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 
“.. it has almost disappeared from my life as a result of the love and care that I now have for my body”. This should be shouted from the rooftops. After so many years and so much money you spent on searching and trying other ways, this seemingly simple therapy has had far reaching effects.
“t wasn’t until when I found …… 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.” This story is not uncommon for those who were searching for a cure and trying all sorts of therapies prior to Esoteric Therapies. Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy is an amazing modality – I agree.
How many of us have, or still do, carry a pain or hurt or something and got used to it being the norm, when actually it is not normal at all and not truly us!
And when we ask for help from the conventional medical model we can so often get fobbed off by – ‘you have to live with it’, or ‘what do you expect’, . ‘you’re getting older’. Is this more common if you are a woman I wonder?
Pain is not normal, and it is great to read how Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises helped reduce the pain, ‘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.’
Love what you have shared Ingrid, as my body was also carrying many painful areas that now, because of the relationship with consistently applying the esoteric connective tissue therapy exercises and sessions, my life is totally different and pain free as you have shared.
If we do not appreciate the loving choices that we make, we will never build on them. We will take them for granted & not see the benefit they have on our lives. Appreciation is a building block & not a given – not all of us are very good at it, in fact most are not – but it is something worth paying attention to and developing for it is a tool to transform our lives.
Thank you Viktoria, as appreciation is one of my favourite words and when we understand that to appreciate with Deep-humble-appreciate-ive-ness our life becomes transformational, as it allows us to feel the energy we and others are in thus the appreciate-ive-ness of where or to understand the True-aprrciate-ive-ness of what energy is coming in and through us and others. As we expand our energetic understanding the foundation that we are setting is always deepening and humble-ness is an appreciation of the fact that we are divine or Soul-fully-connected, and this is “worth paying attention to and developing”, as we deepen our foundation of appreciate-ive-ness.
Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy is an enormous support with nervous tension. I always feel a deeper sense of calmness and stillness after a session that allows me to get on with my day in greater steadiness.
Yes, I remember having a session with Kate Greenway for the first time & being surprised at the possibility to have such calm in my life. We are so used to our momentums & often think it’s the only way – but modalities like Connective Tissue & Esoteric Healing in general can really wake us up.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy allows you to feel the flow of energy through your body and to release any holding on to tensions that cause physical pain.
How we live and move can cause physical pain, ‘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.’
It is very common and so very much the norm to put up with pain and discomfort to get on with life, but that’s only because we place a greater importance on what is outside of us – usually what needs to get done – the doing, but of course this is a game we play to avoid connecting to the responsibility and power within and all that this brings to heal the body.
To live with chronic pain is not a very pleasant way to live and it limits us in our daily life tremendously and yet so many of us do. So what you describe here is a miracle but most of all how blessed we are that there is a way of living that allows us to be truly vital and healthy.
A way of living, and an awareness of how we are with our body is always super important, ‘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.’
That is incredible Ingrid, the depth of care and willingness to listen to your body and embrace love is inspiring. How often do we become identified with pain and illness? By listening to our body, we can start to see that pain and illness is a way our body is communicating to us and it is a part of healing too. We can either listen to our body and embrace deep healing or ignore it and fight these messages all the way. I know which one makes more sense.
Looking back, I can see that it was the fact that I finally realised that this pain was not me, but that it came with a huge message from my body, that allowed me to embrace the healing process. And it was also because I was being offered much support and many amazing techniques and healing modalities to assist the process. In the past, I felt that I was having to do it on my own, so the loving support that was available was so very welcomed and from it came the miracle that I never ever thought would be possible.
When we can separate out the pain from our being profound changes can occur. And loving support never goes amiss!
We can listen to our body, and support it with gentle exercises, ‘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.’
Esoteric connective tussue therapy is amazing. It can support to reduce pain, but also to remove symptoms that may have been around for years. Great to read about its success with your sciatica.
It is fantastic to read about the results Ingrid had, ‘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’.
When I read this ‘and gradually began to adjust my way of being to accommodate the pain’ it struck me why do we so readily accommodate or adjust to pain instead of adjusting for truth, joy and love in other words true health?
40 years struggling with sciatica is a long time Ingrid – thank god for connective tissue therapy sessions and exercises.
I love how my body feels after an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy session. More deeply relaxed, settled, open and vibrant.
We learn to give in to that things are how they are and the only thing we can do is medicate ourselves. Universal Medicine is showing that there is another way, presenting that everything comes back to how we live and thus every move we make contributes to our health. So we are not at the mercy of what is happening to us but very much in power of our every moment and choice.
So true Esther, this is empowering to understand and embrace, and it could potentially accelerate our healing and our evolution.
So true Esther. Not giving in to that’s how its going to be but knowing there is a different way to live life. I feel blessed every day to know that I have found and embraced Universal Medicine
With pain it’s understandable to want to get away from that but by actually being more aware of our whole body we give ourselves the chance to connect with what will really support us and of course taking pain relief can be a supportive part in helping us with that.
So true Fiona. If we just try to numb pain away with analgesics we ignore the opportunity to learn why we have that particular pain in the first instance. Pain relief can be supportive while we get to the root cause of an issue.
Having pulled a muscle in my back the other week I can certainly appreciate how easy it can be to allow pain to dominate one’s life and to become identified by it. Realising and remembering that “the pain was not me” provides a distance to be an observer of it which thereby opens the door to understand why we have it and to find answers to resolve the it’s cause.
Oh yes,that intermittent, but sometimes constant, pain is definitely impossible to ignore. For me it was especially at night when trying to get into a comfortable position to sleep. I tried many ways to alleviate the pain but in the end I can see that I began to move in a different way simply to accommodate it, as I felt that it would be with me forever. Being introduced to Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy certainly blew that ingrained belief into smithereens.
It can be very challenging when first presented with the fact that we have created the pain in our bodies from the “disharmonious ways we have been living”; it sure was for me for a while. But once I allowed myself to feel the truth of what I had been presented I could feel the knowing begin to settle into my body, and as it did I could feel that although the pain was often overwhelming that it was not who I am. But at the same time I knew that it was telling me that something needed to change in my life if I wanted the source of the pain to be healed. One of the most valuable lessons ever for me.
The pain is certainly telling you something about the way you have been living, ‘ I knew that it was telling me that something needed to change in my life if I wanted the source of the pain to be healed.’
It is amazing how much pain we tolerate sometimes and make our norm.
Beautiful point that you have made here, about leaning how to cope and carry on.
The belief that we simply have to ‘cope and carry’ on is one very destructive belief, probably fueled by another belief that we should put the care of everyone else before us, that to do otherwise is selfish. I get a sense that the majority of the world is in ‘cope’ mode and therefore not living the magnificence of who they truly are, just like I did for many, many years.
A beautiful testimonial to Connective Tissue Therapy and the Universal Medicine practitioners who offer it especially Kate Greenaway and the founder of this modality, Serge Benhayon. I have also found great benefits from receiving sessions and carrying out exercises for myself, heeding the awarenesses and inspirations these sessions and practitioners have brought to me and the way I have been able to incorporate the learnings and movements into my daily life.
I love how connective tissue therapy helps ignite and bolster the flow I feel from within, so after I get off the table it is expanding with me in each move I make. And with every move we make we can effectively be giving ourselves connective tissue therapy by working the body and its natural flow.
This is such an amazing testimony for the real life affects of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, as in all of my experience with it, I too have found that it does not resolve the problems of the body per se, but rather it supports the being inside to change that way life is being lived, and thus how the body is being loved – and this is how we are able to turn the tide on the illnesses and diseases that can seem so insurmountably huge.
How inspiring for us all to see someone being able to heal and free themselves from their long-suffering dis-ease that had become and reigned as their normal. We often give our power away to whatever that gives a relief even if for a short while, and there are so many businesses and industries built and flourish on this model of self-abuse, and it is very ugly to feel how we have agreed and continue to participate this undercutting settlement.
That constant re-connection to how we are standing, sitting, walking and moving, feels like we have the opportunity to develop more presence in each moment and let the body guide us.
And the more we allow the body to guide us the more we can feel in flow and in tune with it rather than fighting it and wanting things to look or be a certain way.
That seems very wise, ‘to develop more presence in each moment and let the body guide us.’
This is a great testimony for Esoteric Connective Tissue, but also the difference that can be made with a few small movements each day. Most people think you need to go to the gym, or a long run to get fit, but it is just not true. The igniting of the connective tissue offers a world of body fitness we may not generally understand.
The healing power of these small movements is, as I have discovered, nothing short of amazing. In the beginning I used to think that nothing was happening from moving so gently, but it didn’t take long for things to begin to change and for me to realise much was unfolding within the wonderful connective tissue throughout my body, not just in the area of the pain. Now several years on from my first introduction to this incredible modality I am still amazed, and delighted, by the eventual healing of my sciatica.
So true Heather and such a great point there is such a difference between being fit and being vital – one prepares us for life the other prepares us to get through life.
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.
So important to appreciate and confirm self in bringing more love into your life, ‘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.
Our lifestyle does have a profound impact on our body and wellbeing and I find there is always more we can learn about how to truly be in tune with our body each day.
“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.
Our unresolved hurts and hurts we hold onto are in fact the underlying cause of practically all our choices which are in accordance to our body’s response to them, even in most cases we are not conscious of that.
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.
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.
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.
Esoteric Connective Tissue is a very power-full yet non- imposing modality which supports the healing on an energetic, physical and emotional level and works with the bodies innate rhythm and flow.
Connective Tissue is through out our body within and around all our organs, bones, muscles and tendons and supports all these structures as a whole. So when applied it re-balances our whole body, re-establishes our natural harmonies flow and restores the bodies true vitality.
I’ve found Connective Tissue Therapy and all the other Universal Medicine modalities to be deeply supportive. They have a profound and long lasting effect and really help me in the way I live day to day.
Connective Tissue Therapy is certainly gentle and healing. It is one of the beautiful therapies brought through for us by Serge Benhayon which help us so much in clearing bad energy and support the loving changes we choose to make in our lives.
Ingrid, I re-read your blog today, and it really reminded me how every choice we make effects our body, and is either healing or harming. I am learning how my body feels is down to the choices I make and the responsibility I take for those choices.
This is a wonderful outcome for you Ingrid. Connective tissue Therapy is a gentle Healing therapy, and the exercises are so effective at healing pain {we have to do our bit also} I have had many sessions with Kate Greenaway and her gentle and loving treatment and exercise. It must be almost unbelievable to be free of pain after so many years and I thank you Ingrid for your sharing.
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.
Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality, through this modality I started to appreciate what stillness truly meant in the body. When I first started having this therapy my body was so racy, but within the first session I was able to connect to a feeling of stillness. As the sessions went on, I deepened the stillness in my body. Now having being working on it for sometime, I can feel the stillness in my body and am able to take that into my day. If at any point I feel racy, I am now able to stop and connect to the stillness in my body. This is really amazing for me as I know how much of a racy body I had.
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.
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.
Connective Tissue treatment is an awesome healing modality that I have had perform on me which was very effective in clearing energy and helping me connect to my inner essence
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.
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.
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.
This story goes completely against the trend of ‘health management’ where we learn to live with chronic pain… Simple wisdom from this powerful modality supports us to re-connect with our body, and lifestyle choices based on self-care, self-love and self-nurturing heal the root of our ills and support a life of vitality and joy – wisdom worth bottling.
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.
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.
Truly inspirational Ingrid, to experience such a healing after years of pain and discomfort is nothing short of miraculous. Your blog is conformation that when we commit to ourselves, taking responsibility for our health and well being, with the support of modalities such as Connective Tissue Therapy, true healing can occur.
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.
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.
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.
Here here… this is exactly how I felt reading Ingrid’s blog and have experienced for myself too – and you cannot have one without the other.
Agreed Greg. The unparalleled support of Universal Medicine has offered so many people, myself included, a foundational reference and the deepest sense of support for us to commit to ourselves in full – where once there were blockages to this. Absolutely outstanding.
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.
Hats off to you Ingrid, for this consistency leading the way via such a shining example. We are all worth such dedication to ourselves.
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.
Wow, I didn’t know what sciatica was before reading this blog so I googled it first. That would not have been comfortable at all… and to have sciatica for that many years..wow. It’s absolutely amazing to hear that it is rarely even there anymore. This is an amazing testimony to the fact that the way we live has a huge impact on our health and well-being, As well as, addressing the underlying reason behind all of our ills has a huge impact on our health and well-being.
Thanks Ingrid for the much needed reminder to have awareness and make loving choices in everything we do.
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.
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.
Beautiful Kerstinsalzer15 – I fully concur with your comment. How amazing Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is, as Ingrid writes of the changes in her life from it.
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.
Not many people are willing to take these steps from disregard to love. Taking full responsibility for our health and receiving the esoteric modalities to support ourselves.Its never too late to be responsible. And its just a choice away or a few Connective Tissue Exercises to begin the day as we take up that responsibility our body is right there holding us
This is inspirational and a miracle Ingrid, showing the difference we can make when we truly start to take care of ourselves and incorporate powerful healing techniques like Connective Tissue therapy.
I totally agree Brendan that it is never too late to make changes in our lives to support the amazing body that carries us through each and every day. I see people both younger and older than me who are resigned to the fact that there is nothing they can do to change the discomfort in their bodies, and I can now share that there is a way – I know because it has happened to me, and I was also one who thought that this was always going to be the way it was, that there was nothing I could do to heal the sciatica (amongst other ailments). I am beyond delighted to have proved myself wrong!
And also may I add ‘ 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.’
Ingrid you have shared the fact that not only are you benefiting from these exercises but so too are your colleagues. We ALL benefit when we take responsibility for our bodies.
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“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.
‘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’ Beautiful sharing Ingrid and how powerful is it to choose to love oneself? It seems too simple to be life changing but its true. Since Universal Medicine the days of just existing and pushing through are gone. 🙂
Wow Ingrid, this is a great blog to be shared with the medical world. It clearly shows the relationship between choices and illness and disease, and that we can truly heal (not cure) an illness if we understand the root cause and make the necessary changes needed. Congratulations on being Sciatica free!
‘I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life.’ In a recent conversation I was having with friends it was very interesting to feel how much easier we find it to appreciate the positive attributes of another than we do of ourselves. Your last sentence is a great reminder to continue to appreciate the changes we make as all these little changes can have profound results.
Absolutely Fiona, appreciation is the key, especially appreciation of ourselves and of every self loving change that we make as they form the foundation from which our healing can truly begin.
When we have a condition, it becomes part of ourselves, we adapt to it and accept that we have to be less. Yet, in truth, it is never us and the real way to deal with it is to accept that we are more than we have so far accepted. Only therapies that accept as a premise that we are more than what our body suggests can really help us to heal. Connective Tissue Therapy is a clear case of such kind of therapies.
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”
Wow, Ingrid. This is a true testament to Universal Medicine and a true testament to the quality of relationship you now have with yourself. So beautiful and powerful.
I have had sessions with Kate Greenaway too and I would so recommend her as a practitioner. With her amazing tender touch I was able to feel so much more than I had ever felt in my body up until that point. She inspired me through her work to deepen my relationship with myself, become more honest and to feel more easily what supported me and what didn’t.
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.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is such a incredible modality. As well as treatments and sessions from a practitioner, the Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises are something we can practice any moment we feel to, at work or at home . . . and so beautiful to do. I have found that the exercises bring a precious awareness and a flow and ease in my body; a spaciousness that allows for much greater presence as well as vitality.
This is a great example of how we are with the body, whether it be rough or gentle makes a difference to our overall well being.
Whilst reading this I realised that I know being rough, hard and pushing my body very well and that had become my normal way of living, but Universal Medicine has presented constantly that there is a different way to be with and treat the body, and that there is a deeper relationship to be had with the body – a relationship which involves being respectful, gentle, deeply caring and listening to what our bodies are telling us. This is why the body responds so well to the Esoteric Healing treatments, as there is not one ounce of being rough or disrespectful.
‘And of course I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life.’ A beautiful article and it was this line that brought me to tears. The authority with which you wrote and I read the words ‘And of course…’ – because it all lies in our willingness to open up to the love and care that we naturally are. Universal Medicine is my life now and I appreciate all that has unfolded and all there is still to come. Thank you, Ingrid.
When I wrote those words, matildaclark, I also had tears in my eyes as I could no longer ignore the part that I had to play in my own healing. Yes I have an immense appreciation for the wisdom and support of Serge Benhayon and Kate Greenaway et al, but without me taking responsibility for my own health, my own life, nothing would have changed in the way I was living and in my body. I am finally learning to appreciate myself so much more these days and as a result so much more is healing.
That’s so beautiful Ingrid, so touching to hear. It’s not the norm to grow up learning how to appreciate yourself so for you to be doing this now is beautiful. Yes we may have support from others throughout our life but in the end it’s our choice and you have chosen to heal.
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 I love your final words “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.” It confirms that no matter what stage of life we are at, we can make amazing changes. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, for showing us there is another way of living.
Ingrid I’m revisiting your inspiring blog as I have a pain down my right hip and leg (not sciatica though) that recurs when there is something in my way of living that needs to be looked at and changed. I love your point ‘I am not the pain’ – it shifts one’s way of thinking from that of identification or even victim to one of quiet observation, creating the space from which to feel what needs to be looked at.
Ingrid, thank you for sharing your experience, the body has an amazing capacity to heal itself when we truly connect to it. And when we realise how we live also affects our body, there is a great realisation of the responsibility we have towards ourselves, and others.
Where would we be without Universal Medicine? Back where we were up to 15 years ago! Like Ingrid, I’m just one of many who has reaped the benefits – and in so many ways – of my association with this amazing company. From the support of the Esoteric Healing modalities, such as Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, to presentations on life, energy, philosophy, religion, diet, exercise, relationships and more, I am always offered everything I need to bring true and lasting change to my life, freeing me up to be more and bring more to others. Universal Medicine is an absolute gift.
I totally agree Victoria. Universal Medicine continues to support me in so many ways to blossom in my own way, in my own time and it has enriched my relationship with myself, my family, my colleagues and everyone I meet or otherwise connect with.
That is a good question Victoria, I truly don’t know where I would be had I not found Universal Medicine and received the support of the Esoteric Healing Modalities. My life has changed dramatically and the more I commit to live my life honouring and caring for my body the more everything improves for me and others around me.
I agree Francisco and Victoria, it is a great question and not one I have spent much time pondering probably because I do not want to feel the reality of it. My life has also changed dramatically including my awareness of what is going on around me. It is with this awareness I am able to handle situations entirely differently and the outcomes far more enjoyable as a result.
“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.
Many of us women (if not all) who have come to Universal Medicine have discovered exactly how entrenched and identified we have been with self-abuse, a lack of self-worth and mile-high levels of disregard – these were our ‘normals’, and we are still discovering the depth to which we have allowed such dysfunction into our lives. Sharing our experiences of how self-abuse, lack of self-worth and disregard have played out in our bodies is so illuminating for all. Thank you Ingrid for sharing your story.
“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.”
Thank you for sharing Ingrid Ward, this is amazing that you healed sciatica through the commitment to yourself and the support of the Connective Tissue Therapy and Exercises. There are so many people who suffer under pain and like you have before accept this as normal. But it is not normal to be in pain. Universal Medicine support us in a many ways (through the modalities, workshops, presentations, audios, books…..) to change our live and to deal with our issues so we are able to relate to ourselves in a different way and therefore heal chronic pain and many diseases.
The power of the Connective Tissue Techniques is truly amazing as you have shared Ingrid. People can heal age old suffering through this modality, it happens so very gently without any attachment to the outcomes. it is truly life changing.
I agree gillrandall “The power of the Connective Tissue Techniques is truly amazing” In my experience of this modality I have actually felt where areas of my body are not flowing, unblock and connect again. . . as we are designed to operate as a one unified unit and not a series of disjointed blocks this is a much needed modality.
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.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your story and the amazing healing power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. The combination of the deep and tender body work and the understanding of the underlying issue of our physical ailments is the basis of true healing.
Well said Carolien, it is the combination for true healing.
I know this to be true, through observing my body, “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.” The way I hold my body and walk is one of the main ways that I reconnect with myself on a regular basis, initially I found it astonishing that I could change how I felt so much through the way I walked, however I am continuing to find ways that support me more. Be it the way I place the ball of my foot down or the way I roll my hips, where I place my shoulders, being aware of these details does support my whole well being. A walk once a day, even if it is only 10 minutes can support me to really feel connected and also empowered. I appreciate the supportive, common sense and honest way that Serge Benhayon shares his own experiences, they are divine in quality and still absolutely accessible to all.
The attention to detail that supports the whole. I love the flow and integrated-ness of this interplay. Right now becoming aware of tension in my right shoulder has provided an opportunity to open up my body and appreciate being part of an online community that is sharing honestly, openly and with a willingness to grow and learn. Thank you.
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’
I could feel your words in my body Samantha when you shared in response to Ingrid’s amazing blog, that is – “Be it the way I place the ball of my foot down or the way I roll my hips, where I place my shoulders, being aware of these details does support my whole well being.” I too am learning to be more aware of how I move, that there is a sense of empowerment when choosing to be more present with the body, and I too feel the enormous benefit of checking in as to how each part of my body feel while I am walking my walk.
How important it is what you point out here, Ingrid. We have an utter influence on our body health through awareness and self-loving choices, through movements, thoughts and our emotional state of being.
And thank you for the gentle and very inspirational reminder to do Connective Tissue exercises at my desk regularly throughout the day.
Awesome sharing Ingrid – this part really resonated within me “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.”
Thank for sharing Ingrid, the ways you have used the exercises to reconnect to the gentleness and delicateness of your body and learnt to honour what it needs, very inspiring as we can always make positive choices in our life.
This is an amazing story – and like so many others in how Universal Medicine and the therapies it offers – supports people to make truly loving, simple practical choices- combined with a deep understanding of that the underlying issue of the physical body is.
The benefits are so powerful and real and so many people are having the same results. Truly making changes in their life for the better.
Amazing Ingrid.
Thanks for sharing!
I agree with what Simon Says 😉
But truly this is an amazing article for exactly the reasons you have shared simplesimon888, I do hope that many, many people read this blog because I am sure there are tons of people out there experiencing that same condition and have also made it normal, and or given up on it ever being healed. This story is a revelation or better said, it’s a miracle.
Another great miracle of healing for all to read ,the Esoteric healing modalities are very powerful especially when we take responsibility for our part in the illness or disease. We can then allow ourselves to heal.
I could have written this blog as we share a very similar story in relation to the search to heal physical pain. I too had spent thousands of dollars and tried everything. 6 years of sessions with esoteric practitioners and attending universal medicine courses I have healed a left leg that ached 24/7, lower back pain, stiffness in many parts of my body and buttocks pain. The choice to listen to the amazing wisdom of Serge Benhayon and to bring self love and care into my life my body at the age of 40 is the best it’s ever felt.
Yes Tracy and this really is the key “The choice to listen to the amazing wisdom of Serge Benhayon and to bring self love and care into my life my body at the age of 40 is the best it’s ever felt.” For at the end of the day it is up to us to make the choices.
Yes Kathleen the choice is always ours to make, which I find really empowering. Having free will to make my own choices allows me the space to learn from my choices and to feel how they feel in my body, no room for blaming others.
Well said Tracy and Kathleen, the bottom line is it comes down to a choice, a choice to self harm through choices that create dis-harmony in the body or a choice to make loving choices that support the body.
Tracey I am often blown away at the changes that have occurred in people’s lives. Such a simple yet profound modality.
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.
Your story is inspiring Ingrid. The healing modalities practised by Universal Medicine are the only ones that have made a lasting impression and have led to true healing in my life too. Everything Serge has presented has had amazing effects and totally holds up when I feel what the truth is. We are so blessed.
Amanda, your experience is the same as mine, I have tried other therapies and healing modalities which have had momentary relief but none of them have had a lasting change. What Serge presents allows me the opportunity to continually evolve as I continue to make adjustments in the way I live. There is no finished goal of fixing anything just a continual building of what is true.
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.
The physical pain with which many of us live as an accepted part of that’s ‘just how our bodies are’ is not necessary, as Ingrid’s blog my and many others involved with Universal Medicine experiences are showing.
Understanding that lifestyle choices, lack of expression and emotional pain precede illness and disease in our bodies is the beginning of true medicine.
Well said Julie, the understanding is a very important thing to get to, for without it, change is not sustainable. It’s what will form the basis or foundation to our health.
Ingrid what we can each say is ‘so long everything that is not me’. See yas around like a rissole !
It is totally life’s most amazing blessing having the loving support of Universal Medicine. The assistance that is available for everyone to understand how to make self loving choices is deeply appreciated when we reach the truth of our own responsibility for our health and well-being.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your joy and appreciation.
Yes Sandra Williamson, it’s the same for me, having the support of Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Healing Practitioners, including Kate Greenaway, is a huge blessing in my life to say the least.
Thank you Ingrid, it is awesome to be able to connect to that wisdom innate to us all and to know that it has always been there waiting for the moment we stop the raciness and the way we get caught up with life and choose to reconnect to the stillness that our bodies offer, this a true gift.
That is truly an awesome confirmation of the power we hold within our bodies to heal, Francisco. If we but stop and listen, what we need is there.
It sure is Francisco – an absolute treasure and it is freely available for all!
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 love your last paragraph, Ingrid, “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.” as it reminds me of the saying ‘you can lead the horse to water but you cant make it drink it”. This saying popped into my head as I was reading this paragraph and realised that you were lead to the truth and you then chose to accept it into your life (drink it). Since then so much has obviously shifted for you which is an absolute testament to the healing power of Truth when drunk!
Awesome to read of your commitment to re-connecting to your body and healing sciatica Ingrid… and so much more! Our bodies are amazing at depicting exactly how we are living and I’ve also found Esoteric Connective Tissue an incredibly supportive treatment for me; to not only feel physically where my body is at but also what is no longer working for my body or what changes are needed.
As human beings, we do identify with our pains, whether they be physical or emotional. The stillness that is supported by the modalities like Connective Tissue therapy support us to remember who we truly are, in spite of the conditions we may carry.
Thanks Ingrid, this is an amazing story and you tell it so well. Realising there is more to our ailments than just their physicality is key in being able to truly heal… something you demonstrate with your journey and story here. The difference between managing what ails us, curing it (of outward symptoms) and of healing (the complete cessation of the causative energetic disharmony) is as big as the Gulf of China. Universal Medicine is the only organisation I have come across in 30 years in the health care industry that understands intricately this very crucial difference, and knows how to facilitate true healing. Your story is a great testimony to that, thank you.
There are many gems in this blog and revelations about chronic pain. To understand that pain is not who we are but actually a clearing of the excess of our choices to be what we are not is a game changer because it changes our whole perception of the purpose of pain. Pain is so often seen as a failure, a problem, a mal-function but what if pain was actually a sign that our bodies were functioning very well and doing what they are designed to do?
Such an awesome point to consider, andrewmooney26! Pain and discomfort are the body’s alarm system going off telling us that something is wrong, but so often instead of finding out what is causing the alarm, we go and find a really good pair of earplugs.
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.
Very true, Rosemary. It is the classic “ignore it until it goes away” attitude that can eventually end with much more serious problems. But what we are ignoring is, as you have pointed out, our responsibility to ourselves and the body that we are the curators of.
Thank you Ingrid for your blog. I also suffered from sciatica off and on for many years and also tolerated the pain and ignored what my body was telling me for much of the time until I was offered some esoteric healing and esoteric massages. The benefits of these modalities was amazing and, even better, was attending a Connective Tissue Therapy Workshop run by Kate Greenway. This workshop gave me access to some Connective Tissue exercises that help in keeping my body reasonably flexible. When I lose that flexibility I know that I have lost myself, so it is a great marker for keeping track of what I am doing to myself.
I loved reading the last paragraph about the appreciation Ingrid has for herself “I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life” because at the end of the day no matter how amazing the sessions are with Universal Medicine (and from my experience I too can vouch that they are) it comes down to honesty and the commitment in making the self-loving choices in our every day which is very inspiring to read in this article. Thank you Ingrid for sharing such an inspirational story which has so much to offer for many of us.
We all deserve appreciation and what I am learning is that appreciation begins with appreciating oneself. I have held onto a belief that to appreciate myself was bragging and so when anyone did appreciate me I felt so uncomfortable and didn’t welcome it. This is changing and what I am noticing is not only are people around me feeling a little uncomfortable with the subtle changes in the appreciation for myself but I am beginning to open up to feeling the appreciation from others and it feels wonderful. Reading Ingrid’s story sharing with us the love of appreciation for herself I found most beautiful.
I too have had ailments that have fully disappeared after a Universal Medicine presentation or a session with an EPA practitioner – all from allowing myself to see a truth of how I have been living.
What a wonderfully inspiring blog Ingrid. To be almost completely pain free and to be working full-time, with such joy and presence, at 65, is a miracle, but a miracle that can only happen when we are ready to take full responsibility for our choices. By connecting to ourselves, responding to what our body is telling us and treating ourselves with loving tenderness there is no limit to the healing that can take place.
Very inspiring Ingrid Ward I know how painful it is to have nerve or chronic pain. It’s quite miraculous really for you to heal this in your body compared to as you said to accept the discomfort.
I work in a hospital providing IT support and see all the different departments for different conditions. Most patients have given up because there is not a complete solid support they know that is there. It is so needed to have Esoteric Medicine to graciously compliment the wide ranging conventional medicine services. For example cancer patients sit in these very comfortable one seater leather chairs for a few hours receiving the treatments. It would so easily be able to set up another department and offer the esoteric modalities to compliment EVERY inpatient and outpatient.
Having an understanding why you have an ill-ness or dis-ease, and offering responsibility to patients in a hospital would change the medical system as we know it – it’s all that is missing.
The love Esoteric students hold for humanity we would volunteer too.
Go for it Rik!
So very true, Rik. Beautifully said.
Thank you Ingrid, for your inspirational story. I can feel your appreciation for the decision you made to make many self caring and loving changes in your life, this is beautiful. A timely reminder for me that I am not my pain.
Jade the appreciation that Ingrid has really shines through in the blog as does the commitment to making loving choices. With so many people suffering from Sciatica this is the type of information that needs to be shared, this can help others understand there is a way to heal from a condition that I now understand for many is something they just live with. It also applies to any condition where there is pain, and thats quite a few.
Although I have not had sciatica, I know a friend that did suffer with it and it was a daily dose of pain which was very debilitating for her. To be able to treat that with Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy is miraculous and something many people could benefit from – what a saving of time and resources on our health service and workplace.
Great comment Shirley, it is evident that so many people’s lives have drastically improved and miracles have occurred because of their choice to implement the teachings of Universal Medicine, The Way of The Livingness and the Esoteric Modalities. I definitely agree that the authorities can play a part in making this more accessible to everyone. The people who have experienced these miracle are openly sharing their story which is deeply inspiring and empowering. I can also see through word of mouth people are inspired to learn that there is another way to live and to heal. These incredible modalities are already having an amazing ripple effect.
This is an incredible blog Ingrid. It is amazing how you have chosen to heal and understand what was truly behind your condition. It is so inspiring to read and confirming how your life has changed since you found the teachings of Universal Medicine. The support and love is felt throughout your sharing.
It felt so easy so reading your blog Ingrid. I loved the way you have written this, with a deep love and commitment to yourself. We often look for the quick fix for our ailments or problems, your commitment to yourself over many years is inspiring. I hope you can continue with your work for many years to come. There is much for you to share.
I agree bjpiper1058… it did feel so easy reading this article because it is written just as it is and I love that.
I second that as there is indeed much for Ingrid to share.
I agree bjpiper1958, most of the time we do “…look for the quick fix for our ailments or problems…”. But I have discovered that this is not the only area we look for shortcuts or quick fixes. There are so many other areas where we don’t take the necessary time and care to complete all steps along the way. For this means that we would need to take a deeper level of responsibility because with every step we take there is much to feel along the way. But by cutting out some steps and instead heading to a quick fix or shortcut we miss these opportunities and we are therefore left in the same state as when we started out… and we wonder why our rate of illness and disease is on the rise???
Ingrid, that’s amazing! I like the way you write by the way.. Very clear and easy to read. It’s interesting that when something is with us for so long we associate it with ourselves…be it an emotion (I’m just and angry person) a behaviour or pain. It’s constant so we take it on as part of who we are instead of something we just gathered, like dust, dust along the way. I love it how we then have a choice to clean it, with the amazing support from universal medicine. Thank you.
Well said, Emily. When we start to identify with a pain or a hurt, be it physical or emotional, we are limiting who we are. That’s also what I love about Universal Medicine – their consistent support in reflecting that we are more than what we have resigned ourselves to be.
And we take it on as part of who we are because we have lost the connection to the real us. I have found that the deeper I connect to who I really am inside the less I see things that are not in line with this essence as being a part of me. This makes life so much more simple!
Connective Tissue work is certainly unlike any alternative, complimentary, or healing ,modality that I have met before, just like you Ingrid, in the search for a “cure”. You have taken responsibilty for your own healing by practising its exercises every day. When I get off the massage table after a session my whole body feels reconfigured and realigned, yet not much seems to have happened physically in the session, the movements are are so gentle. However I have felt a lot of energetic flow within my body. So much is revealed to me to about the way I have been choosing to live and the new choices I can make..
This is exactly how I feel also after a Connective Tissue session joanchristinecalder “…my whole body feels reconfigured and realigned”. I also feel taller, straighter and strong and feel so much more aware of my body and how I move.
A typical health story with a twist: A woman with a debilitating health condition that is not expected to get better, leading to reduced earnings and eventually early retirement. Only here is the twist that Ingrid got better. Consider the financial consequences, apart from all the other benefits, for Ingrid and for society!
Hey, good point Christoph, and consider also the fact that older people could keep making a real contribution to society instead of playing card games in retirement villages. Surely this would be more fulfilling for them – they wouldn’t be so likely to give up on life and end up with dementia.
Connective Tissue Therapy and changing the way I lived on every level, as presented by Universal medicine, had the effect of completely changing the chronic back pain situation I was in, so that I do not have a back problem any more. It was a miracle and I am eternally grateful, not only for changing that very controlling and debilitating situation, but also for what I learnt about myself and my own choices that created and maintained the problem.
As someone who has been through chronic back pain that also ruled me, I can truly appreciate the devastating effects that this has on peoples lives, that you do mold your whole life around it, the pain becomes your main focus. Such an amazing thing to change this disruptive and limiting way of living, and bring in The Way of the Livingness, that truly changes lives.
Wow this is amazing. So many people (including myself) learn to adapt and get used to pain, basically giving up. The fact that this pain then went away after 20 years is a miracle. The beautiful part is that it wasn’t the healing modalities that fixed the pain, it was the loving choices that were made, which were initiated from a deeper connection with self, which is what the healing modalities inspired.
True Danielle, the miracle is not so much that the pain reduced but that Ingrid was empowered to make more self-loving choices which affect all of her life not just her pain levels. The body is always poised ready to return to inner harmony and balance and the Universal Medicine Therapies support us to reconnect to our inner Health or wholeness and let go of identification with what is not us.
This is so true Sandra, in essence the ‘Wow’ is due to the fact that over 20 years of loveless patters or behaviours were able to be broken down.
That is a remarkable story Ingrid and a testament to the immense power of connective tissue therapy.
Often with long term suffers of pain they can think or be told they have to live with it for a lifetime, at times this can end up with them giving up on themselves and their body, just accepting that’s how it is, nothing will change. Ingrid and this blog are a game changer, a testament to the truth of what can happen after 20 years of pian, not with a quick fix, but with gentle and consistent exercise, more loving choices and a supportive modality such as Connective Tissue Therapy. Very powerful indeed.
Thank you Ingrid Ward for sharing this incredible story. What you have written about is true healing and an awareness that is very needed in the world. Suffering from illness and disease has for many become a normal when you can cope with it throughout your daily chores. Your story allows others to also be aware of the fact that connecting to your body and feeling the lack of self- love, care and worth is the beginning of a journey to heal your body. Realising that we are not our disease and seeing it as an expression of our bodies to let us know where we are at and that we are living lesser than the divine beings that we are.
Brilliant comment Diana. I agree with you completely. For someone who is suffering from immense pain to read your comment and Ingrid’s blog could possibly change their life. It inspires people to realise that healing can begin when we start to connect to our body and understanding the root course of our pain and disease is much deeper than just the symptoms. By understanding that pain is simply a way that our body communicates to us, reflecting to us that our choices are creating the disharmony. Our body is sending messages to ask us stop, evaluate and to correct what is needed. If we choose to only treat the symptoms and go back to a way of living that is in disregard, our body will continuously keep sending messages until they get louder and louder. So, by listening to our body we can address the messages as they are delivered but if we ignore them the consequences can be drastic.
What a great blog Ingrid and thank you for sharing what is possible if we start to make choices to love and care for ourself. The wisdom you share touched me especially when you said Serge Benhayon presents “the body responds to the way we live”. That speaks volumes and I am now aware of what that actually means. You talk about accepting our condition, illness and I agree – we just accept and with little or no awareness we adapt and carry on but not making any true change to support our body.
I was certainly one who done that and even with a tumour and organ removed, I did not really change the internal momentum for another year after surgery. This came AFTER seeing a super wise practitioner in the UK – Simone Benhayon. She supported me to get real and feel the impact of my daily choices. I don’t have the words to thank her, Serge Benhayon and all the practitioners of Universal Medicine who have helped me to this point today. My life is incredible and to not have a GP visit since 2008 is a miracle in itself if you knew my medical history.
It seems that your healing came about because of the continued loving and caring choices you made for your body, the great support from Connective Tissue Therapy and your willingness to expand your awareness and act on this. You are an amazing role model of what can happen through consistency.
I find this fascinating, ‘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’, with my own body this now makes sense to me, I used to think any aches and pains that I had were just bad luck, I did not link them to how I was living, and so I didn’t really look after myself, filling my body up with alcohol, sugar, cigarette smoke. I could not do this to my body now, I am so much more honouring of my precious body and would not put anything harmful into it, I have much more respect for my body and find it absolutely amazing how it responds to how we live.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your story of healing and what you have shared is a true testimony not just to the Connective Tissue Therapy modalities but also to the choices that you have made to live your life in a more loving way. What I love about the Esoteric modalities is that when we put in the effort and choose to participate in our healing, the modalities can then work with us and sometimes we see miracles.
My experience of Connective Tissue Therapy has also been a great one, its a modality that I find deeply supportive. Like you one of the things that I found a little challenging at first was the fact that “the pain was not me”. Whats interesting is how it applies to so many things I’ve done and so many areas of my life I would used to say where me. Now i understand the fact that there was many areas I had constructed in my life that kept me away from me. It’s very confirming and deeply inspiring to read your story of what is possible through loving choices and a deep commitment to yourself and life.
An incredible sharing Ingrid and a story that I sent to my sister as she has had back pain for a lot of her life.
What an amazing claiming back of yourself Ingrid I can feel how reconnecting to your body and yourself through these modalities brought you back into your body and deepened the awareness you now have of yourself. This is an amazing testimonial of how Universal Medicine modalities don’t treat the pain but rather connect you back to the person you so naturally are and it is your choices to either live more lovingly or not that determines the level of true healing that occurs. Just beautiful to read.
A tremendous result and a testament to the true benefits to be derived from acknowledging and working with the wisdom we always carry deep within but repeatedly override and disregard. ‘True it turned out to be’. Love it.
To read something like this, cannot be ignored by society, especially when this sort of quality of statement is found over and over again on these blog sites: “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!” There is much power for those who come to these blogs to know more, in repeating over and over again the increased awareness, greater self understanding, self-care etc for those sharing how they are living with more love and joy in their life.
It is only when we develop a deeper love and care for ourselves that we realise how much lovelessness we have allowed in our lives and have run our body with. In that lovelessness we accept as ‘normal’ living with pain, a good excuse to ignore further the messages our body sends us all the time. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a miraculous technique and miracles are what I witness with my clients and myself on a regular basis. It is deeply healing and so powerful in its ability to reconnect us to our body and the delicateness found in it. It is a true gift from heaven and we are so graced that this modality has been made available to us, thanks to Serge Benhayon.
I agree GD, the more we run with pain or discomfort, the more we want to check out of our bodies to not have to feel it; and at the same time do not consider or forget that it might ever be possible to actually feel good in our own body. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy does not just relieve tension and aches, but has a powerful effect of bringing me back into my body with a lightness and space that feels so great I want to stay right there in it. I can stay more present, more connected and my movements have a flow and ease. Thanks to the modalities Universal Medicine has presented, I can once again feel the joy of being myself, something lost since childhood.
Very incredible story that spaces over your life, I enjoyed going on this journey with you through your detailed writing. Looking and dedicating the time to feel what the root cause of your sciatica was takes honesty and commitment. Well done for unlocking this in yourself and never giving up. Very inspiring that you are able to work the hours you do, the government would be saving money from cases such as yourself as you are not draining health care system, in fact you are actually paying taxes. The government should be thanking Universal Medicine for getting people of the community such as yourself and thousands of others, pain free and committed to life and hard work, what a service.
Absolutely sarahraynebaldwin, health care systems are such an important factor in everyday life now and Ingrid is one of the few that is taking responsibility in full of herself. True amazing and inspiring as you can feel the Joy in which she expresses. Universal Medicine is an amazing tool for so many factors of life and yes they should be thanked for all their efforts.
I like the point you make Aminatumi, in that you bring focus to the commitment that Ingrid has brought to her life. Universal Medicine is an amazing service to the community but you can only benefit from what it has on offer if you are willing to be honest and take responsibility for yourself , (in short doing our part). Universal Medicine does not fix people or heal them, it offers truth and love as a platform for them to heal themselves.
Absolutely sarahraynebaldwin – Universal Medicine has indeed supported and prevented hundreds of people from landing in hospital beds, through the teachings of responsible choices and responsible health… Now people like Ingrid are fully active members of the community – giving back the love and support that was given to them!
Exactly Susie, If the media ever wanted to do a decent story then they would not have to lie to write this one. These are everyday miracles, people being, living and working vitally right into their elderly years. Its just beautiful what Universal Medicine offer the community and that it is never too late to make these changes.
Very well said, Sarah. Some day the health system and the government will have to admit that Universal Medicine are onto something, and the statistics are all there to prove it.
Spot on Janet statistics or not we will be the living proof!
I completely agree Sarahraynebaldwin. Universal Medicine is a gift to society. Its modalities are so successful that many thousands of people have been supported back to greater health and vitality. This is something that the Government really ought to know about.
Well said Elizibeth Dolan, I would imagine you would know a bit about these subjects, working in the medical industry yourself. The government- whom in my option will sink itself into debt if the trends of the current health care epidemic continue- will eventually open to the possibility that our daily choices are having a huge impact on our health and well being. Affectively, the more responsibility we take (which is what Universal Medicine promotes) the less pressure will be placed on government.
That is beautiful how you bring awareness to Ingrid Ward as not just an individual but the ripple effect of her self loving and self nurturing choices throughout the whole community. The impact is huge and it is for all. And this is what Universal Medicine stands for, healing and a way of life that is true for all equally.
Yes Diana, that is it, the ‘ripple’ effect. It extends further than we would like to admit, as if we felt the full weight of what illness is doing to our community and infrastructure then it would be front page news until it was no longer an epidemic sweeping the nation. Take cancer, it is only one of the hundreds of thousands of diseases that we are dealing with as a society. We happily donate money for research in the name of doing our bit but what if our bit was showing the world a different way to live, one that supports the body and does not disregard it and its natural cycles and rhythms. This way is taught by Universal Medicine People like Ingrid are living proof of the difference that can be made by every single one of us, if we are willing to do the work.
Great point Sarahraynebaldwin – the money that could be saved and the qualitiy of peoples lives and productivity improved is something to make anyone in Government sit up and want to know more.
True Kate, the Governments are buckling under the burgeoning health care costs and at this stage do not have any answers other than raising taxes to fund it. Universal Medicine is helping to alleviate the burden and everyone is reaping the benefits. One day it will become so effective the Government cannot fail to take notice.
True Annie, if the meteoric rise in disease rates continue as they are currently on a trajectory to – our already buckling health systems will be stretched beyond breaking – and the financial benefits alone of the total transformations on offer with Universal Medicine therapies will lead the way out of the crisis to the huge benefit of all. Case studies like this, and so many others from UM therapies, literally offer us GOLD.
Exactly Kate and it comes down to also realising that for every sick person an entire family gets affected a huge ripple affect. So we are actually making a bigger choice than we realise in true self care and love. The government certainly should be noticing!
I love how you bring this wider Sarah, how with Ingrid sharing as she does her journey with the support of Universal Medicine in getting underneath her sciatica and how she was living has completely changed her life, it offers us all a point of reflection to see what is possible if we’re truly willing to look at what is going on in our lives and get true support (a real gift), and how this could support so many more in society, and how it’s much needed. There is so much on offer here, the truth of what it is to heal and how people are the master of their own destinies, and how miracles occur – thank you Ingrid for sharing it with us.
It is lovely to hear about the healing that has occurred with the support of Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy. But what struck me the most was your commitment to yourself and your attitude to the exercises you were given. It is this development of a more caring and connected relationship with your body that feels wonderful. Even if the pain hadn’t shifted, it still would have been a win.
I have had a couple of sessions with Kate Greenaway with the Esoteric Connective Tissue techniques and I totally agree that they really support you to drop deeper and feel your body in more pricise way. This technique is super supportive in connecting to your essence and feeling yourself on a much deeper level. I felt amazing after each of the treatments that I had with Kate.
I’m a bit stunned at the 40 years of living with pain. What a great testament you are Ingrid that in truth suffering is not necessary. There are choices if we are open to them. You are living proof and thank you for sharing what has supported the different choices for you. I agree Connective Tissue Therapy is very supportive.
Yes 40 years of living with pain is inconceivable to me too… this is an amazing testimony to not only Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy as a powerful modality, Kate Greenaway as an exceptional practitioner, Universal Medicine for the depth and insight it offers into what is true healing, but also the consistency and dedication of Ingrid to changing the relationship she had with herself and her body.
I love your story which includes all the changes that took place in your life as well as the pain going away. This is the Hallmark of Universal Medicine modalities, they never target the pain or the symptom, they honour and support us in our fullness, the body, the human, and the Son of God. We are supported and empowered to connect more deeply to our own body, our own truth and wisdom, then everything starts to unfold and fall into place. These modalities are a gift from Heaven to Humanity
Ingrid you make an important observation about how you accepted the discomfort and then adjusted your way of being to accommodate the pain. I personally know people who like you have and continue to live with chronic pain, something the medical establishment struggles to provide effective solutions, and I observe their resignation about their condition and their myriad attempts at pain relief and/or management. Your experience with connective tissue therapy and exercises, and the deep body awareness it brought to you suggest that there is a way to change one’s relationship to pain, to the body and possibly even become pain free. This is something everyone living with chronic pain needs to know about for it is a miracle.
Michelle, it is understandable but sad to see so many people resigned to their ‘fate’ and accepting it as a normal part of ageing. It’s a form of giving up which makes them less open to the possibility of change. Ingrid’s story shows that, even after many years, we can free ourselves of pain by taking responsibility for our health and making more self-loving choices. Once we are prepared to do that then the Universal Medicine Therapies can support us to truly heal.
What Universal Medicine taught me in regard to my body is to listen to it very attentively and to not ignore signs of unease, I also learnt to be patient with my body and allow time for changes to happen. I feel it is this patience and understanding of ourselves that is often lacking in our physical health, like doing a fitness programme, we want to not just feel instant results but see them as well. Yet even doing gentle esoteric connective tissue exercises will make a world of difference to our bodies and you obviously committed fully as a long term programme Ingrid and it seems you have reaped the rewards.
Steven G, I really appreciate the point you make on bringing patience and understanding to our body – rather than expecting immediate results and being disheartened and giving up when they do not magically take place. In my experience commitment and consistency are key to allowing the body to change.
I agree Stephen, patience and understanding have a huge part to play in our life, so often we can want instant results then as the slightest falling we can give up and think oh whats the point it’s not working, instead of taking it gently, and bringing awareness and saying okay that happened, why and work with it, learn from it. You can often see this in dieting, wanting to loose weight in the quickest possible of ways, and being quite hard on our self / body, but the weight doesn’t stay off long term, or we fall back into old eating patterns and habits only to start the diet again. Yet the same approach could be taken with food, listening to our bodies, being patient, gentle and understanding and building consistency.
Yes Stephen I did commit long term to doing the Connective Tissue Therapy exercises, making them part of my ongoing healing programme, but I actually had no expectations as to any outcome, so that is why when the pain began to decrease I only allowed myself to be quietly optimistic, didn’t get too excited, and waited patiently to see what would happen next. But now that the pain has gone, except for a very occasional twinge, I am still committed to the exercises as they have become an integral part of the rhythm of my day, and the deep connection that doing them brings to all parts of my body has an amazing flow on effect throughout my life.
We allow pain to just be included as a thing that happens in life. We have as a society accepted that the body gets pain and that you have to just live with it. In stead of looking at the reason why our body got the pain, we assume it just came from somewhere with us having no input into its cause. How have we allowed this to become normal.
Its great that you have been offered the opportunity to look deeper as to why your body reacted in this way and help clear it.
True Gail Fuller and how many of is still believe that accidents are just random and can just happen to you. With this we avoid taking responsibility that the answer to everything that happens is always found in the way we live and the choices we make.
Gail there is so much that we have allowed to become normal, living with pain is one example, not liking work is another, putting up with a dull marriage is another, family fights is another, doing things out of duty is another; putting up, shutting up, shutting down, turning a blind eye, turning the other cheek, selling out, checking out, oh the list is endless and makes up the majority of life for most. It’s time to say that all of these things are not normal, the fact that we have chosen for eons to include them in our life only means that we have chosen to live in a very peculiar unnatural way for way too long. Enough of this sub standard way of living, let’s choose something else.
The way we live by adjusting ourselves to tolerate a pain or discomfort is a common theme in humanity. When illness is seen as a catalyst to look deeper in order to let go of old patterns and take the next step, then by tolerating and numbing it we are missing out on a major part of our evolution as a race.
Yes Jinya – The key word being tolerate. As a society we have generally come to believe that to tolerate something is good, that it proves we have resilience. But in fact it is just masking the truth so that we don’t have to look at what we are tolerating and why we are tolerating it .
Hi Jenny – it is great to bring up the point about tolerating, the whole notion of putting up with something means the situation justs stagnates without people looking at why they are feeling that way – eventually something has to give. An example is when long term friendships come to an end over something trivial or when someone says I don’t really know why. In my experience tolerating is different from accepting, understanding, and allowing.
I agree Jenny that the word “tolerate” is key to why we put up with so much that we actually don’t have to. In fact it is a word that I learned to use from a very early age with several close family members suffering from chronic illnesses and all I could see was them tolerating their condition. So it was no surprise that is what I did, except for an occasional foray into the healing arena when it got too much. It feels like a giving up word; a feeling of powerlessness; to me it says – this is my lot and I will just have to put up with it. No more tolerating for me! I know now that by making different choices and choosing a more loving way to live, that miracles can, and often do, happen.
Absolutely wonderfully said Jinya – we’re missing the opportunity to see what’s required to be seen by delaying the process.
Thanks for writing Ingrid, your story shows just how powerful it is when we make self-loving changes to our lives and are prepared to look what is going on underneath a symptom or condition. The healing modalities offered by Universal Medicine are unique in the way they support the body to come back to balance with the nomination of stuck patterns of behaviour.
The healing modalities offered by Universal Medicine are pretty amazing, it is where energy is truly understood, not just second guessed; however it is not only the modalities but as Ingrid has shared the willingness for the person to be honest about what is going on in their life and to make the self-loving changes that are needed. Universal Medicine can and does support others 150% but they cannot make anyone live differently that is up to each individual.
Did I only say ‘pretty amazing!!!!’ The Universal Medicine modalities are INCREDIBLE! 😄💕
Well said Rachelmurtagh1, it’s truly amazing how powerful the Esoteric Healing Modalities are, and that’s because of the true quality the Esoteric Practitioners live in, living what they are sharing, therefore being able to help their clientele to come back to balance and to nominate their (often self harming) stuck patterns of behaviour. This helps the body heal naturally.
” 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.”
A truly inspiring story Ingrid, from putting up with chronic sciatica to taking responsibility to address what your body was asking of you, and discovering that the pain was indeed not you.
This indeed is something to be very appreciative of.
Wow, your story could be classed as a modern miracle! it was amazing to read how the change was so gradual and in the end almost simple – reconnecting to your body and taking more care of yourself – although not perhaps the magical cure many may think of when you tell them you have healed your sciatica, it is still not something many people would consider doing when faced with illness, disease or pain. Thank you for sharing your story.
Yes Rebecca, Ingrid’s experience clearly shows that committing to taking responsibility for your health can indeed result in miracles. But perhaps the miracle is more the massive change in the way Ingrid is with herself, having addressed the many issues that were previously ignored, and to now be almost pain-free is simply the natural result of her choices and commitment to heal.
Well said Hannah, Ingrid did not begin to take responsibility with a cure in mind, but simply for herself, and as a result the pain dealt with itself.
Yes Rebecca and Hannah, that’s the absolute beauty of taking responsibility for our selves, because in the process, the pain, whether physical or emotional gets dealt with.
Exactly Rosemary, beautifully expressed 🙂
So many of us accept niggling discomfort and ignore it until it can become a real problem. But even minor niggles, like ignoring the call to go to the loo, are evidence of a lack of self-care, which is rife in society today. Giving yourself that love and nurturing, together with healing and the exercises, enabled your pain to disappear. How seemingly miraculous is that. One day this will be on every doctor prescription.
That is something to look forward to sueq2012, doctors realising the importance of these treatments as a major part of healing. You are so right about so many of us ignoring minor discomfort or accepting it until it becomes a real problem. We then tend to look for a quick fix instead of dealing with what lies beneath the illness in the first place.
I love that link Sue and in the future many more whole picture spherical views to the body and to the person will exist, as this system of looking at things in isolation does not work.
Yes so true Sue. Every time we over-ride the simplest message from our bodies, we neglect ourselves. It may seem a bit precious, but over time our bodies have to resort to some pretty loud messages in order to get our attention, sever pain being just one of those messages. Ingrid’s journey is a clear indication that it is possible to care very simply for one’s physical, mental and emotional needs on a daily basis with spectacular results.
Bring on that day Sue, ‘One day this will be on every doctor prescription.’ Connective Tissue therapy is divine and so gentle, yet incredibly powerful.
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!
Pain can be very intense but it does focus us to stop and take notice of the body. We can live our lives, carrying all the hurts with us without wanting to look at what heavy baggage we’re carrying along every day. Pain makes us look at our lives and feel where we are. As you describe, Ingrid, we can allow the pain to become us, and it’s a great realisation to understand that we are not the pain or hurts ourselves. The Connective Tissue Techniques are so gentle but surprisingly powerful and brings great connection to what is already there in the body for true healing.
Ingrid it is awesome to read that you are working full time at age 65 – most people have sunk into retirement by that stage. Connective Tissue Therapy is indeed very supportive for any age, but particularly beneficial for older people, as it is very gentle.
This is a great observation Carmel and something I missed, you are so right by the age of 65 most people are retired whereas what Ingrid shares and the way that she shares I can feel a joy and vitality there. This just goes to show that there is a far more loving, supporting and truer way for us to live … especially for living 40 years previously in and with pain that has now gone.
Yes good point Carmel. Many people are seeking relief in retirement at this age rather than enjoying full time work. Connective Tissue Therapy is an exquisitely gentle treatment which restores a deep tender connection with ourselves and our bodies again, as someone once said to me “its the same quality that you treat a new born baby with.”
Yes, Carmel this is amazing, working full time at the age of 65, yet as I write that I ask myself why is it not normal for people of this age to be working full time?
I agree ladies, not just working full time but working in full, full time, that’s inspiring !
A very great question Gyl “why is it not normal for people of this age to be working full time?”. Society has been so programmed into thinking that we need to retire at a certain age, to put our feet up and reap the rewards of all those years of hard, and often not enjoyable, work. I might be 65, which many people perceive to be old, but I don’t feel old in the least. I love working and even though since writing this blog my position at work has been made redundant, I am ready for my next job. I do not have the word ‘retirement” in my vocabulary and to me working is simply part of living, and work I will, in whatever way is possible, until the end of this life.
This is very true, it is perceived that at 65 people are often too tired or too ill and cant contribute and work anymore,Ingrid has shown that this does not have to be the case, that with self care and nurturing we can feel healthy over 65 and still work and do not necessarily need to put our feet up and retire.
Ingrid, you’re living proof that our model of retirement is outdated, and you’re setting a new ‘normal’ which is so very needed. Retirement and a pension once was intended to support people when they could no longer do the physical work they always had done – it was to prevent poverty in old age. And so, the notion of retiring at 65 when we’re fit and healthy is no longer relevant. And so, retirement for many nowadays is just becoming another form of reward – a time to do whatever we want with no ties or responsibilities, but at a cost to everyone. We lose the wisdom of the older worker in the workplace, and the retiree often loses their sense of purpose and connection with others.
Yes Sandra we are setting a new “normal” and I just love it. It’s normal to be enjoying being alive, and loving what you do, and feeling that work is no different to any other part of your life. At 61 I envisage my self working for at least another 10 years, who knows maybe more!
It is an amazing moment when we fully realise that ‘the pain is not me’. It is quite something to be able to observe the pain and detach from it. It simply isn’t us. How can it be when the truth of who we are is in our essence?
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your incredible healing and journey with pain and the true way forward. Esoteric Connective tissue therapy is an amazing technique brought to us by Universal Medicine and really does change peoples lives and I can vouch for this also. Living in a world where chronic pain has become accepted as a way of life it is amazing to find that we really can do something simple, gentle and loving about it which, as you share, together with changing how we live really can support our bodies, our health and any pain we have no matter how bad things have got.
Connective Tissue is everywhere in our body. The Universal Medicine Connective Tissue Therapy is using a lot of very very tender and little movements which could be so easy underestimated. Like connective tissue itself could be easy underestimated. It has a huge impact on our body and us. Sometimes it is so easy to ignore what is not obvious. But is not what we see as ‘obvious’ also sponsored by our view? From which place we are judge? To give attention to details, to observe what is going on and to ask always ‘is there another way?’ gives us more freedom. It is the awareness of what is going on and the appreciation of our magical body.
Loved reading your sharing Sandra, thank you. I agree in full our body is magical and allowing ourselves to marvel at the preciousness of our body is a beautiful way to expand our appreciation.
Thank you Ingrid Ward, what a miracle! A great learning for me was “I simply accepted the discomfort I was experiencing and gradually began to adjust my way of being to accommodate the pain” Because I have also been doing this with an ailment, and it is time to truly look at this, and live in a more supportive way. Thank you. What do I settle for less than?
What an incredible testimonial Ingrid – and there is so much on offer here that can broaden our understanding – that we are not the pain that we experience, that blocking out and ‘normalising’ or learning to ‘live with’ physical pain also shows in other areas of our life, such as emotional hurts, and that change is actually super available and simple, largely through body awareness, posture and the beauty of connective tissue therapy. 40 years of pain is hard to imagine, and to have it largely turn around after one session and your dedication to the take home exercises is remarkable – had I not experienced a similar turn around myself, it might be difficult to see how it is even possible.
At one point I had abdominal adhesions which could go from 0-10 on the pain scale in a millisecond – Connective tissue therapy would completely free me from any pain, for many weeks to months after a session, and making changes in my body to support and sustain this means I am today entirely pain free in a way my GP did not foresee as possible. This therapy is pure GOLD.
Great to hear when you were becoming aware and could drive for longer periods, without feeling the pain and generally feeling like there was less pain in general. It is amazing to develop a relationship with a symptom in our body like that and notice how it changes depending on our behaviour. It is something that could really help people with the symptoms if they are unwell.
I love connective tissue exercises and have found them such a support for my body and find them an integral part of my overall exercise program. Sometimes I will offer my body these simple exercises as a full stop moment throughout my day or I may choose to take 15 – 20 mins out and do a program of connective tissue exercises. I find that they assist with bringing more fluidity of movement into my body particularly where there are area’s that feel quite stuck. They also offer me an opportunity for a deeper connection with my body.
Great sharing Ingrid , a living testament to Universal Medicine the Esoteric Modalities and the miracles that are possible by making it all about love and being responsible for the choices we make.
Thank you Ingrid, loved reading your article. It’s amazing how we can override such extreme consistent pain over time. After trying lots of different avenues for help, you were forced to accept that this was the way things were for you. It’s hard to imagine you enduring this for almost 40 years!!! This sharing is such a validation of you and your loving commitment to yourself. The consistency of your loving commitment, building back the connection between you and your body through the Connective Tissue Therapy. It shows the enormous power of the Connective Tissue therapy, when we embrace it and allow ourselves to connect to what is already there in all of us.
That connecting to our very own connective tissue is such a revelation is such a clear example of what Serge Benhayon presents – that there are two distinct types of energy and the one we largely choose is absolutely not true. So lovely to read the way you connected back to the true you Ingrid.
A very powerful awareness Elizabeth – if we are not our body, then who are we? We are so much more than our body and until I understood this truth, I did not develop me, my essence, my connection with the love I knew was within me. Our bodies can be an excuse for not taking our reflection and responsibility deeper. We identify with our hurts or illnesses. Ingrid’s experience is a great example of her true responsibility.
Thank you for sharing Ingrid. The amazing thing about pain is that you are aware of it so intensely when it is there but when it is gone you never think of it again. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy comes as a blessing as it is the the most gentle and powerful treatment. The treatment reconnects your connective tissue and in doing so also re-aligns and readjusts your whole body. In sessions over the years I have experiences anger or sadness rise and run through my body and release; gone. It is remarkable because as these emotions released I could observe them very impersonally and could clearly see them to be an energy I had taken on that was not who I was showing me that we are not only not our pain and we are not our reactions and emotions either.
Ingrid, I have experienced sciatica in my 6th pregnancy which was very debilitating. I find it incredible that you had it for so many years and even more incredible that with the support of Universal Medicine and your choices in how you live that this condition has changed so much.
Thank you Ingrid. I have to agree that Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality. It is so simple and delicate, yet has such profound effects on the body. It just goes to show how delicate our bodies actually are, and how much they respond to the finest of movements. From my understanding now, I also know that the body is constantly responding to energy, and this also is something that can happen in quite a ‘delicate’ way – in that we may not realise it is happening if our awareness is not brought to it. Modalities like Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy assist me to connect to and deepen my relationship with my body also, and appreciate how sensitive it is.
Sounds like a miracle to me Ingrid. What stands out to me in this story is not just the modalities but your commitment to looking at all aspects of your life that are contributing to the sciatica and your commitment to caring for yourself.
Ingrid I can relate to just learning to live with it as normal. I can feel now things are coming up for me that I have pushed to the side and turned a blind eye too. It was beautiful to have a reminder that dealing with the pain can make the pain become pain free. We can often get stuck in grey days and not see the sun shining on the other side.
It’s totally inspiring Ingrid how you have improved your health dramatically with the simple connective tissue exercises and at sixty five working full time and serving others in what you do.
All this is possible for everyone from a simple choice to connect back to ourselves and bodies.
Connecting to ones body with awareness and honesty, is not always easy as what we feel can be uncomfortable, as it shows us the disregard in the way we have been treating our precious body’s.
But it certainly is worth every step we take towards treating our bodies with love and care it responds amazingly back with health and vitality.
What stands out when I read your blog Ingrid is your commitment and dedication to yourself and to your body, committing to regularly do the connective tissue exercises, this is truly inspiring.
This a miraculous change and again demonstrates it is never too late to change especially when we lose touch of how we really can feel. Thank you Ingrid for an inspiring sharing.
Ingrid, congratulations on the changes you have made in your life. One part in particular that struck me was your comment about coming to understand that the pain wasn’t you and that there was a very different person underneath the layers that had built up. Similarly, I am coming to realise that the foundation of me is indeed pure love and that everything else is just bits I have allowed to accumulate during the course of my life. The fact that I have a choice to discard or hold on to them is something I am learning to cherish as it gives me real freedom of choice.
Yes, we are love and borrowed a bit of something that is not love. The work is to see what that is, in detail, so we can let it go, in detail and then…it is gone!
Wow Ingrid. Incredible thank you. This is testament to the amazing healing capacity of Esoteric Modalities and true taking responsibility for your own healing by looking and dealing with the root cause of your pain. Amazing results.
Clearly an example of self-responsibility and true healing versus being fixed and not dealing with the original cause. Not only are the modalities most supportive but also the deep understanding of the causes of illness and disease and the empowerment of the client to contribute to one´s healing as offered by the practitioners are extraordinary.
That is incredible to hear your change in life and your healing with sciatica. That to me is true healing, not pushing the symptoms away, but simply feeling why you have this and letting the healing begin.. No forever pain is seemingly needed, i love how you have taken care for your body in the way you and that you started to listen to best story ever – your body!
The Universal Medicine Therapies are amazing and to hear your story and how much the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has helped free you from your pain, shows how very needed these modalities are and how important it is that more and more people know about it. There are so many people out there that are suffering for years unnecessarily and could live a much more joyful and full life if they knew how, and where supported to make a few simple changes to their lifestyle.
Well said, Judith. It feels important to share testimonials like this so that people who are in chronic pain can learn more about these amazing therapies, and have the opportunity to heal what is causing the disharmony within their bodies by connecting back to the truth of who they are and what they have been choosing for themselves.
I found myself sitting more upright at my desk as I read your blog Ingrid. I too have received ginormous healings from Universal Medicine modalities all of which are very powerful and empowering.
Great to read your story Ingrid.So many people suffer with Sciatica and other pain in the body, but you have shown how you were able to clear this through Connective Tissue Therapy and self responsibility, which is very inspiring.We are so fortunate to have this heaven sent modality to use now.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a truly amazing modality. I have found it particularly amazing at connecting me with my natural stillness.
Yes me too Kate.. I find Connective Tissue Therapy allows me to reconnect with my body, and really feel what’s going on – do I feel tired, heavy, in a rush, joyful, excited, hyper, sad, angry, frustrated? All is brought to the surface in the session, simply by taking a moment to stop.
Funnily enough, I found Connective Tissue Therapy very connecting. Connecting me back to me in the most exquisitely gentle way.
I agree Elizabeth. It amazes me that something SO gentle is SO powerful and can be felt so strongly in the body. This just reinforces to me how much deeper I can go with my connection to my body and how much I have been overriding all it’s loving messages to me over the years. I have not allowed myself to acknowledge and appreciate it’s gentle and tender ways, instead using the outside world as my benchmark. The arrogance of the mind, that it ‘thinks’ it’s all knowing. The body is all knowing.
Wow Ingrid this is such a lovely account of your history with pain and how you came about to heal it. Super inspiring to know we can all look at healing pain, discomfort and hurts for ourselves with the right support and commitment to do so.
Wow Ingrid what great testament to the power of Connective Tissue Therapy and the true healing that Esoteric Modalities bring to the human body. Supporting us to make more loving choices everyday. What a inspiration you are indeed.
Tenderness, stillness and delicateness – all things which we lack greatly in our world; a lack for which we suffer many ailments. Connective Tissue Therapy is the antidote that restores them in the ceaseless motion and stress, the constant pressure and non-stop stimulation that abounds. It is the medicine of the soul.
Thank you Jinya, beautifully expressed and I completely agree. It is so important to appreciate the depth of what these Esoteric modalities and teachings truly support us with. Thank you Universal Medicine for presenting the absoluteness of life and everything.
The idea that illnesses have a clear cause, a cause we can deal with and remove from our life sounds very obvious and revolutionary at the same time. It is as if much of medicine says “we don’t know what caused this, what can we do about it?”. It would be so much easier to know the cause, wouldn’t it?
That certainly was an amazingly inspiring and beautiful blog, Ingrid – thank you so much for sharing your true healing with us. I am now realising that pain is optional and that I do not have to become the victim, but can empower myself by beginning to look within and to gently see the old patterns being replaced by a way of living that is life enhancing.
Ingrid your blog is a reminder to me to attend to some exercise while at work at the desk. And connective tissue before sleep, in bed and in the morning before getting out of bed.
Your consistency is inspiring. I find l can do them for so long then they drop away and get replaced by rush time. Even though when l’ve applied them l’ve felt so good! So l see sciatica as your body’s blessing to you to build consistency. I’ve had bouts of it and wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.
Yes it has been all about the consistency Irena. These days if I don’t do the exercises, which is very rarely, I feel that something is missing from my day. And that commitment to the consistency has also created a ripple effect into other areas of my life – a most welcome bonus.
This is proof Ingrid of how powerful we are when we commit to our own healing. All it takes is loving consistency and true care. Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing modality that can help us to feel what it is that our bodies truly need.
Wow Ingrid, this is amazing. My appreciation of the Connective Tissue Therapy is growing with each session I do as a practitioner and each session I receive as a client. Your testimony is very valuable for all of us and definitely people with chronic and severe levels of pain in their daily life. Thank you Ingrid.
Thank you for this great testimony Ingrid. I too have experienced many benefits from the Connective Tissue Therapy modality and have been shown that daily self-care and awareness of my body has brought about lasting changes to a healthier me.
I love this, Ingrid, as it shows us yet again that it is never too late to bring loving ways back into your life and, wow, what a difference it can make! I too find Connective Tissue Therapy so powerful, because I feel it reminds every part of my body and my every particle of their naturally harmonious state of being.
Indeed, the healing goes beyond the ailment one might suffer, it brings healing to the body and being by re-introducing the feeling of how it can be, it is designed to be and how it once was (as a child) before we lost the natural harmonious yumminess.
This is a true testimony of how Connective Tissue can help with the physical ailments of the body, even ailments that have been around for a long time. This is very inspiring because usually as we get older it seems to be expected that we will be in pain and in ill health.
Very true Julie, the general expectation is that we will only deteriorate as we get older and yet Ingrid has proved that this need not be the case. When we seek true resolution to our health issues and chose to support ourselves by lovingly caring for our bodies everyday, our health can blossom, even when we are walking into our senior years.
An amazing sharing with us all Ingrid and a truly inspirational read to know that we can choose to change our old habits and patterns in life where, pain can literally take over dominating our every move. Our bodies being such an amazing barometer of life and share with us how we are truly living.
Connective Tissue Therapy has supported my body to find back to more tenderness.
Wow Ingrid thank you for sharing this with us, it really goes to show how Esoteric Healing + self responsibility is the recipe for deep miraculous healing.
This is a great blog and testament of the power of the Esoteric Modalities as you have shared they are not something that would offer relief to discomfort or pain but true healing that is coming from within yourself and the result of the lifestyle choices that you have made that honour you body as a woman. Thank you Ingrid
Well said Francisco – it is impossible to use the Esoteric Modalities purely for ‘relief’; the different techniques address the entire body, and heal (as you say) from within, rather than just focusing on making pain in a certain area go away or easing discomfort.
I am learning more and more about the truth and power of my own responsibility and ability to heal myself by committing to my relationship with myself. Your comment to Ingrid here confirmed that for me again Francisco.
Agreed Francisco. The esoteric modalities are truly powerful healing modalities. They ask us to take responsibility for our life and deal with all the issues and support us in that.
Absolutely Lee. And if we take up that responsibility our body is right there with us – holding our hand as it leads the way again.
Amazing how us human beings just put up with something, adjusting and compensating for it, congratulating ourselves along the way for being strong, tough, living with our ‘chin-up’, and being of ‘good stock’. There really is another way of doing life and none of these words would be used to describe it; it seems you have found it Ingrid 🙂
I agree Suzanne. So much of life has become about “hardening up” and getting through life. Thank you Ingrid for yet another example that there is indeed another way. Listening to our body and deeply caring for it is the way to true health and vitality.
That is such an important story to tell Ingrid and great to hear that it came with the least expensive option of all, your connection with your own body. It is such a stunning modality to build that connection.
I agree Lucy, there is such simplicity in reconnecting to the tenderness and beauty of our bodies and this allows us to create the awareness of the ways we have been mistreating our bodies and make more caring and loving choices.
What a fantastic journey where by you didn’t give up completely and you were supported by Universal Medicine, Kate Greenaway and Serge Benhayon to look deeper and connect deeper to your body. But yes as you say Ingrid your appreciation of the choices you made to make your life about self-love and being dedicated to this is the key factor to your healing from the constant pain you were living in. This is most definitely worth celebrating. Well done.
What an awesome read Ingrid! We dismiss the body’s wisdom at our own peril. You willingness to address your own issues is equally awesome. And the modalities shared by Serge Benhayon has are absolutely the way back to true health and wellbeing. The simplicity of your experience is what we should be calling normal instead of ‘amazing’ or ‘lucky’.
What an incredible relief it must have been to not be woken up by sciatic pain any longer – I can’t even imagine what it would be like to not get a good night’s sleep.
The simplicity of regaining one’s health is indeed truly stunning and you are right when you say that it is neither ‘amazing’ nor ‘lucky’, but based on a sound and very wise choice.
Well said Bernadette – I agree as I wrote my last comment it also occurred to me that what is truly amazing is that we all get ourselves into such a mess. It is natural to be healthy and connected to our bodies that contain all the wisdom and knowing we need. For some reason most of us choose to listen to everything except our bodies and in fact do everything we can to drown out what our bodies are communicating to us. For example if our body says it is tired let’s have more coffee or be more emotional and so on, instead of stopping, connecting and listening. So yes we certainly have an amazing knack of making things very complicated and then when finally we stop for a moment and listen to what our body has been telling us all along we say wow isn’t that amazing!
I love what you have written here Nicola – it is so true, and it was the way I was living; in a mess; in complication; in exhaustion; ignoring my body etc, etc. And as you say, it is “natural to be healthy and connected to our bodies that contain all the wisdom and knowing we need.” A lesson that I learned the hard way, but one that needs to be taught to all children from day one. Now that would have some amazing consequences!
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!
Absolutely Bernadette, it shows how far we have come from trusting our bodies and taking responsibility for all that it shows up.
For pain that you suffered from for 40 years to start to dissipate after 2 months of Connective Tissue is just extraordinary. The healing power of the Universal Medicine modalities alongside taking responsibility for the choices we make, never cease to amaze me.
I agree Samantha, this is without question a miracle and one that can support many in the world who are suffering do to the same or one of the many other illness out there. When we look at the simple facts of life and how the body truly works it is a wonder that so many of us are still standing after how we are with our bodies worldwide.
Part of such miracle is that we can choose to change and take responsibility at every point in time against all the ingrained ways of thinking, familiar beliefs, comforts and behaviours. Not many people are willing to take these steps from disregard to love.
Great point Alex, the real beauty and miracles that we thank so graciously and deservedly towards Universal Medicine are also our own, our own choices. As that is what UM gives, the awareness that our choices are what creates our issues and that we can make different choices to really make change.
Totally agree Sam true Miracles at play.
I agree Samantha and it is also amazing that none of the main stream news outlets have picked up on the many hundreds of “miracle” stories that abound such as the one Ingrid has shared and the changes you can see in the eyes of these people: http://www.unimedliving.com/the-livingness/before-and-after/the-before-after-photo-diary/the-before-after-project.html – imagine how much suffering would be spared and how much money saved if more people knew about these very simple life changing techniques and how to take care of themselves.
So true Sam, story after story and I’m still amazed. It more amazes me that this isn’t the normal and why it not.
Yes it really extraordinary when one considers the timescales involved. It makes me wonder what would be considered ordinary if we were to live like this, taking full responsibility for our health and receiving the modalities to support ourselves. I feel very inspired to make changes regarding long standing ill choices -it’s never too late to be responsible.
Absolutely Karin, ‘It’s never to late to be responsible’. I find it evolves every day.
So true Samantha “The healing power of the Universal Medicine modalities alongside taking responsibility for the choices we make, never cease to amaze me.” And the sharing from Ingrid shows that we can have so much willingness to bring a change to our life and suffering as we can – but with the wrong tools it will not work. We can not change the energy we are in (like abuse, self-loathing) with tools which are submitted to the same energy. Universal Medicine offers the “new view”, modalities which are free from the misleading energy which causes our pain and suffering. Thats why the lives of so many students of Universal Medicine change so much and in comparatively very short terms – it offers us a different energy as we lived in before. And this energy (call it truth, love or harmony) IS POWERFUL. And it is always just a choice away… or a few Connective Tissue Exercises (which I do every morning).
Absolutely Jane. This re-writes medicine and everything we know and deem as possible within our current healthcare system.
Thank God for the Universal Medicine Modalities and the opportunity to know an entirely different range of possibilities and levels of vitality and health.
It is super extraordinary. This is an amazing example of how our daily choices and connection with our body affect us.
Yes what a contrast Samantha, when looking at 40 years of pain versus 2 months therapy. There must really be something very special about Connective Tissue Therapy as it is bringing about such profound change in hundreds and hundreds of people.
Miracles happening through choices to be responsible — now I wonder why the newspapers aren’t interested in that for a headline… it should be front page news… but it won’t be as it calls for us to step up and be responsible this isn’t our favourite thing as a humanity in fact it seems to be the root of all ill as far as I can see.
Yes I agree Samantha – as I was writing, that after living for almost 40 years with the pain that it took only a few months of Connective Tissue Therapy for it to begin to finally heal, felt extraordinary to me too. In fact writing this blog stopped me in mid-sentence quite regularly and had me reflecting on the way that I had been living – what I had put up with for so long, always accompanied with the question – why?
But I can see very clearly that the loving changes I had been making in my life throughout the previous few years – from the time I became a student of Universal Medicine, and myself – had been slowly building a foundation from which this was able to happen. I can see that the healing was already underway from this more loving way of living, and being introduced to Connective Tissue Therapy, feeling how amazing it was, and having such a unwavering commitment to the exercises, was the final piece of the healing puzzle, a piece that I can say I was absolutely delighted to find.
Hello Ingrid, thank you for sharing such a fantastic story of recovery after a long history of sciatica. I have found all of the modalities offered by Universal Medicine as delivering lasting and true healing as well, for me it was more to do with emotional issues and feeling more settled in myself and having a positive relationship with myself. Like yourself after years of searching and a lot of money spent but only getting temporary relief, I finally found something that works in a lasting way with Sacred Esoteric Healing, Chakra Puncture, Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Massage. I’ve also experienced Connective Tissue Therapy and found it very rejuvenating and helpful. It’s a tremendous gift for you to discover this therapy and finally be pain free – congratulations!
A truly life changing story thank you for sharing.
This has deepen my appreciation for connective tissue therapy.
Ingrid I could not only feel the hollowness that was there initially as a result of your disconnection to your body and therefore yourself but also the glorious warmth of your fullness and connection now. Very beautiful to feel
It is science and medicine worthy a testimonial such as yours, a living proof that our bodies respond and change no matter how many years it had felt a symptom, when we commit to a changing from the core of the issue. The support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to make different choices with the understanding of what our core issues are, has enabled us to see miracles such as what you have lived.
It is so beautiful Ingrid to realize that the discomfort in our bodies is not us—but choices that we have made consistently that do not support us. Just as we can be the master to choices which do not support us in our unawareness, we can also be the master to choices that now truly support our body with awareness.
This is very powerful Ingrid, as what you have shared is we are not victims to our bodies, but we actually have a great influence of our bodies…we can even determine the wellbeing or ill health of our bodies, by lifestyle choices and our internal state…we can often feel overwhelmed and a feeling we have no control what happens to our bodies, like they just do their own thing…but it is us who choose what we eat and put into our bodies, it is us who choose to live stressfully, it is us who choose to give our power away, or be aggressive and so forth, all this affects the body which we live in.
You have shared how we can actually bring a true healing to our bodies and it does require a willingness and commitment to build a loving relationship with ourselves, with our body. But when we work with our body in harmony, it responds and offers an innate wisdom, which is very supportive!
Thanks Ingrid for sharing this, it really is amazing what you have presented here – a modern day miracle. What you’ve expressed about just accepting the pain and dealing with it really rang true for me. The deeper I go with my relationship with myself, the more I see those little niggles – be it in my body, or be it in the way my house is set up, or be it something rattling around in the car that puts me a little on edge. Those little niggles create tension in my body that I am allowing to be there.. and I simply don’t need to!
There is so much to appreciate about your experience and choices Ingrid. The simplicity and healing power of the gentle connective tissue exercises, the choice you made to look at how you were living, the realisation that we are not our pain, the consistency and dedication that you applied to your healing. Your blog is a testament to the truth of the Universal Medicine wisdom and modalities.
What I also reflect on with this blog is the way we learn to live (perhaps exist is more accurately used) around pain or debility. It becomes a part of us, like an unwelcome extra limb, or an unwanted guest that won’t take the hint and leave. We just assume it will always be there, and there is so little on offer for chronic pain beyond management of it. That is why Esoteric Connective Tissue is so important; it is a life changing modality.
So true Rachel, it was a very “unwanted guest” – and one of those guests that invites itself! – and no matter how hard I tried it wouldn’t leave. Now I know that it wasn’t going to leave until I had I got the very important message that it was trying to communicate to me, and that was simply that I was not loving and respecting my body. Once I got that, it didn’t take too long – with the wonderful support that I had – for it to head out the door. And as it went I could almost hear it saying – “my job is done!”
Ingrid what a wonderful result from your choice to look at what has been causing the sciatica you suffered for so long. The truly amazing healing modality of Connective Tissue Therapy as performed by Kate Greenaway ,has helped me in many ways and I am grateful for gentle exercises that she shares with me to do each day. It all comes back to looking after ourselves first and connecting to the love within and being responsible for the choices we make each day.
What I love about universal medicine modalities is that they do not just look upon us as a person with an issue or something to fix. They honour us as a divine being that we are, deeply connected with each other and with the whole of the Universe which has a harmonious and graceful flow and evolving expression. Each modality in its own way supports a forever deepening awareness and realignment to this deepest level of connection and expression within us. I had come across many modalities that professed to be ‘holistic’ because they considered the mind and emotions as well as the body. Universal Medicine modalities have taken that notion of holistic to a whole-istic level!
I love Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy. The body melts with it into such a deep state that is beyond relaxation. The releases are extraordinary in each session, but what I love most is the way that feeling can be ongoing after the session when we consciously embrace a gentler way of treating ourselves. The connective tissues exercises are so delicate, so subtle, and yet powerful.
How fabulous, Ingrid, that you moved from a stance of the sciatica being just something you lived with to a position of understanding in full the real causes behind the sciatica symptom. How honouring of yourself that you made the choices, then, to change those energies of disregard and lack of self worth which were causing the physical symptomology. How truly supportive of this process was the modality of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy in re aligning you back to your naturally self loving and self caring self.
An inspirational journey for many, Ingrid: thank you for sharing it so honestly and openly.
Ingrid, your experience in living with pain could be the story of the majority of our population. In your reflections around seeking to be fixed, to have the pain go away is what so many of us ‘do’, constantly seeking someone to wave a magic wand and fix us, not to mention the effect we leave around us during this time. The connection to yourself and the realisation of the choices you were making had profound healing outcomes. Your commitment, openness and willingness to change by first feeling it deeply and owning it is beautiful. You claimed who you truly are. As you said in your blog – ‘And of course I appreciate the decision I made to make many self caring and loving changes in my life’. The commitment to love which Serge Benhayon, Kate Greenaway and many Universal Medicine practitioner’s practice is of true service to Humanity. Thanks for sharing.
The power of the Esoteric Connective Tissue speaks for itself and it speaks very loud in the realm of pain in the body. Its a very powerful modality where I have heard time and time again of its benefits of harmonising and re-balancing the body.
Being able to understand pain as a marker, a communication from our body about something being out of sorts helps open up an opportunity to be more aware of how we are living, an opportunity for change, rather than being stuck with it being a part of us.
As you shared Ingrid it’s essential to heal the reasons behind why we get pain or illness in order to bring about any true healing .You are a walking testimonial of healing and it is beautiful to feel how you played a part in your own self healing by your commitment to doing the exercises to support you. Esoteric Healing and Connective Tissue Therapy has been a massive support to me as I also lived for many years with Sciatica and had almost lost function of my legs and now completely healed with complete flexibility of movement in my lower back, along with a more harmonious flow through my whole body.
That’s the beauty of Connective Tissue Therapy Yasmin, it just doesn’t have a healing effect on the part of the body that is in pain or discomfort, it has a beautiful ripple effect right through the whole body. It is truly amazing!
Thank you Ingrid for sharing this. Pain is something that can be life changing and alters your whole life sometimes without even realising it, as we need to adjust on so many levels.
The healing process can be gradual with a more physical and realistic view. I love what you expressed “wisdom that I started to realise I had always carried deep inside but had spent most of my life overriding.” This felt key in enabling the healing to truly begin, because as women we constantly override what we know to be true in order to look after other people’s needs. Universal Medicine has been the one organisation to bring something different – the missing link between the physical body, our emotions (that cause illness and disease) and who we truly are, which is so much more than the physical body.
When I saw the title of your blog I could hardly believe the words I was reading in the title ‘So Long Sciatica’, as I have always believed that is not something that is possible, I know other people who have suffered for years with sciatic pain trying many alternative therapies to no avail. What you are sharing here is nothing short of a miracle.
When we choose to reflect deeply as to what is truly going when we are in dis-harmony, in dis-ease and as to what choices are we making in our lives and why, we begin to understand that we have created the disconnected life we are living. Our bodies always reflect the truth of whether we are living in harmony with our natural rhythm and the natural rhythm of life or not. When we choose to be honest with this we become aware that we in fact are the ones then that can heal ourselves. What an amazing story Ingrid and a truly inspiring testimony of how Universal Medicine healing modailities present an opportunity for us to take responsibility and understand the reasons behind our dis-ease and offers support as we begin to make self-loving choices and return to a more natural and harmonious way of living with our bodies in connection to All that we truly are and are a part of.
When a ‘normal’ person from the public reads this they will think how it is miraculous, but from my point of view from reading a lot of stories like this, I see it as, this is the works of Universal Medicine (UM), the work that UM does is life changing and like nothing I have heard of before. Not because of the wonderful few recoveries but because every person who comes to Universal Medicine makes a miraculous change in their life.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your experience with pain and how you were able to heal through the Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy. We also can not underestimate the power of being self caring and loving and the effects this has on the body. The body loves you for it and responds accordingly through healing the areas of the body that have been affected by the disregard. Ingrid you are very inspiring especially for others that are also experiencing constant pain.
When I first experienced Connective Tissue therapy it was such an amazing experience for me because any hardness or tightness that existed in my body would just drop away and by the end of a session I felt like I was in a new body. This was quite a marker for me to feel and showed me that there really was another way to be in my body that feels super lovely and so harmonious. All the Esoteric modalities have had wonderful results on my body, but Connective Tissue Therapy responds very well in my body given the patterns of hardness that I could easily go into.
Yes, I noticed Marika how much this modality just melts the hardness away leaving me feeling light and beautiful. It’s quite magical actually.
That’s amazing ingrid. I also sought some esoteric healing support via Connective Tissue Therapy when I was experiencing some very uncomfortable sciatica pain. You described it perfectly in terms of it being a gradual process. I found myself getting frustrated at times, because it was never going to be a quick fix solution, but gradually bit by bit, the pain eased. Developing an awareness of your own body is a pretty powerful tool.
“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.” Ingrid, it is something to appreciate and be inspired by how you have chosen to get to where you are, from existing to now truly living.
A wonderfully inspiring story Ingrid, thank you for sharing it. Goes to show what is possible when committing to truly supporting ourselves and taking the steps to correct the ways we put up with less than love for ourselves.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a modality sent from heaven. Unlike many other modalities that work on the fascia and connective tissue it asks the client to take responsibility for the choices that they have made in how they live. When someone actively chooses to partake in their healing process, rather than just wanting the modality to fix them, miracles can happen – as you have shared Ingrid.
Thank you for sharing Ingrid, I love to hear practical examples of an ill way of living manifests in ones body for the purpose of us learning from it. We can help this natural way by changing the offending lifestyle, and seeking Medical help. Connective tissue treatment and exercises greatly assist the body to restore itself.
An extraordinary sharing Ingrid – to have chronic pain for 30 years and now its gone: this is very inspiring. What struck me in this is your realisation that the pain was not who you truly are – we can identify with pain, our issues, what we do…but they create a life of survival, rather than living life being you, as you so beautifully share here – one of self care, self nurturing and self love: “As a result, the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.” How gorgeous.
I agree that the Esoteric Connective Tissue sessions and exercises that I have received from Kate Greenaway have been a wonderful blessing and the part that I play is these healing sessions is taking responsibility by choosing to do the exercises that Kate has advised I do on a regular basis. Esoteric connective Tissue movements are subtle but are very powerful and a wonderful way to stay connected to what I am feeling in my body. “As a result the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living”. For me to Ingrid.
Ingrid – this is a phenomenal sharing! Amazing how we can ‘put up’ with pain and discomfort for such a long time and then it becomes part of the landscape so to speak, something that we just expect and deal with on a daily basis. But the beauty of what you share with the simplicity of introducing the gentle exercise on a daily basis, has allowed the transformation because of the consistency and the commitment and time given to yourself and what your body was calling for you to do. Gradual incremental and foundational change is slower to see but so much more solid in its grounding – the little changes that you made have over time become the solid rock for you to lean on and something that your body knows deeply and can trust deeply. Thank you for your sharing – we can all learn from this.
An amazing story of commitment, dedication and getting to the bottom of why the pain was there through understanding your responsibility in it. Very inspiring.
Universal Medicine is the only clinic I have attended that actually promotes self-awareness and responsibility for choices – how we express and what we hold onto all being part and parcel of illness. A wonderful turn around on your part Ingrid, well done.
Wonderful sharing Ingrid. Thank you. The realisation that you were not your pain is huge. How much do we identify with our illnesses and other ways of being in the world that are not who we truly are. So often we accept illness and pain as part of our lot. Universal Medicine inspires so many in this regard that we are not are illness or hurts and underneath all of these is the true vital wonderful us.
I loved hearing how the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy exercises have become part of your daily ritual Ingrid; our bodies so very much love rituals of self love, self care and honouring. For me it has been a gradual re-learning of the language of my body, and with this I am becoming more adept in recognising and hearing its wisdom. As my appreciation for my body grows, as my confidence becomes more solid, and as my level of awareness deepens, my commitment to heeding its wisdom and refining my movement is becoming more fluid.
We can get so caught up in whats happening in the body that it becomes who we are. Thank you Ingrid for sharing your amazing discovery and showing us that we are not our body or the illness. The illness is a by product of how we live, and with gentle exercises and a deep awareness we can correct what our bodies are telling us.This is true healing.
Hi Ingrid. Your blog has got me thinking. I have had mild sciatica for years. It’s not as bad as it used to be but your comment on driving made me remember that I too have sciatica. It is so mild that I have never looked at it. I am interested in the reasons behind why it was there for you and what the exercise you do at your desk are. Thank you for sharing Ingrid.
This is brilliant Ingrid. Your joy in writing about your experience and new found life without pain is very evident. So many people suffer from back pain and sciatica and your story would be great for so many people to read.
I love Connective Tissue therapy – after my first session with Kate Greenaway, I felt like my body had had a grease and oil change! My limbs felt loose and my movements more fluid – it was an extraordinary feeling but one that felt very natural. Over time, I’ve come to see how my everyday movements can jar my body if I’m not moving gently and with awareness, or if I carry or move something too heavy for me. The connective tissue exercises are so simple that you can do them sitting in a chair…something I haven’t been doing lately, so thank you Ingrid for the reminder.
Yes a great reminder for me too Sandra, as when I was first shown CT exercises by Kate I was amazed at something so simple having such an amazing effect on my body and its movements. It was like my body was breathing a huge sigh of relief after being held in so much hardness for so long.
I can totally relate to the feeling of having a “grease and oil” change Sandra! One of the most wonderful by products of this healing “programme” is that my hips, that were in danger of becoming rather creaky and stiff, are now so supple that when I walk they feel like silk. I love to walk and feel them flow; it certainly brings a smile to my face – I feel like a child with a new toy!
That is so gorgeous Ingrid … and another miracle to go from creaky and stiff hips to feeling like silk.
Ingrid this is fantastic. Constant body pain is so debilitating and the freedom that is felt without it is very joyful. Yes understanding our emotional connection with our physical body and choosing the Universal Medicine modalities to support this is an absolutely loving way to release long held pain and tension in the body. It has worked miracles with me, and I too am very appreciative to Universal medicine.
Great story, I loved reading how the attention to your body helped gradually to make the pain less, not an immediate miracle, but with the growing attention to your body you actually did create a miracle.
Ingrid, it’s a miracle that at 65 years old, you no longer have pain from sciatica having lived with it for so many years. You really are going against the trends of ageing where conditions worsen with age. Very inspiring.
This is a great point Sandra in that Ingrid is defying the odds with her age and her health.
It’s important to talk about because it isn’t the norm…what Ingrid has experienced is seen as a miracle and yet with some simple and gentle treatments and a commitment to truly looking after herself, she has turned things around to now be living without pain. With so many people living in pain these days, Connective Tissue Therapy should be the ‘new black’ in the treatment of people living with pain.
Hello Ingrid Ward and a great way to finish this blog, “As a result, the days of just existing have been replaced with a true and loving way of living.” To have one person go from “existing” into truly living is worth highlighting but as Universal Medicine has supported hundreds of people to do the same it is worth more than highlighting but possibly should be case studied. Thank you Ingrid for sharing one of the major changes in your life.
What an inspiring and beautiful story. I’ve never surrendered more to myself than in sessions Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. What a support. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
I love Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, It always brings me back to a deeply resting and calm state of being, it is like the whole body gets realigned and reordered to its natural state. All the tension and unease goes.
Evidence of the power of the Esoteric modalities and in particular the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is very easy to see in you. Your dedication to the exercises has been a massive support and a reminder to me to start a program of my own.
I love examples like yours, Ingrid. Miracles and yet simple follow ups on the choices we make. I agree with the truth you shared: “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.”
I loved reading this Ingrid, and knowing you as a friend, it has been beautiful to observe these gradual, loving, life confirming changes you have made over the years. Not only with your body, ( I remember the times you would visit and get out of your car in agony when you arrived, whereas now you step out lightly and freely with no pain.) but also with the way you live and how you are with yourself and with others now. It is quite miraculous whilst being very normal at the same time. Your dedication to unravelling the true you has been, and still is, very inspiring.
Thank you Jeanette for your beautiful words and for reminding me of the pain I used to be in when getting out of the car at your place, after having to stop and stretch at least three or four times on the three hour journey. Today I know that I could drive the same distance without stopping, but in respect for my body, I don’t. It is certainly a great marker of how far I have come from those days when I would wonder, and sometimes despair, if the pain would ever be gone. And besides the healing of the sciatica, I have loved the unravelling of the true me in the process!
Beautiful blog, I particularly like it when you say that you realized the pain was not you. “I had made it so”. When we are identified with the illness, it gives us a kind of comfort that confirms the misery, and we stay there, thinking it is us, totally convinced and limited by our own fabrication. You have been blessed by a modality that is just amazing, and the tranformation is there for all to see. Beautiful.
It is true Julia, so many people are identified with pain or illness only to find the comfort and sympathy of others, this keeps them in a vicious cycle as it is only through self responsibility and more caring and loving choices that the body starts its healing process.
And as a practitioner to not get sucked into their vicious cycle of sympathy and identification, but to offer another way, away from the sympathy. If I don´t live self responsibility myself in my choices, I cannot reflect that and offer a true support.
It was your comment at the end that really completed the article Ingrid – “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.”. A beautiful statement and appreciation of your dedication to you, your health and well-being.
Yes Marcia, I agree, it was such a confirming way to end the blog. Appreciating the support she had received from Serge Benhayon and Kate Greenaway, but also herself and the fact that she was such a crucial part of her own healing.
Ingrid, what you have shared is really inspiring. To have so many years with pain and then to make such changes in your life and now to not have the pain is amazing. In fact you are amazing as you made a loving committment to “you” and as you came to accept, love and honour “you ” from the inside out, the pain was no longer able to own you. Thank you for sharing.
Dear Ingrid this is such a lovely sharing and inspiring an I would love to learn and know more about these exercises that You do – I love your final statement: “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”. With love Nadine
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An amazing story about healing chronic pain by making more self loving and caring choices + the support of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
It’s very beautiful that the Esoteric Connective Tissue helps to make more self loving choices and making more self loving choices makes the body more receptive to the healing during the sessions. It is a great combination and I personally love, cherish and value the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy beyond words!
“The pain is not me” This is huge Ingrid, because often without us even realising we associate who we are and what we do with the pain we feel instead of remaining strong in claiming that who we are within.
Absolutely Josh. So many of us prefer to stay in the comfort of the illness rather than take responsibility for the choices that got us ill in the first place.
It feels more comfortable to not take responsibility yet it is actually more uncomfortable as in truth we are choosing to live with an ill
When I was introduced to Connective Tissue Therapy a few years ago, I had been suffering with a recurring shoulder pain, which was left over from a bout of frozen shoulder I had had about a year previously. After having just one session, the pain was gone and I had free movement again. It was amazing. The pain came back, because I had not yet made the choices in my life to make sure that it didn’t, but I recognised that the pain was not something that I would just have to deal with for the rest of my life, and as you discovered, it certainly was not me!
This is a brilliant story – a very real account of the effects that our choices have on our body. Both the negative and the positive. I’m a film-maker so I guess it appeals to me but I love the huge time span of your blog. It’s like watching a movie…”30 years later…”, “..40 years later…”, flashback and flash forward. I think what I mean is I was struck by the presence that you brought to now, 10 years ago and 40 years ago. Not sure how relevant this is, but it feels pretty unique to be able to bring such a sense of now, to the past, if you see what I mean. Not sure I’m making sense, but anyway, it feels great! Thanks for writing.
You definitely make sense ottobathurst, as yes, there were times during writing this that I felt like I was in my own movie, complete with “flashbacks and flash forwards” and many – how did I live like that? – moments!
Great point – that when we identify with pain as being a part of us or who we are – we then go into the management or ‘fixing’ of it. When we however connect to our body and the quality that we are feeling in our body, the pain is something that we can feel as not who we truly are but a communication from our body, giving us clues as to what the impact of certain choices we are making and what energetically lies underneath the pain.. We have not been supported to have a listening and trusting relationship with our body like this – our schooling is generally that illness and disease is something to be conquered or ‘survived’ and our body is something that we carry – or sometimes drag through our lives, giving it little if no value other than the function that it can deliver. My experience with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon’s teachings has turned this on its head and re-introduced my body as a wise vehicle, living in accordance to universal orders and laws and therefore worthy of listening to and allowing to lead my life.
Reading your blog…I got to the 4th paragraph. Which starts with “It wasn’t until 30 years later…” And I just had to stop. This below me away. Like a shock moment in a horror film. Oh my goodness. It’s just incredible what we accept, what we put up with, the level of dis-ease, un-wellness that we are prepared to live with. Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this story….I’m now going to read the rest of it….!
When I wrote those words ottobathurst they literally catapulted off the page at me, and yes it was probably a “shock moment” for me too, which was then followed by such a raft of emotions around the fact that I had lived with this pain for so long, making it part of my life. It seemed like I was writing about someone else and not the person I am today.
It has also been my experience that if you have pain for long enough it eventually becomes a part of your life. So much so it appears more like background music rather than something one pays attention to – like you say Ingrid it becomes normal or the norm.
” … the pain was not me!” Thank you Ingrid for sharing your reawakening story back to really feeling you, including this revelatory realisation about pain. Letting that one sink in is a healing in itself, hey, as it helps with being able watch the pain a bit more rather than being overwhelmed by it. And I love how you show that coming back to feeling you can take some time, that it can be a ‘journey’ which travels in its own time and doesn’t need rushing or impatience or expectation, and it continues on and deepens.
Ingrid, the ‘pain not being me’ revelation has also changed the way I feel about and experience illness, for the better! And also find, like you, that the connective tissue exercises have brought a level of awareness and tenderness to my body that I didn’t know before.
Hi, it is great to read about how you integrated the Connective Tissue exercise into routine throughout the day and even at work. They are such fantastic exercises in my experience some of them are so subtle people wouldn’t even know you were doing them. Great gentle sliding and gliding movements.
Its great to read that there is light at the end of the tunnel for chronic pain sufferers, such as yourself Ingrid, and in the simplest of ways too! The Esoteric Healing Modalities should be shared far and wide as a complement to general medicine. I absolutely rely on Esoteric Modality practitioners to help me keep my body and being in the best shape possible.
I have never had any physical long term pain or illnesses, but I have experienced an illness a the sense of long term dispiritedness, given-upness and not committing to life. This has gradually changed since I have started to have a relationship with my body. It really is the anchor for everything. Receiving Connective Tissue Therapy has supported me to build this relationship and I have to say it’s my favourite modality offered by Universal Medicine. The depth of surrender that it facilitates allows me to feel an exquisite sense of grace I have not felt in any other treatment. Just one of many amazing modalities offered by Universal Medicine, bringing heaven to earth.
The power of this modality that is Connective Tissue never ceases to amaze me.
Wow, this is deeply touching. And again I am touched also by the fact that Serge Benhayon leads a life that allows him to bring through these divine modalities, which have supported in the healing of thousands.
…a beautiful, simple story Ingrid and what a life changer! So great to hear that you found true healing by taking responsibility and making loving choices through the support of the Esoteric modalities – this then gradually and naturally takes care of the sciatica. Not trying to fix or focus on the pain that feels key here.
Great to hear your story Ingrid, a miracle but not a mystery, esoteric connective tissue therapy and exercises are a wonder that can benefit everyone. There must be so many people who just tolerate their pain with no idea how to make any lasting changes, yet there is so much we can do for our own bodies when we are equipped with the type of sound advice that Kate Greenaway offered you through the connective tissue work.
This is very beautiful Ingrid. I love the simplicity in your sharing. That pain is a message from your body that something in the way you are living is affecting it. It is a simple invitation to change our way of living and my experience is that listening and adhering to the simple messages of our body is beautiful, it makes me surrender more and more into being loving with myself at all times.
My heart also jumped for joy Ingrid, when I became aware from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that our sickness and illnesses are a result of how we are living and the hurts we hang on to. To be able to be a part of our own healing is incredible and life changing.
Such an empowering account of how you have turned your life around from constant pain to no pain. This blog will be a very inspiring read for others who are living with pain.
Thanks for sharing this Ingrid – I agree, sometimes the changes are so subtle we don’t really notice until we look back and think about the pain we used to experience. In my case it was arthritis and general stiffness. I find regular connective tissue sessions are helping me to connect with my body and feel so much more, which means I take greater care. I’m also attending a weekly gentle exercise class – that’s great too. I used to wake up in the night with pain deep in my hips, and my ankles would hurt when I got out of bed whereas today I don’t have any pain whatsoever.
The commitment and love you have for yourself and your body is truly inspirational. I have had many esoteric connective tissue sessions and they have supported me enormously in becoming more aware of my body and the connection with myself.
The body gives us so much information when we listen to it, I also had similar experiences as you Ingrid with sciatica, it’s a very strong message. Letting go of the outcomes and reconnecting to yourself with the gentle connective tissue exercises is really supportive to the body, the healing then happens itself.
Thank you for sharing this Ingrid. I too had ongoing sciatica and lower back problems about 10 years ago. After Esoteric Connective Tissue sessions and personalised body exercises from Kate Greenaway I have not had a scrap of trouble for years. In fact at 55 years my back feels stronger than ever – my back troubles started at age 17.
Supported by the amazing work of Serge Benhayon and the complementary to medicine clinic Universal Medicine my health and quality of living just keeps improving.
Ingrid , since I meet you about 5 years ago, I can see you getting more younger and more beauty full each day. Making self loving choices shows in every part of you. It glows out for all of us to see clearly.
Thank you for sharing your experience Ingrid. Connective tissue exercises are such a beautiful support for the body and I love the feeling in my body when I’m doing these tenderly gentle but incredibly powerful movements.
Esoteric connective tissue therapy is an awesome modality and one that begins to connect us back to our true state of being, that of love and harmony, for without love and harmony in our bodies we all suffer greatly. It is with honesty and a willingness to go there that leads to true healing and once we begin to take responsibility for our bodies then the esoteric modalities can truly help us with that, so well done for going there Ingrid.
Thank you Ingrid, I agree, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is amazing in its simplicity and profound in it’s magic!
How amazing and powerful is our body to return to its natural harmonious state when we learn to listen to what it is asking of us- to be more self loving and self nurturing.
I agree Loretta, our body can heal itself if we pay attention to what it is telling us, be more self loving and self nurturing
I love how you describe the gradual changes that occurred for you without you even noticing them at first. This is what happened for me also after attending some Universal Medicine presentations. The changes were gradual and very profound.
I agree Elizabeth as so many now rely on a ‘magic pill’. That it was gradual makes it real and more of a true healing.
Yes Elizabeth, that also stood out for me, the gradual changes, as at times we just want something to change instantly, be healed, fixed but it does take time for the body to reconfigure and heal itself into a new way of being.
The healing your body has undertaken Ingrid is a miracle. You are a living miracle!
Hello Sally Scott, this is also worth highlighting not only the “miracle” but the fact that Ingrid Ward is a 65 year old lady still working full time and what she does in that to support herself to work long hours with quality. “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.” The Connective Tissue modality is obviously one you can take away with you and I love the reason why Ingrid commits to treating herself, for how it feels and supports her and how it supports the quality of everything around her. A great blog.
A modern day miracle Sally!
Thank you for sharing your journey, Ingrid. It is amazing how your life has turned around since you found Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and Kate Greenaway. I agree, the connective tissue therapy is absolutely amazing in the changes it helps bring about in the body. And yes, the key is our really connecting to the body and being open to feeling things that come up for us. I went through about sixteen years of expecting to suffer a back episode at least once a year, sometimes twice, usually as the weather began to cool. When this happened, I had to keep my back rigidly straight and move so gingerly, or I would have a spasm that would literally feel as if I was cut in 2. I often could not sit for several weeks, could only stand, or walk very carefully, or lie down, but then it would be ‘blue murder’ for me to somehow get up again. It would take me up to 3/4 hr to get up from a night’s sleep. I would have my meals at the kitchen bench, standing up. After a few years of working with Universal Medicine practitioners, especially Kate Greenaway and connective tissue therapy, I found that I was not having such severe episodes, had a couple of separate minor occasions, but was able to sit on a plane only several days after it started. Now looking back, I realise I have not had a problem with my back at all for at least 6 years now, which is amazing. I put this amazing change in my body down to the care that I now take with my body and probably releasing so much that I had held in my hip area. All this has been with the amazing support I have received from Serge Benhayon, Kate Greenaway and all the other beautiful Universal Medicine practitioners.
That’s amazing to read about your recovery Beverley from such severe back pain. The Connective Tissue modality is so supportive in the sense that it encourages much deeper connection to and awareness of the body, so your own level of self care also improves which also contributes to the lasting healing. There is something quite special about this modality and the exercises, it’s so gentle yet so powerful and I always feel it in complete harmony with my body. Nothing is imposed, the body does its own healing with the help of the practitioner. You’re another miracle Beverley.
Ingrid thank you for your sharing. It is beautiful how we have these amazing Esoteric modalities that support our lives and the wisdom shared by these practitioners appreciative. Esoteric Connective Tissue is one amazing therapy so gentle, allowing the body to align with its own rhythm., releasing any trapped or blocked energy. Thank you to Serge Benhayon for sharing such a beautiful modality and great appreciation to all those practitioners.
Esoteric Connective Tissue and the other Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities work with essence of the person and getting to the true root of the cause of pain/dis-ease. There have been many truly amazing results from this, one of mine being I no longer have the extreme pain from endometriosis. Thank you for sharing this Ingrid, these modalities are a blessing to us all.
Thank you for sharing your amazing story Ingrid, it is perfect for me to read this now ‘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.’ Having lived with varying amounts of back pain for many years until finding the esoteric modalities which have helped me take responsibility for the choices I was making and their impact on my body I had been pain free for 5 years until my back went into spasm last week. It has been interesting to see how quickly I went back into negative patterns of thinking and let the pain take over. Having a CTT ( connective tissue therapy) and massage yesterday supported me to reconnect to me and how I needed to treat my body more gently and lovingly. I am so grateful for CTT and also appreciative of my commitment to supporting my body in its healing process.
I found it quite an eye-opener (yet at the same time a sense of understanding from doing the same just with a different flavour) as to how long we can accept a lesser life. That belief that ‘this is our lot’ and that life on the surface is the be all and end all is in my experience depressing and causes an unease and reaction because deep down we know this is not the case. Universal Medicine has never claimed to ‘be the way’ but simply confirmed that we do know how life can be lived and allows for the space for us to claim such instead of the constant ‘this is it’ mentality.
We have more influence over the state of our well being than we like to realise, and whilst western medicine will always play a hugely important role, so should we acknowledge the importance of developing a more intimate relationship with our own body – a relationship that is more deeply in tune with what is going on underneath the surface.
“We have more influence over the state of our well being than we like to realise” – this is one of the biggest, maybe even the biggest, realisations that I have had over the last 10 years. And I agree Adam when you say that we know our bodies more intimately than anyone else does, therefore it is our responsibility to develop this relationship, listen to what they are trying to tell us and to care for them with the utmost love and respect, and when we do, miracles happen.
Incredible Ingrid. It’s amazing what we can do when we take our health into our own hands, and commit to doing things as simple as gentle exercises a few times a day! When I was younger, I sprained my ankle and worked with Kate Greenway to regain my strength and balance in that leg… She was patient, supportive and super helpful – I healed pretty quickly, and I’m forever grateful that both my ankles are now equally strong!
Your point is a good one though Susie, unless we are prepared to dedicate the time to expand the session outside the treatment room then the healing can only go so far. Part of, and I would say a large part of the healing, is understanding why the conversation is being had by the body in the first place. That combination is pretty powerful.
This is true Susie, ‘ It’s amazing what we can do when we take our health into our own hands, and commit to doing things as simple as gentle exercises a few times a day!’ I find this when I commit to walking everyday, this is such a support to my general health and wellbeing and after years of trying various hard, pounding sports and my body never feeling great, it is lovely to feel how simple and beneficial a walk or a some gentle exercises can be on our health.
I love connective tissue therapy too and I think it is an amazing modality however without the love and dedication to yourself, the willingness to look deeper and get to deeper levels of honesty with yourself your “miracle” healing could not have taken place. In fact your story reflects the dedication of the practitioners also and the awesome quality they bring to the table.
Yes Elainearthey, I noticed the dedication in this blog as well. Ingrid didn’t want to just accept life as it was, with the pain, there was a constant dedication to look…albeit outside of herself. How confirming to others that it ended up being a combination of support from your practitioners and dedication to those exercises at home that supported you to come to a space that has found you pain free.
Thank you Ingrid for your powerful testimony. Connective Tissue Therapy is unlike any other modality I have experienced, it is a beautiful and profound modality that consists of gentle and rhythmical movements which through symbiosis offer the body an opportunity to heal. I liken being on the table in a connective tissue session to what it must of felt like as a baby in the womb, a feeling of absolute openness and freedom in the body. From Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and regular practise of Connective Tissue Exercises I feel a lot more space and connection with my body.
Great journey you made here- the modalities established by Serge Benhayon are absolutely amazing and through your increasing awareness and their support- not wonder you feel better now.
Thank you for sharing this Ingrid. The reawakening of the wisdom of our bodies is truly a great thing. Like you, I used to treat my body without much regard but I am so grateful for having been reminded of its true essence and connection to all of life. As you say, things begin to make sense again.
I love the concept of “Reawakening the Wisdom of our bodies.” There is so much there to learn from, to study, to share with others all, from the body waiting patiently for us to listen.
This is so inspiring Ingrid and a beautiful testament to yourself and your choices working with Esoteric Modalities and loving self care and way of living. I too have found Connective Tissue Therapy so beneficial to my body and long term pain and have made the gentle exercises part of my daily rhythm also and the result is amazing and so freeing along with working on the issues behind it. The joy of living in a loving way with ones body, responsibility and purpose is well worth it in every way.Thank you for sharing this Ingrid
Ingrid what an inspiring story you’ve shared, one thats start is so common “putting up with the pain” yet the ending is very unique. The ending is truly a miracle as for most people they never find a way to do anything but manage the pain of their condition. It’s an inspiration to everyone that at 65 you’re working full time, active and more involved in society than ever before. It sounds like a complete transformation and one that anyone with sciatica (i’ve not heard of that before) would deeply appreciate reading. If there is a sciatica website your blog should be on it.
Thank you Ingrid – like you; Serge Benhayon has been the first person to ever present to me that 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. To know this, and to live this is precious. It is a wisdom that is so deep and so supportive. Responsibility is an amazing thing, for my choices allow either more love or less love. And health, vitality, honesty all come from choosing more love.
Wow Ingrid what a blessing it was that you discovered Universal Medicine! Your experience reminds me of how much we can all just accept, adapt and put up with pain and misery in our bodies. What is so evident here is that you tried many therapies in order to deal with this situation but it was Esoteric Connective Tissue that supported you to truly heal this condition through empowering you to become aware of your body, care for yourself while you worked and make permanent, nurturing changes in the way you live. I too can vouch for the immense healing power of this work and all the esoteric healing modalities born of Universal Medicine. Having also tried many other therapies, I have never come across anything that gets to the root of the ill like esoteric healing does and empower the person to truly take charge of their health and life once more. Thank you for sharing your journey, an amazing testament to the true wisdom and healing power of this work and to your own ability to heal a very deep rooted issue.
This is so inspiring Ingrid. I love the fact that because you couldn’t attend many sessions the majority of your healing has been done through doing exercises yourself as well as increasing your honesty about the way you were living. Proof that we are our own healers.
Knowing that the pain is not us and it is the body’s way of saying that there is something not right with the way we are living that is causing disharmony in the body, is huge Ingrid. We are not taught this when we are young, we are told to be brave strong and overcome the pain without stopping to feel what is really going on. I love the gentleness of Esoteric Connective Tissue it does not impose on the body but asks it to come back to its natural state of being and you are living proof that after nearly 40 years of sciatica you are now pain free,.Amazing and a great testimony to Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
Ingrid this is revolutionary! To transform your life from one full of pain and disregard to one that is full of care and almost pain free by simply changing the way you live is amazing. Definitely a story worth sharing – thank you.
This is amazing to read Ingrid, Connective Tissue Therapy is such a powerful modality and unlike many other therapies available today it is so gentle and respectful of the body.
Well said Rebecca and I totally agree. This modality can be done fully clothed with no strain or discomfort for the practitioner or client. The moves are so simple and un-invasive that I often wonder if anything is happening at all! However, I know the immense power this technique has by how my body completely surrenders into a deep state of healing.
“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.” Making simple life-style changes profoundly affects the way our body responds and hence our health and vitality. Some would call your healing miraculous and indeed in a way it is – but oh so simple when we listen to our body and our heart. Connective tissue therapy is truly amazing. Thankyou for you sharing Ingrid.
To me your story demonstrates the successful marriage of conventional and complimentary medicine. Understanding the reasons for the pain, then seeking the help of a physiotherapist in support.
Ingrid thus is awesome, an amazing testimonial to the power of the esoteric healing therapies, to esoteric connective tissue and to you choosing to live a life based on deepening your self-love and care. No longer having chronic pain rule your life the way you have described is a miracle.
This is a great testimonial of what Connective Tissue therapy can do – having experienced sciatica myself for many years prior to finding Universal Medicine, I can relate to the level of pain you have written about and having spent a whole lot of money trying to find relief. The profound thing about Connective Tissue is how simple it is, but the results are staggering.
An inspirational story, and one that confirms the healing that is possible when we choose to listen to our body and take responsibility for our choices. Thanks Ingrid.
I love to hear of your commitment to yourself Ingrid and how you consistently made the choice to self-heal with daily connective tissue exercises when there was no practitioner around to support you. No wonder your body is repaying your dedication. A very inspiring blog that just goes to show what can happen when we consistently choose self-love.
“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.” This awareness is like the greatest of friendships rekindled. If we are open to listening, the intelligence the body has to share confirms how truly amazing we are.
What a wonderful story Ingrid. You show how awesome the Connective Tissue Therapy modality is and the great benefits to the body of introducing self care into your everyday. Your story is very inspiring, thank you for sharing.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your story of self rediscovery. I too find the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and the other modalities offered by Universal Medicine have supported me in reconnecting to every fibre in my body and to deepening my awareness of how I had treated myself is reflected back to me by the aches and pains I carried and just learnt to ‘put up with’. I now have a far greater respect and understanding of my body and what it is telling me and am learning to care for myself in more loving ways.
Ingrid, what a profound sharing you offer here in your blog with how choosing a different way to live your life and bringing deep self care and appreciation has changed everything – “from 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”
TO – “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”.
A totally inspiring read – your joy fills the page! Thank you Ingrid.
Congratulations Ingrid – what an inspiring journey you have been on. And I say congratulations because, as you have said, it was you who chose to take the journey into dealing with your hurts and pains – both physically and the underlying root causes – that has led you to be the vibrant woman you are today. What a blessing for you and all who know you. And yes, how lovely to have the support of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon to remind us that we are not our pain!
Connective Tissue is definitely the modality to use on our bodies when we have pain, it brings our body back to it natural state of harmony.
I had connective tissue therapy following a foot injury that left me with a constant mild discomfort bordering on pain after the injury itself had healed. After one connective tissue session, my foot felt completely different, and the discomfort/pain totally gone, never to return. Incredible.
Absolutely Sally, i’ve seen the power of this most gentle modality work miracles on my partner, who suffered extreme back pain and now he is almost pain free…he has a story to tell as well!
Yes, well called Simone – congratulations indeed to Ingrid.
Ingid, what a living testimonial you are of how the way we live and are with ourselves changes our lifes and wellbeing. I agree, connective tissue is a very powerful modality.
This is great Ingrid,not only the fact that Connective Tissue therapy is so amazing but that you chose to take full responsibility and commit to the exercises. Many people just want the cure without having to put in any effort.
I agree and you’ve inspired me Ingrid to do these exercises more often. I’ve been doing them here and there and not often enough but when I do them I feel my body completely re-align.
I agree, Katerina. I have not done the exercises for a while, and it is a great reminder from Ingrid to bring them into my daily rhythm.
So true Katerina my whole body opens up more, feels stronger and alive when I do my gentle exercises.
Good point here kevmchardy. That commitment to ourselves, and following through with what we know is good for us, makes a huge difference. It’s about taking control and not as you say just expecting the medical profession to fix us.
Really good point Kevin, it seems we live in a world where everyone wants a quick fix, a pill for every ill so they can continue on their ill way. Isn’t our body amazing, it’s constantly presenting us with an opportunity to see the truth of how we’re living –
if we care to listen.
Kevmchardy, that is a great point, we forget that we are practitioners of our own body in every moment.
It is amazing what pain and discomfort we will put up with in the body and what it takes for us to stop and look at what is really going on, myself included. Through Universal Medicine and the various modalities for taking care of ourselves, I have learned of the energetic reasons for various aches and pains, taking responsibility for them is not about making myself wrong, but understanding there is another way to live that supports my health. The results from these modalities are amazing, which is a direct reflection of how amazing we all are, even more so when we make choices to truly love ourselves.
“…taking responsibility for them ( pains) is not about making myself wrong, but understanding there is another way to live that supports my health.”
That’s an awesome confirmation, Mark, that it is not at all about beating up on ourselves when we find we have mis aligned with disregarding energies, but rather, lovingly re aligning with what is of truth. Beating up on ourselves only entrenches the mal alignment further ….. not a move towards healing at all.
We can call this a miracle Ingrid Ward. The enormous power of the connective tissue therapy is not fully valued yet and your testimonial adds to this in a positive way. It is touching to read that after 40 years of living with sciatica, you can now say that it no longer rules your life and you are more free to live the real you. How amazing is that!
“the reasons behind it being there in the first place”. That is it for me Ingrid, the moment I connect back to what I have done to myself how quickly I begin to heal. But I must admit along the line, I tended to deny this, so a stronger awareness was necessary for me to just get it. Thank you.
Yes Mary, this is for many of us i am sure, to take the step to feel as you say ‘…what i have done to my myself..’ but you also say ‘…how quickly i begin to heal’ when you do connect back to yourself. this can be difficult for many of us to really take responsibility for ‘what we have done to ourselves’ and that it is possible we suffer in the body as a result of this, the body is actually showing us how we have been living…so if we can choose to harm the body we can also choose to bring love and heal. But it starts with connection to ourselves first, from there we can begin to feel our body.
Amazing Ingrid, thank you for sharing your lived experience. I love Connective Tissue therapy and find it to be a truly supportive modality for my body. How awesome that by attending a Universal Medicine presentation you came to the awareness that you are not your pain – this an everyday miracle. I can so relate to focusing on what might be going wrong for my body and have found when I do this it is hard to appreciate the steadiness that is always there within.
I agree Bianca it is an everyday miracle. When all else has failed for most people health gets worse, your body fatigues easily when compensating for pain, and its difficult to exercise and keep healthy. This is indeed a life changing turn around.
Illness, disease and pain can be true blessings, bringing us to a more natural way of being.
In our society, illness and disease are often not seen as the true blessings that you have mentioned Carmin. An attitude still exists of ‘let’s fix it’ so i can go back to living how i was’ rather than seeing illness and disease as a gift – a stop moment to re-evaluate our choices and how we are living. Our body is amazing and as evidenced from Ingrid, responds to a level of dedication, self-care and self-love. Such simple ingredients.
Yep, showing us that something is out of balance and asking what is going on, how have i been living to be here?
As I read your story Ingrid I noticed how I adjusted my posture and sat higher in my chair (bet I wasn’t the only one). Thank you for the reminder.
The connective tissue therapy sessions I’ve had with Kate have been subtle, yet so relieving for my body as it settled into a more harmonious state…and that lasted until I chose to disregard myself by such as doing things as not following the exercises or slumping in my chair (which I’m not doing right now I hasten to add).
Haha your not alone Rod. I did the same thing. I currently have a pain between my shoulder blades and have realised I have been slouching to avoid feeling it. So as awkward as it feel I am committing to adjusting my posture constantly and allowing myself to feel the tension in my body. So I can totally relate to how you accepted the pain and over time how it became such a normal part of your life. The fact you have dissolved this pain from your body through your choices and esoteric healing is a miracle. Thank you Ingrid.
This is an awesome story Ingrid and fantastic example of how powerful Connective Tissue therapies and taking responsibility for our own health and healing can be. You have also inspired me to incorporate more connective tissue exercises while I sit at the computer too.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your amazing story. What you have experienced really proves that love is the way, and that taking true responsibility to every area of our lives is a truly healing way of being. We can rid ourselves of the constructs of the past by listening intently to our bodies and responding in kind.
Indeed katechorley, our bodies are the strongest marker for the life we have lived, the choices we have made and – if we allow ourselves to listen to them – they will tell us precisely what will be supportive for us and what will not.
I agree Michael, it’s not rocket science!
” Part of me kept thinking that this was too good to be true, but true it has turned out to be.” Something I certainly relate to and I am sure many others do to when it comes to Universal Medicine services. There is such simplicity in what connective tissue exercise offers, through supporting people to choose a quality of connection before they move and exercise. Few exercise styles offer this and how relatable it is to our whole lives.
Choosing the quality of our connection before making a movement or exercising is what I have found is supported by Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, also, Simon. This modality works not only on the physical connective tissue, but also on our ability to connect deeply with ourself and then extend that to others, also. Hence, it is, as you say, a remarkably unique modality.
Ingrid I too have felt great benefit from the Connective Tissue exercises and sessions. They have helped me connect to my body and develop a healthy relationship with my body when exercising – they feel sooooo good my body then feels like exploring more movement most days.
This is just amazing Ingrid to hear and your ending line so appreciating of (new) CHOICE: “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 feels so freeing.
Ingrid, what a great story of recovery. Living a life with self care as part of your daily way has brought incredible changes. The way we are with ourselves and how we take care really does matter and you are proof of that. There is no magic pill or exotic herbal drink from a desert island, it is developing love for ourselves with each and every movement.
So true Matthew ‘it is developing love for ourselves with each and every movement.’
I love this Matthew. It’s true that self responsibility and love is our best preventative, and medicine… and, it is available in each and every moment.
This is a strong testimony to not only the Connective Tissue Therapy, but to the power in choice. 1 year is a long time to carry such a burdening pain, let alone two decades – so it’s wonderful to hear that the pain has all but subsided in parallel to living closer to the love you are!
What a fabulous testament to the Connective Tissue modality and the exercises.
I too have found them an incredible daily support. I no longer hold myself in my body in the tension I used to and nor do I wake daily with pain. I still need to stretch and exercise often but I am doing so with much more awareness of my lovely tender body and not pushing it the way I used to. I show the exercises to my clients because they are so effective and easy to integrate into one’s day.
Hello emmadanchin and I love the Connective Tissue modality as delivered from Universal Medicine and Kate Greenaway. I also love what you have highlighted here, it is almost our responsibility for the ongoing care of ourselves. I just picked it up when I saw you had written “I still need to stretch and exercise often”. Often we go to a practitioner or modality looking for it to fix us but like with all Universal Medicine modalities ‘we’ have a big and equal part to play in any treatment and or recovery. Thank you Emma.
Just gorgeous Ingrid. It shows that through making loving and gradual changes to support ourselves we can see true improvement in our day to day lives. That is simply inspiring for all. So much can be learned through your own lived experiences. Thank you.
This is a great story of healing. To no longer have the pain you have suffered so many years in itself is amazing, but how empowering is it that you know it happened “as a result of the love and care that I now have for my body” – it just proves the depth of healing the esoteric modalities can bring.
Fumiyo I agree with you about the depth of healing that esoteric modalities bring. Ingrid’s story demonstrates this beautifully as she is experiencing not only the healing of the sciatica but how the connection that she has built with her body has also brought more quality to the work that she does and the relationships that she has, how far reaching is that ?
I too briefly experienced sciatic pain during my first pregnancy. For me, they were resolved simply with some stretches I was shown in a massage course.
What stood out for me with your blog and what I am now aware of with us humans in general, is how many of us have been brought up to endure and put-up with physical and/or emotional issues instead of being encouraged to seek the underlying Truth and Answers to our ailments. It feels like a lack of self awareness and self-worth that is the plague among men, leading us to suffer, when that is not truly The Way. As you have shown, changes can begin to happen when we begin to lovingly care for and nurture our bodies.
Yes Pernillahorne when I look back I am astounded at the amount of pain and discomfort I put my body through over the years. I was taught to soldier on and it was with great pride and obstinacy that emulated my parents, gritted my teeth and did not stop to consider what could be the underlying cause of any pain. I did great damage to my body but a few years ago I came across Universal Medicine. Learning to be gentle and caring towards my body meant leaving behind a lifetime of abuse and there is still much to learn but I now know that I do not have to live with pain. Accepting my responsibility for all my choices has shown me that life is generous and the Way of the Livingness is the way to go.
Writing this blog pernillahorne only served to emphasise exactly what you have written here, that so “many of us have been brought up to endure and put-up with physical and/or emotional issues instead of being encouraged to seek the underlying Truth and Answers to our ailments.”. Not only did I put up with the sciatica but many other physical and emotional issues which of course had the same platform of lack of self love and self worth feeding them. Reclaiming the love for myself, re-developing my self-worth and beginning to listen to my body were the initial, and essential, steps to begin my healing, which today is still a work in progress.
I can wholeheartedly concur, Ingrid. My years of on-off sciatic pain only truly ceased when I unraveled the fact that I am truly worthy of immense love, my love … and to express that love and truth more and more. And the catalyst for this has been Universal Medicine.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing your amazing tranformation from the pain of sciatica from almost owning you, to having been able to truly view what was the root cause behind the intense pain. What a gift Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is, and is for me also as I continue also to practice the exercises that Kate Greenaway offered to me a couple of years ago following more than 20 years of on and off again excruciating pain to the point of my legs functioning very little at all on more than one occasion. On reading your article it reminded me of all those years my body would just freeze in a a posture, sometimes standing, or sitting or bending over – and I uninformed and ignorant at that time just accepted that that was my body – that was just me and my lot I believed. How wrong was I, and it was not until I met Serge Benhayon and began attending the Universal Medicine presentations that I learned of my responsibility in my then dis-function. What a gift from Heaven has been my connection with Serge reminding me that there is another way, and I discovered that way is The Way of the Livingness.
I agree, Roberta, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is an amazing gift we have been given. It can transform our bodies, particularly when we stay really aware of how we are using the body every moment of the day (to the best of our ability). I agree, living The Way of The Livingness and also building self awareness is also key to bringing about these wonderful changes that can appear to be miracles.
I too have experienced the wonder that is Esoteric Connective Tissue modality, both with Kate Greenaway and other Universal Medicine practitioners. I began when I was pregnant with my second child to ‘relieve the aches and pains of pregnancy’ – but I got so much more, for I came to the awareness that there is a natural flow within our bodies that flows in accordance to the Universe and that when we live out of rhythm to this, disharmony naturally ensues. Thus the key is to learn to live in a way that is in accordance to the greater landscape that we are an intrinsic part of and not to create a life that goes against it. If we are able to embody that which embodies us, then we will not have to call on the forces of resistance that would otherwise have us live in a far lesser and more contracted state than the enormity and expansiveness we so naturally are.
‘The key is to learn to live in a way that is in accordance with the greater landscape that we are an intrinsic part of and not to create a life that goes against it’. This is such a beautiful and all encompassing statement in a beautiful and all encompassing piece of writing by Liane. I cant help but contrast it with the narrowness and ugliness of the rules and restrictions that I have tried to impose on myself, and then failed to live by.
It is a great line Catherine, I see it as living a life in harmony with everything around us, not just carving out a life that suits us, there is a bigger picture we are part of.
This is amazing Ingrid, we always hear that as we age our bodies wear down and start to show the signs of aging through aches, pains and conditions. Boy-o-boy Girl have you turned this idea on it’s head.
This is a great sharing Ingrid for it clearly defines how we identify ourselves with our pain and falsely assume it is a part of us which only seems to embed it deeper within us thus causing us to override our innate wisdom – a wisdom that when listened to is telling us that the pain that we experience is actually a loving reminder of what is not love, that has been placed but has no place in a body of love, such as we are.
I agree Liane, and your story Ingrid is the perfect example of what happens for so many people – they initially try everything to quell the pain, but eventually resign to the fact that they will just have to deal with it, and compromise their quality of life to do so.
It is inspiring that you have reclaimed your ‘body of love’ and committed to the truth of your choices, therefore allowing your true health to return.
A beautiful testimony of love, responsibility and the magic of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
If modern medicine embraced the notion of illness being a communication from our bodies, then the whole global health care system would change, zillions of dollars would be saved, and people would have the opportunity to live a life of evolution and true well-being. Your comment Liane is the key to those gates.
The full acceptance of illness as a communication from the body would certainly revolutionise medicine and our approach to healthcare, it would be a giant step for mankind.
Beautifully said Liane and great point about the identification of pain. This is also the case for our emotional issues and assumed hurts, thinking this is us and trying to make room and accommodate the discomfort into our lives. I love how you say that pain is ‘..a loving reminder of what is not love, that has been placed but has no place in a body of love, such as we are.’
Great point Liane how we identify our pain in our mind as part of us, it shuts down our sentience and inner wisdom and we just suffer it.
All we need to do is realise that the pain is telling us that we are doing something unloving inside our beautiful body of love, something that can be healed with our sentience and inner wisdom.
When we understand the body in that way Liane, we set ourselves free from the entanglement that suffering from illness and disease binds us to.
I love Connective Tissue Therapy, such a gentle and rhythmic technique that allows my body to let go and surrender to me. With other body techniques I have experienced in the past, there was harshness and jarring, and my body use to brace against or resist the impact, not pleasant at all. There is never the slightest imposition on the body with Esoteric Healing modalities where the body is supported to return to its natural harmony.
Reading this blog and all the comments has reminded me of how much my body loves connective tissue, especially the exercises I do at home. I haven’t done them for a while but am looking forward to bringing them back into my life more.
Well said Victoria. I have experienced Connective Tissue Therapy as well and I find as I let go I can feel the beautiful natural flow and harmony in my body that is always there waiting for me to reconnect with. To be connected with this deeper part of us is to live life more lovingly, truthfully and harmoniously.
All to often I feel we just override the pain and carry on functioning or put up with it and feel that is what we have to live with. What you have presented here ‘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.’ …. is that as part of the healing to hold steady with love for ourselves and really be honest about the disregard we have lived in. I also love that along side this (or underneath) you have shared about the wisdom we carry deep within us … always.
Loved reading this Ingrid. Connective Tissue Therapy is such a profound modality and combined with your willingness to understand the underlying issues, they are a match made in heaven.
100% Sara, the profound connective marker that is offered by Connective Tissue Therapy combined with the willingness to see what prevents this from being our everyday livingness is a true match made in heaven.
The body is simply the marker of all truth and testament to your story Ingrid it carries with it every choice and digression. This is a great stop for me as I realise that the pain I have been experiencing in my body is not an accident from too much work but rather a lived way that over time erodes the way I have been feeling. The pain is not me but the mind has a damn good go at making you believe it so. Consistent application of loving ways allows us to let the ‘what is not us’ go and feel what our bodies actually are like.
It is amazing how we can override discomforts in the body and accept them as being part of us. As you share Ingrid, with honesty brings a deeper awareness and we can then allow ourselves to truly feel what is going on, on all levels.
The Esoteric Healing modalities offer a great support for the whole of the body and being.
It is true that we can just get used to painful physical feelings (and emotional), living with them daily until they become part of our identity and then they can even become difficult to let go of. I agree Victoria the healing modalities offered by Universal Medicine allow us to reconnect to our true and harmonious state of being supporting us to be more aware of what we are doing to cause ourselves disharmony and then in our own time commit to making the necessary changes. Stories like Ingrid’s are not uncommon amongst those that use the Esoteric Healing modalities which just goes to show how powerful they are.
Yes true Josephine, the healing is offered with the Esoteric healing Modalities and when we say yes with our bodies and accept that we are the ones healing ourselves the transformations that can take place are very powerful.
This point that you raise Josephine, living with pain until it becomes part of your identity – is indeed a reality for many. Identified by symptoms, struggle, emotions, issues – and the idea that this makes up who we are was indeed my reality – until I was inspired to re-connect to something deeper, grander, less individual – the soul. Thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for showing me the way home to me!
Ingrid this blog is wonderful. I really appreciate your commitment to yourself when I read this. You were unable to see Kate regularly for sessions and so you committed to taking the steps needed to heal yourself. This is very inspiring and I feel this commitment to your own healing was key in the recovery you have made. I have not been able to see practitioners regularly lately so this shows me that I can still have amazing sessions with myself if I commit to this.
Absolutely Leonne, you have raised such a valid point, that although support is a great and much needed element, no one can do the work for us. Essentially we always heal ourselves.
Well said Leonne – sessions are a great support, but it is ultimately the love and dedication that we have for ourselves, and our commitment to our own healing that brings true changes. It is good to be reminded of this so as not to use times when it is harder to get to sessions as an excuse.
Yes Leonne I agree. Taking responsibility for our own healing is very empowering as Ingrid has discovered. The openness and willingness to look at our selves and how we are living is the key to our healing process.
Thank you for sharing Ingrid – I am inspired also by your discipline – to keep going with your exercises when no practitioners were available; this is a real testament to your self worth and willingness to heal what was underneath.
This is so true Gemmarubina. However, amazing the Connective Tissue Therapy, the other Esoteric Modalities, Serge Benhayon and the Esoteric Practitioners are, and they are, if one does not have the willingness to accept self-responsibility and to do ‘the work’ nothing will change.
Me too Gemma, and the simplicity of Connective Tissue exercises make it so easy to do for yourself. I can do them at my work desk, in a queue, lots of places really. Great for including in every day activities.
Goes to show the choice to stay connected or re-onnect if need be is with us all the time – this is super powerful.
As you say Ingrid it’s essential to heal the reasons behind why we get pain or illness in order to bring about any true, whole or lasting healing. Universal Medicine Therapies have been a massive support to me too, absolutely life changing.
Yes Fiona , Universal Medicine therapies are certainly not a band aid effect. They go to the root of the problem, and are truly lasting as we heal from the inside out.
What a transformation that you have had Ingrid and what a miracle that you are. How many people go though there wholes lives without the ability to truly heal their aliments. You are a walking testament of healing and it is beautiful to feel your part to play in your own self healing by doing your exercises at your own home and at your own desk. A real inspiration.
I agree Natasha, and what I loved about Ingrids blog was how much she appreciated her own choices that led to her healing. Choices we can all make, miracles we can all be.
How beautifully simple the Connective Tissue Therapies are Ingrid. They have an effect on the body that gradually restores our natural way and our simplicity too. It is absolutely true we are this beauty. Thank you.
Totally Joseph. Reading and feeling this blog , as others have pointed out too, it is simple to make a self-loving choice. The choice IS always THERE.
I love stories like yours, it is miraculous but so simple no mystery, plain to see, what we choose affects our bodies.
Hi Vanessa I agree, real stories such as Ingrid’s are miraculous but without mystery, simply making loving choices for our self to be our self and of cause the glorious support that Universal Medicine offers to make this possible. Thank you Ingrid for sharing your inspiring blog.
i too love how simple your healing became one you considered the way you live is the most important factor.
So true Felicity. So many modalities offer the world as a fix, but they don’t make it clear that the way we live is the biggest component in our healing, or in our ongoing pain.
I love this too… It is indeed a miracle, but a miracle that is available to us all when we choose to be honest about all of our choices and are willing to learn to listen and take care of our bodies!
Being honest and listening to our bodies can be challenging when we have become so used to something, especially with mild symptoms. Building up a foundation of how we care for ourselves allows for that next step to happen naturally.
I love what you write here Nikki. Because to often we (or should I say “I”) consider little pains that do not really keep us from functioning throug life as a real problem. As something that needs to be taken care of. Which is arrogant (or ignorant if we choose to be not aware) and the opposite of self loving. I am learning that my body is my best friend, my own marker of where I am Truly at. And that the only moments that I am Truly confident are the moments that I am surrendered to my body and feel me and the world around me. Which for me keeps being work in progress. I kind of still would love a life without hurts, which is impossible and is also taking the learning out of life, but somehow I still wobbling with that.
I agree Vanessa, it’s so easy to just carry on with pain and discomfort, and except it as just our lot, but this story shows that there is another way if we are willing to look at our choices and make changes…
I am aware that it’s quite easy for me to accept stories like Ingrid’s, as I have read many miraculous stories attesting the same but when I then turn my gaze out into the world I am reminded that most of the world do not know that it is how we live that is the lynch pin to addressing any ailment, illness, disease or even blemish ! Yes we could wait until the ripple reaches the rest of the world or we could get a little more creative and instrumental and creat a tsunami.
Agree Vanessa the simplicity is ground breaking and sometimes hard to accept. This testimonial is gold Ingrid, as it shows that the true way is based on loving choices.
I agree. It is the simplicity and lack of mystery that is the game-changer. I mean even spelling sciatica is hard enough, let alone curing it! Yet you break the mystery and bring it back to the accessible simplicity of our choices. Ace.
Yes I was struck with this too Vanessa – a miracle but with a known reason. Choosing self-love and honesty as to what is going on and how we are living our lives has such a strong effect on our bodies. Thanks for sharing your miracle with us Ingrid.
That’s true Vanessa, it is so simple and far from mysterious to heal our body through the esoteric principles. Going into to the innermost essence of our being and tracking out from there reveals where we have first chosen to separate from there. It makes complete sense to work from the root of the issue than the symptoms. It is “plain to see” what the outcome will be.