Is it arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working, or is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“
I was certainly stuck in thinking life was ‘fine’. After all, it was a simple enough assessment to make. All I needed to do was to look around me and, as long as my life was like other people’s, my life must be fine. On bad days, I would look at people ‘doing it tough’ and that would also confirm my sense that I was okay. Generally speaking, this is what I also noticed other people around me doing.
The reality though, was that my life was anything but fine. I lived with poor sugar regulation, moodiness, back pain that would have me bedridden a couple of times a year, the sore neck, a highly functional but not overly caring marriage, a job I felt obliged to stay in to provide for the family, an expanding waist line, and the list goes on. But looking around me, everyone had some variation of these things going on, so even though I didn’t feel fine, I had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it gets.
What is interesting is that I had trained as a Natural Therapist; I had completed post grad training in counselling and trained in many other modalities. What is interesting is that even when I compared myself to other people in a similar profession, they also had similar things going on. What is even more interesting is that we had all the knowledge, the training and the tools to ensure that life was more than ‘fine’.
In 2004, my wife dragged [yes, dragged] me along to the Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1 Workshop presented by Serge Benhayon and run by Universal Medicine. By the end of that workshop I knew that something about the workshop was different but couldn’t put my finger on what it was. I would look around at the people presenting the course and those already working as practitioners and what I saw was something within them that was so vital, true, and yet unforced, that I could not but consider that there might be another way.
For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life. It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not.
This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me.
Over the years, through my own choices, I have built a way of living that delivers a level of vitality that is not forced or derived from sugar, caffeine or any other stimulant.
I have a more honest connection with people than I’ve had before, I love the work that I do, earn more than I have done previously and I relate to my wife and family more deeply than before. So, after years of studying ‘holistic medicine’, the Universal Medicine modalities have been the first that have delivered a truly holistic result, without claiming that they do.
I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question,
“Could there be another way?”
The answer is undoubtedly YES and the evidence is the thousands of people like me from across the world that have made their own way of living and who are realising more and more that the answers were within us all along… we were just not asking the right question…
“Could there be another way?” The answer is undoubtedly YES.
By Joel Levin, Perth, Australia
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
““Could there be another way?” The answer is undoubtedly YES.” it doesn’t take much to look around and say “Oh my have we got it all wrong” The only reason we are not all aware of the current mess we live in, is that we have numbed ourselves with food, drink and entertainment, take away these and we might see the illusion that blinds us.
“All I needed to do was to look around me and, as long as my life was like other people’s, my life must be fine.” This line really explains why the world is in such a mess and why our global standards keep lowering and lowering, because instead of living from what we actually feel inside us – our truth – we are all measuring and comparing with what we see around us.
I love the fact that your wife loves you so much that she took you to meet Serge Benhayon.
There is a lot of comfort and security in not questioning the status quo of how we are living, but ultimately it does not make sense with the levels of illness and dis-ease in the world.
It is true, we do compare constantly with each other and when we see others doing the same as we do there is a confirmation of all being right – but what if we are all in the illusion? What if most of us are not living true to who we are? That is why we need true reflections of a different way so when we look around we do see something different and are inspired to change ourselves.
The falsity that we have bought into is if everyone is doing it, then we must be okay or normal. But we have never asked what if everyone else is wrong or have accepted a version of what is true and full? The greatest navigation is within us, in our bodies.
This goes to show that we can have all the knowledge in the world but when it comes from the head and the body doesn’t live it- then is it of service?
It is true care to ask ourselves if how we are living is true or not. Our body is constantly giving us messages as to the answer to that question, but are we listening?
“Could there be another way?“
My first attendance at a workshop with Serge Benhayon in June 2008, proved beyond doubt to me that there absolutely is another way to live and be. The way Serge moved and presented the day offered a very clear reflection and a resonance felt deeply within my body of something known but forgotten /buried for a long while.
We are sold the idea that with the right knowledge, skills and experience we will be happy and successful in life but in truth nothing external to us delivers us the wisdom of the inner heart.
Honesty is an act of love through which the truth is always offered. In asking such a questions we are no longer at the mercy of what the world tells us, but rather open to being guided by what is true and what feels true for us, and being aware that we are the one making the choices at the end of the day. In being open having these conversations that question the quality of life we are choosing and consequently living, we bring to the fore a focus of living what is true and the vitality and well-being that this brings.
What stands out so strongly from what you have shared is that the body will always indicate precisely the choices we are making and whether they are supporting us to live our true vitality and well-being, our true innate spark. Interestingly I also studied Natural Medicine where we learnt many things, but not of our relationship with how our bodies felt after we ate or through the lifestyle choices we make.
In this day and age there are so many more questioning whether human life is just ‘it’ and whether there is in fact so much more to it. With this quest for more it is always important that we all are already everything on the inside, and hence the answers are actually already there, just needing to be activated and lived.
Why is it that when we see something that works that we do not immediately abandon everything else that does not work and examine what we are seeing is working. The answer can be many and varied, for example, we may be attached and identified by our struggle and therefore not want to give it up, we may be too arrogant to admit that our lives are not working and that everything we have tried has failed or we may want to avoid the responsibility of doing something that works. Whatever our reasons are we need to be more honest about them and let ourselves accept that there is a way to live that is deeply supportive of us.
Absolutely there is another way as thousands of people have discovered since they meet Serge Benhayon, being open to what is offered through the Livingness and learning to live this practically in your life is a game changer that greatly rewards you back in many ways.
There is always another way, we think how we live is working but deep down we know we are living a lie. When we choose to break away from that lie is up to us, we are never under any pressure, but the more we delay the bigger the lie becomes, so it is really in our own interest to move sooner rather than later. We just don’t like moving out of our ‘comfort zone’.
There is so much knowledge out there, but many of us who have that knowledge do not live it in a way that in fact supports us. What is unique about the Universal Medicine approach is it presents a lived way, one that many now live, in very real ways in their lives. I too am one of those people and while my life externally may look similar, busy job, engaged with family and friends, the quality of how I am in it is totally different, it’s one that is deeply supportive of me and in turn means I am more connected to others and more understanding of how we can all live together. There is definitely another way.
I’m on a train at the moment. It’s packed with people. Every time I catch the train I’m struck by how sad, given up, anxious and exhausted my fellow passengers appear and feel. I can often put myself in the same basket too.
Serge Benhayon has awoken me to the fact that there is far more to life than meets the eye. When I connect to this the whole world opens up and there is no drudgery in life.
Drudgery is actually the reality for many people, but surely deep down we must know we were designed for greater things than a life weighed down by worries, problems and miseries.
It has been a honour walking along side other students of The Way of the Livingness as taught by Serge Benhayon and to be confirmed in who we really are when we reflect to each other that there is indeed another way to live.
It is difficult to step off the treadmill if you are not even aware you are on it.
So true. I am forever grateful to Serge Benhayon for waking me up to the fact that there is another way.
‘I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question, could there be another way?’ Truth being we all care for humanity just as much so why not ask the same, could there be another way?
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me.” Love the way you have expressed this Joel. It brings a deeper understanding of the power of choice, and that we always have one.
To discover and reconnect to the natural vitality of the body is a very beautiful thing. And all without the use of artificial stimulants.
Reading this reminded me of a conversation I had with a tutor the other day, she asked me how I managed to get through the day without drinking coffee, and stated strongly that she could not work without her coffee. This is how I used to be before attending the courses and workshops run by Universal Medicine, and I was the same as my tutor, only now I manage perfectly well without the multiple coffees and many teaspoons of sugar.
‘….Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question,“Could there be another way?”’ I love this sentence/statement because it’s so true. This is one of the most inspiring things to witness, someone who cares not about what others think but cares so much for himself, that by default of that love and care, loves and cares deeply for everyone (everyone) equally so!
“Is it arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working, or is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“” great question, in short the easy route is not to ask, it is to let things continue, but the truth is the loving way, the caring enough way is the way that Universal Medicine have shared which is to ask, is to question and with this it does push buttons but those buttons need to be pushed as life is not working. If Universal Medicine did not exist, I would still be asking for another way to life as life has shown for many thousands of years things don’t work when we make it about function about getting on with the doing and ignoring the being.
Joel, probably like most other people I’ve dabbled in many healing modalities and there was always this something that prevented me from finishing the course or practising the modality.
My first Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1 workshop was in 2014, something definitely happened within my body and every cell in my body knew there was something about this modality and presenter, Serge Benhayon was the real deal. I felt no pressure or to invest in attending the next workshop.
So in answer to your question, ‘could there be another way?’ – absolutely, 110% certainty. The next question is whether there is a willingness to take that next step, I did and I have no regrets.
It is always our decision when and if we step off one travelator and go onto another but within that it is great to have role models who show us what the new travelator has to offer.
This is just one of the incredible turn around stories I’ve read about on these blogs. What makes no sense is that you didn’t receive this same reflection from your background in natural therapies. What is going on for health practitioners to be as unhealthy if not worse than the already deteriorating society we live in? Thank God for Universal Medicine offering something true and applicable which allows us to actually enjoy life and not merely exist in it.
I lived for many years with a feeling that there was another way to live that was very different from the survival mode I was constantly in. And at 55 I think I was all but convinced that I had simply been kidding myself and the life I was living was as good as it gets. How wrong I was, as the day Serge Benhayon walked into the room where I was waiting for a Universal Medicine workshop to begin, was the day that I finally knew that I had not been imagining this other life, I simply hadn’t had the key to open the door. Serge definitely had the keys but it was still up to me as to whether I used them or not.
“Could there be another way?“ A question so many have asked and many of those who have found their way to Universal Medicine and the teachings of The Way of The Livingness have found that Way.
‘It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not.’ Being on a treadmill when living in the indecision or what we’re doing with no discernment is a great description. I love the simplicity of connecting with whether what we are doing is supportive or not is a wonderful way to feel the purpose of what we bring and appreciate truth.
This is a great question, a wise question when we are honest enough about ourselves and our lives.
Universal Medicine exposed to me there is another way, living in a way of simplicity and connecting to truth. Expressing all there is to express with integrity and truth.
To care enough for others to ‘burst their bubble’ – this breaks many of our ideas about what care is, yet this is in fact true care, and as yet not many of us do this so kudos to those such as Serge Benhayon who do and in doing so he reminds all of us that we can do this with each other, and ensure a more genuinely caring society for all.
The first time I went to a Universal Medicine workshop I knew that this was something very different, the wisdom that was expressed was astounding and out of this world yet so relatable, it made so much sense. Since then I have been working on simplifying my life and it is working and working in ways I could never of imagined.
Yes there is another way – a way that is about real love, true vitality and real true connection with others.
There are only two ways: the way of the spirit into illusion, or the way of the Soul back to all that is true.
So simply and profoundly said Liane.
‘I would look around at the people presenting the course and those already working as practitioners and what I saw was something within them that was so vital, true, and yet unforced, that I could not but consider that there might be another way.’ If we are going to pay money for someone to support us in life it is so heart warming to see that those very people are living what we aspire to. I feel I have had a healthy suspicion that has saved me from becoming embroiled in various spiritual and new age quests although I have been on a fair few. Universal Medicine is far from that. There is an integrity, accountability and responsibility that goes beyond any other organisation I have known before and the quality of the treatments offered especially by the Benhayon family is second to none.
How can our relationships be truly loving unless there is honesty? Honesty is key in every relationship including the relationship with self.
Making only one different choice can transform our lives, that one choice for me was being honest with how I was living and what I was choosing that was making my life complicated and full of struggle. Through attending Universal Medicine courses and presentations, I too have found another way to be in life which is simply being true to myself and honouring all that I have to bring, and honouring all others equally.
It doesn’t seem like arrogance to ask, is there another way. It is common sense when we actually look at the facts of how we are doing as a species. It was important to nominate that although you can have the tools to manage life and many of the things that ‘should’ make you happy, it is only a cheap imitation of what we are capable of.
It is deeply, deeply important that we be shown another, truly successful and very accessible, way to be in life for it is this that combats the sense of giving up / sadness / despair so many of us feel. We don’t have to accept what we are shown or take it on board at all – that choice is one we need to make for ourselves.
The first time I attended a Universal Medicine workshop, I left fully inspired and full of hope that yes finally there was another way to live and be in this world; it felt like I was given a huge nugget of gold.
There is always another way or a different choice to be made, I gained this awareness when I too attended Universal Medicine courses which allowed me to cut the heavy chains of old ways of being; old behaviours and patterns that no longer were working.
Having abandoned the knowing inside that the world around me wasn’t the way to live I decided, full force to make the world work. If happiness was through a successful career, through a loving partner and children, great holidays, a wonderful house/flat I was determined to make it. So I invested heavily in the world’s way of doing things and I ticked only a few of those boxes but was heavily in the lie that it was what on the outside that would stop this empty feeling inside. I even sabotaged many of these ticked box goals so I wouldn’t be faced with knowing none of them were it unless I was connected and living another way. But I have come around to knowing there is another way, and I know too many people to doubt its authenticity including starting to live it myself. Not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate those who are walking this way and know this is for me to walk too.
We might have a sense that something is not quite right but look around us and see nothing different and decide we are fine, normal just like everyone else and guess what there are even people worse off! It is the ultimate excuse to not listen to what we feel. It is a good thing we keep feeling it how hard we try and can always choose differently. And it also shows the importance of true role models to confirm that there is a different way to live.
Being honest about all that is not ‘fine’ in life is crucial if we are to truly evolve and change – it doesn’t mean we have to be pessimistic but real about what really is not working for us all.
“Could there be another way?“ When I was growing up I always said to myself there must be another way, this cannot be it , even the animal had it better than the humans. Thanks to Universal Medicine I now know for sure there is a way.
The ultimate love we can offer another is truth.
We can all sense the natural vitality exuding from another when they choose to live from the connection to their soul yet it is a choice made by us to get ‘real’ and drop the guard/arrogance to see that there is another way.
The moment we question life and whether we are maximising what’s possible it’s a bit like life unfolds to help us answer the question. Is there another way? Undoubtably, we simply need to begin by being honest and questioning what is really going on.
” Could there be another way?” In answer to the question: all my life I knew there must be another way. I used to say this cannot be it. How could I be living just to die, what’s the purpose, there must be a way of living that has a purpose? As I lived my life I gained some answers to purpose, but not clear understanding as to why all of life was such a mess in this world.
Again like you Joel when I connected with Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon, I got to understand the purpose of life, my purpose of life and all that goes with it. I am no longer “living to die ” but” living to live ” Thank you Serge Benhayon.
My sentiments exactly John as I very much relate to what you shared as I was always searching outside of myself for answers or knowledge that would change and improve my life, and then I was blessed to meet Serge Benhayon and learned that everything I need is already within me, and my searching stopped. And like you, I have went from, not wanting to be here in this world, to now, ‘living to live’, a full, joyful and fun life and continually learning to share and express more love on this earth school.
Hear, hear Joel. I too . . . “live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question,
“Could there be another way?”” . . . . And not only does Serge pose this question he also answers it by showing us that there certainly is another way by living it in full himself and this is what is so inspiring about Serge Benhayon . He is a man who ‘talks his walk’.
It is crazy how we look at the lives of those around us that are suffering as a measure that we are doing ‘OK’, when our potential for living with well-being, vitality and connection is far greater than ‘OK’ or ‘fine’. We seem to have settled for a lesser way of being and living with our marker being lovelessness. Imagine the difference in our lives if we chose love to be our marker and guide.
Before Universal Medicine I knew that life as I knew it wasn’t working, and that working hard to have two weeks a year a way somewhere hot, was not the answer (seemed futile), I knew that getting drunk on the weekends with my neighbours was not it (but continued for want of anything better to do), I just knew that exercising and dieting, hobbies, TV, Hollywood movies were not it, and that there was more to life and sometimes felt the desperation of it all. Finding Universal Medicine was like coming out of a dark tunnel towards the light – I knew it instantly and have never regretted it.
Comparison with others who are less well than ourselves as a marker for our own ‘wellness’ can lead us to being dishonest with ourselves about how we’re really feeling inside… It’s not that we can’t appreciate that others are less well than us but in that also not settle for just getting by or functioning through life without being open to considering the quality in which we live each day.
This blog reminds me that the reflection of others who live true to themselves is worth more than all the riches of the world.
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found.” Yes Joel it is in our choices that we can find a greater understanding as to why we choose to move in certain ways and how these movements can either hinder or advance our life through a deeper understanding of who we are or hold us back from this learning. The beauty is that we can always choose another movement anytime.
If we look at the world as a whole we can see that there are wars, famine, greed, violence cyber abuse, sex trafficking, drug wars and many drug related tragedies, escalating rates of illness and disease. A lot of us shrug these things off because they are not happening to us personally but they are happening. This week in the Uk news, there are acid attacks, a pregnant woman had acid thrown at her belly which held her growing baby, others had acid thrown in their faces, a 16 year old hung herself because of bullying, the rates of obesity for 11 year olds in our local area are now at 25%. Does it have to be this way? Is this really just human nature? I don’t think so. The change can only come about through us, and not by fighting these things or throwing money at them but by being the change we want to see and becoming more responsible about the way we live, how we communicate, what we communicate. Universal Medicine teaches us the fundamentals, how everything is energy and everything is because of energy. How everything is related and there are consequences to all our movements and everything we do. So the change starts with us choosing a different way and it gives us the tools to support us in this so we can sustain ourselves within all this mess and support a change that will last.
Looking back it is interesting that I lived as many other people did not knowing that I had a choice, life or Christianity presented me with a certain way of living and this is how I thought life should be, not much room for “could there be another way” but the shoulds did not satisfy and so that lead me eventually to Universal Medicine and the finding and learning to yes live a different way.
“So, after years of studying ‘holistic medicine’, the Universal Medicine modalities have been the first that have delivered a truly holistic result, without claiming that they do” – my sentiment exactly. Universal Medicine has really exposed how gappy all the so-called ‘holistic’ things out there that I have tried before actually were.
It is that comparison we use to justify the pain and misery we live with but not want to admit – ‘I am ok because it is not as bad as so and so, or how it used to be however long ago’ etc. We so arrogantly refuse to say it is not working and we keep battling using different sets of ammunition but never changing our strategy until we drop dead, literally. Thank God, I stumbled upon Universal Medicine to realise that there really is another way.
The way you write just rocks my world. I remember when I first went to a workshop and could feel how notably different it felt to anything else on offer. My theory behind the difference is that Universal Medicine never instructs, nor does it try to impress and there is not an agenda trying to sell you anything. The reason so many are inspired is because of the way the presenters live, the more you get to see their work ethic and impeccable home life, the more you start to question the way that the majority of us currently operate our lives, the more it gets you thinking, maybe there is another way?
If we continue to explore, learn and ask questions throughout our lives we are more open to the realities of the world we live in and how we in turn connect with it. Living life connected to our bodies, we can see, feel and move with and from our choices and this shall mark our every movement made thereafter.
We have come to accept life as an existence and have moved away from a simplicity that allows us to access the magic of life – the beauty in each moment, the depth of connections that can be had with others and to know a way of being that is vital and joyful. Serge Benhayon, through what he lives has woken people up to the more – and the fact that life can be loving, joyful and full of beauty.
Comparison is a killer – a killer of truth. By comparing our circumstances to other people we are choosing to settle for less. What is one person’s normal is not another person’s normal. Our lives are the direct consequence of the steps we have walked and the choices we have made – it is impossible to compare this.
We may think our life is fine but in truth there is always another re-finement we can make. Getting really honest about how we live and how that actually impacts on us and continually deepening this awareness shows us without doubt that there is more we can do for ourselves. The Universal Medicine presentations give us insight and make us sit up to realisations and revelations that offer us a different way. This way works.
Most definitely YES. The fact it is a constant unfoldment and deepening means that it will always be more to live not in a ‘i have to get somewhere’ but rather what was considered pretty awesome last year is now simply ok and the level you won’t drop below. It is deeply sad how much we have accepted a way of living that is so average and dull compared to the beauty and love that is actually within us and all around us.
I also got that point when I was managing a bar/restaurant where I got to a point where I knew their had to be another way. Seeing everyone around me getting so intoxicated and myself in a cycle of dis connection it was very timely when I was introduced to Serge Benhayon. The minute I started to question what was going on honestly like magic I was presented another way of living. A way of living that is honouring of ourselves.
One can never underestimate the power of choice, and the power in accepting that we have it.
Beautiful Joel, I was one of those practitioners too, but I had reached a point of knowing I was burnt out and that if I didn’t find ‘another way’ that I was retiring myself permanently from the profession. Meeting Serge Benhayon and beginning to heal myself was the start, and through this I saw very clearly how it was I could work with others to not end up burnt out again. In fact the very first healing course I attended taught exactly this as its foundation.
Beautiful Jenny, it is so important for practitioners to be healing their own issues (not to perfection) and be living a true life before caring and supporting for others.
Statistics are telling us we have escalating rates of depression and anxiety, and in my own life with my own eyes I see every day that the intensity and fast pace of today’s world is overwhelming many of us on so many levels that we must be in complete ignorance if we think the world around us and the people are in it are ‘fine’. Together we have created this world but if there is indeed another way that is more loving and true than what we presently living I say we all go for it!
It is indeed very loving to say that what is happening on earth, how we are living and being with each other is not working – because by saying this we elect the fact that we are so much more then the disharmony we have chosen to live. Knowing this doesn’t work registers that there is another normal, another way, a truer way to be and live.
It’s interesting before Universal Medicine I definitely was looking for something else, something different, it was clear that life didn’t work, but everything I tried was just a different flavour of the same old. It wasn’t until I started attending Universal Medicine presentations that I learnt simple and totally effective tools and it was confirmed that there IS a different way to live in this life and truly love the life you live… im grateful forever for this.
Here we are again. Walking down that same old road with the best substitute we can find for the Love we miss inside, angry, sad and condemned it seems to endlessly repeat the same thing. But is that the case? Is this really the truth? Or is there another choice all the time we are alive? I know that there is and God knows when we get to the point where life really hurts we finally open ourselves up to truly ask ‘is there another way we are missing here?’ We don’t have to wait to things get dire but openly investigate what we know to be true as you do here, beautifully Joel.
Universal Medicine modalities have been the first to deliver a truly holistic form of healing in my experience too – we certainly still need conventional medicine and some other modalities but the foundational core principles of healing that are encompassed by Universal Medicine assist us to make a complete energetic healing of our ills rather than just help us to ‘function’ better or work as a kind of quick-fix.
Well said Fiona, this is exactly my experience. I did become ill, and through the support of Serge Benhayon and several Esoteric practitioners, I gained the awareness that if I was to truly heal and fully recover then I had to look at the energetic root cause of my illness which I did with a big dose of honesty followed by taking responsibility for everything I had created. It was a very healing time for me, and the start of a new way of living and loving myself and as a result my life has transformed which would not have happened had I gone for the ‘quick fix’.
‘This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me’. And when the spin of the tornado we live amongst abates we can begin to see the residual devastation left from how that spin has affected us and others, and begin to rebuild.
I completely and utterly concur with you, Joel, that there is another way and that way is The Way of The Livingness
There is another way to live without a doubt. I have seen people transform to who they truly are and shed the layers of all the pretense of who they are not. Inspirational!
Absolutely letting go of self doubt and connect to the knowing that we are equal and connect to the same Universal source.
It is true there is definitely an other way. It is a way that is bringing true love in our lives, through the making of our own choices.
Yes Benkt – and by making the choices to live lovingly we also begin to live responsibly in the knowing that every choice we make affects everyone else. It’s obvious that irresponsibility doesn’t work and our current world is a true testament to this fact.
What you describe here Joel is exposing the ill of ‘normal’ and how we might wonder now and then ‘is this all there is to life?’, but are not looking further as soon as we see our neighbours, family, colleagues and so on all doing the same. Of course it is our choice and responsibility to comfortably choose to look no further but it is the fact that we collectively as humanity choose to accept a way of life that is actually not good at all, that is very harmful.
Letting go of ‘should do’s’ and re-connecting instead with what we feel supports us all is truly freeing.
I agree Fiona letting go of the ‘should do’s’, and the images of beliefs and ideals.
Yes certainly is the obvious and true answer to your question Joel, could there be another way? Through observation, experience and statistics I cannot come to any other conclusion, other than the world is in a huge mess and there just has to be another way for humanity to live and survive. Thankfully The Way of The Livingness offers that other way. Thank you for the exposè Joel.
It’s true that we don’t often question life based on the reflections of how others live around us. Sometimes I see or hear of what I consider to be horrific stories of cultural traditions, like Female Genital Mutilation, or other issues in societies such as children working in prostitution to support their family financially, and I see that if enough are doing these things it can become a “norm”. And then we might compare our lives to that and feel we are doing ok, even though we truly aren’t living vitally or joyfully, or being loving and caring with ourselves or others. It seems that the marker for “doing good” in life drops or rises, and it seems to be relative to what and how others are doing around you. Living a life of true joy and love cannot be falsified though because that comes from within and is a quality of energy. Perhaps if we globally started to become more aware of the quality of energy of societal and cultural norms, and let go of that which was not based on love, harmony or joy, we could profoundly change the world.
Wow Joel – what a review! Yes Serge presents the (often unpopular) fact that we are responsible for everything that occurs in our lives. Nobody is a victim, we are all here to learn, evolve and return to the truth of who we are.
This is always a great blog to read Joel! I agree with you “I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question “Could there be another way?”
The more I am open to discovering another way to live the more I uncover how society is set up to keep humanity in the way it is, and how we are led to believe that this is ‘normal’ when in truth it is so far away from who we truly are.
Thank you Joel for a reminder of the choices we need to make in our lives that can completely change how we live for the better. It is our own responsibility to live our lives in a way that is an example for others to follow as we have the example of Serge Benhayon.
Like one of those walking escalators you get at the airport, life can feel like it’s impossible to stop, that the best thing we can do is make a ‘better life’ than the person next to us. But as you powerfully show Joel this just keeps us trapped in patterns and habits that aren’t true for life after life. Much better to stop, take stock and work out what is really the right. Thank you for caring to right. Don’t ever stop sharing the things that you do.
“Is it arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working” – it is a fact and it has been for a long, long time. We manage to avoid admitting it because we set the bar so low and others are usually even worse. However, when you see a person who is truly loving and vital like Serge Benhayon it exposes just where we are at. Some people take the opportunity to evolve and some dig in even deeper and do everything to kill the reflection.
The ‘good enough’ life that ‘everybody’ seems to be living keeps us deliberately unconscious to the truth that you and many of us have found Joel! The ‘before’ picture you painted is an existence, the now canvas is The Livingness available to us all. I too hold a daily appreciation for the lived life of Serge Benhayon and his family – people who know the depth of who we are and share it by their lived way.
I love the title, to care enough to actual ask questions. What an absolutely beautiful and caring approach to life. This brings curiosity back into learning and that learning is a life long companion in all areas of life, to observe, to ask questions and learn.
You remind me Joel, of the care Serge Benhayon has to have asked this question without caring for his popularity, and in doing so to have inspired many others to begin to investigate this in their own lives, and the results show in that people find they are more ‘vital, true, and yet unforced,’ so more themselves in fact and with a level of vitality they did not have before, so yes in fact there is another way.
”Could there be another way?” The answer is undoubtedly YES. Spot on Joel, and Serge Benhayon presents the importance of every choice we are making is either a movement towards love or a step away from love. It is simple and deeply supportive when we live this level of responsibility and begin to see the magic that happens when we begin to live this truth.
Coming to understand that we are constantly making choices in our lives has been an incredibly confronting, exposing and empowering realisation. The Way of The Livingness as presented and lived by Serge Benhayon offers us the opportunity live in a way whereby we are aware of the choices we make, guided by our connection to our truth within, our Soul, so that love is the quality that is honored and lived to the best of our ability.
Thank goodness – and your soul – for your wife dragging you along to remember that there is another way Joel. That reflection of another way, so real, so vital and so what we are meant to live, is all that’s needed to turn the tide eventually for this other way to be the way.
“Could there be another way?” . . . is the question we should be asking as a collective, as a humanity as where we are now is clearly not working . . . with illness and disease, wars and conflicts, obesity and starvation, . . . clearly not working. The problem is that many want change but very few are prepared to change. Opening this discussion shows people just how do-able change is. . . making it not such a threatening option.
“I have a more honest connection with people than I’ve had before, I love the work that I do, earn more than I have done previously and I relate to my wife and family more deeply than before.” Now this is True Success!
What we deem to be normal in the way we are living at the moment is not truly vital and joyful. I only have to look around me on the streets to see this, we as society are smoking, limping, looking older than we are, looking sad and tired, find life often a dread and see work often as just something we have to do in between the ‘good parts’ like the weekend, the evening and holidays. So yes let us ask if there is another way.
‘I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question’ – “Could there be another way?”
Life is often viewed by many of us in comparison to the lives of others and if by that comparison we fall into the ‘ok’ basket then it is accepted and we go along without questioning. We have a picture that society has drawn for us and within that picture there are categories and as long we can fit into one of these we go along with it. The trouble is that this is all a dictated and narrow or finite way to being thus limiting us and holding us in the comfort we seek. Asking the question ‘Could there be another way?’ can bring discomfort, but may also bring in truth something deeply loving known to us all along.
Thank you Joel.
Yes, education and awareness of the body and all it offers us by reflection, is the best gift we could ever give ourselves. Re-connection and listening to the body’s wisdom is a key to restoring the truth of our being. The body is so willing..
I totally agree with you Joel. When a question can challenge ones whole life and the choices one has made it can bring up a lot. It is our responsibility to be asking this question, ‘ Could there be another way’, as we are not fairing well as a society overall.
Caring for others is a major factor in growing from a boy to a man. One can be 40-something and still act like a boy because they just don’t care.
““Could there be another way?” The answer is undoubtedly YES.” this sums everything up. We can live “ok” lives where we are better than others and where worse things happens to others and so we think we are all ok, but in truth life was not the rosy picture I pretended it to be. What was normal was not joyful, life today however, after asking if there is another way, is so very different.
It’s crazy what we have deemed as normal in society and the measurement of normal seems to be based on comparison and majority over minority. Like, it’s normal to serve alcohol at a wedding or drink heavily over the ‘festive season’… but, try being the one with out a drink in your hand and enjoining, then you are deemed ‘abnormal’. Yet, is it normal to drink a classed poison? I’m sure everyone’s bodies would actually vote no to that.
“Is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“” – I think it is. You know how people may react, reject or even ridicule and attack, yet never hold back from presenting the truth – this is not arrogance, but deep care and love that knows we are all equally in this together – as many of us have felt by attending presentations by Serge Benhayon.
” Could there be another way?” Resoundingly yes. Since being introduced to the Way of The Livingness and the Ageless Wisdom – learning about reconnecting to the love we all are innately – has been a revelation and a revolution in my life.
Yes there definitely is another way and we have chosen to step outside the considered norm to find that other way through reconnection to our inner heart and fins the truth of who we truly are. Great sharing Joel thank you.
My appreciation for the gift of being shown the simplicity of re-connecting with my own inner wisdom is never-ending because it has transformed my life. When I look back to the way I was existing before attending my first Universal Medicine talk I am struck by the arrogance with which I would have claimed to be doing ‘Just fine’ even though in my rare moments of quiet contemplation there was a desperation in me which I did my best to bury in a whirl of ‘doing’ and busyness which left me too exhausted and frustrated to pose the question of whether there could be another way.
When we choose to deny our own inner connection we enter into the game of comparison and think if we are doing as well as/apparently better than others we are OK. Nothing could be further from the truth and demonstrates yet another evil of comparison, not only does it cause separation from other people but it also cements the disconnection from ourselves. I deeply appreciate that Serge cared enough for humanity to pose the question ‘Could there be could be another way?’ The answer is most definitely Yes as so many are now reflecting to those who are still caught in the trap of comparison.
If we are ready and willing to take responsibility for our choices we are ready to step off the treadmill.
Undoubtedly it is the way to be, live life from your connection to your soul, no rules no dogma, just what you are truly impulsed by your soul to serve humanity – it sounds grand doesn’t it, but it is simply us being present and choosing love to fill our veins, the rest is taken care of by this simple act.
It’s amazing what we accept as fine in our lives, just because it’s normal. Yet I know what I accepted as normal 10 years ago I would now consider completely miserable and self abusive, yet at the time no one had ever taught me or inspired me to take care of my body and to develop a relationship with myself, I had no confidence, no self-assurity and no idea who I was but that was just normal to me. Thanks to Universal Medicine I now categorically know that’s normal, and it’s easily changed.
love what you have shared here Joel, in the world there is nothing that can make sense of everything, and so it would be very wise to say, if nothing is truly working, is there another way?
In reality Joel the world is in a mess, but if we as individuals are getting by, that’s enough. But in truth we put up with so much, like back pain, jobs we barely tolerate, and half hearted relationships. We stifle the truth in case we rock someone’s boat, but the crises are here, with statics in our health going through the roof, suicide, tattoos, kids addicted to screens, this is not ‘normal’. So to live in accordance with the truth we know within takes responsibility, to live with the integrity we know in our hearts to be true and be the new ‘ normal’.
“For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life.” I too have found The Way of The Livingness presented by Universal Medicine a true way of living that makes sense of the confusing world we live in.
““Could there be another way?” The answer is undoubtedly YES.” I wholeheartedly agree Joel, from also knowing something was not quite feeling true to then connecting with Universal Medicine it showed me there is certainly another way and one where that thing I thought was missing in my life was reconnected to and so much more.
We are constantly readjusting what we call ‘my life is fine’. You see it every where, now it is normal to get cancer and life is fine when you fight and defeat your cancer , or when older people only have diabetes life is fine, It sounds a bit harsh but this is the reality I see every day in my work as a nurse in the community and yes there is another way the Way of The Livingness.
This is very true, our benchmark for normal is continually adjusted and in many regards it begins to increasingly encompass greater levels of discomfort and devitalisation.
There is indeed another way and one that I cannot recommend more highly to explore.
It is interesting the way our society has become so comfortable with what it’s called normal amidst all the illness and disease in the world, deep down we all know there is another way to live and unfortunately, many are looking in the wrong places! Universal Medicine presents a true way of living that makes perfect sense of life and with full respect of our bodies as it is through the connection to our bodies that true healing begins.
I prefer someone asking questions that rock the boat and seem to feel uncomfortable, as who knows, they offer us a huge evolution, one we actually need.. As so it did when I met Serge Benhayon for the first time. He was the first to ask questions that stirred up comforts in me (ones I was unable to get out of) and by virtue of his questions I was now able to break through layers of numbing I had myself created – all I needed was a simple question: Is there another way?
After that, all the questions he asked, equally were felt within me, only I never knew or had the level of clarity to truly ask them and reflect them within my life. So, Yes, asking questions that might stir things up – are the best ones! In a true way.
I agree Dana. I have squirmed and wriggled and tried to escape the discomfort of being exposed in my irresponsibility and unloving ways by very simple and practical questions by Serge Benhayon. But what I realised was that I was trying to escape the knowing I already felt in my body. The questions are answered before they are asked for we can all feel, deep within the unease from living in unloving ways. Serges loving questions and presentations simply reignite the knowing within, and the discomfort we feel is our fiery love making it’s way through all the denial and disregard, burning it up in its journey from deep within to becoming something we express with every movement.
It’s funny looking back and reflecting on always knowing that there was more to life and living than what everyone was choosing and yet not knowing how or what that was…. Now it’s hard to imagine how I coped functioning as I did before, when I have now been shown, like you, how truly amazing that other way is.
Do I care enough to ask if there is another way? It’s a great question and one that is uncomfortably exposing for if the answer is yes, then the next question is to ask ourselves ‘do I care enough to do anything about it now I know there is another way?’. That means taking responsibility for our choices – every single one of them – and I know I am still working on that one as my choices show that I don’t care quite often.
Love this blog Joel. Yes, asking the question ‘Could there be another way’ is profound in itself. It only took my attendance at one workshop to realise that there was so much more to life than I had ever dreamed of, and to actual feel the difference in myself and my body from the modalities we learned. I arrived in a state of exhaustion – depletion in fact – but left feeling energised and lighter, knowing that there was more to explore and unfold here, so I booked into the next workshop. Twelve years later, when I reflect on my life before that day it is like reflecting on another person completely.
When the spin of the word is spinning inside of you, it can seem like there is no other way. The presentations of Universal Medicine offer us a chance to feel in our bodies life without the spin. These inspirational moments can be gone quickly, but the memory of them lasts forever, and this is what can transform an entire lifetime from a dull dragging existence in to the bright and living spark that you are.
Walk the walk, and people may not necessarily listen to what you say, but they will definitely take notice. It has always bemused me that we go to a doctor for advice on our health and they are overweight, or moody, or that we go to a counsellor or psychologist who has poor relationships in their own life. There is not enough true accountability in this world. Instead we are concerned with box ticking in order to cover ourselves, but not true service.
‘Could there be another way?’ it is a great question, one that many are asking more and more. They are opening to the fact that the way in which we are living, isn’t working and that there is a lot for us to question. Choices that we make can have an effect on how we live and these can start with very basic things like, what we eat, how much sleep we have, when we go to sleep etc. Then the quality of how we ‘do’ life comes into play also.
‘should and shouldn’t do’s’ are a way to keep us small and keep us in the illusion of living a ‘perfect’ life.
I agree Joel – asking ourselves the right questions is crucial if we honestly want to understand what is going on both within ourselves and all around us. When we look round and justify how we are living because we feel we are being ‘normal’, we close ourselves off from questioning things further. Like you, it wasn’t until I attended a workshop and heard Serge Benhayon speak, that I even thought about seriously questioning my life. Once I heard him speak the wheels of change were put into place as what I heard presented certainly rang true and from then on life was viewed through different eyes and the changes, in my case, were inevitable.
Yes there truly is another way. This idea of comparing ourselves to everyone else as a marker of whether we are ok or not is rife throughout society and is totally flawed. Comparison is a poison. It keeps us ignorant and unhappy and is a double edged sword. I have never felt better by comparing myself to somebody worse off and I have always felt worse if I go into comparison to someone I may view as better off. Yet how could I possibly know what is in people’s hearts and whether they are really better off? It is a merry-go-round of ignorance and fooling ourselves.
The truth is within us. How do we really feel? Can small things throw us out? Do external forces control our happiness and self esteem?
There is a foundation of love we can build from within that holds us steady in the love that we are. Coming from true self care and love because our connection to our selves is strong means that we are not at the mercy of those outer forces. We know the truth, we just need to trust that we know.
I love what you have shared here Joel, particularly your sentence ‘I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question,’ Serge not only asks the question but encourages us to ask ourselves- Could there be Another Way, from what I have uncovered for myself, through the help of Universal Medicine there is indeed a truer way.
Yes Joel, there is another way, and we have been blessed to find it and live it, so that our reflection may show others that there is indeed another way.
Joel, Thank you for going there and finding out there is indeed another way. When someone turns away from the ‘norm’ and instead questions life and the way they live it we see the healing begin, then like you Joel they become a shining inspiration for all others to see there is another way.
“Could there be another way?” is a very important question to ask as it’s oh so easy to keep going the way we do never questioning the validity or the relevance of what it is that we are doing or the way we’re doing it. Sometimes it’s only when we have a major stop through illness and disease or an accident that we’re prompted to open up to the opportunity of looking at how we are living and pondering on whether it’s actually working or not. So perhaps it’s prudent to ask this all important question and make some refinements before something like this takes place.
‘Could there be another way?’ is such a simple yet powerful question to ask, we open up to the possibility that the way we are living may be contributing to all our illness and disease, our exhaustion, our misery our lack of enthusiasm for life etc. Everything began to change for me when I meet Serge Benhayon and was inspired to re-connect to who I truly am and to make choices that are loving and honouring of me. Yes there certainly is another way and Serge Benhayon is teaching thousands of people to live in connection and to live in a way where love is forever expanding and deepening and adding quality to our lives.
Joel this is a great powerful blog, “Could there be another way?” and many of us have reconnected back to our inner knowing and make more loving choices as a result. What if schools asked “Could there be another way?” Education would definitely change, and rather than waiting years to reconnect back to our inner knowing, children could be educated in a way that they get to keep their clairsentience, now that would be something.
So true Irena, there ‘IS’ another way. The Way of the Livingness is about every aspect of life, the teachings are ageless and the process of unfolding back to who we truly are is something we all should welcome, re-learning to live a grander love.
Yes the world suffers from poor diet, poor sleep patterns, and a plethora of self induced diseases to boot. However, what the world really suffers from is lack of connection, and it is fundamentally because of this why everything else goes off the rails so to speak.
We find such comfort in comparison; it can confirm whatever state we are in. For many years I lived in comparison and comfort, but always knowing there is another way. The truth being that comfort is the most uncomfortable thing when felt for what it truly is. I’m now enjoying discomfort, as I live in a way that knows that there is another way.
I love what you share Kim – so very true.
That phrase you use, ‘as good as it gets’, just serves to tell you something’s wrong or missing in life. When we realise it’s because we’re missing a true, honest, loving relationship with ourselves first and foremost and that it’s creating a deep emptiness, then it’s possible to start to make different choices beyond our ‘as good as it gets’ compromise.
I was with a group of people the other day who were talking about how heavy their kids back packs were at primary school and the amount of school work they had to shuffle between home and school. It was clear there was frustration and disbelief that this was necessary and clarity around how harming it was for their children’s or student’s bodies, not to mention their minds. Then came a lull in the conversation, where they were sitting with what they have discussed and there was a general air of depression, which I read to be a drain caused by the tension of experiencing reality while deep down knowing that it need not be this way, yet not seeing how it could change clearly. What has stayed with me from this experience is how important it is to remember that people do know in their hearts that this is not as good as it gets and when presenting that that there is another way, to honour them by remembering this.
Thank you Joel I really enjoyed re reading your blog, how amazing is it that we don’t realies that we have choice and how powerful, confronting and liberating our choices can be , there is indeed another way, the choice is ours.
Absolutely. I mean, if we can’t do that, then what are we actually left with? Makebelieve life with material things? If we can’t connect to those in our life, then we have to ask ourselves what the point is?
Bang on Brendan. So few role models out there who actually reflect their love for themselves, not just reflect an image of what they do, which is simply not sustainable.
‘So, after years of studying ‘holistic medicine’, the Universal Medicine modalities have been the first that have delivered a truly holistic result, without claiming that they do.’ This is what I love most about Universal Medicine modalities. There are no promises made to hook you in, no marketing, no sale pitches. Those that are willing to take things to the next level do it because they choose to and therefore no longer is the obligation driving life, but a joy, vitality and knowing that there is another way.
It’s crazy how our arrogance takes the better of us. But when we truly stop and reflect at everything, we soon realise there has to be another. Having found “the way of the Livingness”! I can definitely confirm there is another way.
When I came across Universal Medicine I was also in a bad way yet I was not looking to change anything much, I just wanted to feel better. So much has changed in my life, I am so much more joyful within myself and I now begin to understand about self responsibility bringing true choice. None of this would have happened without Serge Benhayon and the healing way that he teaches and there is so much more. Each day of living true to myself is a revelation.
There is another way, it is one way. I always liked the idea that there are many paths to God, which allowed me pretty much to do everything. If there is only one way it means I have to consciously choose it. It makes me responsible to walk it. I feel this as the truth. The truth about Universal Medicine.
Before I discovered Universal Medicine if you asked me ‘could there be another way’ – I would have said ‘no’ as there were nothing in my life reflecting this possibility back to me. Now after attending Universal Medicine presentations for many years when I hear your question ‘could there be another way’ – YES there is another way and a very true way that hundreds of people are now choosing and living this love everyday and inspiring others to also know there is another way.
Think outside the square – come up with a new angle – well humanity really needs a new angle and to think outside the square because we are in trouble, on so many levels people are struggling.
I used to think that ‘another way’ was about changing career, moving house, hanging out with a different crowd and getting a new haircut.
Love it Fumiyo and I completely relate, the change on the outside was ‘the way’ to bring about the change on the inside…it is truly disempowering.
“Is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?” – I would say yes, but I know I didn’t want to hear it, or believe that the question was directed to me, as I arrogantly thought that I was more aware and had it better than the most; and I sought love in comfort, and not in truth.
I can remember stepping off the treadmill when it all got too much but in that I was disengaged and had given up on myself and humanity. Through what Serge Benhayon presents I have found a way to step off the treadmill and still be engaged with life and all it has to offer.
Beautiful put kimweston2, the holistic approach to everything is so important and key for a change. Thanks to Universal Medicine to be a solid reflection for another way. No doubt for me that I have found the way with this missing link. My view was so narrow in the past of thinking that I had found my way in identifying with all what I knew and could do. We are our own medicine and therefore I can be a true reflection to others when I allow myself to be seen for my divine amazing being that does not need any proof or certificate, I am the best true indicator how I am with my body and the ability to work a lot without being exhausted and no need for any stimulants.
Yes Brendan, and it makes me humbled to see what effect it has when we choose to not feed the old way, how simple it really is to break out by listening to our body, what is really needed to feel the amazingness what we are and to just be. A simple choice to take care for self this way is the most important thing I had realised for myself.
‘It is like it is’, we can’t change it, this is a saying in Germany. The absolute shut down of taking responsibility here. Why not saying instead; connecting to my strong will to accept that I don’t have to proof anything, I allow myself to just be me today.
I agree Brendan, living in a way ourselves that will inspire to make positive changes in others lives is true brotherhood and the only way to go.
My answer in big letters – YES THERE IS AN OTHER WAY – and so many people around the world are now living this other way. It was wonderful to read your awesome blog Joel so that more people get the possibility to feel what you and others have find out through the presentations and workshops from Serge Benhayon. As you so wonderful describe – only if someone is living this other way (way of the livingness) – like Serge Benhayon – people can easily learn from this because they get inspired by it.
Hi Vanessa.
My Wife and I were standing in the quest at the airport not so long ago for an early morning international flight. It was quite amazing to look around. We are all capable of such warmth and light and joy and yet everyone just looked so grey, and tired, and clearly eyed. Everyone just looked exhausted, and then we looked at each other and to see the sparkle in our eyes, the glow of our skin and the vitality in our smiles that have come from the choices we have made since discovering Universal Medicine – and the glaring difference was obvious. As Joe Says above – there is undoubtedly a different way.
It’s interesting for me to look back – and see how I never really considered that there might be a different way to do things. We just do what we do and go about our way – eating the things we eat and drinking the things we drink. Doing the things we do.
And yet there was always something inside of me that knew there was something else to life. Something deeper – something more profound. Taking the time to stop – consider what that might be and give something else a go has been the best choice I have ever made for myself.
There i another way if we are willing to look.
Joel, I can really relate to what you say here as before finding Serge Benhayon, “even though I didn’t feel fine, I [too] had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it gets”, although in my case, I was not dragged to Universal Medicine but came freely of my own accord. Like you I have been inspired over the years to make different choices, which have been life changing so at 72 I feel more vital, alive and have greater wellbeing than I did at 52! I am another who is living proof that there is indeed “Another Way”!
Thank you for sharing this Joel. I too deeply appreciate Serge for being willing to offer a different way of living even though it that has uncomfortably exposed the rot in the ‘normal life’ we had all resigned to living. It is truly a gift to be able to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside us and truly connect to what is in there.
Could there be another way? is such a powerful question Joel. It somehow puts us all on a equal footing and asks us to observe life rather than compare ourselves to it.
Yes – there is another way and I also deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon and Unimed, that he has shown us another way, how to live love, be vital, joyful, committed and in service for humanity.
Amazing blog Joel, there is another way and seeing and feeling it allows me to understand that this is true as slowly over my life I have made changes which allow me to become more honest and more deeply connected to myself therefore more connected to those around me. There is a steadiness in me in how I live now since I let go of all ‘should and the shouldn’t as if I needed permission to breath. The wisdom of our choices have never been clearer as having the choice and the awareness, that our choices make such a difference to our journey.
The answer is undoubtably yes Joel; thank you for highlighting this question and confirming the other way.
Even though a part of me had resigned to the belief that this was as good as life gets, there was another part tugging at me questioning that there has to be more. And you often hear it in conversations as ‘well that’s life’ and ‘just got to get on with it’ and ‘well you have just make the most of it’. But rarely do we question or explore enough ‘I wonder if there is another way’. Through the presentations of Serge Benhayon I have discovered and I now know that there absolutely is a another way that can be and is lived from our truth and love that we all are within.
Joel, what a great question, Could there be another way? From how I used to live my life to the way I choose to live it now, shows for me there is definitely another way to live. Serge Benhayon has presented a living truth that he and his family lovingly live by. I have found it both inspiring and very humbling to see what Serge presents for all of humanity.
Studying with Universal Medicine has inspired me to deepen my relationship with my body. I am in awe of how my body responds as I introduce more respect, care and love to my the way I treat myself and others.
Before I met Serge Benhayon and his family and came to a Universal Medicine event I was pretty smug about life and thought I had made it. I was fit, so called healthy, successful and had lots of friends. I never once considered to stop and feel the quality of all of these things, it was always more about quantity, more and better of everything. Even when I started coming to Universal Medicine events I didn’t notice that the way I was living was actually with a deep lack of self-care and self-worth, where I actually ran my body into the ground. It took many years for me to be truly honest about the state of my so called health and wellbeing, and soon I discovered that there was a whole other level to go to, one that floods with a deep self-worth and self-regard full of true joy and purpose. Thank God for Serge Benhayon for being one man who said “this is not it” in regards to the way life is currently lives in society.
Thank you Joel, “Could there be another way?” I love this question and feel it can be incorporated into daily life: to reflect to others and to use it in every moment if something doesn’t feel right, or if something is not working. I love the openness and inquisitiveness this allows.
Is there another way to live? Of course! The Way of the Livingness, for me is the only true way to live. After wading my way through years of new age pursuits I finally got the answer to my question “what is the TRUE truth, show me the way”. I can truly say, without a shadow of a doubt that since finding this Way, I feel I am coming back, more and more each day to the true and real me. And yes, I do have wobbles and challenges come up, but basically once on the path of return there is no going back for me, so thank heavens for the Way of the Livingness and our openness to recognise it as the truth.
Hi Joel great to re-read and confirm that there is another way to live and to reflect that to those around us.
There is another way and it is for us to share the truth that it is all about Love and nothing else. Not the emotional form of love, but a Love that at times does not seem like Love at all.
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me.” – I have allowed the world to spin inside me today Joel, your blog was a gift and a reminder that the spinning is not me and I can make a different more simple choice to let go and let the spinning spin right out of me.
This is great to be reminded of -the world spinning inside us, when there is a point of stillness inside that cannot be touched by the world and will never be. All the energy that goes into putting up barriers or trying to stop the spin, when all we really need to do is connect an let things go by.
Like the hundreds, almost thousands of people commenting on this blog Joel, I totally and utterly agree! I can see how very hard it is in the beginning to allow ourselves to feel that life as we know it to be might not actually be it. The possibility that there could be another way is actually more than just a possibility, as it’s being practised, lived by so many people including myself. No perfection required of course, but the pressure of getting life ‘right’ just falls away when the realisation sets in that there is simply no expectation. Just be you.
“I would look around at the people presenting the course and those already working as practitioners and what I saw was something within them that was so vital, true, and yet unforced, that I could not but consider that there might be another way.” – Yes Joel, I agree, from the way these people were presenting I had to admit that there was another way to live and I wanted to know how.
Joel what you present here is so true, so often we are told we need to drive, to push our way to a successful life, but in all honesty and truth from experience this leads to exhaustion, a constant feeling of overwhelm or no matter what you do, never being enough – there’s always more. This is an exhausting way to live that constantly has us seeking outside ourselves – and the answers to everything we could possible want or seek in life are not there. The more I don’t try and don’t force – the more simple and joyful life is, I have more energy, vitality and know when to rest, the way I work has changed as has how I interact with other people and how I treat myself – as I know I am more than enough in simply being myself. There is a flow to life that feels so natural and effortless.
Thank you Joel for your story. I can relate to using the normal as a yard stick and then we are all stuck in the ordinary. Yes there is an other way and we deserve better than what we are at .
The treadmill of life seems to be getting faster and faster for some, but it is not until we fall off the treadmill that we will ask ourselves “is there another way” and then discover that is was under our noses all along. Yes, we ALL definitely deserve it, so I would say to the world, don’t accept that the way the majority of society lives at the moment is the ‘normal’ way to live, keep asking the question “is there another way?”, and see the magic unfold.
I was always searching in the knowing there had to be more. I followed a lot of courses in various ‘natural’ therapies and I was never given the gift of choice. As you say Joel; ‘This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me’. It was coming home after all those years (lives) when I first met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Popularity comes at a huge price Joel. It requires our hands over our eyes to not see what is going wrong, fingers in ears to not hear the consequences and hands over mouth to stay silent and not ask the question “could there be another way?”
There are so many things to love about Serge Benhayon, and a major one is that he did not put popularity ahead of asking the question and living its answer for us all to see.
This is powerful Rachel, linking the ‘doing okay” with popularity and the requirement cover our eyes to what is truly going on. It is funny how much we respect people that are down the line, yet so many of us struggle to do this…maybe it’s because of the deal we have done with popularity.
Yes, there is another way to live… and thank God that Serge Benhayon cares enough about humanity to share his knowledge, wisdom, love and livingness with us all so that we too can now choose a different way. We can choose to live our lives connected to ourselves and others, choose to love ourselves and others, and choose to care about ourselves and others rather than living in the misery of separation from all this (ourselves, others and God.)
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found”. So simple and yet it never occurred to me until I met Universal Medicine that I indeed had a choice and as you say Joel it is the most liberating of tools. Thank you.
Before we make a choice we have to have an awareness of the truth. So thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for the Truth, pure and simple. The old saying, “when the pupil is ready the teacher will appear”, was certainly the case for me and I have been celebrating and appreciating this ever since.
Yes Joel there is another way, the way of living by the impulse of the soul which is what Universal Medicine presents
Yes, the Way of the Livingness (to live as your true self, from your inner-heart, impulsed by the soul) is the only true way to go. And the revelation to me was that my Soul never ‘went’ anywhere, it was me who choose to separate, and now it is my choice to re-connect back to Soul and me more of the real me.
Thanks Joel ,there has always been another way and we have only had to look deeper inside to find that something that has been said for thousands of years . The practical ways and refection of living in another way as shared by Serge Benhayon his family and the students of the livingness prove to all without perfection there is definitely another way to live in deeper connection and harmony with one and all. I appreciate this so much have this as a marker to come back to if if get lost , in turmoil and struggle.
“There has to be another way”, I used to say to myself, “why would God go to all that effort just for this?” This was a question I have asked myself from a very early age. A constant sense that even though what was around me was absolutely fine – there must be MORE. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have shown me ‘more’ than I ever possibly, in my wildest imagination, could have conceived. And the more I see, feel and appreciate that the ‘more’ is, and always has been, right there within me and all of us, the more I love living the ‘more’. More please!
ps: In addition to a comment I made a few minutes ago… the reason I knew there must be another way is because I feel as if I have lived it before in past lives. This knowing of another way has been like a constant ache or longing in me and to reconnect to it again has been the greatest joy imaginable. Therefore it is my way, not Serge’s way or Universal Medicine’s way – but a way that belongs to everyone – to ALL of us equally. Just the HUGEST ever thanks to Serge Benhayon for living it in full and once again making available what is known and inside us all so that we too may live it again.
I love what you say here Nicola, your words have expressed how I feel too. Thanks.
I always felt there has to be another way. The greatest blessing and joy of my life has been to discover Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who indeed live and share a truly loving and healthy way of living life that goes against all trends. I too now live that way as do many others and it is spreading!
There will come a point in everyone’s life when they will ask the question “could there be another way?” We are at the forefront of an evolution in consciousness, and thanks to Universal Medicine I found my answer to this question, one that I had been posing for most of my life. For me it was a feeling, a knowing of something that I had known and lived before. All of us have this knowing inside of us, it’s just buried deeply in layers of pain and hurt. I am just beginning to feel my power, and I know that others feel it too, this is the way we will show humanity how to re-connect to the truth, and YES there is 100% another way, and that way is the Way of the Livingness.
Yes Joel, I absolutely agree with you ‘So after years of studying ‘holistic medicine’, the Universal Medicine modalities have been the first that have delivered a truly holistic result, without claiming that they do’. Thank you for sharing.
A great point that you have made here Brendan. We certainly limit ourselves when we compare ourselves with another. There is always going to be those who are doing better than us and those who are worse off. We can easily slip into I’m Ok when in this comparison which stops us from being truly honest with where we are at. For me the bar is now high, in that I know there is the possibility to live gloriously every day. The choices I make and how I live in each moment will determine the quality of how I feel in the next moment. I know that there is always more and a much deeper connection that I can aspire to.
Thanks Joel, There is undoubtedly another way to live.
It was also down to my wife, not so much dragging me, but somehow fooling me into going to my first Universal Medicine course. I will appreciate her for doing this for the rest of my days.
Kev, my husband was much the same as you. Although he had been searching through various new age practices for many years, at first he was reluctant to try another one. However, after attending his first presentation by Serge Benhayon, there was no keeping him away. Like you, he appreciates that I encouraged him to come and never again will he stray from the Ancient Wisdom teachings.
For as long as I can remember, the family would sit around the dinner table at my grandparents place and eat a roast and home grown veggies, where someone would say: “so I wonder what the poor people are doing?” It was said tongue-in-cheek, but with some regard to the fact we were together, healthy and appreciative of the circumstances we lived-in.
The measure though was similar to that of what is written in this blog; to: “….look around me and, as long as my life was like other peoples, my life must be fine.”
Wild arguments would actually erupt at times at the dinner table when one of my family members raised their head and would point-out the inequality she felt in the world, and that no-one was doing anything about it.
There’s no need for defending the current ‘way it is’ in my view; there’s every reason to punch through the membrane over our senses, so we can see what the actual facts are and embrace raising our awareness to it – let’s go above and beyond the current mob mentality that so many of us stick to, as though we do for fear of death. I mean, who or what would die if we walked, talked and lived another more aware way?
Well said Oliver! – that’s brilliant.
For me, Universal Medicine has not only posed the question of whether there could be another way, but supported me both directly and indirectly by encouraging me to drop the criticism from me, of me, as I explore a different way, and providing a living example of how this other way can benefit, not just me, but those around me.
It is such a multi-purpose question, with built in longevity…a real life time guarantee – it’s just up to me to keep asking if there could be another way when I feel myself going into patterns of behaviour that have been with me for a long time.
“through my own choices, I have built a way of living that delivers a level of vitality that is not forced or derived from sugar, caffeine or any other stimulant.”
This applies to me too Joel and with over 900 comments on your amazing blog, I have total confirmation that any reader can feel clearly that there is Another way to Live and Be in this world.
I have said this online on record more than once – I doubt I would be alive today had I not found the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
I have attended workshops, presentations and courses which have given me greater awareness and a deeper understanding about human life and much more. Applying the simple and practical principles has led me to the life I live today, which is truly content.
Amazing blog Joel. The truth about Universal Medicine put so clearly. I think we were all going through what you were going through before we found Serge Benhayon. Thank you for expressing it so beautifully on our behalf.
Another great blog Joel. There are so many people in the student body that have an honesty, a willingness to look deeper at what choices that have been made in the past that have not and do not work in creating a life of harmony. They have a willingness to share their trials and tribulations that support us all to shift the paradigms of our lives into love and truth. And you are one of them, Joel.
Hello Joel, its a big or trendy word “holistic”. I am seeing it put around here and there at the moment as an answer or different approach. But it seems to me that most of the people using it are doing so as a selling point rather than using it truly. As you say Universal Medicine has this approach without having to say it or use it as a selling point. Thanks Joel.
Thanks Raymond, it’s the unexpected fact that the approach is so truly holistic, that still blows me away, things shift and change (for the better) without planning it…beautiful stuff.
That is such a key point Raymond and Joel there is nothing to sell what so ever. Universal Medicine presents deep wisdom with a very practical understanding way with it. The way I have always experienced any work that I have attended with Universal Medicine is that it is totally left up to the individual to attending any courses, or not, and not once have I ever been ‘followed up’ so to speak, to make sure I was coming back. There is absolutely no need for it. What Universal Medicine presents makes so much sense that I know it is truth.
It takes a lot of humility to ask this question Joel. Something most are not willing to even consider yet. It is important to appreciate the fact, that for those who have asked it, we have indeed asked it, and been open to change.
Very true, Joshua, and as Joel shares, Universal Medicine has shown that there is ‘another way’. A way that is loving and beneficial for all who choose to make it their own.
Yes Joshua…it does take a lot of humility to ask the question ”Could there be another way” and it is vitally important that we do appreciate the fact that we have said Yes. After attending many spiritual new age courses, I came across Serge Benhayon presenting in London and I am so appreciative of myself that I made that simple choice to attend as I knew within me there was another way. I, like Joel, knew there was something very different about the workshop to any other course I had been on and from there, there was no turning back.
This is so relevant – ‘For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life. It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not.’ – This is how Universal Medicine has changed my life also, to see that there is another way because what they present they live.
Agree Natalie, this was also so relevant to me and to many people who have discovered the presentations by Serge Benhayon and who were open to the possibility that there is ‘another way’. As Joel says ‘this gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me’. Once one has made the choice, there is no going back, so long as one is willing to accept responsibility for their choices. This can then be life-changing!
Me too Natalie. Me Too!
What a precious gift your wife gave to you, through dragging you out of your comfort zone to take you along to that Sacred Esoteric Healing workshop. Joel I enjoyed reading how you transformed your life since meeting Serge Benhayon.
As of yesterday I moved back in with my parents temporary but what I am experiencing is- if I let it get on top of me – as if I’ve gone into a time warp of ‘how life used to be’. What reading this blog has nudged back into my awareness is that it doesn’t have to be like that anymore. By taking a stop during my day I get to feel whats going on inside my body, and it often relates to how I have been with myself in my actions and thoughts – this is where I am feeling the old ways in which I have been and treated myself while with family. To know that there could be another way to live out of and away from old, negative ways of living by making choices to not repeat those old habits and behaviours is pretty cool. Thank you Joel for the supportive reminder.
“To know that there could be another way to live out of and away from old, negative ways of living by making choices to not repeat those old habits and behaviours is pretty cool”,
Very cool I would say, what an awesome opportunity for you and your family to change old patterns of behaviour and begin to live in a way that is true for you all, well done you.
Awesome Joel – thank you for so simply expressing what we all innately know – there is another way. Thank you to Serge Benhayon for presenting the possibilities of what this looks like and daring to expose that society’s current way of living is far from great.
The simple gift of choice, what an amazing gift we have that we can practice and play with every second of the day for better or worse.
So true kevinmchardy, through Universal Medicine there is now a choice being presented clearly, and we can learn the wisdom of our choices and be ever clearer for the next choice being presented. Amazing.
A simple, but awesome gift. Every moment we find ourselves at a crossroad, a crossroad full of choices… this way or that way… and if we vere off track a little, then we can choose to bring ourselves back, where would be without having the awareness that our choices make such a difference to our journey.
It’s so true Joel, when I connect within I can let go of all the ‘should I do this?’ or ‘will it be OK with someone else if I do this’ and just get on and live life – it was as though I was asking for permission to breath. So, yes there is another way and a much truer way to live life – and it is amazing.
I can relate to what you say here Susan Lee about the shoulds and shouldn’ts and really we just need to give ourselves permission.
So true Natalie and so simple when we let go of making life complicated. We then have more time and space to appreciate ourselves and how far we have come so far in this lifetime. We have moments where we can appreciate our own breath when we stop and listen to our own innate rhythm and wonder at how amazing life is and we are.
I agree Susan and Natalie. We can agonise over should we or shouldn’t we, I have come to a place where I say “just do it”, and learn by it and move on. In other words, yes, just give yourself permission, that to me feels like releasing the restraints that hold me back.
Joel, beautifully put, there is another way and seeing and feeling it has been the way for me to understand that this is indeed true, and slowly over time I’ve made changes in my life which allow me to be more honest, more true and to more deeply connect to myself and those around me. Before coming across Universal Medicine I was a mess, a highly functioning one yes, but a mess none the less and now I have a level of steadiness in me, in how I live and how I am with others that I wouldn’t have believed possible just a few short years ago. And all because as you put it ‘Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question, “Could there be another way?”’ – I too thank God that he did and that you have written this to remind me and us all – thank you.
“what I saw was something within them that was so vital, true, and yet unforced” – they are also very good looking!
Ridiculously so!
Dare I say it, yes it is true, we are becoming more good looking, we are coming back to looking like our true selves, full of joy and vitality and having that sparkle in our eyes and that certain glow, you only have to look at some of the ‘After’ pictures to see that 🙂
I agree sandrahendren.
Those ‘after’ pictures are very strong, even confronting. When I show them to people there is usually silence and a quick changing of subject.
My word, we are looking good.
Spot in Christoph!
If I hadn’t have asked ‘is there another way’ I would not be the person I am today. In fact, it is a question I have to ask myself everyday as there are so many habits and patterns that can be used to get in the way of accepting all that we are.
Vicky, it is about a continual asking of that question. I’m truly thankful that there are many before me who have asked it and through experiencing and seeing their lived way I have been inspired to change mine. And Joel your blog today is a great reminder to appreciate how far I’ve come and also as Vicky adds here to not stop, to keep asking and keep refining. To know there is more love and more expression of that love in the world.
This is perfect Vicky, not resting on our laurels knowing that there is another way, and that there is more we can do to break old habits and patterns of behaviour is nothing short of miraculous. There is ALWAYS more scope for growth and increased awareness if we choose to be honest with ourselves and look at our behaviours.
When I was training as a therapist over 20 years ago now, I was keen to show that I could make a difference to other peoples lives by offering a stop point in their busy schedules to care for themselves, even if it was for only the hour they spent with me. Little did I realise that I was not looking after myself at all. Something did not feel so good! When I became bogged down with the ‘doing’ and ‘being’ for everybody else (my choice at the time), my body presented me with lots of pointers, over several years, that I was wearing myself out to the point of exhaustion. Then the questions started; why is this happening?; there must be another way to live; the search had begun. Then along came the opportunity to attend a presentation by Serge Benhayon. What was being presented just opened up to me (and many, many others) that, yes absolutely, there is another way. So thank you Joel for this inspiring blog.
This is such a common story in the helping professions Marion. People who care to the point to harming their own health. One of the insight I took from some early courses was that it might not be truly caring if I am harming myself in the process.
That is exactly why it is so important for you and all to share their stories as everyone is feeling this ‘search’ on some level – and it is for us to reflect the opportunity for others to connect to what they have been searching for.
Yes exactly Joel, I was one of those practitioners who (seemingly) cared to the point of harming my own health. I was burnt out by the time I was in my late thirties and met Serge Benhayon at that time. Learning how to self-care and its significance and impact on not only my own health, but on the quality and integrity offered within a consultation, was life-changing to say the least. Today at 51 my practice is very very different, and the level of health I enjoy is beyond anything I ever achieved in my youth.
That’s huge Joel. If I look at how many times I have dine things where I have gone above and beyond, gone out of my way, or put myself out to do something for someone or finish something or sort something out – even when I had other things to take care of or was tired – It’s a bit overwhelming actually. And although this may be considered to be a good thing’ or who to be a great friend, or very caring – ultimately I just end up exhausted and resentful for not having taken care of myself. Which is crazy.
I love your blog, Joel. What a sad excuse to look at – or for people doing worse than you, doing it tougher than you, to feel ok. That was also my trick when I felt I, or my life, wasn’t so good. And I was also not aware that my life was not good when I thought I was doing great – drinking a lot, having lots of friends to drink with, partying, being ‘out there’ doing a lot, travelling a lot… What a wake up call a cancer diagnosis was! And seeing Serge Benhayon, and learning about energy and me in Universal Medicine’s presentations and workshops, I am waking up to the real me. And I feel better than ever without any alcohol or stimulants.
Joel, I smiled at your description of being dragged to your first esoteric healing event. You say that what you saw was something in the practitioners that ‘was so vital, true, and yet unforced’. I saw this too, and I also blown away by everyone’s eyes. They were so open, and shiny and bright. I had never seen eyes like that before. In fact I am still blown away by peoples’ eyes every time I walk into a room of Universal Medicine students.
Absolutely true Joel, there is another way and that way being The Way of the Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Like you, before I came to the courses and presentations of Universal Medicine I thought that life was OK. And it was, just OK. I always knew there was more but never knew how to access it. I too am deeply appreciative of what Serge Benhayon shares, simple tools to help us to re connect back to our body and to our being so that we can live our lives from our inner connection, then what becomes most important is the quality of our actions. Life becomes a very different way of ‘being’, opposed to living from the ‘doing’.
Hi Joel, I had locked myself into a ‘life is fine, almost perfect’ mode so much so that I felt trapped in and by it. All I knew, that underneath that ‘I’m fine’ was “actually I’m miserable’ but I didn’t want to admit it. It was only through attending Universal Medicine courses that I understood more about myself and the choices I had been making. There was another way. It was in those courses that I felt completely accepted and loved for just being me – that’s something that’s very precious to me.
The question here ‘Could there be another way?’ is so huge because it offers the opportunity for anyone, a choice to say yes. What a gift of a simple choice to make a change.
Thanks Joel. Its remarkable how many of us know what is and isn’t good for us, this was certainly true for me. But until I heard of Universal Medicine I never really understood why I might not make the healthiest choices or the best decisions, the root cause so to speak that we can then address. The article headline is such an accurate description because it makes sense that we want to understand how to best implement a way of living that allows us to feel optimal, even you could say grand.
I am too quick to forget the blessing that my life is since ‘finding’ Universal Medicine. Living without all the props that used to get me through my days (alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, gossip, shopping and a lot of sugar) I have a relationship with life and humanity now, that is always developing, based on simple purpose as I take responsibility for the part I play in the big picture. When things get clunky I really appreciate having the question ‘Could there be another way?’ in my back pocket. Thank you.
Beautifully expressed Matilda and a great question to have at the ready when things get “clunky”. Thank you
The illusion has a strong hold and is very stimulating to the 5 senses. Breaking the barrier and the hold that is this really needs to be congratulated and celebrated. It’s like pulling the ripcord on a parachute, you get to stop and appreciate the beauty of what is around.
“The gift of simple choices” I feel so blessed that my path led me to attend the presentations by Serge Benhayon/Universal Medicine. What was being presented and observing the Esoteric practitioners it did feel very different indeed, a gentleness and a stillness and the gift of truly listening – this felt so very different to the contrast of the busyness of life and the emptiness that I had experienced. This allowed for the possibility ‘could there be another way’ Beautiful blog Joel thank you.
Joel, it’s amazing how often we know something is not right, and often even have skills which might address it and yet we rumble on, deciding that it’s somehow fine when we know it’s not and then suddenly we meet someone who’s living it, not just talking it and we see that there is indeed another way, and so we start to investigate and we find things change just as you say. The thing I’ve seen reading your piece too, is how those things of relief we find can actually be lethal as often they take us away from the rawness of our discomfort and a real truth we’ve felt where we know things are not fine to settling for a state of feeling better, but actually all we’ve done is many cases is numb ourselves, and leading often to those up and down yo-yo states, rather than an honest feeling of how we are and what we feel.
I am sure it is one of the ultimate acts of love to pop someone’s bubble of pride and ask ‘Could there be another way?’ I am so sure because I know it is what I would want someone to do for me, every time, providing an opportunity for change rather than letting me carry on in the delusion, confusion and pretending.
Spot on Matilda. Why do we get so dogged about repeating patterns that do not work? So often in my life I have seen something not work and what I have chosen to do about it has not been to abandon that strategy, but I have tried harder! Over the years Universal Medicine has offered that question “Could there be another way?” in so many different ways, and has prompted me to observe, feel what is going on and slowly turn my whole life round. I too am convinced that posing this question is one of the ultimate acts of love.
Hi Golnaz, I so relate to what you say about just trying harder when something clearly isn’t working. I assume that what is wrong must be me, and that extra effort will be the solution. Could there be another way….great question.
Popping someone’s bubble of pride to ask “Is there another way?” So true Joel to really want to ask the question and to take the step into unknown territory does require a willingness to pop the bubble of pride that we can so easily walk around in, that our life is fine. While I knew there had to be more to life than what was being presented to me I also carried and arrogance and pride that held me in belief that I didn’t really need to change very much, when in truth there was much about my life that was not true. Without Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon clearly showing that there is another way, I would still be sitting in my bubble of pride that says “I am fine as I am” when in truth I was a long way from being well, healthy and living a vital life.
Serge Benhayon inspires me endlessly.
Asking questions of myself and life like, ‘could there be another way?’ has broken through some of my human pride and allowed me to develop liberating humility.
‘Could there be another way?’ has taken so much of the struggle and striving out of my daily life. Rather than, with furrowed brow, trying to work things out, my willingness to let this question be a part of my life, releases me from so many constraints about getting things right and opens up the opportunity to review and observe things ever more freely. Thank you.
I love this Matilda, letting the question be a part of your life – that’s key and the way for us to change and embrace those changes. Lovely, lovely blog Joel, thank you.
Matilda I echo what you share here. By simply being open to and asking the question “Could there be another way?” it opens up a whole opportunity to see life in a new light. When I think about it, the current way is one of struggle or reaching high, and these ups and downs, especially the struggle are considered normal and something to accept. But what if, as Joel shares here, our current normal is very far from what is true.
‘Could there be another way?’ is a great question to ask, and one I got to also via Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. It’s amazing how we just accept life as it comes to us, not really thinking to change it, or knowing that we can – or even how to! I’m so glad to have found another way – the old way sure wasn’t working.
I’m also glad to have found another way Victoria, and it is so lovely sharing this way with people who have found the old way wasn’t working.
Thank you Joel for sharing your experiences of true brotherhood
I am living “another way” and I feel the healing, the challenge, the support, the reflections, the responsibility, an awareness of what brotherhood truly is and most important the love of self and others. Thanks for sharing, Joel.
I have been searching for another way most of my life. The detours I took in life was not believing in the humdrum daily existence, albeit well relatively comfortable. It was going into spiritual practices and groups believing that they were possibly going to take me somewhere when my heart knew it was not so. The first time I heard Serge Benhayon speak, I felt my heart open up and my head had a difficult time, because it didn’t trust that that I had finally found something true. It took a while, but the heart won out, because the consistency of what was being offered was so loving.
I know that ‘treadmill’ of oughts and shoulds Joel.
Now free of those since discovering the teachings of Universal Medicine.
Serge Benhayon is living proof and a testament to “another way”.
Being open to the possibility of there being another way seems to me to be the only way forward that we have otherwise we are stuck in what is not working and going around and around in circles.
Well said, Elizabeth. Being open to the possibility of another way is being open to healing and evolving.
I too have a life that is not derived from caffeine, sugar and stimulants and what a different that is. I feel so much more stable, steady and less emotional that I would never have anything that would change what I have every moment in my life. Working in a cafe I see it daily how this has an impact on peoples lives, and it is a reminder to myself that I used to be there once too. They are all an addiction and a cycle that needs to be broken.
Is it arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working, or is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“ I feel it’s important to always be open to the possibility that we don’t always know the answers! We may think we do, it may be convenient to convince ourselves that we do, and that would be arrogant. We may still come back to the same conclusion, but ‘When we stop questioning, we stop learning. … And if we’re not growing, we’re dying’.
By me choosing to live another way, one that is based on self responsibility and love for myself and others, has changed my life completely. There is now more consistency and purpose of how I live as I get it now, that it is not just about me, but us as a whole.
Great blog. Joel. ““Could there be another way?”
The answer is undoubtedly YES and the evidence is the thousands of people like me from across the world that have made their own way of living and who are realising more and more that the answers were within us all along… we were just not asking the right question…” I can so relate to this, as I was not asking the right questions on over 25 years of spiritual searching. It feels so great to have ceased the search and know I am coming home, living my way.
Sue indeed I feel that most people in this world feel that something is missing, that there must be something more, another way. Yet very few of us then ask the right questions and take the time to listen to what our body tells us. As you’ve shared thousands of people have changed their lives, I’ve most certainly seen many changes. What comes from Universal Medicine is all the questions that allow me to go deeper within myself. Everything that is presented is a reminder of what I know but have not been choosing to be aware of. For that reason the more I develop the less questions I need to ask outside and the more I am aware of them within me.
Yes there is another way and at this point in time it is called The Way of the Livingness. It presents to honour your body and for me it is a choice to live a very loving, simple life. I love the way I live today and for forever more.
When I came to Universal Medicine I was already a Health Practitioner but despite a health scare of my own, when I had begun to live extremely cleanly, I had gone back to drinking wine and coffee now and again and eating foods that numbed me from the more subtle feelings that could have so supported me and my clients. How life has changed since I have begun to more deeply care for myself even though I have had no specific health reason to nudge me into doing so. The Benhayon family and Universal Medicine practitioners are amazing role models in this regard and continue to support the asking of this question “could there be another way?” Which highlights the choices we live in every moment.
Is there another way, YES there is, one needs to be open and allowing. Since I came across Universal Medicine and their teachings I have had so many miracles in my life. What is shared is how we can deepen our connection to God, and as we keep connecting deeper the miracles keep coming, there is no end.
Hi Joel, this is such a lovely account of the true depth of love you can share with people from choosing to live a simple life. I love what you have shared here and really feel how much Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported you in making those changes. This is a lovely blog you have shared with everyone.
Thanks again Joel for another great blog. I myself was living in a way I defiantely knew was wrong but didn’t know how to change or where to start. Upon discovering Universal Medicine I was shown another way of being that has facilitated transformational change in my life in many ways and continues to do so.
That is a question that has guided my life. I have always looked at any situation or problem and approached it from another direction. As I grew older I noticed that my life was not ok. I changed many things in it, but it did not seem to make any difference. Finally I heard about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. He presented a whole new way of looking at things. To make a true change you need feel deeper to what energy is being used. Change the energy and you can truly make a change.
I love reading this blog Joel. It can be very confusing living in a world where ‘normal’ is so far from healthy it is not even funny. It’s definitely time that this question – ‘Could there be another way’ gets asked, again and again until we as a humanity get back to true wellbeing and vitality and LOVE for each and every person. This may sound like a pipe dream – but one I’m working towards!
The fact that it might sound like a pipe dream simply reflects how far from the truth of Love humanity has strayed. I’m with you on this Amelia – and I know it is possible for every single one of us to reconnect to the loving essence that we are from.
For me what highlights this blog is in the first words ” caring enough to ask”.
Yes I agree Gyl, those three words say a lot. Serge Benhayon as said many times has cared enough to ask them and show us there is another way and this has revolutionised my whole experience and understanding of love.
Thanks Gyl, I agree…there is something very special about putting aside being worried about what others might think and challenge the very foundation of how life is perceived. Serge Benhayon has certainly done this with some incredible results.
This is a particularly powerful part of Serge’s wisdom… not just being able to point people in the right direction, but having the guts to point out that we are looking a little lost (even if we confidently marching down the wrong road!).
Joel you are right: There is ‘holistic’ and there is ‘Wholistic’ – with a background as a natural medicine health care practitioner, I too can relate to the fact that true holism was presented to me by Universal Medicine. As a health care practitioner, it is easy to lose oneself in the care of others, whilst losing vitality and depleting oneself in the process – not a very holistic approach indeed. Through Universal Medicine workshops, courses and healings I have learned about true care (including self-care), nurturing (including self-nurturing) and have been able to walk my talk and this certainly lends far more credibility to what I present to my clients, not to mention how much my own life has changed in beautiful ways – holistic indeed! What is interesting is that I thought that what I was living and practicing was holistic, but it was not till I encountered Universal Medicine that I really ‘got’ that the holism that we are taught in society is but a mere shadow of the holism that we are all capable of expanding to, as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – and for this I am forever in appreciation!
Beautiful blog Joel. I had also studied holistic medicine and had gained a lot of knowledge and considered that my life was ‘fine’. But I was still filled with a restlessness and dissatisfaction as I innately knew that there had to be more to life. I attended a discourse and the words I heard felt so deeply true and familiar that i knew instantly that what I was hearing was what I had always been seeking. The Esoteric Teachings presented by Serge Benhayon are forever deepening my connection to God and soul and I now know with certainty that there is indeed another way.
Thank you Joel for exactly describing how I came along to Universal Medicine, virtually kicking and screaming. Once I met Serge Benhayon, it changed everything about my life in such a positive way that I would need a book to describe how amazing my life is now.
What you write makes sense and I can definitely relate. My partner at the time too pulled me along and once I experienced Universal Medicine I was astounded at what I had been missing and settling for all the years before.
I could feel the same you are just sharing Joel. I had felt all my life as if I was driven by an outer force – not by me. Simply because I had never stopped to feel what was really going on. Through the reflection of the teachings of Serge Benhayon I got reflected for the first time what I had missed. Why I was able before to ignore the fact something here was completely out of order was the fact that everyone else was caught in the game of stimulation, numbing and checking out. What a lovely return is offered here…!
Thanks Joel for sharing that there is another way, and that we can always go deeper in our inner journey .
Yes, it is an endless journey, and one we can continue to go deeper and deeper with. Taking the blessing of what we have dis-covered, or should I say re-dis-covered, from the teachings of Universal Medicine, out into the world, can be a joy that everyone can feel, and this is the blessing.
An amazing blog, Joel. That simple question, “could there be another way?” has had a ripple effect that has completely changed my life for the better in so many ways that it is almost unrecognisable if you compared it to the way lived a few years ago. The aspect that comes to mind is: consistency. Gone are the ups and downs of life that used to bring dizzying highs followed by crushing lows. They have been replaced with a consistent developing of my relationship with myself, people and the world, and an ever growing awareness of life.
I can very well relate to this Naren, seeing this other way to live and choosing to take responsibility has brought changes to my life that I would never have deemed possible.
You have expressed this beautifully Noel. Thanks to Universal Medicine, I too felt relieved and amazed to find that there was another way to live my life. And as you say ‘This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me’
Well said – Universal Medicine confirmed what I already felt. That something wasn’t right in the world.
Now I have an opportunity to see things differently and to live in way that is much more me.
And be a reflection to other people who might also think not everything is OK.
So caring enough to ask if there is another way, is actually caring about humanity as it stands.
I love what you have brought to light here Joel. Standing up and saying that what is commonly accepted isn’t working, takes courage and strong self belief because, even though people may not be happy with the way life is, challenging the accepted norm doesn’t tend to win you popularity points.
Crazy huh? That we can defend a way of being and an accepted ‘norm’ that is harming to our bodies and creates no joy in life in preference to considering the personal responsibility needed to investigate and pursue another way of being.
This brings into the open our tendency and willingness to stay in the quagmire of the familiar rather than choose to review and make changes that, whilst contra to habit and the majority, set a truly sustainable, connected and evolving foundation. True madness: would we really rather stay in the dark just because that is where we have been for so long, rather than step outside, blinking at first, into the sunshine?
I agree Matilda, I know I can resist change because I get used to the way things are and worry about what that change will bring to the comfortable way I have set things up. But there is no doubt, when I have cared enough to ask myself ‘is there another way?’ and then been inspired to try another way, I have always grown from it. The teachings of Universal Medicine have inspired me to start embracing life. I love the image of stepping out into the sunshine rather than staying in the dark.
I guess asking ‘is there another way?’ Is very uncomfortable for so many of us, as we would potentially have to admit that maybe we have it all wrong…
But is that so scary? And surely its worth looking at if there is another way that can bring the changes Joel describes here.
Beautiful Joel! And I so agree with you that when we “stop the spin of the world from spinning inside” us, it is a gift , such a gift based so simply on our choices. Thank you for this reminder – so timely for me today.
When I just read your comment Henrietta I felt instantly the tendency in me to spin. Thank you for the reminder to not choose to go around and around with the spin on automatic pilot.
Thank you Henrietta and Sandra, the trick for me is to not be hard on myself and try to stop the spin in my head all at once, and realising that it’s going to take time for the momentum of the spin to slow down, increment by increment. Slowly but surely wins the race, it’s a moment to moment choice and I appreciate having the awareness to make that choice.
I love your blog entries Joel and this one is no different. I too was stuck in the treadmill of thinking life was fine, resigning myself to the idea that this was as good as life could get, then I also met Serge Benhayon and my life has only become richer and more fulfilling from that point onwards.
I too experienced that there was another way when I attended a Universal Medicine Presentation, but strangely enough everything that was presented there was confirming everything that was inside me screaming to come out. Everything that was presented simply made sense. I had been wanting for so long to start looking after myself, to get to bed early and start having quality sleep again. But it wasnt until I attended a Universal medicine presentation that I realised that it is okay to make a self-loving choice and put myself first for once. This was truly a miracle for me and one that I thank myself for everyday.
It seems so simple but for many it is a miracle. Not because the tasks or changes are small but for what they represent.
I agree Luke – I am finding it is simply an awareness.
Yes it’s true Harry, we DO know it inside already, and everything that has happened to me since Universal Medicine could be deemed a miracle, and for me the Universal Medicine teachings are a natural, normal way to live and one what we will all come back to, because it is who we truly are. I am no longer screaming on the inside for truth, and it looks like you’re not too, and hurrah for that!
Harry, I love the way you have expressed how you came to honour yourself and your self loving choice and especially the words “This was truly a miracle for me and one that I thank myself for everyday.”
Harry, I love this, the fact that while you knew there was another way, when it was presented, it was totally familiar and aligned with what you already knew inside… ditto for me.
Thanks Harry – there are many of us that consider our life turnarounds a miracle, myself included. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine helped me make sense of myself and a life that I had given up – THAT brought understanding and true healing.
At many points in my life – even when I was ” doing great” I had inside of me felt the knowing that ” there must be more”. Where is it? Can I find it somehow. When I first heard Serge Benhayon speak I had actually already been through a big transformation. I had lost a lot of weight, was doing Yoga living in Byron Bay. Swimming and surfing and eating reasonably well. But still inside I felt like there was something more.
I heard Serge on an Audio presentation in a mates car on a trip to play music together.
And what I heard was someone asking all the questions that I had been asking inside for many years and saying ” Hey, what about this – give this a try for yourself and see if it works”.
Its been 5 years or so now that Ive been giving this a try.
Im so glad i asked the questions. There is another way.
Simon it’s incredible how many people feel “there must be more” yet as you found no matter what activity and thing I tried and did, nothing would take away that feeling. I used to get irritated that I felt that – now I am deeply grateful as the louder the “there must be more” got the greater the will for something true. With the presentations of Serge Benhayon I certainly found truth – a truth I felt I was being reminded of again, a truth that I felt deep inside. As you say there is another way.
I could never fathom what life was all about. l knew I was missing something, and often felt an outsider as most people I knew seemed not to feel that. Like most of the comments I looked at lots of other ways, but all I found was more people like me, looking for what they had lost. Some thought they had found it in new age stuff, but while I played around with it that never felt real. Then I went to a talk given by Serge Benhayon and every bone in my body told me that what was lost was found. It was in me all the time, all I needed to do was listen, and I could begin to live another way.
Joel, great personal story. It is easy to see around us everyone resigning themselves to ‘this is as good as it gets’ but deep down knowing there is more. How wonderful that you, like many of us and I am sure many more in the future, have discovered there is another way to be in our everyday lives that then brings a new meaning and depth that it is to be felt to be believed. I am forever appreciative of the teachings of Universal Medicine.
There does appear to be a deep sadness in the world, I felt that deep sadness myself, knowing that there must be more and not knowing where to find it, but I didn’t give up my search, and finally I discovered Universal Medicine and its teachings. What a gift to humanity and the answer to my prayers. Yes there definitely is another way to live, and I can wholly endorse Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, as it is not just empty words on a page, but a lived experience and one that can be felt by all if they so choose it.
You are so spot on Sandra how everyone in the world is in deep sadness – Like I was until I was introduced to Universal Medicine teachings and yes an absolute gift that I am thankful for daily. The fact that Universal Medicine really does offer an insight to a way of living, that it brings Joy to my life is a miracle… There is no tricks or spells cast it is all down to simple loving choices that support you to be all that you are. Such a blessing.
This is so true Joel… it is the ultimate expression of love to have someone care (love) enough TO pose the possibility that we’ve got it all wrong and are living so much less than is our potential. Without true love (which is equally for all), why would Serge Benhayon care about the way anybody else is living. He could just continue to enjoy his loving family life, and prosperous working life, and not worry about the rest of humanity. It does re-write what we know love to be though, he has certainly taught me that. My own version prior to this was very limiting and self-centred. He has shown that true love is far from this… and cannot but feel what is going on for others, and care enough to offer another way.
Beautifully put Jenny. What you have stated Serge Benhayon offers – and my experience has been the same – is the foundation of true charity: true care for others unmotivated by an ounce of self-gain, a simple expansion of love, but one most of us never get to. True charity arises from true love.
Beautifully put Jenny and Victoria, Serge Benhayon offers us true care without an ounce of self gain, and yet he has it all. And he has presented to us that we can have it all too, without exception, true love is for everyone as everyone IS true love, equally so. Together Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the Students of the Way of the Livingness are re-writing history, the time has come for us all to claim the love that we truly are and that it is attainable for everyone, all it takes is a choice and an openness to consider that there may be another way to live, without the hardship and struggle, and that it is possible to halt the path of destruction that the human race seems to be going down, by coming back to Love.
I keep coming back to the power of this question which, as with many questions, provides us with the opportunity to stop for a moment and consider where we are at, the choices we are making and the lives we are creating for ourselves. These points of reflection are super important and powerful if we are not going to let ourselves simply be buffeted about by life.
I agree Joel that one of the remarkable things about Serge Benhayon is the way that he has never shied away from asking some uncomfortable questions about how we are living. This is not a great business model in terms of popularity or wide spread appeal but it is a model with great integrity because it puts people, and a love for humanity above all self -interest and self-gain.
My life was ‘fine’ too Joel. A bit of a stiff neck every so often was fine, a few arguments here and there with my partner was fine, a consistent rash on my back was also ‘fine’. But one day, after a lifetime of a persistent feeling there is more, I decided to try the different way you speak of. And I haven’t looked back 🙂
Another beautifully expressed blog Joel, and ‘we were just not asking the right question’ hit the spot. I wonder when I get stuck in something if I can pose that to myself of the situation,’ am I asking myself the right question’?
Like Joel I have a vitality today I could never have dreamed of 10 years ago. My blood sugar is balanced and typically I never have an afternoon low. I rise early every day. I am engaged and enthusiastic about my work. All of this thanks to the work of Universal Medicine and my choices to support and develop care for myself.
My life is fuller and ‘busier’ than ever before and I can feel that as I develop there will be space for more. I reflect back not so long ago when I thought I was busy and I lived with an anxiousness and nervous excitement/drive that is exhausting even to recall. Today I am appreciating the power of remembering how I was and considering the multitude of remarkable changes that have taken place in my life since I first started working with Universal Medicine; totally undeniably transformative and miraculous. In the full on ness and intensity of life, which I feel is heightening, I get steadier more consistent, and more aware, apparently contra to what is going on around me. Thank you, Joel for sharing your reflections and change as inspiration and confirmation that Universal Medicine offers us a way out of chaos and struggle.
I can relate Joel to your initial appraisal about your relationship as functional but not deeply caring. It is truly liberating to deepen the care and love I have for my body past a functional relationship and see this also reflected in my relationships with others.
Love this Joel. Could there be another way? If the way everyone is living can be another way – as we know from personal experience it can, and with great joy – then why do people accept less than this as normal? This will definitely be more widely felt by everyone and become the ‘normal’ question not too far in the future eventually becoming a reality that will become a question that the majority of all people will ask and then we can all live in – another way.
Joel, I appreciate more than anything your straight forward sharing of your experience, as is expressed, the issue I experience is just how much people are pretending that ‘they are’ and ‘everything’ is okay, when clearly ‘they are’ and ‘everything’ is not okay.
Gail I agree with what you are saying. It is a sad reflection on how we live when we use the level of sickness in society as a marker for how we live rather than the level of joy that it is possible to feel. In fact this form of comparison which is so prevalent in the western world today is such an avoidance tactic as it stops us being responsible for our choices that we are making daily and takes us further away from our true way of being. Joel, I am so appreciative to have had the opportunity to find out that there is another way to be in life and this is an ever unfolding journey for me!
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found.” I agree. Even what seems the most arduous or difficult task, moment or time can be changed by a simple choice.
Joel. There is another way, changing from what we were. Coming home to Universal Medicine, and words of Serge Benhayon.
Isn’t it amazing how we compare ourselves with someone who is not sick either. Why have we learnt to use sickness as the marker/comparison. Why are we not using true health and vitality, strong true relationships, consistent steady behaviour as our markers.
Maybe because it is so rare, that we assume this is the way society is. It just happens to us and everyone around us. When will we actually stop and look honestly at the mess we are all in.
I too have a vitality that is not derived from artificial stimulants – one by one I start to let go of them. But really it was the way I was choosing to do things that supported me to see that it was draining my energy. Once I looked at that and made a change to the way I went about things this is what Universal Medicine has supported me to have a better understanding of and in turn I have a higher level of vitality.
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found.” ‘Liberating’ is a great word to use. Because in my case it had to come from me and it was me who could choose or not choose, I found and find this ‘tool’ to be an absolute gift, it does not involve anyone else telling me what to do or how to do it. I had such a major issue with trust, any change in my life had come from me. I felt the difference, my choice – simple.
I love what you have shared here Samantha, it has brought me the understanding of the issue of trust and changes in life needing to come from oneself to learn about trust and responsibility
Several years ago I arrived at my first Universal Medicine Workshop, full of arrogance and pride because of what I thought I knew. Right from day one all I heard was could there be another way? I could hear the Truth reflected back by this, lovingly expressed, but not holding back any punches either. My life has turned right round as a result, wonderfully so. You ask: “Is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“ I would unequivocally say YES.
It’s lovely to hear you express this Joel. It’s so akin to what I’ve experienced. Before my association with Universal Medicine I was overweight and if current trends were to continue, set to gain a lot more. I was recluse, given up and the greatest joy in my day was gorging chocolate or watching a show/movie as a reward for getting through the day. Since simply attending and being open to the philosophies presented by Universal Medicine I lost weight without an ounce of trying or focus, left my unhealthy eating habits behind and now have a life entirely dedicated to giving back to my surrounding community which leaves me feeling full and content at the end of the day.
..thats one part of this “other way”, to share what was given to us. Wonderful Heidi!
Thank you Joel. I feel like shouting out your final line “Could there be another way? Yes!” Just look at me now compared to ten years ago, even five or two years ago – look at photos, belongings, bank accounts, cars. Now look into my eyes, feel the quality that I live in. There is another way, there certainly is. And the evidence is right here.
I replaced “I wish there was another way” with “Could there be another way?” and now can say fully, with joy in my heart – “There is another way”. Thank you Serge Benhayon.
You mention thousands of people from across the world that are realising more and more that the answers were within us all along… we were just not asking the right question… This is true, I am certainly finding that and “Could there be another way?” is a poignant, loving and expansive question. There is always more evolving to do, greater awareness to open up to and deeper love to embrace – that question is always worth asking.
The Way of Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon & Universal Medicine is just that “The Way of the Livingness” ~ the way we ourselves choose to live. It’s not something that has been or is forced upon anyone, far from it. We have been presented with the truth, that we have a choice and we are responsible for those choices and that we are love and we are all love equally so.
“For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life. It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not.”
We are so used to being on this treadmill of the should do and should not do’s, it seems impossible to most people that there could in fact be another way. A way that brings it back to you, your life, your choices, your responsibility. It may be easier to stay on the treadmill of an existence which compares itself to others and calibrates well being to the status quo, but as the stats show, we are getting sicker.
What I can see in hindsight is how I was satisfied with crumbs (to keep the analogy of a pie) in life, in my relationships, in my work. In short, mostly I was selling out to get some love and recognition. This has changed tremendously, because I asked myself the question’ could there be another way’ and acted on it. So this new standard requires more questioning, more simplicity, more chipping away of the complications that hold me back. The question ‘can there be another way’ still goes, it hits deeper layers of my patterns and behaviors that can be addressed and changed for everyone to benefit from.
Hi Joel, I can relate to having a belief that this is as good as it gets and that everyone was on the same merry go round – until I attended presentations with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. What has been revealed to me is that there is a totally different way to live and the simpler the better.
Joel this summed it up for me beautifully. “This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me. ” I too had this feeling until I made the choice to go to a Universal Medicine retreat and realised that ” Yes, there is another way.” The best choice I have truly ever made for me.
Joel you are a master of stating the obvious with simplicity and grace in a world where the obvious is denied, buried and at times reviled. I love the way you write. Thanks for sharing this unfoldment.
When we get reflected back to us our true essence by someone else who is living their essence we see that there is another more loving way to live and get inspired to make different choices so as to be able to live in this joy and harmony 24/7. This is why true role models are so important and why I have been inspired by many who are associated with Universal Medicine.
Do we CARE enough to ask? What are we caring for and who? Is it for others before ourselves, or ourselves totally before others? These are the two opposites that most of us live with. If we are in either of those states then we are not able to make a simple choice as the ingrained behavioural consciousness of self interest first is so strong. However, the moment we realise that we are worth caring for in every action of every day, the world opens up to us and we naturally begin to care for everyone equally. In this moment the choices are simple and we are living another way.
“Caring enough to Ask Is there another way?”, is a profound question to ask Joel, there has to be something in us that wants to question life and seek another way.. My question before I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon was, ‘there has to be more to life than this?’ This was the burning question that would pop up at certain times in my life, but each time I asked that question, like you, I looked around and saw nothing that showed me anything that was greater than what I already had. Through Universal Medicine I now know there is an amazing life to be had and my life long quest has been quelled. I am learning to live my life by making more loving and caring choices that are no longer just about me but about everyone and everything and this has opened up my world to so many new and enjoyable possibilities.
I totally relate to feeling this way prior to attending Universal Medicine presentations, Alison, that ‘there has to be more to life than this?’ but not finding an answer despite all my searchings. My life has now been transformed and has a purpose because it is wider than my previous limited horizon and so much more fulfilling.
After we get introduced to the concept that our lives may not be as great as we think they are – it comes as a shock when we come to the conclusion that they are certainly not. It’s just that we have never really thought about it before. Deciding what was wrong with my life, in conjunction with hearing Serge Benhayon’s presentations on ‘could there be another way’, led me to a much more pleasant and peaceful way of life, especially with regard to curbing my emotions and living in stress.
It’s inevitable that our acceptance of what is normal slips if we are to use ‘how everyone else is going’ as a gauge of what’s considered ok or par for the course. I love the way you clocked others looking so vital, true, and yet unforced, that it inspired you to consider that there might be another way. What is different is that it was not any sales or promotion speak that was trying to convince you, but the natural vitality and gentle way that was the living inspiration.
I have been feeling how this new normal of my way of being is so supportive to my life now. Lots of people are realising too, yes, there is another way to be.
” Reading this blog I can feel how deeply caring it is to ask that question “Could there be another way”. The only way you can ask that question is to have felt what life is all about and to have then concluded that maybe, just maybe there is another way.
Serge Benhayon has presented that there could be another way and that the current ‘only way’ would have us believe that it is actually a million different ways when actually it is all the same. This came to mind as you shared of others being ‘worse off’ or having a ‘harder way’ in comparison to oneself but as I have learnt from Universal Medicine stress and tension is still stress and tension regardless of the trigger within each person, hard times are still hard times and unease is still unease, it’s just our individual experiences of what causes such is different. What Universal Medicine has shown me is that regardless of how our ‘way of life’ may look on the outside there is a quality control behind all of it that can be felt as love or not love if we but choose to allow ourselves to feel that there is another way, often meaning we have to feel that the more dominant way has not been the true way or in the true quality. A humble pie I am continuing to work through, sometimes freeze and leave for a while but I keep coming back to eat more.
Love the humble pie analogy, great to be able to freeze then eat some more – after a bit o thawing out or cooking – love it and part of my journey too.
Yes Joel literally thousands of people have made simple yet profound changes to their lives. It is so awesome to be part of the new normal which is to be inspired that there is so much more to life than I could have ever imagined before I came across universal medicine.
So true Vanessa, now there is a new normal for many and I am inspired by others who are living their lives from the simplicity of self-loving choices and energetic responsibility.
We can so easily get so caught up in the merry-go-around of life that we forget that there is more to life than just getting by. Maslow the psychologist believed that every human being had an innate wanting to continually evolve and develop. He also knew that this would not be possible if we were not living in ways to support ourselves in this evolution. Thanks to the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, who has indeed shown there is another way, where vitality and joy can exist on a daily basis and not just on a “happy occasion”. All of this providing the foundation to continually evolve and develop in ourselves and in our relationships. Great article Joel than you for sharing all of this so simply.
Through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have learnt that I also have a choice and I am directly at the controls of the direction in which my life goes instead of being at the mercy of it.
Yes Kevin, it is a big eye opener when we realise we are at the controls and not at the mercy of life. That can feel impossible when stuck in a whirlpool, often known as life’s challenges but when the question arises, ‘could there be another way?’ the answer many of us have discovered is ‘yes’, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
If we simply allow ourselves the grace to ask the question, ‘Could there be another way?’ we can start an honest review, without judgement, of where we are at, as individuals and as humanity, and in so doing start to break down the invisible fortresses behind which we pretend, and struggle, through life.
I too love that question “Could there be another way?” and I feel so privileged to have been given the opportunity to ponder on it as a result of the presentations I have heard from Serge Benhayon. I am so grateful that I was able to find such a great answer this way; through love and truth.
‘ the answers were within us all along… we were just not asking the right question…’ How true, Joel, we avoid asking the right question and live our lives in the illusion that we are doing okay because there are others worse off. How great to see the truth of what is happening and, even better, to be able to choose ‘another way’.
We have to choose the way before we can walk it.
Yes, it’s crazy isn’t it – because others are worse off, we think we are doing okay. There most certainly is another way, if we so choose.
I agree Natalie, no chosen people, no special religion, everyone this way within them. It is our birthright no matter what our creed. We all come from One.
A great contemplation and a definite answer yes there is another way to live and i know this for myself from the inspiration and reflection of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and I have changed my life and the responsibility I feel from this lovingly.
I love that question “Could there be another way” and I feel the answer is yes. I have certainly been presented with the truth to make my choice to live or not by Universal Medicine. I also love the simplicity by which they share and we can live, to make self-loving and loving choices from our body and not our head.
While I read this blog again it came to me, that to be able to ask the question “could there be Another Way?” is quite a privilege. So many people on this world are ‘busy’ with survival because they life in war zone, in a violent or impoverished region. All that they can think about is how to survive this day while I ask myself what to wear or how to deal with my difficult colleague. All I want to say is that, in my life is space to ask myself questions like “could there be Another Way?” – and with that space comes a responsibility to do so. It’s not OK to live a functional life – if it could be loving, harmonious, beautiful and joyful every minute. I feel that I am asked to be more, express more than just what is comfortable so far. And I am sure we all know that there is an other way, a harmonious, loving way to live life with ourselves and others. So I love how you put the question Joel: Are we caring enough to ask? Because we have the space, the privilege and the responsibility to ask for an other way – are we caring enough to to do so? Your blog inspired me again to deepen my relationship with this question every day: is there another way? Can I express more loving here? Can I be more open with this human being? How can I bring more harmony into life and into the world?
Fantastic response Sandra. It is amazing in itself to have, as you say, the privilege to ask ourself this question. Space and time are always important qualities and they are necessities which we can make for ourselves should we choose to. When, and if, we do, I have found that great light is shed on many of the issues that I sometimes think I face…and without much thought at all “another way” presents itself…and I know just what to do and just how to be.
I agree with Sandra and Jenny, the issues we face are mostly about how we can live our lives, while others face issues of how they can stay alive. Perhaps when the privileged ones see, and practice, that the way they live influences the way everyone lives, all humanity will have the space to choose.
That is so true, some are so busy that they don’t even have a moment to stop and consider if there is another way.
Great questions Sandra… Can I express more loving here? Yes, Always. Can I be more open with this human being? Yes, absoutely . How can I bring more harmony into my life and into the world? Continue to deepen and expand my self love/self care and my awareness in everything I do. Is there another way? Yes, there is Always a new choice to make; making one new choice can lead to other new choices which can lead to many areas of your life changing for the better.
Great questions Sandra… Can I express more loving here? Yes, Always. Can I be more open with this human being? Yes, absoutley. How can I bring more harmony into life and into the world? Continue to deepen my self love/self care in order to expand my awareness of love. Is there another way? Yes, Always. There is Always a new choice to make, which can lead to many other new choices which can lead to your life being completely transformed… which in my case, has been my experience.
Beautifully said Sandra. I totally agree that if we have the space to ask ourselves if there could be another way – then we should do so – for it only takes one to look around and read the paper to see the mess humanity is in. There is a lot more to just surviving every day.
So true. There is much more than surviving waiting for us. And the funny thing is, we are all searching for MORE, looking for a meaningful life. But the question is: what are we willing to do for it? Am I really going for the “meaning” -so to say- am I open for it? And if the “meaning” is knocking on my door, do I say “YES, come in please and change my life”?
Absolutely Sandra – when we ask if there is something more, most of the time it is ‘something better’ – I know I used to be that way! But now I also understand how I am just one tiny little piece of a much bigger picture – and thinking to better myself won’t get me any where. It should be about the all.
..and a clear Yes to choose that way.
Thanks Sandra,
I have read and commented on Joel’s amazing blog in the past but was drawn back here for some reason and I know now that it was to read your powerful addition in this comment. I know it has exposed for me in the indulgence I go into.. having the space and knowing what I do know but not actioning it in full. Thank you very much this is a gem I will take with me now and always.
I agree Sandra and Sarah , your comments have inspired me to look more carefully at where I use comfort to sit back and do nothing.
And thank you Sara! It’s a real gam to have each other. Everyone in her/his own expression of truth – inspiring the other.
Your observations really made me sit back and take stock of myself and the privileged culture in which I live. We are not stacked against insurmountable events that challenge our survival.. We have the “luxury” of being able to pause and reflect on life and our state of being within that. You have reminded me Sandra that it is not just a luxury, but a responsibility to do so, and to make these lives the expression of truth, not just a nestling into the comfort that makes us fall into a deep moral and ethical sleep when there is so much in life that is not right and not true.
Yes, love what you have written here Sandra. I am in the position to ask this question and have had the luxury of asking it from the time I started questioning what was being presented to me as how life should look. So I agree it is my responsibility to act on this not merely for my benefit but as a way forward in every area of life and in relationship with self and all others. There can be a forever deepening of harmony and love and joy. There can always be more to care about and yes Rachel, ‘ …YES there is another way. ‘
Great comment Sandra. Compared to a lot of people we do have a lot of privilege and space and I totally agree that for those of us who can, it is definitely our responsibility to ask the question of, “could there be another way”.
Sandra, I love how you have shown how ‘could there another way’ isn’t simply a question to be asked and answered once, for if that is what we do, if we just say, ‘yes, and I have found it’, we in fact continue to live in that lesser functional way. You have shown how the question is in fact to be part of our daily lives, it is to be lived.
“So vital, true, and yet unforced”…..when you wrote that Joel about UM Practitioners, I was like YES! That is so true. I adore that about them and find it so inspirational because there is NOTHING about them that is forcing you to do it their way so when you are in their company, you simply just feel their vitality and truth and then are free to choose next as to what you do with that. I am choosing more and more to be deeply inspired and live my life in a way that is unforced – which is quite a change from my past – let me tell you! But that’s for its own blog I feel 🙂
Well said Sarah, this life we are free and there is no forcing, Universal Medicine is absolutely life changing.
Completely agree Mary
“For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life. It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not.” I too learned about this on attending Universal Medicine presentations. It is a whole new way of looking at life; seeing the bigger picture, not just the small part I play, which had been all about me – and a bit of ‘do-gooding’ along the way. “Could there be another way?” Most definitely yes, as many students can now testify.
Joel. There is always another way, to coming home to who we really are. It may take sometime to realise, but we will know when it has arrived. I found this out by attending Universal Medicine retreats, and listening to Serge Benhayon.
You have described the freedom so many people wish for, Joel. When we talk about freedom in relation to the way of living you describe as “fine”, there is the desire to escape from it when things get too bad, or fight for our rights by rebelling and overturning the oppressor, and so on. However, this is never freedom, only another version of the same way if life. But if, as you say, we start to live another way as in “this gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me.” Then that is true freedom.
That says it all for me Joan, and reverses escape from a life that is merely ok to welcoming one that is full of Love, Light and Joy.
Awesome Joan, I love this line too. I have found re-connecting to my essence and making loving choices that support my body a simple yet profound way to stop the spin of the world from being inside me. It is now easier to observe what is going on around me and accept what I feel and see. I have much appreciation for Universal Medicine’s presentations that gave me the tools to begin choosing love and how to observe and not absorb the emotions & “spin” around me.
This is great learning indeed; what a freedom from becoming attached emotionally to everything that is going on around us, and mentally to everything we read and see. The foundation of being present in our bodies, and the developing or our senses and sixth sense, and finding the love for ourselves and others within our core, allows us to choose to step back and observe. This feels like mastery. It is an ongoing process but Serge Benhayon has shown us the way.
You’re right Mary, something does resonate deeply inside as being different with what Serge says, even when I don’t have the clarity to understand it sometimes. I can feel it to be true, and it always offers a choice that there is a another way to be.
Joel I really like your comment “..I knew that something about the workshop was different but couldn’t put my finger on what it was.” My experience when first listening to Serge Benhayon from a friends CD was just like that. I didn’t know what it was about his voice, I just loved listening to it. I am still listening, and have been attending presentations a few years on. How grateful am I to Serge Benhayon for waking something deep within me and that I now know is deep within us all.
The ‘other way’ you so beautifully put it Joel is so simple… Self love. It’s just are we ready to step on the escalator of love?
When I first joined a workshop I felt immidiately that what Serge Benhayon is presenting is the truth I was always looking for. There was no hook, just simplicitiy and honesty. And the honesty brings responsibility and responsibility is painful because you have to accept all your choices and their outcome. But you can´t change the facts in avoiding the responsibility- so YES there is another way- you just need to take responsibility and choose it.
Yes, simplicity and honesty. As simple as it gets.
The phrase you said, ‘there must be another way’ rings true. I’m sure at some stage we have all said that. It is the elusive simple way, but we tend to look for the complicated, evidence based, tried and tested somewhere else way, for the solution, when it is just waiting within us…
Joel what you share with us here is so relevant to everyday life. As you say ‘It is arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working, or is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples bubble of pride and ask, Could there be another way ? I certainly believed I had a ‘healthy diet’ according to my ideals, yet the sugar highs and lows and the need for caffeine and stimulants along with excessive fitness regimes that were exhausting me, yet would never truly consider listening to my body nor feeling what to eat or feel that I may be tired so rest instead of exercise. In fact, I was measuring myself with others to see how they were doing and really I was so lost. Universal Medicine presentations offered me another way to be with life which felt like common sense, to be re-connected to myself and knowing that the answers lie within is a true freedom.
‘Is it arrogance to suggest that the way we currently live is not working, or is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride and ask, “Could there be another way?“’
It is certainly not arrogance, Joel: for if we know another way, it is a natural expression of love to share this with those around us, even if that just means living it in full so that they can see the ‘other way’ being lived.
My experience with being inspired to live this ‘another way’ which I have seen so gracefully lived by Serge Benhayon and others is that I am healthier, have a better ‘grasp’ on life, and I truly enjoy far more of my every passing moments in my life now, than I did in the life I was ‘stuck in’ before.
I too live in great appreciation for Serge Benhayon who has taught me how to introduce true joy into my life.
Thank You Joel, yes it is the massive momentum of society’s DNRB syndrome (‘do not rock the boat’) that is called to account here, and Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have and will continue to provide, with clarity and accessibility, an alternative paradigm of how humanity can live in harmony, both with themselves and each other.
It an interesting thing when as practitioners we consider there is a before the before and after. That we get a bit better and because that is better than someone else we don’t delve too much deeper.
It’s very true Joel what you write about Universal Medicine – there’s a physical vitality and inner vibrancy that unmistakable. I remember my first workshop at Universal Medicine, what stood out to me were the attendees, especially the women, they just radiated. I felt that they had been truly supported and their lives were reflecting this. To me this was all the advertising I needed to continue pursing Serge Benhayon’s presentations.
I agree Melinda, I have noticed that many who are associated with Universal Medicine present an inner beauty that is unmistakable from day one.
That was an amazing blog Joel. There is definitely another way, we all have that in front of us. It is just a matter of choices.
Thanks Joel, it’s amazing how we can be so educated and know technically how to ‘live a healthy life’, but can be missing one vital key to the whole picture – and that is to care enough to want to look after ourselves to the level that will actually bring us true health and wellbeing. Crazy but true.
Thank you Joel beautiful to read .The way we live in the world does not feel right and I am sure we all feel this in our own different ways but it is only since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I know there really is a another way . The health we all settle for is not vital and loving but has become accepted and it is Serge Benhayon that lives with this true health and vitality and love that is showing this to us and leading the way for humanity by his own reflection.
A beautiful blog Joel. Many times I can recall, during my struggle with life, saying to myself, there has to be another way. I did not know what I meant by this statement. I was doing all the things I was supposed to do, working hard to support my family, being a husband and father. Yet I was going nowhere. So where was I going wrong? If I win lotto, that would fix all of my problems. Yes sure. The answers that I was looking for were just more of the same way that I was already living. My marriage broke down and this allowed me to look at “me” and at this time I realised that there were other things in life that I had not experienced. I was open to change but still did not know what I was looking for. Then I was introduced to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. It was like coming home. My previous way of living has put down a strong root system, deep inside of me, and I am working on removing that. There is another way.
There is always another way, another choice to make, another direction to take.I found With making many new and simple self loving changes, my life has completely transformed.
Could there be another way without force, effort or trying? Since being involved with Universal Medicine I have come to understand that the answer has always been yes, only the ‘way of human life’ has made it appear that that little knowing voice within me doesn’t exist. What this blog reminds me of is that if I do not choose to feel and allow myself to experience the more simple way, the way of trying, effort and stimulation will make me believe that it is the only way.
Joel what you write is so inspiring and so different to how I see many live. So many times I’ve heard people talk about their life and say something like, yeah it could be worse or when I stop to think how bad it is for some I don’t have a right to complain about things.
Speaking for myself I know that I can’t hide from the times my body communicates to me that something I’m doing/ was doing in my life is/was harming to myself. no matter what’s going on to those around me I feel it’s my responsibility to take note. I no longer try to ignore the consequences of my actions by saying I’m ok by choosing to compare myself to someone I believe is worse off than me(!)
I love reading how you noticed how vital the Universal Medicine practitioners were without there being any force. I’m beginning to trust and allow things to unfold knowing that there will be a miriad of reflections to learn from. I don’t have to force things to make things happen as I would like – aka trying to avoid reflections I’d rather not see!
So true Natasha. If we make ‘Love’ with every step we take, every daily choice and each action, the Love really feeds you back.
Inspiring joel .. You have reminded me of how simple it is to make a self loving choice and how much that has such a strong impact on the quality of our lives. Those women and men within the esoteric community are committing to living this ‘other way’ and I personally can see so much life and spark, spunk ands depth coming back into the way they relate and are with themselves
I feel super blessed to have come across Serge Benhayons teachings and to really have started to make those self loving choices for myself also 🙂
“Could there be another way?”
The answer is undoubtedly YES and the evidence is the thousands of people like me from across the world that have made their own way of living and who are realising more and more that the answers were within us all along… we were just not asking the right question…” A celebration, Yah! There is another way, I am aware that I am some where entirely different from where I was 10 years ago, that did not happen by chance or fate, that happened by choice.
So true Samantha. The changes I have made in my life by asking the right questions and then making different choices has meant my life is now much more joyful and simple. Yes there certainly is another way and as Joel shared its based on looking within and not just comparing yourself to what everyone else is doing.
Samantha, I share your joy in finding that there is indeed another way. . . at 72 I am also ‘some where entirely different from where I was 10 years ago’ or in my case 50 or even 60 years ago. And Yes, it did not happen by chance, it happened by choice and one is never too old to make different choices in life!
Well said Anne! We can always choose again. If what we have is not working, we can stop and re-assess: where to from here? If we don’t choose to stop, our bodies very likely may do the stopping for us; our bodies reflecting to us that how we are choosing to live is not working. And there is no age limit to true changes.
Thanks Joel, There is another way and Im glad I have found it also. I thought my life was as good as it could get for me, but wow, every day it is more amazing, I never could have imagined it, and its all because of Universal Medicine.
I have spent a long time doing the same as others despite feeling it wasn’t the way to live because it seemed to be the only way. Now I can feel there is definitely another way by the way I live life from living with the connection to myself.
Thanks Joel ! Yes the answers are definitely within ourselves. Me too, I used to search and search out there until I found Serge Benhayon….
“Could there be another way?” is a question I asked myself constantly throughout life and have usually found another way away from the norm to do something. Yes this showed I was not willing to just follow but I was still living with the same angst in life as everyone else. It was when I came across Universal Medicine that another way was Truly discovered and that is simply living with an awareness of myself and life, taking responsibility and being what I feel from within is “the other way”. I no longer live doing the opposite to the norm to make my life look better. Thank you Joel for raising a great question!
Thank goodness that there is a different way, I had given up on life as it was, trapped in a world that did not make sense. My life now has purpose, joy and beauty.
Thank you Joel, there are 2 things coming up. The first one is that we could also say “Daring enough to ask: Could There Be Another Way”. Why is it that we accept a life without love or even a little (self)care. Why do we measure our lives to others? Why, why, why. We’re not even considering a 2nd thought that there could be indeed that there is ANOTHER WAY. A way that starts with ourselves first and than do all the other things for others.
The 2nd thing that came up while reading your blog is when I read “In 2004, my wife dragged [yes, dragged] me along to the Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1 Workshop presented by Serge Benhayon and run by Universal Medicine.”. I’m touched by the wonderful love, care and willingness towards each other that you allowed yourself being ‘dragged’ into the workshop. That shows the commitment to each other and the willingness to be reflective. Awesome inspiration! Let me know how it is now Joel…
This is a great question to ask, Joel, – pretty straightforward. Thank you for answering it also, with a resounding YES, and your blog testifies your choices. Instead of giving in “to believing that this was as good as it gets.” it’s about making new and truer choices. What’s remarkable is that it’s the simplest and smallest choices that make the greater changes. Universal Medicine has opened my eyes and now I know that my life is not as good as it gets and there IS indeed another way. It’s a matter of choice.
I’ve noticed that there is an unspoken competition to be better than the next person rather than just being the best that is within you and feeling and living from this place. Is is so beautiful to be living from this place and supporting others rather than trying to be one up. Great article Joel.
I agree Matthew. How on earth could we be anyone else than we are ourselves. Yes, we can certainly be inspired by others. But we will always apply whatever we feel inspired by just a little different, in my case ‘Floris-stylish’. And wouldn’t it be wonderful that every single one is allowed by him- or herself and all the ones around that person to be appreciated in that. That would save just a litlle energy on ‘games we play’ every single day. I quess the world would be much much better of. So much better so that I can’t even imagine right now writing this words! Thank you.
Your opening paragraphs expose how competition (and the comparison latent in competition) is not just intensely stultifying in making us feel bad about ourselves (in comparison to another, who is seemingly doing ‘better’ than us), but that it actually keeps us where we are – stuck in the mud of our issues – not being asked to raise our game.
For, if we are constantly calibrating our life to match other peoples’ – to ‘fit in’ with everyone around us – and if those people around us are not living lives of true quality, then nothing ‘out there’ is asking us to step up, and to develop the quality of our own life.
But if we are truly honest with ourselves – and we measure our life against what we know deep within our heart that it could be – we are then inspired to make ‘positive’ changes, to develop, progress, and – ultimately – to evolve. If we do this, we can then be the inspiration for others around us to take the same steps in their own lives.
Very well said.
Great comment Conor – it’s so true that if we all play the measuring game then everyone misses out – and it only takes one person to step up and choose something different.
Thank you Joel, awesome blog.
I remember asking myself often if there was another way, always feeling there had to be more.
Now, after making lifestyle choices that support me and my body I do live another way.
A way of the livingness that leaves me vital, without the need of external stimulants such as sugar, caffeine or alcohol.
I feel younger and more vital now at 43 years young than I did at the age of 23.
Indeed Joel, i have also relearnt the gift of simple choice and equally my life, my relationships, my sense of purpose are today blossoming.
Thanks to the presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I now know that living from within is the way forth.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have show me there is definitely another way and I am eternally grateful for knowing this and living it .A life of joy ,vitality and love with responsibility and purpose what more could anyone want.I recommend it absolutely to everyone.
At one point in my life I was doing some serious damage to my wellbeing but was under the illusion it was OK as everyone around me at the time was doing the same thing. At the time I couldn’t see another way but now I know there certainly is a way to live that comes from the inside out.
Thank you Joel – I have just re-read your blog and the wisdom you present is great. I love that we sometimes benefit from being reminded to ‘ask the right question’ – how often in the past (before I met Serge Benhayon and attended the presentations of Universal Medicine) I did not know the right questions to ask, and your simple question “Could there be another way?” I found was the question to ask first.
It was the same for me too Roberta. Before Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, the question ‘could there be another way’ never entered my orbit as I was too preoccupied with doing things the way other people were doing it and even if there were occasions that I felt what I was doing wasn’t the truth, I would still do it because society says we ‘have’ to compromise. Thankfully, I have now found there is another way to live my life and the only compromise I have in my life is that there is ‘No compromise’.
It’s just real and clear and true.
The direction of my life changed from lost to clear direction just because I was presented with this question ” could there be another way” every cell in my body was screaming for ” another way” and I felt finally I had found the path back to the source of who I truely am.
Not only me but the truth around humanity and the lack of real honesty in our lives that have us stuck with no true choices… until we realise the way to make life changing decisions that support a true life of vitality joy and love.
What a contrast to the cycle I had running that I thought I couldn’t get out of, and it’s actually very simple and I thank Universal Medicine for showing me “another way”.
I love returning to this blog. Compared to life around me at the moment, where people have so much going on for themselves, their families and friends, here is so simply stated that there is another way to be in life. It is truly inspiring thank you.
The willingness to simply ask ourselves questions about life, how we are doing as individuals and collectively, breaks the patterns of head down, getting on with blindly conforming to the majority behaviour. In itself this is huge and a refreshing, responsible starting point.
I love what you have shared Matilda, breaking down the patterns of conforming to the majority behaviours. One only needs to take a step side ways to start to see it from a different point of view and in that moment you are reflecting where you are in the equation and how the works for you. Amazing possibilities.
Absolutely Matilda; a willingness to reflect on the way we live completely breaks the pattern of continuing life head down no matter the circumstance.
Unfortunately it ends up being such a prison, to look around and rate yourself based on how other people are living or what is the general consensus of ‘normal’.
This is where the problem lies, that we don’t look within and ask ourselves what is our normal. I certainly fumbled my way through life attempting to have something that was normal for me but mostly it was in reaction to everything else, until Universal Medicine came along and asked that question. I have discovered that there most definitely is another way and that way, is able to be lived without reacting to anyone or anything else that is going on around you and you then begin to become a master of your own life instead of all outside forces dictating how you need to be.
Describing it as a prison is so very apt. Its invisible but very, very debilitating to allow ourselves to slow slip into great forms of dis-ease and poorer well-being all because others are not well either.
When I read this quote Joel “For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life”…I cried because it feels so true to me as well. And then when I read Shannon’s comment re living a prison I completely resonated with that as well. I did – at times – feel completely trapped and helpless about who/what life was before I came across Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon simply presented that there is another way and I saw that they were actually living it. It was then up to me to feel what was right for me and as I started to ‘test what they were presenting’, it always came up the same. But I discovered that for myself and in that discovery, I know it to be true because I felt it in my body and not because someone said so. Game changer for sure.
Just taking a look at all these blogs and all these comments, I love how so many people are prepared to stand up and say what the truth about Universal Medicine actually is.
The truth about Universal Medicine is exactly as is stated above in the article and all the comments. You just have to look at the student body that has formed itself and grown over many years to appreciate what an amazing and truly lovely and loving group of people they are. All, as you say anonymous, prepared to stand up and speak the truth about what Universal Medicine has been/is and will continue to be for them.
Feeling this – I was also seeking everywhere for a true way of living well, and I tried and studied many, many modalities and approaches to living, but there was always something missing. After being a Universal Medicine student for the past 3+ years I now know and experience a consistent and beautiful and simple way of true wellness.
A great blog – thankyou Joel. “…But looking around me, everyone had some variation of these things going on, so even though I didn’t feel fine, I had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it gets.” I so thought my life was fine – on the surface – but knew deep down it wasn’t. I would think ‘Is this it?’ So many people living ‘normal’ lives…… I now know there is a new normal, thanks to Universal Medicine, where there is love and truth and purpose.
Life ‘after’ Universal Medicine is indeed yummy all around. Crucial to me was the different approach to a complementary modality: it’s first and foremost about learning to Self-love, but ultimately to take responsibility for humanity – with all the ease and joy this comes, when I Self-love first.
Yes, Joel, there definitely is another way. Thank you Serge Benhayon for inspiring me to start walking this amazing path back to who I really am.
Great blog, this line sums it up for me, ‘For the first time in my life, Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life.’ I have found a more steady approach to life from the support of Universal Medicine, life now makes more sense.
Susan I found the same. There is no doubt that Universal Medicine has presented there is another way with a love and care that I had not felt before. In this way it has offered an inspiration and support to follow through on what feels true as I could always feel something was not working for me.
I always knew there was another way to live and was always looking for it ( in the wrong places!!). It has been only since I started to attend Universal Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon that my life changed and I immediately new that this was what I had been looking for all along. I now experience a level of love in my life that I didn’t think was was possible.
I too was looking in all the wrong places for another way to live.
I will always remember the joy at finding the truth at last, proven only by the way the people living it, consistently behaved.
Beautiful Francisco. So many people in the world looking for truth in all the wrong places. Universal Medicine is a place where anyone can come and find the truth for themselves and have that level of Love that we have joyously found.
I too looked in all the possible places outside myself only to discover that it was all in me all along. I cannot thank Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine enough for showing me the way.
It is amazing how we can look everywhere for something that when we find it, turns out to have been there all along.
So true Rebecca and to know the answers lie within. before that I felt like the head less chicken:)
Me too Francisco, I moved to the other side of the world because I had a knowing inside me that there was more to life than what I was living. I thought changing country would be it…of course it wasn’t. I looked externally through relationships, my job, friends, etc before joining the New Age bandwagon, only to go from one thing to another, still searching for years. It was only when I came across Universal Medicine’s teachings that I finally felt a deep ‘this is it’ from inside me that things changed. I always knew that the answer was inside me but I just didn’t know how to get to it. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have inspired me to live in a way that makes life about love.
Hi Joel. The really really interesting thing is that the holistic practitioners have all the same issues and symptoms and all the knowledge of how to deal with them, yet they are experts at staying blind to the fact that they have this disfunction at all. I can relate.
Yes Joel, most of the world so lives like this. And how amazing that we have the beautiful reflection of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
Yes it does take some time and focus and dedication to turn around the momentum of how life is being lived, but it’s so worth it. I have never looked back.
I agree Felicity. It does take a change of outlook (which in itself is a commitment) to turn the tide on patterns and habits we have lived for so long. I visualise it as being stuck deep in a rut almost unable to see daylight. I can either trudge on, dictated to by the contours of the rut or I can spend a bit of time building a ladder and climb out to the full view/big picture/free choices.
Matilda I love your analogy of spending some time building a ladder to get out of the rut.
I totally agree Felicity that it is so worth it and once that momentum starts to fall away it becomes super enjoyable and any other way seems like you are cutting yourself short of what can an otherwise joyful and amazing way of being with yourself and others.
I agree Felicity, well worth it and absolutely possible, and no looking back.
Indeed Felicity, looking back is not necessary when one’s life is turned around and we feel so much more alive and vital.
Neither have I looked back, it is worth looking at the momentum of life and making more loving choices, it does take dedication and time, but it’s worth it.
Indeed.
I agree Felicity, it sometimes takes real effort to remember how life used to be. Now I try to live in the fullness of how I am in each moment, open to change and evolve, and building my dedication to serve humanity through my own self love.
That in itself Brendan is a miracle…that could turn the whole health system around.
Although not an alternative medicine practitioner, I too had tried many methods and teachings which claimed to lead to a better way of life but nothing really changed.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine do truly offer another way, a true loving way that has led to true healing and growing love in my life.
Well said Tim, and Joel, thank you guys, I totally agree. It’s worth looking at what we just accept as ‘normal’. We do know already that it isn’t normal to live in pain, anxiety, constant stress and with this feeling of emptiness inside.
I agree Esther I notice how people accept so much less as normal. It feels horrible. I know without a doubt that Universal Medicine offer another way which is truly amazing. I know I may not live that way all the time but nothing compares. I no longer have an emptiness inside that consumes me as it did.
Well said Esther…there is such a deep exploration of what is normal to be had.
The once normal for me was just the result of the way life was- I just lived each day trying as best I could but never really listening to my body consciously knowing it had the answers. Thanks to Serge caring enough to present another way- I now live knowing how my body is feeling.
Yes the normal of our society is very very ill. I was heartened to see new statistics showing that the younger generation are choosing not to drink or binge drink in the same way our generation and that before us did, a tide change… wouldn’t that be great!
absolutely Esther and that level of accepting what is normal keeps dropping lower and lower and things that we originally knew were not normal are fast becoming or are already the ‘new normal’.
Good point Esther, we have come to accept a lot of things as normal, as long as they are not to excessive, but the line of what is excessive seems to move all the time. We should first come to realise that there is a ‘way’ in which we are living that we call normal and that this way is not working, this then will open up the possibility of there being another way…a way that is proving to work for a continously and fast growing number of people.
Yes, normal amongst society keeps changing, so I have to keep coming back to what is my normal. Normal in society may be starting the day with a coffee to get you going, but that isn’t my normal anymore (although it once was as I couldn’t get going without it). There are so many things that are now considered normal but only because they have become so commonplace, as you say Esther, things like pain, anxiety and constant stress.
There is another way. Just follow your heart, that will lead to being joyful, loving and helpful to other people. Serge Benhayon has shown us all the true path to leading a more fulfilled way of living.
I love that Mike – it’s as simple as that “just follow your heart, that will lead to being joyful, loving and helpful to other people.” I have found that it is truly that simple but funnily enough my experience of it actually is that the mind will not necessarily want to make it easy – it seems it has been in control for far too long.
My mind had its own way for most of my life, was probably out of control, thinking it could ride roughshod over the messages my body was sending, and the impulse of my heart to change. Its being re-trained, re strained and harnessed to work for me, with love.
I agree Mike, there is nothing more true to follow than our own hearts, which I have to thank Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reminding me of and showing me the way.
I am with you on this Rebecca, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have demonstrated much for us all to deeply consider and more importantly to live the choice is ours.
Such a gorgeous comment Mike – I agree.
I totally agree Mike, well said; Serge Benhayon keeps on showing us – anybody who is willing to ask the question – that there is another way. And that other way is the way I am choosing for myself now. A way of a deeper connection and true love and harmony.
Your beautiful blog is simple and direct – and YES, there is another way. I will always be deeply appreciative that Serge Benhayon has showed us the way through his dedication to life and truth.
I completely agree – there is another way. It’s so easy to look around us and accept the struggles and misery as normal, when in truth we all know this is not the natural way to live.
Yes absolutely – there is another way. A way of life that is gentle, deeply loving to self and others, where we let our guards down and find deep purpose in everything. I am forever grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for showing that way.
“Over the years, through my own choices, I have built a way of living that delivers a level of vitality that is not forced or derived from sugar, caffeine or any other stimulant.”
This in itself is an incredible statement. Most people these days say they need their coffee or sugar for energy. You are going against the tide, Joel.
Thank you Joel what an awesome blog. Weighing in at 165 kgs plus I most certainly had given up on myself, that is for sure and I too was merely surviving. But deep down something inside me kept searching with a knowing there was another way. Then I was introduced to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and now 5 years later 70 kgs lighter, loving and accepting the amazing Women I truly am more and more each day. Living and loving life in all my fullest and in all its fullness.
This is amazing: “as long as my life was like other people’s, my life must be fine”. It is amazing that we accept ‘normal’ as ‘what everyone else is doing’, even though as you shared through your experience of “poor sugar regulation, moodiness, back pain… the sore neck, a highly functional but not overly caring marriage, a job I felt obliged to stay in to provide for the family, [and] an expanding waist line”, what is accepted as ‘normal’ is not always healthy
For me this blows apart the myth of ‘Safety in numbers’ – something I think we are all to keen to hide in, like an excuse not to take responsibility. How many times have we heard children saying, ‘Well, everyone else is doing it!’ The truly inspirational people I have met in my life are those who have known themselves well and held firm in spite of the pressures and changes around them.
Great comment! ‘Normal’ is what is most widely accepted, and what everyone else is doing, we gage so much on other people rather than listening to what we already feel is true and healthy.
Awesome Meg – it is so interesting, because by following the crowds we have now created ever increasing rates of obesity and illness and disease. And still, the people who go against the crowd are seen as ‘weird’
Yes there is another way, The Way of The Livingness.
I love the term ‘Pop people’s bubble of pride’. Yes it can be challenging to consider that there may be another way to live beyond the usual comforts. Although life may be ‘fine’ it is worth looking beneath the surface to see if this is actually true or not. If we are honest about what we find there will be no pride to pop!
It’s so true – we look from side to side to check how we are doing.. and so if everyone is not doing so well, propped up by caffeine with waistlines expanding, we look at ourselves and consider we are doing OK.
This is just accepting a level of normal that is many steps away from true health. Serge Benhayon has pulled us up, presenting an entirely different example through his own lived wisdom, and at the same time provided the tools we need to help us step out of that given up situation.
Thank you Joel for reminding us all there is another way and thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and The Way of the Livingness for showing us the true way. Without them I would have continued in my given up state, getting through life but certainly not living it. My life has turned around 360 degrees and for the first time in my life I can say I have found the real me, and how wonderful that feels.
Beautifully said Alison “thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and The Way of the Livingness for showing us the true way.”
It doesn’t warrant thinking about where I might be health wise, except for the fact when I look around at how many people are living. This is sadly totally unnecessary as everyone can choose for them-selves at any moment to live another way.
Great blog Joel – I used to get stuck in thinking that my life was fine not only because it looked similar to others but also because I thought it seemed ‘better’ than some others around me. It was the same for me in finding Universal Medicine – I started to see there was actually another way of living that was better than ‘fine’ (or barely functional as it was), and now my ‘bad days’ are on par with what a ‘good day’ used to be for me in the past.
Beautiful Joel, I too having met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine discovered there is another way and am developing and learning this ever since. I cannot recommend it more highly as a way to live and the absolute joy of rediscovering me and building consistency in this as a way of being.
Hi Joel, I’m sure this blog has burst a few bubbles in asking ‘ is there another way?’
Thank you once again Joel for a great blog and the instant truth. Yes there is another way and it’s not that hard to find.
Living a life of love, true vitality and profound joy is the ‘NORM’ how far away from that have we gone as a society.
With you giving up alcohol, drugs, caffeine and all those stimulants that kept you running at a pace that wasn’t natural for your body, that was harming and damaging to the body, you are now free to feel where your body is truly at and honor it truly so.
This is the biggest gift that one can do for the body. If only more women and men would choose this for themselves we would have a more accurate account of where society is truly at. We would see just how much our people, worldwide are running and fueling themselves falsely on substances that continue to deny their bodies the ability to truly rest and rejuvenate deeply so.
You can see why and how we have so much violence within our world. It seems to me that it is a direct reflection of just how exhausted everyone is which is directly accounting for the outbursts of anger, the fueled level of violence within our streets and the disarray that we are seeing within the business world where the greed and possession of power is ruling.
If more men and women commit to making more loving choices for themselves, like Joel has here within this blog, we will be able to come back to a true state of harmony within the everyday livingness of man.
Thank you Joel for reminding us where we have come from and how opening up to another way has transformed our lives. Before coming to Universal Medicine I had given up the different paths I had pursued through out my life and was now what I called in the desert, waiting for my homecoming. Many thanks to Serge and the teachings of Universal Medicine for bringing me home to me and my loving family.
Same here, i feel like I am coming home in more ways than I ever could have imagined. But this is not imagination it is real, tangible and true.
I had been searching for a true way to live from my early teens, moving from one modality or thing to the next. Once I saw the inadequacies of whatever I was into at the time, I would discover the next best thing.
I realised when I read this blog that I am no longer searching because I have found what I had been looking for all my life. So in response to the question posed in this blog – there is another way and that is The Way of the Livingness, inspired by Serge Benhayon and presented by Universal Medicine.
By living in a more loving way, my life has transformed and I feel more vital than ever before.
So true for me also Ulrike. I was constantly changing modalities like I change shampoo. I kept on thinking this one will fix all my problems, just like the next shampoo would give me perfect hair. Only with Universal Medicine have I stopped searching and have realised this is what I was searching for and have taken responsibility for myself.
I like this article Joel and what you have said. I didn’t feel fine in my life either and, I had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it gets and compromising with chocolate and entertainment like parties, activities, holidays, alcohol, smoking, eating lots of sugary food. Since I have made my way out of this self-made prison I feel so much more vital and energised – I am graceful to myself that I have listened to my body and this inner voice.
My trust into another way very strong and I knew it is there, it turned up to be presented through Serge Benhayon. He did talk about the own choice and that all is energy. I understood that this is the key to what I was missing inside myself. Everyone can change and no one has to accept a life in only suffer and existence when a life of joy is waiting from within.
There was a stage in my life when I thought I had it all- married with 2 beautiful children, caring and reliable Mr Fix it husband, career, – I ticked all the boxes I thought was what it meant to be successful and happy but deep down I new something was missing. I felt an emptiness. I kept looking outside of myself to find the answers- in following guru after guru, doing many new age courses- reiki, Qi- gong, kinesiology, natural therapies etc
My body you would think by now would have been vital and healthy- yet I suffered mild depression, undiagnosed chronic fatigue, hypoglycaemia, and lived in nervous energy.
I was supersensitive and was not in by body.
Then 7 yrs ago I met Serge Benhayon at a 5 day live in retreat. I felt so more energised in my body after having no gluten, dairy, sugar of caffeine in my diet- I learnt the gentle breathe meditation and actually felt the real me for the first time- all of me.
And ever since then have been so inspired by his talks- I am making many changes to my life and feeling more tender, vital, and joyous.
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Whilst that question, “Could there be another way?” often stirs up an instant reaction of “don’t rock the boat – precarious though it is, the status quo is our known and better than what might lie in the unknown”, it does not make any sense to carry on with a way of life that, when we are honest, does not feel very good, at all unified (as in joined up with humanity) or supporting us to grow and learn. I have come to appreciate questions such as these as remarkable opportunities to shake down and review my choices and their roots.
Yes, Matilda, as opposed to saying “Is that all there is, my friend” (some of us might remember this song), that many people think but maybe don’t say, it is indeed a far more challenging question to ask” Could there be another way?”
It requires honesty and self reflection and I must say for myself, there is an opportunity every day to ponder on this question and change something!
I remember a few months before I came across Universal Medicine teachings, I’d been asking myself a similar question ‘there must be more to it than this (life that is)’ and having a deep sense of knowing that the answers were inside me, but I didn’t know (yet) how to get there. This is on the back of years of different types of meditation, studying and practicing as a natural therapist and having recovered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (functioning but not feeling vital). And then I found Serge Benhayon’s first book ‘The Way it Is’ and it was like a light bulb (or bomb) going off…it made so much sense. That was 8 years ago, and I have made massive changes in my life to let go off old ways of being and thinking…and still more to go…a forever student of my own life – thank you Joel and thank you Universal Medicine for shining the light and leading the way.
Awesome article Joel! And yes, I too have discovered there is another way…though I am still learning and refining this, I know without doubt that this is what I want, a life full of love and connection and so much more…
Great Blog Joel, I also had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it would get. A very sorry way to exist.
I also have through my own choices, built a way of living that delivers a level of vitality.
thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon, and Universal Medicine.
And the world needs to ask the Question “Could there be another Way”
Undoubtably YES from me also Joel.
Yes undoubtly Joel There is another way !
Yes there is another way, I agree in full! I am so glad that I had the chance to see the way forward as presented by Universal Medicine. The path hasn’t been easy at times, lots of ways of being that had to go, but feeling more free as each day passes.
I am here for the long haul.
I feel most people on some level knows their life is not fine, no matter how rich and successful or happy you appear to be on the outside there is always something missing. Great question Joel ‘is there another way?’ and I feel you have answered it rather well.
Love how you describe how you did come to a workshop of Universal Medicine – “dragged by your wife”… And this reminds me that, to ask the question: “Could there be another way?” is already a choice of willingness to step out of the treadmill. Because if we ask this question – we may get an answer and then we have to handle this.
Very true Sandra – sometimes we prefer not to dig too deep just incase we expose too much. But it is also fair to say that our current population is sick, is suffering, is in disharmony.
There is always a choice for us to make – go with it, or question the trend. I’ll take the latter.
Awesome blog Joel, many times in my life I found myself in the same old drag heap knowing there is something else but not knowing how to get there or how I kept ending up in the ditch. I have changed so much thanks to Serge Benhayen and universal medicine who have brought it all home so simply and clearly for me and I can now know and live a continual extraordinary love filled life.
I find that question can be asked for all aspects in ones life – ‘is there another way?’ More loving. I’m sure some people ask themselves the same question when they can feel the dis-ease or when they know something’s not right but don’t know how to go about changing it… I know I have. It seems difficult in these times cause what you see from others and what you know is it and that’s the only way you know how to live. Thank God for Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and all the people changing the way they live with now the know how. Now we can inspire others when this question pops up in their heads- they can see another way that they might not have known about before.
I know, Emily, that for many, many years I asked myself the question, “is there another way…?” but didn’t know where to go to find it. Then thank Heaven I did. I attended a Mind, Body Soul Fayre one day and picked up a card, which shone out at me, for “esoteric facial release”, I had no idea what that was, but it had the Universal Medicine website on it so when I got home I looked it up and VIOLA ! knew I had found something special, and different. I did the Gentle Breath Meditation and listened to Serge Benhayon for a while and I knew that from that moment my life would change – deep appreciation to Serge and Universal Medicine. It’s like to you say, now we can inspire others with the way we live, now we have found the way.
Yes a great blog Joel.
I always knew there was another way of living but I couldn’t find it as there was no-one around me living any other way. When I was introduced to Universal Medicine I knew I had come home. Joel, I’m one of those thousands of people “realising more and more that the answers (to living) were within us all along”.
I feel that by living another way I am returning to the life I knew I could live when I was a little girl, unhindered by life’s hurts and baggage that I chose to collect along the way.
I can completely resonate with what you say, living another way is really allowing us to connect back to our true self as we were when we where young girls, delicate and unloaded with baggage of hurts.
We all have our version of thinking our lives were OK, mine is no exception. Other than I didn’t think my life was OK, it always felt like I was missing something. At times I had this feeling of a tightly coiled spring in my chest, angst, frustration, anger. All that has taken a bit to work through (still going) and like Joel writes, there is another way that has a flow, an ease to it. Who’d have thought? not me.
You’re right Mark – we all have our ‘versions’ of OK, but never stop and consider why we are living an ‘okay life’ and not a great one.
So true Susie, I had accepted that my life is okay when there is nothing bad happening, health or otherwise. Or have thought that it will be okay once I have achieved the next thing to improve my life or overcome some struggle. What was missing for me which Universal Medicine presented was that, to connect to my inner essence now and accept that fully and feel the natural joy that comes from that, rather than expecting life to deliver that for me.
Thank you for sharing this Joel, the transformation I have seen over the years of people attending these presentations and taking it into their daily lives has been truly inspiration. What Serge Benhayon has offered us all is nothing short of living miracles each day! And in the face of so much adversity he has never wavered what we all know is a true way forward for all of humanity. I am forever deeply appreciative of the love that is there for us all.
This is such a great blog sharing that yes there is another way personally from your experiences and very inspirational. I love it and love rereading it with a joy of all it shares. Thank you Joel.
The answer’s were in us all along … we were just not asking the right questions. How true and strong this last line is. I always have know that something was not right, but true to that line, I never asked myself the right questions to discover what that was. You are spot on in saying that practitioners who participate in Universal Medicine present something that is vital, true, and unforced. This to me is undeniable proof that if we ask the right questions we will find another way….Love.
What you offer here Jina is huge… “playing the cards you are dealt” can ask people to be truly honest about where they are in life and work from there, but in most cases it implies a lack of ownership of the possibility that WE are the dealer!!
Ha! Yes, very true Joel. No victims here despite our protestations!
Thank goodness for the the other way, without a doubt before Universal Medicine became apart of my life, the treadmill of “what life is meant to be” would have crashed and burned. Absolutely Yes there is another and yours for the taking if you so choose.
Yes Joel, there is another way and like you I also lived in a way that I accepted was as good as it gets, but somewhere it did not feel enough, so I sought for something more in the ‘spiritual’ sense but realised that was so unattainable….thanks to Serge Benhayon who simply put the question forward – could there be another way, a true way where we can live in vitality and loving, where life was a joy and not just a function and an acceptance of less that there is so much more… and now I know this to be true because I too – live another way!!!! And am forever appreciative.
Thank you, Joel. It is so inspiring to read how you have transformed your life.
Before I listened to Serge Benhayon, I thought I was a ‘nice’, caring person. I now realise that I was actually very focussed on myself, not in a good way! I’m really quite shocked now, when I reflect back on how I used to be. I was so concerned with MY LIFE, but I wasn’t at all connected to the beautiful soul that I am, that has always been there and I’m now getting to know and be with every day. My life is so much fuller now, I love it.
Great statement Alison…”I thought I was a ‘nice’, caring person. I now realise that I was actually very focussed on myself, not in a good way!”…I found the same, even though I usually made it all about helping others the way I did it was very much self serving, in so many subtle ways.
Yes indeed Alison, it seems a paradox to be a very caring person for others but from the motivation of hiding from the fact that I did not actually feel that great about myself. The more I am able to accept myself fully, there is as actually more than enough in fact an ease to be caring with others naturally.
I to was shocked at how being ‘nice’ actually wasn’t truly being love. That it is completely laced with self and disguised by putting the other person needs first. But really the truth of it is we are completely driven by the notion of what we are getting out of it first. It is so subtle that at first I found it hard to get my head around it but know it is so obvious that it actually makes me feel sick. Another gem that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have presented which expose the ill ways in which we can twist things round to get what we need. There is no self in brotherhood or love.
Great comment Alison – we all need that ‘nice’ bubble popped, exposing what it really is. I know I’ve been suckered by the ‘nice’ comfortable existence, which does not rock any boats and therefore allows the normal I have already accepted to continue, rather than exposing the truth of what is really going on. It’s deadly.
So clearly and simply put Joel “could there be another way” and the gift from Serge Benhayon and the simple choice presented to’ stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me’ I too like many others have found it very real and true. Thank you for this beautiful sharing and the inspiration from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that yes there is another way.
That’s a great question Joel “..is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride..?” and one that also gets us asking: what is love in its truest sense? I would far rather be spoken to with a love that offers another way, than one that sound nice but keeps me in comfortable ways that might not be doing me any favours at all in the long run.
Rosanna I too rather be spoken to with a love that offers another way, rather than one that is nice which is not doing me any favours. Nice nice does no longer feel right.
Spot on Rosanna, me too. Sometimes being spoken to ‘with a love that offers another way’ feels quite confronting, but that’s usually because I am choosing to hold on to a comfort rather than choosing truth in my life. When I first encountered the offer to live another way, it really wobbled me because I had to admit that the suppositions that I had based my life on were not true. However, a good few years on I am very glad those suppositions got wobbled, it really was the best offer I have ever encountered and I am extremely joyful that I accepted it.
I agree, the question, “is it the ultimate expression of love to potentially pop peoples’ bubble of pride…”, I would say a resounding YES to that. Uncomfortable as it may feel at the time, to be told the truth without having it sugar coated, definitely works for me and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Yes to be spoken to from love offers the choice to change where as nice keeps us where we are. I know which I prefer, unquestionably love.
Spot on Dean; it is available to everyone, and the choice is always there no matter what.
Joel,
What abeautiful sharing to read & I can personally relate to much you’ve shared here. Thank you. Makes me appreciate to choose the way of the Livingness & coming across Universal Medicine, which has been a true blessing.
I too used to think that being tired, having backaches, getting energy from sugar & caffeine to get through my day was normal. That’s what others around me were living too & that was normal life which I had accepted to be ok.
A few years back I went to a ‘Livingness 1’ workshop by Universal Medicine, and it is there that Serge Benhayon presented a different way of living which made me look into my way which was different. A lot of people I saw there looked & felt very fresh in their being. I wanted what they had, health, confidence & that feeling of vitality in their eyes. Since then I have slowly started to make choices that truly supported me & seeing Universal Medicine practitioners. Slowly with this way of living of feeling & questioning what I felt with myself and my choices & making changes slowly, I no longer need to rely on external stimulants to function in my day. I started to feel each moment in what I am doing (eat, drink, talk, work etc). Today I am more vital than ever before & feeling wonderful in myself.
A great blog very simply written and easy to read.
It is so refreshing to read of the changes you have made and the awareness you have opened to. Yes I too noticed something about the practitioners and students of Universal Medicine that I couldn’t put my finger on when I first attended Universal Medicine events. It was tangible but I didn’t know what it was. This just shows that it is quite unusual to find a group of people who are so committed to loving and caring for themselves. It was and still is wonderful to feel.
Yes, it is wonderful to feel how much we are committed to love.
I agree Rebecca, there is something that at first its hard to put your finger on, but over time I have realised its simply an amazing level of care and respect you don’t often find in people.
I agree Rebecca, being with fellow students who are living the work is an amazing experience, as you say, they are so committed to loving and caring for themselves. But that radiates out to being loving and caring for everyone else. Not perfect, but all working on it. Beautiful to be with them.
I love the title of this blog, “Caring Enough to Ask”. That is what turned around for me. I was so given up on myself, life and love that I could not summon the energy or compassion to ask “Could there be another way?”. Now I do have the energy, love and compassion to ask that question and indeed live another way every day due to the never ending inspiration and wisdom of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. I too have gone from surviving to living and fully recommend it!
“I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question,…”
This is such an apt description of Serge Benhayon – one who really and truly walks his talk.
The only reason we do not ask this simple question: ‘Could there be another way?’ is because it shakes down and rattles the familiar, habitual ‘comfort’ we have come to live. And this ‘comfort’ is anything but ‘comfy’ – it is just what we are used to. So, whilst the process of asking and exploring the ‘Could there be another way?’ question might feel scary at first, it actually frees us from firmly held patterns, that do not truly serve, and offers the opportunity to responsibly and respectfully take charge of our choices. What I love about this is, that now I have started, the question is always there supporting me whenever I come to another ‘stuck’ moment.
I totally agree with what you say here Matilda. Recognising those ‘stuck moments’ then becomes an opportunity, each and every moment, to choose ‘another way’ and releases us from those old patterns and behaviours that do not serve us.
I love this Matilda… The only reason we do not ask this simple question: ‘Could there be another way?’ is because it shakes down and rattles the familiar, habitual ‘comfort’ we have come to live… I was so very convinced that I was open to all manner of things, until I realised it was only the things that didn’t, truly, deeply, upset the apple cart I was unhappily pushing along.
I can relate to that Joel, I also thought I was very open to everything, but yes, I now realise it was only those things that did not upset the apple cart, especially those to do with family. I was always wanting to keep everything calm within the family, actually treading on egg shells.
I love this comment Matilda. It is so true, we don’t want to ask the question because it ‘rattles the familiar habitual comfort’ we live with. For me, I know the comfort I lived with was huge and never even considered there was another way to live, or more truthfully, I didn’t “want” to consider there was another way to live. Through the inspirational presentations of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I have found another way to live and paradoxically, living this way is so much easier than living a life of comfort.
Such a great blog Joel – so simple and direct. I can certainly relate to the feeling of ‘giving up’. Before I was introduced to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I felt like I was merely surviving. I was just hoping to have enough energy to go through the motions and do life. Now I know with certainty that there is another way, and in truth I have always known…. In fact, this is why it hurt so much to simply ‘survive’.
I agree Leonne, just like you, before I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I was trying to get through life, surviving and not really enjoying it.
Yes agree life has become about just getting by (surviving) and now really enjoying life.
So true James – we could perhaps all say that before we met Serge Benhayon we were just surviving and not really enjoying life. While many of us ‘ticked all the boxes’ that were expected from us by society, we could not understand why that was not it! Serge opened our eyes to the great illusion that had us entrapped and slowly we untangled the web and are now truly living joy-fully, as is our innate natural state!
Me too, Leonne and James. It is through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I found what I had been looking for, the truth of who I was, and that I was under the misapprehension, as are many, that ‘surviving’ was the normal way to live. Now I know that is not the case.
Me too James. I guess I judged my life by that of others I knew. With some, it didn’t compare so well, others I was doing ok. I had a good husband, nice kids doing well at school, nice home, not posh,but comfortable. I was quite happy in my comfort zone, didn’t envy those better off, but deep down I knew there was something more.And what a more! Since being introduced to Serge Benhayon I have become so much more aware of another way. Another way to approach how I am with myself and others, another way to eat, sleep, work. Another way to live. its always work in progress, there is no limit to how I can evolve if I choose, the possibilities are endless.
I agree Leonne, many people live to survive, and its shouldn’t be normal but currently it is. Thankfully Universal Medicine is showing a new normal.
Well said Rebecca. Universal Medicine has presented the new normal, only at present it is not the most common way to live. Sometimes our attachment to the old way to survive is very strong, as the new way asks us to become more aware and responsible. However the vitality and joy that arises that comes with deepening our connection to ourselves leaves one knowing that they will never return to the old. The new normal is the only way to live each day.
I agree Rowena, the struggle to survive can almost become comfortable and a simple way to live without emotion can seem too hard to dedicate yourself to, and yet the benefits are beyond anything you can have when you stay stuck in the struggle.
I totally relate to what you have shared Leonne – the survival to do life was exhausting. Oh how this has completely turned around and the joy for life is in every day thanks to Universal Medicine and Ageless Wisdom teachings, my life has turned itself upside down and I now Love Living life.
Very true for me Leonne, I tried everything but nothing fundamentally changed. The sought ‘shift’ only came when I embraced the Way of the Livingness as elucidated by Serge Benhayon.
“Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life” really resonates with me. Rather than just doing life,letting it more or less happen and hoping for some happy moments whilst seeking relief from it all, the Way of the Livingness delivers real engagement, true relationship, profound insights and amazing vitality – to name but a few of the benefits.
‘Undoubtedly YES’, there is another way and I have found it since being with Universal Medicine and putting into practice the simple techniques which Serge Benhayon presents. By becoming more aware and taking more responsibility for my life I have noticed huge changes in my attitude to life and as a consequence I no longer get drained like I used to. There is more purpose in what I do and I have the energy to do it.
Great point Sandra, since taking responsibility for my life and living in such a way which is more than just getting through life or seeing what life could offer me, I can feel there is way more purpose to my life and the energy is there to live that purpose. Funny that, make it all about looking after me in a more self-loving way and I have all the energy to care and connect more with others.
I love to return to this blog; it confirms what I know to be true, there is another way by the choices I make.
I agree Clare, beautifully put and have found the same that… ‘the pull to love only grows stronger and stronger’.
I agree Kathryn, well said – ‘Being responsible for our own lives is the first simple yet profound decision we can make’. For most of my life I played the victim card, essentially accepting life as it was, with the inevitable highs and lows and that I had no real part to play in it as there was not much I could change. I now see that the way I live and the choices I make effect the my life dramatically!
I so agree James. I too spent much of my life playing victim and blaming others or events etc. for the way my life was, and the way ‘I’ was in life. It was through the support of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that confirmed to me (what deep down I realise I knew all along and was simply choosing/wanting to avoid), the simple decision to begin taking responsibility for my life and my choices. So in answer to Joel’s question ‘Could there be another way?’. The answer is a resounding yes from me!
There sure is another way Angela and it is extremely inspiring to see and hear how so many people have been inspired, like we have, by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to start making more loving choices and actually live this ‘other way’, a way which is actually normal and supportive for our bodies.
Joel, to a true question, you have given us a true answer. Thank you.
Indeed Bina, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have shown me a true way to be with myself and others. I too live a very simple and ordinary life and I love every bit of it. I live the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Beautifully expressed Joel…It truly shows that when we observe someone living true vitality and presence – we can’t but help notice and acknowledge what’s been reflected to us if we’re truly honest with ourselves…Thanks for this blog…
I agree with you wholeheartedly Joel, there is another way to live. It is a joyful, love filled way to live and completely life changing. Thank you to Serge Benhayon for pointing out the way, and not telling me what to do.
Thank you Joel, I loved reading your powerful blog.
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me”.
What a gift Universal Medicine has been to humanity in teaching us that yes there is another way
Yes there is another way, true honesty and responsibility. Everyday I am so grateful there is another way and that Serge Benhayon shares his lived experience of it.
I had a recent experience where someone pulled me up on something and at first it left me reeling, only because they had said the one thing I was trying hardest to not look at, but having someone there who cared enough to talk about things that were difficult and work though it is amazing, and works out so much better in the end.
“This gift of simple choice was one of the most liberating tools I have found. It was to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me.” I have been feeling the chaos that I once lived in begin to steadily dissipate as I have been committing to how my choices can change everything. An invaluable gift to share and one that I had not truly considered in the past, having a choice is deeply liberating.
So true Deborah, we are OK compared to the worst atrocities going on in the world but in reality how well are we and how harmonious are our lives?
What a refreshing way to teach, I would like to be in your classroom.
I agree Helen, the answer to the question is ‘that there is another way’ and it is amazing.
Well said Catherine and Jinya. Yes we do have a choice to play our own game.
Yes the Universal Medicine teachings certainly present that there is another way to live which is not just about getting through life, but a way of living in which true well-being is not just an absence of maladies but allows joy and connection.
I am so grateful everyday that there is another way and that Serge Benhayon is sharing his experience of living it with others. As I read your blog Joel I was reminded of all the different practitioners I used to see in search of feeling ‘better’ about myself and I realised that what I’m most appreciative of now is that I have learned to be my own best practitioner by building a loving relationship with myself and listening to my body. No more running around like a mouse on the wheel waiting for answers from someone else. My life is full, vital and fun.
Expressed so beautifully Michelle absolutely spot on. It is vital that we become our own practitioner and build a loving and truth full relationship with ourselves and our bodies. And Serge Benhayon along with Universal Medicine are sharing how this is possible for any one.
Thank you Joel for posing this simple but profound question about whether there could be another way to live and sharing your experience. I totally relate when you say ‘Universal Medicine presented me with another way to be with life. It was a way to step off the treadmill of what I should or shouldn’t do; a way to feel if what I was doing to myself (and others) was supportive or not’. For me this has transformed my life and given it true purpose but also made it so much more enjoyable and fun.
Spot on Joel, we just need to ask the right questions! “is there another way?” being one very pertinent one.
I agree that there is a great arrogance in saying that the predominant way we are living is the best we can do. I know for myself that the way of living I have adopted through the inspiration of Universal Medicine is vastly more supportive and enables me to be more aware when I am choosing something that is not good for my body, whereas in the past I would just be on cruise control doing what everyone else was doing (including drinking alcohol, eating and sleeping poorly, etc.) . This is the trap of comparing ourselves with others, and thinking that I’m Ok because everyone else was abusing there bodies too. There is comfort in that familiarity that lured me into complacency before meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Thanks for showing how it’s as simple as choosing ‘another way’ Joel.
Could there be another way? I stopped my business and along the process I ‘lost’ most of all the certainties we prefer to have to feel ‘fine’ in life. But this turns out to be a beautiful opportunity for me to take responsibility and be aware of the choices I made that led me here. Like it is so clearly said in earlier comments, instead of looking at it like a set of cards that I have been dealt which leaves me to be a victim of some kind.
Thanks to Universal Medicine I am connected again to the wisdom and trust inside me which enables me to play the one big card I have in my hands and heart…. The full me.
I do find myself on the ‘”treadmill of what I should and shouldn’t do” and in comparison once in a while, but I know it is all a matter of choice.
I am getting there.
We were just not asking the right question…
So true!
Very simply and truthfully put Jody. And it’s not just these pages, you only have to look at the many, many comments made on all the Universal Medicine sites to realise that there MUST be another way, the proof is over-whelming, and what Serge Benhayon and Universal present just makes sense.
I so agree with you Sandra….it all makes so much sense.
I can vouch for that!
Life can be simple but extraordinary if we choose, power-full words and so true, thanks Bina.
Another way yes, and it is simple but powerful. Before being inspired by Universal Medicine, I too was burnt out, looking for a new career, depleted, highly strung. Fast forward 7 years of gradual change (all of my own making and my own pace), and I am back full swing in the job I wanted to leave, and feeling better than I did as a younger man. One need not attend Universal Medicine to make such changes in their life, but it is certainly inspiring when you hear it from a man who lives what he presents.
Thank you Joel. The way you put it seems so easy and simple in that the choice is all ours.
‘I had resigned myself to believing that this was as good as it gets.’ Whoa! I recall a number of years ago before coming into contact with Universal Medicine, I was in a group therapy session (yet another unsuccessful attempt at healing my past hurts) and I said to another participant/practitioner that ‘I’d come to the conclusion that I was a sad person and that’s just the way it was going to be for me’. Fortunately for me they burst into laughter, which was revealing in showing me that others didn’t see the suffering I was enmeshed in nearly as much as I felt it. That detail aside, since putting the wisdom that Universal Medicine presents into practice in my life, what I’ve uncovered is that statement couldn’t be farther from the truth. The joy I’ve discovered myself to be by reorienting my choices towards self care and love still surprises me, and the harmony I feel within expands day by day.
Beautiful Stevie.
This is great Joel. “This gift of simple choice to …. to stop the spin of the world from spinning inside me”, is a profound choice and one I have found truly liberating. When I first met Serge Benhayon, the realisation of the truth in this was a huge Ahha moment – and continues to be something I am aware of.
Yes I agree Nick, this is a testament to Universal Medicine and I deeply appreciate the impact this has had on my life
Thankyou Joel for the following line:
‘I live with such deep appreciation that Serge Benhayon cares for humanity more than his own popularity to ask the question – could there be another way?’
The sentence speaks volumes.
Thank you Joel, there is another way and it is a gift of choice.
I agree, sometimes honesty can be really hard, but when someone is asking the questions out of the deepest love for another, you can’t help but hear them.
It is amazing to stop & feel what’s going on in your life and ask the question “could there be another way?”. Thanks for sharing.