibility that goes along with this way of living.
Yes, Beverly, after all search is over for me too. The Way of Livingness is it.
Yes Beverley, the search is over as this is IT and I knew this right from when I attended the first Retreat in Lennox head and heard Serge Benhayon present, back in 2008. That was a huge turning point for me.
This is a great reminder Beverley of how I came to be part of the Universal Medicine Student Body. I could find no real essence or substance in anything I connected to in the New Age and it wasn’t until I had a healing with Serge Benhayon at the encouragement of a friend that slowly, I connected to the teachings by Serge of the Ancient Wisdom and then I knew this was it, I had come home!.
Thanks for this reminder Beverley as I was so into the hippy trip spiritual new age nonsense and I have to call it this because it really never did make any sense to me, but the addiction bug was there so I kept going for more hits and that included selling two properties to feed my addiction of travelling around the world for the next best spiritual course, workshop or modality as my search for Truth just got bigger.
Like you I chose not to see my Masters in one of my courses where I spent over £40,000 UK pounds BOTH had drinking problems. They were in this position of mastery when I met them and my job was to follow them, be a good student, get it right, keep attending, feel guilty if I ever missed a course, never once consider I was going to be in debt and just keep going and staying under them as there was no way anyone else in the world could take their position. Gosh how sick is that and no surprise my body was always getting sick.
Enter Universal Medicine and how come in the last 8 years I have not been sick?
I just might be worth studying to see what it is that I am LIVING because it works and the answers come from Serge Benhayon and his company Universal Medicine.
Wow Bina -your experience really supports the title of this blog post – Tricked and trapped in the spiritual new age…
This is such a familiar story Beverley and one I can readily relate to. I was an advocate of Homeopathy for several years before it hooked me in and I studied it to a professional level thinking ‘This was it’ and what I had been looking for all my life. But I always had questions around its many facetted approach and nobody could give me the answers I was looking for. It wasn’t until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and was introduced to the fact that the spirit and soul were two completely different things that I realised I had been ‘barking up the wrong tree’. Serge Benhayon was able to answer the many burning questions I had with integrity, simplicity and absolute love, and I knew immediatley I had found the truth I was looking for. I had, and still have no doubt that “THIS IS MOST DEFINATELY IT”!
Yes – I agree Universal Medicine is IT after trying everything other modality thinking “this is the one” only to then be searching again for something else. I am so glad that exhausting part of my life is over and so much more simple now.
Thank you Beverly for sharing your experience of coming back to the truth. I love your words ” . I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being. ” Choosing to be responsible with love.
I agree Jill, Beverley’s words, “I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being” are truly inspiring. Ultimately we all have to be responsible for our own choices and understand and appreciate the enormous impact that they can have not only on ourselves but also on others lives.
Being met with the integrity that Serge Benhayon lives is quite an amazing experience and one cannot but be touched by the level of truth and love he lives and expresses with all equally so.
Yes nicolesjardin, the difference can be truly felt. Serge Benhayon is a moving beacon of Love and humility in all that he lives and expresses. Once this has been experienced the marker is set in the body and always known. Thank you Beverley for sharing your experience.
Well said Beverly, and yes ‘the search is over – This is IT.’
Very true Beverley, Universal Medicine is it and the positive life changes are evident from people all over the world who have adopted The Ageless Wisdom.
So many things these days ask us to look outside of ourselves for the answer but in truth it is taking us away from the answers we hold already. We just need to listen to the wisdom all ready there.
Spot on Kelly – I had a giggle when I read this line – “Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator?”. We have all that we need within us. At times support is needed to remind us that we have it all within and to navigate and let go of the stuff that hangs around us that stop us from knowing and living that it is all within. But it is all there. Which is so different to most spiritual learnings that keep us wanting more to obtain ‘it’.
Exactly Kelly. How did we get to this point where we have lost so much confidence in our own knowing? We don’t trust ourselves, and therefore don’t trust others, so we sit on a merry-go-round literally going nowhere.
Beverly, upon revisiting your blog this morning I was prompted to remember the emotion of it all, that time, sitting with those of whom I chose to believe knew more than myself, giving my power away – allowing myself to be led, like the proverbial bull with the large metal ring in its’ nose. To repeat a few of your words “On the course I cried a lot and saw all of the emotion as part of the salvation I sought.” – and I remember, the crying was delusionally believed to be proof that we were connected to ‘l-o-o-o-ve’. You know, it didn’t feel right, but at that time from my own place of emptiness just chose to go along with it thinking that one day it would all make sense to me. When I recall that time, I can see the total irresponsibility of this behaviour – just going along with it at the time because others seemed to know what they were doing. I thank God I woke up to myself and began to listen to the promptings of Soul, and subsequently found my way home again through the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
When I heard Serge Benhayon talking about the difference between spirit and Soul it all made so much sense and it made me realise that all the years I had attended church and religious education at school no one had ever talked about it. In Serge I had met someone who knew the truth and presented the truth of the Ancient Wisdom that had always been available for us to choose to be aware of.
“Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.” I found that this trap also included the arrogance of feeling that I was better than other human beings because I was involved in these modalities. Others were somehow ‘lost’ while I was looking for answers and thought that I had found them. But in truth, I was still lost, I was just chasing a rabbit down a hole thinking that it was showing me the way.
I found the spiritual new age to be a complete distraction, with the allure of the intangible and the promise of enlightenment around the next corner, but Universal Medicine blew all of that out of the water in an instant. Now I can see it for the smoke and mirrors and glittering lights it is. Even before I had encountered UM I was beginning to despair of finding something that actually felt true in this world, but had continued searching partly as a way to keep moving and not have to stop and feel the choices I had been making. Universal Medicine brought this long overdue Stop on the first day I heard Serge speak, and now I live knowing the choice I have, to continue the distraction or connect to the truth of life in every moment.
I totally agree with you Annie regarding the spiritual new age being a complete distraction. I let this distract me for a few years and looking back I can honestly say I didn’t learn anything true. With Universal Medicine on the other hand I have learnt what true evolution is.
Thank you Beverly. I think it’s so interesting how prepared we are to let others dictate the rights and wrongs of how we should be, live. I know I’ve been doing it for some time now also. I’m more aware of it now, but it’s still creeping in at times and I can be quite oblivious to it. There’s a lack of willingess to take responsibility for oneself when we give our power away to someone else to drive our life.
Many people are tricked in the illusion and glamour of what the new age represents. What is taught is not full truths and the majority of people certainly do not live a life of integrity. Not once in my time in that world was spirit or soul explained or considered to be different. When I met Serge Benhayon, what he presented, who he was and how he was, showed me the way of true teaching and how to live a life of true soul full expression.
I too Roberta would listen to presentations on spiritual matters, and the obfuscation between spirit and soul was so clever, that I just assumed it must be me not getting it because no-one else was questioning the discrepancies. The first day I heard Serge Benhayon speak he made it crystal clear the difference between spirit and soul and how we can choose to live from one or other. One of the most important revelations ever in this world presented in the first lecture I heard. And most of us are living our lives in oblivion to it – but without the awareness of this fact, we do not have the choice to make between living as a spirit or with the Soul.
“This is what I had been looking for!… It was the one thing that supported me to connect to me and it was as simple as connecting to my breath.”. It is that simple. For a couple of years I started with the Gentle Breath each morning at it was the best thing I could do. How lovely to feel myself coming back to me, to feel my own Precious and Lovely warmth flowing through my heart and lungs and later through my whole body. Yes, this is it – The Way Of The Livingness. If everything is energy, we are energy so the choice is ours to connect to Our Souls or not. It is a Way to find Ourselves again and than to serve from that inner connection. With the Joy and Love in Our hearts. Bringing Soul to earth.
The spiritual new age search is a constant striving and seeking of something, a life of complication and emotion turmoil. In contrast, the journey of the Soul is one of simplicity, truth, love and harmony, forever joyful – no more seeking but re-turning inwards to our innate inner knowing that has always been there – and a gorgeous way of living!
Thank you Beverley – I had never heard anything from any Spiritual New Age therapy that resonated truth in my body until I heard Serge Benhayon present and attended Workshops through Universal Medicine. The Gentle Breath meditation connects me to my innermost, this alone was the hugest gift ever.
I love your description of the Gentle Breath Meditation Beverley – “..a simple technique where you focus on your breath and make the choice to breath gently… no “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being”, just a simple focus on my own breath. This is what I had been looking for!… It was the one thing that supported me to connect to me and it was as simple as connecting to my breath.” It is an amazingly simple and yet profound technique.
This is IT Beverley as you claim so beautifully. The light is on and I am home thanks to Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon. The Way of the Livingness and my power to choose is rightfully back in my inner heart thanks to the Gentle Breath Meditation
I had not began looking into my spiritual question seeking adventures till I moved to England, where there is a more excepted way of normal (that horrible word). Before this time, life was work hard, party harder. The spiritual search was more out something different to do initially, but questions arose that were never asked or answered and always fell short and were close but no cigar.
Until a presentation by Segre Benhayon that was the coming home I was looking for, I had no idea of what I was looking for but felt it to be true that day… I had come home.
Beverley when I re read this blog it struck me how natural it is to search for the truth of who we are and what our lives really mean. Like you and many others who have expressed here, there was no wow factor associated with meeting Serge Benhayon; there was a simple presentation that we hold fully within, what we are searching for outside of ourselves. With this truth resonating profoundly, the true journey began…
My spiritual pursuits left me feeling constantly unfulfilled seemingly chasing the illusion of answers, moving from one thing to the next in search of truth. It is really beautiful to finally be able to stop searching… which happened the moment I had a session with Serge Benhayon and felt the absolute truth in his words… exquisite and absolutely irrefutable.
Samantha, I agree with your words “It is really beautiful to finally be able to stop searching…” – but the interesting thing that I find now is that, okay, we have stopped searching for that elusive something that was illusionary but it seems the true story now has only just begun as we commence to unravel all of that momentum of which we have gathered and encumbered ourseveles as we travel full circle once again from a place far distant and far away from our truth and our pure love returning once again back to the very place that we chose to depart from so very long ago. It feels as though even the steps in time ‘spent’ going no-where are being retraced as we come back home once again.
Through all the spiritual new age workshops I had attended prior to coming to Serge Benhayon’s presentations, never once did I hear of the difference between spirit and soul being key to understanding our healing process. Many of these so called healing modalities mentioned spirit and soul, sometimes in the same sentence, but the simple fact that they are totally energetically different was never explained. Hence, I was not aware that understanding the difference was going to give me the answer to my long searched for healing. Universal Medicine is the only teaching school that supported me to come back to this truth that was there all along, I had just forgotten it.
Elizabeth, I can recall during those dallyings in the spiritual new age, that yes, there was a mention of soul and spirit – but when questioned the facilitator etc. would gloss over and speak meaningless words about they being the same, and there was also the inference that the ‘higher-self’ was the same and the thing to connect to. I must admit I used to wonder at myself at those times, as to why I couldn’t ‘get it’ – all this gobblydegook that so glibly fell of the tongue of these supposed knowing people, these ones who were hooked into a belief system that I didn’t at that time understand was taking them (and me too) further and further away from their divine aspect, the still place within, the Soul.
Isn’t it beautiful, the lessons we learn along the way when we realize finally that we have made a mistake – an ‘oops’ – and indeed there was nothing wrong with feeling that all that was then being fed to the empty and the unwary just did not make sense. I am discovering how blessed it is to be able to trust one’s own feelings, developing one’s own true clairsentience and not to succumb to the zealous and over-riding mind. How totally freeing it is to know each one of us has all the answers deep within – in the stillness of the inner heart: no gurus, no new age wannabees etc. – but then it seems that it always comes down to choice, and seeing and feeling the responsibility that one has to be true to one’s own innate self. There is always a choice.
Yes Roberta – I too tried to find out what was the difference between Soul and Spirit and nobody was at all clear about it. I wonder why I myself did not know the truth about this. Where had I taken myself to not know this?
When I think about all the other healing modalities I learned, they feel so different from the Esoteric modalities taught by Serge Benhayon. With Universal Medicine there is a depth of feeling like no other – there is no arrogance, no illusion, just simple Truth, a letting go of past patterns of behaviour held in our bodies and a whole new way of living that helps us to find Harmony and Stillness in order to be the Love that we are.
Absolutely Carmel. You describe it all so simply. There really is nothing to it, as in you don’t have to have had some full on Spiritual New Age background in order to understand or even align to the common sense presented by Universal Medicine.
I love that line Beverly that it was just about your breath no other thing, just reconnecting to the quality within that has never gone anywhere from when you were an infant, still, gorgeous breath. We wander far from it and yet it remains as strong and alive as your first breath.
This blog could be my story also. So many years searching. I almost gave up, then via a friend found Serge Benhayon. What he presented touched me deeply, he was a man that was steady and his integrity was felt. I have not once searched again since that day 9 years ago.
We don’t have to bring our ‘ bag of tricks ‘ as they say.
We are fully equiped to connect to our Soul with our own breath. How perfect!
Awesome Beverley, I like how clearly you’ve pointed out that the crystals and pendulum were no longer necessary because you are now connected to your soul and you have all the wisdom you need inside you.
“Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage”
Yes Beverley what you have expressed here is very simple but oh so profound.
Thank you Beverly for your sharing your beautiful return your truth and power. I also found that there was no healing art, modaility or new age spiritual belief that presented with clarity the truth about what the Soul and spirit is, and the distinct difference between them. When I first was met with the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon I knew with every cell in my body that this was the truth I had been looking for. That what was presented about the Soul being our fiery essence was who I was and that we all in fact can equally re-connect to this ourselves. This was the all-encompassing truth that I has been searching for as it made complete sense to me and every aspect of living.
It’s great reading these blogs as there are so many perspectives. Some come from a spiritual background whilst others from a die hard cop. The livingness is so practical yet meaningful it encapsulates everyone.
The spiritual path is so mind driven. Never are we ‘there’, but always seeking, left in the anxiousness and lack of self worth that this perpetuates. And most importantly, it keeps us separate from those not on the spiritual path, judgmental and superior to them and yet feeling inferior to many at the same time.
When I met Serge Benhayon, he asked me how my life could be in such a mess if what I had been living had been a true support to me? I couldn’t deny the truth in what he saw. 4.5yrs later and I am now a student of the Livingness, knowing that I am enough, I am equal to all and it is my job to bring the depth of my love into all that I do.
Beverley I can so relate to this. My ex husband and I used to travel the world teaching Reiki Masterships – there were so many unhappy, unhealthy and certainly unwise people (including myself at the time) leading the Spiritual New Age. Thank God for the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon as I was so lost and constantly searching for something more. ONE session with Serge and I could feel truth in my body again. For me there was no going back. When I felt that level of love and truth in my body there is no denying how I had been living and so the journey back to Self Love began.
“Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy”. So true for me too Beverley – I was tricked by the spiritual band-wagon for many years. When I found Universal Medicine my body knew ‘here was truth’. No more searching outside of me, just a forever deepening of who I really am and allowing this to unfold.
Once we take responsibility for ourselves, that’s when our healing can begin in many ways. It seems to be the common link within many of the blogs I’ve read and certainly is the case for yours-truly. It’s mind boggling to think of all the things (new age) we can say and do that looks like wanting to heal, but really are just a farce in the scheme of things.
I can relate to having taken part in the Spiritual New Age modalities but none of it seemed to be that effective, so I would bounce from one to the other. Then I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and stopped my searching in my tracks, because I had found what I had been searching for – the Truth.
We look out for answers that are being voiced from within but we don’t hear because we are so deafened by the roar and dazzled by the lights of what is on offer ‘out there’ that we miss the simple song of truth that hums quietly inside.
Thankyou for sharing this Beverley, I sent myself on a similar wild goose chase in the relentless pursuit of truth. It was both a cringe and a joy to find it within and hum along once more.
Oh I love how you poetically and philosophically say ‘we are so deafened by the roar and dazzled by the lights of what is on offer ‘out there’ that we miss the simple song of truth that hums quietly inside.’ Yes it is the Siren’s Song that is so seductive and our sixth sense gets drowned out, and the five senses become a slave to the main energetic ethos running the temporal world.
Self care and connection are foundational. Presented by Serge Benhayon many years ago, it has transformed the way I live and feel. I started 8 years ago with this and it is no different today as these two things constantly evolve and establish another new foundation. Along the way and over time, the body has responded to function with a living vitality and reveal very clearly that there are many choices but listening to the body is the only true choice.
When I read about the spiritual new age techniques and how much of the answers they seem to offer, it is so clear to me now that they can never truly help, because they promote the act of looking outside of yourself for the answers. When actually, all the love that you ever will ever need is right there inside of you, and it has been there all this time.
Awesome Beverly. Another great story about how self responsibility and connecting to our own breath is all we need to allow us to be who we truly are. It’s a simple choice.
Something so simple, the ‘Gentle Breath Meditation’ can be something so powerfull, and yet we often look for the complication to have the answers.
Dear Beverly, on reading your blog again the words that stood out for me today were “Well if I was really connected to my soul why would I need an outside indicator.” and that says it in a nutshell – indeed another memory of my involvement with the spiritual new age, and another ‘indicator’ that that time spent seeking could never have been the true way of ‘finding ones self’. By God’s grace I met Serge Benhayon and commenced to peel away all the layers of un-truth I had gathered on my ‘seeking expedition’. From attending the presentations of Universal Medicine it didn’t take me long to learn and to feel all the time that I had been seeking true love outside of me was indeed innately within us all equally –
Beautiful Roberta. To come back to the knowing that we have it all is so empowering and beautiful to feel.
On visiting your blog again today the lines that caught my attention were about you attending a presentation and voice workshop with Chris James – isn’t it awesome when we consider how in an instant one can absolutely know that up until that point they have been following a track of illusion, the stony and rocky road but now have been offered an opportunity to follow through with the sudden awareness that this rocky road was not the road to Truth – but in fact the illusionary path. I also found that the simple awareness and practice of the Gentle Breath Meditation can bring one back to a place of stillness, a place where the clarity of choices of a deep and ageless wisdom can be made.
” I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.” Amazing how many of us can stay victim of our own choices for so long, not wanting to admit that that is what is happening. Great news when we begin to make choices that truly support us and our well-being. Thanks for a great blog Beverley.
Australians know that in the bush a Wallaby Track is a track that leads to nowhere. I spent 20 years of my life wandering in that new age wilderness looking for something that wasn’t there. Spending heaps of hard earned dollars on books, courses and retreats that did nothing to alleviate my feelings of being lost and unfulfilled. You can imagine my joy when, five years ago, I found Serge Benhayon … a Teacher like no other.
Here at last was the truth and integrity I had been searching for. No fancy dress, no kissing of feet, no self importance. Just clear sensible information to take or leave. He has taught me the real meaning of life and love. And I am very, very glad I found him.
I love what you share here Valerie, so real and true for many.
Valerie, I can resonate with your words above having also scrambled along that track that led to nowhere for a while, and like you and so many have been shown that there is a different way, a loving way of truth and integrity, joy and harmony, i.e. The Way of The Livingness, as presented by the World Teacher, Serge Benhayon, and yes, as you say “And I am very, very glad I found him.”
What’s always the case for authors discussing their path to the Way of The Livingness, is that they move from a period in their life where they give their power to an external authority (being) or object (crystal etc), to then reclaiming their power within. Not a single person has given their power to Serge Benhayon and never will, for Universal Medicine’s teachers are about reconnecting each of us to our own divinity.
I echo your words here Oliver as it has been the experience of my awareness also “Not a single person has given their power to Serge Benhayon and never will, for Universal Medicine’s teachers are about reconnecting each of us to our own divinity.” This awareness reveals something mammoth really, when one considers how easily ones choose to give over their personal power to another while on the dalliance in the Spiritual New Age and its various modalities – I know this to be so, as I in my state of ignorance and emptiness way back then chose that unfortunate slippery slope for a while.
Exactly Oliver and this is what makes the presentations of Universal Medicine stand out for the truth they are. Nobody in Universal Medicine is preaching for us to follow them, just offering the energetic facts of how it is and leaving it for us to choose, now that is empowering in itself, no one telling us what to do but offering the truth for us to choose or not.
What you share here Beverly is key – “Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.” I remember feeling exactly this when I was on my ‘yoga’ detour, desperately searching, but not truly discerning the energetic quality of those I would attend classes with, and the arrogance and ‘thinking’ I was okay and had it together because I was ‘doing’ yoga. In reality I was not living love and had no idea of what it truly meant to self-care let alone the term energetic integrity. It has been through the presentations and teachings from Universal Medicine and the simplicity, common sense and practical teachings of the ageless wisdom that I am no longer searching – having discovered that it is in fact within me.
Awesome Marcia. I found it was great to have the search over as it was a relentless one, as we look ever further and further and then realise it is within us all along.
Yes, the wild goose chase of continual distractions so as to not sit still to feel it all within us.
You’re right Marcia, there is so much invested in being ‘better than’, that a fierce arrogance can lash out at anything that dare threaten that.
Yes the search for the truth is over with all the new age and spiritual alternatives. Once you have been exposed to Serge and universal medicine. The truth is undeniable.
A great comment Concetta, and oh so very true. Thank you.
There is so many new age modalities that appear to have the answers but when tried only offer a very superficial short term result. It’s great to learn that all the answers I need are inside me, with me all the time.
I have spent the first 3/4 of this life chasing the dream that I was told is the purpose of this life; job, education, house, family and the rest. I reached a point where I questioned ‘is this IT’ and began the search of something else. I got on the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bus with its many stops, but they all lacked something. I have no regrets, for my journey has clearly shown me what is not truth. The lack of truth of the others just made the Way of the Livingness shine that much more brightly, as truth will always do.
“I have no regrets, for my journey has clearly shown me what is not truth. The lack of truth of the others just made the Way of the Livingness shine that much more brightly, as truth will always do.” Beautifully stated sjmatsonuk.
I too remember very clearly that moment in time, as a ‘busy’ Mother with a very full and obvious example of having everything one could want in earthly life, worker for the community, volunteer etc. etc. when I called out from my emptiness “Is this all there is??? Is this IT???” It then took me another few years as I mistakenly took a left fork in the road before I was shown that there was another way. I thank God that I took notice and continue to be a student of The Way of the Livingness.
Awesome sjmatsonuk! An experience shared by many.
Very powerful blog, especially the last sentence, feels very powerful. This sentence is a wake up call for many: ”So the pendulum had to go, along with all the crystals as I realised I had totally given myself away by investing all my power into them” – it is so important that we do not state our power in things around us, in order to keep our own power within us, ready, vibrant and alive. I too, had in the past used crystals, and gave them more power than I was giving myself, ridiculous really, but now I know it makes so much sense, as I can feel that I was in an absolute glamourized illusion. Thank you Beverly for writing this.
In the past I found a very false sense of security in crystals and all things outside of me, but the security I clung to had no foundation. The only true foundation is the one that is inside, it is endless and ageless and will never disappear and therefore can always be relied upon. So beautiful and super empowering to know that we are it.
I find it interesting Beverly, that even now, with so much water having passed under the proverbial bridge, that many folk still hold onto strong beliefs, expectations and investments in the need to give one’s power away to gemstones and crystals. There was a time when I sought to work at a popular tourist destination where I discovered later, that visitors were tantilizingly encouraged to believe they ‘needed’ a particular gem/crystal worn upon their person to stave off any particular ill, disease or misfortune, and this was indicated by ‘proof’ that it was written thus so in what was known as the bible of gemstones and crystals – a book that was proffered to be the be all and end all of wisdom and knowledge of how to heal the body. What a gullible lot we humans can seem to be during times of emptiness, lonliness and seeking solutions from outside of ourselves. However, one does not have to look very far – just by discovering that we can connect with all the wisdom and true divine power within our very selves, as has been shown and shared by Serge Benhayon, through the Agless Wisdom Teachings and Universal Medicine.
Great blog Beverley – thank you for sharing. It is interesting and grotesque how we fooled and lost ourselves with new age stuff because of the feeling that there is more to life than what appears on the surface. It is true there is much, much, much more to life, infinitely so – but we fell into the trap of looking in the wrong direction (outside) when we already are, and have always been, everything we were looking for. This is the deceit of many of the new age modalities, to have us looking everywhere except for where the truth really is.
Exactly Nicola, so many, if not all the new age modalities get us to ‘look over there’ when looking within is really the place to go. And even those that apparently seem to look within, actually have aspects of outer support required, so some are more ‘tricky’ than others. Universal Medicine presentations are the only ones that I have found that offer the truth of how it is.
I always had a feeling that there was something more and while I looked at the spiritual new age stuff I could never embroil myself in it as it didn’t feel true. I enjoy now the understanding I have gained from Universal Medicine. It is both real and transforming to understand the soulful way in which we can live our lives that makes a difference on a very practical level.
I can definitely relate to the feeling of there being something more; as a young child it was just as if I was still trying to work out what this greatness to the world was that I could feel, what was the pieces of the puzzle that I was missing, nothing seemed to be able to give me an answer and it is only after attending Universal Medicine presentations that I can say that the need to find the last piece of the puzzle has gone away
I find this fascinating as I had never tried any of the crystals or reiki or anything and just avoided all the new age stuff – not because of any great insight but because it didn’t fit the life I’d been trained to live. I assumed that I was immune from such distractions and had no need to search anywhere. Instead I immersed myself in work, which I now realise is the same thing. Meeting Serge Benhayon has been a game changer. So thank you Beverley for making it so clear.
I can appreciate the point that was made here Michael about not feeling the force of the Spiritual New Age modality pull, but as expressed, found that immersion in work can equally be the distraction to not be with ones self. I found that to be quite a piece of revelation, discovering that anything that keeps us away from our true connection with our inner and divine self all carries the same energy of separateness, whether it be watching endless television, reading copious and continuously 700 page books, entertainment of all kinds, sport watching etc. etc. I can sense now that all of these things that we may choose to do to fill our day, or perhaps to be a little more truthful, to fill the void that we would otherwise be in fear of feeling are there by our choice to keep us disconnected from our natural and divinely loving selves. That emptiness I once was familiar with but that was before I met Serge Benhayon and began attending the presentations of Universal Medicine where I discovered I had an opportunity to make a different choice and to connect within. I found no crystal healing, reiki or any other thing I tried back then came close to the feeling of my developing awareness of learning how to re-connect with myself through such a simple thing as the gentle breath.
Quite an interesting point here that you bring up Michael is that we can go about our lives thinking that we are immune to a particular activity such as from distraction (in this case from crystals) but when really the behaviour is playing out in other areas of our lives such as work, and so it is as if until we are honest with ourselves and where we are at we can’t truly move forward
Absolutely Beverly the Way of the Livingness is IT, search over. Being able to say I know who I am and feel this is my body is so different than all the new age stuff I have engaged with, there was always something else, something to buy or to follow but never I felt the love that I am. In all my arrogance of the New Age path I was only going further away from what was natural to me and I became separated from people and from the fact that I love people.
Not only did I not feel the love that I am Annelies whilst travelling the so called new age path, I didn’t feel anyone else’s love, of themselves or others (including the ‘leaders’)….how very different from Unimed.
Hi kathiefreedom, this is very true, these days I can very much discern the quality of the presenter from their body, how they move and how they live says so much.
That is such a clear point I feel Kathiefreedom, and something that I hadn’t actually noted really in those distant days, we simply could not feel true love emanating from any of the new age modality practitoners, no matter how much the new age music attracted the senses of the spirit or how they tried to glam up the verbal communication that they were just love and one of my recollections was being totally judged on more than one occasion, labelled and categorized – so that begs the question “why was I so sucked in at that time?”- but of course I know the answer now, it was because I certainly had no true connection to or love for myself, thus an empty vessel ready to be filled with what ever was on offer at that time. I so appreciate the choice I made in listening to my Soul, meeting Serge Benhayon and subsequently attending the presentations of Universal Medicine – that was when I felt the choice to re-connect to who I truly am. Woo Hoo!
Yes Annelies, my separation from myself and everyone else held much sadness and everything I’d tried in the Spirituality courses I’d attended and trained in did not hold all the answers and actually fell well short of Truth. On the other hand, ‘The Ageless Wisdom’ teachings Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine represent have lovingly supported me to reclaim the love and appreciation of myself and all people also. That holds much joy!
So many are lost on the garden path of the spiritual new age. When we finally wake up and choose to be ourselves in full, to take responsibility for our lives and our health it is a true miracle. Deep appreciation goes to serge benhayon for living the wisdom enough for us to finally have this true and lasting choice and our way of the livingness in life.
Yes, I was very lost and wandering on that path to no where until I came across my first ever Universal Medicine Heart Chakra workshop. It wasn’t a big bang or bells and whistles but it was this quiet knowing that I had never felt a person with that much integrity before in my life. As soon as I met Serge Benhayon somewhere deep inside me knew that this was different. Since then I have come to realise in that first meeting I met and felt everything that Serge lives, and knew it was true.
So true Vicky, being met with the integrity that Serge Benhayon lives is quite an amazing experience and one cannot but be touched by the level of truth and love he lives and expresses with all equally so.
I agree Vicky, being met with the integrity that Serge Benhayon lives is an amazing experience and one cannot but be touched by the truth and love he lives and expresses with all equally so.
Gemma, I love how you have described the trip along “the garden path of the spiritual new age.” – that sparks the memory of my own dallying in that arena, and reflecting now upon all the overtly bright colourful, and overly sweet smelling distractions I encountered that seemed at that time to entice me to keep meandering down that way with the anticipation of what exhilerating thing may be around the next corner that might hold a modicum of truth within its illusionary seductive ways. I thank God that I listened to my Soul and finally chose to meet Serge Benhayon and begin attending the Universal Medicine presentations – then, I knew that I had found the right way home.
It is when we feel truly met, by Serge Benhayon or other Universal Medicine students, that we feel the living way of the ageless wisdom and there is something inside of us that then just knows this is it! In an instant the spiritual new age stuff is exposed for what it is – sheer illusion – and the true path can then be walked. So glad you chose this Roberta.
In my experience, the lure of the spiritual path can be a long and windy one, trying and searching for the next thing that will provide the answer to health, wealth and emotional well being, and when one thing doesn’t work, looking for the next, but all the while getting caught in the consciousness that something outside of us (or someone else) is going to fix us! When I came across Universal Medicine and met Serge Benhayon, there were no bells and whistles, no flashing lights, no emotional hooks… And it was the only thing that made complete and utter sense, not because someone else told me so, but because I could feel the truth within and that the only place I needed to connect to within.
Awesome Angela – the fact that everything we are seeking for is within us already – is the first esoteric teaching that was presented to me when I came to Universal Medicine. This truth held so true I had to keep listening and have since been presented with more truths that I know within me are ageless truths. The frequency and potency of what Serge Benhayon presents is there because he is a living testimony of having applied such truth to life in full – deeply inspiring!
Thank you for sharing this Beverly, I am sure there are many searching as you did, lost in the spiritual New Age. I like this line – “I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.” – so profound.
What I found with the spiritual new age when I was on that path was that it was all about mental energy – I have never experienced anything other than Esoteric Medicine suggesting I feel from my body what is right for me. It is definitely a game changer for me.
This is true for me also Christine, the more grounded I become, the clearer my thoughts and the deeper my awareness. The complete opposite of what the spiritual new age sets up.
This was the profound difference for me too, Christine. Never in all my searching through the New Age modalities and teachings was the ever a message to stop and feel. Never was there a pause to accept where I was and appreciate where I had come from. It was all about doing this and that in search of what was going to bring the next level of knowledge. But never ever was the fact taught that the integrity with which one lives is what creates the life one has.
I had never considered it like this at the time, but it was the same for me Christine, where the new age therapies or personal development courses were always about mental or emotional energy and / or about something and / or somebody else. The esoteric healing modalities were a game changer for me as well because it brought this all back to the body and to ‘me’, and it was the only thing that finally made sense.
Totally Angela. Until we re-connect with the body and learn again to live in it fully and listen to its communications we are simply going around in circles ‘thinking’ we are getting somewhere. The body is the missing link in all the new age therapies and theories that I encountered.
Beverley living life this way makes total sense and is something I’ve never felt more sure of in my life. I love what you write about pendulums here, which I too was attracted to for a while or people who were using them – totally giving my power away. ‘Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator?’ We have everything we need deep within us to guide us along our journey and that’s truly amazing. If only we were taught that in schools today!
Exactly Candida, a school curriculum with a foundation of expanding the knowing that we have everything inside would be an awesome start to turning around so many of the ills we see appear on a personal level, which then affect us, and all out in the world.
Thank you Beverly. Isn’t it amazing that we dabble in these modalities knowing full well they are not it? I know as I did this myself for many years, giving my power away to something that didn’t feel right. My involvement with Universal Medicine changed all that, nothing has ever felt more right. We all know the truth deep down as we carry it in our bodies, time to claim what we have always known.
I used to practice meditation to escape from my life and the aim was to have an epiphany. I thought I worked so hard at trying to make this happen, in actual fact I wasn’t really doing anything accept indulging and avoiding any responsibility for the lack of integrity of the energy I was working with. Since finding Universal Medicine my life has changed dramatically. I now participate fully in my life, no more drugs and alcohol. I run three different companies, do volunteer work and have teenage children and every moment is an epiphany or a point of evolution if I choose it to be. I am not sitting around checked out waiting for it to happen. Because of the integrity that I live in opportunities are always there for me to reflect on and develop.
Awesome nicolesjardin, a great sharing of how it was, and how it is now, and the change is truly felt in your words.
Thank you Beverly.
This is very interesting to read Beverly. I was hooked on all things spiritual new agey as well, yet could not shake this feeling of anxiety in my body. I was foggy, unwell, nothing helped that I tried. I actually just got more and more unwell over the years. The new age talked about love but didn’t translate it to being practical, a lot of my new age teachers drank alcohol and ate chocolate cake and used pawns like crystals to help them ‘heal’ me. It was Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings that showed me I have everything I need inside of me. That I am full and deeply capable – amazing in fact – with what I have inside of me – no pawns (or cake that was exhausting me) needed. The stillness I have reconnected to inside of myself and the support I have received to understand and build a relationship with myself and my soul is so real and so true… all of those spiritual new age things never ever did that.. as you say they merge spirit and soul as one thing and do not understand the difference between the two energies we have to choose from in life. My health and wellbeing have changed completely since finding the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom, a wisdom that says you are love, you are from love and every single thing you do, say, eat, think, drink etc can come from this love if you so choose. Real love, not like your Reiki teacher who would speak love and then annihilate himself with alcohol – love that cares so deeply for you and is seen in everything you do. Love is a very consistent choice and one I am making my way… everyday!
I agree Kate, we have had similar experiences, and I too was super anxious underneath a very smiley exterior and my arrogance would not allow me to admit just how bad I was actually feeling and admit that what I was doing just was not working. A huge blessing to find Universal Medicine and break this cycle of searching outwardly.
I love your comment Francis. Thank you.
“Universal Medicine has empowered me to be responsible and be in control of my life and in that, feel the equality and beauty that I am with everybody else around me.”
So beautiful and so true.
It is the arrogance of feeling better than everybody else that a lot of people in the spiritual path have, this only creates further separation and keeps people in the illusion that life is getting better without taking responsibility for anything. Universal Medicine has empowered me to be responsible and be in control of my life and in that, feel the equality and beauty that I am with everybody else around me.
You have nailed it here Franciscoclara8. Like Beverley, I too was a spiritual seeker at one time and in my experience Universal Medicine is the only ‘teaching’ where students are not imposed upon but quite the contrary. As you say, Universal Medicine presentations empower a student to be responsible and to be in control of their own life and in that, feel the equality and beauty that we are with everybody else around us. Unfortunately not everyone is ready to take that level of responsibility!
Beverly, I can relate to your exploration of the spiritual new-age and went on that path myself before Universal Medicine. I too was a vegetarian and held the belief that eating meat kept me heavy and further from my soul. I now see that as a ridiculous belief I was holding as I now feel in my body how much meat supports me. I no longer eat from what I think I should because someone has said it is good for me, but I eat according to how my body feels.
A great point Donna. When we are outwardly searching it is so easy to be led into believing what others tell us is good for us and act on that. When we start to truly FEEL for ourselves we find the empowerment in the knowing that we actually do know ourselves.
Beverley, I was also ‘tricked and trapped in the Spiritual New Age’ and gave my power to gurus, tarot cards and spiritual healing techniques. I got lost in a cold dead end for a good part of my life. I got more and more drained and withdrew further from committing to life until finally I got very sick and was forced to take a good look at my life. It was soon after this that I came to Universal Medicine and started making different choices. I realized that I am not a victim of circumstances, that I am responsible for my life and I do not need to look to others for answers.
Sandra – you seeing, naming and expressing the fact of the cold cul-de-sac of the Spiritual New Age and your choosing of responsibility in your life feels very strong, very based on you living that. I love it!
Awesome Sandra. “I realized that I am not a victim of circumstances, that I am responsible for my life and I do not need to look to others for answers.”
Thank you Beverly for sharing your amazing journey back to you, to your essence.
I especially noted the words at the beginning of your article “…eventually led me to Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness where I finally became free of all the impositions of the Spiritual New Age.” with the emphasis being on “free of all the impositions”. I found that to be my experience also – what a God given gift, and indeed a blessing to have re-found and re-connected with what we were looking for when it was right there under our noses so to speak – and even closer than that – it was within all the time – it had never left us – but at a distant past time we had chosen to become separate from that love. I thank God for the opportunity that was offered by meeting Serge Benhayon who by inspiration has presented the possibility of there being another way.
In looking outside of myself through the spiritual path of ‘yoga’ I only added to the issues and dilemmas I was already facing. It was only through Esoteric Healing and then the other Esoteric Healing Modalities that became available, as taught by Universal Medicine was I finally able to begin to truly heal (and undo what any spiritual yoga practices had further added.)
This really does highlight the trap that we can fall into when we give our power away to what is not truly us. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you Beverley for sharing the path walked by so many. The immediate stop for me was when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about spirit and soul. This was the start of all the understanding I needed to move away from the spiritual new age “Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage. Simple, yet profound.” This answered all the questions I had had around energy over the years and made absolute sense.
Yes Julie, it was a question that I had never got an answer to until meeting Serge and then all the years of uncertainty became clear and I was able to address and see what was there to be seen. The smoke screen had been removed.
Thanks for sharing your journey Beverley, there is so much that does not hold truth in relation to spiritual new age and It can be a place ,where it is very easy to get lost . Your story and the many others are living proof of the benefits of the very simple gentle breath meditation in helping us to re- connect to our ourselves .
I wonder what sparks that feeling of knowing that their is more to this world? And it fascinates me that we look for ‘the answer’ in all sorts of modalities, however we never just stop to ask ourselves what it is we are looking for.
A great point Madeline. Its like the search is going on but not knowing what it is we search for. This all became clear for me after meeting Serge Benhayon and I was introduced to the fact that what I searched for was the re-connection to the love I am. And all possible through my own gentle breath. Awesomely simple and so so profoundly life changing.
Thanks Beverley, this gives those who choose to read your blog an opportunity to start to ask better quality questions of themselves if they too have been lured-in by the many hundreds or thousands of new age healing modalities around these days.
There are a lot of things out there to trick us but when we find the truth we know. In truth there is no longer the uncertainty of looking and searching because we have an inner knowing of finding it. Search over. Done. Back to love. Awesome.
“The simplicity of the presentations by Universal Medicine and the practical common sense way of being they offered was profound”.
So very profound and powerful.
The search is over… Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon are it xx
I agree the search is over. The Ageless Wisdom is exactly that, Ageless…. Wisdom…
You so beautifully express just how Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine supported you, and me too actually, “… to stop being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being. Making loving choices is the absolutely foundational key to healing.
I was looking for love in all the wrong places as I travelled through the spiritual new age and it was when I experienced the loving teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I came to realize that the love I was looking for was always right there in me. As you say Beverly “The search is over, This is IT”.
Many of us had a similar journey Lynda and it took meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine presentations for us to realise that the truth was very simple. The love that we were searching for was within us all along. From here on let’s raise our children so that they continue to hold their loving connection and have no need to search as we did!
In a similar story to yours, Beverley, I immersed myself in the ‘spiritual new age’ desperately looking for answers. And every step of the way there were snares to entice me deeper. I carried great disquiet at this time.
In Universal Medicine I met and understood all over again true responsibility and the fact that there is nothing outside of me that will ‘fix me up’. Every moment is now an opportunity to deepen my relationship with myself which in turn deepens my relationship with the big picture…all of humanity.
Hi Matilda what you share is quite profound and I relate to ” I carried great disquiet at this time.” as this was the way for me. Always thinking I was healing myself (from the outside) but actually creating more tension as I was moving further away from the truth. And all this whilst avoiding taking responsibility for myself but thinking I was doing well. Such a trick to fall for but really great to see this now and be able to share it.
Taking true responsibility for ourselves is such a huge part for us to embrace for ourselves and all.
Yes, this is it! sums it up beautifully. No more searching for truth, it is right here.
Beverley I can so relate to the ‘looking outside’ for the answer and all the guided meditations which took me on a wooded path to nowhere and never did they connect me to the truth of who I am. The gentle breath as you mention did, it is simple and true and brought me home to me.
Your story shows to me how if a reporter has an idea in their head about what slant they are going to take in their article, they usually will never be willing to take correction and back down, and indeed, keep piling on more false evidence to prove their points. To do otherwise would mean lack of face and perhaps losing their job. But which is more important, their job or their integrity? Something is a amiss when they choose outer acclaim rather than inner honesty and truth.
“The search is over – This is IT”…..indeed it is Beverley, indeed it is. After being on a spiritual journey for the past 20 years I am glad to have found the truth. It is pretty cool.
Sarah – I couldn’t agree more. That we have finally found it, and our true selves, is the greatest treasure on earth.
Absolutely Lyndy, the search is over not because I found it! but because I found my true self within and realised that I had been living from a very poor false sense of me most of my life.
“The search is over – This is IT” had me jumping for my keyboard too. But after reading Lyndy’s comment I feel that “The search is over – WE are IT” maybe even more appropriate. Fancy looking everywhere outside of ourselves for the missing something when all along we already had it all within. We was conned!
Yes David it is almost funny how we keep on looking and looking and all along there it is right in front of us, well even closer than that actually as it is all inside just waiting to be connected to and expressed forth. Super cool.
I love the way you end this sharing Beverley.. ‘The search is over, this is it!’ It is for me too. The profound is made so simple when we accept that what we are looking for is already within us and could it be that we actually know that on some level but can’t accept it?
I love your comment Bernadette “The profound is made so simple when we accept that what we are looking for is already within us ” Thank you.
Yes your blog resonates with me very well….I too dabbled into the spiritual new age a very broad term, like a fun park…., whatever ride I would go on, it did exactly that, I went for a ride and as you said I too gave my power to that ride, that it would get me somewhere, give me something that was sustaining but never the case….When I first met Serge Benhayon, I knew I hit the jackpot – it was the one time where my knowing was as solid as a rock… because I had reconnected back to me…and in that reconnection back to me comes the knowing that it is all within….I love the steadiness of my connection to me and the grandness within that is unfolding by the day…and to to be shared as this same grandness is in us all….
Yes Karoline, I too dabbled in the spiritual new age and gave my power to several rides, thinking that it would get me somewhere, but this was never the case. Nothing felt true until I met Serge Benhayon. After attending my first presentation with Serge, I knew without a doubt that I had come home.
I agree Anne. The first presentation by Serge Benhayon I attended was the turning point I had been waiting for. And to find it was all within, was an awesome revelation.
Beverly I to suffered from total arrogance due to belief in alternate lifestyles. Now I look back I can see my life was a great mess yet I judged all those around me for how they lived. This was the arrogance, thinking I had it all sorted or close to sorted when my life was in complete upheaval. Crazy.
Yes Toni the arrogance trap is quite a big one and a great one to let go of. Beautiful to feel the freedom of being me and allowing others to be themselves without all the judgements of what they are doing running through my head.
Your words are really well placed and carry so much power. Well said Beverley
I was only thinking the other day how much all the spiritual new age stuff I was involved in actually stunted my growth, like you I also had an air of arrogance which saw others who where not ‘spiritual’ as less this in itself is so wrong! And is something the new age material often encourages.
Thanks you reminded me of the first workshop I went to with Serge benhayon and the true tears of joy and immense relief that I could be with love. I’m still on the journey but recognise the path – staying on it is simple once the pesky spirit is shown displacement by the soul.
It is great to read how Beverley had taken total responsibility for what she had chosen. In a world where so much is thrust on you as the cure or the solution, and you are asked to make great investment in it, because if you believe in it enough it will work. It is easy to ignore all the signs your body offers you that there is no truth in this ‘spiritual’ way of being. There is no ‘secret’, the truth is right there in our body! I have also heard the words a ‘healing crises’ recently under the illusion that it is productive to foster great emotional upheaval to assist a ‘healing’ process. What a sad place spiritual healing has come to if it advocates to that disharmony can be cleared by going into more severe disharmony.
“I chose to be oblivious of the fact that the ‘Reiki Master’ I trained with had a drinking problem: even after seeing him drunk and feeling the intensity of the horrible energy that came from him,” I have done this in life, over rode my feelings and common sense to not look at the hypocrisy that has been before me. I have only however done this when it suited me. I have realised that we all collude to some degree if it means that we will not have our own issues exposed. However this in itself is an illusion, our issues remain and we are prisoner to them if we do not have the courage to look at them and see the truth for what it is…Great that you expose and this is such an honest and supportive blog..
I can relate very much to what you write Beverley, I was very caught up in the spiritual new age too, doing a well-known and highly reputed hands on healing course at the time I came across Serge Benhayon. My motto at the time was ‘fake it till you make it’ and I too was relieved to find dowsing as a more definitive method of ‘diagnosis’, taking away any need to feel for myself things that I knew I didn’t feel. But like you, I couldn’t shake a feeling of discomfort with all these spiritual practices… and didn’t take up any of them with any real commitment. I kept looking basically… until I had a session with Serge Benhayon, and from that day I can say in retrospect that I knew l’d found it. I didn’t realise till later that from that day I stopped looking elsewhere, and all those things l’d done just seemed superficial, insubstantial and way off the mark. Today I am a million miles from where I was 13 years ago as a result of the Ageless Wisdom as taught through Universal Medicine, and am a dedicated student of The Way of the Livingness also.
Beautiful Beverly, you story made me reflect on how we spend our lives seeking solutions, when all we ever really long for is love. When we see we are love, naturally, there is no way we will settle again.
Yes Joseph it seems that a lot of the Spiritual New Age is geared to offer solutions when as you say here
“we spend our lives seeking solutions, when all we ever really long for is love”
Love is the simple key to it all.
Spiritual arrogance is a big one, I know I had it when I was walking a Path to ‘break free’.
I thought that I really was better off than anyone who did not walk that path.
Arrogance is always lurking around the corner, it is a perfect way to keep a distance and stay in a cocoon.
Great Blog Beverly, you could of written this for most of humanity, Im so greatful that I have found the way of the livingness, no more looking for me, I’m here for good.
Thank you Beverly for an honest and open account of your spiritual searching, one of which I can relate to. Ten years of searching led me nowhere except very desperate and despondent with life and everything it has to offer and in those moments of despair I used to say ‘there has to be more to life than this’.
Then I found Universal Medicine and discovered yes, there was more to life and that there are genuine people I can trust who will always tell me the truth.
Wow Julie you just reminded me of the familiar question that I also often posed
‘there has to be more to life than this’.
Exactly the point, as the ‘this’ I was living was not, it at all.
Then comes Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine with simple presentations of living love. Now, ‘This is it’ Living the simplicity of love. Awesome
Yes definitely. And Serge never once said ‘This is it’. He just showed us how to do the Gentle Breath Meditation, showed us ways to develop self-love as the awareness of what is not loving becomes more acute. Anyone can say anything is true and gain a following, but energy gives away any inconsistencies. With Universal Medicine I have experienced nothing but consistent integrity.
I can relate to this Julie. I left the UK in my early 20s to travel Australia with that same question, and I thought that I’d find it in a different country. Twenty years on, and still searching, I’d said ‘I know the answers are inside me, I just don’t know how to access them’. Bingo! My soul constellated exactly what I needed to find the Ageless Wisdom teachings when a few months later I came across Serge Benhayon’s book ‘The Way It Is’ and knew that this was indeed it.
A beautiful observation Cherise. Thank you for sharing.
“The difference is chalk and cheese and the more I experience both energies – the more I know that it is a soulful way of living that I would much prefer to live and in fact it is my responsibility to myself and all others in this world to make every choice that I can to live this loving way.”
Great article, thank you. I didn’t find myself interested in the spiritual new age and so when I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon it was the first I had really done any study for myself into the difference of Spirit and Soul and today I can experience a clear difference between these two energies. I have found that I am either in connection to one or the other in any moment .. with one I feel out-of-sorts, sometimes foggy, reactive and sluggish in my daily routines as I experience much going on in my head – thoughts, emotions and anxieties and yet when I am feeling in connection to my soul, my very being, I feel light with a sense of ease in the world, really joyful and have a knowingness about me that I have no real issues and in fact have a lot of trust and acceptance in myself and in my Soul and with God to be with me and supporting me.
The difference is chalk and cheese and the more I experience both energies – the more I know that it is a soulful way of living that I would much prefer to live and in fact it is my responsibility to myself and all others in this world to make every choice that I can to live this loving way.
The true power of your lived wisdom is very evident in the way you have shared your journey with us in this blog. This is a strong reminder for me that sharing honestly and openly from life’s experiences leaves no room to be challenged in any way.
Well said Greg, the journey made from modalities based on comfort, to the true connection to soul is written with true clarity.
I agree totally with everything you have expressed, I also spent many years going from one thing to another looking for ‘the answer’. I did Reiki courses where one of the teachers, studying to become a Reiki master, and most of the participants smoked marijuana and/or drank regularly, and the Master teacher was aware of this. At no time was there any mention of the effect this was having on our own bodies and incredibly there was no discussion at all of the effect we would have on the people we worked on. Not one of the teachers, gurus or modalities that I listened to or took part in ever taught of energetic responsibility. I did so many different styles of meditation and breathing techniques, to no avail, that when I learnt of the Gentle Breath meditation and the Ageless Wisdom teachings from Serge Benhayon I could hardly believe that such a simple technique and such simple wisdom could so quickly and so easily produce such profound changes, but within a short period my life had completely turned around.
Thank you Beverly for taking us through your journey of the spritual new age. I haven’t dabbled in much else except for some mind training if you like, which, after finding The Way of the Livingness, made me realise that trying to operate from my head was not the answer if my body was screaming the opposite.
A great revelation Elodie “finding The Way of the Livingness, made me realise that trying to operate from my head was not the answer if my body was screaming the opposite.”
So clear are the signs when we really take a look at what is going on for us. Our head may think its in charge and knows the way, but the body tells the truth. Awesome.
Thank you Beverley for sharing your journey. It makes me want to have a good look back and see and understand what was behind my wandering life of trying different things. Nothing I explored seem to last long, back then I couldn’t say why. There was Shiatsu, Martial arts, Reiki, aromatherapy, and a myriad of other spiritual healing/ creative/ self help groups and teachers. I was trying to work out who I was and wanted to be: was I going to be a photographer, an aerial performer, a writer, a healer, a cook, a world traveller and quester? Reading the title of this blog, there was a part of me that laughed inside arrogantly that I never felt trapped by the Spiritual New Age.
What I think is funnier now, as I write, is that actually the greater truth is I was trapped in my life of searching for myself, but outside of myself!
Nothing had answers for me, hence why I kept moving on, creating a convoluted life of not knowing myself. I had accumulated so much ‘knowledge’ about a ton of things that actually had nothing tangible or real.
It was only when I came to the simple practical teachings of Universal Medicine,that I then realised I had been searching for this all my life: that the love and all the answers I am looking for are in me.. and that I am everything! I am still discarding the habits that created the trap I have been living in. The search is indeed over and I haven’t looked back, but perhaps I will.. It will allow me to take full stock of my journey, enabling myself to see what habits of my past are still with me! I want to move forward with my whole, true self fully in the lead!
I know what you mean when you write here Beverley “Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon”. I too have fallen into the trap of thinking I was a better human for certain lifestyle choices I was making!
Lots of people who were with me on my ‘spiritual bandwagon’ thought they were better human beings, that never felt quite right, and when I heard Serge Benhayon, I knew why. I jumped off, but still see the righteous arrogance in people I know who are still on it. Some of them have read Serge Benhayon’s books, but only relate to the parts that they feel justify their own way of being. Not ready yet, but one day…….
Nicole your comment ” how could it be so powerfull, it all sounded too simple” made me laugh. After years of ‘mastering’ complicated ways of approaching life with various New Age modalities and teachings, I too was struck with the simplicity of everything presented by Serge Benhayon – at times credulous and at time so very relieved to hear someone say what I suspected all along. Then when I did little exercises to explore what he was saying, the truth of what he was presenting was unmistakable. Such a blessing to have finally found something that makes so much sense and feels so right.
I have found the same as well Golnaz, what always blows me away is how simple and practical what Serge Behayon presents is and yet it is so profound, the knock on effects it has had on my life are amazing – no words can say how much my life has changed for the better.
Amazing to feel how there was absolutely NO responsibility for the way of life we choose to live in ANY of the modalities you tried outside of what was presented by Chris James and Serge Benhayon. Absolute arrogance really as the quality of how we live and the quality of how we feel living are one and the same. Naturally if we want to live a more whole life we have to take responsibility for how we choose to live each and every day.
Great point Joshua, If you look at all the other modalities as a whole the scale of the problem is very clear. In my limited experience of other modalities it seemed like everyone was looking to escape the hardships of life. The complete opposite from being committed to life and the quality you are in life. Perhaps that’s because when one chooses that path that is what one is looking for? I know whilst a teenager I had a period of exploring some of the new age shops and so called “magic” and it certainly took my mind off school but the amount of drugs, drinking and promiscuity showed the emptiness that was there just in a different “alternative” setting.
Hi Joshua, I agree with your words in response to Beverly, “Naturally if we want to live a more whole life we have to take responsibility to choose to live each and every day” and I am also findinig the responsibility even stretches to not choosing to allow the energy of self-doubt in and dilute that which we know we know at a deeper level within.
So true Joshua. I pursued the New Age modalities for around 10 years – what a total waste of time, money and energy. None of these modalities brought me any closer to the truth of who I am, and in fact, they took me further away, evident by the state of my health, my relationships, my attitude towards work – every area of my life really. And I saw the same in everyone else. We were all using these modalities as medication, to manage our lives but not taking any responsibility for how we lived each moment of the day, so nothing actually changed. Thank God for Universal Medicine!
Have to appreciate everyday what truly loving choices we have made, and continue to make, in relation to where we once were at.
It’s true Beverly, the Ageless Wisdom teachings do make a lot of sense.
The Spiritual New Age is such a trap: it promises so much – to empower one and provide answers. As you express so clearly, Beverley, it does the complete opposite,
“Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator? Surely I could trust what I felt from the inside? So the pendulum had to go, along with all the crystals as I realised I had totally given myself away by investing all my power into them. I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me”.
I would like to take this article and put a copy of it on every self help bookshelf in the country. There is so much to be lost by pursuing the spiritual new age. It can be hard to accept that – I for one pursued that path with a passion, only to find myself 10 years later much worse off. The proof is in the pudding as they say – the Gentle Breath Meditation not only works, it is free to the world, and takes only 5-10 minutes a day.
Awesome Heather, after tripping around the block several times at not only the expense of our bank accounts but also the time we waste in ‘finding ourselves’ we actually come to realise that we have in fact lost ourselves further. And then, in finding Universal Medicine and the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation, we find ourselves home. Search over.
Absolutely Heather and Beverley – it could be up in every bookshop around the whole world! – I spent two years trekking the globe intent on finding the truth of us.. and found an awful lot of people professing great insight and spiritual enlightenment, and all of it made me uneasy, but somehow I figured they must know something – because the otherwise world I knew was definitely not right. Just because the world was insane, it doesn’t automatically mean the offered alternative is true. It was such an immense joy to discover someone who presents something that makes sense, and that can be understood and confirmed for oneself. Simple and practical and yet delivers truth.
Hi Beverley,
This is such a needed expose on the spiritual new age. I too remember the years of giving my power away to crystals and whatever healing quality someone had told me they had. Wearing them, meditating with them, placing them around the room. The spiritual new age way was me meditating or using crystals to try to fix my anxiety rather than going and talking to the person I wasn’t speaking up to!
Hi Rebecca, what you share sounds so familiar and yet another exposure of how the tools and tricks that the Spiritual New Age offer can lead us further away from the simplicity of the truth, for as you share here it would be much simpler to express the truth rather than try and meditate the situation away.
Well said Rebecca, it “is such a needed expose on the spiritual new age”. I know many people, who have spent years essentially getting nowhere, moving from one modality onto the next without actually dealing with or addressing any of their underlying hurts. It was not until Universal Medicine that I was asked to take responsibility for my life and my actions, and from there well I have not looked back.
Rebecca I love your comment. It’s got me pondering on what I do to avoid dealing with an issue and trying to use something to rely on rather than my inner resources. I know recently I’ve been anxious but, thanks to Universal Medicine, I’ve used the gentle breath to re-connect to myself. Prior to sitting down and being present I committed to beign willing to be present with whatever awareness that may arise knowing that my essense was beneath it all, a constant that I can rely on no matter what.
My experience of me is something I am slowly building and appreciating. I can feel it is what is supporting me to let go of relying on what’s outside me to relieve any anxiety. In fact, nothing outside of myself actually works in erradicating anxiety – it just numbs out the anxiety I’ve let in. Choosing to connect in full brings a beautiful ease and lightness and a wonderful perspective to my life where I can be myself.
Well said Rebecca. The spiritual new age was a huge distraction for me, so much mumbo jumbo and very little common sense.
I completely agree Rebecca, ‘This is such a needed expose on the spiritual new age’. I spent a lot of time and money on new age modalities that simple did not work. I gave my power away to gurus and people claiming that they were it, and I would look up to them and ask them advice thinking that they had the answers. When all along, I had all the answers myself and had all the wisdom I could ever need inside of me.
I just read this for the second time Beverly and got more out of it still. A great blog — understanding the difference between Spirit and Soul is a game changer.
I agree Rebecca and the unfortunate thing is that most people don’t even know there is any difference between the Spirit and Soul.
It seems hard to believe that the answer to a connection to yourself could be so simple. We seem to search for complication in our answers as if that would explain why we haven’t found the feeling we want for ourselves. I know when I was looking outside myself for a solution for any woes in my life, the more complicated the answer, the better. I would then feel very intelligent, yet nothing would really change. Now I build on the solid foundation of me every day.
I suppose that our spirit doesn’t like simplicity therefore the complicated Spiritual modalities had a great appeal.
Ah, yes. The flying on an eagle through the cosmos meditation, or the secret path through the woods meditation, etc. etc. etc. It is amazing to compare the simplicity of the gentle breath meditation to the complexity of all of the guided meditations I experienced. With the guided meditations I always had to really concentrate on what was going on or what I was supposed to do next. It totally took me out of my body and into my head (sometimes being out of my body was the stated intention), but the gentle breath is something else all together. Right from the get go, there is an acceptance of who I am and where I am at, and this brings such ease to it. It truly feels natural to reconnect in this way.
I love how you explained why you no longer needed the crystals or pendulums – life gets very very simple when we let go of letting the outside dictate how life can be, and instead use the inner guide we all have to make decisions.
I always felt, like you Beverley, that there was something ‘more’ – and that there must be a reason for al these alternate medicines to exist.
Whilst some of these alternate medicines interested me more than others, I never really committed to one particular way. But reading your story shows me that it can be very easy to get pulled in to only one way of seeing the world.
What is amazing about Universal Medicine, and this adds to why I have committed to it – is that it does not exclude ‘the other’ and it has respect for however which way people choose to live – and Universal Medicine has always supported western medicine. It also makes us take responsibility and not give our power away to a solution that can fix everything. I’ve never come across anything like that before.
Beverley whilst reading your journey/story I started to ponder on the fact that even at the time when I would involve myself in things I wanted to be “the answer” there was always part of me that knew this was not it. Therefore it makes me consider that I was always aware on some level as I am sure most people are, yet choose to ignore the feeling or little voice of truth accepting something that would never be fulfilling yet trying to make it so. As soon as I came to my first universal medicine event I knew the feeling was completely true and I felt full in myself again.
A great sharing of your journey to universal medicine
It is always so great to read a journey of another student. Thank you Beverley for writing this.
After I realised my religion was meaningless for me I began a search for something to take it’s place. My search led me into Reiki, crystals, Indian Guides – everything that the New Age had to offer – but none of it held my interest for long. None of it gave me anything I was looking for: no joy, no guidance or satisfaction and definitely no feeling of it’s being right or true. What a relief it was to find Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and to be able to follow the Way of the Livingness in love, joy and total commitment.
Thank you Beverley I enjoyed reading your blog. With the final punchline: “The search is over – This is IT.” very simple, powerful and profound as you write from your experience- no more- no less. It is awesome to read how you were able to free yourself.
I was just reading your amazing blog again Beverley and your opening words rang such a bell with me – it was the feeling that there was something more to the world than what we could physically see and apprehend, that led me to the world of clairvoyance and mediumship. I had always known within that ‘healing’ existed and when the time came, in my twenties (in the 1960s) , when I knew I needed a healer, I asked my GP if she knew any healers. She pointed me towards Reiki and The Spiritualist Church – it was the Spiritualist Church that I chose as I could not feel any healing happening when I tried some Reiki. So I fell for the ‘other one’ (both the same but with different flavours). These ‘groups’ were just sitting there like a spider’s web, ready to catch anyone who was looking, but had lost their way, as I had.
What has revealed itself gradually over the years is the fact that we think we are going for some alternative but it is just another trap – only truth serves, as you so beautifully demonstrate in this blog.
It is interesting how so many have been trapped in the Spiritual Age modalities. We all had the same pattern – we were soul searching and these modalities were appealing to our very excited spirit.
The teachings of Universal Medicine certainly break through that arrogance of the many who take part and believe in the “new agey” stuff, and also alternative therapies, and do not know they have. I certainly thought I was very liberal minded and open to everything, but have discovered how stubborn and arrogant I was. Humbleness is so beautifully demonstrated by Serge Benhayon in his daily life and the way he meets everyone, a long way from so many practitioners I have experienced in the past.
I agree totally Beverley, understanding the difference between spirit and soul has taken me off the old path of spiritual journeys. This trick has sent many people down the rabbit warren I used to live in. The Way of the Livingness is my choice to live my life on a daily basis, not following some crazy guru.
I can relate to spending a lot of time and money searching, by attending all kinds of spiritual new age modalities but none of them were the answer, somehow they started out great but soon showed me that there was no truth or consistency from myself or from the teachers.
Then I found Universal Medicine and after 8 years I am still being presented with truth, consistency and commitment at a level I would never have thought possible.
Often we can stay blind to a certain way of living as we really want to make it work, even though everything in our body is screaming that this isn’t right. That is why I have found Universal Medicine so amazing, it never pushed me to follow any way except that which feels right in my body, and that has lead to a deepening level of self care that is far removed from a spiritual path or journey but is instead just sensible everyday living.
“I chose to be oblivious of the fact that the ‘Reiki Master’ I trained with had a drinking problem…” This is just too funny to read. It’s so spot on a lesson for everyone to know that we cannot really be very healing for others if we do things that are not healing for ourselves. Life just so easily gives us these playful lessons to learn from.
Love it, love it, love it.
It is a great thing to find the truth, after it has been in you for a very long time. And feel that everything you’ve tried was only things that distracted from the real you, I think it is very beautiful.
Learning the difference between spirit and soul was life changing. It made complete sense and I can now easily see how I was tricked by the spiritual new age and how much of a massive distraction it is to humanity.
For me too Matthew, learning the difference between spirit and soul was a revelation and a revolution !
I too was trapped in the spiritual new age for many years always searching and never finding the answers I desperately wanted. How glorious my life is now, no more searching needed, all the truth, love and wisdom was always within. Thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for this amazing gift!
Beverley I love this blog because you have brought forth so many amazing points…
spirit & soul, seeking outside of ourselves,arrogance and taking responsibility for our well-being.
I used to say ‘oneness and duality’ feeling the difference we had on the planet between caring for everyone and being separate and so when I heard Serge Benhayon speak about the difference between soul & spirit…. EVERYthing seemed to make sense. This was the beginning for me and my true re-connection with soul.
“Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, Truth, Spirit & Soul – Search Over! ” The search was over for me too, after too many years into various spiritual modalities which never satisfied, all looking outwards for the answer, when it was there inside me all along. Thanks for sharing Beverley.
I was not one to get caught up in new age modalities but I found many other ways of distracting myself to maintain the separation from me. So lost was I in sport, work, alcohol and being the provider for my family that that I would not have had time to explore the “spiritual new age” arena. I always looked at the spiritual new age area as being a bit whacky, a bit out there and what I was doing was the “right thing”. My very conservative upbringing coming to the fore here. In fact there is little difference between them, they both pull us further into the separation. For many years I thought what I was doing was just me. At times I would question this, particularly around alchohol, but I would always settle for the comfort of where I was. When introduced to Universal Medicine things started to make sense. When attending presentations I was constantly saying to myself, I know that or that feels familiar. This had never occurred for me before. The truth that I feel in The Way of the Livingness means that the search, that I was barely aware of, is over. The truth lies within me, always has been and always will be.
An awesome ‘good news’ story or account of becoming free from the spiritual new age, congratulations Beverly! I too was deeply immersed in the spiritual new age and what I celebration it was (and is) to cut the shackles and break free from its insidious imprisonment. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and his clarity and courage to expose the deceit and lies.
Thank you Beverly, your story I suspect is similar to many as the search to connect and feel Love is obscured by much smoke and mirrors. Once the truth is felt the smoke and mirrors are revealed as clear as day. The account of your journey is lovely to read.
“I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being”. How freeing is it to realise we have the choice not to be the victim and to take responsibility for ourselves. Thank you for sharing your experience of ‘new age’ spirituality, I too have felt the arrogance that this comes with and I have also felt the amount of responsibility and integrity that Universal Medicine offers, what a difference!
What a massive change for you from crystal healing to embracing conventional medicine.
Wow.
Reading this Beverly made me remember how complicated spirituality was before I knew of the honesty and intelligence of my body, my breath and my soul. The simplicity is the difference and it is a bone deep joy to feel that difference. Thank you for sharing your story here.
Me too Rebecca…the new age spirituality always had complication and always left me feeling like less. The simplicity of the soul has a lightness and an ease that confirms me as an equal and with a knowing that the wisdom has and always is within.
Thank you Rebecca, you summed it up so beautifully- the simplicity of living honestly in connection to the intelligence of our body, breath and soul.
Having been lost in life for a long time, not knowing which way to turn, Universal Medicine showed me a different way and path to follow that has truly enhanced my way of living.
I agree Mike. Until finding Universal Medicine I had not realised how lost I was and as you say my way of living has been transformed and as a result truly enhanced.
I agree Beverley this is it, I knew from the very first course I attended even though I didn’t really have much to compare it to having never really dabbled in the new agey stuff,but I just knew.
Thank you Beverley Bulmer for such an honest account of a journey through the underbelly of the ‘new age’. “Taking responsibility for my well being” is a key phrase that Beverley wrote, as this really calls to account ANY practice that side-steps self responsibility, as does investment in all the crystals, cards, and candles and all other accouterments of the ‘spiritual’ seeker. We are responsible for where we are now, and we are accountable for our words, thoughts and deeds. We must truly know ourselves to understand the depths of self responsibility.
Well said Chris. And who would have thought that self-responsibility can actually be a JOY…not the heavy burden that we imagine it to be!
Yes Rebecca the Joy of self responsibility as it is definitely, “not the heavy burden that we imagine it to be.”
Yes Chris, any so-called attempt to shift responsibility to any other thing or another may be a ‘temporary panacea’ but it doesn’t ever truly work, as Beverley outlines so well.
Beverly your blog is such a familiar story for so many people. The spiritual new age is laced with trickery and illusion. Thank you for starting this conversation to install how important it is for us to actually discern what we are getting involved with.
Awesome Tim, I found embracing truth to be such a great support and in doing so it inspired me to make the changes required to bring this truth to my body as a way of living.
A lovely blog Beverley. I too was drawn for a while to Reiki, but when I decided to train at Level 2, I did not feel at all comfortable. The trainer showed no regard for the group she was going to work with, making us wait over an hour while she did other things she wanted to do before being available to do the course. I did not like the feel of what was being presented, and when I had a session with her a day or so later, she doubled the time of the session without arrangement, and charged me for that. There was no integrity in what she was doing, only wanting the financial gain. How different is the level of integrity in all the teachings and healing sessions provided by practitioners from Universal Medicine. They are second to none.
I too have gone on to completely change my whole way of life, to that of the way of the livingness, with such remarkable results.
Great blog Beverly I too had done the rounds of the spiritual new age and had been totally sold on a succession of beliefs,convinced each one was true deeply needing it to be so, but nothing ever really changed. I now have recognised that all these per suits had been quite harming to me and adding to that I had continued to use drugs to numb the pain I was in. Given this history the road back to feeling truth in my body has taken a while, but like you I knew that when introduced to the gentle breath by Chris James, I had finally found the true way of connecting to myself. Since then I have learned the about and adopted the simple principles of the way of the livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and my personal connection to truth continues to deepen.
Here! Here!
Gold at the end of the road Beverly, or should I say Gold at the beginning of your self discovery and journey back to you. I loved reading your blog and the way you expressed your appreciation for the teachings of Universal Medicine. Thank you
Reading your blog today one line jumped out at me, ‘ I stopped being a victim of my own choices.’ how often I’ve made choices that I pretended to myself were choices that supported me but weren’t actually based on love. It’s wonderful to read we all have the choice to make choices that truly support us and consequently all those around us.
Hi Karin, I found it to be a huge turning point to realise that we are always responsible for our own choices, all of them, no outside blame, our responsibility and this is super empowering even though some of the choices may not be great along the way. A few trips here and there can often turn out to be supportive too.
Hi Beverley,
I loved how you expressed your journey seeking some ‘thing’ that you innately knew that you were missing. How simple it is really, when we finally get it, that that elusive ‘thing’ that we had been expensively searching for outside of ourselves was always there – just within. I too explored that illusionary route waiting for the star bursts and clanging of symbols to exclaim “this is is”! – when all the while we didn’t have to go anywhere – that connection that we so yearned for was held quietly within – which I also was assisted to reveal through the Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon at the Universal Medicine presentations.
I took a similar ‘trip’ with the spiritual new age before finding Universal Medicine and always knew there was something not quite right. When I had my first Esoteric Healing session (and was introduced to the gentle breath meditation), I felt and thought “I don’t know exactly what this is, but this is it.” The real deal.
Exactly Deborah, when you meet truth you cannot but know that ‘this is it’.
Fabulous blog Beverley, and so true about what’s offered through Universal Medicine… what’s always blown me away is what it all boils down to is an infinitely “practical common sense way of being”. Nothing could be more normal, sensible and practical as ‘The Way of the Livingness’, and yet at the same time profound, rich, endless and all encompassing.
Yes, who would have thought it Jenny, when we were opting down the seductive paths of the New Age, that in fact the down-to-earth, practical, commonsensical approach to life presented by Universal Medicine was what would actually release all the riches and profundity of life to us, through the simple and true love of the heart.
When the Spiritual New Age met Universal Medicine it was all over. What Universal Medicine presents, automatically exposes the dozens of spiritual new age practices available today in the broad light of day through it’s pure simplicity and common sense.
Hear hear Dean! The spiritual new age is a particularly sticky trap especially for those ‘seekers of truth’, even those who ‘know’ that the truth is within. Until we connected to the practicality of life and the significance of listening to our body in all that we are and do, the truth remained forever unattainable. We were spinning a cocoon that kept us away from all that is precious.
I absolutely agree Jenny, and this is exactly why Universal Medicine ‘delivers” as much, as it is a very DYI or more accurately FIY-( Feel It Yourself ) way of presenting that leaves you with your own truth!
Oh just love it Carolien – FIY (Feel it yourself!)
My previous understanding meditation before Universal Medicine was exactly as you described, a quite ‘out there’ kind of practice that took you to some place where you emptied your mind. Who would have thought meditation could be as simple as breathing in and out of your nose and connecting to how you feel in that moment. Simple yet transformative.
Stephen, these mind emptying meditations never felt quite right to me particularly when I had to sit on the floor for a long time which was excruciatingly painful for my back! Gentle breath meditation is just that – gentle on the body and it is a powerful tool for presence.
Like you Beverley, I tried various ‘New Age’ alternative therapies to try and heal the pain of the way I had lived my life, but in the end I was really doing it my own way, in that I would try to sort out the problem without reference to the medical profession. How arrogant that was! It was only when I came to the work of Universal Medicine that it was suggested that maybe we can live a life that is supported by both the ageless wisdom and the way of the livingness – living medicine in all that we do. This way has proved to be so much more self-loving and gentle to both me and my body.
What a difference finding Universal Medicine has been for me. Looking for the answers in the ‘spiritual new age’ movement and being so arrogant about my ‘abilities’ in healing during this time, I now realise we all have an inner knowing through being connected with ourselves. Finding that stillness within has changed everything. Knowing there is no need to look outside ourselves and give our power away to others, has freed me from the illusion that others have the answers to life’s big questions.
Great, Anna to feel the freedom of knowing that you have all the answers to ‘life’s big questions’ and all inside of you. No outward search required. Awesome.
Thank you Beverley for sharing your experience. I searched always for the answers on the outside too, but know its over!
Yes Nayme, so beautiful to feel the search is over as we find our way home.
Indeed Beverley, it is so beautiful to know that the search is over and that we are liberated from the tyranny of it.
I too have been on a search and was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ but it is so liberating when we come across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. ”The search is over – This is IT” – it certainly is. I loved reading your story.
Caroline I totally agree it is liberating coming across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, especially when there is so much Spiritual New Age stuff that you can get caught in out there.
Getting caught in it is a good way to describe the affects of the spiritual new age Amita, it does feel like it keeps you in the fog of all its rules, dogmas and beliefs, not in the expanding awareness of ourselves and the truth of us as human beings, as taught by the Ageless Wisdom.
What a journey, I am so glad you came to the end of the road Beverley. What a find, your inner self, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine!
Yes what a journey, and a journey many of us seem to have undertaken. For me it was closing the door on the spiritual new age and opening another door only to find my true self hiding behind it. And that door had been there all the time, right under my nose.
I agree Sandra as I took many turnings along the spiritual new age paths and almost didn’t go when I was invited to attend a course being held by Serge Benhayon. “Been there, done that, worn the t-shirt” was my dismissive reply to the offer but something inside me said to give it one more go. Wow. What a difference, search over! Yes, I now see I was hiding, avoiding and so much more. Today I know I have found true teachings and as I open up to more of who I am, joyfully skip along the path of enlightenment, allowing myself to unfold naturally each day as and when I am ready to receive and step up further.
Talking about journeys… I did that thing and we did all sorts of techniques and guided ‘journeys’ to reach ‘the source’. Not until I stumbled across Universal Medicine did I realise that the only true source of truth is already within me.
Speaking from personal experience I agree a Glorious find – The Real You, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Thank you for your sharing Beverley. I too spent a lot of time and money “searching” and trying various modalities attempting to find the ONE that would explain the woes of the world and myself.
Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness confirms that I never have to look further than myself to find the answers to anything.
How simple.
How liberating.
I am staying with that.
Awesome Narelle and as you say:
“Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness confirms that I never have to look further than myself to find the answers to anything.
How simple.
How liberating.
I am staying with that.”
Right on Narelle and Beverley, thank you Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness…
How simple.
How liberating.
…and I am staying with that too.
Narelle I too spent sooo much time, money and energy searching for the answer. Reflecting on this now it was all a way for me to escape accepting that everything I need is inside of me. Having this connection now there is so much wisdom, beauty and understanding, I find it impossible to not fall in love with myself, others and life. It does leave me questioning whether by continually searching we are feeding some kind of force that wants us to not know that we have this wisdom deep inside of us.
This is so gorgeous Shevon, ‘having this connection now there is so much wisdom, beauty and understanding, I find it impossible to not fall in love with myself, others and life.’
Very good question Shevon. We are so beautiful and when we really connect the our beauty inside, we are irristable and we cannot help but fall in love with ourselves and with each other. Imagine how much the world would change if we let everyone fall in love with us? What industries would fall as a consequence of people choosing to connect to and live from the love that is in their hearts?
Beautifully expressed Shevon!
Hi Amber, it was so freeing to realise that the power I outwardly searched for was inside me. Super self empowering in the very true sense.
You know Beverly it’s so freeing and playful reading your blog that I’ll will read it bits at a time just to make it last longer…
I agree Beverley, I found the spiritual new age approach very appealing to my knowing that there was more to life than the very physical stuff around us. But what I can also see now looking back was their (my) reliance on forces outside of myself to dictate how things were or could be; like the pendulum, crystals, flower remedies even muscle testing. They all gave power to something other, rather than me taking responsibility for myself.
Hi Beverley, thank you for your blog, I love when you say how you realised you were giving your power away and that you realise the power was in you all along. You are an inspiration.
Such a great sharing Beverly, I love how you write it’s so much fun to read. I was never into spiritual new age and healing but my lifestyle choices were pretty much in the same direction of disconnecting from the world. Learning about soul and spirit, prana and fier was the most useful information I ever got in my life!
Awesome Beverley. I enjoyed reading your recount of your spiritual new age searching. I didn’t really know what spiritual new age stuff meant but now have a tad more understanding and realize there are a tonne of people that are in the same boat you where. Surely they have discontent like you did as well… It was more then interesting to read about the reiki master’s drinking problem. People drink to wind down, relax or forget- If the spiritual new age gig was it, why would one need to do that?
Exactly Emily, why would a Reiki master require the escape and ‘fix’ that alcohol offers if what they are practicing is true support? A great indication of the lack of truth and hypocrisy at play, of which I was part of too, within the Spiritual New Age bandwagon of tricks. Great to step back and now see the truth of it all. Thank you again to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for offering the truth.
How truly said Beverley – hypocrisy being the operative word. Not living what we speak is hypocrisy, but I had never connected that word directly to that meaning before you uttered it. I would not have thought of myself as a hypocritical person – that is not a word I reserved for myself! And yet I was and still sometimes am – if I speak about something I ‘know’ to be the truth but do not live it. This is where the disconnect is. Thank you Beverley, this may be my today’s theme!
Beverley, this is a powerful account of your journey that led you to your true connection with Soul. I, too, have been searching high and low outside of myself for decades for the Truth while working full time in the corporate world as a Personal Assistant. I have always had the two elements in me : a very organised, structured and efficient and ‘getting things done’ side and a side that deep down wanted to know where we come from and where we are going hence the astrology course and the Reiki and the numerous books I have read on philosophies and religions. My search is over also.
Thank you Beverly for your awesome blog. I can very much relate to what you share although I came from the “opposite” side. I was very much in conventional medicine, working in a pharmaceutical company. And for me nothing existed except the physical and hard proven facts. At some point I realised that this is not “it”, at least not “all”, so I quit my job and started my training in body work. I strongly felt drawn to massage and osteopathy but after completing my trainings I was still looking for more, restlessly – until I came to Universal Medicine. Immediately I could feel that this is the missing piece I was looking for. It felt and still feels like coming home. I totally agree with you: “The search is over – This is IT.”
Yes Beverley, the Spiritual New Age really does have some hooks, and similar to you until I was really honest with myself, the fact was, nothing had changed in my life. I too had the arrogant thought that “I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon” and “I understand more about life than you do” attitude. Then along came Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and the true path back to me finally began.
Something I saw in the street yesterday really brought home the importance of looking at the quality and integrity in the lives of people who are practitioners and will be either putting their hands on you or counselling you in some capacity when you are vulnerable and seeking the truth. There was a person offering services publicly, a health/healing/counselling practitioner with an outdoor service that could reach passers-by. He was smoking cigarettes and/or joints continuously, drinking alcohol, shaking all over….. “would you buy a session from this man?” What confidence could you have in the ‘truth’ being offered through the veil of those drugs and the contaminating effect they have on the mind and body of the person? And if someone has so little regard for their own wellbeing, how are they to advise you on yours?
well said Diane, it’s amazing what we are prepared to overlook when we place a need ahead of our truth.
A great comment Susan to Dianne’s previous sharing.
Thank you Beverley for your sharing. I too can relate to so much of what you have said – I too was part of the new age bandwagon using crystals and using pendulums and also living in constant anxiety and nervous tension and blaming this on the world and not wanting to take responsibility for my own choices in life. Thank goodness I too stumbled across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and his work – so much of what he presented made sense, but it also asked of me to take responsibility which was not always that easy for me to do – like opening a can of worms that I had pushed to the back of the cupboard so as not to have to deal with it all. It has so been worth it though, opening this can of worms! And so much more has opened up to me when I too ditched the pendulum and the disempowerment that went with it. The best things ever in my life!
Thank you Beverley. The part that stood out the most for me was when you shared, “I stopped being a victim of my own choices…”. This statement is powerful and goes against everything that is presented in the ‘Spiritual New Age Movement’, for if this was taught within this movement, there would be no reason for the spiritual new age to exist!
Coming to the understanding that I was the only one responsible for the choices I have made and continue to make has been and still is truly liberating (after firstly being confronted with the level of responsibility that was required to see this). It is extraordinary to live this level of responsibility and I find it deeply supportive to myself and all others, as this way of living is unimposing because I am not blaming or shifting the responsibility of me onto anyone else. Being personally responsible for all that I feel and all the choices I make is a very powerful way to be.
Wow Beverly, this is brilliant and I can relate to all of your story… the promise of change and ‘the answer’ inherent in the spiritual new age, the lumping together of spirit and soul, often used interchangeably… etc etc. My motto used to be ‘fake it till you make it’ because I KNEW nothing was really changing. I just somehow thought one day it’d fall miraculously into place and l’d finally have it! I too got progressively sicker and more unhappy, whilst at the same time pursuing even harder a range of things that were supposed to help.
Not until I met Serge Benhayon did everything start to make sense in a way that made it’s application into my life simple…and life changing… from day 1. I have never looked back and now often refer to my life before this as ‘another lifetime’… because that’s how it feels.
I know hundreds and hundreds now just like me, who would all relate to your story just the same. Thank you, your account is beautifully clear and inspiring… a much needed story for others still caught in the merry-go-round of bettering themselves within the spiritual new age.
Awesome reply Jenny. You and Beverley are describing my life before Universal Medicine exactly – the merry-go-round of bettering within the spiritual new age.
..feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon. This point really struck me Beverley. I could feel this in relation to anything we do that makes us feel better! It may be religion, exercise, helping people or a myriad of other ‘activities’ that we can rationalise as being worthwhile. They are all illusionary as a way to make us feel better if we cannot feel absolutely ‘full of our own ‘worth’ before we lift a finger to start being in service to others!
This is a very pertinent point Bernadette and Beverley – one of the great illusion breaking realisations that Serge Benhayon has delivered to us as a race. Thank heavens for Serge Benhayon.
This is a big one Bernadette, as it is part of our normal and accepted way of life as human beings to find something to make us feel better, and especially if it comes cloaked in the guise of ‘doing good’ or anything else considered ‘worthwhile’. But we seldom stop to consider why we are not ‘full of our own worth’ first before we venture out on these ‘doing good’ endeavours. In other words what are we actually bringing to these ‘well intentioned’ efforts?
Wow! Beverly you had gone on many paths to find your way and it was always within you, in you own breath. The lengths we go for looking outside ourself is shocking, as I too had gone down the path of such things like kinesiology, homeopathy, natropaths, many other techniques.. but these supported upto a certain point (like food changes) but none of these really seemed to support or work as I would keep going back to them for the same thing over and over, going in circles coming back to same place each time. I was sick and tired of trying things and nothing working!
Then one day I went to get my regular homeopath refill that was so called working, the homeopath said that they had stopped suppling and doing homeopathy as that only deepens the cause of the issue deeper in body. I was puzzled and wanted to find out more and he was offering other types of services called “Esoteric Healing”. I was curious and the journey started from there which led to my 1st workshop from Universal Medicine called “Heart Chakra 1” and I haven’t since looked back. A lot of things that were foggy in my life started to unfold and make sense esp. about body and its suffering and it could be the way I’m living both physically and energetically.
I’v been to Chris James’s workshops and they are so supportive and powerful in truly learning to express yourself.
Thank you for your sharing your journey.
It is so refreshing and a big relief to no longer be trapped in the spiritual new age. All that searching was quite exhausting! It is glorious to feel, with the help of Universal Medicine, that we already have everything within us.
Whilst reading your blog Beverly, I recalled that number 1 question I had never found an answer to when I was a girl, of ‘what is Spirit, and what is Soul’. Not only had it at last been answered the day I heard Serge present, everything I had yet to form questions for also began to be uncovered. The beginning of detangling myself from all the tricks I had become so enmeshed in, with the welcomed re-introduction to stillness in motion.
Yes Giselle, the question ‘what is Spirit, and what is Soul’ is one that many ask while growing up. In my case, I did not even have the clarity to ask the question and when I was older I got caught up as many did who were interested in the New Age Movement, believing that the ”spirit’ was it and hence pursued anything promising ‘spiritual growth’. How we are deceived until our eyes are opened, in my case by meeting Serge Benhayon and the truth he presented once heard, resonated deeply with me. At last I knew that I had come home – to my soul!
How seductive those spiritual New Age modalities are, they offer a “seeming” rather than a “being”, at least, that is how they feel to me. They “seem” to give us benefit, to heal us, to make us feel good, very often using all the enticements we know are true, like “we are not here to cure you but support you to heal yourself from within,” and “you can take responsibility for your health.” This is why people are often confused about the difference between this and what Universal Medicine is and teaches. My experience is that, despite these statements, New Age ideals, and many Alternative Therapies took me right away from myself, and I could often feel an energy entering me and rushing though my body. Looking back I realise that many of the practitioners were not living what they were practicing and telling me. They were living an ideal in the practice room but bringing a lot of unrecognised and unhealed stuff in themselves to the sessions or workshops. Whereas, what I have learned from Serge Benhayon, by example and teaching, is that loving ourselves by clearing those emotional attachments we have carried around for years, and finding the stillness within to enable that to happen as a bridge to the Soul, brings true Love to our lives and the healing session, for both practitioner and client.
You are so right Joan. New Age modalities are about ‘seeming’ rather than being the real thing. The words appear to be true but if the truth is not actually ‘lived’ the words are empty. Thank heavens for Universal Medicine which has offered a true way of being where we could clear the obstacles to us being the love and the truth that we originally are.
Yes Lyndy, the words are all there to be found in the Spiritual New Age and some of them are very close to the truth, so close as to appear to be the same in many instances. However, as they do not come from the right source, soul and true love they are as you say, ’empty’. And no matter how much one tries to live those empty words, no true transformation or deep connection with one’s soul will eventuate. Yes, truth must be lived within the body, embodied, and this is what happens when the simple principles offered by Universal Medicine are applied.
Absolutely Josephine. You say it so eloquently: ‘And no matter how much one tries to live those empty words, no true transformation or deep connection with one’s soul will eventuate.’ This is the one huge difference between Serge Benhayon’s presentation of the Ageless Wisdom and every other presentation, all of which are a pale imitation if not a total re-interpretation of the real thing. No other presentation has given us the multi-dimensional full-ness and living-ness – they have all been cardboard cut-outs pretending to be the real thing – nothing happens with them except hope.
Thank you for sharing this Beverley. It is amazing how we know that there is more to life and we search but get easily fooled and don’t trust what we feel. When we are given the opportunity to connect with our own body and truly feel what is going on, the answers becomes clear. In the words from a beautiful song “…stop looking outside for the love within”.
The search definately is over Beverley, Universal Medicine is the real thing. I can totally relate to your blog, I was seeing a reiki practitioner for a number of years and I was an absolute mess by the end of it. The first time I received a treatment from an Universal Medicine practitioner I knew this was the real deal and furthermore incorporating the livingness into my life has turned my life around
Awesome Joe, I found the love and integrity from Universal Medicine Practitioners stood out above all others, leaving me in no doubt of the fact that this is the real deal.
I agree the love and integrity offered by Universal Medicine Practitioners is second to none. It was regular healing sessions with several of these practitioners which allowed my body to begin healing from all the spiritual activities I had previously been involved in. As these old paradigms were gradually shed from my body I felt a return of vitality and fullness within my body and a much deeper connection with my self, which I had never made in all the years of spiritual seeking.
I can relate to your journey through the spiritual new age, always feeling there is more. It is amazing how complicated it can be made out to be when in fact it is very simple – not always easy but the principle is.
As I read this wonderful blog, comments and the amazing paths that came to the door of truth, love and simplicity, I feel to thank you Serge Benhayon for presenting the door to The Way of The Livingness and the Ancient Wisdom Teachings. As Rowena said
“the endless searching has come to a halt only to find we had it all inside us all the time”
how freeing.
Awesome blog, Beverly. I related to so much yet I fell for kinesiology, not reiki. Yet I too, used a pendulum and felt ‘it’ knew instead of me. The craving for the answers was so desperate that I became a victim of my own choices, also. The truth as presented by Serge Benhayon was so simple yet so all encompassing, all seeking outside of myself ceased and the journey of re-discovering my true self from within began….thankfully! It’s been awesome returning to what feels so natural and right for me.
Thank you Beverley for your awesome blog. What stood out for me while I was reading it is the wisdom of the body in knowing truth. When you were exploring the “spiritual new age” you expressed that you always had a nervousness and a feeling of emptiness and the need to keep searching. How beautiful that your body was signalling that something wasn’t true and how beautiful that you found truth by re-connecting to you via the Gentle Breath Meditation and The Way of the Livingness.
Yes Bianca that feeling of nervousness was so ‘normal’ that I fell into thinking that it would always be that way, and having others around me also feeling that way was confirmation at that time that it was the way! Such a trick and trap – Then meeting with the loving presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, they were like nothing else I had felt before and I now know it is because they came with absolute love. Awesome.
Ah…. the nervousness. It was normal for me too and it was normal for everyone around me in any country I have worked in. And when I was on a high stress level accumulating all that nervousness, it became anxiousness. That has been a pattern for so long. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have shown me and so many people that there is another way to live life.
This is indeed ‘IT’ for me also, Beverly.
I was a Reiki master and when the world conference was on in Perth, gave healing to the grand master at the time, who entered the room all frustrated and agitated…before heading off for a drink before dinner. The crazy party….I felt so honoured to be asked.
Oh I know it well Joel! Not in the Reiki field but in something similar.
I once lived near a Reiki Master. Some nights I would hear this incredibly loud groan/cry/scream. I never could make out exactly what it was but it was very creepy and it came from the house they lived in. I even called the Police one night as the sounds made me think they were mentally unstable. I had never been to a Reiki Master or experienced this type of healing but after hearing all of this I stayed far away from it.
It was the relationships between the so called grand master and all the students that caused me to question Reiki and withdraw my support, a number of years before I found Universal Medicine… can’t imagine Serge Benhayon ‘frustrated and agitated’ or bringing anything into the room but his loving self and the inspiration for us to do just the same.
Yes Kathie, I tried to study Reiki once and attended the first day training, but couldn’t go back. The dysfunction amongst those already trained was so overt I found it just too uncomfortable to be in the same room. In 13 years observing Serge Benhayon I’ve never seen anything I could call dysfunctional… as you say, he’s always and ever just his loving self, and totally inspiring in that.
I can relate to what you have shared about some of the New Age stuff, Beverley. I also tried Reiki for a while. Did level 1 with someone I met on a tour in Japan, felt good at the time, and thank goodness I did not do it on anyone else. Then I later felt to do Level 2 and the earlier teacher was not available. I picked A Reiki Master advertising in the local paper at the time, and did her 2 or 3 day course. I found some of the people involved a bit strange, and the teacher was completely disorganised, and completely unconcerned about keeping us waiting for about an hour before she was ready to start. After the final day, the teacher persuaded me to have a session with her as she felt I needed it. Yes, I was a mess, I needed something, but not Reiki. I agreed to a double session, at the full rate of course, and when the time came, the practitioner went for an extra hour as well, without discussing with me. Then she charged me for that! And she knew that I had another appointment after, which I was late for. There was absolutely no integrity or caring in that teacher at all. It was very clear that she was completely doing it for the cash return. And the course we did made absolutely no mention of a code of conduct, or the need for integrity.
A few days later, I burned all the Reiki Books and never answered any calls from that practitioner.
Thank goodness soon after I found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, where the level of integrity is the highest possible and where I have learned TRUTH. I too have come home.
Thank you Beverley for your wonderful article – so clearly expressing the pitfalls that we encounter when we choose to seek solace in those modalities that energetically sit outside of ourselves. I also travelled for a while along this rock strewn path, little knowing at the time that I was in fact choosing to travel further and further away from my essence, my soul connection. I too recognized the simplicity of true Truth when I met Serge Benhayon and attended the presentations of Universal Medicine. It was very confronting for me initially as I realized the ill choices that I had been making for the previous several years – however, on finally recognizing I only needed to say “oops – that is not it” I also learned the Gentle Breath Meditation, initially learning to re-connect me with me. So simple really – no hocus pocus, outlandish promises or any other falsity.
I too tried out the New Age Movement for a time in my searching, and finally felt I had come home when I found Universal Medicine.
Exactly Jill, the feeling of coming home, re-connecting to our innermost. Simple, yet profound.
Even just the title of this article says it all, it is so true.
” I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.” How empowering, freeing and awesome to discover that we can move on and begin to make ‘choices’ that support our lives. It can without a doubt change everything. Thank you for sharing.
“The stage was now set for me to make some changes and start to take true responsibility for myself and my life. I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being.”
This is the answer to my question today.
As I read your blog it reminds me that it feels almost ‘too easy’ to have actually found the truth being presented by Serge Benhayon. I was so accepting of the fact that none of the spiritual new age courses, workshops or presentations would actually present true truth that I had stopped expecting to find it!
How I learnt to keep myself on track and out of depression was to use a conglomeration of every workshop that I had attended and by doing so I had all bases covered….or so I thought.
When I heard Serge speak the true words about spirit and soul and what living from love really was, I was stunned (and angered initially) but my heart knew this was it and that there IS a truth that we all have access to. From there, it is available for all of us to re-learn how to live the truth of love.
Hi Deborah, when I heard Serge Benhayon explain the difference between the Spirit and the Soul it was huge. I had always been presented with confusion around the two and now it was presented so clearly and made so much sense.
I felt to comment again, as I realised when rereading this blog the insidiousness of the New Age.. I too was so caught up in it, mostly by giving my power away to others thinking they could fix me.. What a trip. Great blog.
Exactly Michelle, such a trick we can fall for to think that someone else can ‘fix’ us. To return to the knowing that the answer is within, is an amazing revelation in its most simplest form. Beautiful.
Hi Beverly, I too have been on a similar path in looking for the answers on a spiritual quest only to be disheartened again and again moving from one thing to the next to the next. So when I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, my heart warmed and my body simply let go. The search was finally over…and the funny (not so funny) thing is, it was with me all along! No more trying to be ‘natural’ and ‘spiritual’ – I can just be myself, thank god, and live a warm-hearted and soul inspired life where for the first time, I feel true purpose and true meaning …
Awesome Sara. Thank you for sharing.
True purpose and true meaning……Thank you Sara.
I also came a long way with spiritual arrogance that keeps people away, because I thought they weren’t ready for me. With the work of Universal Medicine, it changed, I now can say that there is a huge release in embracing the simplicity of living a loving live and holding everyone equally.
It feels very important Beverly, what you say about guided meditations and then the gentle Breath Meditation. I also felt I found something which is so simple and true and connects me to myself in the way nothing had before and has led to a completely new unfolding of my life and how I live. A guided meditation would now feel like a pressure from the outside and involves lots of mental activity, whereas the Gentle Breath is about our own breath and connection with our bodies, and pure observation and feeling, And there is no long struggle to “get anywhere”, just “being here with self”, and that connection can happen within a few minutes, as it is there all the time if we choose it.
I agree with you Joan – I shudder to think of how I used to believe that if I sat in meditation for 30 minutes to an hour, I must be ‘getting it’. I then set up a perceived cycle of failure as I was unable to stay with an empty mind as instructed to do. I now know this was one thing that stopped me checking out even more than if I had the ‘ideal empty mind – mindlessness’. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so different, so simple and a beautiful way to just simply be and re-connect with the innermost of myself.
It reminds me Stephanie and Beverley…… I once went along to a meditation in London (which religion I won’t name) that lasted for hours. It was cold and we had to sit on a cushion and it was very uncomfortable. I was looking around me and felt the emptiness and the desperation and I never returned.
Hi Joan, I remember when I did the guided meditations I would most times fall asleep and then other people would share what a trip they had, literally, as they would have probably totally left themselves to go on the ‘guided tour.’ The revelation of the Gentle Breath Meditation was for me to stay present with me and to come to the understanding that the truth of meditation is about re-connecting to who we are and not leaving ourselves was awesome.
And to add, Stephanie and Beverley, that the moment the connection happens through the gentle breath, the body fills with warmth, and I feel really alive, something that never happened in any other form of meditation which always seemed to take me further away into a cold, cold empty space, and then I had to take time to come back to me, instead of being already there in me and ready to open my eyes and take that amazing warmth and gentleness into the world.
Gorgeous Beverley. It’s so simple isn’t it.
Everything presented by Universal Medicine makes complete sense – on every level. This is the real deal, and your life (and mine, and many others) are the living proof.
Hi Beverly, I can totally relate to your story. I was very much into the spiritual new age and personal development and in fact worked as an acupuncturist and life coach. I thought that I was helping people and working through my issues. At this time I also drank heavily, smoke cigarette and took drugs. I did not see this as anything contrary to what I was doing nor harmful to myself and others. More scarily is that it was never considered an issue by those I work with or trained with either. After meeting Serge Benhayon I came to realise that if I was truly dealing with my hurts then why would I need all of these substances on a daily basis. I also came to understand the truth about energy and my responsibility for my energy at all times. With the support of Universal Medicine practitioners and courses I no longer need any of those substances and I know now the true simplicity of living myself.
Hi Penny I know when I was offering Reiki I used to drink and smoke and not see anything wrong with that. How ridiculous it seems now to practice a so-called healing treatment whilst at other times doing something that is harming. I am a self confessed hypocrite in this case and thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine this way of being is long gone.
Thanks Beverly. I had been searching too, in my own way. Like you I could feel that there is so much more to us than just the physical. When I was introduced to Universal Medicine by a friend of mine, there was an alignment in my body I felt to the big picture, to the all, it was absolute. All the pieces fell into place with the most perfect simplicity. Nothing else has made more sense to me than what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presents. And what is most powerful, is that what he presents is here and for all of us.
Yup. This Is It! The Way of the Livingness.
Thank you Beverly for sharing your story – I can relate to so any of the things that you have shared here – getting lost in the spiritual new age, and the simplicity and common sense things that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present on.
I love what you have written here Beverly. I grew up with some Spiritual Age modalities and always felt quite lost in it, like you described a constant anxiousness and sadness. With the teachings of Universal Medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon I never felt this anxiousness, emotional feeling of being completely lost and sadness, instead I feel simplicity, common sense and a very solid feeling of what I know to be true. I agree with you, This is it!
It feels so freeing to realize that I don’t have to look for any workshop, course, special person, crystal stone, healing music cd, new age book etc any longer, or feel the need to go to some special place abroad to find myself. The feeling that I don’t need anything new, exciting or different, is such a big present. I have me and all there is inside of me, what else do I need?
Awesome Mariette. “I have me and all there is inside of me, what else do I need?”
Love it.
So true and beautifully said Mariette, the endless searching has come to a halt only to find we had it all inside us all the time. What a relief to put down all those things and begin the real journey, discovering our amazing, never ending love and deepening our relationship with ourselves and consequently one another.
Thank you for sharing Beverly
I can relate in a different way as a child I watched my mum search and try everything and anything “spiritual” this really taught me to discern what felt true to me and what didn’t. When I first met Serge Benhayon and attended Universal Medicine I just knew it was the real deal.
This is a brilliant blog Beverley. I can relate to the whole ‘journey’ you expose here. I too gave away my power to things of the spiritual new age, things outside myself and used to wake up each day with a feeling of dread and nervousness. Yes, this feeling of dread would hugely lessen as the sun came up and the day would fill with light, but it was always there, underneath everything – a feeling of being on edge with life. Since attending the presentations and courses at Universal Medicine my awareness of the ubiquitousness of this nervous energy through my body has grown and I have been able to begin to choose to live another way – connected to the warmth an confidence of my own being. My body feels very different now – life is so enjoyable now and continues to be richer and richer every day.
Yes Lyndy so great to wake up and welcome the day as opposed to dreading it arriving. Those old feelings of having to fill my day with stuff to distract me from the anxiousness I was feeling are great to leave behind and now are replaced by a willingness to greet each day knowing that I don’t have to search for an answer or an end. With support of the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have found me and and that is what I was looking for all along.
I can very much relate Beverly to the empty Search for truth.
When I stumbled upon Serge it was like a feeling of coming home, and spoke the language of my heart.
I feel deep appreciation for the simplicity in which Serge describes energy, and defines the energy of spirit and soul.
No other modalities or teachers reflected such truth and integrity I can happily say I have found what I have been looking for and it does not exist in giving my power away to another but in claiming it within myself.
Well said Nicole “No other modalities or teachers reflected such truth and integrity I can happily say I have found what I have been looking for and it does not exist in giving my power away to another but in claiming it within myself” super powerful.
What a powerfully honest celebration of re-connecting to yourself – thank you Beverley. There are so many stop and reflect moments here for all of us who have searched for truth outside of ourselves. I loved the freedom of you realising you had given your self away to the crystal healing with :
‘ I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me’.
Like you my search for the truth outside of me stopped once I felt the simple truths of the presentations of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and ‘The way of the Livingness ‘. Essentially it is living a more naturally self caring and self loving way of life. It was such a relief and a coming home – just a natural way to be with myself and everyone else.
The humbleness in your writing is touching me deeply, as well as the sheer joy of the immensely powerful statement THIS IS IT. I couldn’t agree more Beverly.
Yes Eva, those three little words… the ones we all wait a lifetime/s to hear!
Hi Eva, I really love both what you are saying and how you are saying it here in your comment. Amazing, thank you.
Jep, I can join the line off ex-spiritual-healer here. Always was searching … and now arrived. Still on the way home – like all of us. But now on the way of the livingness – making this life as soulful as possible.
Awesome Sandra.
I can very much relate Beverly. After almost 15 years of spiritual seeking, attending every workshop and reading every book under the sun, I too was deeply steeped and lost in the arrogance of the spiritual new age. The deeper you go the harder it can be to untangle yourself from. I had accumulated a huge amount of spiritual knowledge and therefore had a sophisticated and convincing answer for almost anything. It was the ultimate identification and illusion. Eventually and after attending some Universal Medicine workshops it gradually became obvious that despite 15 years of spiritual work my stuff/childhood hurts were still undealt with but buried more deeply. I had to accept that I was not where I thought I was in terms of my understanding and awareness of energy. It was difficult at times as my spiritual pride came crumbling down but also felt amazing to be liberated from those insidious shackles. I now see and feel the undeniable distinction between spirit and Soul and the true freedom that comes from this has enabled me to lay a solid new foundation that supports true healing and evolution.
For me Rob it was such a revelation to understand the distinction between spirit and soul. It is like a foundation rock that we can build on and without it we are just living in a fog.
Like you Beverly I found in my pursuit of new age modalities that I never got closer to truth or the real me, it just created more of a merry go round and more an illusion, thank fully I saw the wood through the trees and inspired by Universal Medicine am able to connect to that truth love and wisdom that is inside, no need for crystals, pendulums, attunements, fire walking, angel cards etc…etc…. no just a simple connection back to who we really are.
I tried lots of modalities, too, but always felt that there was something missing. Something more direct. Did I really need to ask a crystal a question? Invoke a ‘higher self’ before a massage. Where was my power in all this? Finding Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine was life changing, and gave me my power back.
Thanks Beverley it was lovely to read your story. It really is like unlocking a door when we realise that we have all the answers and dont have to look outside or to anyone else for reassurance. I have a tendency to also fall into that behaviour but am aware enough now most times, to realise also when I am doing that too, so I can take a look at whats actually going on for me.
I couldn’t have said it better that this is IT, there is no looking back 🙂
That story is so familiar. I, too, searched and searched for the answers, and finally found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I feel blessed that I did, for his presentations of the ageless wisdom have given me all the answers.
Isn’t it amazing how the one thing we’ve all been looking for is in truth only a gentle breath away. The connection to the very essence of who we are can be found in the natural rhythm of our breath. My breath has become a great marker for where I’m at because it changes, becoming shorter and shallower if I’m anxious, stressed or frustrated. When I am connected to my inner-heart, and breathing gently then I can feel my breath throughout my whole body and it supports me to remain gentle and tender. I’ve done many meditations in my time and not one has ever brought me to this place before.
Thanks for sharing Beverley. It seems that your lived experience exposes what is true and loving and what is not.
I too went down the spiritual path. But now looking back at it all…. it was all about looking outside of yourself for answers, or wanting that crystal to give you something that I now know is something we don’t give ourselves. Instead of trusting everything you need is within your own body, with all the answers..
I too went down the path of Spiritual new age for many, many years only to feel more depressed and disillusioned with life at the end of it all. I had given up on finding anything that would truly support me then I was introduced to Universal Medicine and during the first work shop I realized I had found the ‘real deal’ at last. I now live a fulfilling and joy-filled life.
I loved reading your story Beverley and can relate to it a lot. I have also tried many alternative therapies over the years and was never able to stick at them for anymore than a few weeks before I could feel that it wasn’t “it”. I have been going to Universal Medicine presentations for about 6 years now and also have never felt better in myself – more steady, loving, less tired and anxious. You are right – this is the real deal, this is IT!!
I found your experience you shared here Beverley very very insightful. It is truly profound how all of what we could ever need is all ready and waiting deep inside us
Thank you Beverley for your blog. I relate to a lot of the New age crystal, healing, readings etc, that were looking outside of myself for the connection to God. I found a lot of the meditations that people shared were somehow almost a novel of amazing experiences they had. There were many so called incredible products that one could buy to evolve quicker that I found questionable. Then I came across Universal Medicine and the teachings of Serge Benhayon, it made absolute sense in my life, thank you Universal Medicine for the truth.
My whole life I was exposed to clairvoyants, palm readers, etc, and was even encouraged to see a few in my time, including “some of the best.” I even once participated in a wigi board as a teenager, which I must admit freaked me out at the time. When people used to ask me what I thought of it all, “was it real”, I had to admit that there was definitely something to it all.
Over the years, however, I saw the true danger in giving your power away to such people, for whilst I knew that they were connecting to “something” otherworldly, the question that disturbed me the most was when I followed that up with “connecting to what?”. There was no doubt that they were connected to something spiritual, but over time I realised that whatever they were connecting to was more often than not only going to tell you what you wanted to hear, and so whatever they were connecting to might be real, but it was definitely FALSE.
As someone close to me used to say, all people want from a clairvoyant is to know about the “money and the man”. There is no real honesty from people to want to hear the truth, and in my experience, no honesty is ever delivered.
What Serge Benhayon brought me was a deep philosophy that was grounded in the reality of life. Getting real and dealing with our stuff is the only way to knowing who we truly are, and no one can do that for us.
Ahhh…I love this line Adam: ‘Getting real and dealing with our stuff is the only way to knowing who we truly are, and no one can do that for us.’ So, so true…and who we truly are is amazing beyond our comprehension.
This is so true Adam.To pull ourselves out of the spiritual new age seeking and into the reality of our own stuff and dealing with it is a huge and necessary step to take. What I found however was that I could get caught up in my stuff and believe it was me, and get lost in it. The magic ingredient that Universal Medicine delivered was that yes I need to deal with my stuff, but the stuff is not me. Underneath the stuff is the love and beauty of my true essence. By connecting to and focussing on the essence of me it is more possible to deal with and face my issues, and finally choose to let them go.
Thank you for your comment Adam, yes getting real and dealing with our stuff is the only way to know who we truly are. I too searched the New Age industry and found that I was always searching for the next or better thing than what I had found. All of it kept me constantly feeling deflated and pushed me to search for what was real. I have now found what is real, my soul and what I feel from within. This has so debunked all of my previous New Age pursuits as not ever, not even once did they in any way connect me to my soul. Universal Medicine and choosing to be an esoteric student, is what has allowed me to to connect deeply to my own soul.
I’m at a bit of a loss for words … it was like reading my own story with some differences but so so similar … the spiritual arrogance … I remember being proud and attached to being a ‘seeker’ – it was a status symbol as it meant I was ‘better’ than others who were staying ignorant of the finer subtleties and energies of life, although at the same time I simply could not understand how they couldn’t feel that there was more to life.
Thank goodness for my Soul steering me towards Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, now there’s a miracle.
I can relate Beverley! I went for finding the answers to why people communicate the way they do… And when honest, I was completely out of my body – well, compared to where I am now… Where now I’ve found that when I’m with me, the words just come. Amazing. So so simple. So simple that I choose to ignore it, but it never lasts. Hours, maybe days, but I will re-connect with me. Simply because I miss the amazing Energy flowing through my body. Nothing equals the energy of my own Love. It is so so lovely. Thank you Beverly.
I loved the way you so honesty shared your journey. There seems to be that reoccurring theme where one is lost and goes on a search whether via new age, mainstream religion, self help books or motivational speakers. We all seem to naturally sense that something is missing but no matter which road you arrive by, when you practice the gentle breath or hear Serge Benhayon speak everything starts to make sense and there is the warm enveloping stillness that lets us feel that here at last lies the truth.
There are many real-life stories like yours Beverly, of people who have connected to the truth through Universal Medicine. I too am one of them. Yes I also went looking and searching around the world for another way, for what always felt missing in my life, when what I was looking for was with me all of the time! That is re-connecting to myself, the true, authentic soul that I am.
Thank you for sharing this great story, Beverley. We have all had many different experiences, and tell many different stories, but in the end, they are all the same: we were lost, and now are home.
This is cool Beverly! I loved reading it. What you said about ‘The spiritual new age’ wrapping Spirit and Soul into the same package is so true. When in fact there is a big difference as Serge Benhayon presents.
Thank you for sharing your journey through the new age agenda and how you came to find The Way of the Livingness. I too dabbled in many things in the new age realm like angel healing, reiki, psychic readings and crystals but they all left me feeling that something just wasn’t adding up. I have innately had a great sense from a very young age that all we need to navigate life and bring peace and happiness to ourselves and others is already within us. So despite a lot of these new age practices promoting connection with self, I never felt that it quite hit the mark and was something I could hang my hat on. Consequently, true healing never transpired for me and underlying patterns were not being addresses, instead they were being glossed over and distracted. When I discovered Universal Medicine, I must admit I was a little sceptical as I have been let down so many times before. After darting around the edges of the teachings for over 18 months following my sister coming to some courses and having practitioner sessions, I finally decided to attend my first course. And the rest as they say, is history! I was sold once I felt the truth of what was being presented deep in my body and every cell let out a little yippee!! The Way of the Livingness is now my religion and I develop a deeper relationship with it as my rhythm and most importantly with myself each and every day.
This is a story similar to mine. I have moved around from town to town, job to job looking searching and the fresh environment provided a distraction to my deep feelings.
Now with universal medicine I am home.
Ahh yes, I know that path well, I too tried many ways to find ‘happiness’ or ‘enlightenment’ just as long as I didn’t have to change the way I lived. Talk about looking for love in all the wrong places! Universal Medicine has shown me another way, something real and true. I agree Beverly, this is IT!
Thank you Beverly for your amazing blog. I haven’t been involved in learning the ‘Spiritual New Age’ work but I was also searching for answers. I can really relate to everything you’ve written and I also felt the same when I became a student of Universal Medicine that ‘This is IT’. I am still learning and embracing the teachings to apply them to my daily life and I am forever grateful to have been introduced to Universal Medicine.
Hi Beverly, thanks for your blog and the way you expose the spiritual arrogance of the new age movement. Connecting to ones inner heart and taking responsibility for ones choices is so empowering.
It was the honesty about my (not so) well-being, that freed me from my spiritual New-Age imprisonment. To be honest with myself and with others made everything so light. Honesty is the first step you are asked to take when you approach Universal Medicine. Many people don’t like this and some do attack Serge Benhayon and his family rather than becoming honest with themselves.
“Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator?” Indeed why, Beverley. Needing an outside “something” is totally part of the spiritual new age which you clearly expose here as not having the answers for you: it didn’t work for me either!
I too was caught up searching outside of myself in both Christianity and later in the New Age Movement. I remember one day in a new age bookshop picking up one of the books and literally feeling sick, that was the end for me. Some time later on I heard about Serge Benhayon and was invited to hear him speak at Byron Bay, I really don’t remember what he was saying, but I remember having the feeling that at last I have come home, my searching was over.
The practicality and simpleness of it is why it makes so much sense. It’s either love (which of course must be for all equally) or it is not, look inside yourself for the truth and take gentle loving care of yourself. The spiritual new age was always so airy fairy to me with no true responsibility, which made it so disempowering. The constant need to improve meant I was never good enough.
I can so relate to your Spiritual New Age Journey Beverly as I fell into that trap of believing it be the way. Before being energetically set free by Serge Benhayon my main source of income was from doing clairvoyant readings, Reiki Healing & Angel Therapy Healings. I was absolutely convinced at the time I was doing God’s work so to speak helping people find their way so much so that I also became an ordained Christian Spiritual Minister and running a small congregation. A short time after becoming an Ordained Minister however I became aware that a lot if things were not as they had previously seemed to me and I began to question certain things especially about where was the love. To cut a long story short soon after being ordained I resigned/renounced my position. I still continued with the readings but began searching for the truth. It was approx a year or so after that, I was introduced to The Way if The Livingness, Serge Benhayon and the Truth. And so my search ended and my journey of self discovery, self care, self nurturing and self love began.
The reference you make Beverley to the crystals being a substitute for our own Soul, resonated with me. I have been a great one for looking outside myself and to always feel for myself is still a work in progress. A great reminder that ALL is already within. How powerful is that – Yes this is IT!
I Love this part..”Well, if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator? Surely I could trust what I felt from the inside? ” So many modalities, therapies and philosophies place the power in some form of talisman or person. Universal Medicine has been the only organisation that talks about our inner most power and delivers a way of living to connect to that.
Great point Joel…Universal Medicine has also been the only organisation I have come across that truly DELIVERS a way of connecting to the power within that is equal in each and every one of us, should we choose this. Not giving your power away to a guru or an outside source, which I did many years of on the new age merry-go-round, but walking side by side with each other celebrating each other and what we each bring to the world.
Hi Beverly, for me your last sentence says it all now – “I am now part of the student body of Universal Medicine –I have found the Way of the Livingness” for I also was caught up in the merry-go-round of the Spiritiual New Age at a time of searching while in emptiness.
What a great exposing of the spiritual new age movement as it is a trap that many of us fell for, that is looking outside of ourselves for answers. I remember the absolute relief I felt when I hear Serge Benhayon first present on the difference between soul and spirit. It was like a light bulb went on inside me and it changed something forever within me.
Ha, ha, it is like reading my process, going through the Spiritual offerings like Reiki, using the pendulum and other modalities. Everytime I felt it seemed to have a piece of what I was looking for, but after a while I would ‘move on’, feeling it lacked a depth or truth. I am glad that I always trusted that deeper knowing. And then I participated in a workshop of Chris James’. I instantly felt there was truth in what and how he presented it. It had to do with him, the way he expressed and was with himself. When I found out he had someone he was inspired by, I knew what my next step was. Go to the source, just like you Beverly. Few words can describe how it felt to come home. Perhaps it just doesn’t need words. Just that it all felt so simple, yet so true,and what was shared made such practical sense. Take care of myself, take heed of my choices and live life lovingly.
I too was tricked and trapped in all the nonsense of the New Age Movement…for 19 years. Always seeking for the truth that I thought must be ‘out there’. Then 5 years ago I found Serge Benhayon who … with the clarity I had been longing for…. revealed that it had been inside my own inner heart all the time. I now live my life filled with quiet Joy.
I love how you share that the explanation of the spirit and soul helped you understand life, it did this for me too, it was in some ways a relief because I could never understand my destructive habits and actions. Knowing that spirit is invested in keeping the status quo going at all costs allows a much greater understanding and appreciation for who I truly am.
Thank you Beverley for this blog – I too had spent a lot of years in the spiritual new age merry go round that not so merry….When I found The way of the Livingness I too knew that my search was over and that now the real work begins. With me taking responsibility for all of my wayward and unloving choices and turning them around into loving choices one by one.
What a gorgeous blog Beverley, beautifully expressed and claimed. The Way of The Livingness it is. It is so simply about living from one’s inner most essence and not from anything outside of ourselves be that the opinions of others, cultural ideals and beliefs or the so-called powers of a crystal wand etc. In being a student of the Way of The Livingness I am discovering more and more every day that all the answers I have ever looked for are within me, and that my power comes from within. The Way of The Livingness is living the way of truth — for all.
Through all the ‘ologies’ ‘isms’ that I studied. and there were a lot. it was always the behaviour of the presenters that had me questioning what they were presenting.
Paradoxically the behaviour of Serge Benhayon leaves me with NO questions about what he is presenting- ultimately that I myself know the Truth
The way of the livingness is the real deal. I have never been on a search for spiritualism etc. but I can relate to the miraculous first experience of the gentle breath medication, connecting to my inner heart, truly meeting myself and another in this energy. The first workshop I did with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I feel like one of those little nodding dogs from the 70s/ 80s on the dashboard of cars…I just could not stop nodding, everything Serge presented made sense, practical everyday sense that I could live by and opened my eyes to seeing the greater than just the physical.
I am so glad Beverley to have found Universal Medicine too. It is clear, truthful, empowering and healing. It is the only thing that has no hidden agendas or deceptions.
Absolutely agree Concetta it is remarkable to me that I have been so graced to have access to the ageless wisdom and have had the will to live in a way that goes against the ‘norm’ to discover that life can be really simply amazing every day, not with perfection my life is hardly perfect and I struggle with different things but in me I feel the pulse of love and I know thats what it is and that makes everything different.
So many people are searching for truth and love. I searched too for a long time but never felt something to be completely true, there was always something missing or not feeling 100% ok (reiki, yoga, diodanza, thai chi, shaking ect.). Until I did a course with Universal Medicine and met Serge Benhayon: like the something fell into place inside me, like a plug got back into it’s plug connection and finally there was a rest and a knowing: this is it, this is the first thing that is 100% true. I stopped everything else and started making self-loving choices. The Way of the Livingness is my path.
For me the path of the Spiritual New Age wasn’t one I travelled, thought they were a little odd, although it did bring back the memory of coming across Reiki. An experience which at the end I thought what a load of mumbo jumbo. The experience I had when I first attended a Universal Medicine workshop was so so different admittedly I might not have understood much of what was being said but the feeling I had far outweighed the words, the feeling of being safe and told the truth had returned.
Yes, I too went on the spiritual path feeling that there must be something more as it felt like something was missing from my life. Two years of receiving kiniesiology, attending courses in ayurvedic medicine, etc. until finding Universal Medicine and finally knowing I had found the truth – I could feel it from the first presentation by Serge Benhayon I attended. I could feel his integrity and that he was simply presenting truth and it was obvious he was not there to impress anybody or “pull” anyone in.
The search is over when you come back to the true you, to your soul. I have heard so many people describe this feeling as coming home. I am sure so many of us can relate to your experience. We know there is something more to life and the spiritual new age is lying in wait like a hungry shark to offer you a false, spiritual version of the ‘more to life’ rather than delivering us back to the simplicity (and responsibility) of the soul. Simply knowing there is a huge difference between the spirit and soul and that there are only two energies to choose from is life changing. Everyone should know this so at least we can make an informed choice.
I agree Fiona…if everyone knew the difference between soul and spirit and how to discern the two different energies (which is easy to connect to), it would be such a game changer and the world would be a very different place indeed. Without knowing and understanding this there cannot be any true choices being made, but merely the spirit thinking that it has a choice within an umbrella of energy that is controlling it all…what a game!
I love your comment Fiona. “We know there is something more to life and the spiritual new age is lying in wait like a hungry shark to offer you a false, spiritual version of the ‘more to life’ rather than delivering us back to the simplicity (and responsibility) of the soul.” A great description of the deception within the spiritual new age and the avoidance of the truth about the Soul.
Thank you for sharing this blog. I too grew up feeling there had to be more but still chose to continue on the same old roundabout day in day out. Until I met Serge Benhayon, with a truth within that I had always felt now unlocked and the beginning of a life that is now based on truth and love. Making self loving choices that honour and care for me and my body, listening now to what my body shares instead of choosing to dull all that was felt with drugs, alcohol and the many distractions life has to offer.
Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon showed me the more that I had always felt was true and did exist.
What a trick the spiritual new age is. So much to attract us when we are empty but no energetic truth there at all. I too overrided my feelings about all the offerings I was involved in because I wanted it to be true and I wanted it to save me from the mess I was in. I wanted to stay in the comfort but to also feel special which led to so much arrogance. I allowed myself to experience many weird situations that were actually self abusive such as sitting in sweat lodges for hours with my body temperature at a dangerous high. Thank you to Serge Benhayon for presenting the energetic truths so we can now discern what energy we choose in our lives.
It is amazing how a lack of self love can keep us going down a path we innately know is not true. I travelled the spiritual path for a few years and tried and tested many of the spiritual offerings and always felt something was not right, something was missing or something was plain wrong as in the behaviour of some of the ‘spiritual leaders’ I have always known but countered this inner knowing with the mind saying ‘who am i to doubt/question these modalities or teachers? Not until Universal Medicine did i come across anything that felt absolutely 100% true, and like you Beverly at that point the search was over.
Exactly Carolien, the lack of self love is a huge drive to keep searching, so of course when Serge Benhayon comes along and simply presents that ‘the love you search for is within’ it blows all the other searches out of the water as there is literally nowhere else to look because you have been presented with the greatest revelation ever and it is one that you always knew but just needed reminding of, Super awesome.
Thank you for your beautiful sharing Beverley. I too was caught up in the New Age – reiki, crystals, goddess courses, smudge sticks, pendulums, ‘medicine cards’…all in an attempt to feel better about myself but always searching outside – never looking inside or taking responsibility for my choices in life.
The new age makes life so complicated and it need never be that way.
To learn there are two types of energy, and that we have a choice which one we will live with in every moment, was revelatory, simple and so freeing.
And as you say Beverley, the Gentle Breath meditation is “a simple technique where you focus on your breath and make the choice to breathe gently”…how beautiful and uncomplicated is that!
Hi Paula. Your reminder here about the ‘medicine cards’ made me chuckle to myself as the most empowered I ever felt when holding them was the day I chose to let them go throw them in the bin. It was a real confirmation to myself that I did not need anything outside of me again to feel ok and I certainly did not need to ‘pick a card’ to show me the way as I now knew the way from within. Super powerful.
Woohoo for you Beverley – the power of your words “This is IT” just blasted off the page as I read them!
And I love that with this you said ‘the search is over’. From my own (also rather extensive..) experience with the ‘spiritual New Age’ that is the exact realisation I also came to when coming to the work of Universal Medicine.
From my experience, everything I ever encountered in the ‘New Age’ asked me to seek outside of myself – whether it be to ‘call an energy in’, or ‘be healed’ by anything and everything but me. This never quite sat right, but explore many avenues from a want or searching (outside of myself) for ‘glimmers of truth’ I did. The work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has simply and yet profoundly reconfirmed something I truly always knew, but hadn’t had the courage or will to return to – that I am my own healer, and that all of the answers, and I mean ALL… are truly within. This is most definitely ‘IT’!
Hi Beverly, thank you for sharing this experience of yours. Mine was also very similar in a life of searching outside and seeking solitude (aka hiding) in the world of new age and spiritual healing. When I read your blog I realised that most of the teachers and gurus in the spiritual modalities that I played around with were very unwell within themselves and in their bodies. Many were overweight, and none had the glow about them that I now see in the faces of the student body that makes up Universal Medicine. I too chose to not really see this, but I see it now. It is great to stop and appreciate this awareness and what it can bring to us and others.
So many of us it appears, have either got caught up in the spiritual new age stuff or at least dipped there big toe in to see what it and all its varieties were about. I was one of the latter. For me I wanted so much to find one that felt right, but each time there was something missing.
I knew I had found the one for me as soon as I went to my first Universal Medicine presentation and heard Serge Benhayon speak.
At long last I had come home. This is the way the Way of the Livingness.
Oh, that relentless search, hopping from one new modality/spiritual teaching/diet etc. to the next like a random game of hopscotch in the hope that I, like you Beverley, could calm my inner turmoil and find release from the emotional roller coaster that was my life. No more more hopscotch, no need to play the seeking game any more. Thanks to Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom I’ve found what I was looking for, The One Unified Truth.
Your article and many of the comments have revealed a revelation that I am currently still pondering. Although I didn’t have a great affinity to the spiritual new age (mostly because the men I happened to meet were creepy) I’ve looked to different types of psycho therapies for the cure-all to my issues – the most extreme of which was primal scream therapy.
I always knew there was something greatly a miss. since attending Universal Medicine presentations I know now that in all the therapeutic modalities I attended all omitted the fundamental elements of what makes us who we are and, as a consequence, no mention of discernment between soul and spirit could ever be made. This meant I could remain confused about my choices, uncertain about what energy lay behind my thoughts.
Yes, even for people who are not aware of feeling something in their body, the spiritual techniques can bring something they can really feel, like a “wow-effect” and hook them on. This was for myself and I observed it with other people. The big problem is, that these ones experience no different at the same time and held the spiritual experience for the truth. I was two years in the spiritual new age and at the end it was very dangerous, I was near to die, because of a false thought of ‘mastery’. With Serge it is completely different, my body is responding different and showing much more harmony than before Universal Medicine.
I can relate totally with what you are saying Beverly. I was in hook line and sinker although I would have never admitted it to being into the ‘spiritual new age’ as I had never liked the phrase and I was choosey, but into quite a bit of what was on offer. I also trained in various modalities was in practice for a period of time, which was making me quite poor – I was literally just getting by, but I was determined to stick it out, to be a success. I now understand much more about what the drive was that was keeping me in this situation and it didn’t come from any new age modality. The more modalities I tacked on, the more embedded I became. When I began attending Universal Medicine events I began to understand more about what energy is and that is isn’t some kind of fairy dust treatment that makes us feel nice. Energy is serious business and comes before even what we think – to me that was mind blowing (pun intended) and that we can make the choice of which energy we live in and our body is the instrument which we pay attention to – not our mind. This had never been taught to me anywhere, until presented by Serge Benhayon and it’s so simple.
So true, Jennifer. Energy IS serious business and it’s amazing how differently the two feel once you become consciously aware of them.
I too was trapped by the new age for years. What I find interesting to observe in society in general, is that although there are those who are clearly following the new age in all its trimmings, there are also huge numbers of people who almost unconsciously buy into some aspect of this ‘new age spiritualism’. It has pervaded society to the point where many of the the concepts, beliefs and ideals of the so-called ‘new age movement’ are incorporated into the pillars of our society. Much of our ‘political correctness’ has a new-age feel, our language has become flowery and passive (“it’s all good”) and parenting has to be all about positive reinforcement, not saying ‘no’. It is so unacceptable to refer to ‘God’, yet quite acceptable to talk about ‘the Universe’ or something being ‘cosmic’ or ‘out-there’. The word ‘energy’ is used everywhere, yet it is never defined or discerned. It has become so unfashionable to judge, to define or to say ‘no’ to something based on what you actually feel, we are constantly expected to conform, to give our power to the crystal, the reiki master, the computer, the school or university, the ‘self-help’ group, the corporation, the something, anything, outside of ourselves.
Great blog Beverley. Before this teaching I too was lost in New Age modalities and spiritual ideologies, it would seem remarkable that I went along with so much of it despite it not feeling quite right yet that is just what I did because sometimes they gave me relief, numbness, and a feeling of superiority. It is not because Serge Benhayon came along either and said what I was involved in was wrong, even if he did I had too much pride invested in my Yoga and New Age methods that I would not have believed it. It is only because Serge Benhayon was prepared to share with others a way of living so that the energy behind anything, including New Age and Spiritual modalities can be felt and discerned for oneself. It has been liberating and empowering to make lifestyle choices that leave me more free to feel what is true and what is not, no longer giving my authority over to whatever book, spiritual teaching or New Age trend that comes my way.
I really enjoyed and related to this blog. I too was stuck in the New Age vortex for fifteen to twenty years.. My life was an emotional roller coaster and one of delusion..
I have never before had the clarity, and sense of brotherhood as I have in my life now. Thanks to Universal Medicine for presenting to me the way back to the real me…
Yes this is IT. I to have searched in the spiritual new age for what I new existed but also never found it. The rush of excitement when I finally found the way of the livingness confirmed it in my whole being. Yes this is it, homeward bound we move.
There’s so much out there on offer but do we discern? Or more accurately perhaps, do we discern then override what we feel? If we had all discerned from the get-go, and had the confidence to back ourselves, we would have delivered ourselves the tonic that is universal medicine quite naturally… we would have found our way back to that which lies within. But most of us didn’t so thank goodness someone stepped in and up to show us how. Thank you, Serge Benhayon – I’d still be wondering around aimlessly if you hadn’t started presenting.
Hi Beverly. Thanks for a great blog I could feel parallels in my life whilst searching for truth. Its funny how we are able to feel everything and we know it’s all about energy and yet we still only want to register what fits into where we are searching. It’s like the man under the street light looking for his keys, when asked did you drop them here, he replies no! But the light is brightest here; it’s too dark to find them out there.
Great analogy, Paul. I certainly looked for something that fitted my preconceived ideas and fulfilled my needs rather than truly getting to the root cause of my angst and dis-ease.
Beverley, How many of us like you, have always felt that there was something more to life and searched for answers in various new age activities but found nothing that felt true. Perhaps we could always discern at some unconscious level that what was offered “wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference” and this did not resonate with us, as deep within we have always known the truth. Many of us who like you, were led to Serge Benhayon and the Way of the Livingness and had never before been met “with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage”. Such a simple but life-changing truth, which needs to be shared with humanity.
This is indeed it! Like you, I too took the spiritual new age path in search of something more, always looking outwards never truly looking within. What I have found since connecting to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine is that true healing begins within and it begins with me. Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for your sharing Beverly. I can relate to all that you have shared having spent many years caught up in the spiritual new age looking outside of myself for the answers. For me, it took getting breast cancer to literally bring me to my knees to question that could there be another way and that what I had invested in the spiritual new age, perhaps wasn’t working (which it wasn’t)…
Learning the difference between spirit and soul from the teachings of Universal Medicine was paramount in my healing – that they are actually two different forms of energy and I had been investing in the spirit, thinking I had been working towards my soul – which wasn’t true at all. I also now have a deep respect and love for what Western Medicine which I thought was the enemy when I was heavily invested in the spiritual new age. I now see how it too plays an important role in our healing as it did for me when I went through breast cancer.
“This is it”…. Yes it is. After years of searching and seeking I too discovered Universal Medicine and I completely agree that these teachings are the real deal. So much truth and integrity. Thanks for sharing so honestly with us all.
Sarah, I love your comment, perfect.
Thanks Beverley, like you I noticed that the New Agers used the words ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’ interchangeably but with an undercurrent of uncertainty as if they were not really sure. Some were very arrogant in their proclamation about what they were, but since any two ‘arroganters’ disagreed, someone had to be wrong! Others muddled spirit and soul and I could never get a clear answer that felt right. I’m a scientist; I want to know! Some said everything is one soul; or everything is one spirit; your soul is just your mind and every human is separate; your soul is your higher mind; your soul becomes your ghost; your spirit becomes your ghost; your spirit is higher than your soul; your soul is higher than your spirit; your soul has emotions; your soul has no emotions; you can be an old soul or a young soul; all souls are the same age; your spirit is your higher self; your soul is your higher self; we don’t have a soul, only a spirit; there’s nothing there; nothing matters; everything matters; each living person is a composite of bits of the souls/spirits (?) of many previous people and we all get mixed up, etc, etc, so much contradiction and confusion! Where’s all this stuff coming from? Who’s a real teacher? How do they know?
Before I came across Universal Medicine, all that was available were either mainstream religions or the New Age. The people professing to be New Age teachers (gurus) ‘in the know’, or claimed by their followers to be so, did not come forth with answers that felt right to me. Or if the ‘words were right’, something about the people saying them wasn’t. Not the least because they, themselves, did not seem to be walking their own talk and I did not feel I could trust them, especially when I found out about some of the actions and philosophies of these wannabe gurus and their not very clear followers. Something was very wrong with new age spirituality!
And again like you, Beverley, after giving up on the New Age, along came the Ageless Wisdom and Universal Medicine. I knew they were what I had been searching for – the key to the true inner me.
The clarity about the two energies, prana and Fire, solves the riddles for me. Someone could be saying all the right things, but in the wrong energy, and thus the contradiction between the words and lives of the so-called gurus and their followers. My questions were answered, the dilemmas cleared up in ways that were sensible and felt right – that I ‘knew’ inside, were true. And more than answers, but the ‘how to’ that I could choose to do if I wanted to, and found that it works – the Way of the Livingness. No more new age stuff needed.
Thanks Beverly for your sharing. The New Age offerings can be so enticing when one is searching for answers, but as you so clearly relate, it never quite seems to explain it and many of the participants clearly have messed up lives.
I spent 20 years in the spiritual New Age movement and was a very dedicated searcher and meditator. What puzzled me was that I was sooo very exhausted and no matter which modality I tried I just did not get better or even remotely on top of it. Somebody once said the spiritual search is going the opposite direction than the biology of the body, therefore there is a tension and that is exhausting.This argument was a cover up for what was really happening. There was never any talk about the difference between spirit and soul and that living in separation from Truth and from who we truly are is a huge effort and uses up all our energy. The biggest revelation for me was that there is 2 different types of energy and that it depends on my choice to which I am going to align. The more I am aligning to what is called the Fire, the more energy I have, the more I am able to be very productive as well as having the most amount of joy in my everyday life I have ever had.
I agree Beverley that too often in both complementary and conventional medicine we overlook how the practitioner is looking! (and feeling). Universal Medicine was the first that I have come across to place importance and emphasis on practitioner energetic integrity and responsibility and that this makes a big difference as to whether a practitioner heals or harms.
Andrew, an analogy that came to me when I read you comment was :
You’d never take your car to be serviced by a mechanic who clearly did not know which end of a spanner to hold – interesting the authority that ‘professionals’ in the health sector seem to hold over us that we override the obvious warning signs (like visiting a doctor, who even by their physical appearance allow it to be plainly seen that they do not have true health and vitality in their own lives).
Thank fully Universal Medicine is presenting that we have a choice and that there is another way.
Awesome blog Beverly, thank you. I used to be caught up in the New Age, searching for something outside of myself. I can feel now how destructive this actually was on my body. Serge Benhayon’s Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple yet so profound in connecting us back to our inner heart. No more searching required. Universal Medicine shows the one and only true way through it’s teachings.
Thank you Beverley for your honest account. Prior to meeting Serge Benhayon, I too, trod the new age spiritual path, seeking outside myself for answers to my feelings of emptiness. This was a fruitless task of chasing my own tail. Serge Benhayon, without any imposition, reminded me of the truth and simplicity I could return to.
Thank you Beverly, I feel deeply with this sentence you have shared “Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage.”–like yourself, none of the spiritual practices that I have been involved with taught the difference between Soul and Spirit either (and they are different modalities from the ones you have described here), yet when these two very different concepts have been clearly distinguished in Serge Benhayon’s books and the teachings of Universal Medicine, they made so much sense, everything made so much sense. The clarity that has resulted from hearing this difference continues to deepen every day, which is not something ever experienced with all the years of studying spirituality.
As I read your blog, I saw how clearly I had been caught up in the new age therapies, hoping this or that technique would be the answer to my internal dilemma. What I also noted was the presenters who were not walking their talk so to speak and how easily I accommodated myself to this while feeling this is not right at all. I would then become angry for being caught in this dilemma and not aware of the effect it was having on my body. How grateful I am to Universal Medicines techniques that are presented by Serge who lives his talk.
Beverley, what an amazing blog thank you so much for sharing your experience. The spiritual new age is something I wasn’t involved in myself but to feel the immense difference in you from the beginning of your article to the end – is unbelievably astounding! Also from being on the search and the look out for the answers to self-connection and Soul and to discovering the simplicity of breathing your own breath through the meditation is just so very beautiful. This is the most amazing tool in life, to support us to stop looking outside, when we already know everything there is to know about life, love and connection within – it’s the exact opposite and I shake my head at how simple!
BE AWARE of the false light claiming it is the true light. You have umasked this perfectly Beverly when you say: ‘ None of the ‘New Age’ study had offered this most fundamental of facts, but instead had wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference.’ I too was deeply incarcerated in the deception of the New Age and all the ‘sparkle and shine’ the human spirit could be enticed with and hypnotised by. I hid here for an eternity, my soul ‘on hold’, my spirit drunk with ‘self’. Now that I am back home, after hearing and responding to the truth on offer by the Ageless Wisdom, it is all so simple: the soul knows all, the spirit is a know-it-all! My great lesson here has been ‘do not confuse your soul’s light with your spiritual might’. Simple.
I too have walked a very similar path into the ‘Spiritual New Age’ as you Beverly, getting nowhere but further lost. I remember the very first time I had heard Serge Benhayon speak and saying to myself, ‘This is IT’. There was a deep knowing that the search was over.
Thank you Beverly, I too was caught up for a while with spiritual healing modalities not wanting to discern what I felt as there was an investment on what I got out of it. It was only until I started to attend the presentations of Universal Medicine that I have learnt the true art of healing and to live my life taking full responsibility of how I live and the choices that I make.
Beverley, every word you have written applies to my desperate journey through life until I met Serge Benhayon.
I tried, this and that including the use of the pendulum, so I smiled when I read this “Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator?”.
All of things I tried were based on the premise that I had to develop more, learn more, try harder and most important ignore the lack of integrity of the teacher. I trained to become a yoga teacher with a woman who used to abuse her students. It appalled me, but I did not call her on it, nor question the quality of what i was learning.
Serge Benhayon taught me to value again the integrity in all that is said and done. He reminded me, by the pure integrity of his way of being, of something I had always known but wilfully brushed aside.
Thank you Beverley for writing this honest account that reminds me how far I have come and the absolute grace of Universal Medicine in my life.
Wow isn’t it amazing how such simple choices you made have changed your life completely. It really goes to show that what we are all looking for is actually very simple. It’s just about honoring what our bodies feel and the rest will follow.
You’re absolutely right Beverley, never in all my thirty years of spiritual seeking had anyone explained the difference between the spirit and the soul. Soul was never mentioned in fact apart from in a christian context. Learning the difference and that there are two energies prana or fire and being able to connect to that in my body has been transformational.
Woao, Beverly your blog is so rich in subjects, it is hard to chose what to comment on first, but this one particularly stands out for me: “Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.” That is a huge trap and I had been under that spell for a long time.
It feels good to openly discuss this and realize that what makes me a better human being is not something I choose to be part of on the outside but whether I claim who I am on the inside.
“It feels good to openly discuss this and realize that what makes me a better human being is not something I choose to be part of on the outside but whether I claim who I am on the inside.” Awesome Judith.
Great to read your blog Beverly, and feel how I had also once been trapped into my own beliefs about diet, spirituality, right and wrong ways of living etc. Until I became dangerously anemic, unhealthy, unhappy, judgmental, exhausted, broke, and going nowhere. It was the blatant truth of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that eventually pulled me out of the mess that those beliefs had helped create. Now I am healthy, there is joy, acceptance, vitality, financial stability and I know where I am going.
Thanks Beverly, your blog reminded me of my own path, searching for truth through various modalities. There was always something that didn’t feel right, but I stayed until I found something which seemed to have more truth to it. This went on for years until I felt (energetically) a friend after she had attended a retreat, when I asked why she felt so different, nothing was conveyed with words, I just got to feel some different walks. I read one of Serge Benhayons books and I was sold. Like you Beverly, I was so thankful for the simplicity of the gentle breath, I knew I could do that !!
I’m not looking any further.
Reading through your wonderful blog Beverly I had to keep reminding myself that this was your story, but it mirrored my mine in so many ways, that I kept thinking it was mine I was reading. And I am sure there are many others who have felt the same. Yes, like you, there was the dipping my toes into all things New Age, but after each dip it wouldn’t be too long before I knew that wasn’t the answer I was looking for, while all the time feeling very deeply that there was something else waiting for me. I met Chris James when he arrived in New Zealand in 2000, just after a book on sound healing had “fallen” into my hands! And a few years later, the first time Chris mentioned the name Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, that something that had been waiting patiently deep inside shouted – “this is it!”. So in early 2005, without one ounce of doubt travelling with me, I hopped on a plane and headed to Lennox Head, not really knowing what was ahead of me, but knowing so clearly that this was something I couldn’t ignore. And I am so glad that I didn’t. Sitting in my first workshop that morning, I knew in a very short space in time that I had indeed found what I had been searching for, for such a long time – the opportunity to change my life from one of struggle and pain, to one of truly living. I took this opportunity in both hands and have not let go, and as a result my life has changed in so many wonderful ways. Like you I have been “Freed by the Way of the Livingness”.
Thank you Beverley. As I read your blog I could relate to so much of what you were saying, in the relentless search for the Truth and along the way getting further and further away from it with the Spiritual New Age trappings. Simplicity is the key – and with that came the freedom to connect back to me and never again search far and wide for the answers, they are here with me, always. What I needed was guidance and support – which came plentifully from Serge Benhayon, the teachings through Universal Medicine and the associated practitioners that work with the Universal Medicine Therapies.
I feel how important it is to bring this to humanity : the simplicity of connecting to yourself and to your soul and learn to live from there. I feel that many many people are looking for “something”, are searching something true and deep, something that gives life a greater and deeper sense. It is laying within our hearts and can simply be re-learned to connect..but my experience is that Spiritual New Age is only offering possibilities to actually derive away from your true “powerfull center core” and away from connecting to your soul. This is very tricky, because it looks like giving you the answer but it doesn´t ! It only leaves one in the same arrogant state and it disguises what needs to be looked at lovingly and with care: our hurts, our issues, our challenges. I see that this connection back to who we truly are needs to be shared with people everywhere on the globe !
Yes Andrea, that is the cunning and deceit of the Spiritual New Age it looks like it is offering something true in many instances while all the while leading you further and further away from the truth of yourself and the connection with your soul. Profoundly damaging in more ways than are at first obvious.
It is so interesting to consider how disempowered we can become sometimes when all we really want is to stop feeling so much pain, or hurt and suffering. The spiritual new age movement seemed to offer us all that we are looking for, and it can seem like fun to engage with all the different techniques. But as you say, it is often not long until we discover that nothing is actually changing, we are simply perhaps just being distracted away from the real issues which need to be addressed and deeply healed.
The Universal Medicine modalities are the only ones I have ever found which offer true healing, mainly perhaps because they actually do not ‘heal’ you at all, but in fact help you to reconnect to yourself, and by this act it is possible to see that all that hurt is not who you are. You are much much more awesome.
Hi Beverly, Thank you for sharing your story. Yes, isn’t it great how the simplicity of the gentle breath meditation starts the ‘U-Turn’ back to yourself. I love it too
Beverly…great blog! I too explored all sorts under the heading of ‘new age’… reiki, healing with crystals, scrying, as well as Wicca and various forms of witchcraft. Like you I had invested in something outside of myself, and I felt more powerful than others, believing I had more knowledge of the arcane – the secret and mysterious – so was ‘better than’ mostly everyone else (arrogant!)… it was all a protective game to cover my own feeling of feeling ‘less than’ – not realising that the further I went into whatever I was doing, the further removed I was from my true self! It creates a vicious cycle of seeking outside of oneself as the further I was away from my true self, the more I sought outwards! On being introduced to Universal Medicine, and Serge Benhayon I sat there in a hall of only around 80-ish people (about 2007) and fully felt I had ‘come home’. I realised that my soul had infinitely more power than anything else I had dabbled in and that I didn’t need anything else as a prop – I only had to re-connect to me, and in that connection, I am equal to everyone else, not better than, not less than, and it is tremendously freeing, and absolutely divine to feel that! Furthermore, I can be this every day, anywhere – no special choosing of crystals or wearing of special clothing or sitting in a certain way to bring something in lol!
I have also been ‘tricked and trapped’ in the Spiritual New Age and spent a good half of my life up a dead end alley arrogantly thinking I was bettering myself by becoming more ‘enlightened’. It wasn’t until I got so drained I could hardly function that I started to see I was being a pawn in someone else’s game and this was confirmed to me when I found Universal Medicine and started to put into practice what Serge Benhayon presented. Life-changing, and life affirming – here beginneth the journey back to the Me that I abandoned.
This definitely is It, thank you Beverley.
I love that the responsibility begins with us and taking responsibility for ourselves and that we all already have that inside of us – no other modality gives us this, I too have studied a few wayward ones, always looking outside for what was naturally within and being stifled by my own choices. The first thing Universal Medicine practitioners and modalities offer is the opportunity to connect back to ourselves and it then becomes our choice to unfold from there.
Beverly, you wrote the story of my life. The few things I would change – crystal healing to re-bearthing. And long journey to India with guru trying to connect to my Goddess within which ended up hysterically crying in the temple and asking Jesus to forgive me and show me the way. My prayer was answered-few month later I met Serge Benhayon and he presented the Way of Livingness. Otherwise everything is just as I would write it. The search is over-this is IT.
The spiritual new age can be an easy place to get lost when looking for true answers that really help to arrest the issues we feel within our bodies and minds.
I feel the clarity and resolution in you Blog Beverly, with your own personal journey of growth and evolution thanks for sharing.
I used to be really into all the new age modalities, and thought it was it. I had the pendulum, the crystals, the smudge stick, the cards, and the books to name just a few. Recently I attended a healing expo and it was really interesting to go there with fresh eyes so to speak. It has been a long time since I attended any new age courses or healing (over 5 years) so it was as if I could see it all from the outside and not from someone who is caught up in it.
It appeared very much of a show and my body actually felt quite uneasy, quite hard to describe but I did not feel comfortable and relaxed at all.
I feel so much appreciation to Universal Medicine and the courses that Serge Benhayon has taught in which I have learnt to discern energy and know what feels right for me in my body, and not because someone else is doing it or because they say so.
Awesome Rosie. “I feel so much appreciation to Universal Medicine and the courses that Serge Benhayon has taught in which I have learnt to discern energy and know what feels right for me in my body, and not because someone else is doing it or because they say so.” So true.
The empowerment and return to self-responsibility that I have felt from attending the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine of how to truly feel for myself the truth of what is there to see has been a real revelation, life changing actually. I love your last line Rosie “and not because someone else is doing it or because they say so.” I remember falling into this one and now appreciate where I find myself today, being able to discern more easily the truth and not feel the need to follow others. Awesome indeed.
Hi Beverly – I enjoyed reading this blog and I am sure many others have also. I have been trapped by the new age trap also, and see many people give their power away to crystals and other modalities that really are just the next bandaid to the anxiety and insecurity that has not been truly addressed.
Its a amazing how much energy you have, when you stop searching in all the wrong places. The one unified truth is the only place I need look for answers to anything that arises within.
Yes, the spiritual new age seems attractive and available as an option when looking desperately to fill emptiness but in reality adds to the emptiness and shifts responsibility from self. The simple beauty of experiencing ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation – breathing your own breath and connecting to self takes one home, to a place always known and loved, like returning to an old friend that has been waiting, truly life changing.
I too spent years wandering through crystal lined valleys, being entertained by angel mediums, pranic healers, time travellers, masters of energy – ancient and spiritual and those on a spiritual journey into themselves.
In over 40 years, I never met anyone that made me feel truly met, just by looking into my eyes, who actually saw me for who I truly am and held me as that every time we connected, who could simply allow me the space and time to come to my own understanding and truth without judgement or imposition, that is until I met Serge Benhayon.
No stimulation, no feathers, no crystals, no amazing cards, charms, chants, no ‘show’ at all. Serge has simply and consistently offered the truth. The truth about the way he lives, about how he feels in the world, about how he feels about people and about how amazing each and everybody on this planet is if we simply stop hurting ourselves.
Yes we are all coming home, thanks to those that inspire us simply by being all that they are.
I love what you say here, Rob. “No stimulation, no feathers, no crystals, no amazing cards, charms, chants, no ‘show’ at all. Serge has simply and consistently offered the truth.” Serge was the first and only person to answer a question I had been asking for years with the truth. In his answer to my very personal question I felt the truth spoken in every cell of my being. The truth that he spoke was the answer to my question that I had been looking for and seeking for a very long time. Up until meeting Serge I did not know how to answer my own question; all I knew was that every answer I had been given over the years was not the true answer. Serge’s answer was given to me in love and simplicity, a theme that I have found to run through every Universal Medicine event I have ever attended.
I too dismissed conventional medicine for years after they couldn’t give me the answers to a major illness I had in my early 20’s. Instead I chose everything alternative from shiatsu, homeopathy, acupuncture, reiki courses, healers of all manner as well as regularly attending sweat lodges. I was also looking for someone else to give me the answers so I didn’t have to look at what I’d chosen. It was always about getting somewhere and what I love about the teachings of Universal Medicine is that we are already it, there is no where to go. Interestingly to note now that when we chose the spiritual path it is in fact taking us further away from ourselves. There was me thinking I was improving, as you say a “better human being” when in fact I was burying my own stuff even further by not looking at the root cause of why I was ill in the first place. Yes the teachings of Universal Medicine are IT Beverley and within all of us to choose at any time.
One of the things I love most about Universal Medicine is that all the teachings, discussions, workshops and presentations are based on the fact that we are all equal regardless of our age, gender, nationality, religion etc.
I love this simple truth too, Abby and in Serge Benhayon I met a man who lives this with every fibre of his being. This has been truly healing to experience and allowed me to feel exactly what it meant to be held in equalness. Since then this has become part of life, so much so that I had to think back to a time when I didn’t feel like this about people. What I experienced with being involved in spiritual activities was that it promoted the opposite, as has been expressed elsewhere, the arrogance of thinking you knew something or had had spiritual experiences that other’s had not.
Thank you Beverly for such a beautiful description of your spiritual journey, it is very similar to my own story. Drinking and drugs were all part of my daily life during which, I would present myself as a healer, put my hands on my client, then do my own self taught brand of reiki. How lost I was, like you! Through the influence of Chris James I attended my first presentation by Serge Benhayon. Now thanks to the Way of The Livingness and the Esoteric Practitioners Association, I bring a very high standard of integrity to all my healing. There is absolutely no way I would now go near alcohol, drugs or any thing else that would bring an ill energy that would effect my client’s ability to heal them-self.
PS I also loved how you said you now embrace conventional medicine. Conventional medicine plays a vital role in the health of humanity. Universal medicines healing modalities are simply divine and all perfectly complement conventional medicine. The whole world needs to know this fact.
Thank you Beverley for sharing your story. Like you I too attended many different new age courses and had many sessions based on one new age philosophy after another. All these just left me feeling there was still more pieces to the puzzle that I was missing…so you would have another session and then another and then do a workshop because that might work better, make you feel better….even after all that effort I still felt empty and incomplete. In contrast, when I have a healing session with any one of the Universal medicine healing modalities, they all leave me feeling full and complete. That I am enough.
I could never really embrace the spiritual new-age, but not for want of trying because I too was forever searching for something to give life real meaning and relief from the feeling of anxiety that dogged my every day …
Fast forward to today and via the gentle loving support of Serge Benhayon, the ageless wisdom of Universal Medicine and the life-changing Gentle Breath Meditation I can whole-heartedly agree with Beverly – Search over!!
I too tried many New Age modalities and joined a meditation group to find some answers to the emptiness I felt inside when I gave up looking at Religion. What was the answer? I was introduced to The Way of The Livingness and Universal Medicine by a lovely friend to whom I am very grateful.
‘Looking back I am aware of the trap and total arrogance I had fallen into, along with a feeling that I was a better human being because I was part of the ‘Spiritual New Age’ bandwagon.’
This sentence resonates with me, as I too really, really thought I was a better person because I had found a spiritual path that superceded everything else. I even convinced people to join that path as well! I was under the spell of a guru and leaders who were heavy on alcohol and smoking dope. I knew it wasn’t true deep inside, but I chose not to see! I was so focused on breaking free and getting out of this world that I would take all the abuse for granted.
With Universal Medicine I found what really matters: relationship with myself so I can have a true relationship with others.
Thanks Beverley, for sharing your story!
I can relate to that Delorme, thinking that I was a better person because the beliefs I held were better than others beliefs. So arrogant, its embarrassing.
I love your blog Beverly and can so relate to your searching for Truth and getting stuck in the New Age instead. I found I got stuck looking outside of myself for the answers and ended up relying on someone else to tell me what to do next. It was not until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I was able to connect to the Truth that is and has been inside of me all along. I did not have to go anywhere else to find it.
One of the many great points of this article is that many of us continue to go to practitioners, whether they be spiritual new age, complementary or traditional medical where the practitioner clearly is not walking their talk. Why do we put our health and wellbeing in the hands of a naturopath who uses marijuana for example, or a healer who is depressed, or an acupuncturist who is a cyber-bully. Granted we might not know what our practitioners do when they are not working, but still we are not blind, and we often can see the signs of lack of credibility even when we meet someone. This is not about asking practitioners to be perfect, but it is about common sense and knowing that we hold an understanding of our own health and that how we live is a key ingredient of that health. That holds true for both ourselves and our practitioners.
This is true for me also. At the time of being tricked and trapped in the spiritual new age, I kept trying to convince myself that this was the way but now I can look back and feel my uneasiness, arrogance and how completely wrong it all felt. I’m appreciative that I now have the clarity to discern this.
The new age spiritual movement has been cleverly orchestrated to deliver utter confusion and complication to the pure simplicity that we naturally are. With its mystical and mysterious modalities we are led to believe and struggle down a path that takes us further away from the truth. I too was taken and chose this wild ride of emptiness and always felt strongly there was another way. A gorgeous reminder here that ALL is within and ALL it takes is to breathe our own breath.
Thank you Beverley. Although I didn’t quite explore the new age path, I can totally relate to what you have shared. I often felt the answer of things was out there due to the lack of self worth and lack of the true knowing I now have. I occasionally saw psychics etc as a release from the catholisism I was brought up in. Plus I had a knowing that there was something more and that I hadn’t found it, I knew this from the ‘ground hog day’ feeling I had about life and the deep sadness that I carried because I knew what I was living wasn’t life as it should be lived. Like you, when I first experienced my first gentle breath meditation, just connecting to me with no trying – and then when I met Serge Benhayon at my first healing course, I knew that this man stood in truth – a truth that was reflected left, right, centre and all over from him. I felt, even though I didn’t live it at that time – that he held me as an equal, as me knowing and feeling all he did just at that time, I chose to not allow myself to connect to the everything I have with in. But now I am me and live everyday to support me living in connection as best I can.
I can relate to so much of what you share, Beverly. I remember when I first came to know of Universal Medicine: I could resonate with what was being presented but I was trying to understand it as something that would give me the answers, make me a better person – just like all the other books modalities and workshops would have promised, and I reinterpreted that resonance on an intellectual level and went ‘Oh, I know it, it’s the same as whatever the book/course/workshop I have read/done was saying’ and took me a little while to get over that arrogance.
I had about 1,000 acupuncture, massage and other sessions by the time I was in my mid-40s and they worked! I got by with the help of these sessions but it was really the difference between life being difficult because I was tired or exhausted and life being bearable.
It was quite similar to using coffee. I was tired, I got a boost but then I got tired again.
What I found – and I only understood it when something better (Universal Medicine) came along – was that I was living in a way that drained my body and I was using lots of techniques to get by. The trouble was that I was very slowly putting on weight and my cholesterol went up.
Once I learnt from Universal Medicine how to take care of myself and I am not exhausted any more these techniques and coffee feel like very harsh and sharp ‘wake-up!’ prods and I never had my 1,001st session or another cup of coffee since.
Beverley I so relate to your story. I used to shop around for “new age solutions” and avoid mainstream medicine. Nothing I found helped me to truly connect to myself and feel solid until I had a treatment with Serge Benhayon and then was introduced to the gentle breath meditation during presentations. The seeking is over, it’s now a process of ever deepening my relationship with self
Thanks for such an awesome article Beverley. I appreciate what you’ve shared having been caught up in the spiritual new age stuff many years ago. I remember the arrogance I was in back then and all the heaviness that was being held in my body. One of the deeply valuable things about truly connecting with ourselves again, is we remember what it is to be truly humble and loving with ourselves and others. The teachings and work of Universal Medicine has supported a much deeper appreciation of this within me. And yes – as you say, no more ‘searching’ as such…
Like so many of us I was lost to spirituality for many years, although I thought of myself as a seeker of truth, in truth I was not willing to take true responsibility for myself and be all I could be. It was apparently so much easier and more beguiling to give my power away to something or somebody outside myself that I thought (hoped) had all the answers. It was only after the failing of these endeavours that I found Universal Medicine and the Ancient Wisdom. As I gradually started to apply the principles and simple practices offered I could actually begin to feel and recognise the fact that it is all inside me and forever unfolding and expanding. Although simple, this is in fact a huge step as we are all deeply conditioned to believe we need to get whatever it is that will fulfil us, particularly love, from the outside.
Great comment Josephine, so true how many of us start the search with an underlying ‘hope’ that something outside will have all the answers when all along it is inside just waiting to be connected to. Simple and yet profound.
I also spent 30 years on this roundabout always coming back to the same issues year after year knowing that it shouldn’t be like that until in my first session with Serge Benhayon in 2001 he said the universe is expanding do you feel that you are inline with it and I had to say no I wasn’t, Far from it.
Thats when the penny dropped, looking back over the years I could see i was in a dream not connected to any reality, once I understood this and connected to life and it started to made sense.
And then I had to start clearing away all those years of neglect.
Such a beautiful and practical blog that many of us will relate to in so many ways. The feeling of the realisation of the giving away of ones power to all sorts out side of us and the responsibility and natural connectedness you returned to is tangible. Great sharing thank you Beverley.
Universal Medicine has been for me also the first to bring to light my once long held question; ‘whats the difference between Spirit and Soul’? and with that the end of the search to find the answer, and the start of building my relationship in trusting I have known more than I’ve ever thought all along.
“The simplicity of the presentations by Universal Medicine and the practical common sense way of being they offered was profound.” Thank you, Beverley, for simply stating what resonates so well with me, too. The beauty found in the simplicity of The Way Of The Livingness IS profound. Simply profound. Although it took me a year or so to fully come on board as a student, Serge’s presentations spoke to my soul from the very first workshop I attended. I ‘knew’ the search was over but my spirit had enjoyed ‘the search’ far too much to allow that this was suddenly ‘it’. Every so often I look at the way I am living my life now and am amazed at how simply I live and how empowering that is.
Awesome Brigitte. A great sharing.
How wonderful that the search is now over. We have found the truth. What a celebration!
I relate to this very much in my childhood, in the search for knowing there was something more my mother ended up being involved in a many new age spiritual movements.
At different points we were all vegan raw foodists and vego but the one consistent thing over the years was we were all very lost.
We would eat organic but smoke rollies…. contradiction much??
We would preach about healthy products, whole foods and there benefits yet we were all heavy drinkers and “recreational “drug users.
Whats the point in taking care with what you eat only to inhale smoke into your lungs??
It literally makes no sense to the body as a unit.
I might add my family, as a family are all skilled and highly intelligent bunch but when we were running this different energy we were unable to see the harm we were doing to ourselves and others.
I am fully grown now and have my own children and husband to be.
Currently my mother, father, brother and 2 sisters are all Students of the Livingness and we are now re connected to an energy that allows us true intelligence and the ability to choose true health, as not one of us drink smoke or use drugs anymore and are truly vital and loving in our lives and relationships.
Your old Reiki teacher was caught in an energy that lead him to believe there is no responsibility in being a healer or teacher. I know now that there is a huge responsibility in these positions and in being any person any where for that matter. There is always somebody watching and learning wether you want to see it or not, it is fact.
Your blog reminded me of how as society we need to ask why is it normal for people that are teachers and health professionals to poison and abuse the body and not be questioned.
Back in the yester year my understanding was your credibility on the subject of health and well being began by people looking in your own back yard first, if you were the town drunk then you would not be administrating herbs or medicine.
Makes you question why we are putting up with this and why is Universal Medicine the only alternative health practitioners with an extraordinary high code of ethics that must be followed in order to practice as a healer?? As revolutionary as these ethics they are not as this should just be standard practice.
Maybe its time we raise our standards as a community in this area and ask for more care from our practitioners?
I agree Sarah. The Esoteric Practitioner Association Code of Ethics is second to none and I feel would be a great foundation for all practitioners of all modalities to adhere to as it asks for the utmost responsibility and integrity as the basic foundation of all practice. And yes this is something that really should be standard practice for all health care professionals. But as we are reminded this is not fully the case the world over and maybe this is so because we have allowed it to be this way as we do not fully take responsibility ourselves. I know in the past I have had feelings of holding someone in regard and thinking that if they were doing it, it must be ok! Now with taking more responsibility for myself this is most certainly not the case and I am able to discern more easily what is true and what is not. Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Awesome Sarah, I can relate, and totally agree why do we not question how our health care providers/healers live. If they live in a way where they need sugar pick me ups, caffeine, drugs and or alcohol, why do we think they have the answer to a healthier fuller way of life?
Universal Medicine and it’s practitioners were the first to offer this real, practical and liveable way of being that they personally lived 24/7 and from there shared their findings with those who were looking for another way.
Yes, it’s amazing really that we do not question the health of our medical practitioners and complementary healers. It seems to be all part of the same not wanting to take full responsibility for ourselves in that we are happy to hand ourselves over to someone else that we hope can provide some sort of an answer, perhaps even in the form of a pill that will make us feel better. The truth is so simple when it’s pointed out and anything else seems like madness, for example the fact that health practitioners should be living examples of what they practice and are passing on to others is obvious. Why as a human race to we not ask for this as a matter of course?
Yeah I definitely stopped searching when i met Serge Benhayon. I had literally made a career out of spiritual searching only to find later how very lost i was. As cheesy as it sounds, Serge did help me reconnect with my own self and realise that it was always inside me all along. It’s sort of obvious now and such a simple thing, yet it is everything… To not know (or forget) who you truly are is a terrible disease that i suffered from for a very long time before i met Universal Medicine. But how do you thank someone, anyone, for showing you the door to your soul? I often think about that…
Great Dean, I love your comment “Serge did help me reconnect with my own self and realise that it was always inside me all along. It’s sort of obvious now and such a simple thing” I agree it is sort of obvious and so very simple and yet off we go looking outside in a merry-go-round search only to end up back where we started. Then finally we re-connect to inside and, wow, there we are. Awesome.
I have also found the gentle breath meditation to be a great way to support myself. Before I heard of this technique I had not been interested in meditation as it always seemed to be about emptying your mind and sitting for long periods. This gentle breath meditation was different though as it only takes a few minutes and is simply about connecting to your breath, I could also do it lying down which I really liked. I found the positive effect of doing this to be quite profound.
Beverley
Thank you for your honest sharing of being lost in the spiritual new age. I too was that woman and it was a defining moment to understand the difference between the spirit and soul. Since discovering this my life too has completely transformed. This is something everyone needs to know.
Beverley sharing your experience with New Age practises resonates with what I felt from these. That is that most things that I participated in had me going outside of myself for strength, to look – up to so to speak and even bring into my body. Not once was their a presenation on feeling my true connection with what is already in-side. All that is required is the choice to feel this connection and hold it.
I had never considered the arrogance that I was in due to my involvement & ‘knowledge’ of spiritual new age modalities. As you discuss, I was arrogant & superior because I knew there was more than just the temporal life we see around us, but at the same time I felt I was never enough, because there was always someone who knew more and could do more. How freeing to let go of all the comparison and arrogance, and know that we are all equal Son’s of God, with equal access to the Universal Knowledge, should we chose to connect to ourselves and the love and divinity within us all.
I appreciate this article, as I have also been on a journey through various spiritual disciplines. I kept telling myself this was not ‘it’ but was better than nothing. In this way I kept myself doubting the truth that there is a natural simple way to live my full potential. I am absolutely in awe of the fact that I have finally found this way – the way based on the truth of who I am, through Universal Medicine.
“The fact that all I required was inside of me.” That’s an awesome revelation Beverley, one that I have come to too.
Me too…it was great to hop off the exhausting merry-go-round of the new age and just sit down to be with me…from complexity to simplicity. Whenever something starts to get too complex, this is my warning bell that I am straying away from truth, because I have learnt that truth is always simple and unfolds with ease and flow.
In contrast to you, I never went into anything New Age. I had zero interest for anything spiritual. I had no trascendental questions. My life was not an endless search for answers. Like you though, Universal Medicine made me stop, take stock and connect to myself and the world in a way that was really different to anything familiar. The irony is that by entering un-familiar grounds I could feel how deeply familiar they really are.
A brilliant article Beverley, thank you for sharing a subject that seems to relate to many of us. I also started my journey on the spiritual path, trying everything I could get my hands on to bring me that “something” that was missing from my life. None of it worked of course, until I found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I “stumbled” across Serge on his website one evening and instantly had the knowing that THIS WAS IT, all I had been looking for all along, there it was, inside me all along. Thank you Serge and Universal Medicine for showing me that there is a way, The Way of the Livingness.
I absolutely relate to what you’ve written here Beverley as I too was taken with Reiki and other new age techniques for over a decade…whilst my life and health was a mess and I ended up with Chronic Fatigue. Despite a partial recovery, it wasn’t until I started to change how I lived based on the teachings of Universal Medicine that my health and life really turned around. Now at almost 50, I feel better and have more energy now than I had at 25…that to me is incredible!
Wow Sandra, I agree incredible, going against what would normally be the case with the aging process and improving your health. Awesome.
“The ‘priceless treasures’ that Serge Benhayon brings with every presentation”
I agree Stephanie. Thank you.
Beverley, I keep coming back to read this powerful blog and all the comments. Every re-read brings up something for healing and/or celebrating. From comments about harsh breathing techniques to the gentle breath and the external use of a pendulum (I have done this one too) to feeling the inner pendulum with sacred movement, is reflecting the ‘priceless treasures’ that Serge Benhayon brings with every presentation I have and continue to attend, bringing awareness of the new choices I can continue to make to deepen the connection with the All that resides within, naturally so. Thank you.
Recently I have been reminded of my slight dabbling into the New Age and the use of pendulums when I attended a sacred movement session. As I connect to myself as a woman in sacred movement I realise the movement I was seeking outside of myself to tell me the truth through the pendulum work actually resides within a very still and sacred place in me. What an astounding discovery to make!
An astounding discovery Suzanne, thank you for sharing.
I touched on re-birthing for a brief while and it never felt great, with all that heavy breathing and intense emotions, and the ‘rebirther’ telling us to breathe harder. In complete contrast, the Gentle Breath Meditation (http://www.universalmedicine.net/meditation.html) has been a beautiful way to re-connect deep within, to breathe my own breath, in my own rhythm, and to feel the true me, no heavy emotional stuff, just the tender love and light within.
Awesome Carmel. We breath gently and there we are with the tender love and light within.
Beverly I love how you say that on one of the spiritual courses you did you ‘cried a lot and saw all of this emotion to be part of the salvation you sought’ I too have fallen for this one, I remember crying loads on one workshop thinking this must be healing little did I know at the time I was just indulging my sprit in more of the same emotion. Thank true goodness for the clarity of Universal Medicine!
Hi Beverley, thank you for sharing your experience with the spiritual new age movement and then finally re-connecting to yourself through the Gentle Breath Meditation. I can so relate to what you share here and am so grateful that my search is now over too. I have found all I need inside of myself – thanks to the Gentle Breath Meditation and the help and support of Chris James, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Yes Esther, the feeling of re-connecting to yourself is like coming home to yourself and an awesome revelation, no more outward search. And the deepening of the connection just keeps on going. Awesome.
I keep coming back to this blog and all the comments because it is so powerful. It makes me realise how long I have been searching for and how amazing it feels that this search is no longer there. That constant feeling of missing something that I have had for most of my life is gone, thanks to Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and of course my own choices! Life is so simple now, with so much joy and so much more responsibility.
I agree Mariette. Reflecting back on a path of searching just brings a deeper appreciation for finding the loving presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I am heartened by the fact that a lot of people are asking questions of life and themselves. It would be all too easy to stay tucked away in our habits and patterns, ignoring the discontent and disharmony on the basis that everyone else is doing it too (the safety in numbers thing that keeps so many people shut down). But I am noticing in every day conversations that more and more people are exploring a little deeper and considering what is really going on for them and that current solutions are not making a difference.
For me all the searching for a solution outside of me came to a halt when I met Serge Benhayon and I was inspired by Universal Medicine. For the first time the light was shone back at me, rather than out in the search for the great fix. And in that was the opportunity to develop a relationship with myself, to put myself back in my own driving seat and to take responsibility for my choices. From here my connection to life, God and humanity is founded and always evolving.
Matilda I love how you say, ‘light was shone back at me, rather than out in the search for the great fix.’
I’ve not wanted to take responsibility for my life and my choices and have wanted that quick fix so much so that even when I found Universal Medicine I was still asking to be fixed. I have to admit to taking a while to realise the truth that I have within me the connection I have always been searching for but it’s up to me to be responsible for that connection. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have always placed that ball back in my corner. And wouldn’t it be awful not being responsible for that connection – like waiting for a cancelled train.
Making truth your living way is not the easiest as it often defies convention and challenges the status quo. Quite often the sheer simplicity presented via Universal Medicine of the quality choices to be made can scramble even the most logical of minds. The choice is always one of feeling and listening to self. No matter what has come before essentially that is what we are all searching for isn’t it…a more loving understanding and relationship with self that heals all that “baggage”. The only way is the simplest most concise way and I too can tesify to Universal Medicine providing that way, even as a true sceptic in my original discovery there is no denying the practical guidance offered and the truth of my feelings I am now in touch with. Great blog Beverley
There are so many people out there looking for answers, no need to look any more, you have found it – “Everything we need is conveniently within us”.
yes Beverley,
Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine is the only one teaching this.
We have all gone on excursions looking for something outside of us.
Our spirits turned away from gods love, and will go for any loveless pursuit that will not expose that truth.
we have muddied the waters and did not know the real truth from our spirits deciet.
Serge taught us how to recognise when our loveless spirt is taking us on another excursion and how to stop it and come back to the souls pure divine love.
I still have to choose now all the time but the choice is clearer now.
thank you for sharing
A lovely article to read Beverley. There are so many traps we can easily fall into and then talk ourselves into staying within. Once the simple truth is presented to us the blurb we have fed ourselves seems to fall into oblivion and we can clearly and confidently make choices that support our livingness. The true way.
I like this comment Jenny – “the blurb we have fed ourselves seems to fall into oblivion”. Thank you Universal Medicine, for calling us back to the simple truths we always knew inside.
True Jenny. As truth is presented we are able to see the ‘blurb’ for what it is and get back to a true way of living.
Hi Beverley I can relate to searching with all kinds of modalities and some of which just did not make sense but then, when I found Serge Benhayon so much of everything I had wondered about started to fall into place and I understand a lot more about myself and the world now. Life is a lot more simpler than I could ever have imagined.
This is all that Serge Benhayon has ever presented, that everything is within us and always has been. The power is ours to connect to our bodies, to choose to take responsibility for our choices and our well being. Never a need to follow anything outside of us, any priests or gurus.
So simple, yet so profound and truly life changing. In all those years and years of searching that I have done, there has never been a guru, a healer, etc that has told me the importance of self-care, as the foundation of self-love, and that there are two choices in life: either a choice that heals, or a choice that harms. Until Universal Medicine. Then my life changed and the searching stopped.
Yes and this is so very empowering and very beautiful. If we claim our own power we do not need to look anywhere else.
Simply and profoundly said Rebecca. Love it!
Exactly Gill. This had never been presented to me in this way until I met Serge Benhayon, his presentation offered the potential of true self responsibility and was self empowering and life changing.
As you say Beverley, ” The simplicity of the presentations by Universal Medicine and the practical common sense way of being they offered was profound.” I too was attracted to the simple, common sense and logic of Universal Medicine. No need for pendulums, crystals or any external devices. Everything we need is conveniently within us. How marvellous!
Beautiful said Jonathan, no need for external devices, something I have been relying on as well for a long time. Whether it be books, stones, guru’s, certain holy special places, music to calm me down, etc. And then coming to realize and understand that it is all in me, my gentle breath and connecting with my body. I was always looking for a silent and calm place, now this place is in me. I am that place.
How beautifully described, Mariette, “I am that place” is so simple, and allows me to come home to myself, to the stillness inside.
Mariette I can relate to that, I too was always relying on external devices for so long, having realised that it’s all within my own connection to my body, that search for stillness is within my gentle breath, how beautiful it feels. No more searching outside of me.
“I am that place” – this is so beautiful Mariette, I keep reading it over and over.
Yes beautiful Mariette ‘ I am that place’ this feels so whole and claimed. Thank you.
Yes it is amazing Jonathan, all one needs is one self and maybe a cushion to make the seat a bit more comfortable! Gone are the days for needing to invest all one’s recognition and identity in crystals, pendulums, books, qualifications, modalities, meditations or chakras. Now its just down to us, our bodies and how we breathe. So simple and so refreshing and very, very powerful.
Yes “Everything we need is conveniently within us”. As I delved further in the spiritual new age I had found more and more ‘things’ I ‘needed’ to feel okay, wether they were crystal, chants, rituals, it was all outside me. It had become difficult to go anywhere because I had to haul around tons of things I needed to feel okay although truth be told I never did feel totally okay. Now that I realise it is all within me – how I live my life, the choices I make and how I breathe – it is so simple, so empowering and it makes so much more sense.
Haha, I remember those days well, Golnaz – having all the spiritual ‘accessories’. It took a lot of money and energy maintaining that kind of lifestyle with all the bangs and whistles, books, crystals, lotions and potions. Life is so much simpler now (and cheaper), as the greatest support I have is myself.
I can also relate Golnaz, I tried many spiritual new age things, constantly moving from one to the next, under the illusion the ‘next’ would be it…and round and round I went. As Janet has mentioned, my life is so much simpler now, (and cheaper too), no more searching outside of myself, because I know that I am enough and that every thing I need is inside me.
I agree Golnaz “Now that I realise it is all within me – how I live my life, the choices I make and how I breathe – it is so simple, so empowering and it makes so much more sense.” Thank you.
Yes, it’s so wonderful that everything we need is within us. I am so in gratitude of the support of Universal Medicine in reminding me of this. Seeing how students of Universal Medicine are living without crutches is something I come back to again and again as i let go of my crutches – believing someone, something (jobs, food cravings) will give me the love/ love substitute that I am looking for.
“Everything we need is conveniently within us”. This makes everything so simple. Ahh, the relief to be able to let go and allow myself to feel what’s there naturally, without trying! In building the quality of stillness I now connect to (through my choices), I am offered constant realisations that allow me to let go some more, that in turn allow for a deeper quality of stillness. The journey looking outward stopped when I came across Universal Medicine too and became very much about what was inside. It’s been pretty cool to re-discover what I have inside. It’s not new. I actually had this as a young child in abundance but then lost contact with it when I started to look out for reassurance or confirmation.
Marvelous indeed Jonathan. Everything is within us.
Yes, I too loved the, ‘practical common sense way of being they offered was profound.’ It was saying to me that this is ordinary. You don’t have to do any special ceremonies or weird stuff to know this, as this way of being is what you naturally are. Knowing there’s no trying or keeping up a pretence that isn’t who I am feels so true.I can choose to just relax and be myself and the sky wont cave in!
‘For the first time in my life I had a glimpse of feeling whole and complete without the underlying emptiness and anxiety that had kept me relentlessly searching.’ Wow Beverley I can so relate to overlooking the things that didn’t sit right with me about the various things I tried in my search for meaning in my life (Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi, self-help groups etc). The Gentle Breath Meditation was transformational in giving my whirling mind an opportunity to stop and just be and myself the space to recognise the areas in my life that I needed to take responsibility for.
That’s amazing Helen; it’s very important for us to have moments where we give our ‘whirling minds an opportunity to stop and just be’… Eventually if we keep allowing ourselves these moments the stillness will outweigh the motion and we won’t have a whirling mind at all!
Absolutely Susie, its seems so simple…just to stop and be with ourselves in moments of stillness, yet our mind drives us to keep seeking something outside of ourselves to bring a sense of calm and stillness when it already contained within us.
Well said Ariana. I relate well to what you share about your body feeling it was still moving even when you went to bed at night. The stop the Gentle Breath Meditation offers is certainly a true step to choosing stillness and taking responsibility for how we choose to live on a daily basis.
I also did try everything in the search of “Waking up”.
everything what got offered on the market, and still I always felt it wasn’t what I’m suppose to be and do.
What a relief to find and have now in my life Universal Medicine, the way of the Livingness and yes also the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Thank you Beverley for this awesome article and Helen for your comment.
How I was living hadn’t worked (depression, emotionality, aggression); everything I tried hadn’t helped other than as a bandaid; the ‘advice givers’ had their own clay feet; society was and is more and more connectedly disconnected; what was left was to try what Ariana suggests. So I did. Take responsibility (i.e. it’s my life, no one’s doing it to me). Stop. Feel. Try out the gentle breath mediation (unimediving.com). She’s onto something.
And with the demise of the forever seeking outside of myself for the answers, came the opportunity to settle and expand into a full and ever deepening relationship with myself. This is huge, as I no longer use up all my energy trying to control things that are out of my control, but take responsibility for that which I can be in charge of…myself and my interactions with the world. Thank you, Beverley, for your clarity and honesty.
The hugeness of that change in focus is something that must be really appreciated, Matilda. So much of the new age philosophy and modalities are all about trying to find a way to control a life that many feel is out of their control and makes no sense. But there is such beautiful power and clarity in as you say, letting go of the constant search outside of yourself and allowing your closest relationship, the one with yourself, to deepen and expand, and “take responsibility for that which I can be in charge of…myself and my interactions with the world”.
Beverley thank you for sharing a story that so many of us have experienced with our own particular flavour. Me being a yoga teacher whose body was so bankrupt from yoga that I ached just standing to do the dishes and yet I still believed that yoga was the answer. Insane really !
Clarity and honesty in spades. Beverly, the way you make clear the link between ‘inner anxiety’ and ’emptiness’ and ‘new age’ seeking – in fact any so-called seeking – is priceless. Trapped in the ‘spiritual supermarket’, seduced by creativity, invested in material success, bound by false notions of freedom – I’ve tried all these and the ‘inner anxiety’ never shifted. Becoming responsible for my ‘relationship with myself’ as you describe was my turning point as well – an ever evolving opportunity.
Beverley what a great and simple account of the path back to the real-you amidst all the false offerings such as the spiritual new age, reiki, clairvoyance etc. we can so often fall for and think they are the truth, when in fact, and from the distinction you make between there being two energies, they are so far from being this. You expose the truth so simply through the importance of learning to feel what the exact energy behind any modality is – through observing the Teacher/Presenter by how they live their life – with abuse or with love. Simple.
I love what you highlight here Beverley, that Universal Medicine continually brings things back to the self – the breathing, the connection, the personal responsibility for our every choice. The teachings are so simple and yet so profoundly on the mark. You can almost hear the click of acknowledgement in coming home from within the body once the truth of things is re-presented. You sum it up perfectly for anyone considering a route outside of themselves to find truth in the line, ‘if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator? Surely I could trust what I felt from the inside?’
I agree Mary and these transformations within people (including myself) are not erratic or coming from the outside but are changing within from making consistent, practical and simple choices in how and the way we live to return back to who we really are. It is very inspiring and feels very natural not at all like the push, drive or given up energy I had been living in before meeting Serge Benhayon.
I too got myself tangled up in the spiritual new age, looking for the next self help book, studying reiki, using crystals, etc etc. What I found so familiar in your blog, Beverly, was the feeling of anxious emptiness that was always there even after delving into “ancient teachings” and even not so ancient ones which all claimed to be the truth, or “IT” as you put it. It was the greatest gift to come across Universal Medicine and the very simple teaching that I had been looking for was not to be found in the next course or book or crystal, but within me. Very simple, and so powerful.
“Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage. Simple, yet profound.” In all the New Age courses I too attended, no one ever mentioned the truth abut there being two sorts of energies. I guess those presenters were themselves unaware, as most of the world seems to be. No wonder we are in such a sorry mess, believing in the illusion of spiritually ‘improving’ ourselves and not knowing that we are all truly amazing when we reconnect to our innermost, our soul.
Well, you haven’t missed anything Doug – as you can see from Beverley’s contribution and the many comments. It was up to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to reawaken us to the fact of the two energies we can choose between, the Fire and the prana; plain and simple in hindsight but very confusing and obfuscating when you are in the midst of it looking for the next cure or panacea.
I enjoyed reading your blog Beverley and related to all that was said. I too got caught up in the spiritual age and various workshops. I would feel better for a short time after these workshops but nothing was sustainable. I was always searching for the next workshop to do hoping that this would fix me, UNTIL I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. In the presentations and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon I could feel the truth in what he was saying which made so much sense. A huge revelation for me was that I didn’t need to be looking on the outside to fix me I had everything I needed on the inside by just connecting to me and feeling the love within. After spending the last 5 yrs attending workshops and practitioners of Universal Medicine I can honestly say I feel amazing.
I can relate to that Anne, it never sustained. I was also going from one workshop to the other, i would feel better and then something happened and i needed something else. Nothing really changed because i did not make different choices in my life. Nobody told me about self-care and how this is the way to love yourself. So simple, yet so profound.
Exactly, Susie. The student body of Universal Medicine are living proof that anyone can turn their life around to be full of vitality, joy and love – no tricks necessary.
Absolutely Beverley, I studied an alternative modality for several years and it was certainly “hard and complicated” as Rebecca comments. I remember the numbing I used to have to do to be able to get through learning and memorizing the whole routines etc and the principles. Excruciating when I look back at it, but at the time I thought it was going to offer so much to others and I persevered. When I started to practice this modality as a practitioner I had just come across Universal Medicine and the gentle breath meditation and on finding whilst working on this particular client’s body, that it did not respond to one of the techniques, rather than continue and ‘insist’ and impose a change, I held the person and went into the gentle breath. The body changed and I never looked back. I dropped that modality from that point on because I knew I had found that true way of working. I have never looked back since, this is most DEFINITELY IT Beverley! Thanks for your great blog.
‘the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which makes a lot more sense compared to anything else I have come across’ – No tricks or complications are needed to ‘prove’ anything when what is being presented is the truth.
Great blog Beverley, one point you mentioned about accepting that orthodox medicine did not have all the answers and I realise that maybe for me at least, there used to be an expectation that they should have all the answers to all of my physical and mental ills and I lost faith in them – that’s when I started to look at the alternative therapies.
But since attending presentations and workshops run by Universal Medicine I have regained my love of orthodox medicine and now see where my responsibility lies with regards to my own health and not expecting someone to fix me when things go wrong.
That is fantastic Julie – I think many people experience something like what you describe – we often look to medicine for the ‘answers’, and understandably they do not have all the answers to our problems, but because we had that expectation we then lose faith as you say.
Thank you for sharing your story Beverley – there’s a lot here to ponder on. I never got caught in the New Age world instead I did all my searching and seeking through drinking, drugs and sexual relationships in a desperate attempt to gain some recognition that I was ‘ok’. When I did enter the New Age world briefly I was always struck by how everyone was ‘doing’ so many modalities. It was the same for me with the drugs, there was never anything that gave me what I was looking for so I would try different combinations of drugs to get something back. Basically nothing was ever enough. All that changed when I met Serge Benhayon. The truth he presented offered me a foundation of love to build that was already living within me – I didn’t need to look anywhere else – it was all inside me. When you come to this realisation there is such a huge relief – you can let go of the ‘doing’ the endless searching and just be you – you are enough. It’s a fantastic marker to have for yourself and one where you can build true love.
A fantastic marker indeed for all of us: being enough and everything we have been looking for is already inside of us. How simple is that?
Beautiful Fiona what you share, that you did all your searching and seeking through drinking, drugs and sexual relationships. It shows that in the end, it is all the same, whether you go search through the new age modalities and doing one after the other, or that you go from one sexual partner to the other and numb yourself with alcohol or drugs. I did both, in different phases of my life. In both, we are looking for recognition, thinking that something is missing and that we are not enough. We want something from outside of ourselves, which no spiritual modality, glass of wine or drugs or sexual escapade can give us.
So true Mariette whichever we have chosen it is a numbing and an escape from ourselves and the world. A constant seeking outside that leads to frustration and a giving up on life as it essentially left us empty.
This is beautiful Fiona – the different choices you have made since meeting Serge Benhayon, shine out from you for all to feel, see and enjoy, the deep changes that are possible from an ‘old way of being’ to a true way of being. Thank you for your honest and inspiring comment.
Gorgeous blog, Beverley written so clearly and directly. I too remembered being caught up with ‘ “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being” ‘ which ended up being an escape from reality. It took me further away from the real me, who was there all along inside waiting to be found. Having begun the process of finding ‘me’, the anxiousness is lessening as I connect more deeply within and at the same time I am physically back in the real world which does not take me away from who I am and allows me to connect to others.
Hi Beverly, I could have wrote this blog because this was my experience too. I searched outside of myself for years looking to find myself in doing Reiki/Rebirthing/Crystal healing/ Tantra/ yoga courses… but nothing ever changed in my life, nothing, what i did discover years later was that actually all these new age courses only buried my stuff, or my issues deeper. Then I met, was blessed to meet Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, attended his courses and presentations, and in a few short years, my life has changed so much, and because I have a true and deeper connection with myself and my body, all my relationships have improved significantly.
What a great blog Beverley and i can so relate to it. For half of my life i have been searching outside of myself, taking the spiritual path, thinking that i was really ‘working on myself’. I went many times to India, thinking that this was the place to be and where i could find myself. I was very drawn to Osho and his meditations, i read a 1000 self-help books, i meditated with another indian Guru and 3 miliion other people, i did silence weeks to escape the business of life, i have had many reiki and healing sessions, i read about living in the Now, and went hiking in Nepal, and well, i did everything. And then four years ago, i did my first workshop in the UK with Serge Benhayon after having an esoteric healing session here in Holland and everything made sense. The search stopped and there was no need to go anywhere, to have a guru or to read those 7 books next to my bed.All those years of searching and having this feeling that i was missing something, changed and for me the real journey started. Being in the world, taking responsiblity and becoming aware of my body and my breath. So simple, yet so profound.
Wow – Mariette – as I read all the different things you did, I could feel an anxiousness developing in my body, but when I got to the part where you mentioned Serge Benhayon, there was an instant stillness, a feeling of simplicity and a deep, deep calm.
Yes me too Carmel. All that searching takes a great deal of effort and leads us into such complexity. The relief of finding the Ageless Wisdom through Serge Benhayon is palpable on this page of comments!
Wow this is gorgeous Mariette, I can completely relate to your comment, ‘Being in the world, taking responsibility and becoming aware of my body and my breath. So simple, yet so profound. ‘This has been my experience also.
I enjoyed reading your clear blog Beverley. My experience was very similar to yours. I also was searching outside of myself, from the myriad new age philosophies on offer. Not once did anyone mention the 2 sources of energy, Soul & Spirit. I thought they were the same. It wasn’t until I came across Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom that I realised that I was on the wrong track entirely. I began to connect to my body from within, with tools like the gentle breath meditation which supported me to connect more to the body’s wisdom. I loved your simple and empowering sentence “I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well -being”.
I was dragged through my mothers period of ‘finding herself’. I coined this term ‘new age for the old age’. There was every type of herbs burning, weird things being eaten, rituals repeated, a search for an alternative way that incorporated nothing of day to day life. These spiritual quests were in themselves an escape from humanity.
Then she found Universal Medicine. And this was not a phase. This was not a manual that needed to be followed – but a way of living the ‘everyday normal’ life – whilst having the absolute power of choice, and an awareness of how we are living. Mum didn’t change her whole life – she looked at how she was living honestly and let go of what didn’t support her. And I’ve never known her to be so much herself as she is now.
I can relate to so much in this blog, the search, the spiritual path, Reiki, the arrogance, the overriding (big time cause I became a Reiki “master” although I always struggled with it), everything you say from top to bottom except the children and marriage. And also how the moment I allowed myself to be open to listening to the ageless wisdom through Serge, I knew it was true, I could feel it. Then the beginning of the true path, and the beginning of self responsibility. I appreciate the clarity and simplicity of your expression.
Hi Beverley, thanks for sharing your story – like you I came to Universal Medicine through Chris James and it was like coming home. Before that I trained as a Spiritual Healer and I don’t remember Soul ever being mentioned, and the whole process never felt quite right to me and eventually I stopped. I also used a pendulum to check if foods were OK to eat but stopped when I discovered the pendulum was merely amplifying what I already knew.
The thing I found most surprising in what Serge Benhayon presented was that our thoughts come from the energy we are aligned to, that my intelligence, celebrated all my life, was not my own, but has been impulsed from a consciousness that was not soul-connected. So now I’m working on deepening my connection within.
‘It is the light of the soul that one is impulsed by first that leads to the energetic truth of all things.’ – Serge Benhayon, The Way of Initiation P121.
Great quote, Carmel – from one of my favourite books, ‘The Way of Initiation’ by Serge Benhayon. Thank you for the awesome reminder of how simple it really is.
You have reminded me Carmel that I also used to use a pendulum and can remember knowing that I knew the answer before using it!
Crazy but true.
I love reading The Way of Initiation, a book that is by my bedside as a constant reminder that the truth is always within, along with other gems contained in the various books that Serge Benhayon has written.
I remember attending ‘Reiki shares’ and being confused and surprised that they were followed by the drinking of wine and consuming large amounts of food containing gluten, dairy and sugar. It just didn’t seem to make sense that people who were open to feeling energy and into ‘healing’ would then go and numb and abuse themselves afterwards. Finding Universal Medicine was somewhat a relief in that here is an organisation full of people who live with a great deal of integrity and actually walk their talk. Everything affects our energy including food choices, and there can be no ‘healing’ unless we make that commitment to healing ourselves.
I agree with you Rebecca – “Everything affects our energy including food choices, and there can be no ‘healing’ unless we make that commitment to healing ourselves”.
Prior to attending Universal Medicine presentations, during my long-term, external quest to find the ‘missing piece’ through countless ‘New Age’ Therapies, there was this discord with what was being taught and what was being lived – with myself included.
Presentations by Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, bring exactly the opposite to this – how we live on a daily basis, moment by moment, is the foundation for every area of our lives. It is so glorious, inspiring and truly healing to have this reflection from “……an organisation full of people who live with a great deal of integrity and actually walk their talk”.
Julie
Yes, thank-you Beverley for sharing. I too went on the external quest for answers through the spiritual New Age, but thankfully my soul won through and brought me to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. As soon as I heard about what he was sharing in his teachings and courses, even before attending, I absolutely knew that this was IT. Every part of me was saying, welcome back.
Beautiful Beverley thank you what a gift it has been to find Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and rediscover the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. The Gentle Breath Meditation I also found so significant in changing my life allowing a simple connection and beautiful contentment to come back into my life I had lost from a small child with the joy and appreciation of all.
““I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being”” I love this line, it is the ultimate in responsibility. It is so easy to pretend life just happens to us rather than take responsibility for our choices and choose to live a different way.
Thank you Beverley for sharing your story and it is very similar to my own. My relentless search for Truth is now over. I was addicted to the spiritual new age therapies and could not stop. It took some time after meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine workshops to let go of everything I was holding onto, in the belief that it was helping me. How wrong I was and that ALL I needed was to connect to me and the Gentle Breath Meditation that you mention, is what I practiced. I felt it to be true because I was not being “guided” anywhere. It was a simple and very tangible way for me to feel my own breath and learn how to breathe me and connect back to me.
Simple practical and life changing.
Awesome blog Beverley, I never really went there with the new age thing but had girl friends that did which was great for me to come to the conclusion that there was more to life than what meets the eye. None of it really took hold of me. Universal Medicine on the other hand felt instantly true and I will be a student for evermore.
Awesome Mary. It is great when we reach that moment of finding truth and really have the knowing that this is it and that our search is over.
‘This is IT¨’ captures how I felt too after having searched in the misty woods of alternative therapies for truth in healing. Connecting back to the ageless wisdom re-presented through Serge Benhayon was easy as it it lived in me all along the years of search and before.
He captures seemingly complex things in a very tangible, common sense way, answers deep questions easily and keeps bringing so much understanding to the way our world truly is without any excitement or calming sweeteners – very down to earth, simple and matter of factly – and with so much Love!
We all carry so much wisdom in us to share with others and I love how we can inspire each other when speaking from our hearts and own livingness.
Serge offers support to re-connect to this wisdom inside and give it a Voice again.
Thank you everybody for all the pieces you bring and angles you hold which make up the big picture that is already there for us to see when ready.
Thank you Beverly for your words of truth: tricked and trapped. So true, I know the feeling. Tricking myself into believing things that do not really deliver the truth to me but settling for these half truths without realizing that this traps me in a big way. It is so freeing to liberate yourself from it. And thanks to Serge Benhayon and Unviersal Medicine this has been possible for me and many others – The Way of the Livingness is an amazing support to truly free yourself from all those traps and live a life of truth and full of love.
Thankyou Beverley for sharing .
Beautifully written Beverley and so many people including myself can so easily relate to what you have shared. To finally find IT and know it to a depth of stillness within us is so utterly freeing confirming and simple – knowing that we are all we ever needed in the first place. Through Serge Benhayon’s presentations and Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings we all have a simple way to LIVE – IT. So great! So much fun just to be me!
I also dabbled in reiki and a few other new age spiritual practices. What I felt when I first came across Serge Benhayon was that for the first time, I could understand what was being presented in clear common sense. Nothing was shrouded in mysticism and I was able to comprehend the very simple wisdom through practical application. Another thing I understood was that Universal Medicine is not exclusive to anyone. What it presents to us is a truth that resides within all of us. I also felt a great sense of relief of having arrived home at last after aeons of feeling lost and uncertain. I felt a surety that was not about believing or having faith, but a knowing.
I can completely relate to what you have written here Jinya, ‘I could understand what was being presented in clear common sense. Nothing was shrouded in mysticism and I was able to comprehend the very simple wisdom through practical application.’ I tried so many new age spiritual modalities and they all felt hard and complicated, I always found it hard and painful to sit and meditate for half an hour or more crossed legged trying to visualise a deity whilst repeating certain words, it never worked! I loved the absolute simplicity and common sense of what was presented at the Universal Medicine presentations.
So true Jinya, Universal Medicine presents, ‘a truth that resides within all of us. I also felt a great sense of relief of having arrived home’. Me too.
Exactly, Jinya. A knowing that comes from the body, a knowing that just knows and doesn’t have to be convinced or persuaded. A knowing that is simple, very normal and liberating all at the same time.
Thank you Beverly for this great blog. It echoes many of my experiences with the New Age. I studied and practised Homeopathy, chanted Mantras, indulged in detox programmes you name it I tried it. But as you say none of these brought me closer to myself or truth. I attended a discourse where the Way of Initiation was read. The difference between Spirit and Soul was discusses and like your it was the first time I had heard this and it resonated so deeply I knew I had found truth. A total game changer and absolutely IT
‘the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which makes a lot more sense compared to anything else I have come across’, absolutely Beverly, I could not agree with you more.
I agree too, Fiona, it all makes so much sense. In the complexity of our present system the simplicity presented can be interpreted by some as simplistic. However, isn’t it true that children speak the most truth in the simplest terms, and many people recognise that and value it. Children live naturally, and it is about living every day with others, not about all the sophisticated manners, knowledge, and interpretations of life that we are influenced by as we grow up.
Yes, Beverley, that is what I felt when I met the gentle breath meditation first, and then Serge Benhayon. I realise what a complicated place I had been in partaking of many different healing modalities and searching for myself in all of them. To let them all go and embrace the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom felt clear and true, and I knew it would support me to find me myself, not through what anyone else, or any other practice, has said, but through my own acceptance of who I am.
A great point Joan as you share the complication we find ourselves tied up with through partaking in many new age modalities. To find the simplicity and truth of the Ageless Wisdom is true medicine indeed.
I smiled when I read about your search and your ride on the merry-go-round of spiritual and new age therapies. My journey was similar, been there, done it, worn the t-shirt or in one case, Buddhist robes but they were so not my colour. It was only when I was told about a talk this man from Australia was doing in London, that I was persuaded to give it a go by the person who has also been on a long and winding road until he found Serge Benhayon. I remember wondering why I was there but the moment Serge mentioned the two energies on offer, fiery energy of the soul or pranic energy of the spirit, I sat up and listened. Nobody had mentioned that in all the healing courses I had attended so I knew one of us was needing to make changes and the chances were that it was me! Once Serge showed us by a simple demonstration that we did with a partner, how to discern the two energies on offer, that was IT! The truth at last.
My experience exactly Lorraine, hearing about the two energies and the difference was a truth that had evaded me from all the other teachings I had encountered. The simple demonstration, for which I was a volunteer, was profound. That was IT. Truth at last.
Wow Beverley! I find it incredible that instead of going ‘this is IT’ to the first alternative therapy you discovered, you FELT what was true and what wasn’t, which led to you Universal Medicine who supported you (and many others) to return back to feeling vital and glorious.
And this is such a confirmation that we do know, that we do have an inner wisdom that makes it all make sense. So whilst I searched, like Beverley, a wide variety of new age therapies and philosophies, I never immersed myself in one because I knew they were not IT. Universal Medicine is unique in so many ways: the exposure of the energies at play; the unification of humanity (rather than the smug exclusivity of so many alternative therapies); the practical engagement with life; and the practises that in respectful relationship with our bodies are actually sustainable and supportive ongoingly.
Exactly Susie, I had a feeling that what had been presented with other New Age stuff was not IT so I kept going, a great point, for as you say I did actually know what was true and what was not true, hence the search continued until I arrived at Universal Medicine.
Yes, Beverley, it feels important to acknowledge that we all kept going until we came across the truth that reflected what we felt deep inside. This is why so many people comment that finding Universal Medicine is like coming home.
Exactly Beverley, so many of us just kept going with different new age stuff for years and years, knowing something was still missing, until we came across Universal Medicine, felt this is true, and stopped searching completely, knowing we had finally found the truth we had been searching for all along.
Hi Beverley, I can relate to being involved with spiritualists, chrystal healing, Reiki and all kinds of new age modalities, none of which held my attention for long before I was off looking for something else. During this period I was told a lot of things which just didn’t ring true or were partly true, but since finding Universal Medicine I have found people that I can trust to tell me the whole Truth without holding back. Life makes more sense now.
Yes Julie I agree, life makes more sense now.
Gosh Beverley, I think your search for truth has echoed true for so many who know at some level ‘there must be more’ to life. Yet it is because these simple ways that you write about – The Way of the Livingness, have in the last several hundred years of history been predominantly hidden, covered up and shut away, that this Way has not figured as a possibility for most of us. But now, thanks to the example of Serge Benhayon and the re-teaching of The Ageless Wisdom, so many can like you have, reclaim how they truly feel. And as you say, it is simple “I stopped being a victim of my own choices and began to make choices that supported me and my well-being”
Yes it is that simple, and so simple you wonder why we have not heard about it before, but as you say Rosanna, the true Way got covered up and hidden from view. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and his relentless presentation of truth, we can come home to the simplicity of making choices that support and heal us and enable us to return to our true selves once again.
This is IT for me too Beverly. I felt the same Rebecca, such relief to have found the Truth after endless searching … The Way of The Livingness. Thank you Serge Benhayon.
Yes Ruth, agreed such a relief to at last know the ‘what was missing’ part of my life
It is amazing to read of how we can instantly transform an aspect of our health through our dietary choices as one example that you shared. I have felt that power to change immediately how I feel in my body, and it doesn’t require anything other than the willingness to look at and embrace what needs to change.
absolutely Stephen I am constantly amazed at how much our bodies respond to shifts and changes and are equally amazed that I lived oblivious to this fact for over 35 years! I remember a doctor suggesting I stop eating dairy to help with my asthma symptoms but both myself and my mother poo pooed the suggestion as ‘wacky’ imagine if I had listened I would have made the link to what I eat affects my body much much earlier! ps stopped dairy no more asthma….
I agree Stephen .. so simple.
‘The saving grace for me to not completely give my power away to the many New Age therapies that I tried years ago was the fact that its leaders/presenters always exposed themselves by not walking their talk off stage’. This was my experience too Marika, I often found the presenters, guru’s, teachers to be cold, unloving and looking unwell, I would go into my head to try and justify this but I always felt that there was something not true.
Thank you for sharing your story Beverley. It is s familiar and similar to mine. I remember the moment when I too discovered the gentle breath meditation – it changed my life. The understanding that we are all gentle souls and simply have spiritual baggage is such a welcome clarity which makes so much sense.
Absolutely Rebecca, ” The understanding that we are all gentle souls and simply have spiritual baggage is such a welcome clarity which makes so much sense.” A great comment. Thank you.
Hi Rebecca I remember this moment too, i had tried so many other meditation yet this was so simple, so profound and totally blew me away, in the fact that I had never felt such a stillness and connection with myself.
I too was caught up in the merry-go-round of spiritual new age modalities, thinking the next one would be it. It was a trap that had me hooked, but left me in a deteriorating state of living, feeling lost and given up.
After attending talks and courses by Serge Benhayon I have turned my life around, by connecting with me and listening to my body.
I now honour myself and know that true wisdom lies inside. We have all the answers ourselves, we just have to take time to stop, listen and honour ourselves.
Well said Lorraine, “we just have to take time to stop, listen and honour ourselves.” I know when I was searching for the one thing that would change how I was feeling, I spent so much time focused on the next new thing so as not to feel the extent of the unrest inside, I just kept moving. That is until that one night when I stopped to breath gently- that was it- done. No more searching that most simple of techniques remains the most profound I have come across.
Thank-you Beverley for a straightforward sharing of your past search for truth.
“I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me”.
Wow what a divine gift it is, to truly accept & honour that everything is already within us.
Free of distractions, excuses, delay – just constantly evolving our relationship with energy.
Beverly you rock.
Awesome blog Beverly, I can relate to so much, what an exhausting journey we can put ourselves through searching for truth and answers when the real truth is that it is already within us, just waiting to be honestly accessed. “I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.” So many new age spiritual modalities ask us to look outside of ourselves like a hamster on a wheel – a never ending pursuit, it is only when we stop and look within will we truly move forward.
So many modalities full stop disempower us whether it is the intellect or spiritual searching, if it is outside of ourselves it is not it.
Simply, true and powerfully said Vanessa. There are not many modalities that actually ask you to take full responsibility for all areas of your life and effectively put you in control, with no external blame whatsoever.
Yes and how empowering Beverly to come to appreciate that everything was inside you as it is within all of us and has been all along.
Exactly Samantha, so many techniques invite us to look outside ourselves and so we actually take ourselves further away from truth and end up causing even more feelings of unrest. – And then we return, awesome.
Totally awesome! To feel the warmth and love that is so accessible within is truly awesome.
Hello Beverley – I like your blog because it is very easy to follow your words and also to feel them. I was on a spiritual psychologically way and numb myself with that. In that time I was sure that I do something very important to help my patient – my poor patients!!! When I met Serge the first time I had the same feeling as you had “the search is over – this is it”. There was stillness in my head and body . . . Wow, no searching energy, no doubting energy, no nothing. Now I can feel I can offer my patient something real – just me thats it.
Yes absolutely. The search is over from the time on I met Serge Benhayon. And what a freedom accompanies my life now since then, the freedom is love, love for myself and others.
Me too – I agree with you Kerstin it is a huge freedom the I now live with – not feeling I need to be anyone or prove myself to anyone, it means I no longer run with the same heightened state of anxiousness in body I used to.
Yes, the search literally stopped for myself too when I came across Universal Medicine, it was like an instant knowing within that there was no need to keep searching.
That’s beautiful, offering your clients all of you, which is everything, rather than the whole world, which is not you, and amounts to very little.
Beautifully expressed Beverley. I too spent many years searching the New Age for ‘it’. When I would come across a new book or a new therapy that I really connected with, I would be convinced that it was ‘it’, because it gave me some relief from the anxiety you also spoke about. But it wouldn’t last and the hunt would be on again. The Ageless Wisdom makes simple and practical sense in a way that none of that stuff did. Thank you for your openness.
A great point Catherine, many of the new age things out there offer momentary relief but in my experience do no last. Building from the Ageless Wisdom Teachings and choosing the Way of the Livingness is a foundation that stands strong and supports us, no momentary relief, but a a consistent change, all based on our choice to re-connect to who we truly are.
Well said Catherine; and in essence that’s how most distractions and comforts work; they relieve us for a certain, limited period of time but when that ‘wow’ or ‘this is it’ feeling wears off we are left in the same state we were in when we first sought the distraction out (or worse)! The difference is with Universal Medicine there is simply a feeling of returning home.
Very true Susie, we are often left in a worse state, because we have buried our original issues even further into our bodies but it is still there and we then need to seek another distraction to stop feeling it. The real beauty with Universal Medicine is that is supports us to face our issues, acknowledge them, feel them, release and heal ourselves, in the full knowing that our issues are not who we truly are. I have never come across any other body of work that offers such empowerment to the individual right from the beginning. No mysterious secretes to hook you in, just the plain simple truth of the matter and the opportunity to get on with healing our stuff and returning to Soul.
Very true Susie, once the distraction and fascination wears out we end up where we started off and often worse – I found with each new age teaching that ended up not living up to my heart’s expectations, I ended up more disillusioned and untrusting of life – it was becoming more and more excruciating. In contrast with Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness, everything my heart wished for was answered and more. I am forever getting blown away by the level of love, care, dedication to people and wisdom that I see is possible. And after eight years not only is this feeling far from fading, but every day the reconnection, the understanding, and the level of expression from my heart is deepening. It is certainly a feeling of returning home.
I love your blog Beverley – “I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me” – this is amazing as it shows that we always have the power – WE are the ones who
‘disempower myself”, and we are also the ones who have the potential to see that “all I required was inside of me”. Love it.
Awesome Jessica.
A great blog, and it really describes how easy it can be to look for answers anywhere and how we can want them so much we ignore those things that make us uneasy. I too have done this, attended courses and tried out things in the hope they would give me the answer, when all along there it was inside me ready and waiting. Now I’m learning slowly to trust and live from that a little more each day.
‘The search is over – This is IT.’ This is exactly how I feel Beverley, it brings a tear to my eye because I spent so many years searching and it is such a relief to have finally found the truth and I know that 100% that this is IT.
Well said, Rebecca. I too know that the Way of the Livingness is IT because every fibre of my being tells me so. My heart has always known there was a way to live a life of love, and the Benhayon family and now many many others are living proof of it.
I agree Janet, the Way of the Livingness is IT and it is the absolute truth and way I have known in my heart.
I agree Rebecca and Janet – well said – ‘My heart has always known there was a way to live a life of love, and the Benhayon family and now many many others are living proof of it’.
Me too, Rebecca.The meditation groups, crystal evenings, reiki sessions, new age books – all gone. It was, as you say, such a relief to let go of it all, and find that truth lives in me. There is no way I would choose any other way than that of the Livingness.
Yes me too, it was an amazing relief to let go of all the new age things, I was always looking for a new course, a new book etc. and never it would bring me the love I am. The Way of the livingness is IT and now I live a very joyful and vital life thanks to this way reflected by the Benhayon family.
IT was coming home for me. I had also spend years looking for the real truth. The Way of the Livingness is the IT I was searching for.
Yes the way we live in taking responsibility in all that we do including the choices we make and making choices that truly support us and others to self-care, self-love and be all that we are. There is never an ‘I’ve got it’ or ‘I have reached it’ moment as this is always evolving and unfolding. No searching on the outside, no looking to others for answers or to be fixed. Beautiful.
Absolutely true Rebecca – Serge Benhayon and his family are the ‘torch-bearers’ of the truth and light the way for us all to see with the quality of their everyday livingness. Yes, 100% knowing this IS it – a way of being that has been inside of myself all the time, slowly and surely being returned to with different choices I am making in my life and less and less focus on the external seeking.
Hearing Serge Benhayon present on ‘the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage’, was a game-changer for me in and of itself. But then to apply these principles in my everyday Livingness with the support of simple tools like the gentle breath meditation you mention, bit by bit over time, has been life-changing. I am eternally grateful for Serge’s unwavering presentation of the Truth, and the inspiring brotherhood of students like yourself Beverley.
Beautifully said Stevie, I too am eternally grateful for Serge Benhayon’s unwavering dedication to Truth and for sharing the most fundamental, essential lesson of all, that there are two types of Energy, Soul and Spirit AND then enabling us to FEEL the difference. There is no blind faith here or intellectual ideals, the simple act of breathing gently is so powerful we can feel the difference between these energies. All the Spiritual New Age mumbo-jumbo I have come across before (and that was quite extensive) has never presented this fact or delivered such a tangible way to feel and know it. It has inspired so many people to return to themselves, discover their own inner love and wisdom and to begin to live in true Brotherhood once again.
Being introduced that there are two types of Energy, Soul and Spirit AND then enabling us to feel the difference is indeed profound. This alone has turned my life round. I was staggered that after 20 years of studying various New Age teachings 10 of which was specifically studying teachings that talked about energy, not a single one had specified this fact, let alone go into it with such care and clarity to empower me to FEEL it for myself. For the first time I found I was not left dangling and hoping the next bit of information will finally make me feel okay, for the first time I was empowered to connect to a place deep within me that I recognised as coming home.
Great blog Beverley, thanks for sharing your journey from the wilderness of all those ‘new age modalities’ to finding The Way of the Livingness. I especially like how you mention the difference between the Soul and the Spirit and the two types of energy there are. Although I had only experienced a few ‘new age modalities’, like you, I find the presentations of Universal Medicine make a lot of sense.
It’s like a fairy story the way you describe the journey of you following and being taken in by all the spiritual new age stuff, but we knew all along, that it wasn’t what it was portrayed to be. When it’s taught that there are 2 energies, the fiery energy of the soul or the pranic energy of the spirit, it’s so obvious, otherwise why would there be 2 words for the same thing? It feels true and makes so much sense. The beautiful story ends as the searching journey is over as the Ageless Wisdom is discovered through Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
Thank you Beverley. You make a great point about meditation. I remember past forms of it being about imagining myself in a place of calm. It was pure escapism – taking our minds to a place of stillness – not even considering the body. Universal Medicine looks at meditation as a way to be aware of our bodies. It is a very supportive way of being more present as oppose to going off with the fairies.
Beautiful Beverley, I can completely relate to your journey, getting hooked into the Spiritual New Age with its smoke and mirrors and mysterious promises and then meeting Universal Medicine, a clear breeze that blows away all the smoke and leaves you standing there asking yourself: “Well if I was really connected to my Soul, why would I need an outside indicator? Surely I could trust what I felt from the inside?” The clear distinction between the Soul and the Spirit is fundamental in Universal Medicine and the gentle connection with our breath the very first tool we are given. I agree wholeheartedly, The Way of the Livingness is It and brings us home to ourselves, to our own wisdom and love and offers a very tangible and solid way to live life with energy and vitality. Thank you for sharing your journey so openly, you are an inspiration.
Beverley, that is incredible to read and see the changes and way of living. I also had so many questions with no real answers – until listening to the presentations by Serge Benhayon and The Way of the Livingness – which most certainly is IT.
I can so relate to overlooking the messy lives of the many teachers and practitioners I hoped to get help from…and the horrible confusion of not knowing how to descern that came from all my over riding of my own deep inner voice.
Universal Medicine has illustrated how important it is to know and honour who I am. I can now see and feel the difference when someone is coming from a true place or not.
This is the most self empowering wisdom and it would make sense that anyone wanting to dominate people would not want them to know who they are as we can no longer be fooled.
Thank you Beverly for sharing your story of discovering what is now your true way of being. I can relate to your story of trying many different spiritual techniques to find my soul and how nothing seemed to have all the answers. It’s true that there is only simplicity in the soul, and all those complex meditation techniques and requirements to use crystals or other things outside us to connect with our soul did not ever feel right to me, even though I dabbled in them all. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a key tool for me as well, and in a matter of a few minutes I can come back to feeling my body and settle any nervous or anxious tension in my body. I also loved how you exposed how nobody in the New Age community seems to distinguish the difference between the soul and the spirit, even though anyone can feel that there is truly a huge difference.
I see many people practising spiritual new age modalities but not taking full responsibility for their lives. The way of the Livingness has a vast but very simple difference – everything is energy, and everything is because of energy, and apply this to life…
Great blog Beverley. Like many others, I could tell a similar story. Happy to report my search is also over, having found the Ageless Wisdom through both Chris James and Serge Benhayon. The wisdom within is there for us all and ends the fruitless hunt for truth outside ourselves.
Great article Beverley. Thank you for your honesty and clarity with which you share your journey of unfoldment and of the simplicity and profoundest of the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon. Meeting Serge I, too, had the same profound response and having been a practicing kinesiologist for 15 years I have come to realise that “I had missed the point completely and had actually disempowered myself by choosing to ignore the fact that all I required was inside of me.”
Yes, many ‘spiritualists’ and New Age modalities know inside out that ‘everything is energy’ – i.e. we are actually energy, inside a body which is just a denser form of energy, living in a world of form, all of which is energy. But they do not tell you the vital next step: that there are two fundamentally distinct forms of energy; and that the difference between the two is that one comes from the Divine, and the other comes from a corrupted version of the Divine. Serge Benhayon has brought my attention to the distinction between the two, and boy does it make a world of difference!
Yes Conor, Serge Benhayon has helped us understand the differences between energies, and where they come from, their intention and affect on us. It is up to us to feel these energies and choose which one we want to be aligned to. It is imperative we understand the differences between the two, and as Connor says which one we align to makes a world of difference!
Yes Conor it was a huge eye-opener to me too, when I heard Serge Benhayon present that there are two different forms of energy. I now am aware that I can align to either the higher vibration form or the lower one….the choice is entirely mine which one I choose.
Beverley.
What a great transformation you have made. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine helped me with my way of living, a better and fulfilled way of life.
Clearly and simply expressed and a story I can very much relate to in being part of the ‘new age bandwagon’ and my life actually getting worse not better. Also as you mention “Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage. Simple, yet profound. None of the ‘New Age’ study had offered this most fundamental of facts, but instead had wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference.” This is so true no one else knew the difference or TRUTH between Soul and Spirit other than Serge Benhayon.
It’s like searching for your keys and turning the house upside down, only to find they were in your back pocket all along.
That is so true ..
Brilliant, Debra. The madness of the frantic searching everywhere but the only place that makes sense, simply because we have not stopped for long enough to remember we know exactly where what we are looking for is.
Great analogy – I love it!
Great analogy Debra.
Beverley I too have found the search is over since I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I am no longer looking outside of me. Like you I was also so caught up in the Spiritual Age looking for answers outside of me, but that’s a trap and the answers are never outside of us, we hold the key of the knowing which is always within us. I too “am now part of the student body of Universal Medicine and I endeavour to live the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which makes a lot more sense compared to anything else I have come across in my relentless search for truth. I have found The Way of the Livingness”.
A similar search and journey to yours Beverley, although mine took somewhat longer before I ‘broke free’………
No regrets on the lateness, just joy on hearing the simplicity of the Ageless Wisdom teachings of love and truth presented by Serge Benhayon.
Beautifully exposing the false energy of the ‘spiritual’ arena Beverley (more aptly described as a merry-go-round). The huge lie we are sold about spirituality is harmful to the extreme and sadly so many of us buy into it because we are desperately seeking our true connection. I too was caught up in this facade; even though certain things didn’t quite add up or feel right I chose to overlook them in my arrogance of knowing there was more to life than just the physical and needing to fill a gap. When I first felt the difference of spirit and Soul I was shocked that I had been so fooled. I wanted to run for the hills but I couldn’t deny what I felt to be true. This revelation has changed my life. Choosing to align to my Soul through my inner-heart and learning to live from there rather than my spirit has brought me back to me and I’m now building a relationship with life based on truth rather than lies.
So true Heather, it is a shocking and exposing time, when we first feel the difference between spirit and soul, and have to face up to the fact that we allowed ourselves to be duped on so many levels. When I realised just how much I had invested both financially and time wise into something I though was benefitting me, but in fact was deeply harming me, was a bitter pill to swallow.
Beverly, I too was introduced to Serge Benhayon through Chris James. I consider this to be the most important introduction of my life, which resulted in me taking full responsibility for my own healing, rather than what I had done previously, which was to seek a New Age modality that would fix me.
Thank you Beverley for sharing, I was into tarot reading and I was looking at my cards almost everyday at some point. I was inspired by Serge Benhayon and I no longer need to know what may happen next week on Tuesday at 6 pm, but one thing I know for sure is whatever will happen I will embrace it in full and nothing will take me away from me.
How simple, how true, and what a great read.
A very candid account of your journey from spiritual New Age to true connection with yourself which deeply echoes a similar experience for myself. Looking back now I can see the pattern of ‘settling’ for something because it seemed truer than anything else, even though we could still see the cracks in it.
”I stopped being a victim of my own choices” These words made me pause for a moment. Even that choice to live in a state of ”stop hitting yourself” (where you tell yourself to stop hitting yourself even though you don’t stop) is a choice! My choices have gotten me to where I am today, all the bad AND all the good and increasing loving choices. Rather than focusing on the remaining bad choices, I now have in my life lived and real examples that I can choose otherwise and I appreciate that a few years ago they were not in my life at all!
Totally agree Leigh – I have experienced living “in a state of ”stop hitting yourself” (where you tell yourself to stop hitting yourself even though you don’t stop)”, and its so awful in comparison to just accepting your choices
Brilliant Beverley you could have written my story here and its so true, love the sentiment behind no “wandering down wooded paths” or “into a mountain cave to meet an Indian guide or an angelic being”, just a simple focus on my own breath. The Gentle Breath Meditation re-connecting me to me, as you say ‘so simple’ and finally I’m home.
While I was never a great dabbler in spiritual practices I did have the odd crystal knocking about. What I realise now is the energy I claimed to feel from the crystal was actually there to be felt without it and as you say it is just a way to dismiss the power we hold to feel energy in our everyday living, without the need for a prop to support this.
Great article Beverley and so clearly and powerfully presented. The question of Spirit and Soul had me pondering for a long time. With the presentations of Serge Benhayon everything began to fall into place. It made such sense and resonated deep within as the Truth – as so much else does.
Agreed Elaine and then experiencing this truth for myself and getting a deeper understanding has created an opportunity for me to really get to know myself on a very deep level. A truth revelation.
Yes Elaine, Serge Benhayon is the first person who has made clear the distinction between the Soul and the Spirit. This is fundamental and imperative we clearly know this difference.
As Beverley shared, ‘Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage’. Finally we have the Truth.
I love this blog Beverly thank you so much for sharing, I too can so relate to all that you have written, I was looking everywhere, every book, stone, energy healing, yoga and yoga breathing techniques and mediations, silent retreats, candle gazing, ha ha you name it – but in all truth and absolute seriousness none of this worked at all, it just furthered disempowered me, kept me on the merry-go-round of searching outside of myself, when in truth and fact all along everything I have been searching for, looking to outside myself and for others to give me the answers too is actually inside of me, and, it is so simple, so true, so pure, and so full of deep, tender, loving care and joy. I got there and am continuing to go deeper, to learn and grow each and every day by being myself and honouring what I feel. And it is with thanks and absolute deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting the absolute truth, that infact there are two energies, there is a difference between spirit and soul and it is for me to feel, discern and honour my feelings rather than give my power away to something outside of me.
“The search is over – This is IT.” Thanks Beverley. I can so relate to your story of constant searching (over 20 years of time, money and energy) for answers on the spiritual bandwagon = and feelings of unease as the presenters didn’t walk their talk, unlike Serge Benhayon who is energetic integrity personified. At last I found someone who knows truth inside out, presenting the Ageless Wisdom with love, so that we all equally can find the answers within ourselves. No more looking outside.
Great article Beverley. The search over – This is IT. And I wasn’t even aware of the search I was on. The Way of the Livingness brings me back to me.
Absolutely beautiful Beverley. As I read your blog I could relate to everything. There are so many points you make like: Looking for another’s approval or for someone else to tell you that you’re OK. This was my whole life until I met Universal Medicine and now I feel more contentment and confident as I am accepting myself as I am. I also love the way you have put this “None of the ‘New Age’ study had offered this most fundamental of facts, but instead had wrapped Spirit and Soul into the same package as if to hide the fact of their difference.” This is exactly how it is. I spent a large part of my adult life in this world involved in Spiritual New Age ‘healing’ modalities and none revealed the difference between Spirit and Soul until Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Reading your comment, it makes me wonder if this is deliberate so we are all kept in the dark of the Truth, as it is only through knowing and feeling the difference that we are able to free ourselves. Thank you.
Hi Beverley,
I too have spent a great deal of my life searching for the real deal. I have been with the Buddhist, done reiki and have been in an organisation with a guru. Where so called masters were heavy on alcohol and smoking dope and there was a big power game going on. I gave my power away out of fear I wouldn’t ‘make’ it to break free from this hamster wheel called life.
Through Universal Medicine I’ve learned that the journey goes back to oneself, and that I make all the choices that take me back to being me.
I have answers for questions that I had all my life and I have tools how to apply the answers in my daily life. And that all the responsibility for my choices lies with me, and with me only.
It is amazing to consider that the ‘new-age’ modalities seemed to offer you so much, but they never encouraged you to fully accept responsibility for your choices. I can relate to this, as no where else have I found a place like Universal Medicine where not only am I encouraged, but deeply supported to truly look at all my choices and lovingly accept responsibility for them – with out judgement or shame.
Thank you Beverley for writing honestly about the trap of the spiritual new age, which at the time does not feel so as there is always something more to offer a solution. There were many moments I was reading where I was wondering if I had written it! This was a big reminder of the way I too was ‘captive’ of dowsing and many of my choices for over 20 years were based on what the pendulum ‘said’ either read by myself or the ‘healers’ I would go to. Now looking back it simply shows how lost and given up I was. So absolutely meeting Serge Benhayon, understanding there is always one of two energies at play and becoming a student of the livingness has brought an end to this way of existing. Now there is only one way to live, with no ongoing looking out for solutions, just stopping and feeling me and what is felt within.
Thanks Beverly for sharing this with us, I can very much relate here and can say that reading your story has reminded me how lost I was until I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Living everyday with anxiety is not normal and yet at the time I did not question it as it had become my ‘norm’ which really was just draining me and stopping me from making decisions with clarity. Although Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon present much in way of support with being yourself again it is only you that can truly make those changes by activity bringing them into your daliy life.
Absolutely Amina; “Although Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon present much in way of support with being yourself again it is only you that can truly make those changes by activity bringing them into your daily life” – I totally agree.
Great blog Beverley. You have beautifully described the difference between relying on something outside ourselves to give us answers, and connecting to our own inner wisdom and knowing. Not being under the control of a ‘master’ but simply learning self-mastery. It is inspiration to hear a story of how you managed to change this around.
Great distinction Andrew – connecting to our own inner wisdom rather than being under the control of any other being. I love the equal-ness in the truth that we all, without exception have access to this very same wisdom within us.
I agree Richard, great point Andrew – there is a vast difference ‘connecting to our own inner wisdom rather than being under the control of any other being’. Serge Benhayon has never put himself as being more of better than me, far from it, the equal-ness Serge Behayon holds everyone in – says you can have access to everything I have as we are all the same. There are no rules, should or should nots, rather feeling what is true or not in the moment for each of us, this we learn rather than blindly obey or follow.
Thank you for sharing Beverley – like you I dabbled in the Spiritual New Age courses but none of them really answered or gave me fully satisfying answers to all the questions that I had. It was not until I met Serge Benhayon that finally I knew this man was talking sense and was not making something up, or trying to wing but was the real deal and so understood me and truly listened to me. Whilst I have had my ups and downs since I have not looked back since first meeting Serge.
Thank you Beverly for sharing your powerful blog. I also can relate to the feeling of the search being over once I was introduced to Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness.
Beautifully expressed Beverley, I too can relate to your story. When I realized the true difference between the energies of soul and spirit I knew I had found what I had been looking for in Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom but never found quite right with spiritual searching, thank you.
That’s incredible Susan. The Ageless Wisdom teachings resonate deeply within me too, and have relit a spark inside that is absolutely impossible to ignore.
Got to put my hand firmly in the air with you on this one Beverly… Reiki, NLP, Qui Gong, anything that was going really…and yes…plenty of ‘solutions’ where offered but nothing delivered a congruent answer to the underlying tension. And yes, two hand in the air, for the way of the livingness for presenting something so simple, so congruent and life altering in the most delicious way.
My experience with the gentle breath mediation was very similar, it really supported me to feel connected to something inside of me that felt awesome! I didn’t succumb to the spiritual new age but more the psychotherapy trying to understand everything from my head – didn’t go down too well with my body! I too am now 3 stone lighter, no sinus, no asthma, nada symptoms of anything really. Pretty amazing stuff this Way of the Livingness!
I loved reading your blog Beverley and sharing your journey with you. It was a bit like going down memory lane for me, I remembered dabbling with the Ouija board and buying lots of crystals, and dousing with a coat hanger and various meditation classes and going from one thing to the next when I realised that it was not IT. What these things showed me was that there was an energy about that could affect things, but like you, no one ever said to me there are two very different types of energy, and that there is a difference between Spirit and Soul. The only person I have met that has said these things is Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Attending the courses and reading the books was like a welcoming home present, they were saying everything that I had felt but could not express and it was such a relief to hear this. I absolutely agree Beverley, the search is over, This is IT.
Hi Beverley, I remember this search very well too, trying so many different things to see if they were ‘it’, it felt more like desperation but I was determined to find the Truth. When I met Serge Benhayon, there was an instant feeling, I knew I had found It …. It was the Truth that was within me all along.
Yes, Susan, I had a similar experience. Having spent a decade searching for the truth, Serge Benhayon revealed to me in one hour that the truth was there all along, by simply helping me re-connect back to my soul.
Beverley this is a beautiful no-nonsense writing about your previous way of life with various complimentary therapies. Yes, I was part of that bandwagon too, no reiki or crystal healing but various other forms of new age therapies. I started to get quite sick about a year before I came to Universal Medicine presentations which instantly I knew this was ‘the real deal’ and all my intense seeking for that elusive ‘missing piece’ was over.
I agree with you completely – “For the first time in my life I had a glimpse of feeling whole and complete without the underlying emptiness and anxiety that had kept me relentlessly searching”.
From then my true healing began and my previous new age therapy work went ‘out the window’ when presented with Truth by Serge Benhayon. Truth that I could feel in my body as never before.
I fully agree with you here too – “Never before had I been met with the truth about Spirit and Soul and that there are actually two types of energy, one being the fiery energy of the Soul and the other being the pranic energy of the Spirit with all its emotional baggage”.
Ahh yes I can so relate to the feeling of the search being over-
It’s like finding a warm room in the Antartica! Once you find the truth, you never want to leave it again.
I did many of the things you mention, like reiki and a bit of dabbling with crystals. When I first met Serge Benhayon I told him all about my favourite most powerful crystal in fact. I soon let go of making anything more powerful than me. With Universal Medicine I have learned the power and beauty of simply connecting with me – no crystal or reiki manoeuvre could do that for me. I too had a questionable controlling reiki “master” teach me how it worked, but it left me feeling he was the ONE, not ever ME.
It was through Universal Medicine that the opportunity to learn self mastery arose. This has been true gold and the way forward for me and many other very happy people.
Felicity I too remember how it felt to meet Serge Benhayon for the first time. I knew instantly that my incessant and restless search for inner peace was over. It felt like a homecoming. After all the dramatic presenters and egos I had witnessed, Serge was down to earth, met us as equals and spoke the Truth. So rare. This was the beginning of a huge change in my life and I’ve never looked back.
Hi Felicity, I also remember telling Serge Benhayon of my crystals and their ‘power’. There was no judgement, criticism or even an opinion from him that I was doing anything ‘harming’ so to speak. I only felt him hold me in love as I came to the understanding and awareness of the the energetic truth of what I was doing. This is the Way of the Livingness, being love in all situations and allowing others to unfold without imposing any rules. As we re-connect to love, we feel what is true and we are easily able to let go of that which is not true.
Lovely description of ‘the Way of the Livingness’ Beverley. How amazing is the power of being Love without any imposition or rules. This is the way forth!
I love this Beverley, this has been my experience of Serge Benhayon too, ‘There was no judgement, criticism or even an opinion from him that I was doing anything ‘harming’ so to speak. I only felt him hold me in love as I came to the understanding and awareness of the the energetic truth of what I was doing’. This helped me be this way with other people, and as you say, ‘This is the Way of the Livingness, being love in all situations and allowing others to unfold without imposing any rules. As we re-connect to love, we feel what is true and we are easily able to let go of that which is not true.’ So beautiful to feel this, and to live this way.
Felicity I love how you point out that you had made crystals and no doubt other things more powerful than you. I can relate to this throughout my journey into the spiritual new age where I thought everyone else knew more than me and had the answers. I realise I spent most of my life giving my power away to others. In contrast, Serge Benhayon has never once made me feel like he has all the answers, or knows more than me, and in fact is always stating that we all know the answers already. Universal Medicine has been truly empowering because the teachings are about connecting to self, to the innate wisdom that is in all of us. It is a wonderous thing to connect to.
I agree Felicity, I too have learnt not to give myself away to all these outside modalities, and the importance of deeply connecting with myself which allows me to then feel my power and beauty.
Beautiful turn-around, thanks for sharing it Beverly.
Wow Beverley – you have called it as it is. I like you wasted years, money and tears on spiritual new age to only be worse of than before. This is a great article that cracks open the door on the falsehood of the spiritual new age.
I couldn’t agree more Heather.
Hi Heather, I had felt I had worked so hard in “getting on with my stuff” and all the time I was burying it deeper and hiding away from it, here lies the trick and falsehood of the spiritual new age.
Thank you Beverley very lovely and powerful blog. This is a similar story to the one that introduced me to Serge Benhayon through Chris James and to my becoming a Student of the Way of the Livingness.
Exactly the same for me Greg, I also was introduced to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon through Chris James (thank you Chris for being out there). At that time I also was desperate, looking for another way since the life I lived was a mess despite I was working on my personal development through new-age modalities that actually never brought me the truth and joy I found within by becoming a Student of the Way of the Livingness as presented by Universal Medicine.
Thank you, Beverley. I love this account of your journey through the highs and lows of the spiritual new age, and can certainly relate to looking in every book, crystal and meditation technique for all the answers. After all of that seeking, it is beautiful to feel the simplicity and ease with which you changed your life one step at a time, and truly got to feel the consequences of living life responsibly and with a deeper connection to your body.
Hi Janet, yes there were a lot of highs and lows along the search when all along everything was waiting inside for me to re-connect to. No outward answers, all held within and there ready, all of the time. Awesome.
Thank you Beverley for this honest and inspiring article about how The Ageless Wisdom Teachings by Serge Benhayon brought you clarity and confidence and helped you escape the New Age merry-go-round.
What I love is how Beverly has explained it so clearly that the difference is the acknowledgement of the spirit and the soul which is just absent from any other teachings and makes so much sense when fully accepted!
I totally agree Vanessa. I too was on the merry go round until I clearly got the difference between the spirit and the soul. This was absent from every single modality and new age spiritual teaching I came across in my 30+ years of searching for Truth.
I love what you say “it makes so much sense when fully accepted”.
It was when I accepted this simple yet profound Truth that everything, literally Everything in my life changed. Thank you Universal Medicine for shining the light and showing me the true path back to me.
You have expressed it so well Jean, The Ageless Wisdom Teachings by Serge Benhayon definitely do bring clarity and confidence.
Thank you Jean, it has been a true revelation to see the trick I had fallen for and as you say to escape the new age merry-go-round.
You have captured vividly the essence of being trapped in the ‘new age the merry-go-round’. Awesome that through Chris James, you were guided to Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom teachings. From there you found the keys, to set yourself free and opened the door to your heart.