1,003 thoughts on “Spirit or Soul? Learning The Difference Through Serge Benhayon”

1. When Serge presented the difference between spirit and soul I realised how the spirit tries to take us away from ourselves, and how the soul keeps us connected to who we are, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great way to feel the connection of the soul, and every choice we make comes from either fire or prana.

2. Appreciating the difference between Spirit and Soul gives an understanding that seems to make so much sense regarding the Divine and our Divinity than that given by the different religions which seem just intellectual theory.

3. I’d never heard anyone present on the difference between spirit and Soul with any clarity before Serge Benhayon and to be honest hadn’t really thought about it that much, but when I heard him speak about this it just made such sense and I could relate to it, especially to how we can either be healing or harming in our expression according to where we are expressing from…

   1. Like you Fiona I had not considered the difference between the two prior to meeting Serge Benhayon. I had actually considered them to be synonymous. Learning the difference and how it is not commonly understood explains so much of the social condition that has out-played for centuries.

4. The truth about spirit and Soul really explains everything about life, and not surprising that so many of us don’t even want to go there, as that awareness would inevitably affect the way we live from then on.

5. What Serge Benhayon presents on Spirit and Soul makes so much sense. I have heard them spoken of in other religious traditions and read about them both in various books, but no one had ever explained it as simply as Serge and everything that he presents has this as its foundation. In fact my understanding of my own relationship with my life has deepened because of this knowing.

6. It is perhaps the greatest corruption of truth we have suffered here on Earth that the spirit and Soul are perceived to be one and the same thing, when the truth is that the human etheric spirit separated from the Soul and in doing so created a way of living that is completely disharmonious to our inner essence. Therefore if we are truly going to embark on what is referred to as ‘spiritual healing’, then it can only refer to the re-joining of the spirit back into the body of love that is the Soul, and not in any way should it mean that the spirit gets further indulged on its wayward path by undertaking supposed ‘healings’ that lead it further away.

7. There is no Spiritual New Age, as the spirit indulges constantly in old ways.

8. Until meeting Serge Benhayon I was of the understanding that Spirit and Soul were changeable and synonymous. Appreciating the difference between the two brings a whole new understanding that makes so much sense and clarity.

9. Thank you Heather – it is so important that the difference between Spirit and Soul are understood, or we forever cap ourselves in the lesser love of Spirit.

   1. There are some great quotes and audio to be found on both spirit and soul in the links below. Well worth a peruse.

      http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-spirit.html

      http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-soul.html

10. ‘…re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple, expansive and more real as I let go of trying to improve myself …’ I was on a quest to improve myself – a never ending striving for perfection. It’s exhausting! I tried to make it about improving me and the world around me. When I am connected with my Soul life is way grander than restricting myself to physical improvements.

11. Learning the true meanings of the words Spirit and Soul has given me such a different perspective on life, to understand that my evolution is back to Soul and that my Spirit is resisting and claiming individuality. We are all one and evolving back to the glory in brotherhood that we once were and still are, just not living it.

12. Having been on the New Age ‘merry- go – round’ for over 25 years myself, the last straw was similar to what you described here Heather, in that one of my last spiritual pursuits involved a teacher whom I found out was into pornography and not so unwilling to share this information with another student. That was the last straw for me, along with seeing how most of the teachers I witnessed at various New Age workshops actually had more emotional and physical issues than I had! How could I gain a greater awareness from them?

13. “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.” Every other person I’d seen/heard speak on some new age topic or other, has always had an agenda. Not so Serge Benhayon. He presents, and lets us feel for ourselves if it is true or not.

14. I love this learning. There is never any right or wrong and no perfection. If my intention is to return to soul, the process to get there is not perfect and there is lots of surrender to every moment of learning and being honest. I really love this process.

15. Life is so simple when we let go of our attachments and expectations and start to deeply listen to and honour what our bodies are telling us. Our bodies are talking to us loudly, and have been, for a long time, and when we start to move more gently, to get a bit more still and come down from our heads and into our bodies, it becomes easier to register that it is talking to us, and to interpret the messages, and act upon what is needed.

16. The clarity that Serge Benhayon offers on the difference between spirit and soul is second to none and in my experience makes complete sense. It’s also genuinely empowering to be more aware of what kind of energy I’m expressing with and from.

17. The explanation of the difference between the spirit and the soul as taught by Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom teaching is fundamental to evolution in my experience.

18. “For the first time in my years of searching, Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy. I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.” This is so true there is nothing in it for Serge, but his love for truth and knowing that we are living so much less than who we are truly meant to be. When Serge speaks you can feel the truth in every cell of the body, we may try and resist but the facts remain, what Serge presents can not be refuted, that there is a difference between Spirit and Soul and not knowing or accepting this has been and is the downfall of man.

19. Not knowing that there is a difference between spirit and Soul is like not knowing there is a difference between night and day. For how do you even begin to arrest ‘the shadows’, if you know not of the light that has cast them?

    1. Much to truly ponder on there, thank you Liane.

    2. So beautifully put Liane and such a poignant and pertinent question. For me this brings up a huge amount of compassion and understanding for those who are yet to know there is a difference. ‘They know not what they do’ as Jeshua once said.

    3. And knowing the difference one has a choice that one did not know one had.

20. There is such a deep pull to return to the truth of our innermost essence, that is completely overriden by an old consciousness that we have to seek outside of ourselves for anything to be of any value, and the ‘innermost’ is a figment of imagination. To get off that merry-go-round and see the truth of the innermost and the lie of the external knowledge, seeking is ‘The Way’ for our long awaited Path of Return back towards our ‘True Home’ and being at one with God.
    “I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life”

21. It is so true that there are a lot of conflicting angles or beliefs on energy and on life, with what looks like a lot of the information coming from all the various and different books on the subject.

22. Heather I feel what has been shared is where many people are at, searching for ways to improve their lives and I was one of those statistics. I always thought it was about my spirit, soul didn’t exist and unaware of prana and fire and how the two differed.

    Once I started to receive sessions from an Esoteric Practitioner did my body respond differently to the sessions. I was so hungry to know more, I started to attend the presentations and workshops by Serge Benhayon and never looked back. This was the missing link and I know this is the coming home healing my soul had been searching for.

23. So simply that it shows us at times how we can go into resistance to such simplicity, and that is revealing to us that we have a spirirt and Soul and that when we are in the resistance we can tell we are connected to our spirit ( prana).

24. The only true healing we as spirits in human form can embark on is to begin the return journey to the love and light of our Soul. All other forms of ‘spiritual healing’ only seek to incarcerate the etheric spirit further in its chosen separation from the whole that is the Soul it has withdrawn from.

25. When I first heard Serge Benhayon talk about the difference between spirit and Soul it was a ‘light-bulb’ moment and I felt this was a vital missing piece in understanding the purpose of life.

26. It is only until we stop looking for answer outside of ourselves and start looking within, that we realize that there is something that is precious in us all, and that is our soul – our connection to that which is divine.

27. Understanding what the truth is about life for yourself is magical, because you are the truth of your life and therefore this journey is marked by an ever deepening relationship with yourself, whereupon love is found to be full and plentiful, it is in fact in abundance within you.

28. Thank you Heather for sharing the difference between Soul and Spirit, for many years I wondered what the difference was and if they were one and the same. I now know the vast difference between the two energies. When I first heard Serge talk, a part of me knew I had come home, to me, to truth, but another part just wanted to run out of there. It took all my strength to stay and choose truth.

29. Understanding the difference between soul and spirit allows us to see events in life in a very different way and takes the emotion out of life.

30. When I read your very normal list of the things you wanted in life – great relationship, lots of money great house great job what struck me was what was absent is relationship with my soul and god if that was our most treasured goal in life we would be so content and heartened with what this life was for we would want for nothing. We literally are focussed on the things that will never sustain us.

31. Heather you have really summarised the foundation of Serge’s work here so well. Having been on the spirituality/ New Age/ enlightenment wagon myself for some years, hearing all the conflicting information, outlandish promises, rah rah, and half truths, it’s quite an amazing experience to not only receive the truth so simply from Serge, but to also feel the truth within my own body with tools such as the Gentle Breath Meditation. Serge has shown me how truth comes hand in hand with simplicity, and that it’s already within us all equally.

32. This was lovely to read today and great for me to reflect on my connection with Soul and what energy am I predominately living in. Reading this again I also felt just how much attention/focus is given to spirit in the world and very little truth to Soul. This in itself exposes in what energy we are living in. Great to see this and also to feel what we are trying to avoid. Thank Goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

33. I used to feel exactly the same as you … and wonder why both with Spirit and Soul and what was the difference. And yep no one had the answer just their own variations and beliefs and most of them where to do with spirit. It was not until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that the truth was truly known. This should be something we are all aware of from very young. Indeed we might know and feel this just not have the knowing confirmed.

34. I used to think the spirit and the soul were the same thing and like you knew absolutely that we had one….But until I met Serge Benhayon I hadn’t understood the difference. It’s like saying the ocean and the beach are the same thing, but they surely aren’t…. one is a mass of water and one is on land made of rock and particles of sand. Yes, they meet and interlink on the shoreline, but in texture, vibrancy and makeup they are very very different.

35. When we stop looking, we become so much more than we have ever imagined ourselves to be, but it is not from seeking that we come to this point but from stopping. When we stop and feel the truth of who we are, we know we are all that we have been looking for, already within, and to take the steps to come back to this truth is the most precious and wisest choice one can make.

36. ‘For the first time in my years of searching, Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy. I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.’

    Bingo, bingo and bingo, Heather! This was my response too. Thank God the ‘search’ was over, thank God for common sense presentations that finally made sense of ‘life, the universe and everything’, and yes – Serge Benhayon is the real deal.

37. The clarity that Serge Benhayon brings to the subject of energy and it’s relevance to our lives is priceless.

38. If a so-called healing quest does not ask us to take responsibility for the choices we have made to get to the place we are, this ‘healing’ is not coming from our soul. Nothing can just be fixed – healing means arresting the ill energy that created the wound, the ill way of being in the first place. Sweat lodges, chanting, meditating for hours if not days on end, and wailing out our emotions amongst many other things I have witnessed and participated in, just take us deeper into the illusion that we have healed, while all along the hurt we carry is further ingrained into our being.

39. Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. ‘This simple truth, available to all, eludes many. Not until we know and understand this for ourselves can we begin bring order and purpose to our life.’

40. It is so easy to get caught up in the spiritual quest which only offers a quick fix to life with no evolution at all, it is only until we can let go of that which has hurt us that we can start to feel the truth from our soul and how we can live in the flow of the universe.

41. I used to use these terms interchangeably – Spirit – Soul, weren’t they? But of course they are not, but I have learned this through not only listening to what Serge Benhayon presents, but ‘feeling’ the truth of what he has presented on this topic. I have felt what it means to be lost in the energy of the spirit and then what it feels like to align to the light of our soul, very very different.

42. It would be amazing if we were taught the difference between Soul and spirit as children, how different life would be for us all if this was spoken openly about and taught at school from a very young age.

43. If you ever think the the spirit can offer any true healing, you are in illusion. Hard hitting but the truth that we all need to and ought to be brought up with.

44. ‘I have learned to embrace life again and through Universal Medicine’s no nonsense and very practical presentations I am now taking more care of my body – eating what suits me, doing gentle exercise and choosing to visit my doctor if the need arises.’ I feel the same as what you’ve shared here. I didn’t realise how much I was not embracing life, instead treating it as if it was the biggest burden ever given to me and walking around like I carried the universe. Boy do I feel a lot lighter nowadays.

45. I remember the first time I found out the difference between spirit and soul I was in shock, I wanted to get rid of my spirit once and for all. But that proved to be futile, as we cannot brush under the carpet what we don’t want to see until we take the responsibility that what we don’t want to see is also our own choice and creation, and therefore, to be aware of this and accept our own choices, to stay with feeling the consequences of these choices would open up a way for us to choose truly again. We cannot skip any steps and there is a lot to be honest about, to nominate and also to re-correct from our choices, but every day this process is inspiring no matter how challenging it may feel, because the purpose of it is clear, it is to return to soul and to love.

46. It can be a confronting thing to face, that in everyone in this world, all the time, there is this ongoing battle between the spirit part of us, and the whole that is divine. With our friends, our family, our work colleagues – no matter the nice words they might say, we need to feel the truth of where they are actually coming from, every moment, ever. day. And what about us as well, are we actually ready to admit, that so often we are choosing and doing things that truly are not soul inspired? For what you show here Heather and our life backs up, is we’re selfish and separated so much of the time, but in realising this we offer ourselves the chance to reconnect and come back. We can do it any time.

47. I have observed that when one lives from their soul there is an utter consistency with truth and love in their life. Not with perfection but a deep dedication to honouring this truth -there are no ‘out’ moments in other words. When someone lives from spirit it is the complete opposite and is easily exposed by the lack of consistency and dedication to the truth they talk about.

48. Improving is a word associated with the Spirit. It is about investing in this plane of life. Soul opens the door to what is immanent to us permanently, hence to life beyond this realm. Two very different words; two different worlds.

    1. This explanation is a great distinction between the meaning of the words Sprit and Soul
       “Two very different words; two different worlds.”

49. It is a life changing moment when we realise that our search for truth is over, and all the energy we invested into searching for the more of who we are, can be transferred into exploring, discovering, learning and surrendering to embodying the truth of who we are, our Soul, which had never left us. This is the beginning of feeling the sense of what true liberation is. As it is our connection to our Soul that truly defines all that we are, and guides us to know and live our true way of being.

50. Our Soul knows what is in our best interests, and in that takes into consideration everyone and everything else too. The love and equality is absolute when we are expressing from our Soul.

51. I remember the first time I attended a talk that Serge gave at Byron. I knew from my christian upbringing that there was a soul and spirit but had no understanding of the difference, when Serge first spoke I had this amazing feeling of coming home, after that and during the talk I experienced the holding of my soul and the pull of my spirit, I did not realise this at the time but it seemed to take all my strength to stay on the seat for a part of me, which I now know as the spirit just wanted to get out of there, each day is an ongoing choice to stay with soul or run off with the spirit. I feel extremely blessed to know and experience the difference, and now know I have a choice to choose love.

52. In the past I won’t have given a toss at this understanding but knowing the difference, has been the most empowering thing I have ever come to.

53. I think you have broken down the whole Philosophy of what is on offer from The Way of The Livingness, its a simple daily, moment by moment choice. Spirit or Soul but I know that I am in trouble when my Spirit tries to complicate and make this choice out to be much more then what it is. I love this line…
    “I’ve stopped looking ‘out there’ and I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!”

54. Serge is amazing and I totally agree that he presents the hard hitting facts for the absolute love for humanity. Sometimes I have struggled to hear them or they have gone over my head but sooner or later I become open to hearing what he is saying and I know from the way my body feels that it is absolute truth. Keep it coming Serge as I know you will.

55. Understanding the difference in our bodies between true love and emotional love allows us to see the ways we have been giving our power away to others and finally break through those limitations to give ourselves permission to be who we truly are.

56. There is such a difference in the quality of expression of each of the spirit and the soul. One takes you down an emotional track and the other takes you back to love.

57. The greatest healing the human spirit can ever be offered is to be given the opportunity to reawaken to the truth that it is a part of a far greater and loving whole – the Soul. This is the truth of who we are.

58. ‘…as I let go of trying to improve myself and dispel all of the beliefs I have subscribed to along the way’ I still catch myself wanting to improve myself, and it can be quite subtle. It’s a great trick to keep myself from appreciating my essence that needs no improving but simply allowing to be. ‘Improvement’ takes myself away from simply being and knowing who I am. So all those self-help books I read that don’t acknowledge we are already divine and to live from our essence first (sure, there are necessary skills to learn in this world) are actually not helping at all but hindering our return to living from our Soul.

59. ‘In contrast with this energy of the spirit, re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple, expansive and more real as I let go of trying to improve myself and dispel all of the beliefs I have subscribed to along the way.’ Trying to improve ourselves is such a trap as it confirms there is something wrong with us in the first place.

60. When we start to look for answers outside us, it will take us on a goose chase, the answers are within us and once we choose to come back to ourselves and connect to our soul the simplicity starts to flow.

61. Best thing to do is to take a good long look at the experts – do they look like they are living what they teach, deeply, fully, in every aspect of their life? I know that Serge Benhayon does, in every minute of the day, and that has been a true inspiration. A love well lived, and now shared for all of us.

62. The Ageless Wisdom teachings and Serge Benhayon have set the record straight on so much confusion, misrepresentations and wrong interpretations of the simple facts of life – and the difference between spirit and Soul and between prana and Fire is fundamental and can change one’s whole life around, as has happened for many.

63. Having just read a blog on whole-body-intelligence vs mind-intelligence it strikes me that it’s a very similar enquiry as to the source from which we receive our thoughts, impulses and sensations. Understanding the fact of a spirit and a Soul helps understand the duality from which we can respond and react to life. The spirit draws from a particular pool of consciousness, while the Soul another. One is separative, individualistic, self-serving (ultimately) and self-identifying while the other is unifying, loving, evolving and holds all in equality.

64. There is such a difference between spirit and soul yet for years I’ve not had a clear understanding of what that was until Universal Medicine made it so clear. For me now I can feel how my spirit is constantly looking for identification, in a high or a low and in fact doesn’t really care about my body, whereas as my soul is that steady voice always there no matter what, I’m learning more each day to choose to listen to it.

65. There is definitely a huge difference between true love and emotional love, fire and prana and when we become wise to this fact our whole understanding of life around us starts to shift and change and make sense as we begin to understand the world we have together created and why it is how it is.

66. “I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life.” I too have felt this drive you mention Heather, and can really relate to not even considering I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. The spiritual quest is so all consuming that we cannot see through the fog of illusion it creates around us. In contrast when we stop the endless searching and simple reconnect to ourselves, the fog lifts and we begin to see life through the eyes of the Soul, which is all encompassing.

67. The spiritual world was never all that attractive to me and any ‘new age’ book or modalities tied the word spirit up with the word soul that never made any sense to me until I met Serge Benhayon who spoke with such clarity about the difference between the two words … it finally made sense!

68. This is one of the very basic teachings from Universal Medicine and yet its healing capacity is truly universal – it covers every single area of life bar none and with this understanding, I can say life is never dull with the knowing that everything we experience either comes from spirit or Soul.

69. Heather you have shared it so beautifully and simply. Our Soul is our true connect which is the fire, when we align to our Soul we can feel the light, clarity and strength within our body.

70. I recently gained a deeper understanding of the soul and spirit. A friend explained that we have the human body and the third dimension – everything physical. Then we have the 4th dimension and the spirit, the first point of light. But we are more than this – we are 5th dimensional and this is the plane of the soul. This gave me a huge understanding of why we get stuck in the realm of the spirit. It is “more” than just the body, and the light of the spirit can be deceptive. We can choose to stop here. But we are more than this, we are soul and the light of the soul is far more than the first point of light of the spirit.

71. So so simple and so so beautiful, the truth of what is shared here and how easy it really is to return to our true normal. If we are finding it hard then it is revealing the extent to which we are still wedded to and identified by the complication we bring in to offset the truth of who we are.

72. Knowing the difference between spirit and sound should be a given to all of us at birth. It offers a map to evolution and a key to own own self imposed prison.

73. One of the greatest things of understanding the difference between Spirit and soul is that it makes the ‘Spiritual New Age’ a no-go zone. The ‘Spiritual New age’ is a clear interference that brings bliss to the Spirit and deep disturbances to the body.

74. Welcome to the Age of the Soul. The spiritual new age has been full of ‘promise’ but it is the Soul that truly delivers.

    1. I like that Richard. The ‘promise’ you mention is so very alluring, Every turn we make on the windy round of spiritual pursuit reveals more bright, shiny objects promising everlasting happiness. The road of the Soul takes us back to where we began – to our very essence at the centre of our hearts. It has no adornments on the path or return, just pure and simple truth, love, joy and harmony which can be exposing and uncomfortable if we are still seeking betterment of our lives, instead of what the Soul is offering – being at One with ourselves, united and universal.

75. Discovering the ‘bridge of self-love’ through the presentations of Universal Medicine has been, and is, a most beautiful path to walk re-connecting with my Soul – I recommend it everyone who is not yet walking it.

76. Understanding the difference between spirit and soul is like waking up to the truth of life rather than living under illusion and in delusion. The truth can be disturbing but how can there be any other way?

    1. Very well said, Victoria. When I was introduced to the difference it changed my whole focus of where and how to look for the answers to the meaning of life. Instead of striving to get to somewhere, it became the returning to what I had separated from – my Soul and God.

77. We live in a dualistic world, created to forever reflect to the human spirit the path back home to the Soul it separated from. As a small example we have the seeming polarity of male and female set in place to help us learn to balance the expression of the genders within us: the motion (maleness) and stillness (femaleness). As well as being bound in an unending cycle of night and day that shows us we are forever given the opportunity to revisit all that we have lived that has not served the truth of who we are and also serves as a constant reminder that – when in darkness seek the light that guides you from within.

78. I find fascinating that for some reason the New Age is associated with a personal growth perspective. How is this possible when the New age guarantees that there is going to be no real personal growth and that the only growth you will experience is the growth of the gap between you and truth? Why those who have suffered the New Age do not tell us how it really was?

79. This was a massive realization for me also. Seeing that I pretty much had lived under the control of my spirit most of my life and the many before that. It’s the realization that we have control over our life by our very choice of which we align to, spirit or soul. One brings the light of God and the other the complete illusion that it knows the way to God.

80. I too was unaware that there was a difference between Spirit and Soul until I connected with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. There are so many truths I have learned through presentations that Serge has done and I can see that I too will be a Forever Student!

    1. I too had not know the different between Spirit and Soul, and how differently the can control our body. It is only now I have started to understand and feel the difference between the 2 energies. When I am connected to my Soul I feel light, joyful and strong, when I am controlled by my spirit I feel heavy, down and weak.

81. A great blog Heather bringing another angle about Soul and Spirit and Love an emotional love.
    We are deeply bound in emotions and reactions until there is a deeper understanding of what we are dealing with when ruled by a lesser love of the spirit.
    “I had been identified with my hurts and seeking to avoid feeling these at all costs – hence all the distractions I filled my life with”.

82. When I first heard Serge Benhayon presented on Spirit and Soul, it made so much sense to me. My understanding of these two energies has supported me to understand life and why our world is in its current state. I have been looking to understand life and our purpose as far back as I can remember. Now, I fully understand and I am willing to embrace our true purpose here on earth.

83. It is a life-changing understanding I agree Heather, it was such a revelation to me when it was first shared with me too. Suddenly so much made sense of my experiences with the spiritual new age prior to that. I got to experience the difference shortly afterwards, which also meant that not only did I have an intellectual understanding that there was a difference, but I could tangibly feel the difference. One of the things that made so much sense was that the Soul knew exactly its own nature as well as that of the spirit, whereas the spirit knew only of itself, and could know nothing of the actual nature of the Soul.

84. It’s funny how we don’t really question the difference until we feel the difference.

    1. This flips learning and education on its head. We can know vast amounts in our mind but until we feel it in our bodies how do we know if the information it true or not and worth following/adopting.

85. The question of what and who was driving my life never occurred to me when I was younger and instead of looking within for the answers to life, I looked outside myself thus deepening the black hole of illusion I was moving towards. Listening to one short interview of Serge Benhayon re-connected me back to the truth that the answers were within me. With the support of the Gentle Breath Meditation I started to feel the difference between the choices I was making and how they felt in my body – these choices came from my inner connection to my soul or from the erratic and driven spirit. This small (but very big) understanding also changed my life Heather – thank you for sharing.

86. ” I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life.”
    I remember this futile, disappointing, empty search, it was so exhausting for me and so pointless just chasing my tail. It wasn’t until l was introduced to Universal Medicine that the search ended and became “the way of the livingness’ and my soul started initiating true changes for the better.

87. The clarity that Serge Benhayon offers on life, love, spirit, soul, energy, healing, our evolution and more, is unsurpassed in my experience. What he presents is revelatory and yet makes such sense in a very practical and real life way and also is like hearing something you already knew just hadn’t realised or remembered. What he shares is priceless and something that deserves to be widely known for all to access.

88. Heather, I understand so much of what you share here, as I too have spent a long time out there searching for truth, until I came across Universal Medicine and knew my search was over; and it was and is, but the work continues as I learn to live and be from my own innermost, to follow the path of my soul and to find out how that is in the world. I stumble at times, but I get back up no matter what and continue, knowing I have found the truth and it’s been inside me all along. This is a huge gift, one I’m forever grateful for.

89. ‘I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.’ This was me! I was so lost I kept myself going by ‘one day this’ll happen.’ I included being recognised for being brilliant at a job or some talent or other and having a very successful family – so well rounded children that others would say, ‘wow, great parenting!.’

    It’s great to be honest about this and about how I can still chase recognition when I always have the choice to re-connect with my soul and feel the love of God within. What’s lovely is seeing how I tried to escape from life in fantasies about how amazing my life would be when I was older. I am now the age of my imagines so have let go of a lot of these dreams and have started accepted life as it is which is ever evolving. There is no magic island of success I have attained and can relax in bliss in the sun on – this was never real and felt like such an illusion, thick in fog. I so appreciate choosing the honesty of what is present in life because it is in this that I can connect with my soul. Where else would my soul be other than in every facet of life? It does not hide.

90. I too felt this to be revelatory, ‘Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.’ From this understanding life for me suddenly made sense and the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place.

91. ‘I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.’ A very powerful learning and one that never stops as we discern every day what supports us back to soul.

92. Serge Benhayon has written extensively on the quality of prana, how it is a source of energy required for physical earth life to exist, and because of this it is essential to our lives. However, the problems arise when we use this energy for our expression, because we are divine beings living within a human frame, so our expression naturally wants to be divine, to come from the soul. And thus we have the key to life on earth – keeping in right balance our pranic health within our human form, and our divine expression from our Soul.

93. To know that everything is energy and that there are two energy sources we can choose from, and that thereafter we will be run by, is very liberating indeed.

94. ‘For the first time in my years of searching, Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy. I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.’ Great words Heather, I totally agree I always knew there was something more, and Serge Benhayon has shown me the truth – no deception and no false promises.

95. When we connect to Soul our lives becomes so simple as we then will evolve from one moment into the other, returning to who we naturally are, while when living from our individualised mind we get entangled in the complications in life that in fact are creations of the same source the energy is from when we are connected with that state of mind. It is only a game to keep ourselves in the illusion that individualism and creation are our right on earth but in fact, we are played with as our natural way of being is that, in connection with our Soul that does not need creation or whatsoever and know we are all connected with one another instead.

96. When we look out there for the answer, its an overwhelming task, stretching though time and the world, filled with false prophets and charlatans. But when we start to look inside, its always with us, the territory is known, and nothing can damage the divinity that lives within us all equally.

97. A reminder to be in the Livingness of the truth that Spirit being Prana and Soul being Fire. Thank you Heather!

98. Do we engage our spirit in life or do we chose to live with our soul? – that is the choice we have at any moment and it is called free will. I have always felt, when I lived in engagement with my spirit, that there was another way of living possible but because no where in my surroundings was there somebody living this, I missed the reflection to be inspired by, to wake me up and make me access my inner heart that was always available to me but was cautiously masked by my spirit that I then lived with.

99. I love how you say that you had always known that we have a spirit and a soul but couldn’t really tell the difference. I find we seem to be doing this with many things, we take words and their explanations as given but we do not seem to really know what they mean. We have intellectual explanations for them but these terms are not lived, instead we seem to be skipping on the surface on what we potentially could live.

100. I never wasn’t aware of there being a spirit and soul growing up or in and around anything I had seen until Universal Medicine. I knew the world wasn’t flat so to speak but I didn’t know it was round either. It was like I was trying to put myself in the middle of something, where I didn’t really know but at the same time I didn’t really not know either. The typical attempt to sit on an imaginary fence. This approach never worked and I would often see the more to life part. I bumped around all over the place looking for the more and then I bumped into Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and saw a reason to come down from the fence. Why sit somewhere that isn’t your choice? Spirit and Soul make sense and at every turn I am seeing more and more awareness around them both and you could say I’m getting to know myself again.

101. I too wanted everything to be how we are taught a good life is. Loving relationships, great friends, comfortable home, great surroundings. To stop and feel that in truth all I ever wanted is the expansion, stillness and joy that living from the impulse of my soul offers, was and daily still is, very humbling.

     1. Sure Leigh, the grandness we connect with when choosing for our soul is indeed very humbling as it gives me everything I was ever looking for all my life and many lives before.

102. Without a clear understanding and experience of the difference between the spirit and the Soul, we are (by choice) at the mercy of the spirits inherently separative and individualised view and attitudes towards life. It made perfect sense to me after years of ‘spiritual growth’ that I had no clue what the Soul actually was, thinking them just interchangeable words. It became very clear after just one session with Serge Benhayon that a connection to the Soul put us and life into a whole different ballpark… life before this connection I now refer to as my previous life as it bears little to no resemblance to how it has been since.

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104. “this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard”. What a lesson to learn and one to be living. It is a loving work in progress for me but I saw so clearly that last night I ate in self-indulgence and overrode the body, which is disrespectful to the body. I knew it at the time but this line really makes it super clear. Thank you.

105. Such concepts as Soul and Spirit can only make sense to one who is determined to discern the difference between the two for themselves. And such discernment can only be achieved by the way you live. No one can in truth teach religion, no matter how clear their words or explanation. Sure, they can teach concepts and impart knowledge, but as Henry Throreau once said, “to be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.” And so, it is though living the principles of any religion, that the truth or otherwise upon which it is founded either gets exposed or confirmed. Life itself is the greatest and only teacher.

106. Having something as simple as the fact that Spirit is Prana, and Soul being Fire makes understanding the human condition so much easier. Before Universal Medicine I had the same kind of confusion as you had Heather. This all makes much sense now as opposed to the years of my searching for truth.

107. This is the hook that most of us fall for in one way or another: “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.”. To have this and to have ticked all these boxes represents success in our society, and we get fooled into thinking we have ‘made it’. But is this true success? Is this really successful if our lives behind the scenes feel empty, there is no real love in the relationships we have, there is no purpose to our lives and there is only this facade of happiness that disintegrates faster than the sand in an hourglass?
     So what is true success? Could it be to do with the quality of our relationships with ourself and each other? Could this come from realising there is a distinction (and a big one) between living from the spirit or living from the Soul, as presented here by Heather?

108. Without the awareness that we can have a connection with our Soul and live that quality and light throughout our day, we are left lost, knowing there is something more, and yet not taking the true steps to claim it for ourselves.

109. Thank you Heather – this difference is the quintessential and crucial teaching mankind needs to hear, know and see, and should be the basic premise of every schoolroom class. We readily learn the difference between hot and cold, simple mathematics and yet the difference of the energy we all run on, is kept in the dark. Like a kid who hasn’t done their homework, we don’t fool anyone by ignoring the truth and carrying on like everything is alright.

110. Being aware of the difference between true love and emotional love is greatly empowering. Through the willingness of being honest, understanding this difference within myself I have been able to develop a much deeper connection with who I am, as such with my Soul. I have come to know that true love is who we already are within, and has no need for comparison, judgement, no need to belong or to seek elsewhere to find it. The love we are within is complete in its fullness, all-embracing, eternal and alight with the sacredness of our connection to our Soul – who we truly are.

111. It is obvious that humanity is searching for something; we pursue the answers in academics, in acquiring skills, in identifying with certain cultures, styles, beliefs and or lifestyles/issues, and all along the simple answer is found in the esoteric teaching of ‘spirit and Soul.’ Soul is the quality we are searching for and know it to be within us, but live separated from in the spirit, which is endless until we return to Soul. The proof of this is, we have acts of violence, heinous crimes, misery, body issues, exacerbated rates of illness and disease and we also have moments of true love, stillness, awareness, appreciation, universal connection and joy – what more proof do we want when there is so much in our every day to ponder on, and be inspired by.

112. Thank you Heather – I also struggled with understanding the difference but through the Universal Medicine Presentations the different can now be felt and I am becoming much quicker at picking up when the spirit is making the call. Every morning I wake the spirit is off and running, looking outside the body for stimulation and recognition which can be exhausting. Now that I have experience the difference and return to my inner connection through the breath, the level of vitality I live in my body is continually building. I loved your comment – ‘ I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard’.

113. I also searched for truth for many years as well Heather, always buying the latest New Age book or attending workshops with world renowned healers etc and no-one in all those years ever mentioned the truth between the 2 energies spirit or Soul. Hearing this for the first time from Serge Benhayon was a light bulb moment and a powerful truth that is truly life changing for anyone who chooses to hear and accept this immense wisdom.

114. People often spoke about spirit and soul as if they were one and the same and I didn’t give it much thought or really question it until I heard Serge Benhayon present on the difference between them. Wow – not only is there a difference but it is as different as night and day. It is amazing how much we take for granted as being true without really questioning for ourselves. There is much to learn or, in fact, re-learn.

115. ‘Differing versions of truth’ are not truth at all but lies we are sold that keep us veiled from the truth of all things.

116. It has been so revealing and empowering to understand and to know the nature of my own spirit and Soul – so many questions answered.

117. “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there.” – It is indeed that simple in essence, just in practice we have a lot of systems in society that ask us to do the opposite and so can be challenging but the clarity that Serge Benhayon brings makes it a lot easier and clearer.

118. Thank you for sharing Heather, I remember as a child hearing the two names mentioned I just thought they were interchangeable for the same meaning. When I first came to understand the difference I was amazed as I could feel the pull of my soul and the resistance of my spirit. I now know I have a choice as to which energy runs my body, and each morning on waking I choose Soul.

119. “Only in recent years through the teachings of Serge Benhayon have I learnt the difference between spirit and Soul and felt this for myself.” For myself also, having been thoroughly confused by past spiritual teachings that misrepresented the words spirit and soul, I now realise it is really simple. Which energy do we choose to align to? Every choice we make has a consequence, depending on this initial choice.

120. That really is what it is all about in every moment of every day, we do have this choice, Spirit or Soul and once we do know there is a difference it really isn’t that hard to know which is which, as if you are anything like me, spirit was created to destroy me and my Soul is a constant, there to gently guide me back from where I came from.

121. It is a blessing to find out how simple life is and can be lived and a crucial part about this is the understanding of spirit and soul.

122. If we were to be taught in school that there is a difference between spirit and our soul then life would be quite different. The thing is that the spirit doesn’t want to be recognized as being the one making all the choices that leads us to have a life that is unpleasant. It wants to hide and think that it will all be ok. The soul knows what is true and what is not and can easily guide us back to a joyful life but it is us that has to make that choice, the spiritual part of us has to surrender to the fact that it can be carried through life sustained by the energy of our soul, but then it (the spirit) has to give up a part of its dominating ways in the way it wants to control life.

     1. This is so true Matts – the spirit seeks to control in so many ways, and yet the Soul is there all understanding and holding of the very light that seeks to deny the Soul even exists. To have an understanding that there are 2 distinct energies involved is very important, and then it becomes about putting this into practice, to keep open to feeling and not being afraid to make a mistake. I find myself in a situation where I am continuously learning, and learning for me comes from the way I live – a very practical experience, and one that then stays with me always. Life is a process of learning anyways, and when you bring in the understanding of energies, of spirit and Soul, there is much to embrace in the process.

123. It is an interesting observation to see how consistently distorted and deliberately misinterpreted are the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom to ensure that the nature and fact of the spirit doesn’t get exposed. It makes one see how much the spirit tries to control this realm, but our true power will only ever be in our connection to the Soul.

124. I’d explored and looked into different kinds of energy based healing before meeting Serge Benhayon and none of them presented the clarity about the different types of energy available to us like Serge Benhayon does. What he presents about fire and prana, soul and spirit made so much sense and the practical experience of doing exercises in Universal Medicines Sacred Esoteric Healing level 1 course just greater confirmed the fact for me that what he presents is the real deal.

125. It’s definitely opened up a whole other level of awareness knowing that we choose to align to different energies. Puts the responsibility back on us.

126. Once we are open to feeling the truth the messenger appears.

127. I love how you share that the ‘bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love’ and can really relate to this having spent so many years beating myself up for not having my life sorted and then attending my first Universal Medicine presentation which so simply presented the difference between the spirit and Soul and the many choices we make every day about which to align to. Making a commitment to be more self-loving has transformed my relationship with myself and as I build a loving foundation I can now access the inner wisdom that eluded me for so many years when I was searching fruitlessly outside of myself.

128. Living with Soul makes so much more sense, it provides me with insights in how to live this in normal life, just living my everyday life but the energy I do it in is so completely different from living this life in spirit. Living in Souls fills me with joy and opportunities to truly evolve, while life in spirit has only brought me complexity and made me feel miserable when looking back where I came from and was heading to.

     1. I agree with you Nico – Simplicity and joy living with Soul and complexity and misery with choosing to align to spirit.

129. Thank you Heather, it is indeed a simple way of living to reconnect to the soul and live from there – and it feels beautiful to once again feel the love inside of ourselves. I still hover between the two worlds of spirit and soul. The world of spirits is filled with issues, hurts, beliefs, ideals and a lack of awareness or connection to the truth that I am divine, it feels empty, serious, miserable and stressful. Being soulful feels still, joyful, content, powerful, knowing, harmonious, solid, playful and loving. The contrast is extreme!

130. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.”

     Beautifully true Heather, as is all you have shared. The true energetic meaning of the word ‘spirit’ is ‘bridge’. As the spirit is that part of us that separated from the love and light of the Soul, it makes sense that the way we find our way back to this great body of love is through learning how to deeply nurture, love and care for ourselves. That is, through the activity of self-love we are able to build a bridge back to our true selves.

131. Heather,
     I read this sentence. “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.”
     And went wow, this is the record that runs for most of us, want, need, demand. How humbling to know that what we want, lies in purity within, without the lacing that wanting puts onto our behavior. Even more humbling is the fact that it is a choice to stop and live our beauty, compassion and integrity.

132. Thank you Heather for sharing your story of returning to your inner heart. It is amazing that all the time we have been searching outside of ourselves, that what we have been looking for has resided deep within unknown. So simple yet so true. I too knew there was a soul and spirit I just thought they were different words that meant the same, now I know they are worlds apart energetically and literally.

133. Knowing that the difference between Spirit and Soul, and that we are vessels of energy and choose the energy to work through us, has been life changing. I can either add to the illusions that spirit creates, and separate from who I truly am, or I can re-connect to my heart and the oneness of the soul and ground more love and unity of Humanity.

134. “I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching” – this is such an interesting point, and the one I can totally relate to, and for me really exposes how every action of mine was coming from a belief that said I was not good enough by default, and none of the practice or techniques I was exposed to told me otherwise, so the seeking itself became very much the purpose.

135. Understanding the difference between spirit and soul is one of the greatest revelations ever. Only when we know the difference can we understand more about life and thus, observe how our lives are run by the spirit. By connecting to ourselves, to our hearts, and making loving choices from our Soul is evolution.

136. The description of being led by spirit as ‘looking out there’ is an apt one that works on very subtle levels, including being in thoughts about how much we have to do in the day as opposed to being with our body, present with what we are doing. One brings an experience of anxiousness and the other of a quality of feeling complete. The benefit to everyday quality of life though understanding this distinction has been and continues to be enormous for me.

137. Embracing life again is such a present everyday, no longer choosing to withdraw but sharing myself, working as in being out there and enjoying all of this is pretty awesome. And I have made these choices in my life since I came across Universal Medicine and felt the truth of what they present.

138. What I found interesting is the heavy load of images as in “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends” that people associate with the New Age. By means of contrast, I do not associate Universal Medicine with any image.

     1. Exactly Eduardo. Universal Medicine reminds us that an image or a picture comes from outside of ourselves and that there are no images or ideals of how things should be. This brings us back to the heart of Universal Medicine’s teachings that ‘everything is energy’. From a connection with our body can we feel and become aware of energy so as not to be tricked by the images that are constantly tempting, tantalising and manipulating our perception.

139. Serge presenting the difference between spirit and soul offers the opportunity to see through illusion and live truth.

140. ‘the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love’, gosh yes, and beginning to feel what our body truly needs and honouring that is so important a step on the bridge.

141. One thing you can say about Serge Benhayon is that he lives, breathes and walks his talk. and that living informs everything on which he presents. So you get the real deal in real life as a powerful reflection of what is true and what is possible for us all.

142. Once we have a feel for the nature of these two choices, and realise that one is truly loving and the other takes us away from what is deeply nurturing to the body, at any one time, we have the possibility of a choice, and we see how one choice can build on the next, and so on, so we are responsible for connecting to the fire or the prana in ourselves and thus our contribution to the energy of the individualised spirit or of the oneness even the spirit is from.

143. In time, you can gradually feel the difference between the two – although it takes a great deal of honesty and awareness. Such is life.

144. Living between spirit and soul, a fundamental ground stone for our every way in life. “Re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple, expansive and more real as I let go of trying to improve myself and dispel all of the beliefs I have subscribed to along the way” I feel this sums up a lot, living a life from Soul certainly requires one to dispel all beliefs, which is very liberating.

145. We are from soul and do belong there but somewhere along the line I have chosen to follow that other energy, the energy of the spirit and to enter the world of creation which led me further and further away from soul and ultimately lost connection with. But thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who made me remember that I am from soul and that it is just a matter of choice to what energy to align and be lived by, I am now on may way back choosing for the energy of soul to the best of my ability.

146. Re-discovering, as innately I knew, the difference between Spirit and Soul was one of those turning points in life where I can reflect and suddenly make sense of nearly everything that has taken place both in my life and in others. Until that point I was living with “life just happens” now I know that we make choices and their are consequences, the quality of those choices are made by the quality of energy which in turn comes back to Spirit or Soul.

147. When I first heard the clear and true meaning of spirit and Soul I had an awareness that all those years I had sat on a church pew and Religious Education lessons at school no one had ever presented, or even known, this simple truth. Now I was free to feel my own inner-heart and be aware of the opposing energies that are available for us and what is love and what is not love.

148. Spirit by nature is individualistic, a part of the whole, whereas we are one in Soul. Love is the language of the Soul.

149. The difference between spirit and soul is a fundamental teaching and guiding star of The Ageless Wisdom.
     Learning to discern between the two, at times, can be challenging as the spirit is very ‘tricky’.
     Great blog thank you Heather.

150. The ‘Spiritual New Age’ is the new Mecca for those that live in permanent motion, totally unsettled in their bodies. It offers a million different options to keep in such pattern of movement. The Ageless Wisdom, instead, helps to change the movement to a way that feels totally natural to the body.

151. It is of course best not to just take the teachings of Serge Benhayon as fact, merely because he said so. As he has always said, challenge what is presented by the way you live. When I first came to Universal Medicine, I was not so much suspicious as cautious with regards to the religious philosophy presented by Serge Benhayon. He is of course not the first to present the world the way he does, and if you really dig deep through history, you find similar things said by various people – from Alice A. Bailey through to Pythagoras. References to Soul and our disconnection from Soul is not a new philosophy, as Serge Benhayon has always pointed out. He merely presents a philosophy that is as old as time, albeit often bastardised in its recording through history.

     But I digress. To truly understand and feel the fact of Soul and Spirit is actually not hard and available to all. However, it requires a certain disciplined way of living that allows one to redevelop their energetic awareness of all things. That starts of course with building a body that is once again sensitive. That means looking at all the things we do to avoid our sensitivity. And that is why for example food is such a big topic. Sugar of course creates a feeling of stimulation that does not enable you to feel anything but racy, and so your ability to feel anything else is numbed etc etc. Deal with all that, open up, stop protecting yourself and meeting the world’s expectations, and you gradually open up to a way of feeling life that is not restricted by physicality – and in that, you can quite easily feel the difference in energetic emanations between your Soul and your Spirit, or what many mistakenly refer to as our higher self. The Soul expresses through fire, and the blessing of esoteric healing sessions is that this can be experienced despite the fact that you are not necessarily aware of it in daily living life.

     1. I love what you write here, Adam. Beautiful.

152. Thank you, Heather for this sharing – a great reminder for me.. I am always a little amazed that I can still choose the complexity of the spirit over the simplicity of the soul. This is definitely something that I am much more aware of and my body is always a truthful reflection of my choices.

     1. Beautifully said, Anne. It makes me think of the little devil and angel cartoons from my childhood where they sit on the characters’ shoulders telling them what to do. But we don’t need to be told, we only need to feel into what serves us best.

153. Life becomes very simple when we know we have a choice and that everything that goes on in our lives is by us choosing it to be so by the energy we are aligning to.

154. I had very similar feelings when I was on a spiritual pursuit about the way these ‘gurus’ or supposedly evolved people lived. It didn’t make sense to be why they needed to smoke cigarettes and then tell me that I need to clear my grief. Life is now finally making sense thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and I know it is the real deal because of how Serge and the rest of his family live. They walk the talk completely and consistently.

155. We are offered a panorama of distractions, a plethora of spiritual new age attractions, yet all are designed for us to know everything but the truth. Thanks to Serge Benhayon, the truth is back on centre stage for all to once more know the truth they hold within – if they choose.

156. The connection back to soul is a simple as breathing the gentle breath, there we find what we have been searching for all our lives for. .

157. Heather, reading your blog today I am struck by how irresponsible my pursuits within the spiritual new age were, your line; ‘I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends’, really drove that home. I wanted all those things you list and yet when I read that list today I can feel I was demanding them without having put the work in, and that in truth if I’d gotten them I would have actually destroyed what I needed to learn. It’s humbling today to understand and see that where I am in life is a blessing and the things I’ve learnt along the way have been a needed part of my evolution back to love and soul, and without the many ‘what I saw as challenges or things I did not have’, I would not have the love or understanding I have today. So I wasted time in my spiritual pursuits that I didn’t need to and in doing so I turned away from life. Thankfully I found Universal Medicine, and understood that even though what was said was hard to hear, that it was true, and I committed to continuing on the path I now am, learning how to live and be in life connected to my soul. It’s humbling for sure, and I have amazing support in Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, and it’s many practitioners and students. Thanks Heather for allowing me to understand this more deeply today.

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159. Heather I know what you mean with the endless spiritual pursuits avoiding what was hurting, I did this too, I immersed myself in them , also trying to fix myself. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine was the turning point for me too, the clarity of these two energies, spirit and soul, empowered me to be able to make the choice of self love and reconnecting back to Soul… life transforms.

160. Spirit or soul? The choice is offered to us every moment, it feels so good to finally understand the difference between them. Thank you Universal Medicine for the distinction.

161. It is very freeing to come to a place where you realise there is nothing to pursue and nothing to fix, and everything is found with a willingness to reconnect, surrender and embrace.

162. ‘the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love’ – so few words but the truth they hold and all that the practice of this offers is life changing. I too, struggled to understand the difference between Soul and Spirit and with the support of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings and Serge Benhayon my understanding has grown. Thank you Heather for sharing.

163. I’ve seen many conflicting things in people who present on things such as ‘energy’ and healing, where they are saying one thing but their body actions are saying another… But with Serge Benhayon I can honestly say without doubt that I have only ever seen and felt a total congruence between what he says and how he lives in every aspect of his life and with every person he meets, and that is something many of us can be inspired by.

164. It was literally life changing to truly understanding the difference between spirit and soul. I had been so caught up in the new age version of spirit, I knew there was a soul, but had no idea as to what they actually meant. The fact that the spirit is so much running the show for us and that awareness around this is not widely known and understood. This blog has very much reiterated the key differences which is great.

165. I’d been on a similar quest Heather and the moment we hear truth spoken we know it instantly.

166. Everyone needs to know the difference between spirit and soul. It is a fundamental teaching that explains so much about life.

167. The difference between spirit and soul can be felt in the body. As I am learning, it is not a distinction that can be understood and felt when we are in the head. I cannot work it out and convince myself to choose fire over prana and it isn’t a right or wrong. It is simply to be felt and understood from the body. As you have shared Heather, the gentle breath meditation is a simple way to feel the difference between spirit and soul.

168. Serge Benhayon was the first person, in my experience, who presented with absolute clarity the different types of energy in our world and the choice we have all the time as to which one we align to. This information and experience of actually feeling and appreciating the difference between them has been invaluable.

169. I love how the fact that we all have a spirit of soul is so simply presented here. Through the Teachings of Universal medicine and Serge Benhayon I have rediscovered that living from my soul is as simple as taking care of my body in my movements and my choices and choosing love and evolution in every choice and every expression. The moment it gets complicated, hard or loveless instead of going into it to try work it out I claim I’m not with my soul and have instead chosen my spirit and it’s as simple as choosing to come back to soul.

     1. Absolutely Danielle, whether we like it or not the truth of our choices is always with us in our body. There is a huge difference between these two flavours. Once you have felt this effortless way we can actually live today, whether you fight or deny, you know ultimately that everything you do is just a choice between these two qualities.

170. This teaching has also completely changed my life, it makes sense of and highlights the two sources human behaviour can stem from. Knowing that this is an energy coming through a person or myself allows me to not take whatever a person or myself may do or say personally as there is always something to understand and learn from as to why this end result occurs. This isn’t a perfected process but it certainly takes away the fog of mystery and unknowingness from life.

171. How true it is Heather that the bridge back to the Soul is self love; on being aware of this it is now our choice to self love to feel and deepen the fiery energy of the Soul. I love coming back to your blog, it is very inspiring.

172. It’s interesting that those who align with the spirit side via the new age therapies see no harm in indulging in alcohol, drugs, emotionality, etc., on the side as the spirit is having a field day. Our soul on the other hand is about responsibility and inspires us to have energetic integrity at all times knowing that everything we think and do affects everyone and everything around us.

173. Thank you Heather for a simple explanation of the difference between soul and spirit, Like you i knew that they were there but never knew the difference. It is this difference that gives us a life of true livingness, or one of mere existence. The spirit drives the body through the mind while the soul lovingly guides and heals through the body. These two energies are worlds apart, we have a choice as to which one to align to in every moment.

174. Our spirit can be highly stimulated by what we think are spiritual matters and exploration, it just touches the surface and we can preoccupy ourselves with it for a life time or more. Soulful exploration is responsibility, this is the key that is not present in spiritual endeavours. We can all feel the difference in that.

175. As soon as I heard this, I felt it to be true for me. And as I have become more familiar with it and explored it, I know my soul feels very different from my spirit.

176. Thank you Heather for this wise and simple explanation of the difference between the soul and spirit;
     “Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul”.
     The bridge back to our soul is indeed self love, again simple yet profound.

177. Knowing that there is Spirit and Soul is wonderful. Being able to feel the difference when you swimm in Soul’s waters is even more amazing. So, the difference is not just theoretical. It is very tangible.

178. Serge Benhayon welcomes all. It does not matter where you came from. Many people I know come to the esoteric work from new age pasts. It is fascinating to see how Serge does not play ball with the New Age energy. In doing so, he is simply truthful to himself and to what he represents. As people start doing the work and getting rid of the old energy that imprisoned them they start blossoming.

179. The New Age circuit does not truly make sense in a deep level, unless you understand that it is only about glorifying the spirit and bringing it on vacation from life.

180. I feel the reason why people who embark on a new age spiritual journey and keeps ‘searching’ is often because there is nothing that they find in their way that makes them want to stop searching. Why is this the case? Because in this journey they never felt at home. The truth is that when your whole body says, ‘this is home’, you do not need to search any longer. Yet, in the case of the new age, the continuous search is celebrated as something good.

181. The ‘Spiritual New Age’ is something people pursuit from a personal growth perspective. Universal Medicine teaches us that it is not about us improving our lives but is about everyone evolving back to Soul.

182. Thank you Heather, it is hard to fathom that we are not taught the difference between soul or spirit from day one. When Serge Benhayon presented this many years ago it made so much sense to me and was the missing piece of the puzzle. To know in each moment we have a choice to align to spirit or soul – this is a simple choice and requires a level of responsibility that is worth committing to.

183. The fact of different energies can be hard hitting as it gives us the responsibility over which one to choose, because we always have a choice. If we want it or not…

184. No wonder we are so lost as a race of beings – we have not yet acknowledged the very striking difference between sprit and soul. Thank you Heather for sharing, the science behind Universal Medicine teachings is astounding it is re-ignighting deep inside what we already know.

185. I had the same experience Heather, my spiritual quest dominated much of my life as I tried many new age things in the hope of improving my life, as my life as it was, was one big struggle. What I came to discover is that all my hurts or issues just got buried deeper, to resurface at a later time…. Like yourself it was not until I attended courses by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine did I come to understand that it is my responsibility to which energy I aligh to, either prana or fire. No-one else had ever explained so clearly the difference between spirit and soul.

186. ‘ I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard’. Through self-care and self-nurture, I have replaced my old habits of self-indulging and disregard and am learning to love myself and accept that I have everything I need within me.

187. We have the simple choice ant any moment of the day “will it be spirit or Soul?” and that makes life fun for me again as it returns the responsibility to me and not to the the people I live with or the environment I am in. I do make that choice ant any time of the day and it is is the quality I am in that determines the outcome of that choice that will be either building my love and the connection with people I am with or not.

188. The difference between spirit and Soul – this is such an important topic that it really amazes me now that I know the difference how I had accepted the mix-up and the vagueness that I always encountered yet never really questioned.

189. The fact that energy is either fiery or pranic and that there was nothing in between was both quite a jolt and a relief for me to come to understand. I learnt that it includes every little detail of how I live and there is no in between and no ‘time off’ – it all counts because everything is made of energy. Learning the difference between spirit and soul has helped me enormously when I am struggling with issues because ultimately it comes back to the choice of which energy I chose in the first place – fire or prana. This knowing makes a lot of sense to me, and like you Heather, ended the years of searching in the spiritual new age realm which could provide temporary relief but never anything lasting.

190. I remember when I first had the concept of spirit and soul presented to me. I was able to feel the difference between the two and everything started to make more sense. I now have an understanding of the reason why some people are the way they are and why certain things happened the way they did. It is simple, some choose soul and some choose spirit. For me, in this life, I choose to be impulsed by my soul.

191. Having brought this teaching into my life I can say that life makes much more sense. By learning how my body feels and to an expanding depth of being aware of just how detailed the body can read both energies when things get unsettled I ask ‘what is the energy right now?’ This has brought in so much understanding as to what occurs in my life. But now writing this I feel that it’s not just supportive when things are obviously unsettled but what if we questioned when the situation is good too? Thank you Heather.

192. For me everything fell into place once I learned about spirit and soul. It made me stop searching and realize there was nothing to search for. I just have to choose in every moment: am I choosing love or not love.

193. I always knew there was a spirit and soul but never new the difference I just thought they were inter changeable But what an amazing life changing truth Serge has brought to us, in understanding that the soul and spirit represent two different worlds and energies. Connecting to soul through the inner heart has been life changing , from one of self abuse and disregard to one of ongoing self love, responsibility and a deepening love for mankind.

194. There is an elephant in the room. There is a smell we have made our nose get used to. There is a taste that disagrees yet we have long continued to eat. There is a walk that hurts our feet yet we have continued to march on. Its all so familiar and everyday, yet what Serge Behayon presents is the possibility that there is so much more to who we truly are. When we settle for this lesser state we really hurt ourselves and the rest of the human race. For as you show Heather there is without doubt a huge difference between the Spirit and the Soul.

195. I know this sounds simple and I also know that it truly is. Every word, every action, every thought, every deed has an energetic imprint and comes either from the spirit or the soul. Yet, I also know that this information comes with a huge sense of responsibility, which may be difficult for some people to grasp. However, the quicker humanity realises this is the truth, the quicker we can all live on a planet full of love, rather than hatred.

196. Learning that there is a difference between spirit and soul quite literally changed my life. It provides so many answers to what we experience every day. I used to use the words spirit and soul interchangeably but they are vastly different which just exposes that I had no idea at the time what I was talking about! Spirit and soul are not nebulous things that are nice to talk about, they are part and parcel of our makeup and it is a responsibility to get to know them and what the difference is.

197. Great to revisit this blog Heather, there is just so much in it and feels very supportive for the many who will find their way to this blog…This is something I have learned to: ‘ I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love’.

198. I agree Heather a massive revelation, which feels divine and true;
     “Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul”.

199. These presentations by Serge Benhayon are indeed powerful. Feeling and hearing truth for the first time is wonderful and yes it is an important distinction to make between the energy of fire and the energy of prana and the sources from which they are derived and that it’s always our choice as to what we choose to align to.

200. Definitely Adam, it is the energy that underlies every aspect of life, the choice is Soul, which is Fire or Spirit which is Prana.

201. Well said Katie, it is the quality of our lived experiences that determine a true healing or not.

202. That is a beautiful summary Stephanie “stop and be in Stillness with Soul or rush about with spirit running the show.” The difference is literally worlds apart and can be chosen in one single moment. Doesn’t this choice also confirm just how powerful we are.

203. It is this background of understanding from which one must apply all the teachings of Universal Medicine if one is to understand their true context.

204. Learning the true difference between spirit and soul, presented by Serge Benhayon, has made all the difference to my life. Having previously been taught about spirit and soul, from other spiritual sources and teachers, which didn’t make sense to me at all, learning the true definition felt like coming home, as I knew this deep in my body.

205. “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.” This has absolutely been my experience of Serge Benhayon consistently throughout the years that I have known him. He does not come with any hidden agendas or vested interests just a simple and great love of people. His level of integrity and sincerity is truly touching.

206. The ageless wisdom teaching of the fact there is always one of two energies we are choose to operate with is profound. I love how it honours our true loving nature yet shows the free will we live under in choosing to live with our soul or not.

207. lt is in the re-connection with the self that the search ends and the Soul begins.

208. Heather heading towards the Universal Medicine retreat in Vietnam reading your amazing blog here. Yes my search was also over after getting to know Serge Benhayon and all his teachings and presentations up till now. A journey to be continued till we are all home again. Re-connecting to soul is the way. Thank You.

209. The revelation of the difference between spirit and soul is life changing, the difference can be felt distinctly. It makes sense of everything. So clearly described Heather.

210. Yes Joseph and kathrynfortuna, night and day so how did we stay oblivious to it for so long??? I am not alone in that choice to not connect and see this for myself because clearly the ‘norm’ is to not know, yet the choice is there anytime there is a willingness to look below the surface of what has been accepted as normal. Once felt…night and day!

211. Yes, thank, you Heather, I too have found that Universal Medicines’ no nonsense approach is very suited to me as well. The way it is presented can challenge some hard held beliefs and yet when felt in the body the illogical choices I had been making stood out like a sore thumb. It came with so much love and as you say “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.”

     1. I agree Katie, what Universal Medicine presents around self-care and self-love are simple and practical principles that truly work.

     2. Well said Katie and is something I choose for myself as well.

212. Well said Sally, it is through the deeper level of love and care of our bodies that we connect to our soul and God within.

     1. Yes Francisco, nowhere other than through our body as this is such a reality check. We can say anything but our body is always a reflection of the truth. If we are willing to be honest it is a simple yet profound conversation.

213. Thank you Heather for a great read, it is as you say, so simple, it simply is within us and not anywhere out there. The simple Gentle Breath id our connection.

214. I know right? I remember the first time I heard Serge Benhayon so simply explain the difference between spirit and soul. It stopped me in my tracks. In fact it changed my whole life. And to think that we have escaped these truths for lifetimes? Yet every cell in our bodies can feel the difference between being disconnected individuals and seeking recognition OR lovingly feeling connected with the all. Night & Day.

215. ‘I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.’ This here Heather is huge. The fact that we have THE WAY that will support us back to love and its via the deep and nurturing care of our own bodies. This is very empowering. It all comes back to self responsibility 🙂

216. The whole concept of spirit and soul has been something I have been drawn to explore, and what I find interesting is how easy it is these days to talk about the spirit. We can use it in the work context of a ‘spirited individual’ – as I have seen on people’s CV’s, or we can use terms such as ‘thats the spirit’ or ‘stay in good spirits’ – as if to define happiness and positivity. Then there is the whole spirituality movement supposedly based on love, freedom and happiness – a whole market of people who are drawn to this way of life. But none of that ever feels right and is almost us giving our power away. If we take soul and uses for this word, it has been used for things such as ‘soul food’ or the music movement – but there is also another, much deeper meaning that to my whole body feels right. Soul as who we are – our essence – love. Serge Benhayon has presented to me what soul is, that there is no identity or judgement – there is just brotherhood and equality.

217. You are right, Heather, Serge Benhayon is the only one who presents the difference between soul and spirit.
     My exprerience is when I allow the spirit to run my life or should I say I choose prana it leads me to that constant search, desire for bettering myself, never being satisfied and looking outside for approval.
     When I choose the fire and connection to my soul life is simple, there is only love.

     1. I agree with you Elena, choosing fire and the light/energy of our Soul, life becomes so incredibly simple as we detach from the pranic energy that has dominated us. Spirit/prana thrives on creating complication and drama, creating in us a need to push and drive, which has and always will keep us from realising the truth and the magnificence of who we truly are – and that is pure love.

218. It is wonderful to find an article about spirit and Soul and their difference. This difference is one of the main and core truths that come with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. To know about this difference ends the spiritual search.

     1. Yes, felixschumacher8, a core truth that once felt and accepted, spells the end of that age old spiritual quest which will only ever serve to keep us locked into a cycle of illusion and suffering. Choosing to align to our Soul will free us from this old trap and return us to the love that we so innately are.

219. I propose that everyone feels they have 2 conflicting drives/voices inside them – one critical, pushing against our better judgement and what we feel is true and keeps us stuck in ingrained non-serving patterns and the other calls us to evolve, take the higher ground and honour our truth. One is utterly selfish and emotional, the second considers all others, is all-knowing and non-reactive. One is spirit, the other is soul.

     1. Spot on, jeannettegold, a brilliant summary that everyone of us can relate to.

220. To understand the difference between spirit and soul has been revelatory for me as well, Heather. Many of the spiritual practices seem to be about bettering self whereas connecting to our soul is about brotherhood and loving all others equally no matter where they are at in their lives. With this truth,I feel as as though I have come home.

221. It was through hearing the expression of Truth as an energetic quality, and witnessing the healing effect of truth in expression, that I was able to clearly discern and understand the difference between Soul and Spirit – one being all one-unifying and the other championing the separative expression and recognition of the individual.

222. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.”this has been my great learning too is building the self love, I was so caught in my head and the spiritual way with not having any understanding about self love or self care, I would push myself to the extreme, with lack of understanding that caused exhaustion and many other illnesses.

223. For me getting the difference between spirit and soul presented from Serge Benhayon was also a point of turn around in my life and has brought my searching for deliverance of the illusion I felt to live, to an end. Feeling the difference all my life, but not understanding, what to do with it, being very identified with what the spirit wants and does, while asking me at the same time if I am madcap was my everyday life and also the engine for searching further on. Having found the presentations of Serge Benhayon on the difference of the spirit and the soul and teaching tools how to connect to the soul is like deboarding from the hamsterwheel. For the first time in this life, I feel to evolve instead of going around in always the same circles.

224. As a child, I can clearly remember knowing the difference between the words ‘Spirit’ and ‘Soul’. I remember loving how the word ‘soul’ sounded and felt to me and how the quality of the word ‘spirit’ felt like it held less substance. I recall being referred to as a child connected to their spirit and correcting them, saying that I was “actually connected to my soul”. Isn’t it beautiful that this knowing is so deeply apart of us all? I love this memory and the fact that I have always known who I am. Only to lose sight of this a little as I grew older and to sure enough be finding my way back.

225. This was a profound revelation when I really began to understand the difference between spirit and soul. Many years ago, I was caught up in the more spiritual new age stuff, where it was ‘all’ about spirit, attainment, enlightenment, needing to get somewhere, search, seek. All of this always left me feeling like i was never enough, that I needed to get somewhere, that I had to reach a place of complete serenity before I could ‘be’. I have now learned that the soul ‘just is’, that we are everything now!! Which is hard to get your head around initially, because we are all so identified with our pain, our hurts, what’s happened to us in life, the struggle. I know I have felt that life always needs to be hard work, especially intimate relationships. But learning that when you build a life to connect with you soul, that complexity, struggle and hardness falls away!! Which is pretty amazing, you just have to allow for it to happen.

226. Thank you Heather for sharing your story, I had s similar experience when I first heard Serge Benhayon speak, my spirit just wanted to get out of there, but my Soul knew it had at last come home. These are my words also “I’ve stopped looking ‘out there’ and I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!”

227. ‘I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life.’ Heather this was my story also – and it was only when I felt the difference the Gentle Breath Meditation made that I understood that who I am when connected to my body is very different to the mind seeking for to fix myself. There is simply nothing to fix or change when I am connected, though from that awareness I feel where there are opportunities to expand and evolve. It is a simple uncluttered process if we allow it to be so.

228. To understand what drives us, that what we connect to, either spirit or soul, is a choice that we make has been revelatory and at the same time very practical. As I come to feel the difference between the energy of soul and the spirit in my body the choice becomes very simple.

229. It is so simple, like truth, but we have many representations of spirt and versions of spirituality that confuse the mind and harm the body, because in truth things either harm of heal, and if it is not soulful it is indeed harming the body.

     1. I am beginning to appreciate this fact Natasha, that everything we express, if it is not from the Soul then it is only adding to the miasma of the Spirit’s creation here on earth that serves to keep us in the spin of illusion and further in separation to our Soul. So the choice then is – to connect to the Soul and express from that which brings true healing, or in separation and in the identification to perpetuate the harming illusion of the Spirit’s existence.

        1. Agree Annie, and a hugh reality check for where I’ve been and also where many still choose to go .. Education is the best key here and learning to appreciate and deeply known ourselves .. And know and connect to the fact that we are by design, Divine.

        2. Thank you Annie and Natasha, very simply put. It is a reality check isn’t it?! It is our choice which energy we align to and which energy and choices we perpetuate.

     2. Healing or harming, there is only two ways to choose, that of ‘soul m’ or that of ‘the other’. How glorious it is to know the difference, how importance it is to know the difference !!!

230. To consider this, and take the time to see what life is like if this notion that there is a difference between spirit and soul, is to expolore one of the great questions and what we would call a great mystery of the universe. If it is considered fully it makes sense of the world and they way it is like no other way of thinking can. And it has a profound effect on the way you choose to live. Serge Benhayon is representing that truth of the Ancient Wisdom for us here and now in this day and age, and what he is offering will become the basis of the awakening of mankind from this prison of a reality we have allowed ourselves to become the puppets of.

     1. Serge Benhayon’s presentation of the Ageless Wisdom and the understanding of the difference between spirit and Soul is fundamental to our understanding of everything in this life – our relationship with ourselves, with everyone, and with God.. and beginning to discern the difference is the beginning of our journey of return back from the individualised spirit back to the Soul.

        1. I had no idea there was a difference before Serge Benhayon mentioned it and that is what I am eternally grateful to him for. Ever since I learnt the difference I have made a relationship with myself that does not shy away from seeing that I have a spirit and a soul and that I need the two to work together with my soul leading the way.

231. With Energetic Responsibility and Energetic integrity we hold the power to affect great change for humanity.

232. It is a revelation to discover how simple it is. Because we distracted ourselves we were open to the distraction of the over complication of life and looking outside of ourselves for answers. How wonderful to find that we have it all within us.

     1. Yes this over complicated life is a very real distraction. Getting back to simplicity, surrender and the basics is the key.

233. After many many years of searching the real meaning of life (and getting further away) I came across the teachings of Serge Benhayon and WOW everything stopped everything this man says makes sense, never before has the difference between the sprit and soul been presented so clearly. We are indeed super blessed to have Serge Benhayon with us in this present time in history for what he is presenting will change the course of time.

     1. No truer words spoken Samantha – absolutely change the course of time.

234. I too went from guru to guru looking outside of myself for answers to life- only to be left confused, and drained as I continued to give my power away. It was not until I met Serge Benhayon that I first learnt about 2 forms of energy that runs through you- prana or fire, which then determined the outcome of your choices.
     This really opened my eyes to how the world was then set up for us to delay connecting to our true nature and inner wisdom.
     Thank God that I now know and can feel the difference.
     How beautiful and life changing it has been since reconnecting to the real me.

235. All the complexities of life, the needing to get things right and the need to be perfect are all pulled into perspective by the simplicity of our choices either coming from our spirit or else from our soul. All our choices and all of our actions will either support ourselves and others to live closer to the truth of who they are or else delay this return and support living further from this. In every moment our choices are either true or not true, from our spirit or from our soul.

     1. The simplicity is what is so easy to doubt. The new age promised it all and just didn’t remain consistent, there was always an emptiness and a searching that something was still missing. So when simplicity comes along and says it is all about the initial choice and how you live in every moment that can be challenging because you are your own healer. Your choices are your best medicine.

236. I too spent many years seeking the spiritual path to resolve my inner angst, and although much was promised, nothing delivered. This further deepened my belief that I was not enough and the lure of the holy grail somewhere out there kept me seeking, like a donkey following a carrot on a stick. After attending my first workshop with Serge Benhayon I was stopped in my tracks, as he opened a whole world of enquiry that simply made sense, and burst a few illusions too. The difference between spirit & soul is so obvious now, and once understood it gives us the freedom to make a true choice and view the world through a wider lens.

     1. I agree, there was the notion of true support with the spiritual but continued to leave me with the emptiness that I started with, but with Serge Benhayon’s Work, I was left feeling more complete within my self than ever before. More myself than previously and those feelings that were so familiar that ended up being a confidence within myself once again. And this feeling has stayed and continues to get stronger. Now thats true healing.

        1. Absolutely Natasha. I experienced the same thing in areas of ‘complementary’ medicine and understood that true support was there for me, but when it came to the crunch, it never was. There were always so many unanswered questions, and the reason I had sought help in the first place was beacuse I felt there was something missing in my life and that didn’t go away until I met Serge Benhayon. Through his teachings of Universal Medicine I was able to understand that there was a big difference between the spirit and the soul, and was also able to identify that what I was missing was the true me. And I agree, this is indeed true healing.

        2. Gorgeous Sandra! This reminds me of how I use to be and how much I was feeling lost within the world! I have deep sincere appreciation for Universal Medicine and the teaching that have also lead me back to me, in simplicity but also re-introducing me to my power and absolute glory !

237. Simply an awesome blog Heather explaining the difference between energy (prana and fire).. Knowing the difference explains so much.

     1. Yes Johanne, it teaches us so much about life, our choices, our actions and our thoughts.. First moment when I heard Serge Benhayon talk I started to learn the difference between prana and fire. And forever now I am rich by a marker of truth in my body that knows how to go its path by re-uniting to the truth I always knew and had inside.

238. The constant searching and yearning of the spirit in my body feels very different to the all knowing ‘is-ness’ of the soul. Understanding the difference offers us our own true way of living in the world.

     1. Beautiful Jenny, and also that we are spiritual searching once we look for the outer by our spirit, meaning that we not necessarily have to look for spiritual new-age stuff, but any thing that is driving our spirit forth , which is the opposite of soul.Therefore learning the difference between them both is crucial. It is by Serge Benhayon that I am now learning and beginning to understand what it means to life by spirit or soul. I must say it knocks out some spirit ‘control tools’ but I am loving it to understand and feel that something else, our soul, can lead us forth.. And that this is actually a loving choice.

     2. Yes Jenny l agree. lt wasn’t until l discovered Universal Medicine that the search for me and the truth ended. This was the beginning of the discovery of the true me, and now l have awesome tools to go deeper every day.

239. “…will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!” This cuts through all the complexity that we create to obscure this simple fact and the choice that is on offer to us in every moment.

240. I have only discovered the truth about the spirit and soul and the two different types of energy, fire and prana through the teachings of Universal Medicine

241. It is awesome to now know the difference between spirit and soul ,everything makes so much sense in relation to our human behaviour . The ageless wisdom as taught this time around by Serge Benhayon makes sense and gives practical ways back to living more soulfully with responsibility , Self love and stillness the bridge back to reconnecting to our soul and divinity or the what is rather than the what is not.

242. Well expressed Heather. The truth is in all my searching for truth prior to meeting Serge Benhayon, I too found no modality, teaching or guru who could discern the difference between spirit and soul. I thank God for Universal Medicine.

243. I felt this too Mary. When I heard Serge Benhayon talking about the difference between spirit (prana) and soul (fire), suddenly life made sense. This was truth as I had never heard it before.

244. Well said Kristy. I like how you describe this. It reminds of that saying ‘what goes up, must come down’ and that is the way the spirit operates – taking you up,down,sideways, across and we can feel so discombobulated when that happens. But the soul is different – it offers a consistency as you say – a solidness – a foundation and a great love and warmth.

245. ‘I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life.’ And this is what the spirit loves to do and this has nothing to do with taking responsibility for how we live our life knowing we have a choice in every moment, not love or love.

246. Sally, I too had the same conversations, and often long into the night after several glasses of wine….but like you and Heather when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about the difference between spirit and soul I knew I was listening to Truth, and that I too had been searching for my soul for all those years. And what a joy it has been to reconnect to it. : )

247. Arianne, I know somewhere in me there is an understanding of what you express above in your comment, and reading Nicholas Bason’s comment in response causes a fluttering in my heart. Even though in this life I have no real attributes in understanding Einstein’s theory etc. I know at some level now that it makes sense that science is an integral component that makes us who we are and somewhere within my cells I understand that religion, science and philosphy are not separate, and I find that this revelation is quite amazing to me as my experience as a non-descript student of what was my formal education certainly did not prepare me for what I am now finding makes absolute sense to me in my knowingness. What an awesome opportunity it is I feel to have Serge Benhayon, World Teacher, here amongst us to inspire and to re-ignite within us the Ageless Wisdom Teachings that oftentimes feel so familiar deep within.

248. This most important distinction and fundamental differentiation in relation to the way we live, understand and experience life : the difference between spirit and soul, prana and fire. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who speaks the truth of this, lives from his soul and imparts fire wherever he goes.

249. ‘ I feel blessed because of the day I met him!’, I agree, we are all divinely blessed to have Serge Benhayon here so committed to us.

250. ‘I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.’ This is very much the ideals of the spiritual new age that I was also once trying hard to ‘manifest’, with as little work as possible. It is definitely the pursuit of the spirit and there is no everlasting joy to come out of it what-so-ever. It is a total farce.

     1. I agree Lisa where you quote Heather “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.’ and your comments that follow springs to mind some wayward teachings I was taught many years ago from a multi-level-marketting comany about manifesting all that you desire – and my goodness, I heard of many many people who had manifested fast cars, acreage, mansion type homes with a swimming pool and a pony out the back etc. etc., brought forth and manifested I can see now from a plane of consciousness that is not necessarily truly loving nor connected to our divine centre. This plane of conciousness can give you anything that you want so long as you remain distant from your inner heart, but one has to wonder what is the ultimate price to be paid at the end of the spiritually aligned foray. How would it be if these multi-level-marketting companies said upfront – ‘now guys, you have a choice of two energies to align with – and the one we are aligned to will give you anything you wan but you have to play this game of doing it in pretense of it being good for another’ – now that would be a starting point for some pre-ponderance. I thank God I came to my senses eventually and through the presentations of Universal Medicine have learned the difference between the choice to align with Soul or with spirit, to be working in evolution or against evolution.

251. I remember the first workshop I attended with Serge Benhayon, I felt so safe, at home and at ease. I loved how I felt and the energy in the room, but at that beginning stage I wasn’t prepared to fully commit and make the changes necessary in my life. However step by step and through continued attendance and feeling more confident to honour my inner – feelings, six years later much has changed and I am much more open and warmer with people than I used to be as a direct result.

252. Gosh it feels like you’re writing about me Heather. In my seeking I never paused and asked, why don’t these modalities deliver lasting change, I’d really given up on the existence of a foundation of truth, and simply made myself wrong that I couldn’t find the key to making my life bearable. The words spirit and soul I used interchangeably, and I was also seeking healing from a person who described herself as a Pranic Healer, so there were a few shocks in store for me. However Serge was the first person that actually explained the world in a way that made absolute sense to me so that I could go about developing my own foundation of known truth. The world stopped spinning, and I began to observe life and grow.

253. It is the same for me, since the first moment, I have met Serge Benhayon, I knew, what he lives and presents, is, what I have searched for my whole life. Especially learning the difference between the Spirit and the Soul has basically changed my life in every aspect. Although it is a choice in every moment and a work in progress and a life-task, I now know that I actually have a choice and that what I was searching for is inside me.

254. Wow it is all here in this sentence “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” This is the path we walk each day, knowing that in every moment it is a choice, do I go down the path to the left or right, the left of right can be different on different days, ie. it can the self-indulgent or disregarding choices, or respectful and self honouring choices. That is the level of responsibility we also get to choose. How much am I choosing to be responsible for? This is challenging at times, because our spirit wants us to continue being irresponsible. Something I am aware of, however, some days are better than others. So bringing in the self love is very important on those other more challenging days.

255. Heather I was not so much on the spiritual path. There was always something important what I was missing but I could not find out what it was – until I met Serge Benhayon. When I was listening to him my whole body became still and I felt – finally I am home again! Sorry if this sounds a bit crazy but it was exactly like this. My feeling is we all know about the fire and the prana but we do not like to hear it because with accepting this we had to choose a different life-style. I love what you shared: ” I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” That is exactly what I have learned as well – so world let us start to be more self-loving but let us do so with a portion of joy.

256. I love how you have expressed here Bernadette – your words describe quite simply the impact of our choice , and that choice in every moment being whether to choose spirit or soul. l It seems our choice is dependant on where we align our awareness in every moment thus being open to choices within the realm of the Astral Consciousness (spirit) or from the Fiery Consciousness (Soul).

257. I had no idea what the difference between spirit and soul was before I met Serge Benhayon and attended Universal Medicine presentations. The fact that as Serge says “everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy” It is our responsibility to make the choice through free will. We can choose to align with the energy of prana or the energy of fire, that is align with the spirit or the soul.

258. Remembering the difference between spirit and soul has been the best piece of intelligence I have ever learned, in and out of a classroom! How can anyone live without knowing who they are and being with their soul I wonder? I know I did, but all that time existing without my soul really being with me saddens me at times, as I know now, at least to a little degree, how special and grand my soul is and I never want to live without the connection again.

259. It is actually so simple, isn`t it? Just choosing between prana and fire. Nothing else. It`s not about us, about changing our whole personality or way of thinking. We do not think anyway. All we have to do is read the energy that comes through us and align to Fire. If we could manage to stay in conscious presence, that would be so easy, but my experience is that I often don`t even realize that I am driven by the spirit. This blog is a good reminder to read EVERYTHING.

260. How many important things do we choose to ignore and/or resist?
     We may know many things but we are not able to appreciate its importance? How do we set up our radar? How do we decide what can fly under it and what things will definitely may never come to our attention? How come our radars always point towards the outside and never to the inside? These are worth asking questions.

     1. Very good questions, Mr. Feldman. 🙂 Our radar is definitely badly damaged by our hurts. Because they are inside, the radar focuses on the outside. We decide continuously to ignore and feel things. In every single second of our life. I sometimes ask myself how it would feel for me if I in just one hour would feel as much as Serge Benhayon. Probably that would lead to a system breakdown of my radar.

261. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” Such wise words Heather, there have been many times when I have overridden my body for a quick relief, yet this never ever truly satisfies, will never evolve me. Thank you for the great reminder that it is self love that is our bridge back to our soul.

     1. I love this line Samantha. “there have been many times when I have overridden my body for a quick relief, yet this never ever truly satisfies, will never evolve me.” How often, when we go to do something that we know doesn’t feel right but we do it anyway, do we stop and ask ourselves ‘If I do this, will it evolve me?’ A great reminder Samantha, thank you.

262. We can sometimes get swayed by the opinions of ‘experts’. The greatest expert is in the connection to our body and from here it is easy to feel if the choices I have made are supportive or not. I am the greatest expert of me.

263. Several years ago before I heard about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, a client asked me what was the difference between Spirit and Soul. At the time I pondered for a short time and then answered her. I can’t recall what answer I gave but I have a feeling that I actually knew the answer. Prior to this, and along the path of the Spiritual New Age I was blindly following, no one had asked or presented that there was a difference and yet I already knew but didn’t trust myself enough to accept I already held the answers within me. Interesting enough soon after I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and the rest is history.

264. All along we knew what was truth, Heather, because as soon as we heard it we recognised it once again. For me it was reading Serge’s book, ‘The Way It Is’. From the first paragraph I knew I had found the way home again and I could stop searching.

265. So true, and a life changer for me was also feeling the huge distinction between true love and emotional love – hugely empowering for all my relationships. Letting go of the emotional hooks and manipulations that we use and accept and justify as ‘normal’ is amazingly freeing.

266. Heather, this makes totally sense to me. The difference between the spirit and the soul gets more and more obvious to me the more I allow myself to truly feel my body. Thank you for your sharing.

267. Beautifully shared Heather. When I first heard Serge Benhayon present on the difference between spirit and Soul and prana and Fire it made absolute sense within. I also knew that this was the truth that I had been deeply searching for and how Serge Benhayon lived was as equally confirming for me. As the truth of which he spoke and shared was from how he himself lived. And I could feel that this truth was how we all could live as it is not delivered from a place of ownership but rather an equality, that this is a possibility for all, that within we all have the access to this same divine wisdom. And with this I also realised that ‘Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there.’ – so simple and truly empowering.

268. There was a time when I would not question if the practitioner I saw drank alcohol, ate certain foods to number or lived from their emotions, I simply assumed that if they were a practitioner they knew what they were doing and would be able to help me. Now, understanding energy through Universal Medicine and knowing the difference between spirit and the soul, I am so much more discerning. I know to be truly soulful, there is a certain way that a person will live that allows the soul to be embodied. It is through “The Livingness” that a person can begin to live soulfully, up until then, we have to get honest and say everything we have been doing is spiritual.

269. Your blog brought back the wonderful memories of the first time I heard Serge Benhayon speak, how I felt in my body when he shared the difference between spirit and soul and how everytime Serge speaks the Truth of the Ageless Wisdom – my body is aligned to that and it is felt at my very core. Thank you Heather.

     1. Absolutely Shelleyjones44, a beautiful natural alignment to energetic truth.

270. A brilliant blog Heather so simply describing the difference between prana and Fire / spirit and Soul,Thank you. Understanding the differences does explain everything. Certainly no more searching required as everything you need is right under your nose (with the gentle breath!).

271. Thanks a lot Heather for your powerful blog. I will definitely reread your blog again, it was just a joy to read it. I made the same experience like you – before Serge nobody could tell me the difference between Spirit and Soul.

272. Hear hear Heather, one of the best pieces of information I heard when I first came to meet Serge Benhayon and attend Universal Medicine presentations and workshops was the fact of the spirit and the fact of the soul – and the difference. For me, it explained everything, so much now made sense about my own life and the world at large, true healing began for me. I found it extraordinary that I was walking around in a spiritual fog and all it took was a few gentle breathes as taught by Serge in the Gentle Breathe Meditation to clear that and start to familiarise myself again with connection to Soul.

273. I too have spent years ‘searching for ways I could improve my life’ and every time I thought I had found that missing link, only to be left with a feeling of emptiness. Any feelings of ‘bliss’ was like a band aid, superficially covering the hurts even further. And then one day I was introduced to a Universal Medicine Practitioner and had regular sessions. I started to observe a difference within me, a difference no other modality or spiritual teacher had made.

     I later was introduced to Serge Benhayon and my life has never been the same, in a good way 🙂 Every day I am connecting to me and my soul and it is actually making sense.

274. I also came to a presentation by Serge Benhayon and although I thought I had an understanding of Soul it was off track and a pile of words really, and there wasn’t an understanding of connection to my Soul that I now feel and embody. So all the words in the world would never have given me the connection!

275. Great blog Heather as I relate to so much of what you have shared. I was looking for something but somehow whatever I did only fed me in small doses always leaving a taste for more almost to the point of being driven to keep searching to make sense of life.
     Even as a child my searching and enquiring kept me close to something that I always knew was true and then one day I met Serge Benhayon and from that day it all started to make sense, as it became clearer and clearer the search was over I had re-connected with my soul

276. Thank you for your great sharing Heather. “This was a life changing moment. After attending the first course with Universal Medicine and listening to Serge Benhayon speak, I knew that my search was finally over.” This is exactly how I felt.

277. Thank you Heather – I’ve just re-visited your blog and from a slightly humourous and quirky awareness in your article “I eventually began to question the so called ‘experts’ out there who had many conflicting opinions on life and energy.” The quirky bit comes in when I recall being told once that an ‘expert’ is some-one who has passed their used by date i.e. ‘ex’ and ‘spurt’ -i.e. a drip under pressure, hence an ‘expert’ suddenly becomes ‘a drip under pressure that has passed its’ use-by-date.’
     Don’t you love how we have learned to have fun with words and how they have changed over time – e.g. drip/drongo/imbecile etc. I must add here it has only been since I have met Serge Benhayon and attended the presentations of Universal Medicine that I am learning to see the humourous slant of some of our language.

278. This blog is a great example of how we focus on bettering our life instead of connecting to our true purpose. If it is new age or any other lifestyle choice looking for constant entertainment and happiness is so far off track that it is worse asking, how did we manage to set the goals of human life towards reductionism instead of expansion and therefore evolution? Living human life and not knowing the difference between prana and fire and Soul and spirit is like dealing with numbers without knowing basic multiplication. But why do we learn basic multiplication at school and not about Soul and spirit and energy?

     1. Could it be Rachel that the intention behind favouring multiplication over teaching about Soul and spirit is deliberate? The self is interested in the benefits of mathematics but it does not by itself serve the all – humanity.

279. The spiritual quest focuses attention on seeking enlightenment and creating ‘abundance’ through ‘manifesting’ all that you desire. It keeps one in an eternal search from the mind, looking out there, when all along, all that we have ever needed is within. For my 14 most formative years (19 – 33) I gave away my capacity to create strong foundations for myself, as I was out there satisfying my desires and looking for my ‘tribe’ who would understand my sensitivity and share my awareness of what is really going on in the world.

     Through the wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon, I can now see that this quest and abandoning of humanity as a whole was driven by reaction to the hurt I felt, feeling the unloving ways of humanity as I emerged as a young adult. Slowly but surely, I am re-engaging in full with humanity once more, healing the hurts that have kept me separate. And I treasure that I can rest fully in my beingness now, knowing that there is no-where to go but to simply bring me in full, to life.

280. It is great when we learn that self-doubt, anxiety and depression are not who we are, and we can choose to let go of all the emotional issues that are holding us back. Knowing that the soul is a constant, always present, helps us to appreciate and embody our truth.

     1. When we can truly accept that our issues are not who we are, the space is created for connection with our essence – our true selves. To trust in our essence is the key to shaking the self-doubt and anxiety you mention here Carmel. Emotions are killers and the stillness of our essence is our life force!

281. One of the greatest lessons I’ve ever learned was the difference between spirit and soul, and through introducing and developing self-care, it calms the spirit and ignites the soul.

     1. Your expression is profound in it’s simplicity Matthew! Simple is so refreshing!

        1. I agree Bernadette, Matthew’s expression feels so cool, succinct and inspirational.

     2. Very profound Matthew – so simple and beautifully expressed.

     3. Very very true. There’s nothing quite like the ability of love, discovered through self care, to bridge you to your soul.

282. Heather, you express it so clearly, the answers are within and for many of us it took meeting someone like Serge Benhayon who spoke truth even if it rocked us and made our comfort uncomfortable, and indeed at no gain for himself at all. Since this meeting I too have stopped looking out there and learned to reconnect within and express and live from there each day, and each day I learn and feel more, there is no perfection just a willingness to keep seeing and feeling.

     1. So true Monica, and in the willingness to see and feel is chosen in ‘the moment’ and can be a gift leading to more awareness or it can be ‘the moment’ when I choose the comfort of my security or old patterns. We have a choice in every moment!

283. Spirit or soul, pranic energy or fiery energy. a life of distraction or a life of love. I know what my choice is.

284. I love how you have expressed Heather that the answer is inside us all along. I am now really enjoying everyday life bringing everything back to this simple choice – spirit or soul. And observing what gets in the way of that. The difference in my day to to day living and how I feel about myself is staggering.

285. I love this ‘I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard’ The way to the the soul is so through our body and relearning how to self-love. It’s interesting to note that we are taught the opposite from birth, and to put others first, almost as if to keep us away from the beauty that lives within.

286. I certainly did my fair share of searching and a myriad of new age courses – I look back and can hardly believe what I put my body through as I searched and searched to make sense of my life – but all that did was cover over the emotional turmoil and emptiness I felt inside me. All the ‘self-‘help’ (more like self-harm!) courses I did would build me up and then I would come crashing down. It was quite debilitating… until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine where truly loving techniques were taught, like the Gentle Breath Meditation. I never once felt hyped-up, or pushed into anything. Only after I came to Universal Medicine did I truly feel the distinct difference between Spirit and Soul. Understanding the difference is key in order to create true change in our lives. I felt with the teachings of Universal Medicine and its practitioners that I was building something deeply loving, and beautiful from the inside out which then allowed that natural expression to just spilled out into my everyday living. There was no more searching – only a serenity and stillness where I could feel that everything I needed was already within me.

287. “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends”. Heather, this is a dream that many strive for as most are taught from young that this is what life is about. This begs the question why we are distracted so from what is really important in life, which is to reconnect to our soul and the innate wisdom we all carry within? Why are we not raised from young with the awareness that we all have this Choice?

     1. Great questions Anne, We do need to ask ourselves this. We all seem to follow like sheep, not wanting to stand out or be different, and we just love complication too, along with the comfort of staying in our old patterns. The choice to re-connect to our Soul is just way too simple for the complicated world we live in. If it were not for Universal Medicine presenting and reflecting the facts about energy I dread to think how I would be living today and what state my health would be in.

288. I know I spent a lot of my life caught up in my emotions. It was like a roller coaster where I had continual ups and down in my life and was addicted to those highs and was wanting to avoid the lows. It wasn’t until Universal Medicine that learnt how to get of the roller coaster which has led for my life to be much more stable, less emotional, more aware and joyful. It is a matter over choosing connection with my soul, by choosing the quality of energy that I wish to live from and by.

289. Like you I was looking outside of myself for spiritual relief – I never found it, only more questions and confusion as the teachers I was looking to were not a picture of health and harmony I knew was possible. Since learning the Ageless Wisdom of the difference between my spirit and my soul and learning to feel the difference of these energies when one or the other is running my body, I have come to know what is within me already. With the support of Universal Medicine and the Benhayon family this forever deepens as I make my own way in living what is within me.

290. This is a great sharing Heather. I also travelled the path of the spiritual new age, but always had that feeling of this is not it, there has to be more. I didn’t know where to look but one day I was guided to Serge Benhayon via a dear friend and upon meeting him I knew that there was truth in all he said. This truth brought me to the understanding of spirit and soul as well and what is love and what is not.

291. Universal Medicine has reminded and reawakened thousands of people to the ancient wisdom that has always been there and taught through different times in human history – I.e.?that there is a spirit and there is a soul and the two are not the same.
     Now Universal Medicine has made it easier to understand than ever before – no fluff or no spiritual head trips, just the way It is. Thank god someone is putting such clarity.

292. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon are the only ones in the world that make the difference between Soul and spirit crystal clear – what a relief after all the obfuscation and desolation.

     1. Agree totally Gabriele – I never understood the difference before I came to Universal Medicine and actually thought they were one of the same. Understanding that there was a difference explained SO MUCH for me and what I was feeling.

293. You are right Heather, there are many ‘experts’ offering all sorts of answers to problems. I’ve noticed people often get the results they want from following a diet or some new exercise regime, but there is never a true foundation developed, as it is all results driven with no true foundation.

     1. Agree Matthew, and without a true foundation any change is only temporary and never sustainable.

294. This is such a beautiful sharing; the awakening and reconnecting to what we truly already know – the identification and emotion that we become ‘addicted’ to clouds the simple and powerful truth that we are, in every moment, a choice away from true love.

     1. And a beautiful comment too. Thank you Bernadette.

295. Understanding the difference between spirit and Soul has given me a greater awareness in all the games that the spirit plays to keep you stuck in ‘issue’s’.
     And more important, how you can always connect back to Soul.

296. Thank you Heather, for reading your blog reminded me of knowing the difference between spirit and soul, when I was a little child, thinking then it would be a mystery just deep down in me and not possible to share in life. Coming back to it 40 years later through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I am now still re-learning to come back to the stillness I found in my childhood as the access to my soul. Stillness to be able to listen to the soul that is always there – in me. For me also the searching ended, when I first met the teachings of Serge Benhayon through a friend who introduced me to it. Knowing the difference of the spirit and the soul has changed my life profoundly and for the first time (in this life) it has all made sense.

297. Great blog Heather, I can relate to so much of what you’ve shared. Your comment…” I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life.” is the one thing that still astounds me to this day. Through at least 6 years of searching and trying different spiritual and healing things, I didn’t stop once to question the never-ending impulse to keep searching. One session with Serge Benhayon and I suddenly saw things differently. Nothing was said, no questions asked, I just suddenly saw things in a different light, more clearly and with a greater sense of whether they would serve me or not. Most were a NOT!

     1. Jenny, I too searched and was constantly looking for the next thing, to begin with Universal Medicine was the next thing. Very quickly I realised with the help of Universal medicine, that what I was reminded of, what I was searching for was me. No more searching.

298. Everything feels so simple and much clearer once you realise that connection to the soul brings all the love you need.

     1. It sure does Amanda.

     2. And that is how I felt also Amanda when I first met Serge Benhayon – all the illusionary baggage that I was wallowing in, in the form of belief systems, just seemed to melt away like a lump of lard in a fiery hot saucepan

     3. I found that to be true for me also Amanda – once I recognized that fact that “soul brings all the love you need.” It suddenly dissolved that long journey I was experiencing seeking ‘something’ outside of myself. What an amazing difference just one little piece of Ageless Wisdom can make, and that little piece of wisdom being that there are only two energies we can choose to align with in any moment, Soul or spirit. Once I found that I finally felt that in my body and that the choice was mine to either to align with Soul or spirit basically in every moment, it lifted a huge weight from my body, and continues to so do as I continue to deepen my connection with that divine aspect within and I cannot imagine what my life would be like now if I had not chosen at that time to meet Serge Benhayon and begin attending the presentations of Universal Medicine.

299. Heather as you say there is indeed a “huge distinction between true love and emotional love”. I am coming to realise that most of the love I feel is based on emotions. My days are filled with emotions and dramas that distract me from connecting with myself. I am forever at the ready to take on the mood or emotions of whomever I am with, giving my power away instead of seeking my inner steadiness. I also reach moments when I observe without absorbing and those are increasing as I commit more and more to self loving.

300. Heather thanks for bringing up the subject of spirit and soul as it’s such a huge topic, perhaps one of the biggest. Having spent a few lost years imbibing copious amounts of prana from the spiritual new age I can say that it is one of the most devious forms of prana that exists. It mimics the fiery soulful energy, runs parallel to it and so it hooks so many people in who are genuinely looking for soul. I, like countless others thought that I was getting closer to the truth when all along I was getting further away from it. Now, thank fully having found Universal Medicine I can finally feel that I have at last found truth.

     1. Yes Alexis, I’m so deeply grateful for having found Universal Medicine and the truth that is presented through them. Without this I dread to think where I would be now – further embedded in the pit of astral fog and in my arrogance of thinking I had found ‘it’ when in fact my body would be telling me the total opposite.

     2. This is so true Alexis. I felt really duped and a bit silly when I realised I had been living from my spirit as I had used spirit and soul interchangeably believing they were the same thing. I can now feel the difference but still get tripped up.

        When I reflect on these moments I can see that there is always a choice to be made. Choosing to operate from my spirit can initially feel comfortable but there is always a price to pay in the end. When I choose soul the result is always loving and truthful even if things are shaken up. I have to wonder why I so often resist choosing soul as it doesn’t actually make sense.

     3. SO, thankful too that you wrote that Alexis. It is true, spiritual new age, are to my opinion always set up for you to trip and fall in the wrong angle of where we are in truth looking for. It sets up a spoor, but then it leaves you in truth with nothing. Never have I met any spiritual new age stuff that was actually offering me something real, solid, and earthly too. I would always drift away or float on a cloud. It just never made real sense to my body; just the words made it look good, but never did I really feel any benefit for long-term. As I met Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I can feel the absolute truth this has offered in my life and how I can sense this change in my body. THIS IS REAL. Oh yeah. I am feeling alive, more healthy and vital then ever before. All thanks to Universal Medicine and of course my choice to choose different this life.

301. I too irresponsibly chose a time dabbling in the spiritual new age modalities due to a belief that one had to be out there seeking to be fulfilled and to make sense of life, why we are here etc. etc. – however, it was very quickly felt in my body, after that very first meeting with Serge Benhayon that I had been side-tracked by my beliefs. How amazingly simple it is really when the truth that was being sought we found to be within each one of us all the time – suddenly life started to make sense at last, and it all began by learning of the difference between spirit and soul. Woo Hoo!!

     1. Side tracked on a train to nowhere! I was on that train too, until Serge Benhayon changed the signals. Now its full steam ahead on the soul train.

302. I can relate to identifying with my hurts and hence seeking distractions left, right and centre to avoid the simplicity of what living as the true me can bring. I’m still learning to choose to listen to my soul over listening to my spirit which is constantly trying to bring me down with negative feedback on the person that I am. I’m grateful, however, for the awareness I now have around the distinction between spirit and soul, which allows me the opportunity to choose which one I want to connect to.

303. I can relate to so much of what you share here Heather, I had immersed myself in the Spiritual New Age, searching for truth, nothing ever feeling true for me. Meeting Serge Benhayon for me was also a life-changing moment and finally I heard the truth. Learning the difference between ‘spirit or soul’ has made an enormous difference to my life and answered many questions. And in each moment we have the power to choose from our soul or spirit – it is always our choice which one we align to.

304. Like you Heather, at one time I had an interest in diverse New Age pursuits but before I met Serge Benhayon I had never met anyone who had “given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul”. This was also “a massive revelation to me” but once heard it was as though I had come home. Once I embodied that the path to soul is via self-love and started to make different choices in my life, as you say Heather, it becomes making a choice between spirit and soul in every moment. It really is that simple.

305. I enjoyed reading your blog again Heather, and the words that took my attention today were “It was here that I felt a huge distinction between true love and emotional love” and that was my experience also during those years of involvement with the spiritual new age modalities. In deep appreciation I owe the learning of the lesson of discernment and understanding as to how to distinguish the difference between these two expressions of Love to having attended the presentations of Universal Medicine and listening to the ageless wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon.

306. I too was taken back by the hard hitting fact that there is two types of energy, fire or prana. When I first heard Serge Benhayon present this truth I realised that it all made sense. That I had always know there was more to life than the physical and that how life has been set up so to speak didn’t feel true. From that moment on like yourself Heather having this clearer understanding that I choose the type of energy that I align to and it comes in and through me has been life changing with out question. The responsibility of this can not be avoided as much as you want to sometimes!

307. For me it was completely confirming and life changing when the difference between the spirit and the soul was explained by Serge Benhayon. It totally made sense and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t come across this truth before (even though I also had searched far and wide). It was like the huge light bulb moment – with enough light to fill the sky. It is still an ongoing work in progress to call out the spirit and to truly live soulfully on earth, but the beauty is that now I know it is possible.

308. I was bought up a catholic and what we were taught about God, heaven, hell, purgatory, and the life of Jesus was not congruent to me, and left me with more questions that answers. I could not see a connection between what I was hearing in church and the way people lived. The priests were dedicated to their order, but I could tell they were very sad.
     I got to know Serge Benhayon as being a humble and caring man full of vitality and living a complete and honest and pure life. One of the first things I heard was the difference between spirit and soul laid out so clearly there is no mistaking the distinction. As I continued my life I could tell in myself the difference between when my soul was with me and when my spirit was dominating. Next I could see it in others.
     With this revelation it explained a lot about those around me, those I looked up to. As well as the life of Jesus, and how things played out with Judas.
     The truth about spirit and soul reveals the history of mankind. It plays out everywhere in the present being a fundamental part of psychology. When it is widely known it will lift mankind out of illusion.

309. There are many things that are not taught to us from a young age that most definitely should be and the difference between Spirit and Soul and fire and prana are some of these along with self love and self worth.

310. How simple and empowering. We have all the answers with in. All we need to do is re-connect.

311. This is very possible Doug. It may be that we have buried the real truth in favour of a convenient truth.

312. For many years I championed prana having spent many years in modalities such as yoga where prana was king, so it came as quite a surprise when I learnt that there was another form of energy, that being Fire. When it came down to feeling the difference between the two, the choice as to which to choose was easy. I choose Fire, Soul over spirit.

313. Understanding the fact that there are 2 types of energy has quite literally changed my life in a very practical and real way. I am responsible for the type of energy that I choose and this brings with it a great sense of responsibility which I love.

314. A great blog Heather thank you. I too did the New Age Spiritual journey, lots of meditation groups etc. had healings of all kinds but never was there a mention of the fact that the Spirit and Soul were two different energies, Spirit Prana and the Soul Fiery energy. The Spirit being the one that tries to take us out of harmony and the Soul is who we really are, we come from Love so therefore we are Love. I felt completely at home with Serge Benhayon’s and Universal Medicines explanation of the both energies and this explained much about how I had lived my life and the choices of energy I had made.

315. It really is that simple: but the tricks of the spirit once having trapped into a row of “pranic” choices it really needs a focus to not get tricked. And start to believe that what we then think is truth. The moment I got to understand that I do not think, that it is energy I choose to let my body run I understood that the moment I think that I think – I’m already “out” or off the soulful track. And that got a great marker for me! The body shows the truth. Feeling contracted I know I am choosing love. Simple!

316. This blog captures brilliantly the dalliance and foray many of us have gone through in search of true meaning. You nail it brilliantly with, ‘Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!’ Exactly so – and thanks to Universal Medicine for bringing this simple, absolute truth to humanity.

317. Dear Heather, so simply explained – the two ways how life goes – either with soul or spirit. Either in truth or everything besides of that. I too have never understood what this means and that the two ways exist until I heard of the teachings of Universal Medicine. Since then everything in life started to make sense.

318. Thank you for your clear and accurate distinction between the spirit and the Soul Heather. Before listening to Serge Benhayon speak, I had not been able to know or feel the difference. Now the different qualities of these energies is so easy to feel in my body, as I have learned to care for it and tune in to it much more deeply.

319. Really cool blog Heather, there is a bravery in your writing that is true and strong. This simple truth of sprit and soul hold the key to just about everything. We still have a tendency to complicate things as human beings but when we reconnected it is very simple. What are you choosing at each moment is the only real question to ask…. the light or the dark…Fire or prana…. sprit all soul. Its a constant relearning as I know I have let my sprit run wild for lifetimes. It is this simple energetic fact that unlocks all the mystery in this world as we know it. Big ups to Serge Benhayon for bringing it to the world, what a ledge.

320. Understanding the difference between spirit and soul and the energy difference with these has been life changing. To know that we are what we align to is really incredible. As is this blog, so beautifully written and simple.

321. Dear Heather, what a great blog. I can so much relate to it. Thinking back to my childhood where the question came up when going to church, and I found the words spirit and Soul wilfully interchanged, and I did not understand the difference. I did not know where to find the answer to my question, so I let it go. Now that I have learnt the difference, thanks to Serge Benhayon reminding me of what I already knew within me, there is no going back.

322. Nice one Heather you really have a lovely way of spelling things out in black and white, no nonsense, plane truth, I love it. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul makes so much sence and without this knowing it is not so easy to move forward.

323. One of the wonderful things I am learning about choosing Soul over spirit is that the fear that I lose my sense of self in the Soul is completely untrue. The reality is, the more Soul-full I feel the more truly me I feel too.

324. An inspiring article Heather. “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!” Love this, it’s so true! And life is simple when we do….

325. Thank you Heather – I too have realised that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love.
     That sentence would have made no sense to me a few years ago – but it is through my own understanding, helped by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, that I now know love is not emotional, and there is a difference between spirit and soul.

326. There have been teachings throughout the ages that have provided clear guidance for mankind such as the crucial differentiation between spirit and Soul. Yet until Universal Medicine pointed this out for me finding out the difference seemed a new discovery! The first language I learn’t did not even have 2 seperate words for Soul and spirit. It is incredible how through the ages we have reduced our awareness to such a level that even the meaning recorded in our dictionaries and encyclopaedias do not represent the true majesty of who we are, where we are from and the wisdom we can have access to when we allow ourself. Thank Heavens for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that have rekindled the awakening within me and in mankind.

     1. Hi Golnaz – how interesting that there is a language where Spirit and Soul are made to be the same word – and equally interesting that English is the language chosen for this transmission of the Ageless Wisdom. Words have been bastardised throughout the centuries and their true meanings now have an opportunity to be shown. Perhaps the ancient Egyptians and their hieroglyphics had a point – where a picture told a thousand words . . .

327. And even the things we think make us feel better often make us feel worse once the momentary better disappears again…both ways, high or low, it’s a trick whereby the spirit wins.

328. As easy as it is to choose fire, I have found during my journey it has been as equally easy to choose Prana while really believing that you’re making a loving choice for yourself (think wolf in Sheeps clothing). I am coming to notice that the spirited choice can be very sneaky and such a good hider that it can fly under the radar for some time with out being identified as the Prana it really is in my body. Thank you Heather for sharing.

     1. A great comment Wendy, the wolf in sheep clothing is very sneaky, it conceals itself and flies under the radar without being identified.

329. If we don’t choose firey soulfulness, the spirit volunteers prana without fail.

     1. True Oliver – not choosing Soul is choosing spirit by default.

        1. That’s what is sometimes hard to appreciate – that we are always making choices – if we choose not to have something then we are consciously choosing the other.

330. “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends.”
     This quote is exactly what I wanted so Thank You Heather for spelling it out. This was the ‘ideal’ in my new age spiritual quest which covered the whole spectrum of life, so I thought and how wrong I was. The pursuit to see all of that stuff outside of myself left me feeling very empty inside. It was only AFTER I came to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I realised the clear and distinct difference between the spirit and the soul. I battled with it to start with and accepting it took a few more years. Today I live with the understanding and knowing of what the spirit is and what the soul is and my life is very different and has a greater depth and meaning to it.

331. When I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and got to know to the fact of the spirit and the soul it was for me also the end-point of a life long desperate search for the reason for suffering and the question, what is it all about? Everything I always felt, but could not get to an understanding before, did then make sense.I got an understanding of how I was caught in the spirits identifications and deals and why all my relationships, included the one with myself, were not about love at all. I got an understanding, why these different energies of the spirit and the soul both exist in me and other people. I am forever thankful to now know the difference and learning every day, how to become soulful in me and with others.

332. I have heard Serge Benhayon present how the spirit knows us inside out, and how it can trick us so easily because it has had the upper hand in the past. As I grow and learn, I can catch the spirit sometimes, and stop its game, and other times it wins. It’s a bit like a game of ping pong depending on my awareness, but there’s no point getting upset, it’s all a learning process of self loving choices.

     1. And realizing that the spirit and it’s games are far more insidious then I ever imagined. The more I can see the difference, the more I come to understand what it means to be a puppet of energy.

333. I can feel myself getting caught in the tireless pursuit of seeking outside of myself for love, recognition and purpose. Great to read your simply revelations of Soul and spirit energy Heather; and the bridge back to us just takes a commitment and responsibility to loving oneself. Starting out feels very shaky and I am somewhat shocked by how difficult it can be to make self-loving choices… One choice at a time.

334. ‘I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard..’
     Heather this is an awesome blog that cracks open many truths.
     The bridge back to Soul is via the reconnection I have had with my body, and for this awareness I thank the very wise and inspirational Serge Benhayon ✨

335. Just as you Heather my life has changed when I started to do the Gentle Breath Meditation and by doing courses with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I live a simple life now without the complications of the emotional love I was in before. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul and thus not love or love it the way forward for humanity.

     1. Annelies it was like I was blind when I didn’t actively know the simple but key difference between spirit and soul. It has been for me a key to understanding life that before this made no sense.

        1. I agree with your words David in relation to the difference between the human spirit and Soul “It has been for me a key to understanding life that before this made no sense” – that is how I felt also, hence my dalliance with the Spiritual New Age modalities way back then. One wonders why such clarity and truth was seemingly not available until I met Serge Benhayon and began attending the Universal Medicine presentations.

336. I too had the experience when I attended my first Universal Medicine Course that everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. It was a profound moment which exposed the 15 years of spiritual pursuit of hardship and searching outside of my self as being a complete waste of time and money. I was so appreciative of that moment because my search was over and I had re-connected with my soul.

337. Thank you Heather for guiding us through the simplest way to connect back to our soul.

338. What a delicate definition Heather. Clear and easy to understand. It’s really that simple: it’s either love or not love that we can choose. It’s black and white. And within that, mind-blowing simple.

339. Thank you for sharing this Heather. Once it has been presented, the distinction between soul and spirit is clear, as is the choice between the two.

     1. Spot on Lee, choosing is simple once the distinction has been understood. The next step is living it – which can present some challenges as life here is pretty much set up to please one’s spirit! But with support and dedication it’s totally possible and achievable to set your inner compass to your soul. Sometimes we go off course, but there’s always a way back.

340. Thank you Heather for reminding us of the pathway to our soul.

341. “..I had been identified with my hurts and seeking to avoid feeling these at all costs..”. What a lure these hurts are Heather. I am realising more and more how seductive and false they are and how much I can justify my reactions or responses without even realising that I am, so entrenched and normalised by me and our society, how living from hurts has become.

     1. That’s so true, we have normalised living from our hurts. The ultimate outcome of which we sometimes identify as a victim, blaming or complaining culture.

        1. Absolutely Victoria, living from hurts is what ‘normal’ life is for most, it certainly was for me until working with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The understanding provided around the spirit and soul has been key in dealing with these hurts too.

342. Being presented with the difference between spirit and soul by Serge Benhayon has been so incredibly helpful and made such sense to me. It helped me understand life and have more clarity around the choices that I make.

     1. This is so true fiona55, understanding the difference between spirit and soul is incredibly helpful and makes sense. As many have said, the choice is really that simple and to continue to choose and live connected to one’s soul is life changing.

     2. Absolutely fiona55; knowing the difference too has helped me greater understand my choices, the choices of others, and what goes on around me.. It allows me to observe life, but not absorb, indulge or get frustrated with things.

343. Heather your article addresses such an important topic so needed by humanity. Before I met Serge Benhayon and experienced his presentations at Universal Medicine, I, like many others was not aware of the important difference between the energy of our spirit and the energy of our soul. I knew there was something to understand but no-one was able to clarify it as simply as Serge did, and still does. I remember being able to connect with so many wonderful aspects of wisdom but there was always this ‘wall’ I could feel that blocked me when I wondered about the soul. In the work I do I sometimes see clients still caught in the grips of their spirit and
     at times it’s really difficult to show them that there is an alternative. Sometimes we are so caught up in a way, that we are unable to see anything else.I have so much respect and appreciation for Serge and his ability to bring this information to us, he would have been met with a lot of resistance many times. Knowing the difference and then applying that understanding to your life changes so much, more than anything else I have ever experienced. It’s the bomb!

     1. I couldn’t agree with you more Belinda. This is a crucial topic and I have found that without the understanding it is not so easy to make sense of what is going on in our lives. It is a real blessing that Serge Benhayon so clearly presents such profound information, and as each of us live what we learn the awareness spreads throughout society.

344. The distinction between soul and spirit, fire and prana is fundamental for humanity. It is a treavesty and an utter handicap that we are not educated about and at times ill informed about them. As soon as you understand the difference and feel the repercussions of the awarenesss or the lack of awareness in every aspect of life, it becomes obvious that this information is crucial for mankind. Thank you Heather for writing a blog about it and starting a conversation.

     1. Yes Golnaz, with such crucial information for mankind to live by we then wonder why it is not addressed at every opportunity? It completely changes our awareness.

        1. Its all too convenient that a little thing like the difference between spirit and soul is left out of our education, a bit like how self love and care and the fact that we are all sons of God doesn’t rate highly on our curriculum.

     2. Thank you Golnaz for presenting the bigger picture for us to feel. I couldn’t agree with you more.

     3. It is very obvious by how people are really feeling that understanding the difference between soul and spirit is crucial. More understanding = truer well-being. That is surely of interest to a very large number of people in our communities.

        1. Very true Sandra, its like the worlds best kept secret.

345. “The bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love”. This is the absolute truth, thank you Heather.

     1. So true Rosemary, self-love is the bridge and once back, it’s from love-for-self to love-for-self and all!

     2. I agree Rosemary. I don’t believe that society realises the true meaning of ‘self-love’ and how deep we can take it. I am only really beginning to understand this myself. From being gentle with myself, honouring my feelings, putting myself first if necessary, which some would deem as being selfish, not indulging in emotional thoughts or dramas, resting when I need to and not just at bedtime, eating what is right for my body and having regular medical check ups, doing the gentle breath meditation and practicing conscious presence are all things that I can do to nurture and care for myself. The list goes on, and self love can always be taken deeper and deeper so then it becomes a natural part of our rhythm. It is indeed true ‘The bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love’.

346. Knowing, feeling and understanding the true difference between spirit and soul is completely life changing. It has changed my life and the lives of those around me. I now have more clarity and true purpose in my life.

     1. That’s beautiful Rebecca ~ “clarity and true purpose in my life…”, how awesome to have clarity and purposes in our lives due to knowing the difference between spirit and soul, imagine a world where EVERYONE felt this way, stunning!

347. It’s such gift to have been presented this clear choice, and like you Heather the search for answers is over.

348. I love the simplicity of your sharing of something very profound and life changing yet as you say so simple. The fact that there are 2 types of energy and each energy determines the quality of each moment in our daily lives. It can take us into further misery or to bringing more joy and love in our lives. It is just a choice, and building a love relationship with our bodies. What Serge Benhayon presents is very practical and can be practiced with the opportunity to find out for yourself if this is true and works…i have never yet found Serge to present nothing less than TRUTH – energetic truth.

     1. A very simple but extraordinarily profound teaching. Until we are consciously aware that there are two energies to choose from then we remain ignorant that we are choosing the way of the spirit. Until I met Serge Benhayon and started to discover for myself the difference between spirit and soul I was doing quite a good job of hiding to the world and myself just how unsettled in my own skin I really felt. Knowingly I can now choose which energy I align to and my awareness and relationship with myself has changed dramatically as a result.

     2. Yes, and always with emphasis on finding out for yourself, as you say Karoline. It’s actually a really good way to test things – like a practical scientist, conducting an experiment and confirming within yourself that the results are valid.

     3. There is really only one teaching that is worth (re)-learning, and that is the difference between spirit and soul, prana and fire, because without that knowledge we remain stuck in the miasma of life that is not true, wondering what it is all about. Thank you Serge Benhayon for presenting to us something that we already knew, but had forgotten and thank you Heather for opening up the discussion further, awesome.

349. What you say is so true Heather, we’re deliberately misled to seek outside of our selves for what is already innately within if we choose to connect. It is such a trick to refer to spirit and soul as one and the same thing when they are clearly so very different. I too am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon for living and sharing the truth so we all have the opportunity to know a different Way.

350. I agree Heather, thanks to the presentations by Serge Benhayon on the qualities and ways of both spirit and soul, I feel equipped to understand life, the part soul and spirit play in it, and the effects on our bodies that living by either energy brings. Thank you for raising this topic in your blog Heather.

     1. I’ve had more than my fair share of spiritual adventures and nothing and no one I have come across presents the crucial difference between spirit and soul in the way Serge Benhayon does. Knowing this makes all the difference in how I choose to live my life and for that, I am eternally grateful.

        1. Yes Sara I agree. No one has ever spoken to me about the difference between spirit and soul like Serge Benhayon. And why is this so? Why is it not discussed at the beginning of every course, workshop and presentation out there?

        2. Me too Sara. I was going ’round and ’round in circles until I understood, via Serge Benhayon’s presentations what I was really chasing – not a lot more than my own tail!

        3. Same here Sara, this question had been in the back of my mind since childhood, but ‘forgotten’ about because nobody seemed to know anyway. All my decades of spiritual pursuits did not give me the answer to what the difference between spirit and Soul was. Only when Serge Benhayon explained it, it was clear as day, and it also became very clear why the spiritual new age cannot deliver this answer. Truly knowing this difference has changed my life forever.

     2. I really like your reference to feeling equipped to understand life Rosanna. This is exactly what comes with knowing the difference between soul and spirit. When we understand where everything comes from we then know how to respond. It takes the guess work and struggle out of life.

        1. You are absolutely right there Sandra Williamson, there is a stark difference between spirit and soul, and in it’s simplicity, spirit keeps us fumbling in the dark and soul allows us to feel the grandness of who we truly are, it is only the mind that likes to make it complicated because it likes to be in control and live in struggle even though our bodies tell us otherwise.

        2. I agree, Sandra, life becomes much simpler when we understand what’s truly going on – why isn’t this taught in our schools?

        3. I agree Sandra, understanding the difference between spirit and soul helps to make sense of life.

     3. What I am feeling more recently is I have the true understanding of spirit and soul, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, but sometimes I do nothing with this understanding. I allow my spirit to dictate instead of my soul. The difference of the two is massive, I just need to take responsibility in making that choice every moment to choose Soul.

        1. What a blessing it is to have that understanding Vicky, for without it we would be floundering on the shore not realising who we truly are, and continuing to live under the illusion that we are who we ‘think’ we are, when in reality we are much more. So thank heavens for understanding.

        2. Thank you for highlighting this Vicky – the choice is our point of power and therefore where our responsibility lays.

        3. So true vickylcooke – thank you. Being open to understanding the difference felt pretty massive to me but its what you then do with that knowledge that makes a true difference. The familiarity of my spirit and the comfort it seeks hasn’t made it easy for me, but I’m learning all the time to discern energy and make more choices based on love.

     4. Definitely rosannabianchini, it has been an invaluable understanding, and something that every child and adult could benefit from knowing.

351. Thank you, Heather, for the timely reminder of how simple our choices truly are….spirit or Soul? My/our choice in every moment.

     1. Tis so simple. What’s allowed through us when we choose: Spirit or Soul. I love this simplicity.

        1. Indeed Heather and Oliver – it is so simple yet so many people mix up and confuse the 2. Before Universal Medicine I had never heard anyone present the difference between Spirit and Soul so clearly. Once explained and understood it is extremely freeing as everything then starts to make sense.

     2. So true, there is only one choice, and I am amazed at how complicated I can make this simple choice seem at times.

        1. Yes Joel, complicated as soon as it’s not kept simply about the choice of spirit or soul.

352. Beaut blog Heather, the spirit vs soul alignment is one that Serge Benhayon has shared in such a way that it is easy to connect with and understand the difference between prana and fire. The language of spirit and soul is one that I am still getting used to. Learning and understanding the difference between Prana and Fire is a journey that continues to open my eyes helping with connection to myself and others.

     1. Yes Andrew, i to find it is an ongoing development in learning the difference with prana and fire and choosing to live fire more and more in my life…and i know i’m choosing fire more and more because my life is changing profoundly. I’m not living in the misery and angst of life but the joy of the richness of the essence within…our Soul connection.

        1. I am beginning to feel this too Karoline, how powerful I am when I am choosing fire and how I keep myself small when choosing prana. The choice is ongoing and the moment I slip out of conscious presence is the moment that prana has a hold. Nobody is perfect, it is a process that takes constant awareness and even though it has it’s challenges, it is a process well worth adhering too as the benefits are unfathomable and deeply rewarding as we find ourselves coming back to who we truly are.

        2. Beautifully said Karoline; it is an ongoing growing awareness about the difference between Soul and spirit. And with time it does become very clear which energy we are in – Fire or prana. And we can choose every moment which one we want to use as our source – once we have made the choice to truly wanting to know.

353. Thanks Heather, you have spoken about the first time that I realized there was two types of energy, it was a significant turning point and revelatory moment in my journey back to soulful living.

354. Hi Heather, as I read your blog this morning I remembered how it was for me, it seems like life-times ago, when I also was seeking and searching – and of course in all the wrong places of which were all ‘out there’. I wonder why such a simple piece of informational truth as “there is a difference between spirit and Soul” was not available for our awareness when growing from childhood – not even from the churches. Like you, it was not until I met Serge Benhayon and started attending the presentations of Universal Medicine that all my seeking and searching to answer “why am I here” that this little piece of the puzzle that had eluded me was offered. I found that ‘life’ as such started to make more sense and I learned the difference between spirit and Soul, and that all that I was seeking is held quietly, in the stillness of within.

355. Aligning to our soul means letting go of that which causes disregard and is indulgent. I echo what you have written Heather, you have done a great job of describing something that is not always that easy to convey, yet there is a vast difference between living soulfully and spiritually. The latter feels quite indulgent whereas the former is for everyone.

356. “I’ve always known that we had a spirit and a Soul and that we are so much more than just our physical bodies, I just didn’t really understand the difference between them – why both, I used to wonder?” Reading this brought me a sudden realisation. I, too, used to wonder this. On reading your question it prompted me to ask, ‘Why did I stop asking?’ The sudden realisation is that I would stop questioning when something felt comfortable and then I would not look deeper. Meeting Serge Benhayon, the questions he asked prompted me to look deeper than I had ever done so before. As I write this I have another realisation – that in truth I am still sitting back waiting for someone to prompt me to look deeper. Gosh! It is up to me to ask the questions myself, it is my responsibility!

357. I continue to deepen my understanding of the difference between Soul and Spirit and have found this article very supportive, having tried to amalgamate the two things, in my seeking answers. Today I understand the spirit to be an individualised version of the whole and in that, only a segment of the big picture and the truth. The soul encompasses all and in connection to it has me living a life, and making choices that hold and serve all of humanity, not just me, my immediate family and/or my closest friends. Soul dispenses with separatism and the isolation of self and has introduced me to the joy and completeness of my responsibility. Thank you, Heather.

     1. Beautifully expressed Matildaclark, you have made it very clear.I only have to read “The soul encompasses all” in contrast to “the spirit to be an individualised version of the whole and in that, only a segment of the big picture and the truth” and it is there for me, the feeling of the two, and how my separated part keeps me separate from myself and humanity.

358. It is interesting in your article Heather, how there were all these things that you wanted such as a good job and lots of friends, which I can completely relate to, and yet still there was the search for something more. We do all seem to have this deep yearning for something that cannot be found in the world outside of us, yet we tend to look so vivaciously for it out there, expecting it to be there. When the truth is that the love we need is right here inside all of the time, and knowing and understanding the fact of the spirit and the soul can help us so much in being able to discern when it is in fact our spirit who is pushing us on an outward pursuit of happiness, or the soul that is welcoming us back in.

359. It is very simple, choose fire or you’ll be fed prana.

360. They are indeed hard-hitting facts: what Serge Benhayon explains about spirit and soul and that we always say yes to either one of them. We and we alone are responsible to make the choice. And that’s exactly what the spirit does not want: to be – responsible!

361. The part that I really resonated with in your blog is…. I don’t need to fix myself…”Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there.” Thank you…

362. Thank you for sharing Heather. I know the spirit loves to look for some form of identification, acceptance etc…searching outside of ourselves for the answers. Where the soul knows…. all the answers are inside of us….its universal for everyone equally… its love truth harmony…you can so feel the difference… if you’re aware.

363. Thank you Heather and I absolutely agree that the choice is simple – spirit or soul. It was only once I came to Universal Medicine that I fully understood there are always two energies at play in every choice that is made in life.

364. ” I realise that I needed to feel for myself the truth about what life was/is”. Yes, the same for me too, and for many of us. Why do we make life so complicated? Learning about the way the spirit, my spirit, likes to control things has made me much more aware.
     As Gill mentioned in a previous comment, I’m on to it. Being guided by my soul is the way; spirit leads us in the opposite direction.

365. On a practical level, I’m starting to notice how quickly that my choice between spirit and soul can change. It can be quicker than the blink of an eye, or a thought to turn my head, but I am learning to feel the difference more acutely. It’s sneaky, but I’m on to it.

366. On a practical level, I am starting to realise how quickly the change happens between my choice of spirit or soul. It can change quicker than a blink of a eye, before I think to turn my head, and I am starting to feel the difference more acutely as I focus on this. It’s sneaky but I’m on to it.

367. When growing up I also felt there was more to life than what we were being told, more than just the physical reality yet the spiritual and religious teaching also didn’t match the magic that I felt was all around. For me spirit and soul was mixed into one garbled soup with no clarity or understanding. Life continued like this and then when I attended my first event at universal medicine there was a simple presentation on the difference. This was key as for the first time I felt able to understand life. It’s with a great appreciation that I have been able to deepen my understanding over the years with the consistent support of a Serge Benhayon.

368. You statement here Heather ‘that there is a very real difference in the contrasting energies of the spirit or Soul.’ is a simple statement and yet holds the key to what life is about. Choosing to align to our soul and the expansive love that it is, draws the spirit’s attention so the interplay between them certifies the choice we have – and eventually the spirit will have too.

369. One path leads us away, the other leads us back.

     1. That says it all matthew brown, and it leaves me pondering why we struggle so hard against our own good, why the choice to ‘come back’ to our selves is fraught with such inner and outer resistance. It is an extraordinarily perplexing part of the human condition that knowing the meaning of the difference between spirit and soul helps brings a lot of understanding to. Great blog Heather.

370. ‘re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple’ why do we make life so complicated?

371. Heather this sentence so eloquently sums up Spirit and Soul as I too have come know them: “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard” the Soul impulses us to Love, The Spirit impulses us to indulge and disregard.

     1. ‘The Soul impulses us to Love. The Spirit impulses us to indulge and disregard.’ That wraps it up for me – a brilliant quote to cut through any complication I create. Thank you.

372. Thank you again Heather – it was lovely to revisit your blog. I too felt that emotional pull when I was seeking outside myself when I felt that the Spiritual way was the one to pursue – and at the same time knew that it was not fulfilling me. I felt lost in this dilemma until I was presented with the truth of Prana – (Spirit) and Fire – (Soul) – and the different impact these two energies have on our body and behaviours, until I heard the clarity and simplicity of what I was being offered by Serge Benhayon. Living life with this simple truth has been life enhancing and changing.

373. Feeling deep down within ourselves, that it is really only us who can feel what is true for us is a huge moment. We see that letting others choose for us will not work any more. Taking responsibility and making loving choices towards ourselves will be the way to walk. Instead of this being a burden, it will be a wonderful, freeing and empowering experience.

374. ‘Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!’ So true Heather, and like you I spent a long time searching in mainstream and left-of-centre religions, the spiritual new age and psychotherapy. Lo’ and behold, everything I needed was within. A huge thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reminding me – because on my own, I would have kept wandering ’round and ’round in circles.

375. Thank you Heather, I was also stopped in my tracks when I got to feel for myself the difference between spirit and soul. If I hadn’t met Serge Benhayon I would still be lost and searching. It feels like I have come home to myself.

376. Years ago I trained in ‘spiritual’ healing and had the arrogance to think I was helping people – and I know now that if I put my hands on another person when I am myself not clear of emotions in my body, then I can be harming to another. Even speaking to them in that state can be harming. It’s an awesome responsibility to continue to work on clearing my body of toxins, emotions and long-held beliefs about how the world ‘should’ be and to simply connect with my soul and live with what is.

     1. Gee, me too Carmel – I did the same thing, attempting to offer healing to others despite the fact I was a soup bowl of toxins (energetic and physical) and totally in thrall to spirit, with little of my soul to be seen. Thankfully there was enough of the true me present to recognise that there was something more when I finally allowed it to be re-presented to me. I love how the soul is constantly evolving, unfolding and deepening. Life is always in development and never, ever, boring or purposeless.

377. I keep feeling the powerful image of “a bridge back to my soul through self love” you spoke of Heather.
     When I catch myself getting distracted from my true way, I return to the unceasing love from my soul.

378. Beautifully written Heather. What a life changing revelation! When I heard Serge Benhayon explain the difference between spirit and soul the pieces of the puzzling world all came together. Part of us is the divine soul completely and purely in line with God. And part of us is the spirit who separated from God long ago. Every human lives with both, love and love-less-ness of different degrees. It is our spirits running wild causing all of our ills. Many thanks to Serge Benhayon for teaching us to recognize spirit behavior, give it no fuel, and align to the soul.

     1. Great summation Bernard. It is the same for me too –understanding the difference between spirit and soul has clarified so much, and allowed for the next step: choosing which I am going to align with in every given moment… a.k.a. taking responsibility for everything I do.

     2. Well put Bernard, ‘recognise spirit behaviour, give it no fuel and align to the soul’ beautiful.

     3. ‘What a life changing revelation!’ I agree Bernard, I love what you say about Soul and spirit here, so true.

379. “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there.” Well said Heather. As your article highlights, the Gentle Breath Meditation supports this re-connection and using this techniques has been life changing!

380. The spiritual new age journey is a never ending search for the ultimate ‘something’, it always was elusive, yet it sits just a few millimeters away.

381. Thank you Heather, Yes it is indeed wonderful to know it is not “out there”. It’s simple really !

382. Having spent over thirty years of my life with a cult pursuing and looking for happiness and bliss outside of myself, it has been truly amazing and healing to return to becoming more loving with myself through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Thank you Heather for your generosity in sharing your amazing and gorgeous story.

383. Heather, reading your blog again today I got how much our chasing ‘out there’ can never work as it’s based on the idea that ‘out there’ is the answer and of course there are all those who will tell us what we want to hear and not that the answer is in us and that we know it.It’s quite a trap, it promises much but takes us further away from us and it’s based on an illusion that there is something grander than us, and that somehow we can find relief out there. But when we stop and consider and see that it’s not working then the real journey begins, and like you I tried many spiritual pursuits but none of them quite worked, there was always an unease, and a knowing that it wasn’t it, although at the time I wouldn’t have admitted that! And then I came across Universal Medicine and it really stopped me even more, and it did not tell me what I wanted to hear at all, but more, that I am love, that I can choose love and that it’s all in me. No fairy godmother, but a simple practical way as you describe, that asks us to be us, to take those steps and take that responsibility and choose to live the love we are. I’m still learning how, but boy am I glad I found out, and understood that there is soul, the truth and spirit, that which wants to run, be irresponsible and avoid truth unless it can be manipulated into something it likes. I’d never heard anyone else clearly state the difference and hearing it has revolutionized my life. Thank you for sharing your journey with it.

     1. “I’d never heard anyone else clearly state the difference and hearing it has revolutionized my life.” – me too monicag2

384. The moment we realized that what we are seeking for is within and start living life with answers from our heart, is the moment when we know Soul is always with us, and we can then begin to choose expression with it, with more awareness. Thank you Heather you have shared what many have experienced and have now re-discovered– that knowing the difference between spirit and Soul is crucial in understanding life in the human realm. It also opens to everyone the truth that has to be told.

385. If the activity of life takes over me I know that I have made a choice, and I can stop and come back to myself to reconnect; the understanding of the difference between spirit and soul helps define that choice.

     1. That’s great Nicole, and one I can really relate to, if I’m getting caught and lost in doing then it’s time to stop and reconnect to me again – I needed a little reminding today and here is your post!

        1. Ah thank you Nicole and monicag2, and now you’re reminding me too.

386. There is a little something in that for all of us Heather, thanks for simply explaining the difference and how simple it is to live the truth of who we are. My search for truth finally ended with firstly reading one of Serge Benhayons books ‘The Way It Is’ and being then able to attend his presentations.

     1. Like you Mark, my search for truth finally ended when I attended a Heart Chakra presentation by Serge Benhayon. It did not take very long to realise that I had ‘come home’ to the truth of who we are and learned to reconnect to my soul which had always been there waiting.

387. I too was on a spiritual quest searching for answers/ truth about life. It was not until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine that I came to realise the answers I was searching for was already within me. All I needed to do was connect to my inner heart with the gentle breathe meditation. And when the difference between Spirit and Soul was simply explained, and that we have a choice in every moment to choose prana or fire- my life changed dramatically. I am not my hurts. Through self loving choices I am strengthening the connection to my soul.

388. Lovely sharing Heather, yes knowing the difference of spirit and soul changed my life as I no longer need to look outside myself for something that is going to fill an emptiness within me and it’s going to make me feel better like the spirit does . But, now I know that all I need to do is to choose the love that I am, every moment and keep saying yes to it and in that I feel the expansion and oneness of everything around me and that is the beauty of the soul.

     1. “all I need to do is to choose the love that I am, every moment and keep saying yes to it and in that I feel the expansion and oneness of everything around me and that is the beauty of the soul.” – gorgeous description I can relate to wholeheartedly – ‘that is the beauty of the soul’.

389. Thank you for this simple and straightforward summary of what sets Universal Medicine apart and miles ahead when it comes to practical everyday truths and teachings that make sense and truly change lives from the inside out.

390. Helen, thank you. I was not actively and consciously searching for truth but had the same experience as you, when listening to Serge Benhayon for the first time I knew I had found what I had sorely missed in my life, a reflection of absolute truth.

     1. Well said Esther! When listening to Serge Benhayon for the first time I felt that I was hearing the absolute truth for the first time in my life. It was a refreshing change! Universal Medicine presentations have been a true support and I continue to attend them because of the wisdom and re-connection to our soul that they bring.

391. What I also appreciate is how Universal Medicine practitioners cut through an energy I have chosen – prana – and support me to connect straight back to fire and my Soul. There is no pandering, or indulging in whatever I may have allowed in, that caused it in the first place, just a clear understanding, and deeply loving calling out of the pranic energy and my spirit. At times this can be quite confronting, in the best possible of ways, as it asks me to take responsibility, get real, stop the momentum I have allowed in and come back to a way of lovingly supporting myself, whereby I have that clarity.

     1. I love it too Gyl. Self-responsibility – in absolutely everything we do, say, live – is where it’s at.

392. “I needed to feel for myself ” this line particularly stood out for me, as I realise how often I give or have given my power away. The simple fact is, in trusting what I feel in my heart, I align to a divine energy, to God and my Soul. In choosing complication, allowing another energy in, and going into the thoughts in my head I am saying yes to an energy, prana, which I know is not Divine. There is no in-between, I choose one or the other – not both.

393. Wonderful sharing Heather. Yes it is that simple – we have a responsibility each and every moment of which energy we align to.

394. Learning the difference between Spirit and Soul, and the FACT that we are truly free to choose which energy runs through us has changed me and the way I choose to live my life. The Spirit, being a fragment of the Soul, has an insatiable hunger and searches everywhere to express its power over the human being. Whereas, the Soul’s essence is divine and considers everyone and everything, its language is Love and it is complete. When we choose to let our Soul influence the energies that we live in, our lives become one of truth, beauty, joy, harmony, stillness and spherical love.

     1. The spirit is about individuality and separation; the soul embraces universality and the all.

        Our return to soul is truly universal medicine for all.

395. I agree that when Serge Benhayon presents you can always sense that there is absolutely no motivation of self gain for himself. I have often thought to myself when watching him present, that the proof of this is what he presents, including the fact we have a spirit and a soul with very different energies aligned with each, is never going to make him popular and he could have so easily watered down his presentations to gain fame and wealth. But the fact of the matter is that he lives and breathes to serve humanity and that includes giving humanity the unfettered truth about human life, whether it is uncomfortable for us to hear or not.

     1. Beautifully expressed Andrewmooney26. This blog stopped me in my tracks and I felt again the true awareness and gift we have been offered by Serge Benhayon living and breathing ‘to serve humanity’. Heather states, ‘I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.’ There is nothing more important to do than to serve humanity, once we connect with our soul. Our spirit continuously attracts us to be individual and focused on self. I am so appreciative of Heather’s post here and will return yet again to read it.

     2. I so agree with you andrewmooney26. Serge Benhayon is the real deal… no ifs or buts…he is here to serve humanity and give us the full truth about human life. I am so appreciative for all that Serge is and brings to humanity.

396. Whenever I get lost in the fog of life the gentle breath meditation brings me back and I feel the clarity and stillness of my soul, as distinct from the never satisfied motion and emotion of my spirit.

397. Thank you Heather and thanks to Serge Benhayon for defining the difference between Spirit and Soul. Knowing the difference between Spirit and Soul we are truly free to choose which energy runs through us. Spirit, being a fragment of the Soul has an insatiable hunger and searches everywhere to fill itself (speaking from experience). Whereas the Souls essence is divine and considers everyone and everything, its language is Love and it is complete.

     1. Love your summary here Victoria – the constant seeking and hunger of the spirit is tangible in what you write – as is the Divine fullness of the Soul.

398. Beauty-full Heather Hardy I could not have written this better myself. I agree – It is the most important truth or fact I have ever learnt. This has changed everything, knowing this fact. It explains why there is not anything that is not love. A blog that needed to be written, and now needs to be shared main-stream by social media etc. No more searching is needed, just knowing a simple way on how to connect and align to the Soul. That’s it !!

     1. Absolutely, Rik. This fact is a game changer, possibly the biggest one of them all, and is one to share with the world.

     2. I agree Rik, Heather has laid out the difference between soul and spirit and made it very simple. “prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.” There are only two energies, no in between. And as always, we have a choice in every moment to align to either energy.

        1. Well said Tim, “there are only two energies, no in between”. There is no fence sitting! All the time we have a choice to say yes to either of the energies. The choice is ours!

     3. I agree Rik that this is the most important fact I have ever learnt and my first thought was to share this with as many as I can, this should be the first thing we teach our kids at home and in school!

        1. Great point katinkadelannoy, now there’s a religious study lesson like no other!

399. Yes, the fact of there being TWO energies, spirit and Soul, as well as the fact that we are responsible for our choice of which one will govern our lives, is huge for so many of us. Jesus is reported as having said, “You cannot serve two masters.” That truth still holds today and yet it is only Universal Medicine presenting this as a teaching.

400. When we look up the words ‘Spirit and Soul’ on the Internet we find all sorts of complicated explanations about their possible meanings, but the way Serge Benhayon presents on this subject is a simple explanation that makes total sense.

     1. So true Carmel. Heaps of texts use the two terms semi interchangeably …or have complex definitions that do not relate to our every day experience. Until I first heard Serge Benhayon speak of the difference between the two, so simply and relate-ably, I was pretty much lost at sea.

     2. I so agree with that Carmel.

401. Once the spirit has been ‘outed’, we become so much more aware of what influences our choices, and this is a most empowering gift to be given. Until I knew the difference between spirit and soul I felt lost at sea.

     1. I totally get what you mean janetwilliams06. I use to think my spirit was my ‘ego’ and labelled it as that. However, as I have gotten to know my spirit, I see it as so much more than my ‘ego’. My spirit is that part of me that can play all sorts of games to stop me from being full of who I really am (which is a Son of God). I have enjoyed getting to know my spirit, so any opportunity I can, I can ‘out it’. At times that may be uncomfortable, however the more it is outed, the more I can return to feeling the fullness of me.

        1. I love that Donna, outing the spirit to see it clearly for the tricky tricky games we let it play.

     2. Me too janetwilliams06, knowing the difference between spirit and soul is a huge gift – one we all know but have buried because of the responsibility it brings to all of our choices. Now life makes far more sense to me and like you I no longer feel lost at sea.

        1. Absolutely James, I never ever considered the importance of spirit and Soul. I knew I had a Soul, but it was something mysterious to me and not very related to daily life, more to life after death. Learning through Serge Benhayon the difference and importance of both has turned my life around and today I know its true purpose. Very amazing, the most important teaching ever, along with all the other wisdom presented by Universal Medicine.

        2. Well said Rachel, like you my life now has true purpose rather than simply trying to get from one day to the next, or to tick the next one of life’s many boxes that seemingly mark success yet are void of any true love.

402. Heather, I had the exact same experience as you, after searching for many years I also ‘attended a workshop by Chris James’ and ‘he mentioned Universal Medicine and a man called Serge Benhayon’. This was also a life changing moment for me. I attended a Heart Chakra workshop and everything that Serge presented rang true in my body. At that moment, I knew that like you, ‘my search was finally over’. . . I had finally ‘come home’.

403. “I just felt driven to keep on searching – feeding myself with knowledge and seeking to make some sense of life” ~ I can so relate this too Heather. My constant thirst for truth through spiritual books and new age courses was insatiable, just adding more and more to my knowledge and not getting me any nearer to the truth, keeping me trapped in my mind. I gradually became disheartened, knowing that I was nowhere nearer finding the truth almost 17 years (and more!) after I began my quest to find it, that is until I found Universal Medicine and I knew that I had come home and no more seeking was necessary.

404. Sounds very simple, I am working on treating my body with more care and respect and in practicing that I definitely find it’s easier to notice the difference of when I am connected to my soul and when I am not.

405. The Greatest understanding waiting on the worlds doorstep. The most important and profound scientific discovery to be explored and understood that literally changes the way of everything we do, say ,think, feel, understand, communicate, work together, come together…… The list is endless – because the choice between one of the other then effects every single aspect of life.

     WOW.
     Why is there not at least SOMEONE talking about this and experimenting with this in life?

     Oh,
     Wait – there is :-).

406. The constant search is something many of us have experienced and it does feel like coming home when we learn that the answer was inside all along – after years of denying God it feels very supportive to know that we have a Soul and if we connect deep within, we can know what to do and say in every moment.

407. The spiritual new age also talks a lot about self-love but there is no bridge. There were lots of techniques including making affirmations that you loved yourself. What I have found is what is presented through the spiritual new age is a thick fog that keeps you from connecting to what self-love really means within every cell of your body and it feels like it creates a long road back because of this false light. The Gentle Breath Meditation is the bridge we have all been looking for to lift the fog and see the way back home to the heart, the soul, the Livingness http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation.

408. Spiritual new age modalities and mainstream religions don’t make the clear distinction between spirit and soul. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon are the first that I have heard to address this without shrouding it in mysticism.

409. This is a huge learning for us to access and understand how energy influences us, with the different energy of spirit and soul, from the teachings of Serge Benhayon. You have written it so clearly Heather, for people to feel its truth.

410. So true Otto, when I first heard Serge present you only either harm or you heal depending on the quality of energy you are aligned to I was challenged to the core of my being. But this fact instigated true change in my life so as to be able to offer true healing. I am so appreciative of this hard hitting fact about life and energy because otherwise I would be still giving sessions that harmed people instead of the evolutionary sessions I give now.

411. Yes I totally agree, Serge Benhayon is the only person to present what I had been searching for the answer to for years. Thank you Heather

412. Spirit or soul, two very distinctive different paths when you understand the vast differences that exist. The worlds cleverly manufactured each word to somehow mean the same or are used interchangeably. It is utterly incredible that such a simple but profound fact can be misaligned to truth, but it has and now we know. Do we only see in a straight line or do we feel everything.

     1. Very true Matthew, the world has cleverly confused the meaning of the two distinct words Spirit and Soul to be used interchangeably. And the profound significance of this distinction robs us from the great understanding about many aspects of life. My understanding of my personal life, society and the Universe has been enormously enhanced as a result of me beginning to appreciate the difference as covered in this article, and so has my experience of life.

413. A great blog Heather. Knowing there was a difference between Spirit and Soul made a huge difference to my understanding of life, I couldn’t understand why I would do certain things that didn’t really make sense but I did them anyway, or why people would act in a way that didn’t feel right. When I first listened to Serge Benhayon say there was a difference between Spirit and Soul helped me make sense of the world, and why we did what we did but I didn’t really grasp the depth of this revelation immediately. It was only when I started to see the consequences of choosing my spirit that I began to see how huge this revelation was.

414. Heather you have given a very straightforward and real explanation of the difference between spirit and soul. Since attending Universal Medicine courses and presentations I have felt within my body the difference between when I am connected to and impulsed by my soul and when I am led more from my head and my spirit. It was and is quite remarkable how clear the difference is when I became attuned to it.

415. I am finding the more I stay connected to myself the more I am able to feel if its my soul energy running me or my spirit energy. Its great as I am able to feel if I am in motion or stillness.

416. Fantastic blog Heather. I love the understanding that I have now reached through Universal Medicine about spirit and Soul as it helps me greatly in understanding and choosing the energy I want to focus on. As you say Heather, the answers to the searching for meaning and understanding in and of our lives lies in our own hands i.e. we are responsible for all our choices and can choose the energy of either prana or fire. This understanding is a life changer and I am grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners for supporting me as I develop strong and stronger understandings of how to apply this knowledge in practical ways in my life.

417. I too had been searching for what I used to call the ‘missing link’, trying out other modalities, and yet there was always something missing. There was a part of me still yearning for something, still searching, still not fulfilled, and if anything I felt these modalities were just temporary fixtures.
     In August 2014 I met Serge Benhayon at Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1. My body was going through some changes during the weekend and there was so much heat coming from my body, ​ I didn’t need a book or an expensive workshop, my body felt it, my body knew ​the difference between spirit and soul, ​I didn’t need to search any more, it had come home.

418. The bridge back to Soul (for me: home/all that I have deeply yearned for) is in our hands – I love the acceptance and appreciation of this responsibility. Self-love is one of the keys. Thank you, Heather.

     1. That is gorgeous matildaclark, I can at times make the responsibility something heavy or difficult but you stating ‘I love the acceptance and appreciation of this responsibility’ just gave a whole new perspective for me, thank you.

419. Thank you Heather for starting the conversation on this – I too spent many years searching ‘out there’ and heard the words ‘Sprit’ and ‘Soul’ used interchangeably and indiscriminately – almost as if there was a deliberate plan to keep us in the dark about their true meaning. When I am driven by my spirit I am totally absorbed with self, whereas my soul knows how to be in a way that serves the whole of humanity.

420. I had this feeling few times in my life, I say a ‘few’ because I used end up frustrated or judgmental again… and then realise that really I was annoyed with myself for not committing to the truth that I had always felt within, rather than waiting . So then I would re-remember and get on with building and supporting that foundation of my truth to flourish and bloom. “The time came when I began to look for truth and I knew that I couldn’t rely on anyone ‘out there’ to give me this as everyone had differing versions of the truth.” So true – thank you.
     I realised that I needed to feel for myself what the truth about life was/is.”

421. I too had no idea that there was a difference between spirit and soul, I thought it was all one and the same. But when I was shown the difference though the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I could feel a distinct difference. The Benhayons live this truth, the energy of fire which is powerful yet unimposing, deeply loving without hooking or need. The energy of fire feels more real to me than anything else. What a blessing to have re-turned to the truth once again.

422. It is so incredible to realize that indeed every answer we need is there inside of us and that we just need to listen to what we know deep inside to lead a very simple and joyful life.

423. I loved re reading this Heather. Lately I have been noticing areas in my life where I am self indulgent and your words offer a great stop to feel truth and space to change. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard”

     1. So true Samantha. The spirit is always there waiting to take us into disregard. We can counter this by being more aware and loving with ourselves and making sure that we choose the energy we want to live by.

        1. Well said Rebecca, yes every moment is a choice we can either choose to be in disregard of ourselves or shine.. The latter is my true preference!

424. ‘Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!’ Yes Heather, simple indeed. Having this understanding and making it my way has had a profound and empowering effect on my life. It’s great to read this blog about Spirit and Soul and see it so clearly spelt out, what an awesome read, thank you. It really is up to us what we choose. Imagine a world where this was the first lesson taught at school? Our world my look a little different from the mess it’s currently in.

425. Love the way this blog lays it out so simply. It’s a blessing to me to read this, to cut through all the fluff and detail and complication. “Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy”. Absolutely. And the facts do hit hard (although they are delivered with boundless love and understanding) because I have spent so much of my life indulging in the complications – all of which is a great big fluffy comfort blanket that enables me to avoid taking responsibility for my life and for the simple question that you so eloquently put – “will it be spirit or soul?”

426. It is interesting how we all know these two sides in us, the selfish part – the spirit and the selfless part – the Soul, and how we can be torn between the two. This has been subject for a lot of literature (for example: Goethe, Hesse) over centuries. It is so liberating and freeing to finally have someone – Serge Benhayon – come along and explain the exact difference between the two, and offer us a tool how we can discern one from the other and through that have a true choice.

     1. Yes, for the first time there is not only clear explanation of the difference between the two but also a clarity of that difference.

     2. That’s true, Judith. No-one has ever made such a clear and definitive distinction between spirit and soul and how they influence our lives, and one wonders what the world would be like if this was common knowledge and a natural awareness for everyone growing up.

        1. Bring on the day when it is common knowledge; this should be taught in schools from day one. What a difference to have the understanding of spirit and soul for all.

427. Thank you Heather… what always gives me pause for reflection is how truly ignorant I was, when I really really thought I knew so much. It really was the ” allegory of the cave” where what I thought was truth was just a reflection, until I met Serge Benhayon, and it was then, and only then, that I was able to connect with and experience the truth of soul and spirit

428. Beautiful Heather. It really is that simple…a choice towards who we truly are or that which is out to separate us. I too thank Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for making this clear. Now I know the way.

     1. I agree. Knowing the way makes a huge difference. Walking the way is the key and the work that Serge Benhayon brings through supports us to discover for ourselves what it’s like to live from soul rather than spirit.

     2. Agreed Sara – it is crazy how the simplicity of it is overlooked by so many people and new age modalities; it is a key principle to understanding how life works, and yet we haven’t been clearly explained the difference before Universal Medicine.

429. It has been awesome for me too as I gain a deeper and deeper understanding of our soulful expression, or expression from our spirit.
     The beauty, love, honesty and care of the soul is naturally there for me to express, however if I choose to disconnect from my body and express in a pranic or spiritual energy I am disconnected from my heart, from others and life, and this undoubtedly results in me expressing a harming energy in the world in some way.
     Thank you Serge Benhayon for making the difference between spirit and soul clear and for bringing this to my awareness.

430. It’s so helpful to read that really, in any given moment, it is a simple choice of whether to chose either spirit or soul, prana or love, truth or what is not true. It is that simple!

     It’s so helpful to feel this because I can be aware of past choices that I know were not loving, see how they effected those around me, and get caught up in trying to make good when really I simply have another choice to make, that of spirit or soul.

431. Before coming in to contact with Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom I thought the spirit and the soul were one and the same. I now know they are two very different aspects of us with completely different energy running them. This is something that should be taught to us growing up, if we are able to identify how these aspects of ourselves play out and effect our lives, life becomes more real.

432. It is such a great trick to teach and offer to people that energy is energy and spirit is the same as Soul. Things only fell into place, after year of puzzling observations as to why I would make one unloving choice when I knew another to be loving, when I was introduced to the possibility that there is the energy of the Soul and that of the spirit and the first makes life about everyone equally and the other about self. However mystical this might sound at first I have been so glad I explored it from the very simple and practical understanding presented by Universal Medicine.

433. When I met Serge Benhayon, my search was also over. After all those years and years of searching, it just feels so absolutely awesome to wake up every day, knowing that I don’t have to search for anything. I have been without search for over 4 years now and I will be without search for the rest of this life.

     1. Me too Mariette, I had been searching for connection to my true self all my life. At first I thought I would find this in drugs and when that failed I turned to the new age scene. All to no avail, until I went to a Heart Chakra Workshop presented by Serge Benhayon. In the first 10 minutes I knew the search was over as I felt my self re-connect back to me and know myself as a Son of God

        1. Right with you both. Buddhism, drugs, booze, guru, career, travelling, sex. I tried anything and pretty much everything, to fill the void of living a life of disconnection to myself. But as soon as I met Serge Benhayon something inside of me clicked, and I knew. And the ‘knowing’ was at a totally different level, a totally different feeling. There was no knowledge behind the knowing, it was just a huge YES in my body. The search was over, and I now know myself to be a Son of God.

        2. Same, same, Mariette and marylouisemyers, ‘when I met Serge Benhayon, my search was also over’. After hearing my first presentation I felt as though I had ‘come home’. This has been the experience for many students who are prepared and ready to take responsibility for their own life.

     2. I can second that Mariette, I too used to be searching and searching — for the needle in the haystack I could never find. That search is now over, what I was looking for I’ve realised is right here within me, and it is amazing to feel this warmth of my own love every single day.

434. Despite over 25 years being involved in various spiritual modalities, no one ever mentioned to me either about the “simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.” This was a revelation for me and everything then fell into place. Stopping the constant search ‘out there’ was a relief, as it had never brought me what I had hoped for anyway. Connecting with the true essence of me deep inside all made so much more sense and feels amazing.

     1. For me it was a revelation to be shown ‘what is there to be felt and known for yourself’, no intermediaries necessary.

435. So gorgeous and so simple, Heather. I know I can make life as simple or as complicated as I want – ‘re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple, expansive and more real’. I can choose to become complicated and get myself tied up in knots or I can step back and see the reality of what I am doing and step out of the box and become re-connected to my soul and allow life to expand.

     1. This is so true Susan Lee, the difference between two choices is simply stated with your sentence –
        “I can choose to become complicated and get myself tied up in knots or I can step back and see the reality of what I am doing and step out of the box and become re-connected to my soul and allow life to expand’.

436. Knowing that we can make a choice in any moment to choose either choose Spirit or Soul has certainly been revelatory for me too with out this understanding in the past I could get consumed by being in reaction and get very emotional in certain situations and it always appeared to be very hard to come back to myself simply because it didn’t occur to me that I had a choice!

437. A truly awesome blog Heather and one that I for one can certainly relate to. I still get caught in the ‘seeking’ energy of recognition and need for others to confirm me, yet I am learning to come back to the truth of who I am and that that is already within my inner-heart. I love how simply you have written what our choice is and how you felt in discovering this for yourself – very inspiring.

438. Feeling the truth in this teaching of the difference between the spirit and the soul as two different energies, from the presentations of Universal Medicine, has been an eye opener for me too Heather. Nowhere before have I heard this teaching and it explains so much that I didn’t previously understand, about how I can choose things from an energy on the outside of me or link to an energy from the inside of me to connect with what I’m feeling.

439. This might sound a bit crazy but it was only when I read your blog I realised that the Soul has been totally side-lined by the new age movement. Seems really bizarre I never questioned this. I never even considered my Soul when I too was on a spiritual path – it didn’t ever occur to me, and was not presented as something to reconnect with, until I went along to my first Universal Medicine workshop where Serge Benhayon clearly presented the difference between them. What I absolutely love is that they are not in fact separate parts of us at all but that the spirit is a part of the Soul that just needs tender, loving support in realising and accepting this.

440. “I’ve stopped looking ‘out there’ “. So have I Heather. I used to feel my time with reading in quest for a ‘truth’ I never found. All we need is within us, and everyday offers a new discovery.

     1. I agree Patricia, I too have stopped looking outside, such a futile and exhausting search when all along there it is there within us. Home.

        1. Love this Beverly. And a big yes from me. The expression “Home Sweet Home” is taken to a whole other level of potency!

     2. Me too Patricia, ‘out there’ never got me anywhere apart from ultimately more of the same misery and emptiness. Although not always easy, going within is so simple, so simple we seem to love to make it complicated by creating more and more distractions outside us, hence making it all about me, me, me, when in reality true evolution is all about us as a whole.

441. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” This is such a powerful sentence Heather. Giving in to self-indulgence and disregard is a sure way to take us away from Soul. The choice to respect our bodies is so important, and one that I am still learning how to do consistently.

     1. Yes, Rebecca, this was a revelation to me. In the past I used to think that the body (temporal) and the Soul (spiritual) were at opposite ends of the pole. Seeking for my soul therefore came to be a search on the outside of me and actually took me away from any chance of a true connection. Now I know that being with, and honouring and loving my body and listening to its messages, is the true way to re-connecting with my soul, especially through the breath.

     2. You’re so right Rebecca, choosing to respect our body is important, in fact it’s vital to our well-being and our journey back to Soul. It’s only when I began to take the first true steps towards loving and respecting my body that I realised just how much disregard I had been living in and just how much I didn’t respect my body. I’m now learning to change my habits of a lifetime and it’s so worth it, yet consistency is the key as it’s so easy to slip back into old habits!

     3. Yes Rebecca it is through the gentleness and love we have with our bodies that we get in deeper touch with Soul. So simple, but also so foreign, is this way for most of humanity. But it is a way that anyone can choose for themselves, it is a not hidden secret and no one gets special privileges.

     4. I agree Rebecca – consistently respecting and listening to our bodies is absolutely key to moving forward and, as you say, returning us back to Soul.

     5. “Giving in to self-indulgence and disregard is a sure way to take us away from Soul” – well said Rebecca

442. Yes, Heather, learning the difference between the spirit and the soul, and how our physical existence here on earth came about, was a huge revelation for me as well.
     It is the biggest piece of knowledge for humanity to discover.

     1. This is the biggest single piece of knowledge, that if felt and not just heard – is the ultimate game changer for humanity as we know it.

        1. So true Oliver, the knowing of the difference between spirit and Soul is pure gold for humanity. And this gold when lived, what it can offer back to humanity is priceless.

     2. Yes Regina, and it is the ONLY piece of knowledge that really matters, as without it we will continue to be stuck in the illusion that life as we know it, is it.

443. Love it Heather – it is amazing how simply you have presented the difference of these two things – spirit and soul – from the presentations of Universal Medicine, especially when there is such confusion in the world about these topics, with many spiritual leaders only eluding to their meaning, holding it as maybe too difficult to understand for their followers. Thanks for showing that there is another way

444. It’s brilliant Heather how you felt that for Serge there is “nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity”. What a contrast to the long list of goals and aims the spirit makes that it must have to be enough. How beautiful it is to return to the simplicity of the soul and a love that holds us all.

     1. Agree Joseph, the difference is so colossally different yet we find that saying both are one and the same because both offer feeling beyond the physical. This is true, however the quality is so different. One is for the all and the other is for self.

        1. “One is for all and the other is for self”. This supremely simple statement is so powerful Luke and is a such a great marker for me – a great barometer or measuring device. And if applied to, for example, Mary’s example above of the athlete, it so perfectly explains the emptiness that is felt so soon after a ‘victory’ and thus the insatiable desire for more. But what I appreciate from this short conversation in these last few comments is that, whilst I am definitely not running races or competing as an athlete, there are still pockets within my life that are for self and whilst I am doing that I am giving oxygen to my spirit, or rather not firing on all cylinders of my soul.

        2. And in the pockets the spirit likes to play its insidious games. As it does come down to that simple truth “one is for all and the other is for self”, no matter how right or fair it may seem to focus on self.

     2. That’s very true Mary, nothing will ever be enough until we re-connect to our Soul, our spirit know this, hence all the goal setting, achieving, distractions and emotional dramas, and drive to have more in our lives, all this resistance to keep us away from connecting to who we truly are.

     3. Well said Joseph, observing the simple humble truth that Serge Benhayon presents, and indeed represents, is key to knowing that we are all the same, headed in the same direction.

     4. Great point Mary, the push to always be more, better, faster and to win to get the ‘high’ is something that is never sustained as it comes from an emptiness inside that needs filling from the outside. i.e. the recognition for the win. Take away the congratulations and the hype and what do you have left?

     5. Brilliant comment Mary, so true that in Soul everything feels complete. Whenever there is a feeling of wanting more, we know we are in spirit. And this can be said of everything in life–in work, relationships, with food, sport, communication and so on and so forth.
        This is a great reminder to how life reflects back to us what has been our choice–spirit or Soul. So we can go back deeper to ponder, why we have made that choice.

445. Thank you Heather for your enlightening blog, knowing that there is a difference between Spirit and Soul has explained so many things in my life,…. the choices I make and how I can sometimes do or say things that don’t feel like me, and yet I still do them. Knowing that each moment is a choice, will I choose my Soul, the loving caring me that knows I am complete as I am, or Spirit, the part of me that seeks to look outside of me.

     1. Beautifully shared alisonmoir. These are great markers to know what energy we are in, thank you.

     2. This is great Alison. To know that when I’m looking outside myself I know for sure it’s the spirit who’s in charge in that moment and as soon as I realise this I can then lovingly bring myself back.

     3. Alison, thank you. Your comment explains how it feels between spirit and soul in a very relatable way.

446. Spirit or soul – the moment to moment choices determine everything about how we will feel and live each day. I love living a life that now feels like I am unfolding back to the true delicate me, making simple choices, living lovingly.

     1. Beautifully expressed Bernadette, ‘the true delicate me…’ How did we ever believe that we were not just that? It is a delicious embrace as we connect to the truth of ourselves.

     2. Every moment in our hands – the simple choice: Soul or Spirit – unity or division – this is for me the joy of responsibility. Thank you, Bernadette and Heather.

     3. Thank you Bernadette. And it is as simple as knowing that true love only comes from the soul. Whereas when I choose spirit I’m going for emotions, drama and the whole roller coaster schmozzle of life based on needs and ups and downs.

        1. Thanks Katerina, yes choosing to let go of the ups and downs of the spirit is like giving up an addiction, but once we do there is a whole new world that opens up that is beautifully simple.

447. Heather I thank you for your great sharing. I was certainly glad to know the difference very clearly stated by Serge Benhayon and this clarified for me what I had also wondered about, what is the difference between Spirit {prana) and Soul (Fire). There is such a difference between what the new age offered and the truth of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge and Universal Medicine.

     1. Absolutely, the ‘Spiritual New Age’ likes to keep us there, trapped in it, until we re-discover the truth and begin to climb the ladder back out of it and into the truth of the Ageless Wisdom.

        1. Yes it is incredible how close to the truth the Spiritual New Age appears. I fell for this trap for many years.

     2. Whilst I had only been to a few treatments from alternative medicine I never had been told the difference between spirit and soul – yet as you and others say its so fundamental to life and actually helps things make sense. Before being told the difference I could feel different things felt differently but I had no way or confidence to know what that meant. This key teaching certainly helps me understand life.

448. Great blog thank you for sharing it Heather

449. A beautiful blog Heather – I worked as a therapist with several ‘new age type modalities’ and never did any presenter talk about the difference between spirit and Soul. Presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine instantly made so much sense to me and brought an understanding of the choices we make on a daily basis to be aligned with either spirit or Soul. Serge Benhayon is a constant inspiration with the way he lives 24/7, humbly and openly speaking of how he is nothing without his Soul. I am knowing this for myself more and more as this is felt deeper and known to be true. Being free of the drama and emotions that the spirit brings is work in progress and at times very challenging, facing old ideals and beliefs bound up with it – but I would not change any of the past seven years of being a student of Universal Medicine – my life is so different based on the inner connection to the love that I now know, without doubt is, and always has been, within just waiting patiently for me to return to, and light up life with.

     1. This was the case for me too Stephanie. Before I came across Universal Medicine I had been ‘searching’ for answers through the spiritual new age for many years and no-one and no teaching had even touched on the difference between spirit and soul. Now I know and can feel the difference and this has become my everyday reality I realise that without this clear understanding I was absolutely and totally lost.

     2. I agree Stephanie, and working on our own connection with our joy through presence, is fast becoming the simplest way back.

     3. Yes this is the same for me, I attended loads of courses and workshops before knowing Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and not one of them presented this ..the difference between Soul and Spirit, not one of them knew the difference between the two or truth, or if they did, did not present it. This information should be available to everyone, in fact before even learning spelling etc we should be taught this.

450. After years of being a spiritual seeker and using the words spirit and soul interchangeably, thinking that they were the same thing, I at first didn’t want it to be true that there were two types of energy, one being prana and the other being fire. I had championed prana for many years as a yoga teacher, so when Serge Benhayon presented that there was another energy, that being fire, I had some resistance but also felt the truth in what was presented. Once I felt the difference in the energy through Esoteric Yoga and Esoteric Chakra Puncture, I could no longer deny that yes indeed fire was different from prana and fire felt a whole lot better. The deep stillness that I felt after an Esoteric session I could no longer deny and it then became very evident that I now had a choice. To choose to live in a way which promoted the fiery energy in my body or live what promoted prana. I have chosen fire, the energy of the soul.

     1. Hi Donna, how wonderful that you were open to accepting the difference even though you felt resistance at first. It’s quite a tough pill to swallow when you realise you have been totally fooled and tricked. But what a total relief for me when I got over that and began to let go of spirit and re-connect to my Soul. There’s no going back!

451. Thanks for sharing Heather, the two do feel totally different don’t they, the stillness of soul is so lovely to be aware of.

452. Universal Medicine teaches you the tools to discern the subject in its most simplest form: energy. When something is discerned by its energy, we cannot be fooled or seduced by fancy words and mysterious theories. This is taught so that the student of esoteric life can use it firstly to discern if the esoteric teachings are indeed truth or not, including the notion that there is a spirit and a soul and what they are. It is a truly empowering tool that allows us to take responsibility of the energy which predominates our lives. Love or no love. The power of change is within us.

453. ‘Spirit or soul – it really is that simple’. We are in the driving seat every moment and everything we have yearned for is only a breath away. The challenge or hard work is committing to breaking through all the habits, patterns and belief systems that I have chosen and that have become so familiar and deeply entrenched – but every time I choose Soul, the hold these things have on me lessens. This is the simplicity and power of responsibility. Thank you, Heather, for sharing so openly, accessibly and simply.

454. I appreciate the lovely reminder that we have a choice to make each day, each moment.

455. This is exactly the understanding that the spiritual new age obfuscates in every way – and why what they present is not true – because they don’t present the whole truth of the Spirit and Soul. Because once this is understood, then the Spirit will be on notice and it’s days are numbered.

     1. Very true Annie. Presenting half the picture as spiritual new age does at best, not only provides a completely false understanding, it also encourages us to further adopt behaviours that ensures we do not connect to our Soul.

456. Heather, an important point that you make “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard” is the key for me too. I, like so many in my generation, was brought up to feel that it was selfish to put myself first. As a result I grew up with an enormous lack of self-worth. It was wrong for me to spend any time looking in the mirror, that was vain. There were so many beliefs like that within families back then, such as the man was the head of the family, woman was there to be his hand-maiden etc.etc.

     To learn that to be really able to love another, I had to first learn to love myself was an enormous eye-opener for me, but having put that into practice gradually over the years, I have learned now that I have such an enormous love of humanity as well as myself. I have learned to really nurture myself, early to bed, lovingly made in the morning, learning to say no to things when they do not feel right, and so many other details that help me be more aware of my own body and the real me. I have learned to feel very much now the difference between the Spirit and the Soul. I choose the Soul now, the Spirit is what can get in the way, trying to distract me, persuading me to do things that are disregarding. Quite a journey it has been, and will be a lifetime one for me, learning to live more and more by the Soul. I am so grateful that I have learned the difference between the two through my association with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

457. Thank you for your sharing Heather Hardy. I also did a lot of searching and what a relief to no longer be looking ‘out there’ anymore, in the knowing that everything is within. It is great you have started this conversation, because this should be a ‘normal’ thing for us to talk about: what is the difference between spirit and Soul? And what energy are we choosing to live from and align with?

458. To be or not to be, that is the question here. We are either with the soul or not.

459. I remember being blown away when walking back to where I was staying one night after my very first course with Universal Medicine. I suddenly realised I no longer had a pain in the centre of my chest, that I had felt for years. It was gone, just like like and what was left was a lightness, a gentleness and an ease at being in my body and being me. This pain and tension can come back, not to the same extent, when I choose spirit / prana. When I am, and feel connected to my Soul and fire there is a warmth, a pulse and an absolute ease and joy at being in my body. The centre of my chest, my inner heart, feels open and light.

460. “After attending the first course with Universal Medicine and listening to Serge Benhayon speak, I knew that my search was finally over.” I absolutely agree, after my first morning of an event with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I knew I was home. There was no more searching, I found what I had been looking for, and that was me. Everything Serge presented just made absolute sense, I already knew it all, not in an intellectual and arrogant way, but the fact that every cell of my body was in agreement with what was presented and shared.

461. What is also very clear is that there is only every one simple answer and that is when you choose Soul. Every time we go into self doubt, uncertainty or say I don’t know, we have chosen our spirit, and not the depth of wisdom and knowledge that comes from our Soul. This is a great reminder, as I can be all too good at giving my power away and playing the self doubt game, which is deeply harming. As soon as I step into that I am ultimately saying okay spirit lets go for a ride. I make the choice to walk away and not take responsibility for the energy I choose to let in. And this can be down to the tinniest of things, such as what I choose to eat.

462. I love this bog as there are so many gems … the simplicity and clarity it shares feels way much more than life changing, world changing. What you have presented through your experiences of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine shows how very very clear and simple life can be. It cuts through all conundrums, complexities, dilemmas, issues, dramas, emotions and so much more. There are only two energies which we can live by and choose – we can never be both – it is as simple as that – we either choose spirit, (not love, prana) OR Soul (Fire, Love). This is the answer to all our woes.

463. Heather this is a great reminder for me about how simple things can be when we discern what is of the spirit and what is of soul. Then we know what is coming from truth and what is not of truth; for example, a thought or a decision we need to make or how we express something. The choice of what we align to in each moment.

464. I love what you have written here – it makes so much sense that there is more to life than what we see. What I’ve come to see is that my body knows everything, ‘energetic radar’ is the perfect description.

465. Indeed Heather: it really is that simple.
     It might not seem so at first, but once you truly see that the choices are only yours, you will feel the responsibility you have, the power inside you and the simplicity that comes with making choices that honour yourself instead of pampering you.

466. A choice in every moment – Spirit or Soul? Simplicity is perfectly clean and so magnetic!

     1. I love this bernadetteglass… ‘Simplicity is perfectly clean and so magnetic!’ So simple and… profound 🙂

467. I feel the same way Heather. I also got caught up in the spiritual new age and was searching for something to improve my life. Spirit and soul were described as the same thing so I was forever searching course after course but with no real change in the way I was. After spending thirty years searching I learnt through Universal Medicine that there is a difference and that we have a choice as to which way we live. This was the game changer for me and I now have been able to make the changes with the way I live by reconnecting to my soul. Finally the search is over!

468. Spirit vs Soul, Prana vs Fire, emotional love vs love – these polar opposites are worlds apart yet Serge Benhayon was the first person to openly discuss and share the difference. And what a difference this has made to my life. The choice of these 2 different energies should be one of the first things we learn as children at school. The fact that we don’t says so much about our education system.

     1. Yeah – what a foundation for life, being taught the difference between these things which, as many people here have shared, would simply fit in with that which we already knew as children. So it would be more about support and confirmation rather than teaching. Again super simple, but for now a far cry from the fact that we ‘teach’ and embed the opposite: ignoring and overriding that which you feel, for mental knowledge.

469. Certainly and without a doubt a clear difference…

470. Heather this a gem, you have nailed the greatest red herring of the spiritual new age – the pursuit of enlightenment through spiritual development.
     I spent many years searching also, under the illusion I was getting somewhere and involved in a range of spiritual pursuits, with no clue there was a difference between the Spirit and the Soul. Not until my first session with Serge Benhayon did I get to feel my Soul, and discover the enormous difference that in fact exists. From that day on, without further thought, I found nothing of appeal within the spiritual new age – it all just felt empty and superficial. It was like finally quenching a thirst that nothing else had touched.

     1. Jenny, I love your description ‘It was like finally quenching a thirst that nothing else had touched.’ I felt the same, immediately following this revelation, there was nothing that I wanted or needed from the spiritual new age arena. The effect was instant! Whereas previously I would buy books, cd’s, crystals and the like to fulfill this insatiable need, I knew from that day on these were no longer needed.

     2. Well said Jenny – with Serge Benhayon and his life changing teachings, I was also introduced to the difference between the soul and the spirit, and that’s when I knew I was home. The search within the field of spiritual new age is definitely over.

471. It was a huge revelation to me as well Heather, and made so much sense – before when I’d heard the two words being bandied around they didn’t seem to have much meaning to them and no one really seemed to know the difference between the spirit and soul. Thank you for sharing so simply what the true difference is and how we have a choice every moment to choose which we will align to.

472. With all the previous spiritual pursuits I have been on, none has ever felt true until coming to this understanding of the difference between spirit and soul. This teaching is nowhere else that I know of, and the beauty of being able to bridge back to my Soul through Self-Love is so empowering. I love how you say ‘it really is that simple’, I agree, we can make things so ridiculously complicated.

473. I can relate to realising that there are different versions of truth out there. Each person has there own truth, which some try to sell as truth, but the fact is a truth is a truth for all equally, and if there are different versions then that is not a one unified truth for all. Truth cannot but be unified and encompass all in it.

474. Heather – like you I have understood through Serge Benhayon the difference between sprit and soul – what I really appreciate here is how you have presented both options and shared the practical differences. It makes it very easy to understand how they work and what it means when we choose one or the other. Thank you

475. To be shown the True way and given a simple choice between spirit and soul in the way we live our lives distinquishes Serge Benhayon, from all other teachers I have known.

     1. I totally agree Kehinde. As Serge live his life the True Way he shows us how we can live ours.

476. Gorgeous sharing Heather, Thank you! Such a powerful realisation and crucial piece of understanding to have – it was life changing for me too on hearing Serge Benhayon present this! Life is so much more simple now… and I now know life does not just ‘happen’ to me – I choose it! I am a constant reflection of all of my choices made so far…

477. I love what you have written here Heather and recognise the similarities in my own searching. The continual looking for answers that never seem quite right and then listen to Serge Benhayon who makes everything so simple, clear and practical. No more searching for me – just an ongoing commitment to deepening my connection with myself.

478. Thank you Heather, a much needed truth being so simply and openly presented.

479. Heather, you describe the spiritual quest so accurately, it is the complete opposite of the Soul. The spirit goes out into the world for answers and keeps searching, the Soul doesn’t need to do this, it has all the wisdom already within – there is no search.

     1. Beautifully said Susan. The search of the spirit is an exhausting one of constant motion and searching. By contrast with the Soul we are reconnecting to an inner wisdom that never left us, we come home.

     2. Yes perfectly said SusanG, there is no searching from the Soul, it needs nothings and is complete. The perpetual searching that is so characteristic of the spiritual new age is a dead giveaway. The spirit continuously seeks and needs constant re-confirmation… the Soul does neither… complete contentment while confirming every other instead.

        1. Well said and I thank Serge Benhayon that I know the difference between spirit and Soul.

     3. So true susanG, the constant searching is the give away. The Soul does not search for answers – it is the answer.

480. I definitely agree with you Janet – What if every child at school learned the truth that 2 energies exist prana and fire and the way to connect is through the gentle breathe meditation. Life would be so simple then – a choice to make between spirit or soul.
     And there would be a deeper understanding re if the child misbehaved, and then more self responsibility would be encouraged to choose soul, not spirit.

481. I really enjoyed your blog Heather. The spiritual New Age is a very tricky and complicated place, full of promises and excitement, and a myriad of philosophies, modalities and pursuits. Each promises the truth yet there is no one unified truth. There are elements of the truth – just enough to keep you hooked but ultimately we end up exactly where we started, empty and with no true answers, and often quite broke. In my experience, spiritual New Age presenters and practitioners know how to blame you for what they can’t deliver. From the trash heap of this New Age I was able to find Serge Benhayon and through him find the truth in myself, and it’s a one unifying truth, based on love, equally available to all. Universal Medicines modalities are the only ones I have ever experienced that work, because the issues actually go, life truly changes (from the inside out), and I can build upon each new level of love after truly clearing stored energetic hurts.

482. I remember my first ever workshop with Universal Medicine, which was a lecture on the spirit. To discover the difference between the spirit and the soul was life changing for me also, a very big ah ha moment. I left that workshop wanting to tell everyone about it, and I did start, but I was amazed at how many people didn’t want to listen. It took me around six years to more honestly realise what was going on after that workshop when I was ‘spreading the amazing news’. I realised that people need to see and feel the difference, the same way I felt it in Serge Benhayon, recognising he was living the difference. It’s taken me eight years to be super honest about what I am actually living and choosing in each moment, thanks to the healing and inspiration consistently offered by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Now I see if I really live the difference in my own life, this is what allows others to feel it.

     1. What you describe Danielle has been the experience of many students. Until one is ‘living the difference’, others do not want to know. When one is in the livingness of the soul, others sit up and take notice and are often inspired to make changes in their own lives.

        1. Absolutely, without the living of it anything said just sounds like empty preaching or telling another what to do, it’s very imposing.

     2. Yes, the big surprise for me is that these words actually had a meaning.

        1. Yes I understand, I thought they were the same thing, or had actually never thought about it before.

     3. I love this, Danielle. Yes, the reason why thousands of people are inspired by Serge Benhayon, is because he has ‘lived the difference’ consistently for 15 years. What an amazing role model for us all, and by clearly defining the difference between spirit and soul he has given us the keys to the kingdom, so that we too can re-connect to who we truly are and choose a naturally soulful life every day.

        1. Absolutely janetwilliams06, it’s the consistency that counts, because nobody can challenge or deny what is being presented as not being true, it’s there before our eyes, and as you said, super inspirational and the key to the Kingdom, that nobody else is sharing.

     4. That’s really beautiful Shirley-Ann as I can feel you are claiming what you are bringing. Often I recognise that when it get’s complicated and I go into trying to get others to get it, it’s when I’m trying to prove myself or get something back in return from others, to feel better about myself. Instead of doing as you said, seeing that I am already amazing and just living this.

483. I really love your blog Heather, this so simplifies the difference between spirit and soul when I have for so long thought that it was much more complicated. Thank you.

     1. Thank you Nick. Yes, I’ve found that complication is another trick my spirit loves to use to keep me in my head!

484. Heather, I too was ‘completely taken in by the lure of the spiritual world’. I was sincerely looking for truth but fooled by the illusion of it and looking out there for any semblance of love and truth. This was because I was disconnected from the love within me. The more I value and appreciate myself the less I need to look outside of me. Thanks to Serge Benhayon, I now see that I have a choice in every moment to open to love and accept the love that I am, or to allow negative thoughts in, which would make me doubt myself or believe that I have a problem.

     1. Sandra I can really relate to what you have said here – I can also appreciate that I now know I have a choice in every moment and it’s not about me having a problem with myself or looking outside of me to achieve happiness.

485. Great blog Heather. Learning the difference between spirit and soul was a huge moment for me also. I came to understand how simple it is to reconnect back to the soul and live who I truly am, which was a vast contrast to the complicated ‘methods’ I had previously bought into to live supposedly happy and content from my spirit, (which of course I could never attain).

486. Thank you Heather. Once again reinforcing the importance of distinguishing between spirit and soul

487. Thank you, Heather, for writing a blog about the difference between spirit and soul. This should be the most fundamental teaching in schools, because it gives us an understanding of what influences every single choice we make each day.

     1. imagine if this was taught at school and everything is energy, that we are responsible for everything energetically, wow would life be very different!

     2. I agree Janet, to have this understanding from a foundational age at school would support us greatly in taking responsibility for our choices.

     3. I agree this should be taught everywhere, everyone has the write to know this. However, it is only when we start to live soulfully that the true changes will happen.

     4. I agree Janet, this should be the most fundamental teaching in schools.To understand that we do have a choice which energy we choose, is not only incredible and crucial information to receive but fundamental to what happens in our daily lives.
        If only I had known this earlier in my life. I would have saved a fortune on courses that not only did not give me the answers but led me up paths that took me further away from what I was searching for!

        1. It should be taught at schools everywhere but only by people who are soulful themselves, otherwise it is just knowledge and we go back to the beginning of why we are where we are.

     5. Yes janetwilliams06, this teaching would change the way we live and relate to everything. If we were taught the contrasting difference of these energies and how they affect us, then we would make wiser choices.

488. Someone once asked me what feels better to you.. spirit or soul. I said soul. I always knew there was a difference too. In all of my spiritual new agey pursuits I never could quite settle into them. The practical, real, energetic facts of life as presented by Universal Medicine was for me common sense (that I needed to learn mind you) but it is all just common sense. Nothing has felt more true to me than the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom in Universal Medicine.

489. I agree that learning the difference between spirit and soul from Serge Benhayon has been life changing for me too and an opportunity to stop running around seeking something, anything, to make life better. It strikes me that there must be something behind the spiritual New Age that also knows the difference between spirit and soul for it seems to have cornered the market on spiritual growth which in truth keeps us away from our soul. How different will the world be when everyone comes to know and live from that connection with the soul.

490. Heather this is such a fantastic blog. I never really questioned what the difference between spirit and soul was as I used to think they were more or less the same thing, just referred to as different names!… but I am now very clear on the difference between the two. The difference in my body when I choose one or the other is very noticeable. Choosing spirit for me feels like there is a lot of mental energy, drive and ‘rah rah’ – there is something that I need to sustain, and I have to keep fuelling it, to keep myself going. However, choosing Soul feels like a coming home, a resting place – there is nothing at all for me to do, except to be… and from this lovely place of joy and stillness come the impulses of the soul which guide me to where I need to go and what I need to do. The actual practicalities of my day may not look much different, but the way in which they are done are vastly different.

     1. ‘A resting place – there is nothing at all for me to do, except to be…’ – beautiful Brooke, beautiful wisdom, thank you.

     2. Beautifully described Brooke. There is such a world of difference – living in and from our minds causes so much complication, whereas living from our body brings flow and simplicity. It’s only since coming back to my body can I see how dominated I was by my thoughts and how they kept me in a state of anxiety and tension. Appreciating my body and living from there is a vast and total contrast!

491. For some of us who have lived lifetimes of being steeped in spiritual pursuits the choice to continually align to soul is not always obvious, or let’s say we find ways of putting obstacles in the way through our self doubt – listening to the voices of old ideals or beliefs. Continually re-connecting to our inner-heart allows a deepening of our own inner knowing that can dispel the distracting thoughts and allow us to be present with whatever arises. This in itself is an act of Self-Love. Like you “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love” what a beautiful road to take.

     1. Beautiful words elainearthy. It wasn’t until fairly recently that I truly realised that going into self-doubt, self-criticism and being hard on myself because I wasn’t coming up to my own expectations is NOT Self-love and harms my body just as much as anything else I do on the outside, for example eating foods that I know I shouldn’t. I agree also that it is continually and consistently re-connecting to our inner-heart that allows the deepening connection with our true selves.

492. Thank you Heather, yes, it is that simple, and yet, it doesn’t always feel that simple. ‘the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard’. I can feel that I have very strong patterns running in my body (by the spirit) and learning to recognize these patterns and make a different choice can be challenging, but it is very rewarding when I do and as these choices become more regular, it is easier to make them.

     1. Like you Alison I am learning to recognise the drive of my spirit, that I allow to run in my body, I recognise this when I become a woman on a mission. As I become more aware of this I am starting to nip this in the bud, which allows more flow and ease in my day.

493. Your blog sums it all up in a nutshell Heather, awesome. There is no need for all the spiritual mumbo-jumbo, it is really quite simple as you have outlined here perfectly. Once we know the difference between spirit and soul there is no going back. It becomes a responsibility it every moment. I love your quote ~
     “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard”.
     Self-indulgence and disregard, strong words, and I know I have done both, but now I realise that it is up to me to make the choice not to indulge in these harmful emotions, and that goes for self-doubt and self-criticism too, no-one is going to wave a magic wand and take me straight to Heave​n. ​ ​It is my responsibility to be loving with myself and do the work to consistency bring myself back to me. The magnitude of your blog cannot be over estimated, it is HUGE, what you share is the absolute truth and is relevant to everyone​. ​It is with deep thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for reminding us of who we truly are, something we knew already, but had long ago choose to forget. I am certainly not perfect, but recognising when I drop is also a gift, because then I can pull myself up again and not remain in the indulgence of the moment, and state my intention to be open to life, not hide and let people in​. ​ ​In​ other words to be more loving with myself. Thank you Heather, for sharing and bringing to the fore something we innately all know in our inner hearts.

     1. Love your comment sandrahenden no mumbo-jumbo in it.

     2. Well shared sandrahendren, the Ageless Wisdom Serge Benyahon has shared, is what we all know but had forgotten along the way. With it being shared with us again, we now have a choice and responsibility to make choices that support our body and who we truly are. No need to get caught in the spiritual mumbo-jumbo or emotions.

     3. You are right Sandra, this is a huge blog, and a very important one. The distinction between Spirit and Soul was a game-changer for me, and once I really grasped what its implications were I could see how I was running myself in disregard and self-indulgence without a clue that I was doing it or why.

494. “I realised that I needed to feel for myself what the truth about life was/is.” Connecting with myself can show me the way. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul was a huge learning for me – and everything then fell into place.

     1. This is correct! When we connect to our inner heart then truth is there to be felt. If we all chose to live from this connection then we would automatically have a one unified truth for all.

     2. I found this too Sue. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul and understanding, then feeling the different energies they are, this allows me to make a choice between them.

        1. Yes me too Sue and Ruth, knowing the difference between spirit and soul has given me the freedom to choose, because without this awareness I/we would not truly evolve. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul has opened a gateway for me, a gateway back to my inner-heart, and it is my choice as to how far I want to open the gate, but now at least I have the choice and for this I am deeply grateful.

     3. I agree sueq2012 – knowing the significant difference between the spirit and the soul makes everything make sense.

495. Thank you Heather, the simplicity and the wisdom you share is a joy to read.

496. “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity” There is much that stops you when you meet Serge Benhayon – his unfamiliar yet utterly familiar qualities, I was struck by his lack of ego or need for persuasion – he stands simply as a world presenter of truth.

     1. lucindag, this is very true – one of the many things that I have observed with Serge Benhayon over the 10 years I have known him, is that he has absolutely no investment in whether you are ‘getting it’ or coming back to his presentations and workshops or not. There is nothing that is trying to hook you in to, ‘believe in him’ or convince you that ‘he is right’. He presents all of himself whether it is in a personal meeting or in a presentation and leaves it up to each and every one to take away from that which he is offering what they themselves choose to.

497. ‘I realised that I needed to feel for myself what the truth about life was/is.’ completely agree with that

498. When I look back to the time before being shown the difference between spirit and soul it was very easy to get caught up in anything that gave me attention and think it was love. Yet during all these times there was always something that felt incomplete or missing. With an true understanding of what soul means also comes the understanding of true love and with that a simplicity that I had also not felt before. This teaching and presentation about spirit and soul is something where my understanding is always depending and something that I feel provided me a missing piece to understanding life.

499. I also had no idea about the spirit or soul and what each represented. However since being introduced to Universl Medicine and Serge Benhayon I have clarity and understanding of the role that each of them play. As you have stated Heather the search is over as Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is it.

500. The courses, workshops and esoteric therapies offered by Serge Benhayon define the difference between spirit and soul through the experience of connection – not an intellectualized concept and never is one word interchanged for the other as if they are one and the same. The more I have felt moments of connection, conscious presence and come to know myself by a certain quality the easier I have found it to identify the qualities that come from a dominating spirit – raciness, melancholy, excitation are just a few examples I have come to know as from my spirit and not my soul.

501. This is great Heather to have the ‘simple facts’ presented in the way that you have. I had never appreciated the difference between spirit and soul until meeting Serge Benhayon. Now it is down to me to discern the energy, listen to my body and make the choice between prana and fire. Sounds simple, and it is, provided that I live it.

502. Heather, you article makes me question that what if everything you have written here was a part of normal and common education? Not saved for the few but accessible to everyone in the process of living and growing up in to adulthood? What kind of a world would it be if we all knew and could distinctly tell the difference between Spirit and Soul?

     1. Beautiful idea Shami, and if everybody was taught our purpose in life was to serve humanity it would be heaven.

503. Attending my first workshop with Serge Benhayon was to have the biggest spring clean ever of ideals and beliefs. “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity” is a great way of describing the difference between all other presenters.

504. Before Universal Medicine I thought the spirit and soul were the same thing or maybe I never thought too much about it. I never really dabbled in the spiritual new age but I always felt that reincarnation made so much sense. Understanding the difference between spirit and soul makes everything a lot clearer. Thanks for bringing this very important subject more attention.

505. Thank you for your simple and concise explanation of the difference between Soul and Spirit. I too knew of the two energies, but not the difference. Like you and many others I was searching for ‘something’ out there and tried many of the “New Age” teachings and modalities, but always felt uncomfortable when someone was described as being “Spiritual”. I felt the difference but didn’t understand until I heard Serge Benhayon explain the difference that I truly knew what each one meant. It was a ‘light bulb’ moment for me.

506. Terrific blog Heather. For many years I felt confused about the difference between spirit and Soul. I practiced Reiki for a while and felt even more confused, as there was no differentiation between spirit and soul but this felt wrong. The first couple of years listening to Serge Benhayon​. ​I still felt the confusion, until, one day I allowed the gentle breath meditation to truly be gentle​, ​ and I felt the warmth around my heart and then I knew that there really was a difference between the Soul and spirit.

507. “I’ve stopped looking ‘out there’ and I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!”
     Top Blog Heather and I agree, as long as we have the willingness to do so, it really is very simple in making that choice between Soul or Spirit.

508. Prior to attending Universal Medicine I thought that the soul and the spirit were the same. Now I know it is definitely not. It has been so empowering to know that every moment of my day I have a choice to connect to my soul or spirit. The responsibility is mine as to which energy I chooose to align to, prana or fire, therefore, what I choose is what I receive. This has an impact on how I feel and also on others around me.

509. Such a great sharing Heather, I was searching for truth for many years through the Spiritual New Age and various modalities. Nothing ever felt true to me until the day I meet Serge Benhayon, it was an amazing feeling to connect to truth and feel the difference between ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’. It has been life-changing for me and many others to have the support and love of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon – a true blessing.

     1. The day I learnt that there is a difference between the spirit and the soul is the day my life began. Everything before that, no matter how successful I was, was missing something very important, my soul. This is something I feel many of us have forgotten.

510. Yes, I feel we know intimately the difference from young. I always had a sense that if something was true I could tell based on life. This was why like you Heather, meeting Chris James and Serge Benhayon was extremely powerful, as they are both living proof of how amazing we can be when we live soulfully.

511. I have to say I was not only one of those ‘searchers’, but one of those running courses and not living a life I would call healthy…complete illusion driven by my spirit… without the introduction of the concept of the soul by Serge Benhayon, I would probably still be going, but with far less vitality, clarity and well being.

512. Awesome blog Heather, thanks for writing it so clearly and simple. It’s easy to understand. I too had searched all over the place and tried so many modalities, but it was not until I met Serge Benhayon and went to some of the Universal Medicine events that I started to really understand where I had been lost, searching without realising that all I had to do was reconnect to me.

     1. Yes Rosie, we can go on quite the journey before we are willing to see just how incredibly simple it is to find what we are searching for! And it is so much more rewarding to commit to developing and deepening this connection, rather than chasing our tails looking for it 😉

513. The soul chooses love, not a perfect life, that is the spirit talking, two very different paths in life. There are many courses out there that offer this perfect life but they only seek the armchair comforts of a disengaged life. True success is living a life in connection, where spirit and soul unite as one and are not existing as separate identities within the body.

     1. Connection to spirit, pranic energy, chooses the less than perfect life of armchair comforts and disengagement from humanity
        Connection to soul, firery energy, chooses love where spirit and soul unite as one. True success. Thanks for that.

514. I love this sentence Heather “the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love”. On the other side of the bridge awaits another way of living if we so choose. Beautiful.

515. Your story tells it all Heather of the simple choice we now have to connect to our Soul and to be aware of when the spirit is running the show. Your story is my story too. The endless search to find truth and then hearing Serge Benhayon present the difference between spirit and soul and how to live that connection with soul. It certainly is a coming home.

516. I have observed, but never indulged in any spiritual beliefs, as they never really seemed to make sense to me. I never saw a spiritual pursuit that was grounded in simplicity and that was not imposing. This was why I found Universal Medicine so refreshing because it was real and it gave me answers that made sense, a soulful way of living and expressing that does not impose on another and holds no one less, whatever their belief may be.

517. Once you know the difference between spirit and soul, the energy of fire and prana and that we do have a choice, life really does become very simple. There is no knowledge to be gained, no places to go or things to create in your life anymore … It’s an amazing stopping point to have in one’s life. What I have discovered in this, is I am the absolute sweetest thing to feel, honour and respect. Why would I choose anything less than this divine yumminess?

518. ‘I’ve learnt that the bridge back to my soul is from self love’ – this is so true.

519. Heather, thank you for sharing your experience of soul and spirit. For me I have found it to mean the difference between being open with others, or closed in my chest .. deeply loving with myself and others, or hard and critical on myself .. open, light, joyful, surrendered and confirmed in myself as a son of God, or what feels wobbly on my feet with a sense of not feeling like me. It is great to form a relationship with the two to understand what choices I am making and why; and to know and confirm that my soul and God is with me in every moment regardless.

520. What occurred to me reading this was how different it is to be running around out there trying to find the spiritual answers, rather than being encouraged to look within where all the answers are already waiting for me. It feels completely different.

521. Heather, I can so relate to the endless searching ‘out there’ to find the answers to a ‘better’ life. It was years of spiritual search, and before that it was ‘the grass is always greener on the other side’ search…. always on the outside. Studying with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is forever bringing me home to where all the answers are, right there inside of me.

522. Choosing to find the love inside us is very empowering. Just like you, I had lost myself in a lot of new age stuff to improve and better my life but it never was it. Always finding a new book or course that would bring me a solution to fix my hurts, frustration etc. Now I know the way back is through self love.

523. Thank you Heather for a great blog I chuckled when I read the line “I wanted everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends” I could add a few other things to that list but remember wanting those things as well. In searching for the answer and how to obtain or achieve all of these things I seemed to be getting further and further away from a happy or fulfilled life. Things have changed so much for me now – In learning the difference between Spirit and Soul my life is lived from a very different understanding I don’t even have a list that I long for any more as I live with a much deeper understanding of responsibility and service.

524. Thank you Heather, your expression is so relateable to most of us. I have to add that not only did I not find the truth or have the understanding of what is spirit and what is soul and the difference that lay between from any new age spiritual modality but also no organized religion that I introduced to myself gave me any clarity either.
     Serge is one who speaks the whole truth and lives it as well.

525. Awesome Blog Heather, I Love the simple way you explain the difference with spirit and Soul!

526. I love it when I make life that simple – feeling what energy I have flowing through me at any time and using my body as an honesty detector to tell me which energy I have chosen. We are not held by our past, our hurts or our patterns. Every moment is new and a chance to choose the energy of our soul.

     1. Beautiful Fiona ~ I have been re-developing my internal truth meter or honesty detector, it is such a great support to allow ourselves to feel what we have chosen and in this a true choice can be made.

     2. Beautiful Fiona, ‘I love it when I make life that simple – feeling what energy I have flowing through me at any time and using my body as an honesty detector to tell me which energy I have chosen’, absolutely it is so simple, our body is a great honesty detector, I get sore throats if I’m not talking in my natural soulful voice, if there is a force and my ovaries hurt if I push my body and not honouring my natural, soulful feminity, the difference between being spirit (in my head) and soul(in my body) is clear if I listen.

     3. It is true Fiona – every moment is new and we have choice on connecting with soul as impulsed from our inner hearts or to think we know and control what we are doing.

527. Learning and feeling the difference between spirit and soul changed my life too Heather. This understanding changed everything. It feels so wonderful to be able to choose soul with such clarity, even though my spirit is kicking and screaming!

528. I cannot thank enough Serge Benhayon for bringing this vital truth through and available to the whole humanity. Being aware of the difference between the types of energy, and spirit and Soul has helped me understand my self, the world and people around me, and appreciate them. Like you, Heather, I have been to many workshops and courses where the words spirit and soul would be mentioned and the difference was never clear, and it was almost interchangeable. And when I first read the book, ‘The Way It Is’ , Universal Medicine for me, at that time, was something I was beginning to get interested in, but also just another one of those things that a friend decided to follow, and I was very reluctant to accept what was being offered there wholeheartedly. But there was an unquestionable clarity and simplicity that I couldn’t argue against.

     1. I have experienced the same interchangeable approach to spirit and Soul in religions too – that there is no real difference. There clearly is – and if we are open to it, the difference can be felt in our bodies.

529. Great blog Heather. I never really went too far down the spiritual new age side of life except for visiting the occasional psychic but from what I had experienced life to be, I can say with absolute authority that Serge Benhayon was the first ever to deliver truth to me. I felt it to the bone and all his presentations have only ever been about simplicity and living the love of the soul in the physical body. Now I allow and trust what I feel and respond as I need to.

530. From my experience too Heather, the Spiritual New Age with it’s mountains of knowledge discloses not.. the truth of this life changing revelation. Discovering for oneself the true difference between spirit and Soul is perhaps one of life’s greatest revelations in our return to who we truly are.

531. Thank you Heather, I love the simplicity in which you share this. Learning and slowly understanding the difference between spirit and soul has been on of the most powerful things that I have ever studied. With this understanding I know how I am traveling through life, am I connected to me or am I consumed with self-doubt? It also means that I bring a much greater depth of understanding to others and am less likely (and this is not perfect) to take things personally that others may be saying or doing. I also recognise that I have a choice to either connect to my soul or my spirit and how I may do this and in every moment there is this choice.

     1. I agree with you Jennifer that knowing the difference between spirit and soul has been life changing. I was searching all my life and thought I had found it in spiritual work but once I heard about the difference, it was like a full stop to what I thought was it. With an awareness of choices between the two energies, I feel at last that I have clarity to choose what energy I allow into my body. Great blog Heather!

     2. ‘Learning and slowly understanding the difference between spirit and soul has been one of the most powerful things that I have ever studied’ – I love that last word Jennifer; studied. The difference between spirit and soul is definitely a study, one that can only be done when we are open to connecting to ourselves and our bodies.

532. It is interesting how there are many so-called ‘experts’ out there who have many conflicting opinions on life and energy, but they never sounded true to me at all. The understanding of the difference between spirit and soul now all makes prefect sense.

     1. Yes Gill, it makes perfect sense to me too. Looking back on some of the spiritual pursuits I took part in makes me shudder, there is no feeling of love or warmth there at all, unlike the Universal Medicine sites that feel warm, open and welcoming. That’s what I felt when I first came across Universal Medicine, I knew instantly in my body that I found the Truth. What I felt there was something I had not felt for a very long time, Love, and a non-imposing gentle invitation to come back to myself, as Soul.

533. Thank you Heather. I loved reading your clearly written blog on the difference between Spirit and Soul. I was the same as you in not understanding the difference and was on a spiritual quest as well. Since attending Universal Medicine presentations 6 years ago, I have come to know the difference and feel it for myself.The gentle breath meditation was a key to that understanding for me, along with many other tools which helped me to connect to my body and feel the truth that was there.
     You summed it up so well “I’ve stopped looking ‘out there ‘ and I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be Spirit or Soul? It really is that simple”.

     1. I agree Sue – the Gentle Breath Meditation has been such a support to me as well.

534. Yes we do have a choice in each moment, and that is so liberating to feel, we don´t need to be perfect or wait until we are completely healed, every moment we have the opportunity, thank you Heather for sharing.

     1. “…or wait until we are completely healed”, I agree Julia, I used to feel that I could not be loving or feel love because I have hurts left to heal, what nonsense! I had been kidding myself for too long, it has been a relief to come to this realisation, no more excuses, I can be Love NOW, for what other time is there but the present moment. No more lying to myself or hiding behind the false persona that isn’t the true me, known as my spirit, as now I know the difference.

     2. Well said juliamanbos – there is no such thing as perfection, every moment is another opportunity to choose what is loving and in effect healing, not only for ourselves but equally for those around us.

535. Absolutely Heather. I completely agree with ‘For the first time in my years of searching, Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy. I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.’

536. Thank you for sharing Heather, I found the same as you that “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there”. It was something I always knew, but because of how we are educated it was so ingrained in me to look outside and to others for the answers, and not to trust what I was feeling.

     1. Thankyou James, I can really feel the harm in learning not to trust what we feel. Perhaps one day our education system will teach us to feel and discern rather than question and doubt.

        1. One day I am sure it will, but for now we can bring up our children knowing this. Doubt and lack of trust is something which stops and holds back so many people from being themselves and causes so much unnecessary tension.

537. Reading this blog reminds me that having learned this from Serge Benhayon – or maybe being reminded of it is a more accurate thing to say – I noticed the different way my body responded to the two words ‘spirit’ and ‘Soul’. It is very telling and hard to describe, but spirit feels more linear and individual, whereas Soul feels expansive and all encompassing. I have no doubt that choosing Soul allows me to feel more of who I am, and to live more of me in what I do in the world.

     1. I agree richardmills363, it is the expansiveness of soul that is felt within the body. Life becomes clear and uncomplicated, and a sense of understanding and purpose becomes ever more present. The choice of spirit as you say, makes life linear and all about self. The head has a filled day still trying to work life out, with a lot of effort and exhaustion. There is nothing exhausting about living with our soul connection.

538. I always thought the same as you, as a child, when I heard Spirit and Soul I wondered why there were two, and then wondered why spirit was preferred when the Soul sounded so much better? Then I met Serge Benhayon and began to understand the difference, and realised that these words are not far fetched and removed from real life, but tangible and practical things.

539. Thank you Heather for sharing your experience of re-connecting back to truth and love as presented by Serge Benhayon. I can absolutely relate as it was like I had a switch go on. Serge makes sense of the world we live in and of who we are, in a very real and practical way.

540. “Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.”
     What you describe here Heather is exactly my experience and what a revelation it has been for me when I heard this hard fact by Serge Benhayon and his presentations. It has been and continues to be a life changer.
     Thank you Heather for a powerful blog. With Love, Maryline.

541. “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard”.
     This is what I am learning moment to moment in my daily choices.
     When you shared the moment you felt that what Serge was saying was the Truth, takes me to this very moment of clarity when I felt the same in front of him. This was a crucial moment that shook my spirit and from which my life became simple, just a choice : prana or fire and then…the consequences.

     THANK YOU Heather.

     1. Thank you Victoria – it’s beautiful to feel the simplicity in your words, and feel your commitment to you and the daily choices you make to re-connect to you and your Soul.

542. I can really relate to your story Heather as I have tried the spiritual path to find that none of the teachers I saw lived what they presented. learning the difference between spirit and soul has been the biggest change in my life and has brought me to a path that is true, challenging at times, but always leading home, to who I truly am.

     1. I think it is amazing to read that so many of the spiritualist teachers don’t actually live what they present. I never went to any presentations and never met and gurus, so I have been confused as to how anything they say carries any weight to it if all they are saying is ‘do as I say not as I do’. That is where I find the presentations given by Serge Benhayon to be so amazing – Serge walks his talk and so when he presents it comes with an assurance and authority of someone who as lived it, and this makes what he says so much more meaningful.

        1. Hi Rebecca, it is actually not that surprising if you look at it from an energetic perspective. We accept people, who on the surface seem to live it all, so that we ourselves can stay looking only at the surface. When we have teachers, such as Serge Benhayon, who live and breath energetic responsibility and integrity, we are asked to come to this level of livingness too. And many do not want to go there, hence they choose those that talk the talk and look good but do not actually delver the whole truth.

        2. Beautifully explained carolienbraakenburg, that makes a lot of sense – thank you.

543. A beautiful blog and awesome sharing, so many of us can relate to this sharing of spirit and Soul. How simple Serge presented the difference and clearly showed us how we could connect to our soul. In my first ever workshop, I was in tears as I could feel the truth of what was being shared. The tears where of a joy, as I got to understand my search for truth was to re-connect back to my inner self, I no longer needed to look for anything outside of me. Thank you to Serge for his beautiful reflection and presentations.

     1. Absolutely Amita. It is simple- Soul is love, harmony, stillness and joy. If it’s not that then it’s spirit!

544. The sooner mankind can wake up to the fact that there is a difference between spirit and soul the faster we will evolve back to where we have come from.

     1. Right on kevmchardy, does this mean we all have to get on with it….? No more excuses now we know the truth 🙂
        Evolving back to where we truly come from sounds good, and I’m all for getting us all back there together, sooner rather than later.

     2. Never a truer word spoken. The realisation of the truth between spirit and soul is a paradigm shift of awareness once embraced by humanity is life changing.

     3. Absolutely Kev. The whole spirit and soul as being part of the same thing is one of humanities greatest delusions. A suitable truth or convenient lie we tell ourselves to continue to live in the mess we have created.

     4. Yes Kevin, it actually explains everything, which is why there are actually many of us who don’t want to know – like the guy in the film The Matrix who takes the red pill instead of the blue pill (or is it the other way around) so that he doesn’t remember the game of creation.

        1. Yes Dean, it seems we have been swallowing a bitter pill for aeons, denying our true evolution. Now the truth has once again been revealed we have no excuse but to choose to take the pill that will allow us true healing and bring us back to ourselves, the best medicine ever.

        2. And imagine that, the answer was inside us all along.

     5. Powerful statement kevmchardy – a true wake up call.

     6. Here, hear Kev, well said

     7. Very true kevmchardy. The sooner this distinction is made, the sooner mankind will consciously evolve back to where we have come from. Without it we will carry on as if sleep walking, creating complexities and delaying our return.

     8. Very true Kev, well said. There is a vast difference between these two aspects of ourselves and once realised, can lead us out of some very troublesome issues. Serge Benhayon is the first person I have known who has been able to not only distinguish the difference verbally but energetically too, a fact that once felt may be resisted but cannot be denied. Feeling the difference between spirit and soul has been the most informative education I have ever received, because this distinction was not reliant on a belief or faith, it is tangible energetic evidence that can only be delivered by someone who is genuinely living in connection to their soul. We can only truly educate others from our lived experience.

     9. So well said kevmchardy.

545. How simple and empowering to have found the truth that is within through Serge Benhayon. He is a living example for us all. The confusing clutter of the new spiritual age is seen for what it is. It lures people in on promises that do not deliver. Another flavor of an illusion that keep us stuck..

546. I hadn’t realised exactly how much had changed for me until I read this blog. There was a time when the issues that I had seemed overwhelming and I was searching to fix things. This took all of my waking thoughts which is exhausting.
     These days, since meeting Serge Benhayon, listening to his talks and attending healing sessions, all that has fallen away. I feel like me and if a problem arises it does not consume me. I also do not seek to bury it.
     I am indescribably grateful to Serge for this, yet I have never felt that I am in his debt as he amazingly holds everyone as equal, and so the change in me feels more like an awakening of my true self rather than something someone has done for me. Nevertheless Serge has done me an immeasurable service.
     The revelations of Spirit or Soul, Prana or Fire have allowed me to discern the fundamental truth of what is truly going on. I do not have to believe in these things, I can feel them to be true, and once known, there is no return to floundering around in the dark.

     1. This is such an important point, for once we have gained awareness we are able to discern for ourselves, and as you say, KNOW these things to be true. No more questions, no more self-doubt, no more floundering.

     2. I agree with every word of your comment Amanda. Its like Serge Benhayon gave me a torch, its up to me to switch it on and use it.

547. Simply written and expressed with such honesty, love your journey back to truth.
     I also had been searching for the truth finding it in Serge’s Eyes.
     I am by no means completely clear but am enjoying a clarity and stillness by choosing Soul that had been lacking in my life. Thank you Heather, from another evolving student.

548. Thank-you for sharing the difference between the soul and the spirit Heather. I too would like to express my appreciation to Serge Benhayon for his presentation about connecting back to ourself and the bridge between self love and returning to soul which unifies us all. So different than the ways of the spirit, which is full of emotional dramas and complications and keeps us in separation from each other.

549. Well said Katerina, it is great to be able to understand the differences between both and then make our own choice. Also crazy how we as humanity have chosen to wallow in the the emotions, dramas and hurts, all the very things that keep us dull, down and not living in our true potential of love and harmony. A spirit that can identify with the lessor side of itself as a recognition of what it is truly not.

550. I too, like you Heather have experienced many New Age modalities in the search for truth. I was left disillusioned and more disconnected from the real me.
     It was not until I met Serge Benhayon that I felt the truth of what he said in my body. It made total sense.
     Through the gentle breathe meditation taught by Serge, I learnt to feel the difference between Spirit and Soul.
     It has made a huge difference to my life, connecting to my inner heart and soul – feeling the awesomeness of who I am, and connecting to love and joy of life.

551. Great blog Heather, I can relate to that life changing moment where you felt the difference between spirit and soul, (used interchangeably in much of the spiritual new age) and the two sources of energy we can draw from, and also the realising all the outward seeking spiritual pursuits did not cut the mustard, so to speak, once you had felt what it was to simply turn inward and reconnect back within.
     Your blog reminded me that at a new age cult like school a few of my kids once attended, the words spirit and soul were frequently bandied around. At a class meeting I asked the teacher what their experience was of the difference between the two, what did spirit mean and feel like, and Soul, what was that like to experience? It was a shock for the teacher to realise they had no answer, not from experience, or any of the texts either. This spoke volumes.
     Nowhere outside of Universal Medicine have I ever heard the distinction and our responsibility for which energy source we align with made so clearly, with such simple practical techniques to experience the difference for ourself. Totally life changing.

     1. Absolutely life changing Kate! That’s an interesting experience you share about the teacher who was unable to answer your questions and exposed that they didn’t have a true understanding of what they were teaching. This is quite typical in my experience. The words are used yet they are empty and misleading. It’s only when we stop to question the words we are being fed that we become open to feeling the difference for ourselves.

552. Thanks Heather for your article. I agree, there is so much freedom to be gained from knowing what the energetic choices really are, and how they can support or hinder one’s life development. These truths as revealed by Universal Medicine are an immense blessing for all.

     1. I completely agree Jennifer. They are a Godsend!

553. If this truth was taught at school, I feel the world would be in a different place. It is such a super awakening moment that it can make you stop and reconsider all the decisions we make, is this choice one that is towards soul or is it not. There is so much in this.

     1. Absolutely Matthew, this should be taught at school as this is real education. This is real religion too – no paradise or hell to go to, just spirit and soul to know about and live accordingly. The teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are all encompassing.

     2. Absolutely Matthew. And we would be more aware that everything is in fact an actual energetic choice that plays out in the physical.

     3. Thank you Heather and Mathew. I agree that the spirit is a distraction to us. My spirit also took me on the new age path of no return. Similarly I continued to ask about Love or love? Did it have a small or Large ‘L’? This was a great conversation starter but I never got a definitive answer about Love before I met Serge Benhayon.

     4. If truth was taught at school the world would be given the platform to discern. As it is not, children are brought up to survive, to try and negotiate and live in a way that is based on right and wrong and decide what is best in any given situation. It’s a messy way to live.

        If truth was taught at school there would be such loving guidance and we would be free of this mess and live in unity with all because truth is fundamentally what unites us .

     5. I completely agree Matthew. In fact knowing that there is only two true options – ever – and everything else forms after that initial choice, has a fundamental impact on life – it provides a vital foundation. It makes me wonder how on earth did the teaching and the focus of this awareness ever drop off in the first place?

     6. I agree Matthew, it makes our whole perspective on the world change as we can see the two play out.

554. I love this blog Heather, I too had a very similar experience to you. Always seeking and searching my whole life, looking to many different religions, getting into the spiritual new age stuff too. But my state of mind, anxiety, ailments, illnesses were all still there! Nothing ever changed, until I learned the difference between spirit and soul, prana and fire. That we have 2 types of energy that we can align to, that pulses through us by our choices. Thank you, just loved what you have shared.

555. Heather, such a great blog describing a true stop moment, spirit or soul, not-love or love, it really is our choice. And I loved being reminded that the way back to soul is through self love.

     1. How you describe it here monicag2 is so simple – which is testament to the truth that it is!

556. Thank you for elaborating on this Heather. I too found that Serge Benhayon explaining the difference between spirit and soul the biggest revelation of my life. At last the world makes sense! That is the reason for the fight within me. Part of me is directly from God, pure and loving, takes great care of my body, others, and myself. Part of me is my spirit, which separated from God, and cares not for my body, others, or myself. It is also why others around me can one minute be tender, caring, and understanding, and the next minute lash out with defense. Everybody has a soul. Everybody has a spirit. Most people have a fight going on inside them. The few who don’t are simply aware of their spirit but give their attention to their soul, and wow does that make their eyes sparkle. We have all felt times when we are in the flow of the soul, and life comes to us. Life is about living the souls way more and more.

     1. This so true Bernard, hearing that there is spirit and soul really helped me to have an understanding of people, that explained why they could be so loving and sweet one moment and then be angry the next and feel very different. It has helped me to not take things personally if someone is not being themselves, not being soulful, and has brought a greater understanding and love of people.

557. Hi Heather I too came across Serge Benhayon through Chris James, from then everything began to change, no more seeking the truth, just a gradual process of learning to live it.

     1. Beautifully said 1timrobinson …. “no more seeking the truth, just a gradual process of learning to live it.”

558. It is perhaps one of the greatest corruptions that we have here on Earth, the ‘confusion’ between spirit and Soul. Like you Heather, I was completely sucked in to the spiritual quest. It totally consumed and identified me to be and search for the ’everything that I am not’. Thanks to the exquisite delivery of the simple truth of this by Serge Benhayon, no longer am I lost and I can connect to and feel the enormous wisdom and love we all hold deep within. When the warmth and glow of the Soul is chosen over the alluring yet cold light of the spirit, it really makes it apparent that there is either Love, or the ‘everything that is not.’ It really is so simple.

559. Learning about the distinction between Spirit and Soul was a complete life turner for me. Nothing can be the same when you understand the difference and get the fact that every moment of your life is run by one or the other. It made me pause and wonder how come all those schools, religions and modalities I looked into before I came to Universal Medicine, claimed to hold answers to life yet failed to teach such a fundamental aspect of living life as a human being.

560. That is so true, Heather, if you are aware of the fact that there is a difference between spirit and soul, it really is as simple as choosing. I am so appreciative of Serge Benhayon’s commitment to teaching this to all who choose to hear.

561. Heather just love the simplicity of our choice – is it spirit, or soul? And these words are so wonderful to understand in re-connecting back to Soul: “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” When I read this, I can see how much of our life is placed on, and set up towards the latter part – that everything in life is arranged to not re-find Soul, but to instead be detracted from it, overridden by the drive of the spirit’s desire to achieve, attain, accomplish, compete or win for its own recognition and acceptance as being the real-deal. Realising this for myself like you through self-love, makes it become easier to see the ridiculousness of the spirit’s game, and to start to play it differently to – advantage: Soul.

562. I remember the day a practitioner described Prana and Fire to me. I couldn’t help but say to myself, ‘that makes a hell-of-a-lot-of-sense’. In understanding through feeling thereafter, actually getting a strong bodily sense of what each feels like (Spirit or Soul), then there was no turning back and never will be.

563. I agree Heather when you describe the way Serge Benhayon Presents – “I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.” Being presented with a clear difference between spirit and soul, true love and emotional love doesn’t always go down so well! But never the less Serge Benhayon freely shares what he knows will support others, with no imposition or requirement from anyone to accept it.

564. Thank you for sharing. A well timed reminder to ask myself what am I choosing, old patterns of behaviour or just to stay with me, lovingly so, and what I feel.

565. Great Blog Heather. You have expressed the confusion I felt for so long regarding the ‘Spirit and Soul’. I always knew that the two were interchanged but never felt it was quite right, never feeling comfortable with ‘Spirit’ and always felt such warmth, wholeness and Love with ‘Soul’. Once again the wisdom we hold within lets us know what is true. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for simplifying it for everyone and exposing the false light.

566. I knew that life would never be the same again! Love this line and thank god for Serge Benhayon that life will never be the same again!!

     1. For me too Jaime, and I think that line speaks for many of us!!

567. ‘I noticed that many were not great examples of what they were offering or promoting.’
     Me too, Heather! And, because of this I would eventually move on from that particular teacher/guru, in search of the next.
     With Serge, however, the integrity runs so deep and true, that I have not yet found a limit to how much I can develop.
     He is committed to living from his Soul; the Love that he is, in Full. There is no limit to that!

     1. Well said Pernillahorne, there is no limit to how much we can develop when we connect to and live with our Soul. So many other people, or teachers have limits, only answer certain questions whereas Serge Benhayon has always been open to all questions and never shy’s away from any. It is truly inspirational the way Serge lives and presents. Something Serge always holds is that anyone of us can do it equally and we are seeing this more and more with other people presenting and sharing at Universal Medicine events.

        1. So true James and Pernilla, Serge has re-ignited true evolution – the way forth.

568. Hannah, you have described amazing well what Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon has to offer. A way to get back to our souls. I agree that Serge Benhayon presents hard hitting facts about life and energy and gives this information like no other, delivering it without an ounce of self involved. What is on offer is life changing and extremely inspiring.

569. I can so relate to what you have shared Heather. The first time I heard the words of Serge Benhayon was at a discourse I attended. There was much shared during this discourse that deeply resonated. But I especially remember the difference between spirit and soul being mentioned and I felt that there was real truth behind this and wanted to find out more. I had never heard it explained this way with such clarity. Knowing and feeling the difference between spirit and soul has been truly life changing. If this was all I ever took from the teachings of Universal Medicine my life would be changed forever.

570. Spirit – emotional love. Soul – true love. Universal Medicine has brought truly loving relationships to my life. They are about honesty, support to evolve, consistent presence.

571. Heather you have beautifully shared the difference between spirit and soul and the huge changes knowing this has made to your life, with great simplicity – and your story is also mine, almost word for word. What still amazes me is that for all the years of searching for meaning and truth and joy, it was listening to my first presentation by Serge Benhayon that the difference between spirit and soul was not only explained, but experienced. How come this is so? Why are we so ignorant of soul when it is innate? We can spend a lifetime trying to solve our emotional hurts but once we choose to connect to our soul and live from that place the hurts can be seen for what they are and resolved – it is up to us to choose to live from our soul.

572. Having the difference between the spirit and the Soul explained by Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine was a life-changing revelation for me as well. A long spiritually driven search kept me separate from this truth, and nothing in my life evolved until I embraced and started to live from the impulses from the Soul rather than the spiritually driven pursuits of life.

573. Heather the commitment to looking within yourself and develop the relationship with Soul is an inspiration to everyone. The shock that so many of us feel too when re-discovering the difference between spirit and Soul was also the big turning point in my life. Thank you God for the presentations of Universal Medicine that clarified the big difference between Soul and spirit and shared so many tools for us to live our relationship with Soul deeper.

574. I have loved hearing your very if I may say awakening ‘moment’ in learning the difference between spirit and soul. Having the awareness and learning to know the difference of how this plays out in my life has been a massive game changer for me too. I have been able to recognise how much this spirit makes life about hurt and takes me for a ride and how very destructive and harming it has been for me and everyone. Thanks to Serge Benhayen and Universal medicine I now know that it does not have to own me – that I can actually claim back who I actually am and live it in full. This has pulled me out of my given up-ness on life and helped me to realise the deep love, strength and delicate beauty I have when I am connected to my soul.

575. Hi Heather yes to have an understanding of soul and spirit and choosing the all encompassing way of the soul is the beginning of a beautiful unfolding of who we are.

576. Great sharing Heather, when I attended my first workshop with Universal Medicine I had never thought about all those things and found it very interesting to have a spirit and a soul. What then unfolded from this was an absolute new approach to life that opened my eyes and made me truly see and understand. I felt like waking up from a very long sleep and the blur was lifted. Absolutely amazing.

577. This is a wonderful way of describing something that I have also experienced “I’ve learned that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” Learning to love and care for myself has supported me to learn to share the same love and care with other people in my life. I do not hold back how much I care and I appreciate the connection I have with the people I meet every day.

578. Beautiful Heather. Growing up going to “Sunday school” in the Church of England I heard the words spirit and soul many times. I never understood what they meant and I never wanted to understand. As I got older the word spirit was associated with a person or an animal having some fight, determination, will or purpose. The word soul was rarely mentioned. I was never searching for anything. Not that I could admit to anyway. Over the last 3 years, through Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, not only have I rediscovered that I have a soul and a spirit, but I am developing an ever deepening relationship with them both. I now not only know that I have a spirit and soul but also know I have prana and fiery energy and that I choose which one I align with in every moment.

579. It’s very exposing to feel it really is that simple – the choice of spirit or soul, but equally liberating. It just goes to show that we can create whatever issues we want by choosing to align to our spirit or naturally surrender and be with our soul – that is just there 24/7 waiting to be reconnected to and to nurture us. It’s amazing even knowing this we can still make the choice to run with our spiritual ways, and learning about this has brought so much more awareness and understanding to myself and all others. It has been life-changing for me too learning the difference between spirit and soul. Thank you Heather.

580. I remember the first time I heard Serge Benhayon speak about the difference between spirit and soul. I honestly didn’t think that there was any! But as I listened and gave the techniques that he presented a try, the difference started to become clearer and clearer. Now the distinction is very obvious to me, and is a truth that I know deeply within.

581. Great blog Heather and so true we do have a choice, spirit or soul – harm or heal. We are responsible for the choice we make.

582. Thank you for sharing this account, Heather, that is no doubt familiar to many of us. The joy of re-connecting to truth is very much felt through your words, and I too am thankful every day that the search is over.

     1. Oh gosh, me too Janet, me too.

     2. Love what you say here janetwilliams06, “I too am thankful every day that the search is over.” Me too, to have such a profound anchoring point to now live from is definitely something to be thankful for.

     3. I too am very grateful to have found Universal Medicine, it has changed my life. It is most definitely a joy to reconnect to truth.

583. There are countless modalities/ therapies/ ways of living out there all promising to make your life better but as you say Heather a great percentage of the people practicing and preaching these ways don’t fully live by what they say and are not the perfect picture of health they claim to be. Whilst Serge Benhayon doesn’t try to sell Universal Medicine he does live by what he says and check the man out, I have and I can’t fault him.

584. So simple – so True, Heather thank you. I remember feeling very confused for a long time by the true meaning of these two words – Spirit and Soul. Always questioning, ‘whats the difference’? ‘do they mean the same thing’? yet knowing they didn’t, and never ever getting to the bottom of it, that was until the day clarification finally came thanks to Serge Benhayon. To have had that one burning unanswered question finally addressed and clarified so unequivocally, has for me been life changing.

585. ‘I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching’. Yes, I can relate to this, it is like being on a merry-go-round and though the ride never takes you anywhere you keep on going. Everything is like a blur and every now and then you catch a clear picture but you don’t understand where that is coming from. Then when learning about spirit and soul it all makes sense and the simplicity that reveals itself is mind-blowing. Thank you for this awesome blog Heather.

586. Awesome blog Heather. Spirit is like something ‘out there’ that separates us all and Soul feels like the connection of us all. Very different indeed.

587. Your experience has a very familiar pattern Heather knowing deep inside there is so much more than what the world presents on the surface day to day. The looking and asking questions and after years of trying this and that from all sorts of presenters and modalities still not living with any more true vitality and well being than when I started, in fact I deteriorated quite physically.
     Being presented with the understanding and difference between spirit and soul and experiencing this for myself has bought about a world of difference in my life.
     The true meaning of why we are here and how to live with full vitality and well-being in everyday life is very possible when choosing the fiery energy of soul.

588. I can absolutely relate to everything you’ve said here Heather. For me the hopelessness I’d often felt throughout my life released upon understanding via a presentation by Serge Benhayon that we are not just flotsam and jetsam bobbing about but that there is a purpose to being here and it’s not about satisfying the spirit’s desire for indulgence in whatever form that may be but to return to Soul.

589. Great blog Heather. Your description of the New Age spiritual pursuits and the promises they make that are never delivered is so spot on. I too kept at it, thinking that soon it would all change, totally blinded that my life was in reality heading in the opposite direction to what I aspired. Learning the difference between soul and spirit changed all that.

     1. It is interesting nikkimckee how a lot of people interested in the Spiritual New Age are mostly genuine people with a genuine quest for “something bigger than us”. They (we) are ready for an answer to see the bigger picture but fall into the traps of the New Age pursuits. I am forever grateful to Serge Benhayon and his teachings to show me that searching outside myself will get me nowhere but total self dis-empowerment.

        1. Well said Mary, and so true. I too got completely hooked into searching and looking for the answer outside of myself, because I have always known there is more to life and me. Meeting Serge Benhayon was the turning point and I have learnt that all my answers and all the love I have been looking for are within me, I just need to stop, connect and honour my true feelings. Universal Medicine is a real gift from Heaven.

590. Having Serge Benhayon present the difference between spirit and soul is an aspect of life that many do not discuss or consider. It is a game changer and once in one’s awareness you have the opportunity to begin to see and feel what energy you are choosing and expressing in. Your article presents this so simply and beautifully.

591. Oh I agree, self indulgence is the best friend of the spirit. It just wants everything to stay the same and justifies it very convincingly…all the while the body rots underneath and the mental health deteriorates with constant thoughts of our lack of self worth. The cycle continues as we try to clear the negative thoughts but never question the seemingly innocent justifications and energy running the thought process – how the spirit actually enjoys this drama. Go Heather…it really is that simple, spirit or soul.

     1. Very true Lucy thank you !

592. Dear Heather, I love your blog so much; and it could nearly be me having written it, as I can totally relate to what you say. There would only be a few very minor tweaks needed and I could put my name under this blog, as your experience is so close to my own, in regards to going on the spiritual quest and then finally learning, feeling and clearly understanding the difference between spirit and Soul. Thank you Heather for sharing and putting up a mirror for me. And thank you to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for bringing this life changing difference to myself, and everybody who is willing to find out, and to be more empowered to live the truth of who I am, and equally who we all are.

593. Awesome Heather, I know I did not really believe there was a spirit or a soul before I connected with the teachings and presentations held by Universal Medicine. It was because I associated it all with the spiritual new age movement which did not feel true or right to me. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and myself I now can feel the difference between spirit and Soul and there is a world of a difference in my life knowing this. Thank you for sharing.

594. Heather I love what you write about Serge Benhayon’s dedication to humanity, ‘I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.’ Until I met Serge I had never experienced a person who had no self gain involved in why he did what he did or what he did. Self-love absolutely yes.

     The difference between self-love and self-gain is a polar opposite like the difference between prana and fire. As my awareness grows I appreciate the qualities of both and recognise that I’ve not met people outside of Universal Medicine who live from self-love, most of us, myself included live from an element of self-gain. Sometimes it’s a really obvious drive, other times it lies under the more subtle umbrella of doing good deeds – often championed by society.

     Heather, your blog’s amazing. I’m seeing how I’ve not fully embraced just how glorious I am so still get tangled up in improving myself – so that everything I touch has that element of self-interest and is not 100 billion % done with love for humanity knowing that is my true purpose. Could all that be at stake is a simple choice?!

     1. Karin I love your comment, I can relate to what you say too, about doing things to improve myself or for self gain. Getting myself out of the way and not indulging in my ‘head stuff’ is work in progress, and boils down to the simple choice, Spirit or Soul…. a no brainer really.

     2. Come to think of it, Karin, it’s true about ‘no self-gain involved’. I had not previously met anyone who did not have a self-gain agenda behind what they offered me. Not only very refreshing, but also shows that this is possible for human beings. Prior to working with Serge Benhayon I would not have had a clue that there is fiery love from the soul, and emotional (not-)love from the spirit. I just knew that the ‘love’ everyone was talking about was not the ‘it’ that I was looking for. Now I can feel the difference.

595. Very clearly expressed, Heather: “two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.” This also cleared up the whole quest for truth and the confusion and interchangeability rife in the spiritual new age. After a lifetime search to understand what love is, I also learned to feel the difference between true love and emotional love with Serge Benhayon.

     1. I agree Dianne, understanding and feeling the difference between emotional love and true love has been life changing thanks to Serge Benhayon.

        1. I did not encounter the ‘spiritual new age’ until the late 90s, and was quite puzzled by the inconsistent use of the words ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’. There seemed to be a lot of unwholesome things done in the name of ‘spirit’ that did not tally with what I felt the meaning was supposed to be. Some people said that ‘soul’ is below spirit, which to me was a pretty spooky idea… because I had a feeling that soul is an elevated state of being, above the abuses I was seeing, such as conduct by spiritual practitioners that violated my trust in them. Some people said spirit and soul were the same… which I also found to be a spooky notion. It felt to me as if people were using the word ‘spirit’ instead of ‘soul’ because ‘soul’ had religious connotations for them and they were running away from religion…. what a mess! I’m so grateful to have the issue cleared up by Serge Benhayon. Now all makes sense, and for me, Soul is indeed the higher authority.

596. All my years of searching outside of myself and trying to improve myself and better my life, I tried many things, (reiki, rebirthing, yoga, tantra) to name a few…. but nothing ever changed and I did not change nor was I able to make different life stlye choices until I met Serge Benhayon and attended his courses and presentations, which was life changing, and is the reason I keep going back.

     1. Indeed jacqmcfadden04, I can relate to what you say and add academia to your list. The search outside myself has at last ended but I continue to be a student of the Livingness through the fabulous teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – they are forever showing us that “The Kingdom of God is Inside Us”.

597. ‘The bridge back to my Soul is through self-love’ -truly awesome. Lovely blog Heather – and so full of honesty, humility and wisdom.

598. Great you are pointing out the different energies we can align to! When I first heard it being presented by Serge I also knew instantly that it is the truth. I can even see it in people’s faces and in the tone of their voices if they are choosing fire or prana. If you once choose to see and feel the differences of the energies in you, you can see it others. Truly amazing and for me the lived proof.

599. The greatest power is in the power of words and what they mean. No one has been talking about the true differences between spirit and soul at least not until Universal Medicine came along, but then again many of us have been avoiding the living of true energetic responsibility such an understanding would bring.

600. An inspiring blog to read Heather. I can relate to much of what you say with regard to seeking externally for knowledge and various ‘new age therapies’ to assist healing in the past. When attending a presentation with Serge Benhayon in 2008, this was the first time ever that I had heard anyone differentiate between the energy of spirit and Soul, prana and fire. My world turned upside down in one presentation and I am able to say without any trace of doubt, attending that presentation with Serge Benhayon was absolutely the wisest choice ever made in my life. The constant seeking externally stopped and the inner re-connection began. I continue to be inspired by the Ancient Wisdom Teachings and the return to Love that I am in truth.

601. I love the fact that this energetic fact is so simple, it is amazing to know this fact and feel the support it gives in knowing what choices we have, spirit or soul.

     1. It is so simple Benkt and bringing all our choices back to spirit or soul helps gives a far deeper understanding as to why we choose to do certain things even though they may be harming to our bodies.

602. Thank you for making it so clear and simple, the difference between prana and Fire, between spirit and Soul. Like yourself, I found that before Universal Medicine all that was available were dubious and nebulous ramblings about one or the other with no clear distinction and no responsibility for how anybody was living and conducting their everyday affairs.

603. Thank you Heather for expressing with such clarity. Connecting to our soul is the purest love there is. We don’t need to search outside of ourselves for the answers, our soul is ready and waiting to share it with us.

604. Thank you Heather for expressing the science of the difference of our spirit and soul. Like you, my life has changed forever with this understanding and as this understanding deepens so too does the awareness of the tricks the spirit plays to hook me into identifying myself with it which takes me away from connecting to my soul and the amazing essence I really am. But, of course this is all a choice I am responsible for making. We’re onto you spirit … I am deeply appreciative to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for their incredible presentations to bringing awareness, support and connection to purpose to give us true freedom of choice to choose the energy we wish to be running the show.

605. This is a lovely article Heather, explaining the journey we both went through at much the same time. The revelation of not needing to fix myself was huge for me too, and I still am being reminded to ask myself, the same very simple question, ‘is the energy that I’m in, spirit or soul? ‘

     1. The answer to the question is that we can feel the difference quite clearly in our bodies – to what is us, and what has been imposed. Great tools that Serge Benhayon has been presenting for over 10 years now.

606. Hello Heather, love it, thank you. Sorry to bring your blog into one part but this part sits out for me, “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!” This one line changed my life and is what I dedicate my life to and it is very simple but yet so profoundly powerful. Serge Benhayon is a great man that delivers this same ‘simple’ message in so many varied ways. It is your choice to listen or not. Thanks again Heather.

     1. “Everything I needed was right here inside of me and all I needed to do was re-connect and live from there. Simple!” – This is indeed a super powerful line Ray. I can testify that there is a massive difference between living in a way that ‘pleases’ others, hides my voice and expression and allows me to ‘fit in’ at the expense of my body, compared to living from a connection with me without any need from other people. The latter being a thousand times simpler, and at the end of the day it leaves me very self-content (compared to self loathsome, which is what often happens when I live the other way).

        1. Thank you Susie and not to mention the flow on from you being “very self-content” towards others. This ‘flow on’ while it can’t necessarily be physically measured yet, it is felt by most as something different. With that connection the way you deal with things and people completely changes. People are drawn to people like you Susie because of how you are with them which originates from how you are with yourself. Thanks again Susie.

     2. I fully agree with you Raymond. Heather wrote a beautiful blog and for me the sentence you mentioned stood out with this one:
        ‘After attending the first course with Universal Medicine and listening to Serge Benhayon speak, I knew that my search was finally over.’ Just like both of you I recognized truth and my life changed forever.

607. I do relate to most of what is said in this blog and seeking the ‘spiritual path’ but without the simple and essential understanding that there is a choice in the energy we live with. It is really a total game changer to get over the big investment in choosing Prana, which is a formidable trap because in a crazy way it is very addictive.

608. In my experience Soul and spirit were words that seemed to be used interchangeably and with no real differentiation between them. As it was for you Heather, it all made sense when Serge Benhayon shared the difference. The gentle breath meditation has helped me discover how different the two energies feel. This alone answers a lot of questions.

609. Yes I was the same Heather, before finding Universal Medicine I also didn’t know there was a difference between Spirit and Soul. It was an absolute game changer when I understood the difference and the ramifications in my life. This should be taught in schools as it really is life changing and brings a whole new viewpoint on what it means to live responsibly.

610. I was involved with many ‘isms’ and ‘ologies’ and like you Heather “noticed that many were not great examples of what they were offering or promoting”..that was until I met Serge Benhayon…game over….and the start of a whole new way of exploring and living my life.

611. I have met people who have very definite ideas about spirit and soul, and usually understand them to be the other way round, not as we have now experienced them Heather, through the gentle breath meditation and Serge Benhayon’s presentations. There are others who confuse the spirit with the Holy Spirit, and of course, those who feel nothing of either. It has been amazing for me to at last understand through my body which energy I am aligning to, and to be able to connect to my true fiery energy that is deep inside every cell of my being. When I am there I know it, but the work is to live it in everyday life, an ongoing journey, and I recommend this for anyone who seeks to know who they truly are and live from that place.

612. What really strikes me about your article Heather is how easily we all use words like spirit and soul yet most of the time we don’t know what they mean. We use language to separate ourselves from each other and from ourselves.

     1. Yes so true Elizabeth, we are very careless with our words and only in more recent years have I begun to consider and be more careful with my own. So much of our language divides us and Heather’s recognition of and questioning of the difference between these two words, Spirit and Soul bring home the importance of truly understanding, appreciating and applying the correct word in every situation. It makes a huge difference in a world where verbal communication is crucial. Serge Benhayon was the first person I met who truly defined the meaning of these two words, what each definition actually felt like in my body and made clear how to tangibly connect to Soul as opposed to dwelling in Spirit. This awareness has enabled me to deeply heal myself in a way no other approach has and is in my opinion, fundamental education for all.

613. Heather as you say ‘Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy’.
     I too searched for years and when I first heard Serge Benhayon
     I felt in my body truth and the simplicity of it. Thank you Heather great blog.

614. Thank you Heather for writing about the difference between Spirit and Soul. Knowing there is a difference has explained so many questions about life and the choices I have made.

615. Dear Heather,
     I love the simplicity with which you have written this article, so succinctly describing the difference between spirit and soul. I too walked the spiritual new age path, searching constantly, looking for what I knew was there to find, never once in the fan fair of the spiritual new age escapade did any one truly show me through their living way that I had it all within me. It is truly very scary how much the spirit is ‘made stronger’ in the new age movement, which makes it more difficult to feel our inner heart and soul. Making this movement one of the most harming for all humanity. As I have learned, from my own experiences true healing can only happen when we connect to our soul. I’m so very grateful to Serge Benhayon and everyone who is in any way a part of Universal medicine, as each and all have in some way supported me to return to my essence. The love, true support and wisdom that I have been reminded of is life changing.

616. Understanding the difference between spirit and Soul was probably the biggest liberation in my life and explained the whole mess of humanity to me. There is a great free audio excerpt available at Unimedpedia Spirit – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-spirit.html which has a summary that starts with “The difference between spirit and Soul is one of the most important teachings you could ever list to”. I completely agree with that.

617. Knowing and feeling the difference between spirit and soul is a cornerstone moment in your life. I too had been tricked by the plethora of heady spiritual pursuits that lacked the grounding and real-ness of Serge Benhayons teachings.

     There is something remarkably different between being soul-full and spiritual. When I look into the big open heavenly eyes of a child I see soul-full-ness in action and materialized, they are complete and content within themselves. When I walk past the psychic tent (with many out the front smoking and making other choices against their own bodies wellbeing) I feel the spiritual fueled seeker.

     Learning to feel the difference between soul and spirit is the only way to truly heal and the only way to ignite your divinity.

618. It is so humbling to feel the truth and I love the way you expressed about finding what we are looking for right inside of ourselves Heather. The ‘contrast’ between the Spirit and Soul and understanding the difference has offered me a clarity that is irresistible and a call for true responsibility. It has introduced me to true Love.

619. I find it really interesting how different things Serge Benhayon says which leave a profound impression. I never cared about spirit or soul or God or religion but what I deeply cared about was and is truth and for me it was a revelation to hear truth, consistently.

620. So beautifully encapsulated Heather, thank-you. I love this phrase where you share what it’s all about for you now: “re-connecting to my Soul and learning to live from there feels simple, expansive and more real as I let go of trying to improve myself”. This speaks reams of how rampantly we can get caught up in self-improving/needing to be more/looking outside of ourselves… contrast to the simplicity of allowing ourselves to just be, and in this being, the soul is there (as it has always been so).
     I am brought more steady and still with your words, thank-you, and particularly reminded of the quality of stillness within, in this being-ness with the soul. Poignant and beautiful.

621. I love the simplicity with which Heather has written this blog giving us a clear definition between spirit and soul. I too have been on a spiritual journey and not once have I had a clear explanation of prana and fire. It is as if we don’t want to hear this fact because then we have to take responsibility for our choices and that can be too confronting. I know this has been the case with myself but having attended the presentations by Serge Benahyon and Universal Medicine and hearing this difference, it gives me a platform as to whether I choose spirit or soul in every moment.

622. The difference between spirit and soul is actually something that can be very much physically felt. However, in order to get to that point requires a great deal of honesty and discipline to create a body that is willing to feel energy again. Self love is critical in this process, for it assists us to appreciate the true delicacy of our bodies, and to assist us to build a body that is receptive to feeling all of life, rather than a body that is reacting to life, as it is for so many of us. Such as a disciplined way of living need not be arduous as one starts to reconnect again to the wonder of a world that is in fact much larger and beautiful than the physical limitations we often like to define it by.

623. You are right Heather, in years of searching no one but Serge Benhayon has presented the fact of the difference between spirit and soul. Not only that, he presents it in a way we feel the truth for ourselves, and make our own choices, living a daily life that may not look different on the outside, but feels completely different on the inside. Such is the power of the soul.

624. Before Universal Medicine I too knew the endless search very well indeed. But the moment I meet Serge Benhayon and felt the energy of my Soul once more the search was over and my true life began.

625. Amazing sharing Heather. You have just solved all of life’s issues and dilemmas.

626. Thank you Heather for this simple and clear presentation on spirit and soul. It took me a long time to realise the difference that the two represent and then accepting this was another experience in itself. Much of the time I have felt fooled – fooled in not having realised the vast difference of the two despite how much this can and does affect us on a daily basis in our choices, decisions and most of all the impact on our body. The soul never impulses us to do anything at the expense of the body nor at the expense of anyone else – the spirit on the other hand, well it has very little if any respect for the body and will often use the ‘mind over matter’ mentality. Fascinating really to explore this, but not much fun to be the brunt of the spirits decisions! Thank goodness for knowing this now! And thank you to Serge Benhayon for presenting us with such basic yet amazing information for us to take on board should we choose to!

627. Yes, Heather you can definitely tell the difference, if I am choosing spirit I am choosing to make life hard and keep trying to get somewhere on a never-ending quest like the “hamster on the wheel”. However, if I am choosing soul, I am connected and do not feel any need or drive to get to the next thing or make life better.

628. I can confirm what you have written here Heather as very similar to my own experience. The opportunity I also had to stop and reconnect in the simple way shown by Universal Medicine, and feel for myself the distinct difference between spirit and soul, was the most pivotal point in my entire life.
     Once I felt that difference for myself I knew I knew it and I could not go back to not knowing. I would not want to, it is the greatest gift I have ever given myself. It was so profound and has stood me in good stead in my ability to discern energy and live life from a greater sense of loving responsibility ever since. Thank you for writing this and reminding me how much there is to appreciate.

629. I remember hearing these words ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’ and being quite befuddled by the fact that it was quite simply one or the other. I wanted to believe, for it could excuse my behaviour, that you could have one with the essence of the other inter-twinned. What I have learnt and felt for myself is that this is not the case. With that comes a whole heap of responsibility, which often I do not care to take, but without a shadow of a doubt, it is well worth the journey, for everyone involved, everywhere.

630. I love this blog Heather -thank you. I too have re-learnt the difference between spirit and soul through the presentations of Serge Benhayon. It is very beautiful and natural to feel the true love that we are when we are connected to our soul.

631. So true Heather.
     “Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.”
     If this sentence were all we were ever given, it is a life time’s work. To know the difference between the two energies, how each feels in our bodies, and that we can only be living in one of them at any one moment, sets us up to be able to live life to its fullest.

632. Heather I really related to this whole blog – especially the part about realising that many practitioners that did ‘spiritual’ work were not doing very well themselves. I often used to wonder if they cannot help themselves how can they help me? When I first saw a practitioner associated with Universal Medicine they explained that they could not truly provide the space for me to heal something that they had not healed themselves. It was the first time I had experienced a practitioner that was willing to acknowledged this and I knew I had found something true.

633. To stop looking outside of ourselves for meaning to who and what we are is something I have found to be incredibly powerful. It is an ongoing process to develop that loving regard for self that allows me to live soulfully, when I do so I feel how little I need any of the usual human traits like recognition and reward. I now understand this to be my natural way and why I was never drawn to spiritual pursuits in-spite of having that knowing that before Universal Medicine. I had been looking in my own way for something that made sense of who we are and why we are here. Thank goodness for Universal Medicine as without it I would still be quite lost.

634. I love this Heather, because it is so true. No matter how much we try to fix ourselves, seek for the answer and strive it will never bring us to the contentment of being with our Soul. Self-Love and the Gentle Breath Meditation are the two keys that support me to be with my Soul.

635. Heather, you have summed energy up so succinctly and with such simplicity. It is our choice which energy we let in. The Gentle Breath is such a gift for us to have.

636. I remember when I first came across Universal Medicine I had no idea of what the difference was between spirit or soul, and what did prana and fire mean? Having been engaged in the spiritual search for donkey’s years (sorry donkey) I thought spirituality was good (and that’s another word that had to be deconstructed). What is really great is that with Universal Medicine you actually come to these understandings through your own body in it’s own time and then it is yours and undoubtable and that is very liberating. As you say Heather, self-love is the bridge back.

637. What is the difference between Spirit & Soul? This is a really important question to consider as the answer can be life changing… as gorgeously presented by Heather Hardy.

638. Heather an amazing blog that I can completely relate to. It was a defining moment for me to understand the difference between spirit and soul as it just made sense to why after over 25 years of searching my life was a complete mess. Since understanding and more often than not choosing my soul, my life has transformed for which I am very grateful.

639. WOW I just so loved reading this. Clear, straight forward and powerful Heather.

640. This is indeed huge and something that everyone should conciously know ‘Never before had anyone given me the simple facts about the two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul—prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul.’ Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine do not hold back from the Love, Truth and Wisdom that has been lived and is now lived by them, they deliver everything for humanity to learn, heal and evolve and are a true shining light within the world.

641. Heather you have explained this so clearly, because you are living this truth. How we have made life so tricky and complicated when all along the truth and love of the soul was there inside us!

642. When I think of Spirit, in this case I think of searching, seeking and separation. But soul has a different feeling. It has a feeling of knowing, solidness and consistency that knows how to be. The two seem very different and could not be confused. But why do they get loosely thrown together, as if they are the same thing?

643. So here we are – having a choice: Fire or prana!?
     No wonder that Universal Medicine is till now not as popular as some ‘Spiritual New Age’ pursuits because it all comes back to responsibility. To take it. No way out here – it is my choice. All what happened in my life and all what will happen is based on my choices: prana or Fire? Do I chose to take the long (and hurting) way home by choosing the spiritual way (and this is not even a way home it is a loop and detour till we are back on the true Way) – or do I embrace my divinity and bring heaven on earth. Now. ?

644. Thanks Heather. Love your blog and it resonates deeply with me.
     For me like for You, I knew that my body was more than just a physical body … And that all is not just energy but TWO energies, as presented by Universal Medicine And Serge Benhayon. That was a big big revelation for me, and also explained why I sometimes, while dancing I felt great and at other times really heavy and depressed…Knowing this answered a lot of questions, and it all fell into place! No doubt whatsoever that this man was speaking the truth ! A big thanks to Serge And to You Heather!

645. No where else in the world I have seen that has taught or explained life in such simple terms as Universal Medicine. And like you say Heather when the body becomes our focus over our mind it becomes one giant radar system for energetic quality, something that I am learningeverday how accurate it is. The more the body is cared for by listening to it, be that what to eat, if it feels too cold/unprepared when outside, when it feels tired, when it feels anxious the more that radar gets tuned up. Each energy has a certain feel to it that the body can be sensitive to, one bringing hurt, drama, panic as well as happiness, excitement or elevated mood whereas the other brings a steadiness and a warmth from within. What I have experienced is that the more I listen to my body and let it be what and how it wants to be over how my mind has been trained to believe life should be, (that the answers are out there somewhere) is that life gets simpler.

     1. Great point Leighmatson life does get simpler and as I allow myself to feel the energies at play I am more able to observe what is occurring rather than get caught up in them. For example yesterday I was at a secondary school and there was a very intense energy with the young people so much so that I asked a member of staff if something had happened, apparently nothing had but I could feel something was happening. It is very obvious when you accept it.

646. Through the distinction between spirit and soul we can actually start to live fully, as we make more choices from self love and appreciation. To be at the wheel and not be sitting next to the driver (spirit) and be at the mercy of it.

647. coming from a catholic upbringing the ‘holy spirit’ is what I was told about and in spirituality it is also seen as something useful and wanting to be connected to. I too only ever heard about the two energies from Serge Benhayon and as much as it blew me away I instantly felt the truth of what was being shared. The more aligned to my body I am and making loving choices to connect with my soul I can feel very easily the difference of the two energies, yet still chose spirit much of the time. My honesty with this is supporting me to see how awful that is for my body and the impact it has on the world. I can see why humanity as a whole avoided knowing the simple facts of energy, it means responsibility!

648. There can be no going back to ignorance once we know that there is a very clear distinction between the Soul and Spirit and how the two express life through the human frame. The spiritual ‘new age’ will not be able to give such clear truth to the fact that there is a difference between Soul and Spirit for in doing so will expose in full the falseness of the entire new age consciousness.

649. Th distinction between spirit and soul is a crucial one to understand. In science, in politics, in economics, and even in knitting a jumper a precise knowledge of the terms is important to the outcome. If you tell me to ‘purl’ a stitch and I follow your instructions, but you actually mean ‘knit’ the result will be a weird distortion that will not work at all.
     Spirit and soul are the same. It is not a silly game of semantics but the absolute knowing that these words refer to something very distinct and very different.
     I love this blog Heather and appreciate that you wrote it.

650. ‘All I needed to do was reconnect and live from there’…. Doesn’t that make life so simple?

651. Thank you Heather Hardy for bringing some clarity about the clear and distinct difference between he spirit and the soul.
     The spiritual new age industry is mega big business and growing. It promises the list you quote – “everlasting happiness, the ideal relationship, lots of money, the perfect job and a wonderful social life with lots of friends” and I wanted the same but I also wanted Truth. My search for Truth never stopped until I came across the work and teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
     Here was a man who really was walking the walk and talking the talk. I was left in no doubt about what is Truth and what is Not.

652. Brilliant Heather, we can keep it as simple as our next and our last choice, spirit or soul.

653. Thank you Heather for this. Growing up I always knew that fact of the spirit because I could always feel when it was taking the upper hand which I would allow, but I never had the clarity of understanding the difference between spirit and soul. I had been brought up a Catholic and really this did not make it easy to understand as the message of spirit and soul were confused. Since having learnt the difference of the energetic outplay of the two it is much easier to discern where I am at and what choices I am making. Through simple activities and techniques I have been learning to connect more deeply to myself and therefore to my soul, changing my relationship with just about everything!

654. I’ve wondered the same thing Heather- what the difference between spirit and Soul is. Universal medicine presents it simply. With the incorporation of energy it makes sense and you can feel the clear difference. Though not many people would realise there is something different as most are running off the same fuel so you see the same thing everywhere.

655. Great article Heather. I relate well to your experience of the spiritual new age, seeing the spirit and soul as the same. Finding Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayons presentations I too did not need to look any further as I new I had found the truth. Now feeling the difference between the energies of spirit and soul I can make a choice to choose Soul. The gentle breath meditation has been great help with this.

656. It was a joy to read your beautiful blog Heather. Finding a different way to live life after all the searching and deviations away from truth is truly wonderful – I never cease to be inspired by the changes I have been offered since my first meeting with Serge Benhayon. As you say ‘ I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity ‘ and it was this simple truth that changed my life – I did not feel I needed to jump through hoops, just accept myself as I am.

657. Before finding Universal Medicine I was into so much spiritual new age modalities, searching from one to the other for the answers to life with a deep seated feeling that there had to be more to life than what I was experiencing at that time. Then a couple of years before I found UM I started to look at the people and modalities I was involved with and realised they didn’t have the answers either – there was too many inconsistencies, which started to stand out for me. So I made the decision to drop all of them and wait, not knowing what I was waiting for – this went on for two years and then one day I found Universal Medicine and I knew I had found what I had been searching for.

658. A great article Heather. “I didn’t once stop to consider why I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted; I just felt driven to keep on searching .” I so recognise this in myself and, like you, coming to Universal medicine via Chris James, was a life-transforming event for me. No more searching – I have found the gold, and it is inside me – as in everyone.

659. Thank you Heather for the beautiful simplicity with which you express the penny dropping moment of understanding about the difference between our spirit and our Soul through Serge Benhayon’s accessible presentation about energy and the practical tool of the Gentle Breath Meditation. I can relate to many years of searching outside of myself and now understanding that ‘the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.’

660. Thank you Heather for sharing what you live.
     Its interesting that ‘spirit’ has a religion – ‘spirituality’ and yet soul does not – at least I thought it didn’t until I discovered Universal Medicine, and in that – the true meaning or religion meaning ‘return’. So Universal Medicine gives us the chose to return to our souls, or who we really are- and everything we are already – rather than needing outside influences to define us, which is very much how the world operates.
     I love your experience here, it reminds me of how very simple our lives can be – and how wise we are already, if we allow it.

661. After reading this beautiful blog I sat with it for a while – I could feel the gentleness/truth of your expression Heather and the simplicity of the solution that for many of us thought would be an arduous task to seek an answer too. The truth about life and the drive to continually search for something we knew should be a part of our lives but could not find ‘it’ in whatever avenue (endless spiritual pursuits)we looked at or joined in with. The search ended for me too by attending presentations with Serge Benhayon what he presented really helped me to choose to be really honest with the way that I was living my life. Either from my soul or my spirit. Thank you Heather.

662. Great blog Heather. I’ve noticed that the way we live speaks louder than anything else we say or do, a great example of this is what you shared about the so called ‘experts’ of energy and spirituality who weren’t living healthy lives; instead they clung to the comfort of alcohol, smoking, drugs etc., and this stood out for you much more than the ‘great wisdom’ they were flaunting and trying to entice others with.

663. Having the two very instinct qualities of energy clearly presented and given for us all to understand is one of Universal Medicine’s greatest gifts.

664. “For the first time in my years of searching, Serge Benhayon was the only person to deliver some hard-hitting facts about life and energy. I could feel that there was nothing in this for him but a simple love for humanity.”
     So true Heather a great sharing that I relate well to. Having questioned the difference for so long and not arriving at an answer, it was a true revelation when Serge Benhayon presented the truth about spirit and Soul. And as you say
     “I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!” , thank you.Beautiful

665. Heather a great sharing thank you for bringing it back to the choice we have in each moment -to be our natural divine selfs (soul) or to sell ourselves short(sprit) of the love we truly are. This line needs to be shared again…”I’ve stopped looking ‘out there’ and I’m learning each day how I have a choice in each moment – will it be spirit or Soul? It really is that simple!”

666. To be presented with the fact that there is only two types of energy in the world was life-changing, as you have shared, Heather. For me this really opened up an amazing amount. With so much to become aware of in regards to this simple fact. As I explore this fact more and more I feel an increased sense of responsibility to continually allow myself to feel more of the the energy of the Soul and live this energy rather than the energy of the spirit. To me there is a very distinctive difference nowadays with none of the confusion of the past. By delivering this profound truth, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported me, and many others, to return to living the energy of the Soul and making an enormous difference in the world because of this.

667. I can relate to what you say here Heather when you describe that moment when you knew there were two different energies in the world. For me that made complete sense also. Previous to that when I had come into contact with alternative or spiritual practices, I was never satisfied with the fact that they could not explain why we have so much love in the world but also so much suffering. Once I was presented with the fact that there is a spirit and a soul which operate under completely different consciousnesses and with completely different intentions the world as it currently is, started to make sense.

668. This is great to read Heather, I can really relate to what you have written, I spent a lot of time looking outside of myself, trying many spiritual ‘new age’ modalities, none of which worked or if I’m honest really made sense, it was wonderful to come across Universal Medicine and find presentations that were simple, practical, empowering and that really did make sense.

669. Thank you Heather for your beautiful sharing so clear and true. The simplicity and understanding of energy and life presented is a joy to read.The choice of true love is made easy when the reality of what is going on is known. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine the truth is out there for us all.

670. Amazing article Heather. You have described beautifully the choice that we have between spirit and soul. It really is that simple, and we have a choice in every moment of every day.

671. I also had been searching for something through ‘Spiritual New Age pursuits’ for a number of years but there was always something missing in what they presented. They were close but just not right. ‘After attending the first course with Universal Medicine and listening to Serge Benhayon speak, I knew that my search was finally over’. The part that I had been looking for was something that was outside of me… when in fact what I was looking for was in me the whole time.

672. Thank you Heather. I can very much relate — when I first heard Serge make the distinction between spirit and soul it was like my eyes opened up for the first time. I couldn’t deny the truth I was feeling in my body, and as you say it is put even more simply, a fact that we live in a world where we can either choose the energy of true love or not. Emotional love, dramas, anxiety and tension do not come from love, they do not come from our soul. These are imposed emotions that we take on because we have stepped away from the true nature of who we are, being at one with our soul.

673. Having also explored New Age Spiritual paths, meeting Serge Benhayon was a stark contrast to everything I had previously encountered. He did not endeavour to try and convince or prove anything – he just presented what he did and left it to the individual without any judgment to discern for themselves whether to agree or not. It was a complete breath of fresh air that shines a Light of Truth where there is great confusion and illusion. A key component of that Light is the difference between Spirit and Soul.

     1. “A key component of that Light is the difference between Spirit and Soul…”, so true Jonathan, indeed it is the ONLY true component, knowing the difference between Spirit and Soul is the only way out of this mess we call human life and into a life of true joy and harmony.

674. Thank you Heather. Before hearing a presentation by Serge Benhayon I had never stopped to understand energy beyond turning on a light switch, putting fuel into a car or eating to have the energy to function. I was, and still am, fascinated by the understanding that we have two energies that we can choose to connect to in any moment and that the energy of the spirit takes us away from who we are and choosing the energy of the Soul allows us to come back to the love that we are.

675. Beautiful Heather and thank you for so eloquently delineating the difference between our spirit and our soul. There are so many lures out there in the world that fail to make that distinction and keep us hooked into seeking more, thus taking us even further away from our inner connection to our soul. Been there got the T-shirt. Meeting Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon had the same effect on me and these days life is so much simpler, joyful and light. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a very safe, simple and effective tool to re-connect and once we have, the rest of our lives is entirely up to us, if we choose to adhere our inner knowing we can restore true health, vitality and joy to our lives once more.

     1. I agree Rowena. The Gentle Breath Meditation is an awesome tool for reconnection ✨

676. Heather before coming to Universal Medicine I also did not understand what the difference was between spirit and soul, I had a mirky and blurred picture of what that meant. Yet in one workshop I got to feel the difference and from there life started to make sense. What I felt from young and felt I had been missing from my life returned – and I felt it in me. That moment was for me the greatest gift I had received up until that point – the gift of connecting back to me. Thank you for your sharing.

     1. Exactly the same for me David. Connecting back to me has completely turned my life around from shying away and hating people and feeling like the victim to a live full of love, openness and joy.

     2. David that is so beautifully said, attending the one day workshop with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon a few years ago was the most profound event I had ever experienced. And I too received the beautiful gift of feeling myself and reconnecting to myself – and feeling like I had come home. That’s why it’s a loving and amazing choice for me to be a student of my inner heart and a student of Universal Medicine – as this goes hand in hand.

     3. Beautifully expressed David. Through the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, we are offered the greatest gift of all – ‘the gift of connecting back to me’. Which, far from being a selfish pursuit, offers us a universal perspective and the possibility of living and breathing in true brotherhood once again.

677. Heather, thank you for your wonderful article, I understand the dilemma you faced after searching for many years as I did that too and like you it finally made sense when the difference between the energies of spirit and Soul was presented in one of Serge Benhayon’s books. It was the beginning of a totally new life.

678. Thank you Heather for this awesome blog, I love the simplicity you bring. And yes, it is really that simple. We bring in the complexity with all the searching, bettering and fixing, while there is no such thing. We have a choice in each moment and this choice is ours: is it spirit or soul, is it healing or harming, is it love or no love?

     1. I could put your last sentence up on my fridge or somewhere very public in big letters, as a guide in how to live. So powerful and yet simply put. As you say it is so simple.

679. Thank you Heather for your sharing of the truth. I discovered the difference between spirit and soul through Universal Medicine too, but not before years of searching for truth and indulging in many spiritual pursuits that got me no-where. Your experience mirrors my own, and I am deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon for standing up and presenting a living way that can lead us back to our connection with our soul through self-love, self-care and of course the gentle breath meditation. Once we know truth there really is no excuse but to do the work and build on that connection with ourselves and truly begin to evolve back to who we truly are, it really IS that simple. Having Serge Benhayon as a reflection of love is truly a blessing.

680. What a beautiful article Heather….I could basically white-out your name and put my name against this because you have pretty much told my story as well! I am also so thank-full for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting this to the world because it has revolutionised my life as well. Thank you for articulating it so well.

681. Heather, this article can be a revelation for a lot of people who are searching. Learning to feel and respect what the body needs is crucial on this way.

682. Thank you for sharing your journey here Heather. It is lovely how you have shared about the bridge being Self-Love and the simplicity of returning to Soul.

683. Thank you Heather Hardy for your sharing about your understanding of spirit and soul. I know too the relief I felt when Serge Benhayon was presenting me the facts about spirit and soul, about prana and fire, something I already knew deep inside but had forgotten about. This is basic knowledge about energy we all should be a taught at school as it would serve humanity to return to the true essence of what human life is about.

     1. nvanhaastrecht I agree with your comment about this basic knowledge about energy being taught in school. How well equipped would our young men and women be if they had this knowledge as their foundation. Working in a school I see how devastating it can be to be constantly judged by the grade you get. It is especially rife at this time of year when exams are looming. Imagine knowing that you are so much more than your exam grades. It would reduce a lot of stress.

     2. I agree, this is basic knowledge we should have been taught in school. or more so something that should have been confirmed in school.

684. I too never new the difference between spirit and soul until I met Serge Benhayon and that we all have a choice which one we align to. The first day when I really got to experience the difference between the two… was the day I went to one of Serge’s workshop’s and I felt my connection to the soul. I could feel the true love that was inside of me. I was in awe…it was amazing… the love I could feel and all the things that bothered me before I connected… were not there. I couldn’t even think the way I was before (all the things that were bothering me in my life). Then I realised this is how we all could live… if we choose to. So much love… it all lives within us… not outside of us.

685. Hi Heather – amazing blog dealing with so much of importance. I too had never thought about the difference between soul and spirit until I heard Serge Benhayon explain very simply and clearly the distinction between the two. As with you it was a massive revelation to learn about the important distinction between the soul and the spirit and their vastly different energies. I was horrified about how much Pranic energy I had connected to in the past and very quickly rid myself of all my New Age spiritual connections. What a joy it was to find Serge and Universal Medicine and to learn the truth about everything, about discarding the emotions which were so destructive to my soul-full development and to discover the real truth, about real love, about the importance of connecting to my body and the wonderful Way of the Livingness. I am grateful to all the Esoteric Practitioners who helped me to incorporate what I learned into my body and my everyday life. I am forever grateful to Serge and his work and thank God that I was led to Serge and was given the lives-changing opportunity to chose the Soul and it’s beautiful Firy energy.

686. Great simple explanation about truly taking responsibility for our own lives through our connection to Soul.

     1. Simple, but very powerful expression of truth from Heather. Once we know the difference between spirit and soul it does then become a responsibility, there’s no getting away from it, re-connecting to our soul is the only true way to be, the only true way to healing, and paves the only true way for change.

687. Heather, it’s like reading a story of my own life. The distinction between spirit and soul was for me a piece of the puzzle that was missing. It made sense, but it was a truth that was felt in my body before my head had a chance to catch up. It was like having both hands tied behind my back then being released once Serge Benhayon presented this, a real defining moment of clarity.

     1. Same for me, this fundamental awareness, was missing from all my pursuits as was the awareness I was going around in circles, as Heather pointed out. No other presenter I met over the years, made as much sense as Serge Benhayon when presenting the fact that the two are not the same.

688. This is awesome Heather a true testament to the power of reconnecting back to yourself. It’s amazing and almost a relief to know that we no longer have to seek outside of ourselves, that all the answers lie within. Now how powerful is that!

     1. Absolutely Jade the power of being able to trust that all the answers are within us is huge.

     2. Fully powerful! 🙂

     3. I love that you have expressed this so simply Heather.
        Spirit or Soul- This is the ultimate choice we make in every moment- whether we are aware of it or not.
        And so, why is it that we are not made aware of this choice from the day we were born? And have we really been choosing at all?
        It is only since meeting Serge Behayon that I know the true difference between Spirit and Soul, and I can now finally make a conscious choice about how I live.

689. Wow thank you Heather, so many life lessons you have shared here! I love the ‘no trying’, ‘no need to fix’ yourself and that every moment is a choice between spirit or Soul.

     1. I love that too Arianne, taking us back to true responsibility in knowing we have the choice, not a fixing or trying but a choice in every moment to align to Soul or spirit.

690. Heather, I love how you have shared how the answer so many of us have been looking for, for so long, is so simple really, as shared by Serge benhayon and Universal Medicine with all those who are open to listening. I too have learned “that the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love and this has meant learning to feel and respect what my body needs rather than overriding it in favour of self-indulgence and disregard.” The big learning for me has also been now knowing the difference between spirit and soul. It makes such a difference when we realise that spirit and soul are NOT the same thing. Spirit is that which separated from the Soul,and which is so intent on not letting us know what we have come from. I now can feel how my spirit keeps trying to distract me when I am connected with my Soul, and gradually learning, through trial and error to catch those occasions when that happens. Very much a work in progress, but so, so worth while. It is so absolutely beautiful living what has become for me such a joyful, love filled life.

     1. I love your comment Beverley and it is so true, our spirit is so relentless in trying to distract us away from who we truly are. It can be stubborn and demanding, but now we know who we truly are we can ‘out the spirit’ and deepen our connection with our soul, it’s work in progress for me too, but at least it is progress in the right direction!
        Heather’s blog is amazing, the truth is out and it has opened up many inspiring comments on a subject that has been well hidden for too long, thank-you Heather.

691. Heather,
     Just like you have so beautifully shared, I did know that there was spirit and your soul but never clearly understood the difference and no one really could explain clearly until I attended one if my first workshops by Serge Benhayon. As you share “.. there are two types of energy we have a choice to align to – prana or Fire, spirit or Soul — prana being the energy of the spirit and Fire being the energy of the Soul” was so clear and a revelation that’s been life changing.
     Yes, the bridge back to my Soul is through Self-Love.

     1. Absolutely Pinky, this revelation is life changing.

692. It is that simple Heather, as you say, choosing between Spirit or Soul. Sometimes, in practice, it is not so simple with all the stuff that I have loaded into my body over the years. However, there is an awareness that I do have a choice. All I have to do is observe what I am doing, understand it and let it go and just be me. Therein lies the simplicity and the way back to my Soul.

     1. Beautifully put janneprice and so true. The choice to reconnect to love (Soul) is a very simple one. What is not so simple is learning to let go of the myriads of momentums we have created by not choosing love previously. As you have said – observation, understanding and acceptance is the key that unlocks the gate to the Kingdom wherein the true treasure lies. A key we have all long held but rarely put to use.

     2. And what a gift it is Janneprice, to have that awareness to make those simple choices to choose between spirit and soul. I agree, it is not always so easy, but at least we know the truth, thanks to Serge Benhayon, and now we have the freedom of choice to say NO to our spirit if we choose.

693. What a great blog Heather that goes right to the essence of life itself. There was a time when I too believed spirit and soul were the same, but now I can feel what a trick that has been.
     There is truly nothing like the connection to our soul — absolutely nothing at all. And not a day goes by where I don’t appreciate the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for showing me time after time that this is oh so true.

     1. Same goes for me Maree! Through the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I too have felt the difference between spirit and soul, and the biggest support for this has been the re-connection to self-love and paying attention to what my body is telling me. I find that when I am connected to my body it is much easier to connect to my soul, and that when I am not connected, I am now aware that my spirit is the energy I have allowed to run me…

     2. Well said Maree. The connection to soul is like nothing else. Once we make this connection it puts all else into perspective.

        1. Well said, it’s that connection to soul where life makes sense, there is a greater understanding that we are so much more than we think or are told. Connection to soul is the key to a greater awareness that everything is energy and everything is because of energy as taught by Serge Benhayon.

     3. You are right Maree, there is nothing truly like the connection to our soul. We have been living in the greatest illusion for aeons, believing that we are who we ‘think’ we are. Having the truth presented to us is pure gold and enables us to re-connect to our soul and live in our essence forever more. And I thank Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine too, for giving me the heads up, and now I can call out my spirit for what it is!

        1. I so agree Maree, the true freedom that we have understanding the difference between spirit and soul, is the most life changing experience I have ever known. Being able to live like this, without perfection, as I still get caught like the best of us, but knowing there is a difference it simply amazing.

     4. Indeed Maree, there is nothing like the connection to our soul, the immediate word that comes to me is – simple – because everything takes care of itself. If you are truly connected to yourself, you naturally and effortlessly make the choice that is right at every given moment.

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