813 thoughts on “Exposing the False Perception of a Perfect Life”

1. Could it be when we go into comparison we end up trying to better another and their feats and thus get lost and drift away from our innate feeling of Divinity that would knock out any form of comparison.

2. It seems like the majority of us live with false perceptions, a constant strive to achieve what we see on our social media channels or TV – celebrities, living the highlife at parties, beaches, skyscrapers and so on. Whilst at the same time, we all know that being a celebrity is very tough, that many of those people struggle with drugs, alcohol and sexual abuse at some level and yet we still want the recognition and many more of us are willing to pay the price just to get our name out there at any cost. Why is that? Why are we willing to risk our health just so that our life and choices can be recognised & praised by the many?

3. How Awesome to hear your life is an Amazing journey ✨ when we are shown another way … a true way, everything becomes so much clearer and easier.

4. I know we all feel this to some extent or other Haresh
   “but there was a constant feeling that something was lacking. Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.”
   We know because we are all using stimulants in one form or another to just get through the day and to mask what we are truly feeling. There are times and these are becoming more frequent when people actually ask the question what is going on? Why do I feel this tension that I then try to numb out?
   We have lost that inner connection to ourselves and this is causing the internal and eternal misery from which actually there is no escape until we reconnect.

5. Thanks Haresh, I really enjoyed the practicalities you have explored for how love looks in the world and I particularly liked the term walking with “loving feet”. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.” This is also very simple and practical, truly life lived with the soul is a constant exploration, an observation, then a choice to return all parts of life back to love.

   1. It is great to hear how you were supported to become more aware in your life, ‘I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life.’

6. When someone lives what they talk it stands out. So much so that it highlights how living according to mental pictures and thoughts and hearsay really doesn’t cut the mustard.

7. When we live with a selective memory we deliberately remember some things and dismiss others – which effectively gives us skewed version of what is true and not true.

8. There is no such thing as a perfect life other than the one that we are living as it is exactly what we need to grow and learn and evolve.

   1. I love what you have said here so very wisely, Henrietta. Such a simple but very powerful truth and one when understood, will release us from the exhaustion of continually trying to have the perfect life in what is actually an imperfect world.

9. ‘I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ You can know things with your mind but when your body is not in charge you will never live what is true.

   1. I agree with you Annelies that we rely so heavily on what our brains know rather than what our bodies know. We seem to think our brain is more powerful, when actually it is the body working in unity that can give us the answers to all the questions we could ever ask. What is being exposed is another example of the fact that yet again we are living the exact opposite to what is true.

   2. Listening to, and honouring the body’s many messages of wisdom is such a wise decision.

10. Living in a world where we have been led to believe that life is all about the intelligence of the mind and the knowledge it holds, the following truth has the power to challenge that very ingrained belief. “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”. And for me, that it is exactly has happened, as I come to realise that I can be classed as intelligent but that counts for nothing if I live in a way that is disregarding of myself and of others. I have learned that true intelligence comes from the body and therefore when I allow my body to be my guide in the way I live, life changes immeasurably.

    1. There is a lot in our world that does not make sense, ‘If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?’

11. “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” You can be told how to tie shoe laces but until you practice it for yourself it seems almost impossible.

    1. I like what you say Mary Adler, I remember trying to tie my shoelaces and it was difficult at first but then after practicing for a while I got the hang of it. There is a pulse to life and when we can feel it and live from it everything changes. Living within the pulse of life takes a bit of practice but so worth it. Just like the feeling you get when as a child you really tie up your shoe laces for the first time there’s a sense of Oh! That’s how it’s done, amazing.

12. Self-care should form the foundations of everything we do.

13. So true – no matter how brilliant and inspiring the teachings might be, if they are just kept and locked up in our head or in a library and every now and then get taken out to be marveled at, it’s utterly useless. True wisdom is a livingness, and very practical.

14. Awareness is what brings true change, for awareness brings true understanding and with this understanding loving choices can be made.

    1. Awareness is key in our lives, ‘I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it’.

15. Many of us would admit that we have lived or are living a ‘normal’ life by society’s standards. But what does this normal mean and what are we really accepting as ‘normal’? I know that I had accepted anxiety, exhaustion, drive, disregarding and abusing my body and had also accepted living with minor ailments, pains and emotional hurts as just something we all have and that it’s just a part of life that we have to manage and deal with. All the while I never really felt that I knew who I was and what my purpose was in life. Yet now I know there is much more than this and through The Way of The Livingness, it has been possible to not only feel but also to live consistently a far more loving life and reality that is guided by honouring the truth and wisdom of our body and Soul. I now understand that connection is everything, and more so to be aware what it is we are in connection to: is it love or lovelessness?

16. “that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it” – I have found this liberating. I used to give myself such a hard time about knowledge – do I know enough? am I smart enough? etc…but I found it much more powerful to live something that to know it. Anyone can know things – study, learn, pick up etc… – but it takes a lot more courage and responsibility to actually live it. Many can also talk it, but can we walk it?

    1. Yes, it really is key to live what we have come to learn, or realise, rather than keep it locked away in our heads.

17. ‘How am I walking? Am I walking with loving feet or just to get from one place to another to get the job done?’ This question on its own is enough to turn our lives around, when we start to walk connected to our body instead with being in our head, thinking about what is coming or what has been there in the past, our movements will change and we can choose to walk with purpose and joy will return in every step we take.

    1. How are we walking, this week I got blisters on my feet, in different locations, and on different days, so what was my body showing me about how I was walking…

18. This is gold Haresh ‘I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ We inspire others far more by our reflection and our lived ways than our empty words.

19. Are we afraid of our life not being perfect because we don’t have the skills to make it perfect and somehow have been trapped into thinking it does need to be? That would be a marketing dream because there would always be something to tempt you with and to sell to you.

    1. The endless searching for perfection is definitely “a marketing dream” as how better to keep people destabilsed and so unable to live who they truly are, by convincing them that what they have and how they are living, is not enough, it needs to be ‘better’. Seeking perfection is a bit like trying to grab that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, as just as you think you’ve got it, it’s on the move again. Time to realise that the pot of gold is actually within us; no searching required.

       1. Love that – the information we are constantly bombarded with is cementing the search on the outside, so much so that we may not even know what “the search on the inside” may actually mean. We are so used to stimulation and excitement being sold as a desired outcome, that the settlement and contentment we may feel as a result of going deeper may be so unfamiliar that we resist it. When we have the wrong picture of what we’re looking for, we will never find it.

20. Coping with life is for many people the way life is. We are told from young that life is not easy, in general is not joyful, and absolutely is full of necessary chores we have to fulfil on a daily basis. No wonder that we are so obsessed in this coping that we completely forget that we have a body to take care fore, a body that knows how to live life in a simple and joyful way.

21. Just these simple questions which are listed in this blog, should be our normal body awareness in any moment of the day.

22. The details of forever refining to live more of us, how delicious, and what a joy.

23. Thanks Haresh, I have recently become aware of new ways to bring more love to my life. I experienced a change in awareness and could see how easily I could change behaviours I had accepted as my normal, by simply asking myself “is this loving?” It was obvious many things weren’t, so a joyful process is unfolding to bring more love into my life.

    1. This could be as simple as looking and feeling how we are walking, ‘How am I walking? Am I walking with loving feet or just to get from one place to another to get the job done?’

24. The point is to know that what we may consider ‘complete’ is not and will never be, except as the end of something and the beginning to something that is bigger if we accept that what has completed is now your new normal.

    1. Yes Eduardo we are always moving in cycles, in truth with no beginning or end, however we need to arrest the ill momentum which then allows us to deepen and honor the true cycles we are divinely part of. The gold is that our bodies will always reflect precisely where we are at in all of this at any moment in space.

25. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life.” So true and the antidote to your first paragraph which I could very much relate to how, we are in the illusion and comfort that life is fine because we have created it the way we want it to be, but deep within we can feel it is not really real, like the tasteless plastic strawberries, that something is missing in our perfect picture.

26. I love how you have exposed the ridiculousness of extreme behaviours where we place our lives, limbs or valuable appendages at risk, simply to say ‘look at me – I’ve climbed Mt Everest. “If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?” A great question to ask and I am sure there will be many who once asked the question will look at these disregarding behaviours in a very different light.

27. The very first time that I saw Serge Benhayon moving on the stage in a presentation I asked myself ‘who is that guy who moves in such a way? nobody in this world moves like that.’ There was a lightness, a freedom in his movements that surprised me as I never saw before someone moving in such a solidness and presence. He felt very real as he was presenting from his experience what he lives everyday. I appreciate very much his presence in my life, even we have talked with each other very little and we live in different countries I feel part of his family, very held and loved in this amazing journey that life is.

28. Yesterday walking on the street I realized how much my body posture and movements can affect the quality of my thoughts and actions. In every step I can ask myself, how am I walking? Being aware of this brings me the clarity to discern and to adjust my body to its natural way of moving and not in the constricted and protective mode that I used in the past. I appreciate so much this way of observing me with no judgment to embrace my Livingness, which as you well said Haresh, is the most natural way of being.

29. It feels so much like a re-discovery. When we choose knowledge it seems there is a start, a middle and an end to it, but awareness keeps deepening because we discover how much we have denied ourselves the awareness of where we came from and there are layers and layers of distraction and behaviours to get through to feel the depth and enormity of that body of Love.

30. Knowledge that stays on the page, in the book or in our head will always leave us with a pang of feeling something is missing. Then you bring it into a way of living you can then discern if it is something you align to and whether it is something that sits at ease within your body – or not.

31. The illusion of thinking our life is perfect is a gift to wake up to. When we become more real with ourselves, the world becomes more real too and in all the seemingly challenging situations we get to face ourselves deeper, choose to be more aware, let go of hurts and patterns, life truly is wondrous.

    1. When we let go the illusions we hold, we do become real and life will show us its real face consequently.

32. “I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Absoutely Haresh. When we live what we know to be true, there is nothing or no one that can tell us that we feel, or are something different to that which we know we are.

33. “also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it .” An important reflection to make. It supports us to always seek to connect to, without judgement, deeper root causes of hurt and anxiousness, rather than ignore or deny.

34. Yes, simply the opportunity from the way we live to consider a more loving way to live which builds the awareness. An awareness that never ends and constantly deepens.

35. ‘A tasteless strawberry made out of plastic’… I love it. Yes life before the the opportunity to look at life afresh and choose again. Small, simple loving acts build to be a livingness that lays a foundation of kindness, self-care and loving, that foundation then feeds back to raise more awareness about why we do what we do.

36. Picture perfect is only true when it feels the same, and feeling something is awesome, actually it doesn’t need to look perfect. Sometimes what feels amazing looks absolutely imperfect, but what makes it awesome is the energy behind it — is it the vibration of love and multidimensionality?

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38. I have made a lot of choices of self nurture and self-love and I have observed how much more aware I am. Awareness is truly the key to evolving.

    1. Being more loving and nurturing with ourselves opens us up for so much more, ‘How am I eating? Am I eating to nurture myself, or just to put the food in my body to get through the day; or do I want to distract myself by consuming certain comfort foods so I do not feel what’s really going on in a situation?’

39. This lack of life skills makes life very complicated and draining as we go about dealing with life the hard way, but underneath it all, is the lack of connection with oneself, the lack of connection with one’s body and therefore lack of awareness of how we are moving through life and that we are creating our own life by the choices we are making. Developing a relationship with our bodies is deeply supportive to making those necessary changes.

    1. Becoming more present with ourselves, our bodies, allows more awareness, ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness’.

40. I remember when I left school I had the next 5 years all mapped out, yet I was living from what I believed was going to make me feel good about myself, plus there was some one-upmanship going on too, I thought I was working towards a perfect life. Now my outlook on life is totally different, because as long as I am at one with myself my life is great, I no longer need the entrapments of the material world.

    1. Same here Sally, I too no longer need the comforts, the distractions and the entrapments of the material world. And what a huge shift that feels, from how far I have come, yet totally normal as we evolve.

41. When I was growing up I used to feel other people’s life was better than mine, I used to think they had that perfect life, but they had the perfect lie. For example, a gorgeous couple I used to hang out with, were well off financially, gorgeous house etc and then one day they were separated and going through a divorce even though they were not married, I was devastated.

    I grew up thinking couples should stay together forever because this couple in particular portrayed they were “happy”, yet the innocence of it all was my false perception of it – where was my awareness? Polluted by falsities handed down from generation to generation.

    I observe now my awareness is at a whole new level since meeting Serge Benhayon and I can feel when something is out of source before I even see it – it is gorgeous to re-awaken this.

42. The key message for me is the constant presence in everything we do, where are we when we are for instance cooking, but also when we are eating? I feel it’s harder to stay away from it all then staying with yourself, otherwise it’s a constant uphill battle. In the constant uphill battle the world then requires an over compensation of staying with themselves by the consumption of stimulating things.

    In constant presence those stimulating things will no longer be required and we will see the world for what it is.

43. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” The magic of being aware that we are returning to heart of where we come from.

44. I find the opposite of self-awareness is anxiety, because when I am choosing to be in anxiety it stops me from connecting to myself, to stillness and to the wisdom that resides in every cell of my body.

45. ‘Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.’ I love this as it takes the pressure off needing to do anything, knowing that it is the quality of our lived way that is felt.

46. i loved this line about life feeling like a tasteless strawberry made of plastic.. how many of us have felt that, and have felt or feel the tension of knowing that ‘there must be more’ to life – and then go on all sorts of wild and crazy pursuits in search of that ‘more’? What you present here Haresh is the simplicity and stillness available to us, the settlement that we feel in our bodies, when we choose to stay present with what is before us. Staying present = more awareness = increased ability to read ourselves and others, rather than react to what is going on, and in that, we feel more deeply connected, more settled in the knowing of who we are.

47. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life.” Having the awareness of self is the ultimate gift that keeps on giving as we then have access to a deep and never ending well of wisdom that begins with the connection from our bodies. Simply awesome.

    1. Having more awareness in our lives supports our evolving back to who we are in truth.

48. “I saw that my lack of life skills (the arrogance delivered through my mind would not agree, but this is a fact) made it difficult for me to deal with many situations in life.” I know these feelings and realise that we do often develop coping skills but no true life skills that support us dealing with situations in life, rather than just getting by without getting ‘too hurt’.

49. One of the beauties of self-awareness is that it develops into a much wider awareness because the more we know ourselves the more we know everyone and eventually everything!!!

    1. This is so true Nicola, it makes so much sense. Developing self-awareness is hugely important and so worthwhile in every way.

    2. Yes, the more aware we become, the more this spreads outwards.

50. Great description in relation to a tasteless strawberry. It is like living in a parallel world where strawberries are woody, dry and tasteless and we all accept that as normal, but somewhere within there is a distant or not so distant memory that real strawberries are actually sweet and juicy and there is something wrong with these strawberries, and now we look closer some are even mouldy and make us sick.

51. Thank you Haresh for the simple beauty of this blog. Being present with myself brings awareness and from experience awareness is far greater than being asleep to whats going on in life.

52. Living the ‘perfect life’ and understanding the great illusion that this is, is one of the most challenging things to extricate ourselves from.

53. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life.” Yes awareness is definitely a great tool to support us to not only grow from our experiences of life but to also learn, observe and connect with the wider world and see just how joyous life can be lived when we share who we are in full. Thank you Haresh.

54. The Livingness is the way forth in our evolution, for it is through it that we have access to the vast wisdom that has been lived before for the good of all.

    1. Absolutely, The Livingness is central for our evolution.

55. At the moment I have made my walking the focus, how do I walk?, how do I place my foot on the ground?, is my heel first or is my whole foot landing on the ground?, am I aware of my legs and my feet when I walk?, how are my toes?. It is a lovely experiment and I learn that when I make my walk the focus and not so much going from A to B, I get less tired and I feel the joy in my body of being present every where I go.

56. Living without awareness certainly does mean we are ill-equipped to deal with the many situations that present themselves throughout our lives and I can certainly relate to running away when things get challenging rather than staying and addressing what is going on. Recently I have committed to changing this pattern and uncomfortable as it is my relationships have deepened and I feel much more connected to others and with this more settled in my body.

57. Great exposure of how we can appear to be ticking all the boxes for a ‘perfect life’ but are still living with an underlying unease that recognises that there is more to life but until I started attending Universal Medicine presentations I had no idea how to address this.

58. Committing to ourselves by going deeper within is key to an enriching life. With greater self-awareness we can make more informed choices, which is not only self-responsible but responsible for all.

59. Awareness is that which allows us to break away from the illusion of life and see it for what it truly is, and at the same time feeling the level of responsibility to reflect, that which is of truth.

60. ‘The fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving’. This point is worth appreciating as it is true there is no end and hence it is never too late to begin making changes. We have an opportunity every moment to begin anew and live how we truly feel. Very simple.

61. Living from what the body knows within offers us an amazing abundance of depth, clarity and wisdom that we can tap into anytime and the beauty is that we can then walk hand in hand with the body and move from what it shares to express ourselves in full appreciation of the vehicles we are in too. pretty amazing for us all.

62. True Elizabeth, life is constantly presenting us situations to learn from through our willingness to be aware and to then let go of this behaviour fed by beliefs and ideals and or hurts we carry.

63. What I love most about this piece is how your evolution is based on a stream of questions that encourage you to constantly go deeper in to your awareness and in to your connection with your body.

    1. Yes, and it is a constant stream where one question leads to another. We don’t have to get to it all in one go as that might fry our brains but to discount what we don’t want to understand is not very smart and can lead to so many unanswered questions clogging up our body and mind.

64. I agree Haresh, life is an amazing journey which continuingly unfolds as we become more open, and willing to see more. What really stands out for me is to what extent we are living as less when we are stuck in our own issues. Making self-loving choices as you have done, just goes to prove that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that life does not have to be a burden.

65. The willingness to be honest with how we are really feeling, brings awareness to the choices we make and why, as such empowers us to make the adjustments needed in order for us to live a life the is guided by our truth and love within. The Way of The Livingness is all about that, learning to live life guided by our relationship with our inner-heart, with love and truth, where real enrichment and fulfilment is known and experienced through the quality of connection we choose to live with.

66. I agree Haresh, it is more powerful and inspiring for another to see the Livingness being lived rather than knowledge being spoken without any true experience of it.

67. The livingness is certainly about how we are living and bringing more loving choices into our days. It might look a little different for everyone, but your example of applying cream is a great example. if you do this in a way that is gentle and honouring of your body, then nurturing yourself is a natural result of this.

68. Self-care and self-love is the foundation upon which we can strive forth in our own evolution, living day to day in the knowing that we already are everything and just needs to be confirmed in our bodies that know the true essence of our being-ness.

69. Yes there is a profound difference between knowing and living… a fact that many professions seem to have forgotten.

70. “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom” – so simple. No need to memorise, the truth becomes us.

71. We have all been socialized in reductionism. We know how to reduce ourselves; we know how to ‘invite’ others to reduce; we know how to live in reduction mood; we know how it feels. Of course, familiar as it may be, the underlying tension of reductionism does not go away. We can do something or nothing about this. In spite of it, the moment we are presented with something that allows us to put a name to it and to feel what happens to the body when we connect deeply to something we feel is absolutely true, the number of days of the game we were part of are counted if we embrace what we now know is true and walk (with) it.

72. I would say someone would have to be in extreme resistance to their own love not to be inspired on some level by Serge Benhayon and how he lives, The Way of The Livingness. And yes ‘If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?’ Why indeed would we even consider such things let alone do them!!! Drugs, smoking, alcohol, over-eating, putting our bodies through extreme sports/things. This alone, if we truly allow ourselves to stop and feel, tells us something is not right. This would tell me despite our so called ‘evolution’ we are still not truly dealing with our hurts, anxieties, nervousness, anger, frustration etc, etc. I love the sharing of the questions you asked yourself; ‘How did I wake up from my bed …’ and simple questions like these are great place to start and simply bring it back to how are we living and how much are we loving ourselves.

73. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life. This awareness allows me to see things as they truly are and has completely changed my perception of life.” This is beautiful Haresh. I too spent years searching for something because life felt lacking. I went from one spiritual practice to another as none of them offered what I was looking for and none of the presenters lived the knowledge they presented. This all changed when I met Serge Benhayon and attended Universal Medicine presentations.

74. Great blog Haresh. A picture perfect life that looks good but tastes like a plastic strawberry as you say, can be quite dangerous. There really is nothing to fault if all the boxes are ticked and when they are ticked – what is left to do? That’s when we have to move out of doing and into being, but with a momentum of life being based on what you do, that shift can be challenging and a helping hand is most welcome.

75. It is great how you share about wisdom coming from our livingness and not our mind. This is in many ways the defining issue of humanity for a long long time. We have been talking and talking about concepts, theories, and ideas but have they truly worked? Not many have and this is because not many have taken to truly living what they are saying as it is only through living truth that life actually starts to change its quality.

    1. Very true Joshua. Our bodies will always reflect the truth of what is actually being lived regardless of the whatever knowledge is spoken or concepts are idealised. Hence the value in developing a loving and honoring relationship with our bodies being, and living in connection to our inner-wisdom and what feels true.

76. Beautiful sharing Haresh, thank you, life becomes all about awareness and a continual deepening of our self awareness, so that by observing our movements we can choose to deepen our self love which brings in so much joy.

77. Love it Haresh – it is so true: self awareness is a huge joy. As you become to see and feel the space to what you do and choose, we for example can become aware of why we eat certain things at a certain time and or if we indulge for example in watching TV. Life becomes more fun as we observe our ways (choices) and to also change them and see the loving effect that that is having is great. But more wisely is to use the awareness to lift yourself up constantly to the next level and allow others to see what you are living by sharing that in your living way.

78. There is nothing worse than a tasteless strawberry! The thing about Universal Medicine is the livingness has very practical and loving principles, that can be applied, as you have to deliver a remarkable result.

79. Awareness is free, never runs out and when embraced constantly expands – the best investment ever and the most fun one too.

80. What I get from your blog is the importance of not being hard on ourselves or judging ourselves but understanding that it is a process of unfolding and letting go and that it is a learning and not something we need to be hard on ourselves for as patterns have a momentum and it takes time and many learning opportunities to re-imprint them.

81. Allowing truth to emerge and speak through our body, instead of running away from it is a great decision we all are available to do. After that, evolution is the only way forward.

82. Life today is about staying in a momentum and not wanting to feel what is going on. When we settle our stuff comes up to be looked at, when we stay in a momentum we are able to keep going and not address this but it is always there under the surface and there is a constant tension that we then feel.

83. When we talk from knowledge without having lived what we are talking about, we only add to the avalanche of information, advice and opinions that we already have so much of, everywhere one cares to look.

84. “…living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”

    This is a great point that cannot be emphasised enough – until it is lived, it cannot truly be known.

85. Selective memories that focus only on our good times merely encourage us to bury what we don’t want to deal with. In turn, what remains buried we are unable to let go of and this accumulates all the more until we end up with an avalanche of this back log creating insurmountable pressure and we are forced to clear it.

86. The more we wake up to ourselves, i.e become aware of how we are in life, the more we can understand that a lot of what we do doesn’t match the quality of being-ness and love we can connect to.

87. True body awareness holds the key to unlock our old and well used patterns and beliefs and to then bring a deeper understanding to why we still hold these patterns to bring a new quality of moving with the body in a more loving and harmonious way. Showing us that our connection to our bodies is the true intelligence and wisdom that holds the key for a truly vital life.

88. Working in health I see that giving health advice does not work or health education from the perspective of this is good for you and that is not. Unless it comes from the experiences of someone who is living it. Otherwise, it’s just words with no livingness, making the words empty. It’s all become a tick box exercise, where I have done this and said that so I can tick it off my list. Rather than simply connecting with another and delivering what is needed in that moment.

89. Today I feel like I am at the beginning of a new layer of learning about self care and will take your suggestions with me. I appreciate your comment about anything we do that is not in connection is done to avoid something and have to agree, not that I wanted to but observation is a powerful tool for honesty!!!

90. I find that the consistency we have with these simple daily tasks just like applying cream to our bodies so tenderly allows us the space to explore how we feel in these moments and from there we gain a greater insight into our connection with our body and the awareness builds from there. Finding the joy and absolute appreciation for ourselves and the care we take in these simple daily tasks is very confirming too.

91. Your example of applying cream to your body to show how living the knowledge we learn becomes a lived wisdom, a livingness in our bodies is so simple yet very powerful for me.

92. This sentence says a lot about how we interact with each other and how our insecurities, doubts and fears can be the driving force behind our actions. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.”
    It also highlights the responsibility we have to go deeper than our own insecurities to the steady still knowing within before we respond to what presents in our life.

93. What has been beautifully described here is how it is possible to always go deeper with understanding and care, so there is no limit to how understanding and caring any one person can be; it is simply the act of living that brings this out and what a lovely out-bringing this is.

94. Living with my body is a forever continuing unfolding; this choice has opened an awareness from inside that I had sullied and ignored. Nowadays this awareness is becoming my ‘right hand man’, as it never fails in presenting to me what is there to feel.

95. I remember the first time I heard that living the truth was far more important than being able to say true words. It made absolute sense to me and completely changed my life. I love the clarity you express with Haresh. It’s clear you are walking the talk.

96. I love your example of applying cream on the body gently. The Ageless Wisdom is so profound yet so very simple – if we live it, there’s no need to memorise the knowledge, it is ours to live and becomes our new normal.

97. I love the analogy of life feeling like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic. I really get that. I can relate to trying to live the perfect life. In fact I have recently let go of my expectations of what a ‘good’ day should look like, especially in terms of how much work I should do and how my relationships should be. I have realised what a pressure I was putting on myself and how it was a set up to almost never be content. Letting go of the expectations has brought a simplicity to how my days pan out, and in allowing things to unfold, rather than trying to control, I have been experiencing really great days.

98. This from my experience is the only way, “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” There was always a message when I was growing up, there was always people you could listen to for hours and others you couldn’t listen to for 5 minutes, people that have lived a part of life and then were able to relate it back to you were like watching the best movie ever. There was people that always had you captivated, not by drama but by how they were, the way the relayed what was going on. It was like you were learning from listening, like they through what they had seen were giving you an opportunity to see the same. I remember this at school as well, some classes you would fall asleep in and others you didn’t care what was being said it was just great to listen to the person. Nothing for me ever really sunk in unless it had a physical element or action to it, you had to relate it to life for me and then I would see it clearly. This is what makes a difference in the world for me, people who can bring you an awareness about what is happening in the world and it can only come from living it.

99. Self-awareness is a great way to approach our day-to-day, or moment-to-moment interactions as, without bringing self-awareness to them we can pretend they just happen and abdicate responsibility for what and why we are making that choice.

    1. Beautifully said Lucy – by avoiding awareness we don’t have to take responsibility for why we are choosing to do what we do. But on the other hand, being more aware will let us see and feel the beauty we truly are and what doesn’t belong in our lives that doesn’t compliment or deepen that quality. Responsibility really is a beautiful gift.

       1. This is a great gift for me this morning Rachael as I found myself in an old pattern last night that had a consequence on the way I slept and how I feel this morning. I was wondering why I had done what I had done and could see the importance of what I had avoided and bingo…it was awareness. Looking back I was feeling myself stepping away from my connection and I wanted to pretend I didn’t notice, once I got on a roll I was so far away that it just got easier and easier to do. Taking responsibility for those decisions today means I now have another opportunity to re-imprint. Thanks for the session Rachael!!!

    2. For just by abdicating responsibility of anything that happens definitely does not mean that responsibility and repercussions of what has occurred is no longer yours.

100. A great blog thanks Haresh, smashing the pictures we hold of what it means to have a ‘perfect’ life is very freeing… what you have described makes it very clear that there is a richness to be had that makes perfect seem cold, empty and meaningless.

101. “Living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”
     It takes a lot of work to live something that we know about, and in this process, when we live something that actually benefits the body, there is a form of wisdom that comes alive. This wisdom is one that others can then be inspired by and learn and live likewise.

102. The part you shared about eating to nourish our body or to get through the day is a great reminder for me to pay more attention to choose foods to nourish my body instead of just filling it up. I am appreciating how loving it is to build a relationship with food that truly supports my body. Learning to self-care and self-love has assisted me to eliminate foods I never thought was possible. Some foods I was eating were causing my body more harm than good, foods like sugar, gluten, dairy etc.

103. “Once that feeling is registered in my body, there is no need to remember that gently applying cream is supportive. It becomes a livingness instead of just mental knowledge and words.” When I read this it helped me appreciate just how many changes I have made for myself that have have become just the way I now live rather than doing something as part of a tick box exercise.

104. Thank you Haresh for sharing how living with self-love develops our awareness, of whether the choices we make are supporting us or harming us. As such when we live in connection to who we are within, our essence, we live with our presence and through which the richness, magic and realness of life unfolds, far exceeding any illusion offered through the picture of a ‘perfect’ life.

105. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” To wake in the morning with this outlook for the coming day is such a joy.

106. There is a very clear and wonderful message in this blog, which I find actually very humbling – the difference between knowledge and lived experience. The knowledge being something that identifies us, and lived experience being that which expands our understanding.

     1. Beautiful Shami and a brilliant summary. The irony is, that we think that we are being identified through knowledge, yet we could not be further from the truth of who we truly are. As you have shared, our knowing and wisdom comes through living in connection to who we are, where our true intelligence far exceeds any given knowledge that exists in this world.

        1. And living with knowledge opens up opportunities for identification, self-gain and competition, whereas living with wisdom and connecting to our body (true intelligence) there is the feeling of expansion and learning.

107. Very well expressed, Bryony. Observing without judgment is the key to turning the tanker around.

108. “The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.” This is a chicken-and-egg phenomena, the more self-awareness develops so the ability to being present deepens.

109. ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.’ I love the simplicity shared in this blog Haresh and the beautiful unfolding and the awareness you have built that supports you to continually evolve.

110. Developing self-care and self-awareness following the inspiration of Serge Benhayon; “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.”

111. Beautiful Haresh, your list of self-awareness is awesome. I am inspired to ask myself these question more and more, they remind me to bring more love and care to every choice I make and to support myself to deepen my connection in my every movement throughout my day.

112. Self awareness opens us up to feel what is going on in our lives and gives us the choice to make changes it is the key to our evolution.

113. I find with self-awareness comes understanding and blame and avoidance melt away. I can be in reaction and if I stop and look at what am I reacting to, it’s like I step out of a constricted room into more space and more awareness.

     1. Yes, so true Aimee. Awareness is an ever-expanding experience.

114. The Livingness feels like a natural way of being and when we don’t live it we feel it.

115. Even the juiciest, tastiest, freshest strawberry pales in comparison to the yumminess of living The Livingness and true connection.

116. Serge Benhayons books seem to have this affect on people, as they begin to question the “norm” its interesting how so many people all round the world have been brave enough to make monumental changes for their health and well-being after either meeting Serge or reading one of his books. The power of one comes to mind when reflecting on this, we all have this power, as individuals we might think that our life choices are a private affair but everyone is watching and feeling every move we make and we are either harming or healing the on looker, in other words inspiring, as Serge does with the way he lives and writes, or you are leading others astray from your own wayward choices.

     1. Great point Sarah. I’ve been noticing that there is a huge amount of information out there that promises ‘a better life’ but it all feels empty and hyped up. In the past I would have gobbled this stuff up like a vacuum and then wondered why I couldn’t manage to put any of these ‘amazing tips’ into action. Since meeting Serge I have begun to see through the desperate hype to the simplicity of connecting to my own soul. Now that is a life hack!

117. “If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?” – this is a very good question! I think we’ve allowed ourselves to be quite seriously dishonest about the amount that we abuse our bodies because we have the remedies to keep us going for longer and because we’ve given up on being who we truly are in the world. Serge Benhayon gives great clarity on why we do things that harm us and others; getting to the root of our ill behaviours is what will truly help us to change.

118. I love this Haresh ‘Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.’ Very true and the way you live becomes very inspiring to others, our reflection is way more powerful than any words we could say to another.

119. Gorgeous to read Haresh, thank you for sharing, that with self awareness we can bring love into every moment of every day with every thing that we do, this is true livingness. Your loving feet bring a smile to my face for the beautiful man I know you to be.

120. I love your example of rubbing cream in your body becoming an example of livingness. We all can have similar moments of livingness whether it is how we put our shoes on, comb our hair, or make the bed and taking a moment to appreciate what we are bringing to ourselves by these loving actions supports us in our consistency to be more loving in other ways.

121. ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.’ Well said Haresh. Somehow, everything presents itself to be read clearly when we allow ourselves enough space to feel it.

122. ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.’ When we are able to express from how and what we feel the more able we are to communicate more fully with those around us.

123. I too find that when I spend time with Serge or listen to his presentations I get a fresh perspective on many things in my life and it allows me to let go of what I had been holding onto and see things with a fresh perspective.

124. ‘However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ This is so true, we all know that there is a far more loving and caring way to live, but unless we actually live it, it just becomes knowledge. It always reminds me of the saying “actions speak louder than words’.

125. ‘…tasteless strawberry made out of plastic…’ What an awesome analogy. Perfect on the outside, but actually empty, devoid of real flavour and a bit fake. Sounds quite harsh when we cut the strawberry in half to reveal the contents..but really, it’s such an opportunity to realise how much more there is on offer.

126. I love this post Haresh, particularly the part about how once you make some self loving choices consciously, they feel so great that it quickly develops into a habit, because you simply can not make sense of not making those choices.

127. My experiences in life have taught me so much more than what I have learned from a book or what someone has said. Our educational system is starting to realize this fact with the concepts of service learning, on the job training, work study programs, school to work programs. This is great, but it is just a start. We need to understand that our job is not to teach, but to live our lives as truthfully as we can (Being ourselves), to inspire others to just be themselves. Then the process of getting skills to live in this world will be easy.

     Thank you Serve Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting away of life that makes sense to me.

128. ‘I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.’ With this honesty in your body you can let go what is not you and be aware of how we avoid the love that we are and the responsibility to live our light.

129. Self-care is not something that we get to just to tick the box, in fact it is something that is forever deepening and unfolding as we claim more of who we are, the more we choose to live this way the more we get to realise the level of responsibility we hold of reflecting another way which truly supports and inspires others to make similar choices in their lives.

130. Great blog Haresh. It is absolutely true what you say in that it is the perception of what is a perfect life defines how our life will feel to us. If we say having a house, money, children, family, going on holidays etc etc. is perfect than it can be quite confusing to still not feel settled in ourselves. Therefore I feel it is way more useful to make the questions you asked in the end of your blog the focus, how are we living each day? From there we can feel great in our bodies and thus in life, life can feel perfect without the physical things having to be perfect too.

131. Haresh, this is a powerful message for me to read and to learn to live it more and more, ‘However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ I am totally inspired and this powerful way of living what we know is true can then be reflected out towards humanity, it can be energetically felt by our simple movements and expressions of truth.

132. I loved reading this Haresh and being reminded that living and embodying the wisdom we know is deeply powerful and has a flow-on effect for others to be inspired by.

133. I like the line about the tasteless strawberry, we all can look good from the outside but the truth of how we are living is felt by the quality of our presence, that is why Serge Benhayon inspires so many, his quality is felt deeply by all that he meets.

134. It is amazing how many people achieve the seeming perfect life on the outside, ticking all the temporal boxes yet feeling the emptiness within it knowing there is something more. It is a rarity and as such a blessing, that you can find and embrace this and learn to live in a way that allows you to feel the magnificence in life and your ability to live it through the awareness and care you offer yourself.

135. “I observed how I often wanted to run away, or push someone away, blame others and manipulate situations.” Being honest about these things can often seem a huge thing and very uncomfortable because we want to be perfect right? Yet it is a very loving thing to do when we realise these are behaviours of ours not who we are. Its like ‘oh that is something I choose to do’ because of feeling hurt in a situation etc. but now I am aware of it and can choose differently’ (after feeling why it hurts).

136. Thank you Haresh. You have wonderfully deconstructed the way we use knowledge to decide our next step rather than feel what is true in any given moment.

137. Haresh, I feel very clearly from your writing how that knowledge has been lived, and actually everything which we know and do not live is just knowledge and does not have a lived known quality in us. That’s what’s most powerful, that lived known quality, a livingness in us which is felt in us and all around.

138. Isn’t that a goal of life… Live life until the reasons to why we live are known by the very lives we live.

139. I totally agree with this wisdom you have shared Haresh: “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it”. This is true wisdom, known without doubt in every particle of the body, not just learned from a book. And then sharing this lived experience with others has the potential to change their lives as well, as the truth is undeniably felt in what is shared.

140. ‘My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.’ What a joy and what a difference from a life living dominated by hurt, anxiety and nervousness.

141. Continually and consistently deepening our self awareness is such a joyful, divine and purposeful way to live in this world. Thank you Haresh for sharing your experiences and wisdom.

142. Haresh your writing is gorgeous! There is such a simplicity to what you have expressed and I can feel the living truth you have written this with. I also appreciated your definition of how knowledge becomes a livingness – a truth we live and know innately.

143. We learn to behave in a way that reduces our awareness. Going from self-care, to self-love and love is the way to unlearn those behaviors and build a quality in the body that then expresses from love.

     1. That is a very true comment Rachel, “we learn to behave in a way that reduces our awareness.” I would add that we learn to behave in a way that reduces everything, including the amazing beings we truly are. Self love and love are definitely our way back, and once we let go of the need to reduce everything there is no limit to the continual expansion of all that we are, and all that we can be aware of.

144. This is such a great blog that describes so well that self-care is not a doing, but a quality we establish in ourselves and is then lived. A lived quality that does not allow any abuse.

145. Self-care, self-love, self-awareness and being present are such vital ingredients to living a life that embraces light, love and purpose. Thank you Haresh for the beautiful gentle reminder.

146. It all comes down to living life in a self loving way, choosing to live life, not just cope with it.

147. True Haresh – knowing something by living it is definitely the only way of truly knowing things.

148. This takes ‘walking the talk’ to a whole new level – it is more than just walking it, it is living it, embodying it, appreciating it, confirming it – that is where the magic lies.

149. Living the wisdom that we already know. I have heard many including myself give the most amazing advice to others about how to overcome certain issues, but how many of us actually live that advice ourselves? Haresh when you said – ‘I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it,’ I had to nod my head in agreement. I have learnt my greatest lessons from observing others and feeling how they are, rather than just hearing words of wisdom. Wisdom comes to life when it is lived.

150. This is one to stick on my fridge today I think – ‘How am I eating? Am I eating to nurture myself, or just to put the food in my body to get through the day; or do I want to distract myself by consuming certain comfort foods so I do not feel what’s really going on in a situation?’

151. ‘there was a constant feeling that something was lacking.’ I remember having all my boxes ticked – young, good health, living in an amazing place of my choosing, a location I’d dreamed of all my life, great weather, exciting boyfriend. l’d made it to my adventure I was travelling and reckless and it seemed like fun but inside a great emptiness was eating me up and I knew no amount of beautiful beaches or recognition was going to alleviate a sense of loss I couldn’t shake. I was missing me and what’s crazy is I sometimes still try to avoid myself through distraction and chasing recognition or what I believe will give me what I need. It always returns to unless I’m with me they’ll always be the feeling that something is lacking and what a great feeling to appreciate because it shows us the way home.

152. My focus is called to the line, ‘I saw that my lack of life skills (the arrogance delivered through my mind would not agree, but this is a fact) made it difficult for me to deal with many situations in life’ and I wonder why.

     In retrospect there were chunks of my life lived oscillating between arrogantly thinking I knew it all and then huge chasms of feeling like the earth was opening up ready to swallow me I felt so inept. Both didn’t feel true and both felt horribly toxic. What’s changing is my willingness to be vulnerable, to be fragile and to let go of seeking solutions. I’m trusting that when I allow and surrender to myself what needs to be expressed will be known.

     When I do not live lovingly and I lose my connection with myself and with God, what I’m left with is human intelligence, what the mind knows which is very limited because it has no access to the bigger picture. Thinking what I know is it is arrogant because it feels like a deliberate choice to disregard this connection to God, to the universe and all the wisdom this brings for the desire to be seen as separate from this and recognised individually.

153. Wisdom is not something that is thought, rather it is something that is lived.

154. How often do we measure life by the success of it measuring us to what we consider to be ‘good’ – in the car we drive, house we live in, relationship and children, job and income, the food we eat, the holidays we go on. But as your sharing, sometimes the best looking life can hide the most emptiness – are those people truly successful if they are exhausted, arguing, checked out, drinking to take the edge off of life, working only to retire. What if we had a different measure of success – one that looks at the truth of the quality of how you life, not the physicality.

155. Your blog is awesome – both because it exposes the emptiness in a seemingly ‘good’ life, and also that knowledge alone cannot change your life, it is the loved application that then becomes a wisdom that totally changes everything – from something as simple as the way a door is closed or feeling the food that’s right for you, these all precipitate knowledge into the physical lived reality.

156. I also loved this sentence . . “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing” . .as it highlights the true intelligence of the body as the body’s memory of a lived experience is forever with you.

157. What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine teach is life changing, what you have shared here though is really important ‘the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ It has nothing to do with knowledge or trying to own knowledge but about living what we know to be true. This isn’t an arduous task or burden but the complete opposite when we start to live in a way that is more loving for ourselves and others life becomes lighter, clearer and more joyful. I love the practical tips you have given… How did I wake up? How am I walking? How am I eating? These are simple day to day things that if we are truly honest and willing to look at can make huge difference to our lives, health, well-being and relationships.

158. Beautiful Haresh “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Our wisdom from our own bodies and the experiences we have had is the true elixir for living life with joy, truth and love and it feels sensational. Thank you.

159. Actually my feet are sore from wearing some not so comfortable shoes today. There is no way I can walk with ‘loving feet’ in these shoes anymore. Reading you blog has helped me make my mind up not to wear them again.

160. I like your expression of ‘walking with loving feet’ Haresh. It sounded a little odd at first, but actually I have been practicing walking with more awareness because of back pain. I have found with this awareness my pain can be alleviated and it certainly feels better than stomping around being in a hurry to get from A to B. My back appreciates it too.

161. Simple and sweet Haresh thank you. This I knew all along, “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” I could never get my head around school or anything growing up until I actually did it myself. I could never just learn something without the feeling, I wouldn’t hold onto it. I knew there was something great about living something first and the awareness it bought. I just couldn’t make sense how this and the world fitted together. Serge Benhayon put all the pieces together and bought it all into one. Nothing new but just put everything into it’s place and now ‘life’ makes sense and my understanding grows.

162. When we become the living breathing example of what we learn in our everyday world our infinite and ever evolving wisdom opens up in all its glory for us to share with all others.

163. “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it… A golden statement here Haresh, thank you. Living what has been learnt or understood naturally leads to embodying the quality and feeling of the deep connection to ourselves, It’s like a feedback system between the body, awareness and connection with love, that is brought to life by self care.

164. We all know and feel truth in every thing we do but it is in our livingness that matters. I used to attend the courses and workshops presented by Universal Medicine and then go back home not making any changes in my day to end up realising this was not what it was about. I have come to realise that Universal Medicine is there to support me to connect to myself and to go out into the world taking responsibility for myself in life and making the necessary changes so that my life is based on a foundation of truth.

165. “If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?” Haresh, this is such a pertinent question in light of the fact that the self harming behaviours of the majority of humanity are blowing the rates of illness and disease sky high and in the processing pushing the health systems of the world to the limit, with bankruptcy of these systems a very distinct possibility. It is time to bring back self responsibility and to not continue to expect others to fix us, when in so many instances we have all we need to lovingly care for ourselves in the first place.

     1. Very true Ingrid. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported me to make changes in my life that have resulted in a dramatic increase in my health and wellbeing. It makes perfect sense to look after our bodies.

166. Thanks for this Haresh, the difference between knowing it and living it is such a powerful insight. It is so simple to get off on consuming knowledge in such an insatiable way, when the reality is the one concept…love yourself…is enough to change everything if lived to the full.

167. The most important message I received on my first meeting with Serge Benhayon was that to live a life of integrity then it had to be in EVERYTHING one did. I used to claim that I had great integrity and I based my practice as a kinesiology practitioner upon that. However, on that first presentation from Serge I realised that I was in fact living a lie and consequently if I was truthful my life was a mess. This was a bitter pill to swallow but the best medicine I have ever taken.

168. Thank you Haresh, I feel how you are enjoying your life now you live with a loveliness that is with no end goal but just a constant unfoldment of becoming more love.

169. Reading your blog Haresh I am struck by how many people are stuck in that illusion of having the “perfect’ life when underneath it all they are feeling completely unsettled with a sense of not really knowing themselves. If we do not have that settlement within ourselves then no matter how seemingly successful we are in life there is no true success. True success is when we know and love ourselves unconditionally because only then can we know and love another unconditionally.

170. Everyone will always be ignorant or arrogant! Being ignorant is a good thing, It shows you something you are not aware of yet. Once you have lived and experienced it, you are no longer ignorant of that and move on to find the next item that requires experiencing. People that are arrogant just don’t except the fact that they are ignorant.

171. Being involved with Universal Medicine gives us an an opportunity of exposing the false perceptions we all have

172. Thank you Haresh for sharing and reminding us that love is at the core of everything !

173. thank you Haresh… I love the word Livingness … My dictation machine refuses to write it, is not something that I’ve come across before, and yet it just seems to sum what is now so important in our lives, to actually live the quality-of-life that brings connection love and honouring who and what we truly are.

174. More and more the apparent ‘perfect life’ is being exposed in public for the ‘famous’ and to each of us as individuals. We may have the job, car, family etc that meets the ideal but it still leaves us wanting. This leads to an endless search for what is missing through hobbies, possessions, relationships… But while they offer temporary relief they are not it.

175. I would have to agree Haresh that self-awareness is the greatest joy and life without it is like a tasteless strawberry. This might seem hard to believe, when some of our behaviours are so ugly. When I observe with judgment or reaction this is not a joy at all. But when I stand back and observe, knowing the crazy or ugly behaviours are not me, then it opens up the possibility of what really is me.

176. If you leave something on auto pilot all the time it crashes!! Fact, We are no different … starting to check in is like a pit stop for the body, eventually your glued to the drivers seat not ever wanting to leave it again.

177. The Ageless Wisdom teachings are simple however, you can very easily choose to live a life unaware of this wisdom by your movements and actions.

178. Ooh! you nailed it there Brendan in reference to what we percieve to be a ‘perfect’ life, but from my own experience of ‘having it all’ it certainly did not provide a clearing of the anxiety and hollowness that was lurking in my body. That lack of true connection to me in my own innate fullness was over-ridden for many years until I made the choice to meet with Serge Benhayon and attend the Universal Medicine presentations, unlock the Ageless Wisdom within and learn to listen to my body. It certainly does not present as a ‘comfortable’ life when one realizes that while one is walking on eggshells, not pushing other people’s buttons and remaining silent when there is true Truth to be reflected, as you say that behaviour and pattern of old really only “thwarts true development”.

179. Comfortable indeed, in some ways, but this often leaves a feeling of lack, that something is missing. The missing link is the connection to who we truly are, rather than the sold out comfort seeking being that many become.

180. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” I have felt this too since attending presentations from Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. I feel like my life is one big experiment, trying something new and seeing how this feels, continually experimenting and refining the way I live, evolving and deepening the love that I feel for myself and others.

181. “…living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” This is huge Haresh. I have just finished a retreat with Universal Medicine, presented by Serge Benhayon and there have been some profound realisations and revelations, however, if these are not lived and felt in my body then it just becomes another theory or concept with no practicality. The lived experience is where the truth lies.

     1. Well said Lee, until we take steps to live all we know to be true it is just knowledge we are speaking. It is very powerful when we choose to live and express this truth, what we reflect to another is very inspiring because our lived ways are more deeply felt than anything.

182. Haresh, I love the self-awareness aspect that you bring in here. It is super important to acknowledge that we need to have an awareness on our everyday lives and choices, true change does not just happen out of the blue. Having come from a place of complete disconnection and where everything in my life went on auto pilot, to be aware of my own breath, my own touch, my presence is completely life changing.

     1. Lovely, Eva. I also have found the ever-deepening of my awareness has been transformational to my life, and how I choose to live it.

183. The perfect life is like Jason and his search for the Golden Fleece, or the fountain of youth and we can add the Holy Grail. All of these are things outside of us to make us more? You are correct Haresh. Self-awareness is the key to our evolution.

184. Haresh the most beautiful thing about what you are sharing is hearing a man share with such tenderness as well as the daily celebration that life is and can be. Very inspiring.

     1. I agree Jennifer – the tenderness in Haresh’s writing was touching me deeply, and it goes to show how very powerful it is to speak from our lived sensitivity and not hold back – this is what truly makes a difference in the world because it is felt.

185. Having knowledge is great, but wisdom comes from living that knowledge and how ones body feels in that: what feels true.

186. Having the knowledge of something and living the truth of something are two very different things. When we live the truth of something it is embodied in us forever and it becomes our way of being in the world. This is living science.

     1. Living science brings value to the person who lives it, wholly and completely, with no need for outer recognition, just a deep knowing that what you walk is true.

187. Then stagnation and all the issues come trundling along.

188. When I started introducing Self-Care, what became clear was that there was more than one perception of life. I became aware of other perspectives, more than what is just seen by the eyes.

189. This is so interesting Haresh at a recent session with a practitioner I was discussing ‘How’ and so to read here this morning your four ‘How’s’ really helped me consider more deeply How am I living. Is what I feel to do a loving choice or a confirmation of a not so loving choice. Thank you.

190. ‘How did I wake up from my bed? Is my body refreshed and ready for another day or do I need to drag myself out of bed because I have to go to work or to do something that needs to be done?’ This comment caught my eye today. Yesterday I woke not wanting to leave my bed. This morning is totally different and I do feel refreshed and ready for my day. Observing these things and tracking back to how the previous day(s) was helps me to make more loving choices. My life is a series of little experiments where I am constantly learning what works best for me and trialling new ways to look after myself.

     1. Indeed Debra, self-awareness may seem complicated and we often find it challenging to get out of our old patterns at first – however it is really simple if we keep it light and playful and take one step at the time and as you say stay open to what works best for us and not comparing ourselves to others, because we are all coming from different patterns and behaviours in the first place.

191. Awareness is a simple listening to your body. I know it took me awhile to understand what this meant and I was expecting big feelings and obvious, sledgehammer signs. However the body is much more subtle (unless you have ignored it for a long time) and the feelings I eventually tuned into are gentle, rhythmic, beautiful. The movements I am naturally impulsed to move with are gentle and when I have not given myself enough space to move this way, I notice the harshness of the rushed movement and feel how much more lovely to have made better choices.

192. It is not always easy to change ones habits and ways, but it is so worth it.

193. “To accept that I am precious and super worth it and no one else can bring me this.”
     Thank you Natalie, this is a gem, it is invaluable to have and it cannot be bought – and such is the amazing teaching from Universal Medicine.

194. When we start the journey of starting to be honest with ourselves and seeing the lovelessness in our lives that we have been living in we get a sense of how much we are hurting ourselves. This awareness that I came to with the support of Universal Medicine was the biggest turning point in my life. I started to realise I was actually worth looking after and that every choice I made would either coming from a loving place or one of disregard. Since having my whole life being disregarding and neglectful I started to make some loving choices and got to feel how that felt – Since then I have not turned back and there is always another level of care, love and tenderness that I will be allowing of myself. To accept that I am precious and super worth it and no one else can bring me this. I have the deepest gratitude for the continual support Universal Medicine has offered me.

195. In my own experience, my life has become much richer and full and joyful in the last 10 years, not through amassing knowledge or possessions or positions or wealth but through developing self-awareness. It is a precious gem worth far more than any material possession I own.

     1. Yes, I have the same experience, in fact I have shed a lot of this extra baggage of knowledge and possessions as well as position and my life is richer and more joyful than ever before.

        1. well said Andrew and Judith, it is in the letting go of all these things that do not correspond with what we hold within that true freedom is found. I too have let go of the knowledge, need to own and need to be someone and what I have gotten in return is acces to wisdom, the freedom of being and the discovery of who I truly am.

     2. Because we are already the one, we will always be something money can’t buy.

196. Life does not have to be perfect to be great, only loving.

197. I have also found there is a big difference between learning and memorising some useful knowledge and actually living what I have learnt. The living it bit allows me to accurately test out the knowledge through experience so that I can discern how true it is, rather than just accepting on face value what I am told from outside of me.

198. Self care and self love for me is the key to reconnecting to that essence within us that is divine. Without that connection life tastes pretty plastic.

     1. yes Andrew same here, without connection we are just going through the motion without any awareness of the quality we are moving in. Plastic is a great description for the superficiality we then live in.

199. When we learn something that rings true to us it is still of no value if we do not start to live this truth in every moment of our lives. What an amazing teaching to know.

200. “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing, example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.” This line stood out for me reading this blog. With becoming this living example of truth there are also less words needed to explain this truth to others as it is first and foremost felt and seen in our living way.

     1. Yes Lieke, this line stood out for me too, it captures all of what the livingness is in one sentence. The power to live and express what we know to be true in our innermost. It is very simple and it takes the pressure off the body and the being as there is nothing to achieve and nowhere to reach, just attending to the next task ahead.

201. Living life with love and awareness is our innate right, it is a choice that starts with simple care and connection to our bodies.

     1. Very true Francisco and the choices we make will have a profound effect on our wellbeing.

202. Haresh thank you for making this important point. True evolution and change comes from what we experience through our body and not from what we accumulate with our mind.

203. There have always been those who brought through the ageless wisdom by living it and expressing it from their bodies. The reason we today still are left with many bastardised versions is because of those who took the knowledge but never took the responsibility of actually living it. Only living passes on wisdom without bastardising it, not knowledge.

     1. Well said Carolien, it is the livingness that provides us with the connection to the universal wisdom, everything else is just a regurgitation of what someone else has brought through.

        1. Great point Judith, the universal wisdom is available to us all at all times but it is not a mental acquirement but what we connect to through the way we live. Every choice we make either brings us more wisdom or disconnects us from the vastness of what is otherwise accessible.

204. When I hear such simple concepts that make so much sense – It makes me stop and wonder how I got so far off track -if we all took care of ourselves, genuinely loved ourselves, that our lives would change.

205. I love it Harsh, it’s so simple. Making self awareness and love at the core of everything we do, the list grows for every activity in our lives. It becomes our lived experience to feel, not any knowledge from our heads.

206. The seeking of perfection is a surefire recipe for creating a complicated life.

     1. Hahaha Adam thanks for your awesome comment and I have to admit that I am rely fed up with a complicated life . . .

     2. I have experienced both a complicated and simple life; I know which one is a no brainer

     3. I have to agree with Adam, well said.

207. Thank you Haresh, I love the way that you describe the difference between a lived way of being and knowledge – we can hold onto as much knowledge as we like, but until we live it for ourselves, and experience how it feels in our body, it serves no-one.

208. Comfort, keeping things ‘ok’ for me and my loved ones, not wanting to look at the truth and lack of responsibility for the choices I made were all in the way of evolution.

     1. Yes, Monika like yourself, it is only when we get true awareness that we can then choose a movement which brings responsibility and evolution . Comfort in form of food, distraction or holding back what needs to be said or done creates a delay.

     2. I agree Monika and what l realise is there is great wisdom to support us in what Haresh says here..”The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.”To take steps from that stillness will enable evolutionary steps away from those unloving choices.

209. I love it: “the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” Once you start, it never stops again and keeps deepening and deepening as long as I keep saying yes to evolution and all the opportunities my soul offers me to learn.

     1. So true monika, in saying yes to evolution, we discover that our inherent, natural loveliness is indeed infinite.

        1. Interesting isn’t it why we sometimes say no to evolution, for as you so beautifully describe it “our inherent, natural loveliness is indeed infinite.”

        2. Yes Monika, and in those times when we do choose to say no, we are essentially putting the breaks on, indeed actually going against the natural flow & call of every fibre of our being.

        3. That’s it Monika and all we have to do is keep saying yes and all is layed before us, and yet as we say we sometimes say No simply because we have an attachment to our issues that identify us.

        4. We may say “no” at times Carolien, but that is only delaying the inevitable “yes” we will all come to – each no is just a stall but never a stop.

        5. absolutely Hannah, we may put the handbreak on at times but the pull forwards can only be slowed down never stopped. Just imagine what would happen when we take the break off and sit back and enjoy the ride!

210. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.” My experience too, and something I keep clocking with myself. Being in contact with my body really supports me in this process, for my body speaks very loud and clear.

     1. I agree, Monika, the body speaks loud and clear. In the beginning it is perhaps new to listen to the body when we are not used to it, but I also can confirm when we listen to our bodies we get greatly rewarded.

        1. Yes, Kerstin, it is very rewarding to listen to our bodies. Every time we do this we get rewarded by our body settling, expanding and letting go.

     2. It is true Monika, life can feel very empty when I do not live feeling the beauty and loveliness of me. It is what makes life so very beautiful next to connections with others from that place.

        1. Yes, we really miss ourselves when we live without feeling the beauty and loveliness we are. And we can’t connect in truth to another when we aren’t connected to ourselves.

        2. It is this emptiness that makes us seek knowledge and forever we will be seeking for it will never fill the emptiness. As you say Lieke the feeling of beauty and loveliness that we hold within is the only thing that can truly fulfil us.

        3. Yes absolutely Monika and Carolien. It to me sometimes seems too simple, but what we truly seek when we feel there is something missing in our life is not more knowledge but that deep love and appreciation for ourselves and to forever go deeper with this.

     3. My body speaking loud and clear is something to greatly appreciate. It never gives up on love.

        1. Exactly, our bodies are perfectly designed to bring us back to love.

        2. Our bodies are incredibly forgiving of the way we treat them but very honest about the consequences of the smallest of things we choose to do, think, or feel. I found my body was so thankful when I finally started to take care of it and incredibly supportive, gently guiding me always to a natural and harmonious way to be in life.

     4. I agree Monika, the body does speak loud and clear, but sometimes it takes me a while to get to the full understanding of what my body is presenting. But one thing I am sure of is the signs my body gives me are never there to confuse or punish me, but offer a truth of how I am living.

        1. Yes, Julie, absolutely the signs our bodies give us are never a punishment and always an option for us to learn something about the choices we made and how that was for our body.

        2. I agree Julie. Sometimes it does take awhile to ‘get’ what our body is saying. It sometimes has to wait for layers of reactions to what we are feeling and ideas about how we ‘should’ feel, to drop away sows can just listen. Appreciation of what is being revealed is often key in these situations and patience is needed. knowing that it may take time to become clear.

     5. This is awesome Monika l love the absolutness of your statement. lt is a great marker to use in every situation where one begins to wobble. When we are aware of this imbalance we can do something loving and self nurturing to get us back on track and with ourselves instantaneously.

        1. Yes, if we change the movement the rest follows that.

211. “This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.” What a beautiful definition of the Livingness.

     1. I agree Monika what a simple and a very true way to describe the Livingness.

        1. It makes it accessible for everybody and that is what the Livingness is: it is there for all of us.

     2. Yes Monika, I really connected with this definition of the livingness also, beautiful in its simplicity.

        1. Yes and the simplicity is what gives it away. Everything that is complicated is not of true service, but is self looking for recognition.

        2. Well with that pearl of wisdom Monika, life just got super simple!! – “Everything that is complicated is not of true service, but is self looking for recognition.”

     3. I agree Monika. This has been my experience with re-learning to love from my body and natural way of being. What can feel clunky or unfamiliar at first, like taking spare clothes and water with me when I go out has simply become the way I live.

212. “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Knowledge doesn’t get us anywhere it is living it in our everyday life that makes the difference

     1. Living it vs thinking we know it makes all the difference between being a true role model and just being a talking head. I see this as a parent. Kids can spot when we are being hypocrites a mile off. When we ask them to behave in one way but are not living it ourselves, we are setting them up to rebel as we have to given them any true foundation.

        1. Yes, congruency is key, when we say one thing and live another our communication is confusing and doesn’t offer another (child or grown-up) trust or a reflection for true change.

213. What amazes me is that by living like this – with awareness of energy and how I feel what is going on for me – it makes a huge difference. Remembering back to the way I was, speeding along with 50 thoughts going in my head and an array of numbing behaviours, I would have looked at that list and thought – well that won’t make any difference – but it does. Living like this makes a profound difference and rather than being stuck on a cycle of spin, it allows me to go deeper in my life, in my understanding of my love for me and for all.

214. Haresh I love what you share here: ‘ I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ So very true if we use knowledge to get through life eventually we are back at square one. To live what you know is key to living a truly loving and joy-full life.

     1. Probably we only truly know what we live, a lived knowing if not truth. All else is just possibilities or false until we know with our body.

        1. I agree Alex, we may get a notion or an understanding but is not truly our own and truly known unless we live it in full from and through our body.

        2. So no waiting for any assurance and safety net before surrendering to “be all in” – giving our all means receiving our all.

        3. Absolutely we do not know untill we know, and we can only know if we truly surrender. A great reminder of not wanting to have the safety of knowing what it will be like or what will happen.

     2. I agree that this makes so much sense Anna. For instance smokers know they shouldn’t smoke as it is bad for their health but this isn’t enough to stop the pull from the old pattern that seeks a cigarette. Mind over matter can only work for so long. However if our choices come from the knowing in our body, supported by the love and care we have established for ourselves first, then the choice to stop smoking is a completely different process.

215. One of the things I found over the years that I have been attending Universal Medicine and listening to presentations by Serge Benhayon is that often what he is saying initially may seem like it’s new, but once I take the time to process it, I realise that what was presented wasn’t something new. It was actually something that my body recognised as old familiar wisdom that I had lost awareness of over time. It is just my mind that believed it was new information. The next part is to learn to re-live it. There are challenges but with commitment it is possible to change our lives around in both small and large ways. Haresh, you are a living proof of this!

     1. As Haresh shared in his blog, Serge Benhayon presents what is simple and common sense. His presentations make so much more sense than the things that we accept as normal that actually do nothing but cause harm and misery.

216. Becoming aware of the abuse to my body that over years became my normal was a wake-up call. Self-care was a foreign phrase with listening to my body only happening when it would shut down from exhaustion. My only marker was, am I numb enough. My self-awareness now is just a moment by moment exploration of everything in the amazing world in which we live.

217. When we start living in connection, we start to become less attached to what we think defines who we are. We can easily end this life still attached to the things that we think make us who we are, houses, money, jewelry, etc, rather than living a life of self awareness and self mastery.

     1. Yes indeed. I’ve always known it doesn’t matter where you’re from but I also didn’t know who I was so used certain lifestyles as part of an identity to make up for this including where I lived. So it was lovely to feel the freedom of no longer feeling I had to put in a lot of effort into a certain lifestyle or boost my self-esteem because I lived in a certain part of the country for a few years – yes, even though I knew both these things were crazy they had an energy to them I allowed to hook me. We are all so much more than anything we do or anywhere we live etc.

     2. This attachment also traps us. We get caught up in the things we have and the way we are seen and then seek a way to maintain this, getting trapped in seeking security rather than expressing the truth of who we are. When I am expressing truth I know that I will be taken care of and that the possibilities are limitless.

     3. We can really gain perspective when we start to live free of ideas about who we are and who we should be. When we just focusing on our roles we become short sighted. Knowing yourself from an inner connection lets you stand back and see the aerial view, the big picture in life.

218. We can easily attach meaning to everything else in life except ourselves. We think we know who we are based on what we do, wear, live or the car we drive, but it is really meaningless when we don’t know who we are in the first place.

     1. Absolutely agree Matthew, if we don’t stand on the foundation of knowing and deeply loving who we are, there is an emptiness in all that we do, no matter how much we try to distract ourselves with achievements or material success.

     2. Absolutely Matthew. It is so easy for me to get caught up in thinking that I am the things that I do. When I am connected to who I am as a person, I realise that I am more than the things that I do, what I do is an expression of who I am, it is not me.

        1. Thinking we are what we do is so limiting. We place ourselves in a labelled box, the mum, the worker, the good friend etc and in doing so dismiss all the magic that is within us. Life become s a series of tick boxes rather than moments of feeling all that we are and all we have to bring to any situation.

219. Haresh you have highlighted the importance of consistently living life in connection to our bodies as anything else less than that or living the quality that we are in in parts does not express the fullness of who we are.

220. Thank you Haresh, love the simplicity that you have described what the livingness is, it is not about accumulating more knowledge but living from a deep connection to our bodies and surrender to the love that is there to be expressed.

221. The way Haresh describes applying cream to his body is very powerful. Once we embody something we become the living, walking, breathing wisdom which has so much power. Knowledge that is not backed up by the lived example carries much less weight. This in itself describes Serge Benhayon as he lives, walks and breathes all the knowledge he shares. We are capable of knowing more than what we live, yet when we live it and embody it, it moves from the head to the body and becomes incredibly solid.

222. I love the simplicity of this blog Haresh. It is so very profound and so incredibly simple.

223. Sometimes I still carry a picture of how a perfect life would be, then I feel frustration because I have not reached the level of perfection I carry in my head. Perfection is a trap, it keeps us away to develop our love for ourselves and others.

224. ‘However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ No truer words have ever been said Haresh and it was lovely to feel the connection you now have with yourself which will continue to grow. Thank you

225. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it” I love how this is expressed as it inspires us to consider the quality behind every action we take. Very simple and responsible. Thank you, Haresh.

226. I had spent a great deal of this life and undoubtedly many others in running away from life. Amazing just doesn’t quite adequately describe the difference in my life since meeting Serge Benhayon. The past I lived from day to day; now I live every moment of every day!

227. What a beautiful blog Haresh. I can feel the deep, simplicity, tenderness and connectedness you have with yourself and how it will continue to deepen as you have struck gold!

228. “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom…” Haresh this is the greatest gift for our society – imagine we all would live like this . . .

229. Haresh I love what you have written in your honest blog.”However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Most of my life I was together with very intelligent people and when they start to talk about “head-knowledge” I stopped them to tell them that this is only knowing and not a lived knowing. They answered often that they don’t need to jump from a bridge to know that this is dangerous. What they wanted to tell me was that living the knowledge is not needed. To read your awesome blog is a wonderful confirmation for me – thank you.

     1. This is a great example, Ester, of how dominant ‘head-knowledge’ has been in our society. For me too it has been the most liberating experience to let go of relying on knowledge and start to let myself feel my way through life, by re-connecting to an all-knowing wisdom that is ever present within the body.

230. Reading your blog Haresh it is clear to see that the journey that you are describing is a journey of self-mastery. This is gained through making life about love and bringing awareness to the choices that we are making on a moment-by-moment basis. This frees us up from the old belief that someone else is going to save us or do it for us as it has to be our choice through free will to develop ourselves back to the master that we are in essence.

     1. Beautifully expressed, thank you Elizabeth Dolan.

     2. Agree Elaine. This is beautifully expressed Elizabeth, with the deep understanding that there is simply no ‘end game’ to reach, and that every step, every realisation and letting go of that which does not truly serve us (or anyone else for that matter), is pure gold.
        Acceptance of the master always living within, and our path of return to this depth of knowing that ever-awaits, is what it’s all about. My question (to myself and others) is, are we truly willing to accept this truth? What does it mean for us in our lives if we do?
        Striving for perfection and ‘attainment’ in life, for one, are wiped out, if there is nought we need to ‘become’, and all that we truly are is simply already there to return to…

231. ‘I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life. This awareness allows me to see things as they truly are and has completely changed my perception of life.’ Beautifully said Haresh and I totally agree, the ageless wisdom has supported hundreds of people to re-connect to who they truly are and to experience a life that supports evolution and brings much joy.

     1. Awareness brings responsibility- we choose the quality we like to live with at any moment as we no longer are ‘victims’ but are in charge of how loving and joyful we like our lives to be.

232. One of the questions could be: “How awesome am I today?”

233. Exposing the false perception of a perfect life is revelationary to everyone as it allows us to look at these perceptions and what is perfect as this is different for each one of us. This allows us a feeling of freedom and space to find our own way and in this support can be felt from others holding us as who and where we are with no judgement only love and understanding.

234. That is a hugely powerful testimonial Mary, to a true way of living and exploring yourself that is helping you to make the changes from the inside out.

235. Just a little vignette – in business it is well known that assumptions are behind many of the issues that crop up, and one of the disciplines is to challenge those assumptions, going back to basics and making sure that one’s activity is supporting whatever the purpose of the business is. When we do a performance appraisal of humanity, and use illness and disease as one of the measures… alarm bells should be ringing. But we seem to divorce ourselves from what is really going on, and simply carry on as if there is no problem. The next question would be why?

     1. How stubbornly, if not vehemently we refuse to go where you are saying Simon… We have marginalised life to value the dollar, performance, function and the rest, and don’t want to take actual responsibility for the bigger picture in which we all stand.

236. “He presented simple talks that made me reflect on my own ingrained and unloving behaviours.” If we are open to seeing the ill choices we have made in certain or all aspects of our life, we can choose afresh and consciously make our relationship with ourselves and others more responsible and simply about love.

237. It’s very interesting Haresh, because anyone can talk about what they know, what they have learnt, what we should all do, but what is lived is felt in the body and then expressed, that’s totally different. ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness’. That’s true livingness.

238. Great point Mary. Before coming to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I had all of my ‘stuff’ pretty well mapped out… I understood where it all derived from – the bulk of the childhood hurts, where I lacked confidence, etc. But it wasn’t until I started to make a concerted change in the way I chose to live, and I began seeing esoteric healing practitioners, that my BODY began its process of letting go all that I’d taken on in my life. Until then, no matter how much I ‘understood’ with my mind, or ‘processed in circles’ as you have shared, my life and the quality of how I feel in my every single day (absolute joy today, no kidding…), didn’t change – the ‘scenery’ yes, but the limitations no.

     1. Yes so true Victoria and Mary. It is in the living that supports the body to let go of the stuff that is not us. And living in a way that supports self-care….and committing to that in all aspects of your life. Start small and it will be a life-changer.

     2. Exactly Sarah. We needn’t be overwhelmed… We can ‘start small’ in attending to what is there for us now, and committing to true healing in our lives – with the knowing that we are anything but ‘small’ at all, and the potential discovery, that true healing, i.e. the removal of all that is not truly who we are, will allow us to feel how big we truly are…

239. Particularly appreciating, Haresh, your words here: “All these things were OK in my so-called ‘normal’ life, but they were not loving. They were just ways to merely cope with life.”
     This is at once the deep beauty and power of what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have brought, and continue to bring, to so many… That the way we’ve been living isn’t loving – it’s not what, in the depth of our hearts, any of us want – yet, I for one was just as you’ve shared, accepting so much as ‘normal’, living a giving-upness in life that accepted far less than the true love and I and all those around me deserve. That is, until Serge Benhayon came along and said from the solidity and absoluteness of his own lived way, that all we’d made ‘normal’ needn’t be so. It is so worth the journey of looking at our lives in this respect – every ounce of it, no matter how uncomfortable. We are all so worth it.
     Thank-you for your awesome blog and sharing Haresh. Your experience has now been the experience of many – and so our world changes…

     1. The key for this perfect life game is that the image of what is a good life matches the bar we use to judge it. Once we raise the bar (one of Universal Medicine ‘special dishes’ that always invites you to be more), the image falls by its own weight. It ceases to attract you. You are set free.

        1. I love what you’ve expressed here Eduardo – pure gold: “…the image falls by its own weight.”
           And what a weight it has been – upon our psyche, our bodies, our interactions, the quality of love we are actually so deeply capable of living…
           This is true liberation.

240. Reading your blog Haresh, is like feeling an unexpected fresh breeze come across my cheek, offering me a moment of pause to appreciate feeling connected with myself, this body, this life… and the simple loveliness of being that is ever available to us, should we open our hearts to it. This is how it feels to have a relationship with one’s Livingness. Thank-you.

241. Truly lovely to read Haresh. I loved what you shared about expressing from self-awareness…. For in doing so you are offering yourself evolution in each moment by taking responsibility of the quality you are in and are speaking from… thus allowing yourself to adjust your expression according to the love you are and are learning to express in full.

     1. Beautiful words, Sam. Love them.

     2. Beautiful expressed Sam, it is all about responsibility of the quality we are in and it is amazing to feel the power when we express from that awareness as it is no longer about ourselves but the all.

242. Failure always inevitably awaits one who seeks the perfect life.

     1. Wise man says (see above). Brilliant Adam…

243. As I read ” I was seemingly living a perfect life and was feeling normal living with my emotions and selective memories of the good times I had”. ‘Selective memories’ being the key words here for me, this brought up some memories for me also, some quite recently from listening to others sharing about their life’s experiences from years ago, expressing ‘They were the good old days they were’ mode – ‘selective memories of the good times’ a bit like the whispering game and by the time it got round the room all the ‘add ons’ were not always fact but, shall we say the truth was stretched a little. Reminiscing of a ‘better life’ coping mechanisms. I’ts great to look back and reflect and to appreciate that those experiences have initiated those steps forward to ask more of how we are living life and that is part of our life’s journey as chosen by us. A beautiful sharing of self-awareness Haresh and the true joy that this brings.

244. Haresh, I can relate to your ‘lack of life skills’ having spent many years not really committing to life and just getting by. Now I feel a strong purpose to learning, so that I can bring my all to everything I do.

245. I just love that exposure of living the perfect life with those selective memories! We conveniently forget what has not served us, bury it deep and then wonder why it resurfaces. Whereas when we feel something as gorgeous as simply applying some cream to love ourselves – that creates a different imprint, and one we can keep coming back to. A perfect moment that is easy to recreate and live.

     1. …it is these evolutionary moments that supersede any ‘seemingly perfect’ moment.

     2. The funny thing is that perceptions of the perfect life rely upon phrases like “all things considered….” when in truth, what you have considered as ‘the all’ is the all you want to see as the all which is not the ALL at all.

        1. A great expose on our ability, or rather preference, to limit what we are willing to look at to what is comfortable / acceptable.

246. This is a stand out statement…”Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom…” This embodiment of understanding brings a graceful confidence and humbleness.

     1. I have found Johanne, that whenever I have tried to remember words that Serge Benhayon has said, they never come out in a way that people can understand them…..including myself and it becomes easy to get into a muddle. I know then I am trying to regurgitate knowledge and it just never works. Wisdom is at our fingertips, makes sense, feels expansive and you don’t have to remember a thing, because it is in our body waiting to come out.

     2. Yes johannebrwon17, a “graceful confidence and humbleness” and a natural flow to your every day, every expression and life in general.

247. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life” – say no more, great words Haresh, it is the truth. Self-awareness brings joy because it brings salvation, union with the all.

     1. I find self-awareness also brings joy because it shows me how much more I am than what I thought. And the great news is that this seems to have no limits.

        1. Gorgeous comment Jeanettegold. When I am tired after a long day I can cave in a bit and not allow myself to feel this joy…and then I reflect on the joy I have had in the day and I am back again.

248. Such a relatable post Haresh, love this line of yours here is parks a lot about what true wisdom is: “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom” – so true and what i’m learning more and more is this wisdom is from a livingness that comes in response to listening to and honouring the body’s truth. To speak wisdom from this body requires no recall or memory from any book or educational certificate, for it is already lived as you say Haresh, and so felt and expressed with knowing.

249. “I saw that my lack of life skills (the arrogance delivered through my mind would not agree, but this is a fact) made it difficult for me to deal with many situations in life. I observed how I often wanted to run away, or push someone away, blame others and manipulate situations.”

     I appreciate your honesty here Haresh, as men we generally don’t want to admit the fact of our lack of life skills, as it exposes our vulnerability, and the way we protect ourselves and keep others at a distance, by being good at what we do Etc. This way of living in our self created ‘life style bubble’, keeping the world out is very harmful to ourselves and our loved ones, and the first step to dissolving this is being honest about how we truly feel.

250. It is a moment of grace and a great blessing when one feels that there picture perfect life is in fact a false perception, as then we are available to a deeper awareness and deeper level of truth in our lives. This is what happened around the time I met Serge Benhayon and embraced his super supportive teachings, had I not had the honesty and humbleness to admit my life was actually not working I couldn’t have made the loving and supportive changes I have to my life.

     1. I agree Thomas. It takes honesty and a lot of courage to see feel and admit that there is more to life than what our reality is. This is even harder to do when we have invested so much into establishing our lives as they are.

        1. If we invest in the ‘strawberry’, it can be difficult to admit that it is plastic and tasteless, and that we are not the magnificent creators we had striven to be; but instead, we can only be magnificent in the humbleness of co-creation.

251. The simple act of lovingly and tenderly applying moisturizer cream to ones body, I found is deeply profound and healing to do before I sleep, particularly for us men, as we get a moment to stop and appreciated and feel our tender preciousness and appreciate ourselves.

     1. I love your comment Thomas – it breaks the mould for the false attitude of toughness that men have adopted and in my eyes obviously struggle with.

     2. That is gorgeous Thomas. The world would be a very different place if all men stopped to feel and appreciate their tender preciousness in a daily ritual. Thank you for appreciating yourself.

252. ”I also became aware that every behavior that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.”`
     This observation is spot on Haresh, and has also come to my awareness that if I’m not present and connected with my body, there is always an underlying anxiety, as my body is telling me its not OK to disconnect from it.

253. The mind plays tricks all the time and this is a great example Haresh of a very dangerous long term trick, telling ourselves our lives are perfect as it governs all our choices year after year. It is the life so many aspire to yet suppress the feelings you describe and so very important to express the way you have. Then, presenting a new normal is so important, as Serge Benhayon offers through the way he lives and presents, as otherwise there is no clear way forward because life mostly only presents the ideal of perfection to aspire to which can never be attained.

254. ‘However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.’ When we use the knowledge it is just that, knowledge yet when we change our life and live from the true knowing we have from within and nurture ourselves our body begins to change in line with the more loving way we are choosing to live.

255. It is a forever fun evolving though at times very painful to feel the unloving choices made. To live life really choosing what quality you are going to live 24 hours 24/7 with no minute off seems impossible but the more you start to increase the moments the more possible it becomes, we are naturally divine so we are actually made for living in this way.We are not born to be checked out, it is something we learn.

256. What can be felt in the body is truth – what we ‘know’ in our heads can easily be manipulated by thoughts and perceptions.

     1. The body does not lie, we just all too often do not choose to listen to it.

     2. Therefore it is the knowing in our body that is the only reliable source. This is how we bring wisdom to life.

     3. Carmin you absolutely nailed it with your wonderful clear comment – Thank you.

257. It’s interesting what we think the ‘good life’ is… or even the ‘perfect life’.
     For me, living a careless life partying, doing drugs, living in a house with Dj’s and working in a job that I could come home in my lunch break to smoke pot WAS the good life for me. It was the ideal and something I thought that everyone else was missing out on. But… that niggling feeling at the back of my mind that there must be more and that life can’t just be about making money to get wasted and being seen as spiritual, got louder and louder. Thank God!

     1. I hear you Rachel… throughout life as I have changed so have the ‘pictures’ that are always there to show what I should be living up to. More and more I am realising life isn’t about pictures and the less I pollute my body with drugs or general I’ll choices the more clarity I have to understand why my life is how it is and what is before me to learn.

     2. Thank you for sharing that Rachel – you’ve perfectly described what many of us have felt before; even when we have achieved our goals and life seems to be ‘perfect’, there can still be that niggling feeling at the back of our minds that there is more to life than the materialistic ‘successes’ and achievements we have made… I have found that this empty feeling only occurs when my relationship with myself isn’t in a great state.

        1. It’s a feeling that I could never shake in my life Susie, though I never found anything – until I met Serge Benhayon – that led me to actually feel that I needn’t live with that lack of completeness.
           What is presented here in this blog is absolutely HUGE for humanity, as we’ve lived in such a depth of giving up, and have bought so many pictures of how life could ‘satiate’ the emptiness within (as Abby and Rachael have shared), that we haven’t believed a true life was possible.
           How deeply needed, are the reflections of those who have embraced all that they are, and live this glorious yet at once ‘ordinary’ fullness in their every day… We all have a part to play…

        2. I can feel it as a tension, which if I am not paying attention makes me feel miserable and depressed. However, if I’m more conscious then that tension alerts me to an opportunity, another layer to be peeled back and explored in a constant unfolding.

        3. ‘Perfection’ can never be fulfilling because it is always attained from a place of not being enough to begin with. We desire ‘perfection’ to bring us something, and thus because we begin with an emptiness, we are delivered an emptiness.

        4. Well said Kylie. Though strive we may to attain the seemingly ‘perfect’ goal and/or picture, we will always know it’s not ‘it’. How awful it must be to stand at the pinnacle of a career, sport and/or desired lifestyle, and feel nothing but hollow within. Yet what a necessary step this is, if we are truly to make life about love.

     3. I agree Rachel, it seems no matter what we pick as a profession or create ourselves the best life, there is always this feeling of being discontented and it used to hit me in the moments when I thought I should be over joyed with my perfect life and then this deep despair would hit me, because deep down I knew there was more to life but couldn’t quite figure out what was missing.

     4. I had a similar picture yet with travelling. I was travelling to all the places I’d always to and considered so exotic – Cuba Belize, Guatemala…I had such an arrogance that I was living the life and I tried to convince everyone that they were missing out. Yet whilst my picture was complete, it felt very empty. I now live in the suburbs and travel very little (once upon a time my worst nightmare and something I swore I would never do) yet my life is rich and is not even comparable.

258. We chase an existence that we see being lived around by others us thinking that if we too ‘get it’ we too will ‘have it’. But once we do ‘get it’ we find that ‘it’ is not it and so the search continues on and on and round and round, as what we ‘get’ is never enough, never truly fulfils. When we become aware that our connection to ourselves is everything we then become aware there is nothing in the world outside of ourselves that can compared to Kingdom of Heaven we all hold within us all. It is from this connection that we develop our awareness of whether the choices we make are in honor this Love or not. With this we lead the way of living a life of awareness, one that we are born and designed to live, in connection to who we all are.

     1. Life on this planet cannot ever be perfect for us yet we continue trying to make it so, life after life.

259. Haresh this is such a beautiful sharing. I can relate to living in a way that fitted the picture of ‘doing well’ as I had good job, owned a house, was in a relationship, seemed confident, had lots of friends and shared a good relationship with my family but even with all that there still was strong deep sense that something was missing. I was at times, and often seemed happy but this was only ever determined by what I was doing or what was happening around me. I discovered through the presentations of Serge Benhayon that what I was missing was my connection to me and this brought an awareness to the quality of Love I was living or not living in my life through the choices that I was making. This is empowering as I realised that the quality of the life I was living came from the choices I was making and when we choose to live in connection to who we are the choices we make are then in honour of the Love we are. Our lives lived are then a reflection of this loving way through which joy then becomes our normal lived experience.

     1. Beautifull Carola, reading your comment I saw that was exactly the same with me, I was missing my connection to me but had no way of really getting to the root of it. It sounds crazy! How can we miss our connection with ourselves when we are with ourselves the whole time! But it’s true and nearly all of us are in the same boat with this one. Everything in life seems to take us further away from ourselves to, school, games, phones, social media, adverts and nothing supports us to confirm who we truly are. This is an epidemic. However Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are doing this, reflecting there is a different way to live and showing us what it feels like to be connected. Thank goodness for them that is all I can say.

        1. So beautifully shared Vicky and Carola. It’s not until you start to really ‘connect’, that you ‘get’ what it means to be connected 🙂
           And how deeply precious this is – to the point that one would never want to ‘lose connection’ with one’s true self, felt as the deepest Joy in the depth of our being, ever.
           I’m with you Vicky, ‘thank goodness’, thank God and the deepest appreciation for Serge Benhayon for leading the way in showing what true connection is, and how our lives are so deeply enriched, less about self and increasingly for the all, when we allow this to be our lived way.

     2. Exquisitely expressed Carola. All that you say resonates deeply for me and reflects this quote from Haresh..” I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Pure and simply-‘quality.’

260. Very true Katie – it seems like that the entire world offers only distractions. Nothing out there really reminds you on – just being yourself.

261. Great sharing Haresh – it is so true, what you are saying about livingness and knowledge. We have to live what we know, otherwise it will be only in our head. And the moment we live it, it becomes our new “normal” and our new foundation. But it doesn’t end there, every day we can deepen our relationship to our body and to ourselves.

     1. “The moment we live it, it becomes our new normal, our new foundation”

        This is a very powerful Alexandra, by living the wisdom that is available to us we embody it, in stark contrast to knowledge and our current education system way of learning knowledge which is only recalling information in ones head, and therefore has a sense of being almost disembodied.

     2. Well said Alexander, we can continually develop the way we live and can deepen our expression and relationship with ourselves and everybody and everything. What I find fascinating is how things I used to find myself doing which I would have considered normal I now see as far from normal as I can see how much they were harming my body. After all how can it be normal to abuse my body? Yet it was normal for me! Now it is normal for me to look after my body.

     3. Agreed absolutely Alexander and Haresh. Having brought such awarenesses to my life and living over many years now, inspired to depths beyond measure by Serge Benhayon, so much of what was once ‘normal’ today feels shockingly abuse to myself and my body.
        In no way is this to be ‘precious’ in a way that holds back from life, but rather, it is the reverse – the depth of care (‘an ongoing project’ :)) has allowed me to embrace the true preciousness of me WITHIN life, and honour myself to the bone. There is no perfection in this, but this level of self-honouring has made a tremendous difference to everything – my relationships, my work my vitality, energy levels, the steadiness and deep joy I consistently feel…
        We are so deeply worth changing these foundational elements of our lives, that we may live a true and loving life – it’s all there, should we so choose.

     4. Love how you said that Alexander. Everyday we can deepen our awareness and our livingness.

     5. Good point Alexander. It is the quality of our foundation that supports us to deepen; we then deepen our foundation and go deeper again.

     6. What a beautiful blog Haresh. I can feel the deep, simplicity, tenderness and connectedness you have with yourself and how it will continue to deepen as you have struck gold!

     7. So true Alexander, l can often get caught in my head and not transfer the knowledge into a feeling from my body and then into a living way. l feel this quote from Haresh helps me to come back to being in my body and feeling my way again…”The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.”

262. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.” This is beautiful, Haresh, as it takes us to another level of responsibility. If we are not choosing to be connected with ourselves and the quality of our breath in any given moment, we are allowing a hurt or a reaction to dominate us and take us away from the natural stillness inside us.

     1. This awareness Haresh has shared is absolutely golden, I agree Janet. If we are willing to be so honest in our everyday lives and experiences, we have the capacity to let go of so many of the shackles that have enchained us, and to actually hold others in a love that does not sway…
        Such is the greatness of Serge Benhayon’s lived way and continual inspiration – that we can make such a profound difference to this world, by not perpetuating hurts that can be aeons old…

263. Haresh this is an amazing blog saying so much truth to be felt i love how you share “I was living a seemingly perfect life and was feeling normal living with my emotions and selective memories of the good times I’ve had.” What an realisation Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have brought to the world simply living true love and responsibility with an integrity and consistency that shows it all. Learning to feel and live from the awareness and love that we are is the biggest gift we can have and give ourselves and everyone.

264. Awesome blog Haresh, I love this paragraph “I was under the impression that I had worked out what life was about and had the illusion of being in control. I couldn’t fault anything physically as everything looked picture perfect, but there was a constant feeling that something was lacking. Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.” I am sure many can relate to this… I on the other hand knew my life was a mess and had accepted that.. as in “thats just life”, poor me but really since meeting Serge Benhayon, my life has completely changed, and all for the best.

     1. We all know that something is not right or enough with our lives, that something essential is missing, but most don´t know to lay their finger on it or how to change it, or so it seems. Hence the need for a reflection of that which is missing, lived by someone to be seen and felt for all who are willing to see. Serge Benhayon and all those who live a life from their very essence are such inspiration that reminds us of what is possible and show us a way that is real, tangible, practical and simple.

        1. Absolutely Alex and Rosie. Without the reflection of someone actually living their life in a fullness of love, dedication and commitment, I know that I would remain in my own version of the ‘tasteless strawberry’ also. Such is the ingrainedness of our giving up on the living of true life as humanity – we all know what we’re living isn’t ‘it’, as you say, but until we are met with a love that need not compromise itself, embodied in another, all but an exceedingly small few I’d say, remain in the tasteless experience, just trying their darnedest to forge a way through…

        2. So true Alex, when we can live our lives knowing that we are a precious reflection for others and really claim the truth of this it is incredible how much effect we can have on the lives of those around us, whether they change or not, they notice and they are given the blessing of choosing another way.

        3. I so agree with you Alex about that niggling feeling that there is something missing or not right. When we see the reflection that feels right by someone that is living it, and we have the eureka moment.

        4. Great thread and it is true, in fact I would suggest that all the distractions in life that we have created and all the ways of numbing is exactly because of that…that niggling feeling that tells us what we are living and choosing is not at all ok and the knowing we hold within that could change it all if we were but to take responsibility again.

     2. I love this too Rosie, that feeling of “is it just me or is there something seriously amiss here, that no-one seems to have noticed” Thanks to Universal Medicine and the presentations by Serge Benhayon, has the truth been not only put into words, but lived and reflected in their truth for all to clearly see the difference between the false illusion and the truth that is known within us all.

        1. It is beautiful when we discuss this, because we all start to see that it is not just me, but many of us and I love all the appreciation that we have for Serge Benhayon, because he didn’t and stop and hold back because no one else was living to their fullness, he just gave it his 100% and showed us all another way.

265. The quality in which I type, the quality in which I sit affects everything. How we move, how we relate to one and other, the way we walk or pick up our tooth brush has a ripple effect though out the universe – this level of self responsibility is not yet even comprehended by society, Eventually we will all one day realise through self awareness the responsibility we each and everyone of us have.

266. The questions you ask yourself around waking up, eating, walking and speaking are great markers during our day that give clear indication to how we honestly are. A great sharing Harish, thank you

267. Haresh one of the many things that you said that stood out to me was ‘I was under the impression that I had worked out what life was about and had the illusion of being in control’. I had exactly the same feeling about my life, which astounds me now, as I was so far off course it’s almost unbelievable. I was pretty unshakeable in my belief that I had life sorted out, it was only my body breaking down that allowed me to see that I couldn’t possibly be right.

     1. I too had the same belief thinking that this is it, yet I was constantly ignoring the signs of my body telling that this was not it, as I was often exhausted and anxious. I now can see how off track I was being mis-guided by my mind as I now know what it feels like to be guided by my connection to my heart, my truth and my body.

268. Harish you describe perfectly how we can make love become our living way. Allow the body to feel, confirm and live in a loving way and we begin to know it is the way.

     1. Yes Kim this is a beautiful loving way to be, one that has no end to discovering the depth of Love that can be lived through our every day.

269. And they distract us from what is initially a great unknown, perhaps even a scary place. But a place that turns out to be what we have been missing and craving all along.

270. ‘I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it.’ What a revelation. I am currently deepening this awareness and being very honest about this in my life. The becoming aware and honest about how I am in each moment, is bringing a far deeper responsibility to how I am living because each moment matters and has a ripple effect on everything.

     1. I also am about to deepen the awareness concerning nervous tension or anxiety and hurt in my behaviours. To look at lmy life out of this perspective is very revealing and brings the joy that I step by step can let go of the distractions, ideals and beliefs which hold me in this tension.

        1. Yes, Kerstinsalzer15, to feel the tension and behaviours I default and configure to is phenomenal. But to simply observe them and allow myself to let go of them is proving an amazing experience. No judgement is key.

271. I think I know every trick in the book when it comes to distraction Katie. I have found some more subtle forms of distraction of late, some look like work and that they are not distractions, yet, as I have progressed through these tasks I have realised that they are distractions because while the task or job needs to be complete it is not my role to complete them, and therefore they are distracting me from what my true role or purpose is. Very tricky indeed.

272. Haresh I love the questions you ask yourself throughout your day. I feel they are based on such a loving foundation, showing the power in observation, curiosity, understanding and love. This shows me a loving depth I can live for myself because, although I ask myself similar questions I do so from a critique. Judgement inhibits awareness. This reinforces ill behaviours which, if judged for are easier to repeat. Much lovelier is to develop understanding which allows love the space to be.

     1. “Judgement inhibits awareness.” – wow, a shot in the bull’s eye. That puts a stop to my tendency of judging and I will remember it when future judgement attacks try to get a hold on me again.

     2. Love what you share her Karin: “Judgement inhibits awareness. This reinforces ill behaviors which, if judged for are easier to repeat. Much lovelier is to develop understanding which allows love the space to be.”

273. ‘Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.’ Truth beautifully expressed.

     So often when Serge Benhayon’s presented I’ve thought, right, I’ve got to remember that golden nugget but I leave it as knowledge and don’t live it. But, as you say, the gold is in the living, in my quality when I do an action such as look in the mirror to see the beauty of me even beneath tell tale signs of ill choices.

274. I can absolutely relate to you here: “it felt like something was lacking”.

275. There is no such thing as perfection in this world, so no matter how hard we try, and how exhausted we become in the process, nothing will ever be perfect – the world is perfectly imperfect! It is a constant evolution, a journey of loving self-discovery… how gorgeous is this?!

276. “The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness” and yes… the loveliness is never ending – in fact it grows every day.

277. Haresh you make a great point here – the moment we focus on our presence everything that is happening both within and around us becomes super obvious – who said the secret to life was a mystery?!

     1. Yes Meg, no mystery but a truth to share with all.

278. Thank you Haresh for your loving appreciation of yourself, your life and Serge Benhayon. Anything that we repeat on a daily basis that is supportive of our bodies becomes our loving way and thus is the Livingness. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine were the first people that taught me this, not through instruction but through simply presenting and sharing the way that they live with everyone and not holding this back.

279. Haresh I love the accessability of what you have shared, it is so tangible and close. I loved how you reduced evolution into the barest of essentials.

280. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” We don´t know how absolutely amazing life can be before we live the amazingness that is the livingness of who we truly are. And as there is no limitation to who we are because we are forever evolving and expanding there is also no limit to the joy and glory we can live.

     1. Very true Alex, until we live it we cannot know it, and in this know the extent of just how far away we (do) live from the joy of who we truly are through the choices we make that found our lifestyle and importantly its quality. As you say, who we truly are, and our joy, is limitless.

281. How often do we say ‘Ah, yes I know’, but then don´t act upon what we know? We all actually know ‘better’, i.e. we are somehow aware of what is truly good for us and definitely know what is harming us, and then there is the ‘yes-but’ factor that has all the reasons in the world why not to change what we know needs to be changed NOW. Basically, we are lying to ourselves. Time to get more honest and honour what we know to be true.

282. “Self-awareness is the key to my evolution.” Once we open up to awareness about our selves we at the same time become aware of everything else.

     1. Beautifully said Diana as it inspired me to feel that; through the eyes of our heart we are able to see the heart of all and all that is not of the heart.

283. My understanding of a perfect life was a good job, summer holidays abroad, owning a comfortable house and car and friends to socialise with. However as I accumulated all of these, like you Haresh I felt that something was deeply missing. With the support of Universal Medicine I have come to understand that it was a deeper connection to myself; a deeper nurturing of myself that was needed coupled with listening to my body in a way that I hadn’t before. It has been a revelation to feel the difference between making decisions from the head and mental stimulation, ideals and beliefs, to feeling truth from my body and acting from that. It is a whole different approach to life that changes the game completely.

284. Living the ideal of a perfect life has a short shelf life and very soon highlights all the short falls of what does not work, the dissatisfaction comes in and no matter what you try, in the way of distraction nothing seems to work – speaking from experience.

285. ‘The fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving’ – and this is what supports us all as we allow more awareness and our body succumbs to a more loving and natural way of being, which as you say Haresh comes with the livingness and not the knowledge. It has taken me a while to begin to see this as I stubbornly held on to old patterns that were not serving, but enough is enough and slowly but surely my pride is loosening it’s stranglehold as I let go and allow the wisdom that is God immanent be felt and embraced.

286. Haresh, this is a great article, I can relate to what you have written about drinking alcohol and climbing mount everest and how these are not loving choices, i used to be into extreme sports and would often hurt my body which at the time i thought was just part of the excitement, on reflection I had no respect for my body and was not caring for myself, nowadays I love taking care of myself and enjoy looking after my body – a complete turnaround, i find the feeling of really nurturing myself much more lovely and satisfying than any bungee jump or extreme bike ride ever was.

287. ” Living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” This is so true and known in our bodies the more we do this and the expansion from this allows a flow and way of living that becomes so normal that living any other way becomes abnormal and really hurts us.Thank you Haresh for a beautiful sharing with a loveliness and deep joy felt.

     1. I read the article again this morning Tricia and copied the same quote that jumped out at me too “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Knowledge is kept and lost from the head but the feeling of the learning stays with the body forever. This is so very powerful when we live with the flow and it is reflected to everyone we meet.

        1. Like learning to ride a bike, once understood and mastered by the body, it is always there.

        2. In living what we know, there is nothing greater. But in knowledge without living, there is nothing more incarcerating, retarding and loveless.

     2. This is a significant point, that we can be living in pain without realising it simply because we accept it as ‘normal’.

     3. Yes, thank you Haresh for such a beautiful blog. Which you could not have written had you not been living what you have learnt, which means you are a true inspiration and reflection in this world.

288. “feeling normal living with my emotions and selective memories of the good times I’ve had” I really feel you nailed it here Haresh, this is so me and how I would view life, living in a cycle of ups and downs and looking back with selectively fond memories, yet in all these times I knew it was not it and that I would be searching to find it. Now I can find joy in the simplest interactions, knowing that life is about connection with people and expressing gently and with purpose, caring for oneself and from that stemming to others.

289. This line, “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it” is a perfect summation of why the Way of the Livingness is so powerful, and why it brings such reaction from people sometimes. If we truly lived the things that we know, just in the realm of sleeping for example, when we were tired we would just go to bed earlier. Not stay up to watch just one more episode of whatever. Not have a cup of coffee because we need to stay up later, or to undo the fact that we stayed up too late the night before.
     Living what we know within ourselves has been, and continues to be, the very simple principle of all of Serge Benhayon’s teachings. It is revolutionary in its simplicity, and groundbreaking in the depth of wisdom he presents for all of us from his own lived truth.

290. This line,’The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness made me stop and asses how often I still choose not to be present in each moment, as not choosing to be present is choosing to be not present. So if in that case, we are not expressing from self awareness what are we expressing from or are we not expressing at all?

291. Awesome revelations and sharing Haresh, there is a such a difference when we do things because the body is asking us to rather than because we think we should. The more our actions become a body thing and less of a mind thing the more truly supportive they are as they become part of our livingness – it is at this stage we then inspire others to take deeper care of themselves.

292. Super blog to read containing many little gems, the one for me today was; ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness’. Makes a lot of sense and something that is a work in progress staying present in every moment.

293. One of the things I love about this article is the bit when you talk about the ‘lack of life skills’… I have always managed to make myself look very proficient, but the honesty to admit I am a novice has liberated me hugely. It is with humility that I am open and receptive to learn.

294. Thank you for sharing this one Haresh. “If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies? ” great question !

295. The inspiration that Serge Benhayon brings to so many people is a testament to who he is as a man, someone who knows we are all equal and continues to present that through his books, workshops and presentations.

296. very powerful for you to share the difference between knowing the knowledge and living it and feeling it from your body.

297. beautiful to read about your amazing journey of coming back to living you.

298. When we have issues such as not having enough money or we don’t have a partner etc, we can easily pinpoint that it is because of the lack of what we don’t have as our reason for things not feeling complete. What you have shared Haresh is awesome, because you are sharing that you had what seemed like a perfect life, yet still it felt like something was missing. Until we choose to stop looking outside of ourselves, we will never discover the deep jewels and the true love that lies within us all.

299. Haresh, it is great how you expose the “False perception of a Perfect Life”. The danger is that when everything seems to be perfect that we are actually not seeing that we do have “emotions and selective memories” which colour our perception and we can get into a comfortable rut which is deading. Once we allow ourselves to become more aware life may seem to get worse but actually we are just being offered an opportunity to move out of our comfort one and come more alive. If we are willing to go there we will find a whole new way of being is possible which will expand us and allow the natural vitality to express.

300. Gorgeous blog – I agree it is certainly in the living, walking, moving and expressing of life that we cease eating the rotten strawberry and become the juicy, tasty strawberry.

     1. Juicy, full of life, love, joy, the deepest of care, understanding, commitment, responsibility for all that we do and are… May sound ‘out there’, but the juicy strawberry is most certainly there, when we reclaim a life founded in the love of our soul, as so beautifully shared by Haresh, and presented and reflected with unceasing dedication, by Serge Benhayon.
        With you in full Nicola Lessing 🙂

        1. Victoria you are certainly a living, singing, yummy, juicy person so have clearly reclaimed a life founded on love. Watching you and hearing you sing is enough to ripen whole fields of strawberries 🙂

        2. That is divinely amazing Nicola Lessing! Bring on the ripe strawberries!!

301. “If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies?” This question has always baffled me and yet I did not realize the extent to which I was still allowing abuse because it was not as obvious as the overt behaviours displayed by those who use alcohol or drugs. Undermining oneself, for example, is so harming and we are often not aware we are even doing it. The more we nurture and care for ourselves the more aware we become of unloving behavior, which affects all those around us, not just us.

     1. Well said Sandra. It can be a super-comfortable position we can find ourselves sitting in, if we only examine the more ‘obvious’ self-harming behaviours we may have eradicated from our lives… For, as love has no ‘end’, there is always deeper to go.
        What I have learnt – and this is not in a judgemental or critical way – is that we have been masterful at self-abuse, whether it be in our holding back of our greatness, our relationship patterns, the time we go to bed… All is worthy of our deep living care and attentiveness, as we are willing, and all is to be held in a great depth of understanding, that none of these behaviours actually reflect who we truly are – they have been, and are, just our well-honed mechanisms for covering up hurt, keeping ourselves as less, and avoiding the responsibility of living a true life, that is for all.

302. Haresh, it’s great how you offer practical steps from your own experience so people can be guided as to how to live like this, for as you say “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”

303. Haresh I love the wisdom and simplicity of your beautiful blog. I too appreciate that the wisdom Serge Benhayon brings to his presentations are from his lived experience and therefore ‘livable’. I had a habit of speaking knowledge and now fully appreciate the difference between simply living what I know to be true and talking about it intellectually.

304. I love your check points, Haresh. A great way of staying aware of your movements and thoughts and shows a true appreciation of the choices we have to take loving responsibility for the way we are living and if we do this it becomes easy to expose those false perceptions that don’t truly support us.

     1. Absolutely – having check points in our day is super supportive in helping us not go for too long off-kilter. I find not feeling fresh and vital is a great reflection that at some point I have not made the choice to be fully myself.

     2. Well said Deidre – “if we do this it becomes easy to expose those false perceptions that don’t truly support us”

     3. The check points are really great – it is not only about how we do things, but especially why we do things – that is so important. Do I only do certain things for myself or for everybody ?

     4. Yes, checkpoints for living a loving and appreciative life.

305. Thank you for a revealing sharing Haresh. I agree that what you share here is spot on “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in my life” Much wisdom is shared here and thank you for this.

     1. I love this line too Roslyn, through self-awareness evolution is found.

306. There is so much evidence of the lack incurred by harbouring knowledge for its’ one sake vs the vitality and evolution enjoyed by living what you know to be true. This is the fundamental principle to living a great life, one that may not look like any of our ideals but is full or growth, as opposed to a picture perfect one that just ticks the boxes but does not deepen our connection, understanding and appreciation of who we truly are.

307. Once we see all the behaviours and areas that are not us, we then find what our true nature is – love, truth, harmony and joy.

     1. Yes, as long as we don´t recognize what we are not, that what we are not doesn´t allow us to see our true nature. That is a (seeming) conundrum and explains why we need reflections of what we are in truth.

        1. And big time! For how adept if not comfortable we are with convincing ourselves that we are what we are not… all the while actually knowing the lie that we live. To be in the presence of one who reflects truth cannot but rattle our comfortable, self-determined cages…

308. “Living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” This is a truth that supports everyone equally honouring who we are and our choices.

     1. I loved that line, thanks for sharing it again Sandra. As humans, we tend to know whats good/not good for us, not living it is the problem. Knowledge doesn’t mean anything unless it’s lived in the body.

     2. True, Sandra. Truly living a revelation is vastly different from simply owning the knowledge. The ‘living,’ aka integrating a revelation into every aspect of our everyday lives, is what leads to true change and evolution, where as just holding the knowledge allows us to believe we are making changes when in truth we are not.

     3. Yes, so true. I often feel how every choice I make, loving or otherwise, can be felt by another and this is far more communicated than words.

309. “All these things were OK in my so-called ‘normal’ life, but they were not loving. They were just ways to merely cope with life.” Once this is realized, that much of what we do and say has no true love in it, the way opens to embrace life and love in its fullness more and more instead of merely coping.

     1. Yes Jeanette; in order for us to fully accept love in our lives we need to first be completely honest with the way that we’ve been living, and accept that our choices in the past may have been made to ‘cope’ with life but not truly live it, and that we need to take responsibility for this before moving forward. This means that in the future we can fully embrace relationships and opportunities without any hidden ‘skeletons in the closet’ or un-dealt with dishonesty.

        1. Yes it is a horribly uncomfortable feeling when the skeletons are rattled. Noticing the rattle, acknowledging it is there, and being willing to look at where it comes from, rather than pushing the skeletons further back in the closet would be a great spring cleaning tip. The clearer the closet is the easier to see if something unsupportive is lodged there and more enjoyable to clean up.

        2. Hmm agree Susie W, because it’s the skeletons that give us the fright, and what good is fright in any relationship.. it does nothing to ease but everything to deter. When we don’t deal or truly live but instead just ‘cope’ with life as you say, makes me think we’re walking around as a skeleton just adorned with clothes on top. However beautiful the clothes, the skeletal and lack of fullness underneath is always there and always felt.

     2. I get what you mean Jeanette. Once we start to realise and let go of those unloving things in our life, a wonderful way opens up, one that I had almost forgotten but one that is deeply beautiful… it is like finding the holy grail.

     3. So true Jeanette. There is so much in this world that is about coping, just getting by or doing the minimum required. There is no depth, quality or love in any of this. There is a fullness and joy to life when we live a connected life.

        1. To me it feels like a curse when we say things like “I’m coping”, or “I’ll survive”. It stops us from going deeper into the quality of who we are, to the love and joy and connection that is always there waiting for us to accept more and more of.

310. So true about living knowledge rather than just knowing it. True wisdom is knowledge lived consistently and therefore truly known.

     1. Definitely Cathy – talking the talk is certainly different to walking it

        1. You could even say Jessica that instead of the usual saying to “walk the talk” – is more “talk the walk” i.e. express what you have already walked and embodied.

        2. Very true Zofia – as then we are only speaking what we know as we’ve put it into practice already

     2. Yes, that simple point – knowledge has a limited purpose. To make a true change, it needs to be lived and then the sky is the limit.

     3. Beautifully said Cathy, it is the consistency in living this wisdom that allows the truth to be lived.

     4. I love your defiinition of true wisdom. The consistency is so important, to know who we truly are and not to hold back our light, our grandness.

311. Yes Katie, we could actually say that nearly all the possibilities that we have to relax, enjoy, etc. are actually distractions. With the eye there’s not so much to ‘fault’, but when taking energies and feeling into account – we’re able to see the big bubble and gigantic illusion that we live in. We’re so ignorant that we often are not even aware what for example watching TV or sporting does to our body. A lot of people fight it with everything they have, yet the ones that suffer mostly are those people themselves…

     1. And I am observing the changing trends in how tv is consumed is adding to the level of distraction – these current trends include tailoring your tv to exactly what you want to watch, when you want to watch – youtube channels, streaming, free movies, means consumers can fine tune to subconsciously choose precisely the level of distraction desired. The check out from reality is deeper; a virtual world is created.

     2. And Gina, most of us call this improvement of life. It is glorifying a world that is indeed as you say, virtual and has hardly anything to do with real life. Where the Truth is that real life might be hard sometimes (it is in my experience), but also incredibly Beautiful and worth to live it. Having reconnected to the loveliness inside is something I’ve been looking for and wanting my whole life when I chose to live in that same virtual world. There’s so much more to life, but only when we choose to connect to it – which requires feeling – we are able to reconnect to both Divinity in- and outside of us.

312. “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.” Absolutely Haresh, expressing from your body is what makes The Livingness truly accessible for then there is no need for spoken justification only the sound confirmation of movement.

     1. The body knows the livingness with absoluteness by feeling the confirmation of what it is made of – no words needed unless for sharing the beauty with one another.

     2. Absolutely. A lived wisdom with no need to justify.

313. “After every encounter with Serge Benhayon, I observed and noted the changes in my awareness.”
     I love the way that Serge presents he always asks you to consider the possibilities and then leaves to walk your own path it is so deeply empowering and incredibly frustrating sometimes but the lessons are there everyday if we choose to open our eyes and hearts.

     1. When you say it like this nicolesjardin this is true empowered learning – being given the space for lived exploration – known through the bodies intelligence – Wow what if our education system delivered like this?

        1. So true the wisdom that is allowed to come through is like nothing else I have experienced in this life.

        2. That would have an enormous effect lucindag. And what also has an enormous effect is more people living empowered and reflecting this to others as well.

        3. This would be revolutionary.

     2. Yes, Nicolesjardin. By presenting the possibilities (and living them) Serge Benhayon leaves us free to explore them or not! He also shares tools that he has found useful. In this way I have been able to make changes in my own way and at my own pace in an ongoing and very practical way.

        1. Absolute pure empowerment. Presenting the possibilities, and sharing the tools, and living what is presented as a role model, then leaving people the complete choice to put it into practice or not, whilst offering support to whoever seeks it – everything based on what is already being lived in a life that shows the greatest level of love, care, Joy, wisdom, integrity and harmony most of us have ever come across. This is a perfect blueprint for teaching anything and offering support.

     3. So much to still to reconnect to!

     4. I thank him for opening a door for us, we enter or we do not, it is always our choice.

     5. Absolutely Nicole – “I love the way that Serge presents he always asks you to consider the possibilities and then leaves to walk your own path”, it is the deepest form of respect when you speak to him

     6. I agree, nicolesjardin. It actually feels like we are learning to learn, and that learning itself is where the meat is. We are so used to thinking there is a right answer and to be given what the end product should look like.

        1. So true Fumiyo – in the learning is the richness.

     7. Absolutely Nicolesjardin. Serge does not preach and he does not tell you what to do. He presents a range of possibilities and allows each person to make their own choice being completely unattached to the choice that is chosen.

     8. Yes Nicole – Serge is not imposing as well. You are so right, when you are saying, Serge inspires us to make our own choices and to walk our own path. He is never pushing anybody – what a role model, very needed in this world of drama and distractions.

314. ‘If we consider ourselves the most intelligent species on this planet, why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are so harmful to our bodies? ‘ – Haresh – this is a question we simply do not ask ourselves enough – we do not take stock, reflect and take responsibility for the way we are choosing to live because it means we have to face the fact that our choices are harmful to our bodies and we are willingly making them because society has made it normal. What an eyeopener to really see the world in this way, to see each day as being our full responsibility to make choices that either harm or support our body. When we break it down like this, it becomes very simple.

     1. Indeed hvmorden for if we were to stop and reflect we might just have to face the fact that the way we are living is not it and the galactic responsibility that comes with that.

        1. Hence the number of distractions we’ve created to distract is from feeling any of this. It is obvious for me now to look back on all the way ways I really hardened my body to not deal with how sensitive I am, but there are always things that even today will try and still get in the way of me seeing the truth. It comes down to the responsibility I have to call out the games in every moment and keep listening to my body and not my head.

     2. This so true hvmorden. On the news yesterday I heard of a global health report that says that one in eleven people globally now have diabetes of which 80% are type 2 diabetes which is a result of lifestyle choices. So definitely this is a question we need to keep asking and start answering.

        1. Yes and the stats will continue to worsen – now it is 1 in 2 who will get cancer – but it is as if we are so used to hearing about it that we don’t take note until it personally affects us. Responsibility is what it comes down to – And actually making the choice to be aware of how we are living in each moment. How are we behind closed doors, how do we treat ourselves and how do we treat others. Do we really continue to ask those around us what is going on and where are they at when we see them not being themselves. Truth is not always being nice – it is being observant and expressing from what we truly observe.

315. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.”. This is happens when we take the amount of self-responsibility for our choices as you have done Haresh and what allows us to feel the joy from within, and to greet every day as a new opportunity, and to let it open up before us, rather than viewing it as a task, or a struggle.

     1. Thank you Haresh and Joan, this is a perfect read for me to start my day and let it open up instead of trying to control what I never can control and make life a struggle

316. In every moment we have a choice – some are more obvious than others, e.g. Do I turn on the TV or go to bed? Others are more subtle. Each choice is one of energy – which energy do I wish to align with? What activity will help me to retain my innermost connection? If we ask ourselves that question, which one we choose becomes more obvious.

317. For most a perfect life is living in a comfortable bubble where we don’t have to take full responsibility and where we live according to ideal pictures. It is a life where we dull, numb and distract ourselves. The latter we do because we are avoiding the emptiness we are feeling, that is there because we don’t make the choice to connect to the wonder that we are.

318. “I was living a seemingly perfect life and was feeling normal living with my emotions and selective memories of the good times I’ve had.” – We can be very good at editing our memories or experiences to justify the way we are living! Universal Medicine has shown me that there is another way, not just in mind but in practical daily life, living with deeper connection and love, without perfection but constantly evolving to greater consistency.

319. “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it. I saw that my lack of life skills (the arrogance delivered through my mind would not agree, but this is a fact) made it difficult for me to deal with many situations in life.” There is so much said in these sentences, they perfectly describe the dysfunctional way we champion ‘function’ over truth.

320. That feeling of something being lacking in life is present for many people, hence the huge popularity in spiritual practices, courses run by very popular life coaches, and the abundance of self-development books. People are searching for meaning, but are focused on external factors rather than looking within.

     1. ‘People are searching for meaning’ yes, and when we stop the desperately seeking for answers out in the world, we come to a fundamental opportunity to take responsibility for ourselves, looking within and finding all we ‘need’.

321. A lovely sharing Mary. When we take time to stop and observe, there is indeed a lot of beauty all around us.

322. “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life.” I agree. It leaves no room for judgement, reaction or self critique. For me it’s like a childhood joy.

     1. Same Gyl, it helps comparison to go out the window.

323. “All these things were OK in my so-called ‘normal’ life, but they were not loving. They were just ways to merely cope with life.” I love this statement, so simple, so true, and delivered with grace.

     1. I love this statement too as it becomes so clear when we live in a loving way the things that we used to think were loving are actually not.

324. Living joyfully, full of love and care is our very natural and ease-y way of being.

325. All of this is true “Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom. For example, when I apply cream on my body gently, with love and care, the yumminess is felt in the body, and due to this simple, self-loving act, I feel nurtured as a result.” and can be felt, related to food, how we eat, walk, shower, exercise, sleep, drive, do our hair, plus many many other areas of our lives.

     1. To ALL areas of our lives in fact.

326. Great read Haresh, there are many perceptions of what ‘normal’ is and many of them are abusive to ourselves. It’s only when something (or someone) beaks us out of this perception and introduces the magic of Self-Care that I realised I was abusing myself.

     1. Well said Matthew- and so true – “there are many perceptions of what ‘normal’ is and many of them are abusive to ourselves”

327. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” this is the absolute truth, I can vouch for this.

328. Hear hear I agree “Serge, everything he presented was simple and made perfect sense to me.”

329. I love your self awareness questions Haresh. One that I also ask myself is from which source of energy is my thoughts coming from? The moment those self critical, self bashing self doubting thoughts come in I know the source is not loving.

     1. Jane what you raise is a really great point, I would often think my thoughts were mine and it was not until Universal Medicine did I even consider that perhaps all the thoughts were not from me but as a result of the quality of energy I was living or choosing. This makes so much more sense as why would I be self critical, self bashing if in essence that is not who I am?

        1. So true David. Our thoughts reveal the quality of energy we are choosing at any one time.

330. Haresh, I love this description, ‘Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.’ I too felt like something was missing, that there had to be more to life, coming across Universal Medicine made life feel complete and make sense, no longer do I feel that something is missing.

     1. Indeed R Wingrave i never contemplated tucking myself up in the same way I do my children until I came across Universal Medicine.

        1. Neither had I Lucinda, and now when I do it is one of the loveliest things I can do for myself! It is lovely to have someone do it for you, but if there isn’t anyone to do it, or anyone who is inclined to then the feeling generated is the same to do it for oneself. On one level I feel even more special as I am holding myself in the love that I am and the love I deserve, in full appreciation and acceptance of myself. Totally yummy.

331. “All these things were OK in my so-called ‘normal’ life, but they were not loving. They were just ways to merely cope with life”. What I love about what you are highlighting here Haresh is that so much falls under the radar when we choose not to be aware of them. However once our awareness becomes more heightened we realise the depths to which we have been self disregarding and unloving. A bit of an eye opener, and continues to be the deeper we allow the awareness to go…

     1. ‘once our awareness becomes more heightened we realise the depths to which we have been disregarding’ – Michelle this my experience too. There is always more refinement the more deeply aware we become. It is a beautiful unfoldment that requires absolutely no thought at all, just the willingness to feel.

        1. Agreed, and a willingness to stay open and not to indulge in the self bashing! I have come to accept that the more I wish to be aware, the more unloving muck will be revealed. Since this will forever be ongoing I am learning to accept the lesson and the discomfort in the realisation and then take immediate steps to make different choices without running round in circles in panic for a while before I get to it!

     2. What I get from your comment michelle819 is that even if something is not on your radar doesn’t mean that it is not there.

        1. Yes indeed Joel. I have found that as a humanity we like to stick our heads in the sand believing if we can not see something or are numb to it then we can pretend it is not there! However not admitting to something unloving doesn’t mean it is absent, we have just accepted it and have learned to live with it – sores we consider normal, but when revealed they can hardly be credited!

        2. That’s the key isn’t it, the difference between what is normal and what we have simply gotten used to

332. “…living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”
     Thank you Haresh for sharing this wisdom, The Way of the Livingness, is the most powerful science that has ever been given to humanity, the moment we start to apply it we are able to feel that for ourselves and we are no longer at the mercy of “someone said so” as we can put everything through the test of our own livingness.

333. “He presented simple talks that made me reflect on my own ingrained and unloving behaviours.” This is so true Haresh, Serge never points a finger or judges but through his simple but profound talks, we become aware and can begin to relate what he presents to our own ingrained and unloving behaviours.

334. Haresh I enjoyed reading your blog. Self awareness is so important. I really like the questions you have included at the end of your blog.

335. Coming to Universal Medicine is quite an exciting thing, there is so much that is amazing that it is hard not to want to share this with everyone. I can see the great truth and the difference it can make for humanity and would be very keen to let everyone know, but as Haresh shared, it is about living it in the body, not through knowledge and empty words.

336. Beautiful, Haresh. I agree that the loveliness never ends when we commit to love first and foremost in our movements and expression. The mind cannot experience this, only the body in connection.

337. “there was a constant feeling that something was lacking.” I was just reading a brilliant article on just this feeling, and a quote from it that stood out was: “Emptiness is the inability to be you” (Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, p 70, 2011) The ongoing and ever deepening awareness of yourself Haresh has shown our ability to ‘be you’ and no longer feel a lack within.

338. Embodying knowledge is so different to merely just memorising it. Your example with the cream not only is a great way of illustrating this but it in itself also demonstrates that you have embodied this understanding.

339. “This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.” I agree Haresh, before I met Serge Benhayon I was coping with life but there was no joy. The common sense medicine of Universal Medicine has brought me to life and a way of living that embodies truth, joy, love and responsibility.

340. This is such a beautiful blog Haresh – when we choose to be present with ourselves we are saying ‘yes’ to love, that single choice is huge.

341. “living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Ain’t that the truth! This is the difference between any other practice I have been involved in and The Way of the Livingness. What you know means nothing if you don’t live it. I found that when I started to live what I know my whole life changed completely.

342. Haresh, I love the stillness in your writing. There is a huge difference between knowing something and living it. I love the way you talk about how putting cream on your body is a loving thing to do and when we do it, our bodies register this and it become part of how we live. The amazing thing is that this knowledge is in our bodies already and we already know it becuase it is completely natural to us. It’s a case of choosing to live it.

343. Through the quality we choose to bring to our every movement (e.g. walking, standing, filling the kettle) we have the ability to magnify the livingness (or, that which is not love) and this is felt by others more than any words we may speak.

344. Thank you for sharing your appreciation of the changes you have felt inspired to implement since choosing the Way of the Livingness as your religion and how ‘My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.’ Beautiful to feel and now there is no perfection only choices in every moment to be loving.

345. Haresh I love the plastic strawberry which shows so clearly how we have fallen for a false image and how our wayward spirit is trying to convince us on a daily basis that the plastic strawberry is it.

346. Ah yes…that moment when life transmutes from pure existence to the absolute joy of the livingness. That is, living the love that we are and letting this infuse the all that we do so that life is not about mechanical function and ‘getting through’ the day, weeks, years, but more so about bringing our all to each given moment and in doing so, each moment is transformed to the ‘more’ that we are but had until now neglected to live. Thankyou Haresh.

     1. Having using my mind as the main ‘engine’ for most of my life, it is still a feeling of huge inspiration to let knowledge ‘infuse’ my whole body from where it can be lived in full. Being around people who live in this way, shows me without doubt that we learn from lived examples not clever but disembodied words.

     2. Ah Yes Liane, that transmutation. It’s like going from shade to sunshine.

347. Haresh shows us a beautiful part of ourselves in this blog. She shows us how even when everything looks perfect, there can still be a great deal of tension in our bodies, due to the amount of effort it takes to sustain the image of perfection. However, we so often look to the outside world for the perfect life, constructing images and beliefs, when there is you inside all the time.

348. All the knowledge in the world is useless unless it is lived knowledge, the talk without the walk just doesn’t cut the mustard.

     1. Yes I so agree Kevin. Words hold little strength unless they are backed up by the livingness. The words lived become truth felt by our bodies, there is much more clarity from the mustard shared then.

349. What a beautiful blog to read from Haresh about embodying the livingness. I could feel your joy.

350. And words are nothing without a livingness behind them.

     1. So true Kylie. Words are empty if they lack the warmth of a love that is lived.

351. I used to tell all my friends about the things that I thought were doing me good and wanted them to adapt and join me. …Didn’t work. How much more fun it is to just live what really supports me and simply let others see and feel this. It makes interactions way lighter!

     1. True Inspiration needs no justification only breath.

     2. Agreed Felix, giving knowledge to others doesn’t help. living it and showing it is the way to go! less pressure, pictures and expectations for others to handle.

352. Thank you for exposing the truth about that delicious looking strawberry! You share so much here that is worthy of further comment and I have enjoyed the comments that have been made so far. In fact I really like the fact that this blog itself is written from that sense of you enjoying your life and that is something that naturally emerges more and more as we drop the falsities and embrace a true living way.

353. Well said Mary, it’s re-connecting to the grandness we are and seeing true beauty all around us. This is truly playing big, being who we are and serving the divine plan without any ideals and images about how life has to be.

354. I agree Haresh, every interaction that I have with Serge Benhayon whether that be in person, via reading one of his books, email or audio, my awareness deepens of who I am, what I am here to do and the responsibility that I hold to reflect to others that they too are the equal Sons of God.

355. It is only when we have an investment in the way the world is, is when we find the way things are acceptable.

356. What Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has exposed to me is what we think as ‘normal’ really isn’t normal at all. It may be how most of the world is living, but my new normal, having taken the steps to develop self-love is much deeper, it is joy-full, it is harmonious, it is stillness and truth. I deeply appreciate that Universal Medicine has reflected to me that there is another way.

357. The self –awareness that comes from the Livingness is a joy to experience. Initially, I encountered an enormous amount of resistance to really wanting to know what was going on. Now, looking back at that, I smile with acceptance because I can see that it needed to be that way, for me to clear what was in the way and build a strong loving foundation so that I was able to open my eyes and really see again. Now I delight in the moment to moment awareness that comes every day to show me how to go deeper and live with more love.

358. It is quite a realization to begin to live knowledge rather than just know it in our thoughts. In my experience, this took a while to embrace in full. Some things were simple to embrace straight up, whilst others took much longer to acknowledge. The big shift for me was realizing that it was all about my relationship with me, with God and Divinity; a very personal relationship that throws away any idea of needing to ‘get away with’ things but rather commits to a life built on truth.

359. I love the simplicity with which you write, Haresh. Your experience shows that your integration of the work of Universal Medicine has deepened the quality and experience of joy in your life, which continues to deepen everyday as you live each awareness that presents itself to you. What a beautiful way to live, where we become our own teachers, connected with the multi-dimensionality of life and yet with our feet firmly walking on the Earth!

     1. Agreed Emma to connect with your body in this way is deeply empowering; its a learning adventure from which true growth begins.

360. Awareness is something that is ever deepening to support our relentless evolution.

361. The plastic strawberry, what a great analogy! And the craziest part is that we all buy into something we know is not true. Thank you for your awesome sharing of how you came to start living the truth again.

     1. I relate to the plastic strawberry too, life used to feel unreal, without me understanding why. A big shift came about with meeting Serge Benhayon.

     2. We not only buy into it Kate we also bite into it and swallow it.

        1. Haha! so very true Nicola, love it!

     3. ‘Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.’ I agree Kate this is a wonderful analogy and I think we are on some level all aware of this but choose to play the game of keeping ourselves small and accept this strawberry without acknowledging it has no taste. I did for a long time until like Haresh I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

        1. So great to call out the plastic strawberry! It takes courage to go against the tide and expose the lie many of us are all living and caught up in.

362. This is a great blog to read, especially ….”living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it…” What a difference in life this makes.

     1. Yes, I loved this line and can relate to it very much. Having used my mind to try and understand life for many years, it is a joy to find ‘The Way of the Livingness’, a true and simple way of being by connecting to the wisdom of the body.

363. We do not ponder on life enough, and if we did, we would start to question the way life is constructed. We ,may profess to love coffee and beer, even though both are in fact an acquired taste, but do we stop to ask why we need them? There are so many seemingly small aspects of life that we seemingly accept on face value as being normal – and often to our greater detriment.

     1. ‘We do not ponder on life enough.’ Indeed Adam.
        The busier my life gets, the more I am realising that space to ‘do’ nothing, to reflect, to feel, to connect without any outside stimulation like food or TV is an essential element of my rhythm.

        1. The space to just be and ‘do’ nothing does bring richness to our lives. I sometimes watch myself avoiding this space and bringing in stimulation when there is something I do not want to feel. Pondering allows the space for subtle change, expansion and appreciation.

        2. Absolutely Abby, applying this “space” and “observation” to our lives has powerful differences and things like ‘work’ and ‘travel’ when lived in appreciation and space are completely different.

     2. I agree Adam that there are so many things that we eat, drink and do that are very harmful to us but we do not stop to question why we are doing this harm to our precious bodies. In fact there are so many “normals” in this world that have become deeply entrenched in our way of living and are so detrimental to us, but simply accepted until something goes wrong with our bodies, and then finally we stop and ask why.

        1. Yes Ingrid, we have ingrained so many “normals” in this world that we don’t stop and question them, even though know what we are doing does not support us. We leave it until we have to, by which time we may have ‘ingrained’ much harm to our bodies.

        2. Yes that is always the big wake up moment Ingrid, when something goes wrong with our bodies. But up until meeting Universal Medicine I used to regard sickness as an imposition, not a messenger. Today I know that if I get sick my body is asking me to look at what I consider “normal” and to re-examine how I am living and thank goodness, it has supported me to see that so many of the so called “normal” choices I have made are extremely artificial and very harmful.

     3. Absolutely Adam it was not until I met Serge Benhayon that i started to unpick these “givens” and begun to realise that i had a choice at all!

        1. Me too lucindag. It is amazing how the questions he poses, that in hindsight seem so very obvious, never entered my head before then.

        2. I agree Lucinda – I have learnt so much from the presentations and reflection of Serge Benhayon. It is immensely empowering, joyful and freeing to be able to see things as they are and to know that what happens is a consequence of my choices.

     4. We can be very lazy in the way we live, allowing life to just keep rolling on instead of stopping and checking in with what is really going on. I have realised this is irresponsible and when I find myself in this space, I am now beginning to recognise it and change my choices. Pondering choices is exposing of what is really going on underneath the ‘simple’ choice to have a coffee and asks us to take responsibility for what is underneath. Great comment Adam, one that we can all choose to ponder.

     5. The pondering on life is what we humans used to do more before getting distracted by television, internet, pubs, sports and more. The constant distribution itself is something worth pondering on, why is it so hard for us to stop and just be.

     6. “…normal is in fact very abnormal to the body.” Yes Katie, the truth is so often the opposite to what we perceive. Compliance to the norm keeps us capped until we start to question and be honest about the affect that something is having on the body. I could feel that my body hated alcohol and I only started drinking because of the pressure from peers who felt uncomfortable when I wasn’t drinking so I did it to fit in. Had I been able to express clearly why I wasn’t moved to drink and hold to that decision it would have shown others that they also had a choice to not drink and I’m sure some of my friends would have given it up too.

     7. Very true Adam. It takes much greater level of honesty to see the reality of life than to continue living in the comfortable illusion of what we interpret life to be.

     8. It seems that we often go in the exact opposite direction of pondering on life, looking for anything and everything to distract ourselves from knowing ourselves. Thus the coffee, beer, endless entertainment and semi-permanent screens attached to the ends of our arm. But, as you say, these have all become accepted as what is ‘normal’ and are defended when challenged, even though there have been many voices calling out through the self-induced fog that something is not right. We are so much more than what we allow ourselves to embody. Finding that grandness is a simple choice to take that first step, not towards anything other than ourselves.

364. It is the truth of our livingness that is the wisdom shared for all. This is of far greater importance today as the truth can be felt with clarity from our bodies and knowledge shared in words from our heads, holds little quality of being. When we embody the knowledge and share our experiences from our living truth it can be playful and fun too as we have lived it in full.

365. Awesome reality check, very powerful – you have gone from a tasteless strawberry to living in connection with who you are and feeling like “…embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being”. And that, as you say, does not require any knowledge, just the inspiration you got by meeting Serge Benhayon.

     1. Gabriele, so well put. There is such a realness in what Haresh has shared, a great reality check to ask is it lived or knowledge and lived doesn’t need the prop of knowledge.

366. Awesome blog Haresh, so gorgeous to read. I love the questions you’ve shared as they are constantly asking us to be more aware of our every choice and to take responsibility for every part of them.

367. Great blog Haresh, the Livingness is a lived truth in ones own body and so much more than words, knowledge or what our society would deem intelligence. Life like a tasteless, plastic strawberry sounds rather un-full and what makes it so is the missing ‘fullness’ of who we are and this in a living way; it’s great that we can begin with a new connection to ourselves and who we are and from here rediscover what true nurturing feels like and looks like when it’s lived. Life becomes the sweetest of strawberries but in actual fact so much more than this than we can even fathom!

368. Thank you Haresh for sharing your observations and learning’s with us. To question why life is bland is a great question and one that requires more focus, we are living and accepting life as is, it continues to deteriorate and we still accept. Thank you for sharing we do not have to accept and we can live something truly divine that does not have to be perfect.

369. Such a refreshing blog Haresh and biggest take away from it I get today is the knowledge lived is far more powerful than knowledge, and walking our talk, living the truth we know from our bodies is such a solid foundation to be in life. We can commit to life knowing in us that solidness of that lived truth. And you got me considering when you talked of alcohol etc. ‘I realised there is no self-love or self-care’, and I realised that I actively choose to let things go like coffee which did not support me, but I have other things in my life I now cling onto rather than let go, not a comfortable thing to see, but very welcome.

370. Haresh, I am blown away by your article, it is so simple, loving and with so much common sense. Love your dot points “How did I wake up from my bed? Is my body refreshed and ready for another day or do I need to drag myself out of bed because I have to go to work or to do something that needs to be done?
     How am I walking? Am I walking with loving feet or just to get from one place to another to get the job done?” These things make a significant difference in the quality of ones life!

     1. The saying goes that “the Devil is in the details”. Haresh’s blog makes it clear that it is actually Heaven in the details when we pay heed to them and make them loving.

        1. Absolutely Rachel, and there is great joy in living the details, heaven reveals itself.

371. There is such a huge difference between a perfect life, as in having all boxes ticked, and a deeply self aware life. The first can have all we think we need like a car, a house, a well payed job, a partner etc. but often lacks a depth that true awareness of ourselves and life in general brings. Having awareness and a relationship with yourself can be done also when our lives do not look perfect on the outside, yet they will feel perfect because of the quality lived on the inside – inside and with ourselves.

372. Beautiful sharing Mary “When I put my head up over the parapet so to say and take a look around the world is actually quite beautiful as is everyone in it.” Divine!

373. Great simple relatable blog Haresh this line stood out to me “Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.” I can remember forever looking around at the world feeling there was something wrong with me because I could feel the livingness so many aspired to just didn’t feel ok to me. It wasn’t until I can to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Serge Benhayon I truly took responsibility for my livingness and learnt to truly love and nurture my body and re-connect with my true self life made sense to me.

374. Reading your blog Haresh reminded me of a line in the song Amazing Grace where it says “I once was blind but now I see”. Through self-awareness behaviour that we once considered normal suddenly does not seem so normal anymore. You give some great examples of this like the example of it just being normal to turn on the TV and escape from life for a while. There is nothing normal about that. We have to go deeper and ask what is it about our lives that we want to escape from? Through allowing ourselves to be honest we then can address the issue and actually bring more love into our lives.

375. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Without a shadow of doubt Haresh and we all innately know it. How often have we heard the expression “You have to walk your talk”.

376. Your blog is a joy to read Haresh – I can feel your beaming smile and light.

     1. I love this, I can feel the joy and love that comes from a man who has truly rediscovered himself and is not afraid of living this in the world; and why would we hide this?! when we can so evidently see that how we were living previously was a morsel of a shell in comparison to our true potential and in many ways the opposite of who we ever were and the love that we innately are. Go Haresh! I look forward to reading more of your unfolding as you write in such a relatable way.

377. “…living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” This is huge Haresh. You can tell when someone is saying something to you or suggesting a different approach whether they actually do this themselves or not – like the obese Doctor telling their patient to loose weight. When we live what we know it is firmly held in our body in this knowingness and we don’t need to remember it or recall the arguments to support a choice because we live it on a daily basis. This lived experience is very powerful indeed.

378. Self inquiry is something I am learning to implement in my life more and more. It allows us and gives the foundations to having an honest and open relationship with ourselves. When that honesty is lived we then communicate that to everyone else – truth becomes our marker and our relationships evolve.

     1. I agree Rachael. It is beautiful to incorporate self inquiry and awareness into our lives. It brings a fullness to life which is indeed that relationship with ourselves. I missed that deep honest relationship with myself for a long time in the past, it was that little feeling that something was missing.

     2. Wow I love this Rachael, there is so much in such a short paragraph. True wisdom lived and expressed. Thank you. Here is to more honesty, to inspire others and to evolve relationships. Who knew it could be so simple 🙂

379. I love this Haresh. Recognising that your perfect life is not so perfect, is not an easy thing to do. It is not about finding fault, but honestly appraising what is really going on – the gap between the truth and the fantasy uphold because we think we have to.

     1. I agree Rachel, it certainly is not easy to give up the illusion of living a perfect life as this is what we are encouraged and even expected to strive for in society. So to let go of this belief requires honesty and willingness to take responsibility to live a truthful and purposeful life that encompasses love and truth.

        1. And the will to see that even if our little patch is fine it is far from fine for other people. That matters when we share the world – a sphere in which every part affects every other part.

     2. The very notion of perfection is part of a linear way of thinking life. This is the end of the road; the peak of the mountain. There is nothing else. You made it. You can change your movements now and go into
        cruising mode, hence adopting movements that only confirm the images you have bought into.

        1. And you know what I love Eduardo…no one can live a the top of a mountain.
           Climb it by all means, but it does not end, and “it” has not been made – for down you must go to return to the base where all life is in all of its challenging realness.

        2. Both metaphors suggest that movement stop or has to stop at some point. If we have to keep moving (pictured as going down the mountain or retracing our steps in the chosen way) any of these movements of ‘return’ as seeing as inferior to the other one, when in truth life is about returning to who we truly are in the first place by moving forwarding a movement of deepening and expanding love that is endless.

        3. I had not considered that Eduardo, but how true that we perceive returning to be the lesser journey. No one gets kudos for climbing down Mount Everest!! Although the fact is that quite a few don’t make it back down. But as you say it is on the return trip that we retrace our steps, far from glamorous when we are all obsessed with going where no one has gone before.
           It is on the return that we clear the mess we made on the way out. It is on the return that we register, feel and start to understand deeply the lessons learned.
           What it lacks in excitement and glamour it more than makes up for in its call to responsibility. For in our return we see everything we sought to escape when we set out in the first place.

        4. You have nailed it here Rachel. The Spirit later incarnated as a human being has made a career out of “going where no one has gone before”. The human being, its creation only follows suit. And, yes, in the way of return we are obliged to pick up the rubbish we have happily created in our race to nowhere. Not a pleasant journey, but a really needed one because it helps you to feel first hand where have you been and the mess you have irresponsibly put together.

     3. True Rachel. Seeking success in ‘Perfection’ is one of our greatest imprisonments and truth is our only freedom.

        1. Agreed in full Kylie.

     4. True Dr Rachel Mascord, we are so trained to tick all the boxes – or give up on it and feel we have failed in life, but what if life is really simple as Haresh is sharing in this blog and all it is about is applying what we feel is true? It takes a little courage to go against the trend but it is well worth it.

        1. A little courage with the most tremendous rewards on offer – a true life, lived lovingly.

380. Perfection always have an element of hiding and there is never full accountability or honesty, as perfection does not exist and to uphold this image that it does, there is a certain part of life we would have to be dishonest about. The picture of perfection imprisons us in compartmentalization and caps us from living in fullness.

     1. Perfection is an image and it is the perfect hideout. A perfect way to protect yourself as you strive to become fault-less. It is also a perfect prison that drives you to a specific type of movements.

     2. That’s so very well said Adele, perfection is an image that we try to uphold but it holds no truth and it keeps us from being honest with what is truly going on.

381. Our bodies are the markers of all truth, this is a fact. If our lives do not reflect this truth, how are we living with this vehicle of expression? Our minds can convince us that what we think is the truth, and that only time would tell through our bodies if that is truly true.

     1. Our particles know best. That is why those that are connected do not totally buy into the image of perfection and keep searching for truth.

382. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”. Such wisdom here Haresh and it shows the solid difference between Universal Medicine and most other stuff out there. Unless you can truly live it (in your way and to the best that you can – no perfection), it feels like just another thing on your to-do list to do or to gain. Must be nicer to myself, must learn more, must know everything etc…but when you learn to live what you have learnt, it becomes solid, real, practical, simple and breathable.

     1. The Livingness is a true testament to what it means to ‘walk your talk’. What use is a set of words that are not lived and thus are void of the fullness and beauty that we are? They do not inspire us or anyone else for that matter to choose a life of equal beauty and interconnectedness or to simply bring any honesty to how it is we are living. The ‘perfect’ life that is actually not so great becomes the ‘normal’ when we all live likewise in a way that is so far less than the grandness and wisdom we are otherwise all capable of.

        1. Words from an angel, thank you Cherise.

     2. Ah I can relate to the to-do lists Sarah (!) and that this requires a force to drive the action to get the job done and often leaves us exhausted because when we finish we require another force to repeat or do another activity. Living what we have learnt in terms of who we truly are requires no external force and is not draining – it simply becomes a natural expression of ourselves in activity or motion.

        1. Oh yeah I know that force. Still gets me at time but learning to not react to it.

     3. Thank you Haresh and Sarah, yes life is full of things we want and most of us have a ‘bucket list’, which has nothing to do with a Livingness. As stated, “unless you can truly live it, it feels like just another thing on your to-do list to do or gain”. Simple practical awareness of living in a way that allows evolution, which is “in your way and to the best that you can” with no perfection, allows the learnt principles of life, like self-love and self-nurturing to be build into our daily rhythm until it become part of our Livingness. As you say Haresh, “this livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.”

383. It’s amazing how many ‘coping strategies’ we can have in place in our life and consider that as normal until we are inspired by another to see that there is a way to live that means we don’t need to distract ourselves from what we feel inside and all that we see.

384. Hi Haresh, your comment – ‘My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving’ – is beautiful and a solid reflection of all that you bring with the awareness you are choosing to live everyday. Thank you for sharing this evolution with us all.

385. Thank you Haresh for sharing ” My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.” beautifully simple to read with love being at the core of everything you do.

386. It’s interesting Haresh, that you felt you were the only one who experienced the so-called perfection of life as a tasteless, plastic strawberry! For me it was the sense of being too comfortable and I felt stifled and uncomfortable by my picture perfect life (with room for a pony!) That this then led you to the teachings of Serge Benhayon doesn’t surprise me as it happened that way for me, too.

387. Absolutely Haresh, your line about life skills stood out for me. Life skills are what we teach our children and others in our lives through various roles we take on in our families and the community, we teach them with words, with actions and by reflection. When we reflect coping mechanisms that is also what they learn as a life skill yet coping mechanisms create an illusion that builds this end result of having a perfect life that feels empty. Life skills have to include what to do with what you feel when you can’t put your finger on what it is but you feel it, what to do with what you feel is here that someone else in the same situation denies. An example might be when your parents have had a row and both are hurt and angry and you ask are you ok? Yes they say through a fake smile, yes they confirm, stop asking me, it is all fine. But you feel it is not. In that moment you are learning a life skill that starts to doubt what you feel, after all your parents always tell you to tell the truth so they must be….mustn’t they?!

388. The pictures will get us every time. I’ve had all kinds of pictures and I have chased them like a child running after a balloon that has taken flight. It’s not sustainable, nor attainable. When we’re ready and open to accept the very real possibility that we are enough as we are with out the mod cons, things start to shift, we don’t chase anymore, we appreciate.

389. Beautiful sharing Haresh! Thank you! We can make life about function or we can make it about Living in the true sense of living. As you have so beautifully said too, we can take the simplest knowledge but so long as we don’t apply it to life and live it, it stays as knowledge and nothing more, it serves no other purpose. How powerful are we then as beings that can take knowledge and actually live it! To know it and not live it must then come with an arrogance of life itself! For example, to know that alcohol kills brain cells, puts the digestive tract into disharmony and makes the liver work around the clock in a desperate attempt to clear the alcohol and its even more toxic by products from the body – is all common knowledge. Yet how many of us actually apply that knowledge and say no to alcohol, even the smallest drop of it? As a society our arrogance runs deeply seated. But if we were to actually apply that knowledge, how much would the world change – could it be that motor vehicle accidents would statistically drop? And could it be that the incidence of domestic violence would also decrease? And would alcohol related disease also decrease? We know the answers to these questions.
     We hold knowledge that has great power to change the world, but most of us do little to live it. Our arrogance holds onto the comforts that alcohol offers us and so currently our society chooses ill health over health and chooses to consume alcohol and sees its consumption as fine (even in the smallest amounts). The difference between someone who lives what they know versus someone who knows something but chooses not to live it is the difference between function in life and living life in full. So the choice is ours, always – to live a life of function or to empower ourselves and live what we know in full.

390. Awareness is a wonderful thing, even though there are times you really just don’t want to know! Even reading this I caught myself starting to drift off thinking about the many things I have to do today. Simply being able to catch myself doing that is great because I am then able to give myself the opportunity to bring my focus and attention back to what I’m doing now, and not later.

391. Beautiful Haresh. I feel that my life is an amazing journey too since I have started to truly care for and love myself. This is a constantly changing and evolving journey as I discover a greater depth to this self-care and self-love and the benefits flow to my work and all those around me. Serge Benhayon and the work he presents is a constant inspiration and reflection for me.

392. These pictures are interesting Doug. If we choose one we like the look of and try and live that, we then need a lot of external stimulation and distraction to not feel that living this way doesn’t feel true and to keep fooling ourselves…hence why there is so much alcohol & sugar consumption, addictions, etc as these all fuel our bodies and keep them racing so as to not feel the discomfort and tension from not living a life of connection with our essence.

393. Haresh, I love the simplicity you bring to how small details are part of our daily livingness, naturally so and it is not a list of boxes to tick off as having achieved. Once the body knows something as true and supportive, it feeds back the same quality to us and we naturally respond to this and magnify it further.
     “Once that feeling is registered in my body, there is no need to remember that gently applying cream is supportive. It becomes a livingness instead of just mental knowledge and words. This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being”.

394. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” – I couldn’t agree more Haresh. When something is lived it is felt by others – this goes both ways in that a self loving way of life is felt and inspires others to do the same. Equally, a non self-loving way of life is also felt and can be aligned to too, such as the growing trend in self-mutilation with piercings and tattoos…only a lack of self love and self worth allows us to align to this trend, as once you’ve felt true self love, a tattoo would not be possible.

395. I agree Haresh if there is not a lovely feeling of centeredness and stillness in the body then there has to be something and the mind will fill the gap very quickly with as you offer: hurt, anxiety and nervousness or sometimes it would want to try for emotions like sadness, pity, and at times for a change go to excitement and stimulation. All would leave emptiness and back to a sense of feeling something is missing.

396. Hello Haresh and as a child I always knew this to be true, that anything I live was then with me. I remember at school not understanding many of the lessons but as soon as there was a practical application I understood. It was like there was a way that made things easy to see and another way that just spun you around the corner. I agree that “self-awareness” is a key and for me in every moment, not matter what I am doing that is what I dedicate too.

397. We could say that the ‘normal life’ is the ultimate injury we can suffer from. Climbing mountains is something many people understand is extreme, but ‘normal’ and this picture of perfect is it keeps us chained up in these preset ideas of who we are and what we can be. If we settle for just enough, a nice house, job, family and car we may never consider as you did Haresh that there is so much more beauty available to us.

398. I agree the loveliness never ends, there is more to discover every day.

     1. True, we just need to place our focus on appreciating that instead of making life a constant struggle.

399. Thank you Haresh for your simple description of the livingness, what it means to live what we know. It is simple, very practical and allows us to truly live.

400. Awesome sharing, Haresh. I have found that self awareness lets me get away with nothing!! In my awareness I still may make an unloving choice but I am aware that I am doing this and I always feel it in my body later. On the flip side in my awareness appreciation can grow and flourish and this is amazing to feel.

     1. I can totally relate to your comment Anne. I do the same, I sometimes catch myself make some unloving choices but I now use them as a learning instead of beating myself up. I can do this by appreciating myself more and more and from this I realise that every choice I make is about learning and growing.

     2. Yes the self awareness brings responsibility but also appreciation which is beautiful and so expansive.

401. Great post Haresh. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.” Knowledge without wisdom is just regurgitated facts.

402. All questions I would have never dreamt of asking myself Haresh before attending Universal Medicine. This exposes how crazy it is to compare with anyone as it is our own self-awareness that evolves ourselves and this is different for everyone. I love how you experimented and felt for your self what was loving and what was not.

403. This is a very beautiful overview of what, we as students, are learning from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I love the yummy feeling in my body every time I take the care to be with me in whatever I am doing. Appreciating the gentleness with which I touch papers whilst I file them at work also brings great joy. It’s absolutely amazing that something so simple can be felt so powerfully!

404. Haresh this is so full of beauty and tenderness I love the way you express here and share with us. Its all about presence first…observing and no judgment any more. It is so simpel as you put it.

405. This blog highlights the power of honesty and how life can look. It shows me how often I duck and weave to avoid honesty, preferring to make destructive decisions rather than admit what games I am playing, and what I am really protecting and invested in. Much to reflect on here, thank you Haresh.

     1. The lies that come out of my mouth sometimes shock myself! When I have been eating badly and I wake up tired, I blame work, instead of admitting I ate badly the day before! It is very freeing to start listening to my own thoughts and words and catching the lies I tell myself.

406. What a beautiful description about living what is knowledge and how it becomes known through the body and is no longer about recalling with the mind what is nurturing and supportive, in your divine given words Haresh, ‘Once you start living the knowledge, you become the living, breathing example of this truth without needing to remember any words of wisdom.’

407. Life is set up in a way where it is normal to aim for a perfect or a better life. I too have seen how I used to think my life was successful, but there was not an ounce of true success. True success is a deep self-love, an inner confidence that doesn’t waver, a vitality and joy for life and so much more.

     1. I agree Danielle, true success is the kind of success I am learning to embrace. It feels more real, more purposeful and more inclusive of everyone.

        1. Day by day I am more deeply feeling that true success is our ability to live the beautiful and divine people we already are – just being ourselves.

        2. I agree Danielle, the false success so many of us have been chasing leads us to emptiness because it is geared towards self-gain and recognition, whereas the true success you’ve described is one that enriches us all.

     2. What you call true success is not part of the image of success most buy into. The image is the perfect way to deter people to truly going for it. Not only the go into a different direction; they also get pretty satisfied with what they achieve while walking away from ‘true success’.

        1. It’s actually a horrible and empty feeling to reach an image we have of success and when there actually admit that it’s not it. So not only have we sold out to our true selves along the way, but the pot of gold or so called love or recognition we thought was at the end may be there but carry a sense of emptiness, feeling like a consolation prize to something so much more grand.

     3. Thank you for your definition of success, Danielle. Success is also to raise your body-awareness.

        1. This is so true with an increased body awareness we have the ability to feel and see all the layers of false sense around us in society, and begin to choose something different.

     4. Success as you have stated is exquisite Danielle, it would challenge every CEO in the world to also question their definition of success.

        1. This is a great point Heather – can you imagine if every CEO for one month chose to make the success of their business based on the ability for the people to be them selves in full – deeply loving, vibrant and truly well. It would certainly turn the business plans upside down.

     5. Isn’t it crazy that everything that we have ever wanted and ever dreamed of is actually already there and all we have to do is let it out by just being ourselves, and letting go of the trying and the striving to try and be more.

408. There is so much truth in what you share here Haresh. Our minds may ‘think’ we have the perfect life but if we were to ask our bodies truthfully they would not agree…creating and maintaining a life of perfection is very stressful and totally exhausting!

409. Thank you Haresh, I really enjoyed reading all you have shared – especially the last line – “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving.”

     1. For years I looked for the perfect relationship, or the perfect family so I could live a happy life, but now as Haresh has offered, the loveliness of life never ends, and the joy is forever evolving, regardless of my marital status!

        1. Inspiring comment Heather – we can get so caught up in striving for perfection that we miss our own loveliness that has been (and will continue to be) with us all along.

410. Haresh A tremendous blog that you have shared here. Much food for thought and much inspiration. I love this “However, I found the most important message was living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it” Thank you.

411. This is such a gorgeous blog Haresh, you can feel the lightness of hear by which you live.

412. I have found the same Haresh, it is only by living and experiencing something for oneself, do we know what is true for us and what is otherwise harming our bodies. And in this way there is never a rule or a dogmatic hard-line, simply how did this make me feel – does it keep me as expanded and light as before, or does it dull and diminish, make me feel bad. There is an explosion of information about what is supposed to be good for us, but what is we actually already know – and all it takes is to tune into the signal..

413. Self-awareness has been a topic of the spiritual new age, and personal development movements for decades now, but the awareness spoken of here is different. It is one of great responsibility knowing our individual choices affect everyone.

414. Absolutely awesome blog Haresh. I loved reading every word. Like you I have found that life is far sweeter and richer than I imagined it could be when I start to take responsibility for my choices, movements and actions.

415. “A sense of something lacking…” How many of us have lived with that inner niggle until we choose the path of self love described so beautifully here, Haresh. I love your list of questions: they would be super supportive for anyone wanting to build a more genuine relationship with themselves.

416. Light can come in so many colors and sometimes the brightest color is the most deceitful. Serge Benhayon reminded me to observe more how something feels than how it looks. Is a millionaire’s life better than a beggar’s life?

417. I love this line ‘but there was a constant feeling that something was lacking. Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.’ My feeling is more people are aware of it .. we just don’t talk about it and are honest enough with ourselves and others. I felt this this morning ‘How did I wake up from my bed?’ but am becoming more and more aware with thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that that it is the momentum of what we have lived that leaves the end result e.g how I put myself to bed and go to bed with impact how I wake.

     1. I agree Vicky, more of us are aware of the ‘falseness’ of life, but just accept it as the norm and do our best to get through each day. We don’t want to admit it to ourselves, let alone talk with others about it.

     2. Its quite something to say that feeling of knowing “there is something more” is now no longer. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, the knowing is now known, and the understanding of who I am and what it is to truly live a full life is a daily experience.

418. A real joy to read your blog Haresh and feeling how you have taken responsibility in your life and your key is “Self-Awareness” the power is within our self.

419. When life doesn’t have the simplicity you describe here Haresh, no amount of success will give us true richness. The simplicity and fullness of living our lives with love as its foundation is the biggest success of all.

420. Thank you Haresh. It is very supportive to know the difference between living with true awareness or familiar strategies to appear as if we are coping with life, where in fact we are numbing out from our hurts rather than dealing with them.
     “I also became aware that every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it”.

421. Really loved this blog Haresh, particularly, ‘I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it’. So true, the importance of embodying something, not just making it about knowledge. Also developing ones self awareness, the key to evolution.

422. Applying the teachings of Universal Medicine into my life has changed so much and continues to do so. I can appreciate after reading the first part of choosing to live by mental pictures of ‘good times’ and how this was ‘enough’ to my mind. But now asking about the energy in my day, how my body responds or reacts to certain situations or how my choices create the following choices I then build on brings much more openness and lightness to my days. I have been inspired by Serge Benhayon to be a student of myself and of life and this feels greater than accepting what is already with us as the ‘be all and end all’.

423. ohhh my body just oozes with warmth and gorgeousness while reading this blog. It is true the best way to know truth is to live it. For how is anything known of any true value to us if it is not lived?

424. Living the knowledge and awareness of true life becomes the wisdom we share with everyone.

425. A joy to read Haresh as it is a story of lived wisdom, known and embodied; “This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.”

426. This is incredible Haresh, thank you for sharing. Retrospectively, activities like climbing Mount Everest can seem quite intense, dangerous and harmful to the body, but it’s fascinating that in the moment they seem like a great idea and we can justify the choice completely. This applies to everything; even something as simple as overeating we can justify when the food is in front of us – ‘I didn’t eat much for lunch’, ‘it’s a one off’, ‘it’s not that much’ – but the next day when we wake up with a super full stomach it doesn’t feel too great. I wonder what decisions we would make differently if we took the time to check in with our bodies BEFORE we did something, rather than trying to justify our actions even though they may feel disregarding.

427. When we live the wisdom that is inside us, we are a constant reflection for all those around us. We are then in fact living inspirations.

428. Haresh, I really enjoyed reading your blog. The part about the tasteless strawberry made out of plastic made me smile as it felt like such a great description of a life that looks great but has no real quality or substance. I too have found that it was only when I re-connected with my true nature that my life became beautiful and very joyful.

     1. It is a great metaphor… for it is like we have been sold the sweetness of life but don’t get to really live it and feel it as real until we choose to deeply connect with ourselves and live from the inside out rather than the other way around.

429. I was particularly drawn to the question. Why would we consider choosing such behaviours that are harmful to our bodies? In the past I would of said I was doing nothing of the sort – in great denial of course. Introducing self-love and having an awareness and also the experience of what bringing self-loving, self-nurturing acts into my life have had and the impress they leave in my body the realisation is how was I living before? No judgement of course but a clear understanding that those previous ingrained abusive behaviours were a cover up for all the numbing ways I was living. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey Haresh reading this today has really exposed the false perception of what I thought (in the past) what a perfect life was. Today truly appreciating the amazing work of Serge Benhayon and the journey of this life which is forever evolving.

430. Thank you Haresh and I love your Strawberry analogy! When we choose to stay with ourselves, be gentle tender and loving it restores our connection to the flavour within us, a flavour that then imbues all we do and can be felt by all we meet. Its the missing ingredient that then supports us to develop our life skills through a living practice of awareness, an awareness that enables us to recognise our avoidance tactics and face all those uncomfortable moments with an inner connection to our innate knowing. This is what I love and appreciate about Serge Benhayon, the fact that what he presents and shares comes from a lived experience which speaks volumes because what has been learnt is embodied into daily life, no clever talk or impressive speeches required. Consequently studying Universal Medicine is about what we can embody and weave into our everyday choices, so that gently applying body cream, eating nourishing foods and ensuring we are present and connected when we speak to one another become automatic choices that nurture everyone and restore a beautiful, warm flavour to life.

431. Haresh I can deeply relate to the false perception of the perfect life, as someone that was deeply caught in that trap it’s great to read your blog. What is so deeply true is that its not about knowing what is true it is about living it.

432. I so loved what you have written Harresh, I could relate to everything you have said. I thought I had got a handle on life and was playing it the best way I could….but like your description of the tasteless plastic strawberry something never felt right. This line to me was so true because I have tried both ways using knowledge and living knowledge and using knowledge left me in the arrogance of not living it. “However, I found the most important message was that living what you have learnt is far more powerful than just knowing it.”

433. Haresh, thank you for writing this – the questions you ask yourself are great for us all to ask ourselves and allowing our body’s wisdom to guide us is something we all need to do.

434. The feeling that life becomes an amazing journey is a beautiful one as is the knowing that as we embark in it we will only deepen our sense of wonder and magnificence as we walk again towards being universal again.

     1. Beautifully said Eduardo. It is wonder that is the key ingredient to returning to Universality…not cleverness, or perfection.

        1. Living in wonder is far more awesome than trying to be clever.

        2. Yes, living in wonder, engaging playfully with our nadis and our particles, feeling our innate inconmensurable beauty when we connect deeply to an energy that is all unifying is truly beyond this world; as we are.

        3. Beautifully said Harry, ‘Living in wonder is far more awesome than trying to be clever.’ What a gorgeous thing to say and what an awesome way to live.

        4. Wonderment and Awe – I love it.

     2. Thank you Eduardo and Dr Rachel for reminding us once again of our sense of wonder – how can we ever loose it? Yet it seems to happen all the time.

     3. Stunning comment Eduardo… it is an absolute blessing to know and to deeply feel ourselves expand in this way back into who we are.

435. The so called reality check regarding life also changed before and after Universal Medicine. Before most of us ignored the body and adopting a linear view of life we asked ourselves where were we regarding progress. After Universal Medicine, we understood the limitations of linear thinking and the possibilities of thinking cyclically and of living in a way that allows to make the cycles work for us. Our body is the center of our attention. So, reality checks always include the body and its wellbeing. A sea of difference.

436. ‘Life felt like a tasteless strawberry made out of plastic, but it seemed no one was aware of this except me.’ This sentence really resonated with me Haresh as something I used to feel. Everything on the outside looked picture perfect whilst on the inside I was feeling empty and in emotional turmoil. It was only when I first met Serge Benhayon and heard him present on self love that this began to change. To choose love, presence and awareness as our way of living changes everything for us and offers a beautiful and much needed reflection for the world around us.

     1. I laughed at that quote Jane. The plastic strawberry, perfectly red and juicy looking, that everyone is pretending to enjoy…meanwhile, all privately wondering what is wrong that there is no juice, no flavour and no nourishment.

        1. I loved the plastic strawberry too, and got me pondering. When we eat a tasteless strawberry we all question why, what happened in the growing process that it tastes so bland and even more so we wouldn’t eat it. Yet when life is tasteless, we just accept it and continue to eat it.

        2. How true is that Laura! We complain loud and long about bland tomatoes, flavourless, tough strawberries and disappointing raspberries. We talk about it at social occasions…pine for the good old days when a strawberry tasted like a strawberry…
           But when our lives are bland, tough and disappointing we carry on, business as usual.
           Dear me, we are funny critters.

        3. Love it Rachel! And looking at each other going ‘really?’ that can’t be it, there has to be more.

        4. I wish we were looking at each other going “really??!!” Then we might put down the plastic strawberries and seek true deliciousness.

        5. We get caught up in the belief that life is perfect as long as it looks perfect on the outside but deep down we know that it is not yet we are not able to put two and two together as we only look at the world from our five senses and do not give our sixth sense full credit. Universal Medicine presents the world as a whole, in that it is part of the universe, that we are part of the universe and that life in a physical body is a mere speck of the grandness that we are coming from. We are more than our body. There is spirit and Soul, there are two types of energy to choose from and our sixth sense, our sense of feeling and discerning energy allows us to see and understand what is truly going on.

        6. Hilarious. But very very true. We all pretend to have a great life, and dare not let anyone see or feel that we are not enjoying the things we are ‘supposed’ to be enjoying. Why else has our sugar intake gone through the roof? Life does not taste as sweet as we make it out to be!

        7. So true Rachel and quite absurd when we look at it this way. Time for us all to get real about plastic strawberries and life.

     2. Yes this sentence describes very well how we have fallen for an image without truly feeling that this image is just this, an image that is there to make us believe that this is it, but basically selling us a big fat lie. It’s like with all the food options we have today, it looks all beautiful, tastes good, smells good and we believe we have to ingest it, but it is actually poison for the body as it is plastic and not nurturing the body, building awareness for who we are.

        1. I can feel there have been many times I have used my eyes to register an image and overridden the loud voice from my body communicating something completely different. This may have been a food choice but also at times other things such as going to see a film, buying clothes or how I am going to spend my time. Just feeling how important it is to not be fooled by the look of the ‘plastic strawberry’ in whatever form it comes.

437. Once upon a time, there was only coping with life as much as we could. Each one had its strategies and ways to do so. Coping is a movement that is mostly about returning to a point that you deem desirable. Even if we walked forward in one way or another in life, our main movement was coping. Universal Medicine made us realise of this fact. With no judgement about it, nor any kind of instruction to do anything about it, it introduced us in a world that is also returning to a point but in this case one we fight; a higher point of light we belong to equally so and to which we are destined to return together.

     1. This is so true Eduardo, living a life of coping is merely about creating distractions so we don’t have to feel the lie we are actually living.

     2. Absolutely Eduardo. Many people settle with ‘just coping’ in life, and do not see that there is so much more available to us than living a half-hearted, comfortable existence. Universal Medicine shines light on how much more there is out there, and how powerful we can be when we stop coping and start truly living.

438. Awareness and love. What a gorgeous recipe for life.

439. “My life has become an amazing journey and the fun part is that the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving”. What a glorious statement that is to make about one’s life. Now so many, many people through the inspiration and support of Serge Benhayon can, and do, also do so.

     1. I so agree that there is no end when we make life about evolution.

     2. It is gorgeous to live life in a way where you know the loveliness never ends and is forever evolving because it is a lived truth rather than an ideal. Universal Medicine has offered this experience to us all and what a blessing it is compared to what was once a life of issues and struggle.

440. Universal Medicine presents a revolutionary way of education that sets it apart. It does not talk to our brain. It talks to our particles, and to the space between them. Important as knowledge is, since brings us understanding, it is about embodying what every particle of the body has opened up to. Feeling this is absolutely exquisite and gives any one who experiences it a clear marker of how truth feels because you lived it and clocked it in its magnificence. That is why, once you opened up to the world of energy, to particles and nadis, and felt its gigantic truth, there is no brain in the world that will convince you of something different.

     1. Agreed Eduardo, Universal Medicine presentations have certainly ‘opened my eyes’ to a completely revolutionary way to live from. The first time I heard Serge Benhayon present the Gentle Breath Meditation, my body felt totally expanded and ‘real’ as if I could feel what he was saying inside of my body – it was something that was totally familiar to me that had simply been dormant for ions. I now know this was my particles responding to the truth they know and are from God.

441. Prior to meeting Serge Benhayon I used think to myself there has to be more to life than this, because what I was seeing was a life of working and saving for two weeks holiday abroad, drink a lot, come back home and start all over again. Observing this cycle only caused me to feel desperate inside and that life had no purpose. Then when I met Serge Benhayon everything he said made sense and all of those feelings disappeared and I could breath again.

     1. Julie, I always had a sense that there was more to life than what I was living even though I could tick all the boxes of things I had and did in my early adult life. I even moved to the other side of the world in search of the ‘more to life than this’ only to find the same feeling returned once the excitment wore off. And then many years later, I was introduced to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and that’s when my life changed..the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom resonated with me like nothing I’d ever come across before (and I’d tried many, many different spiritual practicies, healing modalities, courses, etc).

     2. Yes Julie, I myself and I’m sure many others have felt this way about the function of life too. Thank God for Serge Benhayon, the man that makes it all make sense.

        1. I’ll second that Rachael, In fact I will go as far as to say that Serge Benhayon makes it all make sense in such a way that cannot possibly be denied. Everything is in fact our responsibility. How we are in every moment. This way of being is very empowering.

        2. True Kathleen, “Serge Benhayon makes it all make sense in such a way that cannot possibly be denied.” It can be denied, when you are not ready to face the big lie you have fallen for, but do not be concerned because we all have …

442. It is great to read how you support yourself, and choose to live aware of all that is going on. I feel this is a key element of living a joyfull life that supports us to come back to that what we deep within already are.

443. Beautiful blog Haresh, I really like the simplicity of what you have written here, ‘This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.’ This is what makes the Livingness different for me, because it is very natural and is a way of living; many religions that I have tried seem to be about rules and do not feel natural.

     1. I am with you both. The naturalness and logic is what I have loved about this way of living. Very practical for physical and mental health.

     2. Spot on Rebecca – the Livingness is not something that gets bestowed upon us – it is for us to empower ourselves in the rhythm, the speed and the openness that we so choose for ourselves. The Livingness is a religion, but one that is so different from other religions in that there is no church, there is no right or wrong nor confessionals, nor having to give your power away to a greater God. There is the naturalness of who we are accompanied by the grandness of who we are and a learning to accept this and live this in full. And in this we act as reminders or reflections for each other of the divinity that we all naturally are and can choose to live on a daily basis.

        1. Wow Henrietta – so lovingly and super powerfully expressed. Your voice holds a true authority.

     3. Absolutely, rebeccawingrave. And I feel precisely because of that, our educated mind goes “????!!!!” It doesn’t tell us what we should do and how we should live, it is a forever deepening of one’s connection to God and unfolding of our true self – that can never be dictated. And the deeper we go, the more this process reveals and confirms to us that what we have got here is not it.

     4. Good point – there are plenty of rules and guidelines everywhere but they miss the mark as they pull things, in this case good ideas, beliefs and ideals, in from the outside rather than living from the inside out.

     5. Re-connecting to the natural way we are. We have unlearned to be ourselves as members of a divine order and our daily struggle is to maintain individuality and keep on moving in disharmony with the universal order. The Livingness is to surrender to our grandness and live in harmony with the Universe.

        1. Yes the livingness is to surrender to anything that is divine.

     6. That is the key difference Rebecca I agree, when investigating other religions, as one does in life I have found none have really felt true and many often felt quite imposing, more like joining a club and having to behave in a certain way to fit in. The Way of the Livingness is a process of embodying gentleness, love, honesty and care, natural qualities that lie within us all that we gradually re-claim as a lived way of being rather than an impose set of rules. The difference can be seen in the quality of health and vitality of those who practice it, coupled with the sparkle in our eyes, the natural consequences of embracing our inner qualities.

444. There is a before and after Universal Medicine regarding the feeling of life and normality. As we start developing a more loving relationship with our body and with ourselves, we have an increasing awareness of things that are not really it and we start developing a closer and more consistent relationship with things that our body tells us that are it. The feeling of what is normal and even desirable also change as we allow us to grow in relating more intimately and consistently to things that are it.

     1. I love this Eduardo, and totally agree. Before Universal Medicine life was like being in the Matrix, seeing life as normal, accepting so much abuse as, “that is just part of life”. Universal Medicine showed me how to get out of the Matrix, today I live freer as do many others than ever before. Looking back into the Matrix can be extremely sad but today I understand that everyone has the power within to get out, when they choose to. Thank you to Universal Medicine for showing there is a way and to the many who are getting out and inspiring others to do the same. True love in action.

445. I agree, to bring a real change into life it is not enough to ‘know it better’. We know it better in so many ways but we do not change. But it is different when I bring an awareness to my way of living and truly FEEL the results of my choices in my body – especially when I am able to not judge myself for what I feel & realize. To become an observer of life while fully connected/committed to it is the art of living and the key to development.

     1. We do not need to know what is better – we just need awareness of what we are doing. The more awareness the better and then it is usually obvious what to do and what not to do. Starting with ‘better’ is almost guaranteed not to work, it is certainly one of the most inefficient ways possible that I can think of.

     2. I agree Sandra, and this is why over history we have fallen for a comfortable life, one that does not push our living existence too much. We like to be comfortable and we prefer to hold back and not stand out and this has been demonstrated by the simple fact that we have not evolved as a human race and we are far away from even the basics which would simply be a harmonious way of living with each and every other human being.

        1. Agree. With the idea of a ‘better life’ we are like the donkey who try to reach the carrot – which is unreachable off cause. Life on earth is a school, a learning. It is there to develop out of it again. To make it comfortable is in contrast to our purpose. That’s why it does not really work at all. In fact our life is not comfortable! Illness and disease is rising, more people on this world are ill then healthy! And, as you said, we are far a way from living in harmony with each other (or within ourselves), what would be a great foundation to go on, step up, grow out of this earthly density. When we start to feel this we may realize that our ‘better life’ is just an illusion, an idea, an image – unreachable and only there to keep us silent.

     3. I have started to feel the choices in my body, rather than judge them. There is so much more support, and truth in this. Sure beats the harsh, hardness of judgement that so many of us live in.

        1. Great isn’t it Simone? I found the moment I do not judge but feel – the world, MY world changes already.

     4. Thank you Sandra beautifully summed up ‘To become an observer of life while fully connected/committed to it is the art of living and the key to development.’ Traditionally the role of observer is seen as someone who is detached from whatever is happening but this is yet another false belief and to truly observe, rather than absorb, what is happening is the way to live with purpose and and evolve.

        1. Yes Helen, in general ‘Observing’ is linked with a detachment and I found myself and others in the belief of we would ‘observe’ but in fact we did protect ourselves, separated from what was around us. To become a truly observer, I found, I have to commit to humanity and life first. Only when I accept and embrace that I am a part of the whole, observe what is going on in me and others, understand and ….hold the love for all – I can become a true servant for us all.

446. Beautifully expressed Haresh, you write with such a simplicity about what it means to embody the wisdom we all have access to. Ultmately we don’t need to remember why something is good for us or not, we already know, and the inspiration for ourselves and for others is in the awareness we create of why something is good for our body or not and making the choices that fill us up with love. Filling our life with more of the good stuff just makes life better, richer and more rewarding.

447. Wow Haresh, reading your blog I could feel that whatever you shared is indeed lived. I don’t feel sold or imposed on, only a sharing based on care and love (without perfectionism). For me it is really allowing myself to come back to feeling, feeling, feeling. I’m noticing more and more (read: being more and more honest) how often I choose to leave my body in order to not feel. And how I justify this pattern and have actually agreed that I cannot be a feeling person in this world. Where as you’re sharing Haresh, I’m also experiencing how amazing it is to Truly be with myself and how much in fact I’ve missed that and miss that actually every moment that I’m not choosing that.

     1. Yes, when something shared truly comes from one’s livingness it is healing and inspiring to those that read it.

        1. Beautifully said Kate. While reading your words, I’m connecting to a deep appreciation for everyone who’s sharing from their Livingness. As it is all those people in the world that share their pearls of gold in their lifes, that slowly, but definitely, change the world towards a more loving and caring place to live. Away from the greed, abuse, corruption, false ideals, pictures and beliefs. Thank you Kate for bringing this up. As you shared yourself: your words are inspiring and healing to read:-).

448. Nice one Haresh, sounds like another great life turn-a-round thanks to the teachings and wisdom of Serge Benhayon. When I look back on how I used to live my life, thinking I was sorted in my own way and all the self abuse and what not was Ok, it seems really ridiculous now, but I feel that maybe in another ten years or so I may look back at how I am living now and think that it was pretty unloving as well.

     1. Great point you make here kevmchardy, I have noticed that just this week, what was loving and supportive last week just doesnt cut it this week in the way I am with myself and in my home and the way I am with others.The noticing and adjusting can be made fun too rather than a discipline and a chore, kind of like “What if…?”

        1. Love your sense of fun in what you share here Jeanette – a gorgeous reminder to always keep it light!

        2. Yes, and that is the greatness of living in God’s womb, it is a continuous evolving and expanding.

     2. No maybe Kevin – just claim it as a given!

     3. Very true Kevin, we have a perception that we will reach an end point, that life will someday be “perfect”. What you share is totally freeing, there is never an end point or a point of perfection, only more and more love, ever expanding.

     4. “I may look back at how I am living now and think that it was pretty unloving as well” – that would be so awesome. There is a possibility, which is a choice really for us to be more love than last year, a month ago, even a moment ago, continuously.

     5. Good call Kev, the illusion can constantly be challenged. When we arise out of a state of illusion into a place of more awareness, we are many times more aware of the next level of illusion we have entered into!

        1. So, the illusion never ends until we arise and evolve from the physical body, return back to where and who we are.

     6. Yes it just shows how far removed we are from who we truly are. We are living this big fat lie and we are slowly getting a hint of who we truly are. Such a journey of re-learning, but well worth it!

     7. This is a great point Kev and something that I can see happening to myself also in ten years. It is quite incredible how much we can change our lives if we are willing to and of course actioning what we feel with a consistency has also been an enormous revelation.

     8. I so get what you are saying kevmchardy ‘that maybe in another ten years or so I may look back at how I am living now and think that it was pretty unloving as well.’ Even though so much has already changed in my life and I am being more self loving with myself than I ever have been before I am seeing there is another level to go with, with both myself and others. The really lovely thing is it doesn’t feel a burden or chore just a deeper call to be more.

        1. I love that Vicky and absolutely agree – it doesn’t feel like a burden or chore… just a deeper call to be more and allow that to expand and embrace all areas of our life so we can express that in all we do and with everyone we meet.

     9. I have this feeling too. My life has been so blessed since I have committed to deeply caring for myself and I can’t but wonder what my life will be like in the future as I absolutely marvel at where it is now.

449. Love all you have shared here Haresh, especially this, “I have found that self-awareness is the key to my evolution and is what brings me true joy in life. This awareness allows me to see things as they truly are and has completely changed my perception of life.” I agree with you, my life has absolutely turned around as I have been building my self-awareness. I have learned so much from connecting with my own body, and I can feel the huge responsibility I have to live from this connection. I no longer blame others for things that go wrong in my life, and I have so much more understanding of what is going on in this chaotic world of ours. I have largely erased my old pattern of judging other people, and especially judging myself. I used to do such harm to myself when I was living in judgment. I have come to see that we are all eventually going to come to these awarenesses that I am experiencing, but we all come to the point when we are each ready to know the truth. I live a much more harmonious life since I learned to connect with myself deeply, with the help of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

450. Thank you Haresh, this is a great article and fully of some much wisdom. It presents the simplicity that can be lived by simply becoming aware of our actions and then activity acting on them.

451. “This livingness feels like embodying the knowledge as a natural way of being.” Livingness is living from our being as a natural way of expression. Very beautifully said Haresh.

452. This is a great line Haresh, “every behaviour that did not contain a feeling of centeredness or stillness had hurt, anxiety and nervousness hidden underneath it. ” – it sets a benchmark for reflection and connection that it hard to deny.

     1. This sentence also caught my attention Joel. There is no neutral. We are either present and aware, or acting from other energies that are contributing to disharmony in the body.

453. Thanks for what you have shared Haresh, I feel it is something we can all relate to, often choosing to go through life unaware of our choices and the impact these have on ourselves let alone those around us. I really loved the line that you shared that ‘The more I choose to be present in each moment, the more I can express from self-awareness.’ as it reflects the true responsibility we can all choose to live by. When we look at life in this way we can begin to develop a true relationship with self that isn’t about ticking boxes, or seeking perfection but in living authentically who we are in the world.

454. Dear Haresh, what struck me in your blog is the point you made about your lack of life skills that made it difficult to deal with everyday situations and it feels so true to me too. I can feel that this lack of life skills I have created for myself because I was not in full presence with myself and because I did not wanted to commit to life in full but instead, as you also described, “wanted to run away, or push someone away, blame others and manipulate situations.”

455. I can so relate to the arrogance of the mind you speak of, and how that gets in the way of accepting my choices and letting go of hurts. And like you, with more awareness, I have begun to take steps to live in a more loving way.

456. Thank you, Haresh. It is absolutely beautiful to feel how it is simply your livingness to live with ever increasing awareness and so bringing more love to the way you are each day.

457. This is one of the most beautiful sharings of what self-love and self-nuturing are, Haresh. I too have found that self-awareness is what supports me to bring true joy to my everyday life.

458. You could be talking about my life too Haresh, no outwardly obvious sign of any troubles. And if there were, well that’s okay, that’s ‘normal’, that’s just ‘human life’. There is this word called Tolerance, that says we need to put up with the ups and downs, the differences, and take the good with the bad, no matter what. Because we are human beings. But this is so limiting, so capping on what we are and what has been presented by Serge Benhayon has been the game changer for me in opening my eyes to the world around me, to know there is a way to live that guarantees answers to life’s big questions. I love how you inspire with this piece of writing, that getting by in life isn’t enough, there is so much more.

     1. Beautiful Suzanne – just getting by, being tolerant and resilient is not the answer to life. As you said, there is so much more to life than this. The richness and joy, the connection I feel now is so much grander than anything I experienced when I was getting by and doing OK. A heart felt thank you to Serge Benhayon and all that he presents.

     2. “.. to know there is a way to live that guarantees answers to life’s big questions.” That’s empowering and ends the search and the seeking .. and begins the responsibility.

459. Yes, no matter what your circumstances, How Do You Feel?

460. A beautiful sharing Haresh. Thank you.
     I can so relate to the feeling of having the ‘normal’ seemingly ‘perfect’ life that ticks the boxes yet having a deep longing inside that something great is missing. Many years before I came across Serge and Universal Medicine I would often cry myself to sleep knowing that I was missing something. Now today after deep self care and nurturing I know I was missing the true me and treating myself in a way that I always deserved. My life feels completely different and beautiful. I feel delicious in my body thanks to the changes I made from the presentations of Serge Benhayon. And yes all Serge has every presented to me has made complete sense and nothing in my body hesitates because of the lived truth behind his wise words.

461. Be a philosopher of life, and not a philosopher of books. It is much more insightful.

     1. Absolutely!! Living life rather than living in thoughts and ideals about how things could be or ought to be. A true lived experience.

462. It’s become funny to me that when I live my days with this level of awareness, I feel that so much is happening for me, there is so much joy and much more harmony yet if someone asks me what I have been doing, because there is no drama in it, there is no big story. I love your list Haresh, it is one so worth reviewing every day.

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