The first time I experienced the pain and the debilitating effects of sciatica was towards the end of my third pregnancy, just before my 26th birthday. I didn’t know what had hit me, and the pain that would regularly run down my right leg made the last few months of my pregnancy extremely uncomfortable. I optimistically thought that when the baby was born the pain would go, but no; after bringing a 9lb 11oz gorgeous little boy into the world, it stayed.
With life then busier than ever, I now realise that I simply accepted the discomfort I was experiencing and gradually began to adjust my way of being to accommodate the pain, which very slowly became a part of me. I just got used to it being there and I found a way to continue to function, although at times it did become too much to deal with. I can now see that I also did the same with many other physical and emotional issues.
Over the years I searched endlessly and sometimes desperately for a cure, attending sessions with chiropractors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, massage professionals and more. And then there were the many New Age modalities that were promising to be the fix for all things, but apart from occasional and temporary relief, nothing really changed, and there were many times that I despaired that it ever would.
It wasn’t until 30 years later, in 2005, when I found my way to Universal Medicine, that I started to see that there was a deeper reason for this pain than it just being a physical issue; that there was more to it than the impact it was having in my body and on my life. And what was so amazing to hear was… the pain was not me!
What a life changing moment that was.
That the pain was not me took quite a while to digest, but as I slowly opened myself up to this surprising possibility, I could feel that it actually wasn’t. I had made it so.
Over many courses in the following years, Serge Benhayon presented how the body responds to the way we live, the way we eat, the way we feel, the way we walk and what unresolved issues and hurts we are holding onto. As this all began to make sense, I finally accepted that there was a reason that this had existed for so long, and it had a very important story to tell.
And looking back, the story was not a pretty one, but one that told of a lack of awareness of my body, to the point of disregard; of a lack of self worth which resulted in giving my power away, and most definitely of a lack of love for me, especially as a woman.
But finally here was someone presenting me with another way to live. Something inside me began to celebrate that I was finally listening and beginning to act on this seemingly new wisdom – wisdom that I started to realise I had always carried deep inside but had spent most of my life overriding.
Sometime later I was also introduced to Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy by Kate Greenaway, a practitioner at the Universal Medicine Clinic in Goonellabah.
The first session was amazing. Kate very gently helped me to re-connect to my body and to a depth of honesty which I realised that I had not previously had, and to an awareness of how it was feeling.
Unfortunately I could not have regular sessions with Kate so she gave me Connective Tissue exercises to do at home, and at work, as I was sitting for long hours.
The change in my pain levels was so gradual that I almost didn’t notice it happening, but a few months into doing the exercises, I became aware that I wasn’t being woken up at night so much – the sciatica seemed to be easing off. In fact, some days I wasn’t even aware of it.
I started to be aware that I could drive longer distances without having to stop and get out of the car. The awareness that I now had of how my body was truly feeling had increased enormously, I was becoming aware of how I was standing, sitting, walking and lying down and I was unable to ignore any bad posture. Part of me kept thinking that this was too good to be true, but true it has turned out to be.
The exercises have become part of my life, my morning and evening rituals, and every day I can feel an increasing awareness of how my body responds to them. I love doing them and love feeling the connection to my body; a depth of connection I have never had before. I continue to have Connective Tissue sessions, as well as other Esoteric Healing modalities, and care for my body in a much more loving way than ever before and I can certainly feel the benefits of doing so.
At 65 years of age I am working full time, and as many hours are in front of a computer, I do the Connective Tissue exercises at my desk regularly throughout the day. They not only help my body to recover from the effects of sitting for long hours but also help to bring me back to me, ensuring the quality of the work I do, and also the quality of relationships that I have with my fellow workers.
Now nearly 40 years after the first symptoms, and many thousands of dollars spent on every healing therapy I could find, I can finally say that sciatica no longer rules my life. In fact, it has almost disappeared from my life as a result of the love and care that I now have for my body and I know, without a shadow of doubt, that this amazing therapy has played a huge part in the releasing of the sciatic pain, and more importantly, the reasons behind it being there in the first place.
My endless appreciation is expressed to those who have played such a big part in my healing as I know that without the wisdom and amazingness of Serge Benhayon, Kate Greenaway and the other Universal Medicine practitioners, this would not have come about.
And of course I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life. As a result, the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.
By Ingrid Ward, Real Estate Sales Team Support, West Auckland, New Zealand
Further Reading:
~ Physical Pain and the Miracle of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy
~ Healing Chronic Pain With Sacred Esoteric Healing
~ Pain and Illness – “You just have to live with it”
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
I am experiencing the same support of Esoteric Connective Tissue sessions and exercises from Kate Greenaway as you have described Ingrid. In my case it was a frozen shoulder. It caused me a lot of pain and restriction in movement, caused by hardening myself and holding back my power. This awareness, the sessions and committing to doing the exercises has changed so much in my shoulder and whole posture that I am able to move my shoulder much more with pretty much no pain involved. My physiotherapist is really surprised how fast I am recovering.
A beautiful testimony to Serge Benhayon, Kate Greenaway and Universal Medicine, who have supported you, and many others along the way.
Ingrid this is a beautiful testimony of the power of the Esoteric Modalities have to offer, a true and lasting healing to the body. I know in the past I have had treatments that only fix the symptoms but never get to the underlying cause, it is amazing how the Esoteric Modalities work differently to support the body in this way.
I love how you appreciate your own choices to return to the love you are. Yes appreciating the support of others is important, but equally is our own appreciation of our own true and loving choices.
Appreciating me and the choices I have made has been such an important factor in my healing over the last few years. So often we give credit to someone else, maybe a practitioner, for our healing and overlook the fact we made the choice to make the appointment and then follow the advice they gave us. We can be offered all the wisdom in the world and the wisest person to hear it from but unless we say yes and begin to live this wisdom nothing changes.
Understanding that there is more to a pain or illness that we have than it just being a physical issue, gives us the opportunity to have more awareness of the way in which we are living and how this may be affecting our health and well-being in my experience; we are more than just physical beings so it makes sense to me to consider the whole of our life…
It never ceases to amaze me, what is possible when we are willing to be open to true healing. Connective Tissue Therapy is a remarkable modality in that is offers such deep healing to the body not only on a physical level but also on an emotional and mental level. And yours is a wonderful example of this Ingrid.
What I read in your story was the absolute commitment to consistently do the excersises that you knew would support you, that is truly something to appreciate. To be with your body in a loving way gives it the space to heal and recover from what was there for years and years.
It was so easy to commit to the Connective Tissue Therapy exercises once I began to feel they were making a difference with my level of pain and discomfort. And more than four years after I was introduced to them, I am still doing the exercises at least once, sometimes twice a day even though I am now sciatic-pain-free; they are now a natural and enjoyable part of my daily life.
The moment we identify with the pain and structure our movements around it, the more difficult it gets to extract ourselves from it.
This is absolutely what I now know to be true and the reason why it took so long to extract myself from this painful configuration. But at the time I simply ‘structured our (my) movements around it’ and slowly but surely I began to move in a way that was actually at odds with the naturally harmonious movement of my body.
Amazing – being able to shift sciatica is huge and just goes to show the power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and the potential it has to support us to release what is not true through connecting us to what is true in our body.
It’s really inspiring how you committed to consistently applying the esoteric connective tissue therapy exercises and being more aware of your body and relationship with you and how this gradually over time has had a profound effect that naturally ripples out into how you are at work, in what you do and all who you work with as well.
Three years later and I am still doing the exercises every day and if somehow I overlook them it doesn’t take too long to feel that something is missing. The gentleness that ripples through my body as I do each one feels delicious and the connection to my body grows one movement at a time. And yes, the ripple effect out to others is definitely profound.
Adjusting our lives and putting up with pain, discomfort, dis-ease.. this seems to be where we have got to as a society with our relationship with dealing with our health issues- take a pill, make it go away, go and see someone to get fixed up, or be prepared to spend a lot of money and time on perpetual therapy for mental health issues. But unless or until we start looking at the root cause of our health conditions, we’re not going to be able to do anything other than medicate their symptoms. It might make us feel better for a little while, but what is the long-term impact of this on our health, wellbeing, and relationships?
Ingrid I have suffered from sciatica on and off for years. I found relief with the modalities of Universal Medicine but recently the pain came back and I was able to understand that there was more for me to look at and heal. With the support of a Universal Medicine practitioner I have done just that. The pain I was experiencing was telling there’s more to unravel. And this is where we need to discern if it needed medical attention or both medical and support of Esoteric Medicine to me they go hand in hand.
I too experienced a return of the sciatica sometime after writing this blog and was so surprised – and initially very disappointed – that it had. It was a moment of ‘what have I done wrong?’ But it didn’t take long to come to understand, like you, that there was another layer to discover of what was behind the condition and the associated pain. It took a while but the more honest I chose to be the more the pain began to heal. Now two years later I can actually feel that I am free of the original issue and I move in a way that confirms this with every step.
I feel this is really important ‘That the pain was not me took quite a while to digest, but as I slowly opened myself up to this surprising possibility, I could feel that it actually wasn’t. I had made it so.’ and something I would say I am learning about more through feeling this truth from my body. That we are not our pain or stress, or depression or anger and that this has manifested through our choices and movements throughout our life and lives, but all along our innate essence that is none of this, lays steadily and consistently within. And it is very possible to return back to this … Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are living proof.
“That the pain was not me” was a huge revelation Vicky, so huge that it took a while for me to come to feel the truth of it. Initially they were just words presented by Serge Benhayon, words that I could sense the truth of but at the same time I knew that I had to feel it for myself, in my body, otherwise they were just words. The day this happened a long closed doorway opened up to the healing that was waiting.
A remarkable story Ingird about the true lasting power of Connective Tissue Therapy and the incredible healing it offers to the body when there is a willingness to look more deeply at the way we live and move in our everyday lives, and make a commitment to implement the neccessary changes.
“the body responds to the way we live, the way we eat, the way we feel, the way we walk and what unresolved issues and hurts we are holding onto.” That is such a powerfully simple sentence and one we would all do well to have somewhere we look every day.
I am struck by the reminder that you were the change you brought to your life. The pain was in your body and although you had listened to Serge Benhayon and Kate Greenaway and felt the treatments on your body from inside your body, taking that into an action that you then offered yourself was the game-changer. The personal responsibility we have to be the change we want to be in our lives is incredibly empowering if we choose to embrace the simplicity of what is on offer in that awareness.
What great ownership of the consequences of not listening and caring for our bodies. To heal involves deepening the relationship with our bodies.
Connective Tissue therapy is an amazing treatment. It helps to restore the body back to its natural order.
I feel this is how we deal with life in general, our lives are busier and more stressful and our bodies hurt and we seem to find a way to accommodate and accept the pain as part of us. And as you said Ingrid we do the same with emotional issues too. So many elderly people I talk to say they have just put up with the physical pain they have been in throughout their life, they don’t know any different. These people have come through the 2nd world war and they have hardened themselves to just put up with life.
The fact that there was no quick fix, but through a dedication to care for and supporting the body with love, including the Connective Tissue Exercises, there was a gradual permanent change, is very important to note. Many expect their symptoms to disappear and their life choices to go unchanged. This article portrays a more real honest experience of healing ones body.
It was the gradual change in my pain levels that was so subtle, often so subtle that I would not notice straight away. But it was when I didn’t have to get out of the car so often to walk out the pain, that I suddenly had the realisation that something was certainly changing within my body. I had never expected the sciatica to disappear quickly but that it finally did was definitely a moment to celebrate. These days, except for a slight twinge every now and then, I continue to be sciatica free, but my commitment to the exercises still remains a priority every single day.
This is to be deeply celebrated. As it is not necessarily the committment to the exercises, though this is needed, but deeper, it is the committment to the body that is here shared, as one could not commit to the exercises with the dedication you have, without the true appreciation of your body and in full awareness of what it needs to support it.
Thank you, Leigh, and so true. My commitment has not just been to the exercises but to the whole of my life; to the way I live in every moment. It is my body that will be supporting me until my last breath in this life so it is my responsibility to ensure that I care for it as deeply as I can and to forever appreciate its loving support.
It feels like you and I, Elaine, and many other elders that I know are breaking through the societal expectations that as you age you get slower, your body gets stiffer and so it is harder to move. If I hadn’t begun to have Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and committed to the exercises daily, I probably would have all of the above happening to me, at 68 but I am so delighted that it is not. My hips have never felt so supple and even though a have a few aches and pains I feel an ease and a flow in my movements that I have never experienced before in my life.
Sciatica is a very painful and often long lasting condition. It’s awesome that you have been able to free yourself from it. I know for myself how supportive connective tissue exercises, as taught by Kate Greenaway, are. I also do a few in the morning and sometimes at night. People have remarked on my good posture and also being in my sixties I feel very fit and vital with increased stamina. Changing the general way that I treat myself, with more care and consideration and paying attention to the quality in which I move contributes to this healthy way of being too.
I have had many sessions of Connective Tissue, and have always deeply dropped and relaxed into my body and try and have them on a regular basis.
To understand that we are not our experiences is huge, that no matter what happens to us in life it is not who we are and does not have to define us is life changing if we allow it to really sink in and live it.
I remember too a time when my whole body was in pain. I held onto so many hurts which in the last 15 years are slowly unraveling themselves back to love. All the pain we hold onto is love waiting to be expressed.
Calling out that which is not who we truly are is incredibly powerful. We take on emotions, thoughts and all kinds of ill-energy into our body and we become identified by it even though we know it is not true. Through nomination the energy is released and our body reconfigures uncovering more of who we are as we return to the love that is the essence of who we are.
I agree Caroline as to how powerful it is when we come to the place when we know without a shadow of doubt that our pain, our issues, our hurts are not us, but simply energies that we have allowed into our body and have accepted as an inevitable part of it. To be able to claim this, is the difference between a life lived in harmony with our body or a life where we are consumed by what is happening to us and a body that struggles as a consequence.
Wow, Wow, Wow, 30 years later you found the modality that bought simplicity to the body’s healing. Modern medicine is needed but Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Therapies complement it too and bring it back to the body; we have the key to our own healing.
The thing that really stood out for me is “the pain was not me!” I will refer and ponder on this gem more often.
It is lovely to read the real commitment you maintained to connecting with your body and rebuilding your body through the connective tissue exercises.
I can understand how we can just want to push pain away or fix it but if we can open up to seeing what it is potentially reflecting to us or showing us about our way of living then we can see it not as just a pain but a signal to look more deeply at how we are in life…
“the love and care that I now have for my body” This is the deeply healing message of Universal Medicine that we have a responsibility for how we live with our physical body.
How often do we feel a pain and if it doesn’t go away adjust ourselves to accommodate it. I know I did, with the sciatic pain going down my left leg was so great I used a TENS machine to help me walk. I had the intensity of the machine set to as high as it would go and this discomfort took my mind off the actual pain I was feeling. How crazy is that!
WOW 40 years later and paying thousands of dollars and still the pain continues until you find the Universal Medicine modalities. This is the same with my experience in that these modalities are the only thing I have come across that support us and our bodies to truly get to the root of things, clear them and enable us to be all that we are.
What an amazing story Ingrid that shows the gentle power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.. and how the slightest movement of the body and its flowing pulse can be so profound to change the entire way the body then moves and operates.
Connective Tissue Therapy can be so effective for chronic pain and all kinds of other conditions. Connective tissue is so very delicate and sensitive and it registers impacts in the body immediately. And so the sessions help us to come back to what we know to be a more delicate way of handling the body but more so, it supports us to begin the changes in how we are on a day to day basis. Such an incredibly empowering way to be.
I am still learning and constantly marvelling at the power of Connective Tissue Therapy. The exercises remain an integral part of my day, helping to keep my body moving in the way it is designed to move, supported in every moment by connective tissue that is, as you write, ‘so very delicate and sensitive”. It is by focusing on this wondrous tissue that I am becoming more deeply connected to my body and to my movements.
Ingrid – thank you so much for your sharing. In this you have exposed so beautifully how we can end up living with chronic pain and end up seeing this as our ‘normal’. When someone seeks answers but does not find them it is easy to give up and manage life as it is, building a depression in the background knowing deep down that this is not how life really is.
Thank you Ingrid, I have also experienced profound healing and a remarkable reduction of pain from Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy exercises, they are super gentle, don’t need to be done for a long time, yet the results are amazing in terms of healing for the body. I really enjoy the lovely warmth they bring into my body which stays with me. I also feel it’s very true that a component of all illness and disease, including musculoskeletal conditions, can be “unresolved issues and hurts we are holding onto”. I find the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and exercises can help me to get in touch with these and let them go, and this has been a crucial part of my overall healing.
‘Now nearly 40 years after the first symptoms, and many thousands of dollars spent on every healing therapy I could find, I can finally say that sciatica no longer rules my life.’ This is just one of many hundreds of beautiful stories of healing I have read of on the Universal Medicine student blog sites. From entrenched, chronic aliments such as this, to depression, anxiety and beyond, there is something to look into here – something of benefit to mankind.
I have heard of and read many accounts of people with chronic conditions and pain, having huge changes after attending Universal Medicine events/sessions. It really is incredibly liberating to see your body as a friend not a foe with the wisdom to change old harmful patterns. It is also very freeing to observe pain and not see it as part of you. This allows a lot of acceptance and opening up in the body to occur.
“I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life. As a result, the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.” – it is in the changes that we make in life that we see results, and so the sessions we go to are there to support this empowerment.
It is a classic situation that we feel a pain or discomfort and then simply learn to live with it – in other words it becomes our new ‘normal’. Sometimes this can be despite seeking medical support as sometimes even the experts are at a loss of what to do. Thus we can learn to accept a way of living that is even below basic function. But the sad part is that in our world today, most do not realise that it is not just about restoring function itself, that we actually have an amazing capacity to live beyond just plain function, and that even function alone is not our ‘normal’. As Ingrid has so beautifully shared, when we allow ourselves to look at the energetic (deeper) meanings of illness and disease, it gives us true clues as to the changes that are being asked of, or offered to us in life in order for us to return to our natural state of vitality and strength. Thank you Ingrid for this amazing life changing sharing, and how you sought so many different avenues to find that nothing really changed anything for you until you came across Universal Medicine which takes things right to the core.
Saying goodbye to sciatica is enormous and a great testimony to the changes you made Ingrid as well as to Universal Medicine and the remarkable modality founded by Serge Benhayon – Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
It is so great to hear your story Ingrid and how by the choices and lifestyle that you had chosen all lead to the body loudly saying this is not working. Universal Medicine modalities as presented by Serge Benhayon are deeply powerful and honour the being and the body. Connective tissue is super delicate in it’s movements but once surrended to and allowed the body just melts with it. I drop so deep so quickly with it and have felt such a difference in my body after a treatment.
I love the appreciation you share here for the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy Ingrid. We are indeed blessed to have the support of these heaven-sent modalities that bring true healing to our bodies and our lived ways.
Connective tissue therapy is absolutely astounding in its ability to get to the root of the problem gently. It stands out a mile against other therapies and techniques that aim to fix but do nothing more than put a band aid on it. Connective Tissue Therapy allows and inspires true and lasting change.
Accepting a condition as part of us is a killer: it helps to establish a management kind of relationship with it and to accept that we have to adjust to something that is accepted as a new travel companion. It is also accepting the style of movement that led you there in the first place. In other words, accepting a condition as part of us is saying yes to a host of things that produce and guarantee ill-being.
I agree with everything you have shared Eduardo as that is how I lived for so long. And I can see so clearly that it was the way I had been moving in life that created the condition and then because I did not know how to move any differently, or so I thought, the sciatica stayed with me for so long. It was only when I began to understand my body and to make the choice to move in a much more loving way that the pain began to be released.
How beautiful Ingrid – and it is testament to show that the way we live is our true medicine! Of course it is important to understand too that our body can choose to clear a wayward way of living through a condition and this is a blessing in itself. And so as you have shared, it is powerful to realise that we are not the condition, however, it is equally empowering to claim that this is a way for one’s body to correct the energy one has been in and thus embrace the correction by supporting the clearning. We can all have ‘weak areas’ of our body – in other words markers that show us the moment we are off track so to speak, so essentially these areas are not ‘weak’ per se, but are there to support us to not stray too far without a signalling mechanism! How amazing is this! Thanks again Ingrid for such an inspiring story!
How powerful is that when we are able to see what we are experiencing in life simply as what it is without having to become it, and so we become able to say yes to a truly supportive way of being for us to love and nurture who we are.
“the pain was not me” this in itself is a great revelation Ingrid as so many people become engrossed with their pain and illnesses and identify themselves with it. Connective Tissue Therapy is a truly amazing healing modality, so gentle non imposing but o so powerful in the connection and healing it brings. I have just finished a course of Yoga combined with Connective Tissue exercises which was even more powerful than having them singly, my body awareness has increased so much more.
This is so true Jill, and I was one who was totally engrossed with the pain, allowing it to become part of me. To finally come to understand that the pain was not me was the most massive revelation I had had. It turned everything that I had previously experienced on its head but at the same time offered me a whole new way of living. It took a while for me to feel it without doubt in my body but once I did the doorway to my healing was opened wide, which was, after all those very pain-filled years, very, very welcome.
To have a modality like Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy that can support people with chronic pain is huge and ought to be world news as so many people are now living in chronic pain.
I agree Elizabeth that the news of this amazing therapy, a therapy that can support people to release chronic pain that they have resigned themselves to having for the rest of their lives, needs to be spread far and wide; there is nothing fake about this news!
This is profound, that is the impact such simple stretches that can be applied even at your computer have had on your body and entire wellbeing. Working in an office environment myself it seems more people than not have back issues and suffer from some form of low grade pain (or worse). Blogs like these written from people who have experienced and turned such situations around for themselves are deeply inspiring. As you say, the progress was very gradual and required a daily, loving commitment with no reward of a ‘quick fix’ or even guarantee that it would change your pain levels.
Looking at the bodies pains and aches as having a deeper meaning is something that Universal Medicine offers, I have found it super helpful seeking sessions from Kate Greenaway in addition to working more deeply into what part I play in the pain.
So beautifully said Sarah! We are certainly responsible for what happens to our body but how amazing to have such a modality there to support us with taking this responsibility and lovingly so! For anyone of us who has come accross the Esoteric Modalities, it is a true blessing!
By looking at what the body is presenting we can begin to understand ourselves, our past choices and the reasons we would have made them. The body reveals everything to us as, and so that, we grow and evolve.
It is revolutionary to not be taken, ie. identified by one´s pain or illness but instead understand it as the consequence of choices and behaviours that can be reflected on and changed anytime. That allows us to have a relationship with our body and medical conditions instead of being reduced to the suffering and worries that come with it. Just that is already part of the healing process.
It is interesting how we adjust ourselves to live with pain. It becomes our norm to have pain in our life until for most there comes a point to do something about it. What our National Health Service in the UK has to deal with is not a true reflection of what is actually going on as there are many silent conditions that people are living with that are not seen and recorded.
Amazing to feel that by simply making the effort to connect to your body and what you can feel, you brought more awareness to it and that the pain you were in has now disappeared. When we accept the pain or issues as part of us, adjusting our way of life to accommodate them, it’s like we’ve given up on feeling that we’re in control and can heal our own stuff. Bringing more awareness to the body is a great place to start taking ownership and responsibility for what we can feel.
That is so inspiring Ingrid. The consistency you have clearly offered yourself is equally worth appreciating because Kate Could have given you the exercises and you not done them. It is us who have to bring things into our lives with dedication and commitment. I take my hat off to you.
All the new age modalities only provide hope for something to be cured from the outside in, when the truth of it, is that true healing can only occur from within.
When we follow the signposts of our physical symptoms they can indeed direct our healing process.
simply extraordinary turnaround. Whilst I would never promote esoteric healing as offering a physical cure for anything, for its true purpose is to deal with energetic clearing, it still amazes me how so often people have such amazing stories such as this one of physical hearing that takes place once people connect to esoteric healing.
Beautiful Ingrid, yet another miracle that has happened with the support of Universal Medicine. In us taking responsibility and committing to a way of living that supports, nurtures and continually walks truth with no perfections, we can change many things that have owned and ruled our lives for many eons.
… ‘the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.’ A living where you live you and not the pain. More and more people are ill, have a chronic disease, in pain and completely identified with all this, asking the medical health system and or New Age modalities to bring the solution for their discomfort. You have felt with the profound support of Universal Medicine how to step out of this cycle of disregard by taking responsibility for your body and the love that’s in there and you deserve to live. Pretty amazing Ingrid.
Thanks Ingrid, it’s quite an amazing story considering the decades of living with sciatic and it’s now mostly gone. It really shows me how it’s the combination of our own self care, awareness of our body, the honouring and loving choices we make for ourselves, as well as the Universal Medicine therapies including Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy (ECTT). I also now use the ECTT exercises regularly and have a remarkable reduction of pain from Fibromyalgia to the point of it feeling like it’s gone.
We can make an endless loop chasing solutions for our aches and pains, never wishing to see that the solution is already within, and that we are the ones to heal ourselves. It’s revelatory when we realise we are the ones to make the change.
This is one of hundreds of testimonies from people who have experienced profound changes in their life through their work with Universal Medicine. There’s no quick solution but true healing instead.
Although there is obvious and undeniable true support from the Universal Medicine modalities the healing really comes from the way we live. This not a “fix me so I can go back to how I was living life before” mentality. The amazing results students of Universal Medicine are getting in terms of improved physical health and general wellbeing point out two things, that as human beings we are very much responsible for our health and the foundation for this is the way we live, and it also points to the possibility that medicine has not yet realised the true and full impact of each person’s way of life (daily choices etc) on rates of illness and disease.
It is such an important thing to feel, that the pain is not you. Especially when pain becomes chronic, it can easily become part of your identity. Stepping aside from the pain and allowing it to be is such a different way of responding to it. The space created allows opening up and healing to gradually occur. I have read so many stories like this one, where people have tried everything available. It is not until they find Universal Medicine that true healing, rather than temporary relief occurs. There are no Band-Aids and no playing with the spirit with Universal Medicine, just a reclaiming of our full, soulful being and getting under the root cause what is also not you.
Separating the pain from me was a huge step and one that was instrumental in my healing. I had identified with it for so long that its presence was deeply ingrained into my life. When it began to ease off and then almost disappear it felt like I had lost a part of me; crazy really as it was something that I had wanted released from my life for so long.
Ingrid I can understand that, observing myself I feel that sometimes what’s familiar can be perceived as safe even if it’s pain, and that the condition we have can also be part of our individuality, as it is a part of what delineates us from the whole and the oneness we come from.
It’s amazing to see what we accept as ‘normal’ in our lives or learn to live with, “I now realise that I simply accepted the discomfort I was experiencing and gradually began to adjust my way of being to accommodate the pain, which very slowly became a part of me.” It’s like there are all these little steps that arrive us to a place where we think is us only to find out that it is far less than who we truly are. This article is one great story of that fact, where we settle for living or being in way that we are told or think is normal and yet it’s far from normal. Serge Benhayon has been bringing us the awareness of these ‘little steps’ and brings us all back to feel that every step is important, they all count. If you are truly connected to each step then where you walk or where you arrive to will always be known, known by the steps you have taken before it. This knowing is a quality of the way you have been in every moment and never a focus ahead or behind you.
“Over many courses in the following years, Serge Benhayon presented how the body responds to the way we live, the way we eat, the way we feel, the way we walk and what unresolved issues and hurts we are holding onto.” – Serge Benhayon has brought me a much deeper understanding of illness and disease as well, what he presents makes sense and is inspiring because he truly lives what he presents rather than just presenting empty words. Loved hearing about the transformation that you made Ingrid, thank you for writing about it.
Amazing! I had a connective tissue therapy session just the other day with a universal medicine practitioner, and it was awesome. At first when I used to have these sessions, I questioned whether or not it was actually doing anything, because there was no pummelling or manipulating going on, and I grew up believing that if it doesn’t hurt, then it’s not working. The more sensitive I become in my body, the more able I am to feel the subtlety of things like my own connective tissue, it’s pretty awesome.
That seems to be the common way to deal with issues in our body, think that there is no other way and start to accommodate our bodies by adjusting them to put up with and accept that this is just our normal. Connective Tissue Therapy is incredible in what it offers, dealing with the issues from the inside out and the practitioner supporting the client to look at the root cause.
Understanding why the condition/pain is there and then learning how to deeply connect to and care for ourselves are essential steps on the way to a true recovery, whether that be sciatica or any other ailment.
Connective tissue therapy has never failed to assist me to feel my whole body and essence more deeply.
Why do we put up with pain and discomfort no matter how big or small we think it is? Could it be that we do not want to take responsibility for what we have created and feel the ill choices we have made? I know that when I have had the flu or been sick there was a tendency to blame another as to why I had caught it instead of looking at the choices I had been making up until that point. The body is constantly communicating supporting me to be responsible and loving with it in every moment and it is down to me as to whether I listen and take heed to it or not.
I have asked myself the question “Why do we put up with pain and discomfort?” so many times over the last few years especially as I now know that in most cases we do not have to. What I do know is that our body is the most amazing communicator but sadly we have not been raised to understand its endless messages and often ignore the problem and hope it might go away. I no longer ignore my body’s messages; I no longer adjust my body to deal with the pain; but what I do do is to listen to the message that any pain is giving me and then take the time to understand what to do next.
Many people choose to live with pain and discomfort and don’t know who to turn to. Blessed are the ones guided to meet a practitioner or modality that supports them to heal a particular condition. This is a brilliant testimonial of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, work of Universal Medicine and Kate Greenaway. More so, it is a glowing testimonial to you Ingrid. Healing sciatica became possible because of your dedication to self: lovingly taking care of you, practising your exercises daily and treasuring your body like never before.
What an amazing turnaround Ingrid, it’s a real testament to your loving choices and the support you sought and received with Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. There are many gems in your sharing how we normalise ways of being, be it pain, either physical or emotional, stress, busyness, anxiousness, whatever it may be; but in all this none of these things are us, we make them us in how we live, and as you put it ‘we make those things us’ and they are not us, our bodies reflect how we live and to what we give focus and opening up and understanding this allows us the grace to see and feel what truly supports us in every moment. Thank you for sharing your journey with us all.
There is a great learning offered in this article. Tonight as I read it I remember that when I had sciatic pain my whole intention was to find a way for it to be fixed, which is what I did at the time. All the while not once owning, consciously, that my choices were the reason I had the pain, so for years I changed nothing in the way I was living. What Ingrid has shared is that only through changing how she was living in her body released the sciatic pain. Just what are we capable of, when everything comes to a choice?
This is an amazing testimony of the healing benefits of Connective Tissue, and how our health can improve due to our daily choices. The body can speak very loudly by the way of pain and discomfort when it has to, especially when we are not listening.
Absolutely, what better way to get us to listen. Connective tissue therapy helps us to hear those calls for help from our body and offers us a choice to change.
It is a great revelation when we understand that the pain we experience in the body is actually not us and that it is a signal form it that tells us we are off track somewhere. Because of us being in disconnection with it our body is suffering the strains that this mismatch brings. And that is something completely different compared to being identified with physical pain, as now we have the opportunity to act upon it and take responsibility for the pains that we suffer from.
I love how deeply you care for yourself and it is so obviously reflected how your body changed and feels today.
It is incredible what our bodies show us repeatedly as feedback to how we are living. Chronic pain is delibilitating as well as causing a huge amount of anxiety in the body wondering what is going on and will it end? Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is so gentle that with pain or not the body is given an opportunity to let go. This blog is an amzing testimony to the changes that can happen and how this modality gently supports the body back to the tenderness we all are.
I found sciatica such a debilitating pain… that’s all I could think about or feel but I also found anxiety debilitating as well and made them both a part of me. Wow, to actually look at our pains, issues, illnesses and disease as something that is not truly us but a way of living that has contributed to them, is huge and inspiring. When we run with it being a part of us, we then learn to live with it, carry on and wear it as a badge of struggle, something we just have. I can not say enough about Connective Tissue Therapy, it is such a powerful loving indicator of what we are doing to our bodies and an opportunity to drop deeper into how our bodies truly feel to move, work, play, eat and sleep. It’s phenomenal the support I’ve received from this modality.
It is amazing to see that debilitating conditions can be alleviated in the body or even resolved by receiving Connective Tissue Therapy and changing the way we move and posture our body – miracle, but not accepted widely yet by modern medicine.
There are several people I know that have had sciatica recently. It is very debilitating, and in 2 cases they have managed to heal it with the support of an esoteric healing modality. I know if I had a similar condition I would book myself in for some Esoteric Connective Tissue sessions.
Sciatica is such a debilitating pain. What Ingrid has shared here could support many to claim back themselves from its constant pain. I personally have greatly benefited from Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and Connective Tissue exercises. Knowing any pain we feel in our body is not us is so very powerful and when we connect to our body the knowing becomes an unmistakeable truth.
When we are in pain we often want a ‘quick’ fix, we often ignore what the body is trying to tell us and want to go on regardless. I love the Esoteric Modalities, as they don’t just treat symptoms, they support us to take responsibility for the choices we are making and how this impacts on our bodies. There is such power and wisdom in knowing we can truly heal our bodies with the loving choices we make and with the support of amazing modalities such as the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
Sure there is the tendency to get a quick fix but when we look a little deeper we do know that this actually will not work, as it is the resistance to look to our own contribution to the pain and in taking the responsibility for that.
Your appreciation for the choices you have made is palpable and key to your recovery from such an enduring problem. Until we are willing to recognise that we hold the key to our own recovery the amazing effects of modalities like Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy cannot be fully realised.
Thank you for sharing your truly amazing story Ingrid of how you took responsibility for the way you cared for your body and got support from the Esoteric Healing Modalities, particularly Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy to heal your sciatica. I love your acknowledgement that the exercises ‘not only help my body to recover from the effects of sitting for long hours but also help to bring me back to me, ensuring the quality of the work I do, and also the quality of relationships that I have with my fellow workers.’ Chronic pain is so debilitating and impacts not just the person in pain but all who come into contact with them. The fact that you are working full time at 65 and obviously making a valuable contribution to society rather than medically retired and costing the government money deserves to be widely studied as you are most definitely going against the grain of the burden of ever increasing medical budgets for seemingly intractable health problems.
So many people suffer from sciatica so knowing that Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy can greatly support with it is absolutely huge and really needs to be front page news. Interesting how the media never pick up on these types of stories!
Totally agree, this needs to be front page news…. so simple yet so profound!
Esoteric Healing modalities are amazing – combined with self love and care miracles can happen.
It is interesting how we often identify ourselves with our pain or ailment as if it is who we are, Realising we have a choice in how we are living and a responsibility to to bring loving care in to our lives we can then begin to heal. Amazing to read of your recovery after Connective Tissue Therapy sessions a very powerful and gentle modality.
‘The awareness that I now had of how my body was truly feeling had increased enormously, I was becoming aware of how I was standing, sitting, walking and lying down and I was unable to ignore any bad posture’. Same here Ingrid, my connective tissue excercises that I do every morning supports me to be so much aware of my body and make any necessary adjustments to my posture or how I move.
I had an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session this morning. There is nothing like it to support the body to let go of any tension, open up and feel lighter.
Many people with sciatica end up having to grin and bear the pain through their everyday movements that most others take for granted. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy allows your body to realign itself with the aid of gentle exercise and loving choices.
You are an incredible woman Ingrid, I saw you the other day, shining, vibrant, looking healthier than the “healthy” people I know. How you are so bright through illness will be studied in years to come, you are making history.
Well said Sarah, Ingrid is making history and shining brighter than many half her age, what a role model she is for all women.
I love Connective Tissue Therapy, not to treat any specific condition or ailment but for how my body feels after a treatment.
Connective Tissue therapy has the ability to get to things out of the body which otherwise would stay hidden. For example the other day I had an amazing session with a qualified practitioner here in the UK and discovered beliefs that I had taken on from my mother with regards to self worth, and this was playing out in my body causing pain and discomfort. What I like about Connective Tissue is that during the treatment so much is revealed to you by the body and you can feel it for yourself, and in that state of being you gain a deeper understanding of how energy plays out in the body.
Ingrid, this is such an amazing story. 40 + years of dealing with that pain to now being practically free from it as a result of your choices. That is seriously awesome! What I love most is that you didn’t give your power away to Connective Tissue Therapy…you gave it a go, and took responsibility for yourself to do the exercises.
The idea of just accepting pain as part of us seems fairly normal. But what I have found supportive is to know that there are underlying causes of pain that we can very often address, and it is often in the willingness to look at pain as more than just a functional occurrence that allows the healing to take place.
I have the joy-full pleasure of knowing you in person Ingrid and being together with you leaves me in no doubt of the wonderful woman you truly are. It is brilliant and deeply inspiring to witness such changes in your life. Thank you dearly.
“And of course I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life. As a result, the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.” This is a beautiful testimonial to Universal Medicine and to Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing the healing effects of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, on your body, I really love this modality for its very gentle and powerful healing that it offers to so many people.
It would be very interesting to know if Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy only works for a few people or whether it works for a lot of people and how much. Once we have a clearer idea of that and if the answer is positive, it is possible to talk about Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy in a lot more detail.
The power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is profound, this is a modality many in the world would benefit from greatly.
Connective Tissue Therapy is so powerful in its simplicity and I am amazed how the simple small movements have such a huge effect on our bodies.
That is true.
I too know the excruciating pain of sciatica, to live with it as long as you did, all I can say is how did you cope? There is a message in such a question as we choose to cope with our ailments, where as you have proven in your life experience, to release them from the body is what is needed, and only happens, in truth, when we make the choice to live in constant loving appreciation of ourselves.
I often ask myself the same question – particularly when I re-read my blog. It is such a great example of living in disconnection to our body and learning to adjust to living with something that is no way natural, which then of course has a ripple affect on many other areas that have to work harder and often not in their normal way. Every day I appreciate the amazing modality of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy which, for the last few years has become a part of the daily care of my body, just like brushing my teeth.
This is power – a testimony that illness and disease is more then just genetics, coincidence or fault.. Illness and disease shows us how we have lived with our body over time, and so yes, with medical help and absolute own dedication and honesty we can heal forth. But not by looking for a fix!
The love you hold for yourself and treat yourself with is palpable in your words and resonates in my body, something that only can occur from someone living what she is talking about, i.e. speaking from the body. The body’s wisdom and way of healing, when we attend to it with love and care, is a reflection of how we are designed to be given a body as a vehicle that knows harmony inside out.
It makes so much sense to me that the choices we make in disregard of ourselves show up in our body. I have had a little sciatica on my left side between my sacrum and left hip and moving to my left buttock on and off over the years. I began to attend a group of women participating in the Sacred Movement modality regularly and found after a few months that the sciatica returned. The modality supported me to feel the area, the sadness and grief of the choices in not choosing me. I no longer have sciatica but by regularly practicing the Sacred Movement I am finding that my sacrum is opening and expanding as I let go of long held emotions stored in this part of my body.
A great testament to Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises and their wonderful presenter of this Universal Medicine modality, Kate Greenaway. A beautiful healing Ingrid!
This blog needs to be shared with more people as those who are suffering from this would I am sure, love to hear that there is actually a way through this- it is hard to imagine that something that impacted on your health for 40 years was so easily turned around by making more loving choices.
I like how your condition slowly changed with the sciatica, to the point where it was almost not noticeable the changes taking place. It is such subtlety that I have found takes place in connective tissue exercises, they are so gentle yet make such a profound difference to hardened tissue in my body, and bad postural habits that I have gotten into over the years. I can’t say enough for how much I love doing connective tissue exercises, they are such a valuable part of creating a healthy body and an ease in being in my body.
Awareness is pivotal in coming to a deeper understanding of how we have driven our bodies into the ill-state we find ourselves in. Learning to become honest and present in my body allows the awareness of the patterns of protection, of holding, and of holding back that manifest in ill ways in the body and this is a truly empowering thing as for the first time the awareness now brings the option that I can make a different choice, to surrender, and to move in a way that is true, not one that has become ingrained through a subconscious holding on. It not only frees up my body, but also the way I live in life.
This amazing article goes to show that intense manipulations and treatment may not necessarily be what is needed for deep chronic pain, nor that we need to resign ourselves to a life-time of heavy painkillers and the unpleasant side-effects/ damage to our bodies and psyche that they bring. This is an important case study that illustrates the potential of simple gentle exercises and therapies that can support the body to release harming patterns of tension, and return to a way of movement that brings the body back to its natural equilibrium. This is brilliant.
Connective Tissue Therapy is such a powerful modality that supports the body to re-configurate and with this release the pain we have accumulated through disharmonious movements and it gives the person the possibility to re-imprint the body with new movements that then are in line with a true expression. It is absolutely fascinating and also shows the power of the body that with very gentle moves the whole body adjusts.
Your blog goes to show what true healing is all about. It doesn’t just focus on one thing or another but it takes into account the whole body and how we are choosing to live and the choices we are making in every aspect of our lives.
It’s inspiring to read that after all of those years of pain you are now working full time in your sixties whereas most people are set in retiring and winding down in their sixties.
Experiencing the ever deepening magnitude of what this modality offers; I simply cannot imagine life without it.
It is profound here that your healing was all encompassing of your time both inside and outside of the treatment room; and not one without the other.
There are so many miracles here, you would think medicine would be clambering to find out what is going on.
Ingrid, what is most inspiring about your story is your dedication – that you continued with the exercises for months rather than being disheartened and giving up when you didn’t get a “quick fix”. With that steadiness and dedication, I can feel how your whole approach to life has changed 🙂
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy paired with learning to love and care for your body – a powerful combo indeed! Thank you for sharing Ingrid.
A true testimonial to the power of taking responsibility for where we find ourselves in life, and dedicating ourselves to making choices that support us to heal. There is no shame in asking for help. We do not need to soldier on and do it alone – the support is there if we but ask.
This is an amazing story, showing the fact that body awareness is very important in our everyday lives. Which is Esoteric Connective Tissue very supportive in, letting us feel deep into the body.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing way to reconnect with our bodies. It is awesome to read about your experience in healing, and how you were able to bring such awareness of your quality to your body. That awareness is so important to being able to bring our body back to the loving function that it naturally wants to move with.
Just the simple acknowledgement and acceptance that the pain we feel (whether physical or emotional) is not us, however much we have identified with it, is an incredible healing in itself as you have shared Ingrid. We are then no longer the victim of it, but the creator of it, and as such, we can then choose to co-create instead – another way of living that focuses on the loving, caring, nurturing, supportive choices instead.
To live with vitality and a body that is without pain and discomfort is not normal any more. So Ingrid you are a great example of turning your health around even after 40 years.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing the healing power that Connective Tissue brought to your health problem along with taking responsibility for making self loving choices, these are amazing results after suffering for so many years. I love the gentleness and the connected flow throughout my body that Connective Tissue Therapy brings.
“And of course I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life.” I love this Ingrid because it is so important to appreciate ourselves for being prepared to take responsibility in making these changes for our choices affect not only us but all those with whom we come in contact with directly or indirectly.
I agree with all you share about Connective Tissue Therapy Ingrid. It is a truly powerful modality that supports the body to return to its natural flow and vitality and a feeling of exquisite yumminess all through the body.
‘ I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life. ‘ This is a gorgeous line appreciating all the loving choices you have made in your life Ingrid, a beautiful reminder for me today.
Connective tissue therapy is amazing. Because it exists throughout the body, this gentle therapy can reach all the body parts physically, let alone energetically.
An awesome testimonial for the beautiful modality that is Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. This gentle healing technique, subtle yet powerful, is deeply stilling and nurturing to the body. Well done Ingrid for making all the positive changes to a more vital you with the aid of these gentle exercises.
I personally love receiving connective tissue therapy and offering it as a practitioner.
The modality allows us to reconnect to the natural flow of our body, felt as a warmth or pulsating feeling in our body, reconnecting us to the inner stillness, joy and love we are within.
Ingrid, your personal story is very inspiring. You didn’t give up on yourself and finally found an amazing healing modality- connective tissue therapy which helped you heal from the inside out and deal with the underlying issue, so true healing could happen.
Ingrid, it is remarkable the things that we let ourselves put up with! The fact that connective tissue therapy could support you to heal your sciatica after all those years is a true testimony to the power of that modality.
Amita that is such a great platform for you to have experienced, knowing and really feeling the raciness then to be connecting deeper to the stillness within you. Being able to deepen this and have a steadiness with it and then when you go to the old ways of being racy it sticks out like a sore thumb – you know how to connect back straight away to your stillness. Connective Tissue is an incredible modality.
Beautiful to read Ingrid, about the healing qualities of the Connective Tissue modality in your life, I love receiving the treatments and doing the exercises, I feel like all the dots are connecting with a beautiful flow through out the body, reconnecting me back to the love and joy within.
I too have had many sessions with Kate Greenaway, and it always happens that I receive a deeper insight into what I have been holding in my body that is restrictive and debilitating to my body and therefore my life. Understanding this allows me to release that which is harming and restore true freedom of movement and expression into my living.
So true Linda, it is never too late to be able to heal and let go of things in our lives that are causing us harm.
Connective Tissue Therapy introduces a flow and ease in our body and tissues that we knew as a baby, as our natural state of being before we loaded our bodies up with the stresses and pressures we allowed to be imposed on us from the world, not to mention our own self-recrimination and hatred. Moving once again in this freedom and flow aligns us back to our natural true joy that may have been long forgotten, but now we have the chance to connect to and live once again.
Connective Tissue Therapy is like a resetting back to an expanded truer version of ourselves, that we can then choose to move in and live thenceforth, a freedom of another choice is offered – rather than just the over-riding choice we make to return back to our old entrenched patterns and movements that created our ills in the first place.
‘I started to see that there was a deeper reason for this pain than it just being a physical issue; that there was more to it than the impact it was having in my body and on my life.’ This is a profound stage to reach in itself for many people, without even venturing further into ‘the pain is not me’. I met someone today who was ‘living with’ the pain from 3 successive operations, choosing not to make any lifestyle changes in support of the impact on their body or their life. Their pain had become their identity, their lot, rather than a helpful message from that ancient wisdom you mention that gently suggests it might just be time for some changes.
Connective Tissue Therapy made me realise how much lack of self worth I had in my body, there where many areas that where tight and contracted. My movement was not as flowing, but with Connective Tissue Therapy my whole body has changed, the flow is more smooth, my body is more flexible and open, my connection to my self worth has changed too.
I first saw Kate Greenaway for remedial connective tissue therapy session in 2007 to assist with heel spurs and tears to the tissue on the bottom of my feet. It played a huge role in assisting me with my recovery. However, what I discovered in those sessions was that the benefits of esoteric connective tissue therapy extend beyond the remedial. During those sessions, I felt a deep, deep ease, often falling asleep, accompianied by a feeling of deep warmth through my whole body. Over time, I came to associate that with the “fire” that Serge Benhayon talks of aka the energy of the Soul. It is something very tangibly felt, if one is open, and as my sessions with Kate Greenaway and other esoteric practitioners progressed, it was a feeling I started to become more familiar with over time.
Ingrid, great to read of the self-nurturing and the self-appreciation you have finally embraced. It is so easy to heap judgement on top of the abuse we so all too often subject our bodies to, but starting to appreciate what we bring and who we are, is enormously confirming and deeply healing.
Great blog Ingrid, when we start to become more aware of ourselves and our movements, we begin to discover that even minor changes have a remarkable effect. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has definitely helped me to become more aware of my body.
Amita, like yourself I used to be very racy and it was not until I tried connective tissue therapy that I learnt what stillness in the body meant. It allows you to drop and connect deep to the true energetic flow of the body.
me too Loretta, receiving Connective Tissue Therapy brings home the clear message of the ill patterns we run our bodies in as well as a true marker of the stillness we hold deep within that is available to us in any moment. Learning the extent of the raciness and nervous energy in my body was deeply revealing as to how I live every day, as well as now the marker of the quality of stillness I can instead choose to live and move in every moment.
I also agree with this Joe. It is an awesome modality. Also, I am moved to present that part of my experience with not taking more care of my body, ” stems from the fact of a lack of love for me, especially as a woman.” Connective Tissue therapy puts you in such deep contact with your body that you cannot help but deeply feel it. This has been a great step forward for me to feel my femaleness and acknowledge and treasure it more. I also have no doubt in saying the same goes for men, as they feel a deeper stillness in their body which is very healing to experience.
Yes as a man Irena I certainly feel this. It is difficult to convey to another how great the therapy does feel, to say I feel really in my body may be a difficult concept for some to grasp, but it is like a feeling of being very grounded and alive.
I agree Stephen G, grounded in the body, but very alive and aware and spacious.
It is like we are greater than our body, or there is more space inside it and we emanate beyond it as well.
Ingrid, what l feel strongly is your absoluteness to take on board the new and make the necessary changes that had to be made. You proved that with consistency and absoluteness, we can actually move mountains in our lives and make lasting changes for the better.
I agree Irena, consistency in every moment (without perfection) is what builds the foundation that then supports us in everything in our lives. And it only requires a true choice in this moment.
Well said Irena and Annie, I know for me consistency has been key to making true changes in my life, a work in progress in some areas but the more I commit the easier it becomes.
…and in doing so provide inspiration for others.
I can only agree to what you experienced Amanda because I experienced the same. The modalities form Serge Benhayon are without a doubt the best in terms of a true healing and not only a relieve e.g. from pain. Instead it is – if this person is choosing it – a deep healing in all areas of our life.
This is a great testimonial for connective tissue therapy. Showing how by bringing the body to a deep stillness is very restorative to the cells and tissues within the body.
This is really amazing Ingrid. I know people who’s cases are similar to yours with chronic pain, who have been virtually dismissed by doctors as there is nothing they can do for them other than directing them to someone who teaches them to live with the pain. What a revelation to discover that this was not true for you and with love and support you were able to change this in your life.
Its great to read of someone who has had such a positive experience of esoteric connective tissue therapy, as a great many others have too. What I find so defining about the therapy is its gentleness and i see more and more how it is this gentle approach that our bodies actually need. Not to be pushed or pulled to re-align muscles or resolve pain, but a gentle allowing to let the body heal itself in the magical manner that it is capable of. Thanks for sharing your story Ingrid.
I agree Stephen – through giving and receiving connective tissue therapy I’ve been amazed at the powerful healing such a gentle modality can bring and I now realise how unnecessary it is to try to force the body to release the tension which usually only results in a temporary release often returning at some point down the track whereas connective tissue therapy provides true healing through the release of the ill energy out of the body which we’ve accumulated as evidenced by Ingrid.
I love reading the changes that people go through after having come across Universal Medicine. It is nothing short of a miracle how far you have come, thanks to the choices you have made.
Such an amazing journey Ingrid to heal your body of long term sciatica with the support of the beautiful modality – Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy. What you share is so supportive for anyone dealing with chronic pain, we live in a world where many chose to take medication to mask the pain feeling powerless that they have to live with this pain forever. The body can heal any long term condition and be free of pain when we commit to our healing and make choices that are truly loving and caring.
Wow what you experience Ingrid it is like a miracle for me and therefore I appreciate it very much that you did not hold back and shared about your amazing healing. It is very inspiring and also it offers hope that everything is possible if we choose to change our way of living.
Well said Eduardo and that is what is so great about Universal Medicine, all the modalities it offers are of this nature, that is: “accept as a premise that we are more than what our body suggests”
Yes Martin it seems crazy how ‘normal’ it is to have some sort of pain. I am always amazed by the amount of pain killers and tables many people I know carry around with them. If this is our norm then something is seriously wrong! Thank you Universal Medicine for showing us all there is another way.
Thats awesome elainearthey I love how the esoteric therapies ask us to deepen that connection with ourselves as that is where we will always find true healing.
“Where would we be without Universal medicine?” Great question – I would for sure still be in the same momentum of self sabotage, disregard and general lack of self worth. The presentations and therapies offered by Universal Medicine are life changing, together with taking self responsibility every session is nothing short of a miracle.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine introduce us to looking underneath our physical aches and pains to discover that it is the way we have been living that can have lasting affect on our body. When we identify ourselves with the pain it can become who we are and we hold on to it but accepting that the pain is not who we are is a great first step. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a beautiful modality that re-connects us to feeling true tenderness in the body and releasing long held tensions.
I agree Naren, pain and discomfort are there to alert us to the fact something is not ok, so our bodies are actually functioning perfectly when we are in pain. Too often though we reach for a pain killer or seek advice from outside ourselves in the hope the pain will be taken away, negating our bodies communication and our responsibility to listen and learn from what our bodies are telling us.
It is so true Martin, that many people accept to live with a pain that is unnecessary. In fact that is of course because the traditional western medicine has no answer to this. This shows that the Esoteric Healing modalities are that urgently needed as complementary to the western medicine as these two as a couple will be able to restore true health and physical and psychological wellbeing for humanity to the best of its abilities.
I agree my experience can bring up this is ‘too good to be true’, or too simple or powerful to be true. How can such simple delicate movement, offer such a profound shift in the body. The great thing about Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and Connective Tissue Exercise is that they do support us to very subtly adjust our awareness, which allows us to appreciate that our awareness of our bodies is a huge factor in our wellbeing when brought to our daily lives.
Yes Libby it is this simple – “to have awareness and make loving choices in everything we do”. And if we allow our awareness to drop, the loving choices diminish and our body in turn suffers.
Ingrid, I am struck again by the power of the healing modality offered to you by Universal Medicine and the way in which our bodies communicate with us and offer the healing ONLY when we commit to our relationship with ourselves and truly honour and appreciate that we are responsible for our own health and wellbeing.
I adore your expression and your simplicity Nicola Lessing. We do get ourselves in ‘such a mess’. It is like we are looking east when all the time what we are looking for is not only right there inside and beside us but reflected in the west!
Truly beautiful Ingrid. Your words remind me deeply of the fact that when we do truly commit to ourselves, and take such responsibility for our own healing, there can also be a well of support there which we may never have imagined possible. And I’ve seen far too many miracles in this regard, to deny the fact that it happens. But the first step, always begins with us, and the choice we ourselves must make within. To appreciate and acknowledge this as you have, is so powerfully confirming and honouring. You go girl! (sorry.. amazing woman! 😉 )
Ingrid, what strikes me most from reading your amazing blog here, is two things.
One, the sheer depth of support offered by Universal Medicine’s teachings and Universal Medicine therapies such as Connective Tissue therapy – offering no ‘quick fix’, but a depth of understanding the body and what can be underlying any apparent ‘condition’ that I also have found unparalleled anywhere else…
And ‘two’… your own commitment to yourself, and how the quality of this commitment seems to have markedly transformed with your connection to Universal Medicine and the treatment and support you have received. To ‘stay with it’ and support ourselves so, even if we do not know whether pain may come or go, is something truly remarkable. Most would give up and resign themselves to a diminished quality of life.
And how awesome for you, that your sciatica pain has decreased so much. Well done dear lady.
Thank you Victoria. This healing process has been amazing on so many levels, especially to the power of commitment and consistency. From this amazing experience I have not only healed the sciatica but I have also learned so much about myself and what can happen when we begin to truly understand the importance of listening to, and caring deeply for our wonderful bodies.
Absolutely Francisco. Yet how we can resist this! Fearing that in stepping out of the striving and raciness may leave us in a void, or unable to deal with what we can yet sense is really going on in our bodies…
It’s been my own experience, and I’ve also witnessed countless others take the steps to true care, such as Ingrid has done – through the support of Universal Medicine therapies such as Connective Tissue therapy. Coming back to meeting ourselves, and truly supporting ourselves is ‘not so scary’ at all, with such an amazing depth of support available.
I totally agree with you gillrandall. The connective tissue techniques are so simple yet so powerful and they feel amazing in the body.
Heaven sent! These modalities are nothing like I have experienced, in my 10 years of practicing complementary therapy nothing absolutely nothing comes close to the bar as the effectiveness and pure healing these modalities offer.
I love that you have said that you have healed your chronic pain. That is the huge difference between any Esoteric healing modality and anything else that I know of. The responsibility for healing is lovingly placed in our hands. This is incredibly empowering to understand that we are responsible for our health and the state of our body. Key to our healing is to bring love, care and responsibility back to ourselves.
Yes Fiona it is super empowering to know and understand we are responsible for our health and how our body is fairing on a day to day basis. I was often confused by still being a healthy person but unable to heal the physical pain. Now I have a clear understanding of energy and how it can be used to harm the body. With this truth I can begin to heal and not just find temporary solutions. That is what is so powerful, getting to the truth of the pain and why it’s there in the first place.
Its inspiring to read the amazing changes that you experienced from the support of the Connective Tissue sessions, combined with you taking responsibility for how you were living and choosing to make more self loving choices.
Tracey I am often blown away at the changes that have occurred in people’s lives. Such a simple yet profound modality.
A fantastic story of healing, after 40 years of suffering, “Sciatica no longer rules my life”. Unfortunately there are many many people whose lives are still dominated by disease either physical, emotional, mental…and I would love everybody to know the esoteric modalities, connective tissue therapy and all of them, as they are such a blessing. Let us not forget though, that you are the one that made the choices to deal with your disregard, change your lifestyle and be consistent with your exercises, but what is the egg and what is the chicken? I mean: could it not be that the received healing allowed space in your body (by the clearing that it favors), for you to make that self loving choice? and at the same time: are you not the one to be given credit, as you chose to take your body and all of you to that healing session?
“I can finally say that sciatica no longer rules my life. In fact, it has almost disappeared from my life as a result of the love and care that I now have for my body .” It feels almost miraculous that we can heal some of our pain and symptoms by addressing the way we live. Giving ourselves and our bodies love, nurturing and care together with esoteric therapies is surely the way to go.
Connective Tissue is a modality which deeply supports the flow in the body and the connection to the tenderness I am in truth, but not choose to live this on a day to day level. So Connective Tissue therapie supports me to see the truth, take responsibility and align to the tenderness I am.
It all boils down to the way we treat ourselves. The care and love we give ourself, our body, reflects how we are directly in the world. It sold be common sense but I feel at times we have not been taught enough when young how to honestly care for the amazing vehicle we have been give to live in.
I agree sueq2012, it’s those ignored little niggles that show us how we are not caring for ourselves to the level we could. And if we get into the practice of ignoring the little ones they will sometimes escalate into bigger problems, and even those we often try to ignore until our body says, enough, and stops us in our very painful tracks. And how beautiful will it be when the words “increase your self care and self love” are written on a doctor’s prescription!
“We ALL benefit when we take responsibility for our bodies”. Beautifully said Kathryn and something I now know to be absolutely true. This ripple effect is so amazing to observe, from the littlest ripple to the biggest, it is a wonderful reminder of our self loving choices.
Like you Samantha I too love walking and am continually amazed at what my walks shows me. Since participating in the Connective Tissue sessions and doing the exercises my walk is much more flowing and if I start to get into rush, this energy stands out very quickly, and I can’t ignore – in fact I don’t want to ignore it as it is going against everything my body naturally is.
Sometimes my mind puts me into ‘rush’ mode, thinking I don’t have time. But the job doesn’t get done any quicker, and my body ends up tense and tired. If I stop myself, and allow my body to regain its natural rhythm, I get things done just as quickly, without feeling’ not myself’